The Best R-Rated War Movies
List of R-Rated war movies, ranked from best to worst with movie trailers when available. This list takes the best R-Rated war movies and pits them against each other to see once and for all what the greatest R-Rated War movie of all time is. This list of popular R-Rated war movies includes information like who directed the film, when it was released and which actors starred in the movie. If you think the top R-Rated War movie isn't as high as it should be then be sure to vote it up so it can take its rightful place among the other great R-Rated War films on this list. If you're trying to find a specific R-Rated War film you can search this list and filter to find what you're looking for.
Examples of movies on this list: Saving Private Ryan, Schindler's List and many more.
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Use this list if you're looking for some new war movies that are rated R. Between Netflix, Hulu and other services there are thousands of great war movies rated R, so get out there and start watching.
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- 1Josh Hartnett, Ewan McGregor, Tom Sizemore
- Released: 2001
- Directed by: Ridley Scott
The film takes place in 1993 when the U.S. sent special forces into Somalia to destabilize the government and bring food and humanitarian aid to the starving population. Using Black Hawk helicopters ...more - Mel Gibson, Sophie Marceau, Patrick McGoohan
- Released: 1995
- Directed by: Mel Gibson
Tells the story of the legendary thirteenth century Scottish hero named William Wallace (Mel Gibson). Wallace rallies the Scottish against the English monarch and Edward I (Peter Hanly) after he ...more - 3George MacKay, Dean-Charles Chapman, Mark Strong
- Released: 2019
- Directed by: Sam Mendes
During World War I, two British soldiers -- Lance Cpl. Schofield and Lance Cpl. Blake -- receive seemingly impossible orders. In a race against time, they must cross over into enemy territory to ...more - Matthew Modine, Adam Baldwin, Vincent D'Onofrio
- Released: 1987
- Directed by: Stanley Kubrick
Stanley Kubrick's take on the Vietnam War follows smart-aleck Private Davis (Matthew Modine), quickly christened "Joker" by his foul-mouthed drill sergeant (R. Lee Ermey), and pudgy Private Lawrence ...more - 5Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer, Uwe Ochsenknecht
- Released: 1982
- Directed by: Wolfgang Petersen
Das Boot is a 1982 German epic film written and directed by Wolfgang Petersen, produced by Günter Rohrbach, and starring Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer, and Klaus Wennemann. It has been ...more - 6Marlon Brando, Martin Sheen, Robert Duvall
- Released: 1979
- Directed by: Francis Ford Coppola
In 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 ...more - Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef
- Released: 1967
- Directed by: Sergio Leone
In the Southwest during the Civil War, a mysterious stranger, Joe (Clint Eastwood), and a Mexican outlaw, Tuco (Eli Wallach), form an uneasy partnership -- Joe turns in the bandit for the reward ...more - 8Brad Pitt, Eric Bana, Orlando Bloom
- Released: 2004
- Directed by: Wolfgang Petersen
Based on Homer's "Iliad," this epic portrays the battle between the ancient kingdoms of Troy and Sparta. While visiting Spartan King Menelaus (Brendan Gleeson), Trojan prince Paris (Orlando Bloom)Â ...more - 9William Holden, Alec Guinness, Sessue Hayakawa
- Released: 1957
- Directed by: David Lean
Adaptation of the Pierre Bouelle novel about POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American officers plot to blow up the structure, but ...more - 10Mel Gibson, Madeleine Stowe, Greg Kinnear
- Released: 2002
- Directed by: Randall Wallace
Based upon the best-selling book "We Were Soldiers Once ... and Young" by Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore (Ret.) and journalist Joseph L. Galloway, this compelling war drama depicts the true story of the ...more - 11Gerard Butler, Lena Headey, David Wenham
- Released: 2006
- Directed by: Zack Snyder
In 480 B.C. a state of war exists between Persia, led by King Xerxes (Rodrigo Santoro), and Greece. At the Battle of Thermopylae, Leonidas (Gerard Butler), king of the Greek city state of Sparta, ...more - 12Ken Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya, Tsuyoshi Ihara
