Best war films 2001 – 2010 - Charts
Best war films 2001 – 2010
1. The Pianist (2002)
France / Poland, Drama / Biography
Directed by: Roman Polański
Cast: Adrien Brody, Emilia Fox
2. Inglourious Basterds (2009)
USA / Germany, Drama / Adventure
Directed by: Quentin Tarantino
Cast: Brad Pitt, Mélanie Laurent
3. Black Hawk Down (2001)
USA / UK, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Ridley Scott
Cast: Josh Hartnett, Ewan McGregor
4. Hotel Rwanda (2004)
UK / USA, Drama / War
Directed by: Terry George
Cast: Don Cheadle, Sophie Okonedo
5. Shake Hands with the Devil (2007)
Canada, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Roger Spottiswoode
Cast: Roy Dupuis, Deborah Kara Unger
6. Persepolis (2007)
France / USA, Animation / Drama
Directed by: Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi
7. Bloody Sunday (2002)
UK / Ireland, Drama / War
Directed by: Paul Greengrass
Cast: James Nesbitt, Allan Gildea
8. Battle Ground 625 (2005)
South Korea, Drama / Comedy
Directed by: Kwang-hyeon Park
Cast: Ha-kyun Shin, Jae-yeong Jeong
9. Brotherhood (2004)
South Korea, Action / Drama
Directed by: Je-gyu Kang
Cast: Dong-gun Jang, Bin Won
10. Waltz with Bashir (2008)
Israel / France, Animation / Documentary
Directed by: Ari Folman
Cast: Ari Folman, אורי סיון
11. The War You Don't See (2010)
UK, Documentary / War
Directed by: John Pilger, Alan Lowery
Cast: Julian Assange, Tony Blair
12. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008)
UK / USA, Drama / War
Directed by: Mark Herman
Cast: Asa Butterfield, Jack Scanlon
13. Cold Mountain (2003)
USA / UK, Drama / War
Directed by: Anthony Minghella
Cast: Jude Law, Nicole Kidman
14. Atonement (2007)
UK / France, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Joe Wright
Cast: James McAvoy, Keira Knightley
15. No Man's Land (2001)
Bosnia-Herzegovina / France, Drama / Comedy
Directed by: Danis Tanović
Cast: Branko Djuric, René Bitorajac
17. Sniper: Inside the Crosshairs (2009)
USA, Documentary / War
Directed by: Emre Şahin
Cast: Scott Levy, Marco Morales
18. Enemy at the Gates (2001)
USA / Germany, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Jean-Jacques Annaud
Cast: Jude Law, Joseph Fiennes
20. Valkyrie (2008)
USA / Germany, War / Historical
Directed by: Bryan Singer
Cast: Tom Cruise, Kenneth Branagh
22. Black Book (2006)
Netherlands / Belgium, Thriller / War
Directed by: Paul Verhoeven
Cast: Carice van Houten, Sebastian Koch
23. Incendies (2010)
Canada / France, Drama / Mystery
Directed by: Denis Villeneuve
Cast: Rémy Girard, Lubna Azabal
24. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)
USA, War / Historical
Directed by: Peter Weir
Cast: Russell Crowe, Paul Bettany
25. Downfall (2004)
Germany / Austria, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Oliver Hirschbiegel
Cast: Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Maria Lara
26. The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara (2003)
USA, Documentary / War
Directed by: Errol Morris
Cast: Robert McNamara, Errol Morris
27. The Reader (2008)
USA / Germany, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Stephen Daldry
Cast: Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes
28. City of Life and Death (2009)
China / Hong Kong, Drama / War
Directed by: Chuan Lu
Cast: Ye Liu, Yuanyuan Gao
29. Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
Mexico / Spain, Fantasy / War
Directed by: Guillermo del Toro
Cast: Ivana Baquero, Doug Jones
30. Life Is a Miracle (2004)
Serbia and Montenegro / France, Comedy / Drama
Directed by: Emir Kusturica
Cast: Slavko Stimac, Nataša Tapušković
31. Dark Blue World (2001)
Czech Republic / UK, War / Drama
Directed by: Jan Svěrák
Cast: Ondřej Vetchý, Kryštof Hádek
32. Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (2005)
