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This is a list of war film or films depicting aspects of historical wars.

Contents 1 Trojan War 2 Greco-Persian Wars 3 Wars of Alexander the Great 4 Wars of the Roman Republic/Empire 5 Sino-Xiongnu War 6 Spanish Reconquest 7 Crusades 8 Battle of the Ice 9 Wars of Scottish Independence 10 St. Bartholomew's Day massacre 11 Hundred Years' War 12 Hussite Wars 13 Thirty Years' War 14 English Civil War 15 The Deluge 16 Scanian War 17 Seven Years' War and French and Indian War 18 American Revolutionary War 19 Napoleonic Wars 20 First Opium War 21 Texas War of Independence 22 Crimean War 23 Indian Rebellion of 1857 24 American Civil War 25 Indian Wars 26 Spanish-American War 27 Satsuma Rebellion 28 Anglo-Zulu War 29 Mahdist Sudanese War 30 Boxer Rebellion 31 Second Anglo-Boer War 32 Russo-Japanese War 33 Colonial conflicts in Northern Africa 34 Mexican Revolution 35 World War I 36 Russian Revolution of 1917 and Russian Civil War 37 Anglo-Irish War 38 Greco-Turkish War 39 Spanish Civil War 40 World War II 41 Indochina War 42 Korean War 43 Mau Mau Revolt 44 Algerian War of Independence 45 Cambodian Civil War 46 Vietnam War 47 Cold War 48 Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 49 Lebanese Civil War 50 Operation Entebbe 51 El Salvador Civil War 52 Soviet war in Afghanistan 53 Falklands War 54 Invasion of Grenada 55 First Gulf War 56 Sierra Leone Civil War 57 Somalian Civil War 58 Rwandan Civil War 59 Bosnian War 60 Second Liberian Civil War 61 Kargil War 62 al-Aqsa Intifada 63 Operation Enduring Freedom - Philippines 64 Iraq War 65 Insurgency in Saudi Arabia 66 See also

• Helen of Troy (1956)
• Troy (2004)

• 300 (2007)
• 300 Spartans, The (1962)

• Alexander (2004)
• Alexander the Great (1956)

• Annibale (1960) - Second Punic War
• Asterix animated films based on the comic book character (background, the Gallic Wars)
• Attila (1954) - European campaign of Attila the Hun
• Attila (TV miniseries, 2001) - European campaign of Attila the Hun
• Brenno il nemico di Roma (1963) - first Gallic invasion of Italy
• Ben Hur
• Fall of the Roman Empire, The (1964) - Marcomanni War
• Gladiator (2000) - Marcomanni War
• Hannibal - Rome's Worst Nightmare (TV, 2006) - Second Punic War
• Hannibal the Conqueror (in production, 2008) - Second Punic War
• Rome (TV series)- Caesar's civil war
• Spartacus (1960) - Third Servile War

• Mulan (animated, 1998)

• El Cid (1961)

• Kingdom of Heaven (2005)

• Alexander Nevsky

• Braveheart (1995)

• La Reine Margot (1994 film) (aka Queen Margot in English speaking countries)

• Joan of Arc (1948)
• Joan of Arc (1999)
• Passion of Joan of Arc, The (1928)
• Messenger, The: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999)
• Henry V (1944) - a film adaptation of Shakespeare's play, directed by Laurence Olivier
• Henry V (1989) - a film adaptation of Shakespeare's play, directed by Kenneth Branagh
• Saint Joan (1957)

• Jan Žižka (1955)

• Alatriste (2006)
• Last Valley, The (1970)

• Cromwell (1970)

• The Deluge

• Snapphanar

• Barry Lyndon (1975)
• Last of the Mohicans, The (1920)
• Last of the Mohicans, The (1932)
• Last of the Mohicans, The (1936)
• Last of the Mohicans, The (1992)

• 1776 (1982) from the musical of the same name
• The Battle of Bunker Hill (1911)
• Benedict Arnold: A Question of Honor (2002) A&E film
• The Crossing (2000) A&E film
• Drums Along the Mohawk (1939)
• Johnny Tremain (1957)
• The Patriot (2000)
• Revolution (1985)
• Glory (1989)
• Valley Forge (1975) made for TV
• April Morning (1982) made for TV - Starring Tommy Lee Jones

• Captain Horatio Hornblower (1951)
• Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)
• Napoléon (1927)
• War and Peace (1956, USA)
• War and Peace (1968, USSR)
• Waterloo (1970)
• Sharpe (TV series)

