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The Movieforums Top 100 War Movies Countdown

Let this war song soak you in...

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Welcome...

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After four months of bloodshed, bullets and broken hearts, we've finally reached the end of all the horrors. This gruesome war game has ended in 5y ballots, and I'm thankful to all the soldiers present for their service in the line of duty.

THE SOLDIERS: Iroquois, honeykid, Sedai, Jabs, al pacone, CaptainSpaulding, KeyserCorleone, jiraffejustin, Takoma11, Frightened Inmate No. 2, Steve Freeling, CaptainT, Thief, WrinkledMind, Siddon, Yoda, edarsenal, iluv2viddyfilms, LAMb EELYAK, rauldc14, Fabulous, Taz, Wyldesyde19, sawduck, Hey Fredrick, ScarletLion, James D. Gardiner, Act III, cricket, Citizen Rules, John Dumbear, dadgumblah, Little Ash, Harry Lime, MovieFan1988, matt72582, Cobpyth, Wigram, seanc, Deschain, Torgo, kgaard, Kaplan, John-Connor, PHOENIX74, SpelingError, Allaby, Thursday Next, donniedarko, mrblond, Diehl40, Chypmunk, Miss Vicky, Holden Pike, beelzebubble, TheUsualSuspect, John W Constantine

344 movies have been enlisted during this countdown, and the exact results will be revealed shortly. I gotta say that the results are fun to look through. But the most fun was in seeing how much it was changing overtime, as I had a little thing going on where I would watch the top movie I hadn't yet seen everyday that I didn't already have a [plan. Thanks to this, I watched some amazing movies that made my updated ballot and even came close. This has been an incredible experience, and I want to once again thank everyone for their votes, for taking this seriously and for not meme voting any non-war movies that were mistagged as war anyway.

I especially want to thank Yoda for helping me get this set up and SpelingError for his advice and for hosting the group watch thread!

Feel free to discuss things here as much as you want, but do NOT reveal your ballots, or your will be court-martialed for treason.

HINT LEADERBOARD RULES:

This will be based on a points system scoring different points for any of these scenarios:

A: Guessing one right: 1 pt.

B: Guessing both right even though each was already individually guessed: 2 pts.

C: Guessing both right with one film already correctly guessed: 3 pts.

E: Guessing both right and both first: 5 pts.

HINT LEADERBOARD RULES:

Cricket: 21 (A x 16, E x 1)
John-Connor: 10 (A x 5, E x 1)
SpelingError: 6 (A x 1, E x 1)
Wyldesyde: 6 (A x 1, E x 1)
Siddon: 4 (A x 4)
Tuesday Next: 2 (A x 2)
Dadgumblah: 1 (A x 1)
Holden Pike: 1 (A x 1)
JiraffeJustin: 1 (A x 1)
Little Ash: 1 (A x 1)
Miss Vicky: 1 (A x 1)

ONE POINT WONDERS

1. 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016)
2. Combat Shock (1986)
3. Defiance (2008)
4. Don't Look Now: We're Being Shot At (1966)
5. Ike: Countdown to D-Day (2005)
6. In the Army Now (1994)
7. Journey's End (2017)
8. K-19: The Widowmaker (2002)
9. La Commune (Paris, 1871) (2003)
10. Michael Collins (1996)

11. Operation Petticoat (1959)
12. Overlord (2018)
13. Sisu (2023)
14. The Dawns Here Are Quiet (1972)
15. The Human Bullet (1968)
16. The Last Act (1955)
17. The Long Voyage Home (1940)
18. The Lucky Ones (2008)
19. The Man Who Would Be King (1975)
20. The Siege of Firebase Gloria (1989)

21. The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006)
22. Trial on the Road (1971)
23. Went the Day Well? (1942)
24. Windtalkers (2002)

Re: The Movieforums Top 100 War Movies Countdown

TOP 100 WAR MOVIES RESULTS

Due to misvoting, the thread will bear different results from the top 100 until #82.

100. Red Angel (1966, Yasuzô Masumura)
99. The Burmese Harp (1956, Kon Ichikawa)
98. Ashes and Diamonds (1958, Andrzej Wadja)
97. Johnny Got His Gun (1971, Dalton Trumbo)
96. War and Peace, Part IV: Pierre Bezukhov (1967, Sergei Bondarchuk)
95. Napoleon (1927, Abel Gance)
94. The Tin Drum (1979, Volker Schlöndorff)
93. The Hill (1965, Sidney Lumet)
92. Zero Dark Thirty (2012, Kathryn Bigelow)
91. Hotel Rwanda (2004, Terry George)