Germany, Drama / War
Directed by: Marc Rothemund
Cast: Julia Jentsch, Alexander Held
33. Brothers (2004)
Denmark / UK, War / Drama
Directed by: Susanne Bier
Cast: Connie Nielsen, Ulrich Thomsen
34. No End in Sight (2007)
USA, Documentary / War
Directed by: Charles Ferguson
Cast: Campbell Scott, George W. Bush
36. As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me (2001)
Germany, War / Drama
Directed by: Hardy Martins, Dmitriy Astrakhan
Cast: Bernhard Bettermann, Iris Böhm
37. Merry Christmas (2005)
France / Germany, War / Drama
Directed by: Christian Carion
Cast: Diane Kruger, Benno Fürmann
38. Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)
USA, Drama / War
Directed by: Clint Eastwood
Cast: Ken Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya
39. Address Unknown (2001)
South Korea, Drama / War
Directed by: Ki-duk Kim
Cast: Dong-geun Yang, Yeong-min Kim
40. Turtles Can Fly (2004)
Iran / France, Drama / War
Directed by: Bahman Ghobadi
Cast: Soran Ebrahim, Avaz Latif
41. Rambo (2008)
USA / Germany, Action / Thriller
Directed by: Sylvester Stallone
Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Julie Benz
42. Will Not End Here (2008)
Croatia / Serbia, Drama / Comedy
Directed by: Vinko Brešan
Cast: Ivan Herceg, Nada Šargin
43. Greatest Silence, The: Rape in the Congo (2007)
USA, Documentary / War
Directed by: Lisa F. Jackson
44. Fortress of War (2010)
Belarus / Russia, Drama / Action
Directed by: Aleksandr Kott, Denis Skvortsov
Cast: Alexei Kopashov, Pavel Derevyanko
45. The Goebbels Experiment (2005)
Germany / UK, Documentary / Biography
Directed by: Lutz Hachmeister
Cast: Kenneth Branagh, Udo Samel
47. Habermann's Mill (2010)
Czech Republic / Germany, Drama / War
Directed by: Juraj Herz
Cast: Mark Waschke, Karel Roden
48. Fighter in the Wind (2004)
South Korea, War / Historical
Directed by: Yoon-ho Yang
Cast: Dong-geun Yang, Doo-hong Jeong
50. A Very Long Engagement (2004)
France / USA, War / Mystery
Directed by: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Cast: Audrey Tautou, Gaspard Ulliel
53. Brothers (2009)
USA, Drama / War
Directed by: Jim Sheridan
Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Natalie Portman
54. K-19 (2002)
USA / UK, Drama / Thriller
Directed by: Kathryn Bigelow
Cast: Harrison Ford, Liam Neeson
55. The Hurt Locker (2008)
USA, War / Drama
Directed by: Kathryn Bigelow
Cast: Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie
56. The Counterfeiters (2007)
Austria / Germany, Drama / Crime
Directed by: Stefan Ruzowitzky
Cast: Karl Markovics, August Diehl
57. Nanking (2007)
USA, Documentary / Historical
Directed by: Bill Guttentag, Dan Sturman
Cast: Woody Harrelson, Stephen Dorff
58. Innocent Voices (2004)
Mexico / USA, War / Drama
Directed by: Luis Mandoki
Cast: Carlos Padilla, Leonor Varela
59. Lust, Caution (2007)
Taiwan / USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Ang Lee
Cast: Tony Chiu-wai Leung, Joan Chen
60. Protector (2009)
Czech Republic, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Marek Najbrt
Cast: Jana Plodková, Marek Daniel
61. 71: Into the Fire (2010)
South Korea, Action / Drama
Directed by: John H. Lee
Cast: T.O.P, Seung-won Cha
62. Fateless (2005)
Hungary / Germany, Drama / War
Directed by: Lajos Koltai
Cast: Marcell Nagy, Béla Dóra
63. Beneath Hill 60 (2010)
Australia, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Jeremy Sims
Cast: Brendan Cowell, Steve Le Marquand
65. Trenches: Battleground WWI (2006)
USA, Documentary / War
66. Rescue Dawn (2006)
USA, Action / Adventure
Directed by: Werner Herzog
Cast: Christian Bale, Steve Zahn
67. The Round Up (2010)
France / Germany, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Rose Bosch
Cast: Jean Reno, Mélanie Laurent
