| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | War | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Casablanca | 1942 | Michael Curtiz | World War II | 3 |
| 2 | Lawrence of Arabia | 1962 | David Lean | World War I | 9 |
| 3 | Gone with the Wind | 1939 | Victor Fleming | American Civil War | 15 |
| 4 | Apocalypse Now | 1979 | Francis Ford Coppola | Vietnam War | 16 |
| 5 | Schindler's List | 1993 | Steven Spielberg | World War II | 21 |
| 6 | The General | 1926 | Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton | American Civil War | 44 |
| 7 | The Bridge on the River Kwai | 1957 | David Lean | World War II | 52 |
| 8 | Saving Private Ryan | 1998 | Steven Spielberg | World War II | 56 |
| 9 | The Deer Hunter | 1978 | Michael Cimino | Vietnam War | 73 |
| 10 | The Battleship Potemkin | 1925 | Sergei M. Eisenstein | Russian Revolution | 77 |
| 11 | The African Queen | 1951 | John Huston | World War I | 92 |
| 12 | The Grand Illusion | 1937 | Jean Renoir | World War I | 105 |
| 13 | Braveheart | 1995 | Mel Gibson | Wars of Scottish Independence | 111 |
| 14 | Platoon | 1986 | Oliver Stone | Vietnam War | 112 |
| 15 | The Best Years of Our Lives | 1946 | William Wyler | World War II | 114 |
| 16 | M*A*S*H | 1970 | Robert Altman | Korean War | 122 |
| 17 | All Quiet on the Western Front | 1930 | Lewis Milestone | World War I | 137 |
| 18 | The Birth of a Nation | 1915 | D.W. Griffith | American Civil War | 145 |
| 19 | Paths of Glory | 1957 | Stanley Kubrick | World War I | 154 |
| 20 | The Great Escape | 1963 | John Sturges | World War II | 170 |
| 21 | From Here to Eternity | 1953 | Fred Zinnemann | World War II | 173 |
| 22 | Doctor Zhivago | 1965 | David Lean | Russian Civil War | 176 |
| 23 | Ran | 1985 | Akira Kurosawa | Fictitious Japanese civil war | 189 |
| 24 | Patton | 1970 | Franklin J. Schaffner | World War II | 200 |
| 25 | The English Patient | 1996 | Anthony Minghella | World War II | 219 |
| 26 | Open City | 1945 | Roberto Rossellini | World War II | 220 |
| 27 | To Be or Not to Be | 1942 | Ernst Lubitsch | World War II | 225 |
| 28 | Napoléon | 1927 | Abel Gance | Napoleonic Wars | 227 |
| 29 | Das Boot | 1981 | Wolfgang Petersen | World War II | 231 |
| 30 | Andrei Rublev | 1966 | Andrei Tarkovsky | Tatar Raid | 234 |
| 31 | The Battle of Algiers | 1966 | Gillo Pontecorvo | Algerian War of Independence | 253 |
| 32 | Life Is Beautiful | 1997 | Roberto Benigni | World War II | 256 |
| 33 | Stairway to Heaven | 1946 | Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger | World War II | 260 |
| 34 | Full Metal Jacket | 1987 | Stanley Kubrick | Vietnam War | 289 |
| 35 | Hiroshima mon amour | 1959 | Alain Resnais | World War II | 292 |
| 36 | To Have and Have Not | 1944 | Howard Hawks | World War II | 342 |
| 37 | The Leopard | 1963 | Luchino Visconti | Italian Unification | 343 |
| 38 | Glory | 1989 | Edward Zwick | American Civil War | 359 |
| 39 | Henry V | 1944 | Laurence Olivier | Hundred Years' War | 364 |
| 40 | Barry Lyndon | 1975 | Stanley Kubrick | Seven Years War | 382 |
| 41 | The Great Dictator | 1940 | Charles Chaplin | World War I | 387 |
| 42 | The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp | 1943 | Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger | Boer War, World War I, and World War II | 390 |
| 43 | The Thin Red Line | 1998 | Terrence Malick | World War II | 410 |
| 44 | The Miracle of Morgan's Creek | 1944 | Preston Sturges | World War II | 437 |
| 45 | The Big Parade | 1925 | King Vidor | World War I | 461 |
| 46 | Ashes and Diamonds | 1958 | Andrzej Wajda | World War II | 463 |
| 47 | Alexander Nevsky | 1938 | Sergei M. Eisenstein and Dmitri Vasilyev | Northern Crusades | 466 |
| 48 | Come and See | 1985 | Elem Klimov | World War II | 467 |
| 49 | The Last of the Mohicans | 1992 | Michael Mann | French and Indian War | 470 |
