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List of Best War Movies since 2000s

The latest In-theatre movie DUNKIRK tops the Box Office this July. The World War Movies might sounds boring to the commercial market, however, there are quite a few well-made War films worth watching. Here is the list of recommended war movies for you to watch. Some of them are free to watch on Amazon Video with Prime membership.

We Were Soldiers

Release Date

2002-03-01

Rate : 7.2
Production Companies : Paramount Pictures, Icon Entertainment International
Director : Nilo Otero, Cate Hardman, Allan Graf
Stars : Mel Gibson , Greg Kinnear , Madeleine Stowe
The story of the first major battle of the American phase of the Vietnam War and the soldiers on both sides that fought it.

Flags of Our Fathers

Release Date

2006-10-19

Rate : 7.1
Production Companies : DreamWorks SKG, Amblin Entertainment
Director : Mable Lawson-McCrary, Peter Dress, Clint Eastwood
Stars : Ryan Phillippe , Jesse Bradford , Adam Beach
There were five Marines and one Navy Corpsman photographed raising the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi by Joe Rosenthal on February 23, 1945. This is the story of three of the six surviving servicemen - John 'Doc' Bradley, Pvt. Rene Gagnon and Pvt. Ira Hayes - who fought in the battle to take Iwo Jima from the Japanese.

Enemy at the Gates

Release Date

2001-03-16

Rate : 7.5
Production Companies : Paramount, Swanford Films
Director : Gerry Gavigan, Thomas Hezel, Allen Smith
Stars : Jude Law , Joseph Fiennes , Rachel Weisz
A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII.

The Tuskegee Airmen

Release Date

1995-08-25

Rate : 7.1
Production Companies : HBO, Price Entertainment
Director : Dawn Gilliam, Benita Brazier, Robert Markowitz
Stars : Laurence Fishburne , Allen Payne , Malcolm-Jamal Warner
During the Second World War, a special project is begun by the US Army Air Corps to integrate African American pilots into the Fighter Pilot Program. Known as the "Tuskegee Airman" for the name of the airbase at which they were trained, these men were forced to constantly endure harassement, prejudice, and much behind the scenes politics until at last they were able to prove themselves in combat.

Release Date

2001-05-19

Rate : 7.6
Production Companies : HBO Films, BBC Film
Director : Frank Pierson
Stars : Kenneth Branagh , Stanley Tucci , Colin Firth
At the Wannsee Conference on January 20, 1942, senior Nazi officials meet to determine the manner in which the so-called "Final Solution to the Jewish Question" can be best implemented.

Release Date

2007-07-04

Rate : 7.3
Production Companies : Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Director : Apichart Chusakul, Harry Knapp, Werner Herzog
Stars : Christian Bale , Steve Zahn , Toby Huss
A US Fighter pilot's epic struggle of survival after being shot down on a mission over Laos during the Vietnam War.

Release Date

2003-12-24

Rate : 7.2
Production Companies : Miramax, Mirage Enterprises
Director : Anthony Minghella, Heather Storr, Dianne Dreyer
Stars : Jude Law , Nicole Kidman , Renée Zellweger
In this classic story of love and devotion set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, a wounded Confederate soldier named W.P. Inman deserts his unit and travels across the South, aiming to return to his young wife, Ada, who he left behind to tend their farm. As Inman makes his perilous journey home, Ada struggles to keep their home intact with the assistance of Ruby, a mysterious drifter sent to help her by a kindly neighbor.

Release Date

2006-09-22

Rate : 6.5
Production Companies : Ingenious Film Partners, Electric Entertainment
Director : Tony Bill, Sally Jones, Matthew Sharp
Stars : James Franco , David Ellison , Jean Reno
The adventures of the Lafayette Escadrille, young Americans who volunteered for the French military before the U.S. entered World War I, and became the country's first fighter pilots.

