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Rank   Name Release Directed by Genre(s) Actor(s)
  1. 1
    1970
    Franklin Schaffner
    Drama, Biography, Action, Action/Adventure, Biographical film, War, Epic, New Hollywood More
    Carey Loftin, Douglas O. Williams, Abraxas Aaran, Richard Münch, Ed Binns, Don Bassman, Michael Strong, George C. Scott, Albert Dumortier, Karl Michael Vogler, Siegfried Rauch, Michael Bates, Stephen Young, Gerald Flood, Karl Malden, Frank Latimore, Morgan Paull, Jack Gwillim, John Barrie, Tim Considine More
  2. 2
    1957
    David Lean
    Drama, Adventure, War
    Ann Sears, M. R. B. Chakrabandhu, William Holden, John Boxer, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Peter Williams, Harold Goodwin, André Morell, Geoffrey Horne, Percy Herbert, Keiichiro Katsumoto, Sessue Hayakawa, James Donald, Heihachirô Ôkawa More
  3. 3
    1942
    Michael Curtiz
    Drama, Black-and-white, Romance Film, War, Romantic drama, Drama Film, Airplanes and airports More
    John Qualen, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Dooley Wilson, Paul Panzer, Helmut Dantine, Humphrey Bogart, Leonid Kinskey, Paul Henreid, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Lou Marcelle, Madeleine LeBeau, Conrad Veidt, S.Z. Sakall, Joy Page More
  4. 4
    1988
    Isao Takahata
    Drama, Animation, Children's, War, Anime
    Crispin Freeman, Rhoda Chrosite, Tsutomu Tatumi, Ayano Shiraishi, Dan Green, Yoshiko Shinohara, Akemi Yamaguchi, Shannon Conley, J. Robert Spencer More
  5. 5
    1963
    John Sturges
    Drama, History, Action, Adventure, War
    Robert Graf, Steve McQueen, James Coburn, Hannes Messemer, James Donald, Gordon Jackson, John Leyton, Donald Pleasence, Angus Lennie, Nigel Stock, Richard Attenborough, David McCallum, James Garner, Charles Bronson, Jud Taylor More
  6. 6
    1954
    Edward Dmytryk
    Drama, War
    Lee Marvin, Humphrey Bogart, E. G. Marshall, Arthur Franz, Steve Brodie, Warner Anderson, Van Johnson, Tom Tully, Fred MacMurray, José Ferrer, Robert Charles Francis, Don Dubbins, Jerry Paris, Claude Akins More
  7. 7
    1998
    Steven Spielberg
    Drama, History, Action, War
    Paul Giamatti, Dennis Farina, Demetri Goritsas, Steve Griffin, Julian Spencer, Markus Napier, Tom Hanks, Vin Diesel, Barry Pepper, Nathan Fillion, Daniel Cerqueira, Tom Sizemore, Matt Damon, Ian Porter, Giovanni Ribisi, Jeremy Davies, Adam Shaw, Bryan Cranston, Gary Sefton, Rolf Saxon, Dylan Bruno, Edward Burns, Ted Danson, William Marsh, Anna Maguire , Max Martini, Adam Goldberg, Joerg Stadler, Marc Cass More
  8. 8
    1961
    Alexander Mackendrick, J. Lee Thompson
    Drama, Action, Adventure, War
    Gregory Peck, Bryan Forbes, Gia Scala, Anthony Quayle, George Mikell, Percy Herbert, David Niven, James Darren, James Robertson Justice, Allan Cuthbertson, Michael Trubshawe, Stanley Baker, Anthony Quinn, Irene Papas, Richard Harris More
  9. 9
    1980
    Samuel Fuller
    Drama, Action, War
    Siegfried Rauch, Bobby Di Cicco, Lee Marvin, Mark Hamill, Robert Carradine, Kelly Ward More
  10. 10
    2006
    Clint Eastwood
    Drama, History, Action, War, World cinema
    Ken Watanabe, Eijiro Ozaki, Sonny Saito, Takashi Yamaguchi, Ryo Kase, Toshi Toda, Yuki Matsuzaki, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Kazunari Ninomiya, Luke Eberl, Shido Nakamura, Hiroshi Watanabe, Takumi Bando, Ken Kensei, Nae, Nobumasa Sakagami More
  11. 11
    1993
    Steven Spielberg
    Drama, Black-and-white, History, Period piece, Biography, Biographical film, Film adaptation, Tragedy More
    Ben Kingsley, Mark Ivanir, Harry Nehring, Embeth Davidtz, Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Caroline Goodall, Ludger Pistor, Miri Fabian, Ezra Dagan, Aldona Grochal, Albert Misak, Beata Paluch, Anna Mucha, Malgoscha Gebel, Jonathan Sagall, Beata Nowak, Adi Nitzan, Friedrich von Thun, Krzysztof Luft, Shmulik Levy More
  12. 12
    1981
    Wolfgang Petersen
    Drama, History, Thriller, Action/Adventure, War, World cinema
    Erwin Leder, Jürgen Prochnow, Bernd Tauber, Jan Fedder, Claude-Oliver Rudolph, Klaus Wennemann, Herbert Grönemeyer, Joachim Bernhard, Oliver Stritzel, Hubertus Bengsch, Heinz Hoenig, Martin May, Ralf Richter, Martin Semmelrogge, Uwe Ochsenknecht More
  13. 13
    1945
    John Ford, Robert Montgomery
    Drama, Black-and-white, Action, Action/Adventure, War
    Murray Alper, Donald Curtis, Cameron Mitchell, Robert Montgomery, Jeff York, Ward Bond, Donna Reed, Jack Holt, Paul Langton, John Wayne, Marshall Thompson, Leon Ames More
  14. 14
    1958, 1956
    Robert Wise
    Black-and-white, Drama, War
  15. 15
    1977
    Sam Peckinpah
    Drama, Action, Action/Adventure, War
    Michael Nowka, Slavko Štimac, Klaus Löwitsch, Senta Berger, Maximilian Schell, Roger Fritz, James Coburn, Dieter Schidor, David Warner, Burkhard Driest, James Mason, Vadim Glowna, Fred Stillkrauth More
  16. 16
    1968
    Yakima Canutt, Brian G. Hutton
    Drama, Action, Action/Adventure, War, Roadshow theatrical release
    Patrick Wymark, Peter Barkworth, Michael Hordern, Mary Ure, Robert Beatty, Donald Houston, Brook Williams, Clint Eastwood, Neil McCarthy, William Squire, Richard Burton More
  17. 17
    1978
    Guy Hamilton
    Drama, Action, Adventure, Action/Adventure, War
    Franco Nero, Harrison Ford, Barbara Bach, Carl Weathers, Alan Badel, Edward Fox, Michael Byrne, Philip Latham, Robert Shaw, Richard Kiel More

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