#SpinnMovieSpot's TOP 20 MODERN WAR MOVIES.

A Thread...

1. SAVING PRIVATE RYAN

Year: 1998

Language: English

Cast: Tom Hanks, Tom Sizemore, Matt Damon, Edward Burns, Barry Pepper..

Director: Steven Spielberg

Note: Won 5 Oscar awards.

2. LETTERS FROM IWO JIMA

Year: 2006

Language: Japanese

Cast: Ken Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya, Tsuyoshi Ihara

Director: Clint Eastwood

Note: It is the Japanese POV of another war movie (Flags of Our Fathers) also directed by Clint Eastwood.

Won 1 Oscar and 1 BAFTA

3. DAS BOOT

Year: 1981

Language: German

Cast: Jorgen Prochnow, Klaus Wenneman, Herbert Grönemeyer

Director: WolfGang Peterson

Note: Got 6 Oscar Nominations

4. SCHINDLER'S LIST (Wartime)

Year: 1993

Language: English, German, Polish

Cast: Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Kingsley

Director: Steven Spielberg

Note: Won 7 Oscar awards

5. HACKSAW RIDGE

Year: 2016

Language: English

Cast: Andrew Garfield, Vince Vaughn, Teresa Palmer, Sam Worthington, Hugo Weaving.

Director: Mel Gibson

Note: Won 2 Oscars and 1 Golden Globe.

6. PATTON

Year: 1970

Language: English

Cast: George C Scott, Karl Marden, Carl Michael Vogler, Michael Strong.

Director/Sceeenplay: Franklin Schaffner, Francis Ford Coppola

Note: Won 7 Oscars.

7. BLACK HAWK DOWN

Year: 2001

Language: English

Cast: Josh Hartnet, Ewan McGregor, Eric Bana, Tom Sizemore.

Director: Ridley Scott

Note: Won 2 Oscars.

8. THE PIANIST (Wartime)

Year: 2002

Language: English, German

Cast: Adrien Brody, Emilia Fox, Thomas Kretschmann

Director: Roman Polanski

Note: Won 3 Oscars

9. FURY

Year : 2014

Language: English, German

Cast: Brad Pitt, Shia Labeouf, Logan Lerman, Michael Pena, Jon Bernthal

Director: David Ayer

Note: Critics Choice Nomination (X2), Won 1 Hollywood Film Award.

10. PLATOON

Year: 1986

Language: English

Cast Willem Dafoe, Tom Berenger, Charlie Sheen, Johnny Depp, Forest Whitaker

Director: Oliver Stone

Note: Won 4 Oscar Awards

11. 1917

Year: 2018

Language: English

Cast: George McKay, Dean Charles Chapman, Richard Madden, Benedict Cumberbatch, Colin Firth

Director: Sam Mendes

Note: Won 3 Oscars, 7 BAFTAs, 2 Golden Globes

12. THE HURT LOCKER

Year: 2008

Language: English

Cast: Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Gerathy, Ralph Fiennes

Director: Kathryn Bigelow

Note: Won 6 Oscar awards.

Also the first movie with a female director to win an Oscar for Directing.

13. ATONEMENT (War/Wartime)

Year: 2007

Language: English

Cast: James McAvoy, Keira Knightley, Saoirse Ronan, Ramola Garai, Benedict Cumberbatch

Director: Joe Wright

Note: won 1 Oscar, 2 BAFTA, 2 Golden Globe.

14. DUNKIRK

Year: 2017

Language: English

Cast: Harry Styles, Fionn Whitehead, Mark Rylance, Kenneth Branagh, Cillian Murphy.

Director: Christopher Nolan

Note: Won 3 Oscars

15. APOCALYPSE NOW:

Year: 1979

Language: English

Cast: Charlie Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Lawrence Fishbourne

Director: Francis Ford Coppola

Note: Won 2 Oscars, 3 Golden Globes

16. FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS

Year: 2006

Language: English

Cast: Ryan Phillippe, Adam Beach Barry Pepper, Jesse Bradford, Paul Walker

Director: Clint Eastwood

Note: It is the American Point of view to another war movie (Letters from Iwo Jima)

2 Oscar nominations

17. WAR HORSE

Year: 2011

Language: English

Cast: Jeremy Irvine, Tom Hiddleston, Benedict Cumberbatch, Emily Watson

Director: Steven Spielberg

Note: 6 Oscar Nominations, 5 BAFTA nominations

18. WE WERE SOLDIERS

Year: 2002

Language: English, Vietnamese, French

Cast: Mel Gibson, Barry Pepper, Madeline Stowe, Chris Klein, Sam Elliot

Director: Randall Wallace

Note: Won Movie Guide Award of the Year

19. AMERICAN SNIPER

Year: 2014

Language: English

Cast: Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller, Jonathan Groff, Chance Kelly.

Director: Clint Eastwood

Note: Won 1 Oscar and 1 Critics choice award

20 . THIN RED LINE

Year: 1998

Language: English

Cast: Jim Caviezel, Sean Penn, George Clooeny, Adrien Brody, Nick Nolte

Director: Terrence Malick

Note: 7 Oscar Nominations

Honourable Mentions:

Inglorious Basterds
The Great Escape
Paths of Glory
Downfall
Pearl Harbor
Beast of no Nation
Soldiers Of Benghazi
Lone Survivor
Escape From Sorbibor
Come and See
Enemy At the Gate
Full Metal Jacket

This is a my own view and it is by no means a standard.

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Btw ...1917 is a 2019 movie not 2018