- Released: 2006
- Directed by: Clint Eastwood
Long-buried missives from the island reveal the stories of the Japanese troops who fought and died there during World War II. Among them are Saigo (Kazunari Ninomiya), a baker; Baron Nishi (Tsuyoshi ...more - Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, Charlie Sheen
- Released: 1986
- Directed by: Oliver Stone
Chris Taylor (Charlie Sheen) leaves his university studies to enlist in combat duty in Vietnam in 1967. Once he's on the ground in the middle of battle, his idealism fades. Infighting in his unit ...more - 14Daniel Day-Lewis, Madeleine Stowe, Russell Means
- Released: 1992
- Directed by: Michael Mann
The last members of a dying Native American tribe, the Mohicans -- Uncas (Eric Schweig), his father Chingachgook (Russell Means), and his adopted half-white brother Hawkeye (Daniel Day-Lewis) -- live ...more - 15Mel Gibson, Heath Ledger, Joely Richardson
- Released: 2000
- Directed by: Roland Emmerich
Mel Gibson portrays Benjamin Martin, an unassuming man who is forced to join the American Revolution when the British threaten to take his farm away from him. Together with his patriotic son, ...more - 16Alexandra Lara, Bruno Ganz, Thomas Kretschmann
- Released: 2004
- Directed by: Oliver Hirschbiegel
Downfall is a 2004 German film directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel, depicting the final ten days of Adolf Hitler's reign over Nazi Germany in 1945. The film is written and produced by Bernd Eichinger, ...more - 17James Coburn, Maximilian Schell, James Mason
- Released: 1977
- Directed by: Sam Peckinpah
During World War II, Cpl. Rolf Steiner (James Coburn) is a well-respected member of the German military and a recipient of the Iron Cross, Germany's highest military honor. Envious of Steiner's ...more - 18Max von Sydow, Christopher Lambert, Inés Sastre
- Released: 2001
- Directed by: Jacques Dorfmann
Druids is a French-Canadian-Belgian historical film first released on 31 August 2001, directed by Jacques Dorfmann. It stars Christopher Lambert, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Inés Sastre, Maria ...more - 19Tom Cruise, Ken Watanabe, Timothy Spall
- Released: 2003
- Directed by: Edward Zwick
Capt. Nathan Algren (Tom Cruise) is an American military officer hired by the Emperor of Japan to train the country's first army in the art of modern warfare. As the government attempts to eradicate ...more - 20Anthony Barrile, Michael Boatman, Don Cheadle
- Released: 1987
- Directed by: John Irvin
Over the course of 10 days in May 1969, an infantry squad led by Lt. Frantz (Dylan McDermott) and composed of both seasoned troops and new recruits, attempts to take a hill during the Vietnam War. In ...more - 21Colin Farrell, Matthew Davis, Clifton Collins
- Released: 2000
- Directed by: Joel Schumacher
1971. A nation stands divided over the escalating war in Vietnam. Thousands of young Americans lie dead on foreign soil. And at Fort Polk, Louisiana, thousands more prepare to join them. The specter ...more - 22Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, John Savage
- Released: 1978
- Directed by: Michael Cimino
In 1968, Michael (Robert De Niro), Nick (Christopher Walken) and Steven (John Savage), lifelong friends from a working-class Pennsylvania steel town, prepare to ship out overseas following Steven's ...more - 23Joseph Fiennes, Jude Law, Rachel Weisz
- Released: 2001
- Directed by: Jean-Jacques Annaud
Vassili (Jude Law) is a young Russian sharpshooter who becomes a legend when a savvy polical officer (Joseph Fiennes) makes him the hero of his propaganda campaign. Their friendship is threatened ...more - 24Robert Duvall, Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould
- Released: 1970
- Directed by: Robert Altman
MASH is a 1970 American satirical black comedy film directed by Robert Altman and written by Ring Lardner, Jr., based on Richard Hooker's novel MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors. The picture is ...more - 25Sam Waterston, Haing S. Ngor, John Malkovich
- Released: 1984
- Directed by: Roland Joffé
New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg (Sam Waterston) is on assignment covering the Cambodian Civil War, with the help of local interpreter Dith Pran (Haing S. Ngor) and American photojournalist ...more