• Yapian zhanzheng (The Opium War) (1997)

• The Alamo (1936)
• The Alamo (1960)
• The Alamo (2004)
• The Alamo: Thirteen Days to Glory (1987)

• Charge of the Light Brigade, The (1936) - US version directed by Michael Curtiz
• Charge of the Light Brigade, The (1968) - British version directed by Tony Richardson

• Mangal Pandey: The Rising

(Also see American Civil War films)

• Andersonville (1996) made for TV
• Battle of Gettysburg (1913)
• Battle of Gettysburg (1956)
• Birth of a Nation (1915), first epic film
• Cold Mountain (2003)
• The General (1927), a comedy starring Buster Keaton
• Gettysburg (1993)
• Gods and Generals (2003)
• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
• Glory (1989)
• Gone with the Wind (1939)
• The Horse Soldiers (1959)
• North and South (TV miniseries, 1985-1986)
• The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
• The Red Badge of Courage (1951)
• Ride With The Devil (1999)
• Shenandoah (1965)
• The Hunley (1997)

• Buffalo Soldiers (1997) (TV)
• The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer (1977) (TV)
• Crazy Horse (1996)
• Custer of the West (1967)
• Custer's Last Stand (1936)
• Dances With Wolves (1990)
• Geronimo: An American Legend (1994)
• Little Big Man (1970)
• She Wore A Yellow Ribbon (1949)
• Son of the Morning Star (1991)
• They Died With Their Boots On (1941)
• Soldier Blue (1970)
• Rio Grande (1950)

• Tearing Down the Spanish Flag - first war movie ever made, in 1898.
• The Rough Riders- 1997 TV movie

• The Last Samurai (2003)

• Shaka Zulu (TV mini, 1986)
• Zulu (1964)
• Zulu Dawn (1979)

• Four Feathers, The (1955)
• Four Feathers, The (1972)
• Four Feathers, The (2002)
• Khartoum (1966)
• Young Winston (1972)

• 55 Days at Peking (1963)

• Breaker Morant (1980)
• Ohm Kruger (1942)
• Untamed (1955)
• Young Winston (1972)

• 203 kochi (Port Arthur (1980)
• Battle of Tsushima, The (1975)

• Legionnaire (1998)
• Lion of the Desert (1981)
• March or Die (1977)
• Wind and the Lion, The (1975)

• Fistful of Dynamite, A (1971)
• Villa Rides (1968)
• Viva Villa! (1934)
• Viva Zapata! (1952)

• Aces High (1976)
• African Queen, The (1951)
• All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
• All Quiet on the Western Front (1979)
• Big Parade, The (1925)
• Biggles: Adventures in Time (1986)
• Black and White in Color (1976)
• Blue Max, The (1966)
• Capitaine Conan (1996)
• Company K (2004)
• Darling Lili (1970)
• Dawn Patrol, The (1930)
• Dawn Patrol, The (1938)
• Deathwatch (2002) - related genre: horror
• End of St. Petersburg, The (1927)
• Farewell to Arms, A (1932)
• Farewell to Arms, A (1957)
• Fighting 69th (1940)
• Flyboys (2006)
• Gallipoli (1981)
• Grande guerra, La (1959)
• Hell's Angels (1930)
• Hell Below (1933)
• In Love and War (1996)
• Johnny Got His Gun (1971)
• King of Hearts (1966) - related genre: comedy
• Grande Illusion, La (1937)
• Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
• Lighthorsemen, The (1987)
• Lost Battalion, The (1919)
• Lost Battalion, The (2001)
• Lost Patrol, The (1934)
• Merry Christmas (2005)
• Morgenrot (1933)
• Oh! What a Lovely War (1969)
• Pack Up Your Troubles (1932) - comedy
• Paths of Glory (1957)
• Red Baron, The (Von Richthofen and Brown) (1971)
• Regeneration (Behind the Lines) (1997)
• Road Back, The (1937)
• Sergeant York (1941)
• Shoulder Arms (1918) - comedy
• Shout At The Devil (1976)
• Spay in Black, The (1939)
• Trench, The (1999)
• Very Long Engagement, A (2004)
• Westfront 1918 (1930)
• What Price Glory (1926)
• Wings (1927)
• Zeppelin (1971)
• Battle of Ypres (1925)

• The End of St. Petersburg (1927)
• October: Ten Days That Shook The World (1927)
• The Battleship Potemkin (1925)
• Dr. Zhivago (1965)
• Reds (1981)
• Top secret (1945)