90. Forbidden Games (1952, René Clément)
89. Shame (1968, Ingmar Bergman)

88. Twelve O'Clock High (1949, Henry King)
87. Enemy at the Gates (2001, Jean-Jacques Annuad)
86. Good Morning, Vietnam (1987, Barry Levinson)
85. Mrs. Miniver (1942, William Wyler)
84. Tropic Thunder (2008, Ben Stiller)
83. A Man Escaped (1956, Robert Bresson)
82. The Train (1964, John Frankenheimer)
81. Kingdom of Heaven (2005, Ridley Scott)

80. A Matter of Life and Death (1946, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger)
79. Wings (1927, William A. Wellman)
78. Breaker Morant (1980, Bruce Beresford)
77. Three Kings (1999, David O. Russell)
76. Fail-Safe (1964, Sidney Lumet)
75. War and Peace, Part III: The Year 1812 (1967, Sergei Bondarchuk)
74. Shoah (1985, Claude Lanzmann)
73. Sergeant York (1941, Howard Hanks)
72. Battle of Britain (1969, Guy Hamilton)
71. War and Peace, Part I: Andrei Bolkonsky (1965, Sergei Bondarchuk)

70. The Caine Mutiny (1954, Edward Dymtryk)
69. The Killing Fields (1984, Roland Joffé)
68. Ballad of a Soldier (1959, Grigoriy Chukhray)
67. Hacksaw Ridge (2016, Mel Gibson)
66. All Quiet on the Western Front (2022, Edward Berger)
65. Judgment at Nuremburg (1961, Stanley Kramer)
64. The General (1926, Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman)
63. Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970, Richard Fleischer, Kinji Fukasaku, Toshio Masuda)
62. First Blood (1982, Ted Kotcheff)
61. Kanal (1957, Andrzej Wadja)

60. Letters from Iwo Jima (2006, Clint Eastwood)
59. Fires on the Plain (1959, Kon Ichikawa)
58. The Hurt Locker (2008, Kathryn Bigelow)
57. Jojo Rabbit (2019, Taika Waititi)
56. Ivan's Childhood (1962, Andrey Tarkovsky)
55. Black Hawk Down (2001, Ridley Scott)
54. Pan's Labyrinth (2006, Guillermo del Toro)
53. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003, Peter Weir)
52. Gone with the Wind (1939, Victor Fleming)
51. The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity (1959, Masaki Kobayashi)

50. Barry Lyndon (1975, Stanley Kubrick)
49. The Guns of Navarone (1961, J. Lee Thompson)
48. Night and Fog (1956, Alain Resnais)
47. Dunkirk (2017, Christopher Nolan)
46. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger)
45. Waltz with Bashir (2007, Ari Folman)
44. Grand Illusion (1937, Jean Renoir)
43. Underground (1995, Emir Kusturica)
42. The Last of the Mohicans (1992, Michael Mann)
41. To Be or Not to Be (1942, Ernst Lubitsch)

40. Empire of the Sun (1987, Steven Spielberg)
39. MASH (1970, Robert Altman)
38. Glory (1989, Edward Zwick)
37. Rome, Open City (1945, Roberto Rossellini)
36. The Longest Day (1962, Andrew Marton)
35. Stalag 17 (1953, Billy Wilder)
34: The Human Condition, Part III: A Soldier's Prayer (1961, Masaki Kobayashi)
33: The Ascent (1977, Larisa Shepitko)
32: The Dirty Dozen (1967, Robert Aldrich)
31: 1917 (2019, Sam Mendes)

30: From Here to Eternity (1953, Fred Zinnemann)
29: Army of Shadows (1969, Jean-Pierre Melville)
28: Patton (1970, Franklin J. Schaffner)
27: The Human Condition 1: No Greater Love (1959, Masaki Kobayashi)
26: Braveheart (1995, Mel Gibson)
25: The Deer Hunter (Michael Cimino)
24: The Battle of Algiers (1966, Gillo Pontecorvo)
23: The Pianist (2002, Roman Polanski)
22: The Great Dictator (1940, Charlie Chaplin)
21: The Best Years of Our Lives (1946, William Wyler)

20: The Cranes Are Flying (1968, Mikhail Kalatozov)
19: The Great Escape (1963, John Sturges)
18. Ran (1985, Akira Kurosawa)
17. The Thin Red Line (1998, Terrence Malick)
16. Platoon (1986, Oliver Stone)
15. Inglourious Basterds (2009, Quentin Tarantino)
14. Casablanca (1942, Michael Curtiz)
13. Downfall (2004, Oliver Hirschbiegel)
12. Grave of the Fireflies (1988, Isao Takahata)
11. Schindler's List (1993, Steven Spielberg)