The Best 1970s War Movies
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Vote up your favorite war films that were released in the 1970s.
One of the greatest decades for the genre, here is our ranked list of the best 70s war movies. There are epic battle films (Tora! Tora! Tora!, Midway) and riveting biographies (Patton, MacArthur), but the 70s also began to show a raising of the anti-war voice.
Among the top 70s war movies are the instant classics Apocalypse Now, M*A*S*H, Catch-22, and The Deer Hunter, all films which focus on the horror of war. You’ll also find the effecting drama Coming Home which focuses on the challenge of re-entering society after being at war.
Enjoy this list of great war movies from the '70s, vote up your favorites, and feel free to add any of your favorites that might be missing.
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1Marlon Brando, Martin Sheen, Robert Duvall- Released: 1979
- Directed by: Francis Ford Coppola
Watch for Free with Amazon Prime Free TrialIn Vietnam in 1970, Captain Willard (Martin Sheen) takes a perilous and increasingly hallucinatory journey upriver to find and terminate Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando), a once-promising officer who ...moreAvailable On:
2Martin Balsam, Sô Yamamura, Joseph Cotten- Released: 1970
- Directed by: Richard Fleischer, Toshio Masuda, Kinji Fukasaku
Watch for Free with Amazon Prime Free TrialThis dramatic retelling of the Pearl Harbor attack details everything in the days that led up to that tragic moment in American history. As United States and Japanese relations strain over the U.S. ...more![Kelly's Heroes]()
3Clint Eastwood, Telly Savalas, Don Rickles![Patton]()
4George C. Scott, Karl Malden, Michael Bates![A Bridge Too Far]()
5Dirk Bogarde, James Caan, Michael Caine![The Deer Hunter]()
6Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, John Savage