• Michael Collins
• The Wind That Shakes The Barley (film)
• Ryan's Daughter (1970)

• You Can't Win 'Em All (1970)

• El Viaje de Carol (2002)
• For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)
• Head in the Clouds (2004)
• Land and Freedom (1995)
• Libertarias (1996)
• Viva la muerte (1971)

(Also see World War II films)

• Angels One Five (1952)
• Anzio (1968)
• L'Armée des ombres (1969)
• Atentat (1964)
• Attack! (1956)
• Attack Force Z (1981)
• Attack on the Iron Coast (1967)
• Ballad of a Soldier (1959) ("Баллада о солдате" in Russia)
• Band of Brothers (2001 TV mini series)
• La Bataille du rail (1945)
• Battleground (1949)
• Battle of Britain (1969)
• Battle of the Bulge (1965)
• Battle of the River Plate (1956)
• The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)1
• The Big Red One (1980)
• Black Book (2006)
• Blood Oath (1990; also known as Prisoners of the Sun)
• The Bridge at Remagen (1969)
• The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
• A Bridge Too Far (1977)
• The Bunker (1980 TV movie)
• Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001)
• Captains of the Clouds (1942)
• The Captive Heart (1946)
• Casablanca (1941)
• Catch-22 (1970)
• The Colditz Story (1954)
• Come and See (1985) ("Иди и смотри" in Russia)
• Command Decision (1951)
• Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939)
• Corvette K-225
• The Cranes Are Flying (1957) ("Летят журавли" in Russia)
• Cross of Iron (1977) ("Steiner – Das Eiserne Kreuz" in Germany)
• The Cruel Sea (1953)
• Czterej pancerni i pies
• D-Day the Sixth of June (1956)
• The Dam Busters (1954)
• Danger Within (1958)
• Dark Blue World (2001)
• Das Boot (1981)
• Decision Before Dawn
• Downfall (2004) ("Der Untergang" in Germany)
• The Dirty Dozen (1967)
• Dunkirk (1958)
• The Eagle Has Landed (1976)
• Empire of the Sun (1987)
• To End All Wars (2001)
• Enemy at the Gates (2001)
• The Enemy Below (1957)
• Etulinjan edessä
• The Fighting Sullivans (1942)
• Flying Tigers (1942)
• Flags of our Fathers (2006)
• Force Ten from Navarone (1978)
• Forty-Ninth Parallel (1941)
• From Here to Eternity (1953)
• La Grande Vadrouille (1966)
• The Great Raid (2005)
• Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
• The Great Escape (1963)
• The Guns of Navarone (1961)
• Hangmen Also Die (1943)
• Hart's War (2002)
• Hell Is for Heroes (1962)
• Hope and Glory (1987)
• Ill Met By Moonlight (1957)
• In Which We Serve (1942)
• In Harm's Way (1965)
• Kelly's Heroes (1970)
• Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)
• The Longest Day (1962)
• Malaya (1949)
• Man Hunt (1941)
• Memphis Belle (1990)
• Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983)
• A Midnight Clear (1992)
• The Mountain Road (1961)
• My Name is Ivan (1963) ("Иваново детство" in Russia)
• The Naked and the Dead (1958)
• The Next of Kin (1942)
• The Night of the Shooting Stars (1982)
• 1941 (1979)
• Operation Daybreak(1975)
• Operation Pacific (1951)
• Otoko-tachi no Yamato 2005
• Is_Paris_Burning? (Is Paris Burning?)
• Patton (1970)
• Pearl Harbor (2001)
• The Pianist (2002)
• Prisoners of the Sun (1990)
• Reach for the Sky (1956)
• Roma, città aperta
• Run Silent, Run Deep (1956)
• Sands of Iwo Jima (1949)
• Saints and Soldiers (2003)
• Saving Private Ryan (1998)
• Schindler's List (1993)
• The Sea Wolves (1980)
• Seventeen Moments of Spring (1973 Soviet TV mini series) ("Семнадцать мгновений весны" in Russia)
• Sink the Bismarck (1960)
• Soldier of Orange (1977)
• 633 Squadron (1963)
• Stalag 17 (1953)
• Stalingrad (1993)
• The Star (2002) ("Звезда" in Russia)
• The Story of G.I. Joe (1945)
• The Thin Red Line (1998)
• The Night of the Generals (1967)
• Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944)
• This Land Is Mine (1943)
• To Hell and Back (1955)
• To Live in Peace] (1947)
• Too Late the Hero (1970)
• Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
• The Train (1964)
• Tuntematon sotilas (1955 and 1985)
• Tuskgee Airmen(2000)
• Twelve O'Clock High (1949)
• U-571 (2000)
• The Way Ahead (1944)
• Windtalkers (2002)
• Went the Day Well? (1942)
• When Trumpets Fade (1998)
• Where Eagles Dare (1969)
• The Wooden Horse (1950)
• The Young Lions (1958)
• Murphy's War (1971)

