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Top 250 Highest Rated War Narrative Feature Films

The Top 250 Highest Rated War Narrative Feature Films on Letterboxd, as defined by Letterboxd.

Last updated: June 6th, 2026

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Film eligibility criteria:
-- Must have a minimum of 1,000 ratings on Letterboxd.
-- Cannot be a short film (minimum 40 minutes).
-- Cannot be a television miniseries.
-- Cannot be a compilation of short serials.
-- Cannot be a documentary.
-- Cannot be a non-narrative project (paint drying for 10 hours, a timelapse of the construction of a building, abstract images, etc).
-- Cannot be a recording of a live performance (stand-up specials, recordings of live theater, concert films, etc).
-- Cannot be a television special episode, though feature film…

  • The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer

    1

  • Come and See

    2

  • The Human Condition I: No Greater Love

    3

  • Schindler's List

    4

  • The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity

    5

  • Grave of the Fireflies

    6

  • The Battle of Algiers

    7

  • The Cranes Are Flying

    8

  • Paths of Glory

    9

  • Incendies

    10

  • The Ascent

    11

  • Apocalypse Now

    12

  • Barry Lyndon

    13

  • The Pianist

    14

  • Lawrence of Arabia

    15

  • Inglourious Basterds

    16

  • Army of Shadows

    17

  • The Fifth Seal

    18

  • La Commune (Paris, 1871)

    19

  • To Be or Not to Be

    20

  • Das Boot

    21

  • The Great Dictator

    22

  • Underground

    23

  • War and Peace, Part III: The Year 1812

    24

  • Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

    25

  • Fail Safe

    26

  • M*A*S*H: Goodbye, Farewell and Amen

    27

  • Devils on the Doorstep

    28

  • Saving Private Ryan

    29

  • The Best Years of Our Lives

    30

  • Quo Vadis, Aida?

    31

  • Napoleon

    32

  • The Bridge on the River Kwai

    33

  • The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

    34

  • War and Peace, Part IV: Pierre Bezukhov

    35

  • To Live

    36

  • Space Runaway Ideon: Be Invoked

    37

  • Kagemusha

    38

  • Shame

    39

  • The Shop on Main Street

    40

  • The Deer Hunter

    41

  • War and Peace, Part I: Andrei Bolkonsky

    42

  • Grand Illusion

    43

  • Au Revoir les Enfants

    44

  • Ulysses' Gaze

    45

  • Full Metal Jacket

    46

  • The General

    47

  • Ivan's Childhood

    48

  • Bashu, the Little Stranger

    49

  • Threads

    50

  • All Quiet on the Western Front

    51

  • Rome, Open City

    52

  • The Great Escape

    53

  • Pretty Village, Pretty Flame

    54

  • Pan's Labyrinth

    55

  • The Travelling Players

    56

  • Ballad of a Soldier

    57

  • The Burmese Harp

    58

  • Under the Flag of the Rising Sun

    59

  • Kanal

    60

  • In This Corner of the World

    61

  • Father of a Soldier

    62

  • Downfall

    63

  • Siberiade

    64

  • Camp de Thiaroye

    65

  • 1917

    66

  • Tangerines

    67

  • The Train

    68

  • The Breadwinner

    69

  • Kannathil Muthamittal

    70

  • Forbidden Games

    71

  • The Thin Red Line

    72

  • The War Game

    73

  • Son of Saul

    74

  • Fires on the Plain

    75

  • All Quiet on the Western Front

    76

  • The Mouth of the Wolf

    77

  • The Hill

    78

  • A Hidden Life

    79

  • Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast

    80

  • Ashes and Diamonds

    81

  • I Accuse

    82

  • Bullet in the Head

    83

  • Casting Blossoms to the Sky

    84

  • City of Life and Death

    85

  • Swing Kids

    86

  • Farha

    87

  • Land of Mine

    88

  • Jojo Rabbit

    89

  • The Great War

    90

  • Hacksaw Ridge

    91

  • Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!

    92

  • Stalag 17

    93

  • The Bridge

    94

  • War and Peace, Part II: Natasha Rostova

    95

  • Hitler: A Film from Germany

    96

  • The Dawns Here Are Quiet

    97

  • Barefoot Gen

    98

  • The Wind That Shakes the Barley

    99

  • When the Wind Blows

    100