68. A Battle of Wits (2006)
Hong Kong / China, Historical / Action
Directed by: Jacob Cheung
Cast: Andy Lau, Siu-hou Chin
69. Deutschen Panzer Number 5 – Panzerkampfwagen (PZKPFW) – Panzer III., Die (2010)
UK, Documentary / War
70. Man of War (2008)
Norway / Germany, War / Historical
Directed by: Joachim Rønning, Espen Sandberg
Cast: Aksel Hennie, Agnes Kittelsen
71. Children of Glory (2006)
Hungary, War / Historical
Directed by: Krisztina Goda
Cast: Kata Dobó, Iván Fenyő
73. Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame (2007)
Iran, Drama / War
Directed by: Hana Makhmalbaf
Cast: Abbas Alijome, Abdolali Hoseinali
74. Katyn (2007)
Poland, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Andrzej Wajda
Cast: Artur Żmijewski, Maja Ostaszewska
76. Green Zone (2010)
USA / UK, Drama / War
Directed by: Paul Greengrass
Cast: Matt Damon, Greg Kinnear
77. Twilight (2005)
Russia / Germany, Drama / War
Directed by: Artyom Antonov
Cast: Yuri Tarasov, Anastasiya Sheveleva
78. The Tour (2008)
Serbia / Bosnia-Herzegovina, War / Comedy
Directed by: Goran Markovic
Cast: Tihomir Stanic, Mira Furlan
79. Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden? (2008)
France / USA, Documentary / War
Directed by: Morgan Spurlock
Cast: Morgan Spurlock, Dr. Daryl Isaacs
80. Panzerkampfwagen PZKPFW IV, Panzer IV (2010)
UK, Documentary / War
81. The Sun Behind the Moon (2001)
Iran / France, Drama / War
Directed by: Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Cast: Nelofer Pazira, Hassan Tantai
82. Iwo Jima - 36 Days of Hell (2006)
USA, Documentary / War
83. Kingdom of Heaven (2005)
UK / Spain, Action / Historical
Directed by: Ridley Scott
Cast: Orlando Bloom, Eva Green
84. The Beautiful Country (2004)
USA / Norway, Drama / War
Directed by: Hans Petter Moland
Cast: Damien Nguyen, Bai Ling
85. Tears of April (2008)
Finland / Germany, Drama / War
Directed by: Aku Louhimies
Cast: Samuli Vauramo, Pihla Viitala
86. Amen. (2002)
France / Germany, Drama / Crime
Directed by: Costa-Gavras
Cast: Ulrich Tukur, Mathieu Kassovitz
87. The Nordic War - The Battle of Finland´s Independence 1939-1945 (2006)
Finland, Documentary / War
Directed by: Huugos Huhtanen
Cast: Marko Putkonen, Erkki Kokko
88. Broken Promise (2009)
Slovakia / Czech Republic, Drama / War
Directed by: Jiří Chlumský
Cast: Samuel Spišák, Peter Oszlík
89. Assembly (2007)
China / Hong Kong, War / Drama
Directed by: Xiaogang Feng
Cast: Hanyu Zhang, Chao Deng
90. Franz+Polina (2006)
Russia, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Mikhail Segal
Cast: Adrian Topol, Светлана Иванова
91. The Border (2007)
Finland / Russia, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Lauri Törhönen
Cast: Martin Bahne, Minna Haapkylä
92. We Were Soldiers (2002)
USA / Germany, War / Drama
Directed by: Randall Wallace
Cast: Mel Gibson, Madeleine Stowe
93. Auschwitz: The Last Journey (2006)
Germany / Czech Republic, Drama / War
Directed by: Joseph Vilsmaier, Dana Vávrová
Cast: Gedeon Burkhard, Lale Yavas
94. City of War: The Story of John Rabe (2009)
France / China, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Florian Gallenberger
Cast: Ulrich Tukur, Daniel Brühl
96. The Weight of Chains (2010)
Canada / Croatia, Documentary / Historical
Directed by: Борис Малагурски
Cast: Branislav Lecic, Борис Малагурски
97. The Sum of All Fears (2002)
USA / Germany, Action / Drama
Directed by: Phil Alden Robinson
Cast: Ben Affleck, Morgan Freeman
98. Battle for Haditha (2007)
UK, Drama / War
Directed by: Nick Broomfield
Cast: Elliot Ruiz, Yasmine Hanani
99. The Ninth Day (2004)
Germany / Luxembourg, Drama / War
Directed by: Volker Schlöndorff
Cast: Ulrich Matthes, August Diehl
100. Die Deutschen Panzer Number 5 – Light Panzers 1 & 2, 35 (t) & 38 (t) (2010)
UK, Documentary / War