Release Date

2002-06-14

Rate : 6.1
Production Companies : Lion Rock Productions, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
Director : John Woo, Arthur Anderson, Brian Smrz
Stars : Nicolas Cage , Adam Beach , Peter Stormare
Joe Enders is a gung-ho Marine assigned to protect a "windtalker" - one of several Navajo Indians who were used to relay messages during World War II because their spoken language was indecipherable to Japanese code breakers.

Saints and Soldiers

Release Date

2003-09-11

Rate : 6.7
Production Companies : Excel Entertainment, Medal Of Honor
Director : Ryan Little
Stars : Corbin Allred , Alexander Polinsky , Kirby Heyborne
Five American soldiers fighting in Europe during World War II struggle to return to Allied territory after being separated from U.S. forces during the historic Malmedy Massacre.

Release Date

2001-05-21

Rate : 6.2
Production Companies : Jerry Bruckheimer Films, Touchstone Pictures
Director : Michael Bay, Karen Golden, Matthew Cohan
Stars : Ben Affleck , Kate Beckinsale , Josh Hartnett
The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the two ace fighter pilots become entangled in a love triangle with beautiful Naval nurse Evelyn Johnson. But the rivalry between the friends-turned-foes is immediately put on hold when they find themselves at the center of Japan's devastating attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.

American Sniper

Release Date

2014-12-25

Rate : 7.3
Production Companies : Village Roadshow Pictures, Malpaso Productions
Director : Kerry Lyn McKissick, Clint Eastwood, David M. Bernstein
Stars : Bradley Cooper , Sienna Miller , Kyle Gallner
U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle takes his sole mission—protect his comrades—to heart and becomes one of the most lethal snipers in American history. His pinpoint accuracy not only saves countless lives but also makes him a prime target of insurgents. Despite grave danger and his struggle to be a good husband and father to his family back in the States, Kyle serves four tours of duty in Iraq. However, when he finally returns home, he finds that he cannot leave the war behind.

13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi

Release Date

2016-01-15

Rate : 7.3
Production Companies : Paramount, 3 Arts Entertainment
Director : Michael Bay, Silke Engelhardt, Simon Warnock
Stars : John Krasinski , James Badge Dale , Dominic Fumusa
An American Ambassador is killed during an attack at a U.S. compound in Libya as a security team struggles to make sense out of the chaos.

Release Date

2016-11-23

Rate : 7.1
Production Companies : Paramount, GK Films
Director : Annie Penn, Robert Zemeckis, Lee Grumett
Stars : Brad Pitt , Marion Cotillard , Jared Harris
In 1942, an intelligence officer in North Africa encounters a female French Resistance fighter on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. When they reunite in London, their relationship is tested by the pressures of war.

Release Date

2014-10-17

Rate : 7.6
Production Companies : Columbia Pictures, QED International
Director : Zoe Morgan, Tracy L. Moody, Allen Kupetsky
Stars : Brad Pitt , Shia LaBeouf , Logan Lerman
In the last months of World War II, as the Allies make their final push in the European theatre, a battle-hardened U.S. Army sergeant named 'Wardaddy' commands a Sherman tank called 'Fury' and its five-man crew on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. Outnumbered and outgunned, Wardaddy and his men face overwhelming odds in their heroic attempts to strike at the heart of Nazi Germany.

Release Date

2016-11-04

Rate : 8.1
Production Companies : Icon Productions, Permut Presentations
Director : Mel Gibson, P.J. Voeten, Sophie Fabbri-Jackson
Stars : Andrew Garfield , Sam Worthington , Vince Vaughn
WWII American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, who served during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people and becomes the first Conscientious Objector in American history to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor.

Release Date

2017-07-19

Rate : 7.8
Production Companies : Studio Babelsberg, Marc Platt Productions
Director : Sean Singery, Willem Quarles van Ufford, William Pruss
Stars : Fionn Whitehead , Tom Hardy , Mark Rylance
The story of the miraculous evacuation of Allied soldiers from Belgium, Britain, Canada and France, who were cut off and surrounded by the German army from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk between May 26th and June 4th 1940 during World War II.