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- Some of the best war movies are often based on stories found in books, capturing the emotional weight and brutality of war. Many powerful war stories come from real life and are adapted from war memoirs or novels.
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- Apocalypse Now (1979) Directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Starring Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall. Drama, Mystery, War (2h 27m) 8.4 on IMDb — 98% on RT.
- Schindler's List (1993) Directed by Steven Spielberg. Starring Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Kingsley. Biography, Drama, History (3h 15m) 9.0 on IMDb — 98% on RT.
- All Quiet on the Western Front (2022) Directed by Edward Berger. Starring Felix Kammerer, Albrecht Schuch, Aaron Hilmer. Action, Drama, War (2h 28m) 7.8 on IMDb — 90% on RT.
- Sophie's Choice (1982) Directed by Alan J. Pakula. Starring Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Peter MacNicol. Drama, Romance (2h 30m) 7.5 on IMDb — 78% on RT. Sophie's Choice asks the ultimate impossible question: Which of your children would you choose to die?
Nov 21, 2023 · Some of the best war movies are often based on stories found in books, capturing the emotional weight and brutality of war. Many powerful war stories come from real life and are adapted from war memoirs or novels.
- Henry Ladd
- 10 ‘The Thin Red Line’
- 9 ‘Black Hawk Down’
- 8 ‘All Quiet on The Western Front’
- 7 ‘The Deer Hunter’
- 6 ‘The Bridge on The River Kwai’
- 5 ‘Full Metal Jacket’
- 4 ‘Das Boot’
- 3 ‘Apocalypse Now’
- 2 ‘Saving Private Ryan’
- 1 ‘Schindler's List
IMDb Rating: 7.6/10 Adapted from the 1962 novel of the same name by James Jones, The Thin Red Lineis set during World War II. It follows a group of soldiers from the United States Army’s 25th Infantry Division as they fight in the Battle of Guadalcanal. The story is told through the eyes of several soldiers, each with their own unique perspective o...
IMDb Rating: 7.7/10 Based on the 1999 non-fiction book of the same name by Mark Bowden, Black Hawk Downis set during the Battle of Mogadishu in 1993. It follows a group of American soldiers who are sent on a mission to capture a Somali warlord. However, the mission goes awry when two Black Hawk helicopters are shot down and the soldiers are forced ...
IMDb Rating: 8.1/10 Based on the 1929 novel of the same name by German novelist Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front occurs during the First World War. It follows a group of young German soldiers who enlist in the army and are sent to the Western front. The story is told through the eyes of Paul Bäumer (Lew Ayres), who experiences t...
IMDb Rating: 8.1/10 Based in part on Louis A. Garfinkle and Quinn K. Redeker's unproduced script The Man Who Came to Play, The Deer Hunter is set during the Vietnam War. The film follows a group of friends, Michael (Robert De Niro), Steven (John Savage), and Nick (Christopher Walken), who are from a small Pennsylvania town and are drafted into the ...
IMDb Rating: 8.1/10 Based on the 1952 novel written byPierre Boulle, The Bridge on the River Kwai takes place during World War II. It centers on a group of British prisoners of war who are forced by their Japanese captors to build a bridge over the River Kwai in Thailand and is told through the perspective of the British commander, Colonel Nicholso...
IMDb Rating: 8.3/10 Based on the 1979 novel The Short-Timers by Gustav Hasford, and set during the Vietnam War, Full Metal Jacket follows a group of Marine recruits as they undergo basic training and are sent to fight in Vietnam. Privates J.T. Davis (Matthew Modine) and Leonard Lawrence (Vincent D'Onofrio), often known as "Joker" and "Pyle," who st...
IMDb Rating: 8.4/10 Adapted from Lothar-Günther Buchheim's 1973 German novel of the same name, Das Bootis a German film that follows the crew of a German U-boat as they embark on a dangerous mission to sink Allied ships in the Atlantic Ocean. It’s told through the U-boat’s captain’s eyes, who struggles with the moral implications of his missions an...
IMDb Rating: 8.4/10 Loosely based on the 1899 novella Heart of Darkness byJoseph Conrad, Apocalypse Now follows Captain Willard (Martin Sheen), a U.S. Army officer who is sent on a mission to assassinate a renegade colonel who has gone rogue and is leading his own army in Cambodia. Williad also slowly descends into madness as he navigates the horro...
IMDb Rating: 8.6/10 Stephen E. Ambrose's books and descriptions of casualties among members of one family, like the Niland brothers, served as inspiration forSaving Private Ryan. The film follows a group of American soldiers who are sent on a mission to find and rescue the titular private (Matt Damon), led by Captain John Miller (Tom Hanks). Saving...
IMDb Rating: 9/10 Based on the 1982 book Schindler's Ark byThomas Keneally, Schindler's List follows Oskar Schindler (Liam Neeson), a German businessman who saves the lives of more than a thousand Jewish refugees by employing them in his factories. It’s also told through his Jewish accountant, Itzhak Stern (Ben Kingsley), who helps Schindler in his...
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- Senior List Writer
- Patton. George C. Scott, Karl Malden, Michael Bates. 41 votes. Patton is a biographical war film that delves into the life of the audacious World War II General George S. Patton, portrayed by George C. Scott.
- We Were Soldiers. Mel Gibson, Madeleine Stowe, Greg Kinnear. 49 votes. An unflinching portrayal of the Vietnam War, We Were Soldiers dives into the Battle of La Drang.
- Flags of Our Fathers. Ryan Phillippe, Jesse Bradford, Adam Beach. 29 votes. In Flags of Our Fathers, director Clint Eastwood delves into the gritty realities of war.
- The Longest Day. John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, Henry Fonda. 36 votes. The Longest Day, an iconic film of 1962, is a war epic that takes viewers into the heart of D-Day.
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- The Bridge on the River of Kwai. Revered French author Pierre Boulle's captivating historical fiction novel The Bridge on the River of Kwai was given the silver screen treatment when his gritty tale centering on the building of the Burma Railway was released in 1957, following the Allied prisoners of war who were forced into labor to construct the notorious route.
- The Longest Day. Western film icon John Wayne joined fellow cinema legends Henry Fonda, Robert Mitchum and a plethora of more stars in the 1962 hit The Longest Day, a retelling of the devastating Normandy landings from both the perspectives of the Allied forces and Germans that is based on the Cornelius Ryan book of the same name.
- Patton. George C. Scott won the Oscar for Best Actor (and later declined to accept the award) for his brilliant portrayal of the controversial Lieutenant General George S. Patton in the 1970 lauded drama Patton, which draws inspiration from both Omar N. Bradley's A Soldier Story and Ladislas Farago's Patton: Ordeal and Triumph.
- The Thin Red Line. Adapted from James Jones' 1962 masterpiece recounting his personal experiences during World War II's Guadalcanal campaign, the 1998 epic The Thin Red Line is a big-screen extravaganza that stars Hollywood greats like Sean Penn, Adrien Brody, and George Clooney, showcasing a fictionalized version of the Battle of Mount Austen between the United States and Imperial Japanese forces.
Jun 20, 2024 · Many war films draw on existing works, particularly historical novels (many of which were written by those who had some war experience of their own).
Jul 14, 2018 · While some war movies are original efforts, like last year’s Dunkirk (though The Miracle of Dunkirk by Walter Lord is a fantastic book on the subject—even if the movie wasn’t based on it), many of the greatest war movies of all time have been based on novels or nonfiction books.