• La 317éme section
• Diên Biên Phú
• The Quiet American (2002)

(Also see Korean War films)

• The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1954)
• A Hill in Korea (1956)
• Macarthur (1977)
• MASH (1970)
• Men of the Fighting Lady (1954)
• Pork Chop Hill (1959)
• Taegukgi (2005)
• Retreat, Hell! (1952)

• Something of Value

• Battle of Algiers (1965) (La Battaglia di Algeri)
• Chronique des années de braise
• L'Honneur d'un Capitaine
• Lost Command (1966)
• RAS
• Le Petit Soldat (1960)

• The Killing Fields (1984)

(Also see Vietnam War films)

• Air America (1990)
• Apocalypse Now (1979)
• Bat*21 (1988)
• Birdy (1985)
• Born On the Fourth of July (1989)
• The Boys In Company C (1978)
• A Bright Shining Lie (1998)
• Casualties of War (1989)
• The Deer Hunter (1978)
• 84C MoPic (1989)
• Flight of the Intruder
• Full Metal Jacket (1987)
• Gardens of Stone (1987)
• Go Tell the Spartans (1978)
• Good Morning, Vietnam (1987)
• The Green Berets (1968)
• Hamburger Hill (1987)
• Heaven & Earth (1993)
• How Sleep the Brave
• Missing In Action (1984)
• The Odd Angry Shot (1979)
• Operation Dumbo Drop (1995)
• Platoon (1986)
• A Rumor of War (1980) (TV)
• The Siege of Firebase Gloria (1987)
• Tigerland (2000)
• Uncommon Valor (1983)
• The Walking Dead (1995)
• We Were Soldiers (2002)

(Also see Cold War films)

• Crimson Tide (1995)
• The Day After (1983) (TV)
• Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
• Fail-Safe (1964)
• A Gathering of Eagles (1963)
• The Hunt for Red October (1990)
• Thirteen Days (2000)
• K-19: The Widowmaker (2002)
• The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
• Red Dawn (1984)
• Threads (1984) (TV)
• Top Gun (1986)
• The War Game (1965)
• On the Beach (1959)

• Border
• Hindustan Ki Kasam

• Zozo (2005)

• Victory at Entebbe
• Raid On Entebbe
• Mivtsa Yonatan

• Salvador (1986)
• Voces inocentes (2004) ('Innocent Voices' in English)

• 9th Company (2005)
• The Beast of War
• Spetsnaz (2002, a TV miniseries)
• Rambo III

• Resurrected (1989)
• Tumbledown (1988) (TV)
• An Ungentlemanly Act (1992) (TV)

• Heartbreak Ridge (1986)

(Also see Gulf War films)

• Bravo Two Zero (1999) (TV)
• Courage Under Fire (1996)
• The Finest Hour (1992)
• Jarhead (2005)
• Live From Baghdad (2002)
• The One That Got Away (1996) (TV)
• Thanks of a Grateful Nation (1998) (TV)
• Three Kings (1999)

• Blood Diamond

• The Flight of the Wild Geese
• Black Hawk Down (2001)

• Hotel Rwanda
• Shake Hands with the Devil
• Shooting Dogs
• Sometimes In April

• Before the Rain (1994)
• Pretty Village, Pretty Flame (1996)
• Behind Enemy Lines (2002)
• No Man's Land (2001)
• Savior (1998)
• Shot Through The Heart (1998)
• Underground (1996)
• Welcome to Sarajevo (1997)
• Grbavica (2006)

• Lord of War (2005)

• LOC Kargil (2003)
• Lakshya (2004)

• Paradise Now

• The Hunt of Eagle One (2006)

• I am an American Soldier (2007) Movie Web site(documentary)
• Saving Jessica Lynch (2003) (TV)
• Over There (2005) (TV series)
• Valley of the Wolves Iraq (2006)
• Home of the Brave (2006)
• In The Shadow Of The Palms (2005) (documentary)

• The Kingdom

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