| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | War | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Casablanca | 1942 | Michael Curtiz | World War II | 2 |
| 2 | Lawrence of Arabia | 1962 | David Lean | World War I | 8 |
| 3 | Gone with the Wind | 1939 | Victor Fleming | American Civil War | 11 |
| 4 | Apocalypse Now | 1979 | Francis Ford Coppola | Vietnam War | 17 |
| 5 | Schindler's List | 1993 | Steven Spielberg | World War II | 22 |
| 6 | The General | 1927 | Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton | American Civil War | 42 |
| 7 | The Bridge on the River Kwai | 1957 | David Lean | World War II | 52 |
| 8 | The Battleship Potemkin | 1925 | Sergei M. Eisenstein | Russian Revolution | 65 |
| 9 | Saving Private Ryan | 1998 | Steven Spielberg | World War II | 67 |
| 10 | The African Queen | 1951 | John Huston | World War I | 71 |
| 11 | The Deer Hunter | 1978 | Michael Cimino | Vietnam War | 72 |
| 12 | The Grand Illusion | 1937 | Jean Renoir | World War I | 89 |
| 13 | Braveheart | 1995 | Mel Gibson | Wars of Scottish Independence | 94 |
| 14 | Platoon | 1986 | Oliver Stone | Vietnam War | 111 |
| 15 | The Birth of a Nation | 1915 | D.W. Griffith | American Civil War | 112 |
| 16 | M*A*S*H | 1970 | Robert Altman | Korean War | 117 |
| 17 | All Quiet on the Western Front | 1930 | Lewis Milestone | World War I | 119 |
| 18 | Paths of Glory | 1957 | Stanley Kubrick | World War I | 144 |
| 19 | From Here to Eternity | 1953 | Fred Zinnemann | World War II | 152 |
| 20 | Doctor Zhivago | 1965 | David Lean | Russian Civil War | 167 |
| 21 | The Great Escape | 1963 | John Sturges | World War II | 175 |
| 22 | Ran | 1985 | Akira Kurosawa | Fictitious Japanese Civil War | 177 |
| 23 | Patton | 1970 | Franklin J. Schaffner | World War II | 178 |
| 24 | Napoléon | 1927 | Abel Gance | Napoleonic Wars | 194 |
| 25 | To Be or Not to Be | 1942 | Ernst Lubitsch | World War II | 197 |
| 26 | Spartacus | 1960 | Stanley Kubrick | Third Servile War | 198 |
| 27 | Andrei Rublev | 1969 | Andrei Tarkovsky | Tatar Raid | 200 |
| 28 | Open City | 1945 | Roberto Rossellini | World War II | 210 |
| 29 | The English Patient | 1996 | Anthony Minghella | World War II | 214 |
| 30 | Stairway to Heaven | 1946 | Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger | World War II | 242 |
| 31 | Das Boot | 1981 | Wolfgang Petersen | World War II | 243 |
| 32 | Life Is Beautiful | 1997 | Roberto Benigni | World War II | 248 |
| 33 | Hiroshima mon amour | 1959 | Alain Resnais | World War II | 281 |
| 34 | Henry V | 1944 | Laurence Olivier | Hundred Years' War | 286 |
| 35 | The Battle of Algiers | 1966 | Gillo Pontecorvo | Algerian War of Independence | 292 |
| 36 | Full Metal Jacket | 1987 | Stanley Kubrick | Vietnam War | 302 |
| 37 | To Have and Have Not | 1944 | Howard Hawks | World War II | 332 |
| 38 | Glory | 1989 | Edward Zwick | American Civil War | 358 |
| 39 | The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp | 1943 | Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger | Boer War, World War I, and World War II | 368 |
| 40 | Alexander Nevsky | 1938 | Sergei M. Eisenstein and Dmitri Vasilyev | Northern Crusades | 383 |
| 41 | Gunga Din | 1939 | George Stevens | Thuggee Uprising | 388 |
| 42 | The Great Dictator | 1940 | Charles Chaplin | World War I | 392 |
| 43 | Zulu | 1964 | Cy Endfield | Anglo-Zulu War | 407 |
| 44 | Ashes and Diamonds | 1958 | Andrzej Wajda | World War II | 416 |
| 45 | The Leopard | 1963 | Luchino Visconti | Italian Unification | 420 |
| 46 | Barry Lyndon | 1975 | Stanley Kubrick | Seven Years War | 423 |
| 47 | Triumph of the Will | 1935 | Leni Riefenstahl | 432 | |
| 48 | The Big Parade | 1925 | King Vidor | World War I | 444 |
| 49 | The Last of the Mohicans | 1992 | Michael Mann | French and Indian War | 467 |
