Best Military Movies with a Deeper Message

Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

The Great Escape (1963)

The Dirty Dozen (1967)

Patton (1970)

A Bridge Too Far (1977)

Apocalypse Now (1979)

Das Boot (1981)

Full Metal Jacket (1987)

Glory (1989)

The Hunt for Red October (1990)

Courage Under Fire (1996)

Saving Private Ryan (1998)

Thin Red Line (1998)

Three Kings (1999)

Enemy at the Gates (1999)

Black Hawk Down (2001)

The Pianist (2002)

Master and Commander (2003)

Downfall (2004)

Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)

The Hurt Locker (2008)

Waltz with Bashir (2008)

Lebanon (2009)

American Sniper (2014)

Fury (2014)

Lone Survivor (2013)




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Stalag 17 (1953)

Paths of Glory (1957)
Stanley Kubrick
World War I

The Train (1964)

Gettysburg (1993)
-- Director: Ron Maxwell

Hacksaw Ridge

Dunkirk (2017)

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Jarhead
Lone Survivor
Black Hawk Down
Full Metal Jacket
Stalingrad
Saving Private Ryan
Come and See
Band of Brothers
Generation Kill

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