| 50 | Triumph of the Will | 1935 | Leni Riefenstahl | 484 | |
| 51 | A Man Escaped | 1956 | Robert Bresson | World War II | 494 |
| 52 | Pan's Labyrinth | 2006 | Guillermo del Toro | Spanish Civil War | 500 |
| 53 | Zulu | 1964 | Cy Endfield | Anglo-Zulu War | 504 |
| 54 | Au Revoir, les Enfants | 1987 | Louis Malle | World War II | 519 |
| 55 | The Pianist | 2002 | Roman Polanski | World War II | 530 |
| 56 | Stalag 17 | 1953 | Billy Wilder | World War II | 535 |
| 57 | The Dirty Dozen | 1967 | Robert Aldrich | World War II | 536 |
| 58 | The Sorrow and the Pity | 1969 | Marcel Ophüls | World War II | 556 |
| 59 | Gunga Din | 1939 | George Stevens | Thuggee Uprising | 562 |
| 60 | The Killing Fields | 1984 | Roland Joffé | Cambodian Civil War | 572 |
| 61 | The Big Red One | 1980 | Samuel Fuller | World War II | 591 |
| 62 | Farewell My Concubine | 1993 | Kaige Chen | World War II and Chinese Civil War | 592 |
| 63 | The Longest Day | 1962 | Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, and Bernhard Wicki | World War II | 607 |
| 64 | Throne of Blood | 1957 | Akira Kurosawa | Fictitious Japanese civil war | 629 |
| 65 | The Tin Drum | 1979 | Volker Schlöndorff | World War II | 631 |
| 66 | Three Kings | 1999 | David O. Russell | Operation Desert Storm | 637 |
| 67 | Gallipoli | 1981 | Peter Weir | World War I | 650 |
| 68 | Downfall | 2004 | Oliver Hirschbiegel | World War II | 689 |
| 69 | Forbidden Games | 1952 | René Clément | World War II | 704 |
| 70 | Little Big Man | 1970 | Arthur Penn | Indian Wars | 727 |
| 71 | Closely Watched Trains | 1966 | Jirí Menzel | World War II | 729 |
| 72 | Army in the Shadows | 1969 | Jean-Pierre Melville | World War II | 730 |
| 73 | Grave of the Fireflies | 1988 | Isao Takahata | World War II | 739 |
| 74 | Queen Christina | 1933 | Rouben Mamoulian | Thirty Years' War | 740 |
| 75 | The Caine Mutiny | 1954 | Edward Dmytryk | World War II | 750 |
| 76 | Born on the Fourth of July | 1989 | Oliver Stone | Vietnam War | 761 |
| 77 | Mister Roberts | 1955 | John Ford and Mervyn LeRoy | World War II | 762 |
| 78 | Les Vampires | 1915 | Louis Feuillade | 787 | |
| 79 | The Guns of Navarone | 1961 | J. Lee Thompson | World War II | 803 |
| 80 | The Mirror | 1975 | Andrei Tarkovsky | World War II | 809 |
| 81 | Night and Fog | 1955 | Alain Resnais | World War II | 819 |
| 82 | Mrs. Miniver | 1942 | William Wyler | World War II | 820 |
| 83 | The Shop on Main Street | 1965 | Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos | World War II | 826 |
| 84 | Hope and Glory | 1987 | John Boorman | World War II | 848 |
| 85 | 'Breaker' Morant | 1980 | Bruce Beresford | Boer War | 856 |
| 86 | Paisan | 1946 | Roberto Rossellini | World War II | 859 |
| 87 | The Travelling Players | 1975 | Theodoros Angelopoulos | World War II | 860 |
| 88 | Empire of the Sun | 1987 | Steven Spielberg | World War II | 909 |
| 89 | Sergeant York | 1941 | Howard Hawks | World War I | 910 |
| 90 | 1900 | 1976 | Bernardo Bertolucci | World War I and World War II | 934 |
| 91 | Twelve O'Clock High | 1949 | Henry King | World War II | 942 |
| 92 | In Which We Serve | 1942 | Noel Coward and David Lean | World War II | 955 |
| 93 | Chimes at Midnight | 1965 | Orson Welles | Hundred Years' War | 969 |
| 94 | Black Hawk Down | 2001 | Ridley Scott | Somali Civil War | 978 |
| 95 | Underground | 1995 | Emir Kusturica | World War II and Yugoslav Wars | 982 |
| 96 | Hail the Conquering Hero | 1944 | Preston Sturges | World War II | 991 |
| 97 | Henry V | 1989 | Kenneth Branagh | Hundred Years' War | 996 |
| 98 | War and Peace | 1967 | Sergei Bondarchuk | Napoleonic Wars | 997 |
| 99 | Good Morning, Vietnam | 1987 | Barry Levinson | Vietnam War | 1000 |
| 100 | Seven Beauties | 1975 | Lina Wertmüller | World War II | 1017 |