| 50 | The Thin Red Line | 1998 | Terrence Malick | World War II | 490 |
| 51 | The Sorrow and the Pity | 1969 | Marcel Ophüls | World War II | 502 |
| 52 | Stalag 17 | 1953 | Billy Wilder | World War II | 508 |
| 53 | The Longest Day | 1962 | Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, and Bernhard Wicki | World War II | 536 |
| 54 | The Killing Fields | 1984 | Roland Joffé | Cambodian Civil War | 544 |
| 55 | The Tin Drum | 1979 | Volker Schlöndorff | World War II | 561 |
| 56 | A Man Escaped | 1956 | Robert Bresson | World War II | 565 |
| 57 | Come and See | 1985 | Elem Klimov | World War II | 570 |
| 58 | The Big Red One | 1980 | Samuel Fuller | World War II | 575 |
| 59 | The Caine Mutiny | 1954 | Edward Dmytryk | World War II | 577 |
| 60 | Throne of Blood | 1957 | Akira Kurosawa | Fictitious Japanese Civil War | 581 |
| 61 | The Pianist | 2002 | Roman Polanski | World War II | 586 |
| 62 | Gallipoli | 1981 | Peter Weir | World War I | 590 |
| 63 | Forbidden Games | 1952 | René Clément | World War II | 597 |
| 64 | Gilda | 1946 | Charles Vidor | World War II | 614 |
| 65 | Paisan | 1946 | Roberto Rossellini | World War II | 616 |
| 66 | The Dirty Dozen | 1967 | Robert Aldrich | World War II | 632 |
| 67 | Born on the Fourth of July | 1989 | Oliver Stone | Vietnam War | 678 |
| 68 | Mister Roberts | 1955 | John Ford and Mervyn LeRoy | World War II | 681 |
| 69 | Les Vampires | 1915 | Louis Feuillade | 697 | |
| 70 | Little Big Man | 1970 | Arthur Penn | Indian Wars | 699 |
| 71 | Mrs. Miniver | 1942 | William Wyler | World War II | 701 |
| 72 | Twelve O'Clock High | 1949 | Henry King | World War II | 704 |
| 73 | Little Women | 1994 | Gillian Armstrong | American Civil War | 715 |
| 74 | Closely Watched Trains | 1966 | Jirí Menzel | World War II | 716 |
| 75 | Three Kings | 1999 | David O. Russell | Operation Desert Storm | 722 |
| 76 | War and Peace | 1967 | Sergei Bondarchuk | Napoleonic Wars | 734 |
| 77 | In Which We Serve | 1942 | Noel Coward and David Lean | World War II | 764 |
| 78 | 1900 | 1976 | Bernardo Bertolucci | 814 | |
| 79 | 'Breaker' Morant | 1980 | Bruce Beresford | Boer War | 815 |
| 80 | Henry V | 1989 | Kenneth Branagh | Hundred Years' War | 822 |
| 81 | Chimes at Midnight | 1965 | Orson Welles | Hundred Years' War | 841 |
| 82 | Foreign Correspondent | 1940 | Alfred Hitchcock | World War II | 882 |
| 83 | The Guns of Navarone | 1961 | J. Lee Thompson | World War II | 885 |
| 84 | Seven Beauties | 1975 | Lina Wertmüller | World War II | 887 |
| 85 | The Diary of Anne Frank | 1959 | George Stevens | World War II | 912 |
| 86 | The Shop on Main Street | 1965 | Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos | World War II | 916 |
| 87 | Sergeant York | 1941 | Howard Hawks | World War I | 923 |
| 88 | Wings | 1927 | William A. Wellman | World War I | 934 |
| 89 | The Garden of the Finzi-Continis | 1970 | Vittorio De Sica | World War II | 942 |
| 90 | Hope and Glory | 1987 | John Boorman | World War II | 994 |
| 91 | Black Hawk Down | 2001 | Ridley Scott | Somali Civil War | 1006 |
| 92 | Kagemusha | 1980 | Akira Kurosawa | Fictitious Japanese Civil War | 1007 |
| 93 | Medium Cool | 1969 | Haskell Wexler | Vietnam War | 1012 |
| 94 | Good Morning, Vietnam | 1987 | Barry Levinson | Vietnam War | 1013 |
| 95 | Hotel Rwanda | 2004 | Terry George | Rwandan Genocide | 1028 |
| 96 | Sands of Iwo Jima | 1949 | Allan Dwan | World War II | 1046 |
| 97 | Senso | 1954 | Luchino Visconti | Italian Unification | 1079 |
| 98 | Empire of the Sun | 1987 | Steven Spielberg | World War II | 1089 |
| 99 | South Pacific | 1958 | Joshua Logan | World War II | 1105 |
| 100 | Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World | 2003 | Peter Weir | Napoleonic Wars | 1121 |