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Best War Movies of the 1950s

War films released 1950–1959, ranked by TMDB rating among titles with at least 500 votes.

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   #1 Paths of Glory (1957) · ★ 8.3 · 3,391 votes · 1h 28m · drama, history, war

   A commanding officer defends three scapegoats on trial for a failed offensive that occurred within the French Army in 1916.…

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   #2 Night and Fog (1956) · ★ 8.3 · 590 votes · 0h 32m · history, war, documentary

   Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.…

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   #3 The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) · ★ 7.8 · 2,457 votes · 2h 42m · drama, history, war

   The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence officers conspire to blow up…

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   #4 Stalag 17 (1953) · ★ 7.7 · 690 votes · 2h 0m · comedy, drama, war

   After two American prisoners are killed by guards in the act of escaping from a German POW camp in World War II, barracks black marketeer J.J. Sefton is suspected of being an infor…

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   #5 The African Queen (1952) · ★ 7.3 · 1,097 votes · 1h 45m · adventure, romance, drama

   At the start of the First World War, in the middle of Africa’s nowhere, a gin soaked riverboat captain is persuaded by a strong-willed missionary to go down river and face-off a Ge…

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   #6 From Here to Eternity (1953) · ★ 7.3 · 736 votes · 1h 58m · romance, drama, war

   In 1941 Hawaii, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his captain's wife and second in command are falling in love.…

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   #7 Fear and Desire (1953) · ★ 5.4 · 555 votes · 1h 2m · thriller, drama, war

   After their airplane crashes behind enemy lines, four soldiers must survive and try to find a way back to their battalion. However, when they come across a local peasant girl the h…

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