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Best War Movies of the 1960s

War films released 1960–1969, ranked by TMDB rating among titles with at least 500 votes.

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   #1 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) · ★ 8.1 · 6,336 votes · 1h 35m · comedy, war

   After the insane General Jack D. Ripper initiates a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union, a war room full of politicians, generals and a Russian diplomat all frantically try to stop…

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   #2 Lawrence of Arabia (1962) · ★ 8.0 · 3,591 votes · 3h 48m · adventure, history, war

   During World War I, English officer Thomas Edward 'T.E.' Lawrence sets out to unite and lead the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes to fight the Turks.…

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   #3 Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) · ★ 8.0 · 990 votes · 3h 11m · drama, history, war

   In 1947, four German judges who served on the bench during the Nazi regime face a military tribunal to answer charges of crimes against humanity. Chief Justice Haywood hears eviden…

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   #4 The Great Escape (1963) · ★ 7.9 · 2,953 votes · 2h 53m · adventure, thriller, drama

   The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocate them to a high-security 'escape-proof' camp to si…

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   #5 Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At! (1966) · ★ 7.9 · 1,498 votes · 2h 12m · comedy, war

   During World War II, two French civilians and a downed British Bomber Crew set out from Paris to cross the demarcation line between Nazi-occupied Northern France and the South. Fro…

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   #6 The Battle of Algiers (1966) · ★ 7.9 · 934 votes · 2h 2m · drama, history, war

   Former petty criminal Ali la Pointe becomes a commander of the Algerian Front de Liberation Nationale, directing a guerilla insurgency against the colonial French occupation. Parat…

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   #7 Army of Shadows (1969) · ★ 7.9 · 781 votes · 2h 25m · thriller, drama, history

   Betrayed by an informant, Philippe Gerbier finds himself trapped in a torturous Nazi prison camp. Though Gerbier escapes to rejoin the Resistance in occupied Marseilles, France, an…

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   #8 Ivan's Childhood (1962) · ★ 7.8 · 857 votes · 1h 35m · drama, war

   In WW2, twelve year old Soviet orphan Ivan Bondarev works for the Soviet army as a scout behind the German lines and strikes a friendship with three sympathetic Soviet officers.…

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   #9 Two Women (1960) · ★ 7.8 · 589 votes · 1h 40m · drama, war

   A young widow flees from Rome during WWII and takes her lonely twelve-year-old-daughter to her rural hometown but the horrors of war soon catch up with them.…

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    #10 The Dirty Dozen (1967) · ★ 7.6 · 1,366 votes · 2h 29m · action, adventure, war

    12 American military prisoners in World War II are ordered to infiltrate a well-guarded enemy château and kill the Nazi officers vacationing there. The soldiers, most of whom are f…

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    #11 Doctor Zhivago (1965) · ★ 7.6 · 1,272 votes · 3h 20m · romance, drama, war

    The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the O…

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    #12 The Longest Day (1962) · ★ 7.6 · 1,058 votes · 2h 58m · action, drama, history

    The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as p…

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    #13 Spartacus (1960) · ★ 7.5 · 2,466 votes · 3h 17m · adventure, drama, history

    The rebellious Thracian Spartacus, born and raised a slave, is sold to Gladiator trainer Batiatus. After weeks of being trained to kill for the arena, Spartacus turns on his owners…

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    #14 Where Eagles Dare (1968) · ★ 7.5 · 997 votes · 2h 35m · action, adventure, war

    World War II is raging, and an American general has been captured and is being held hostage in the Schloss Adler, a Bavarian castle that's nearly impossible to breach. It's up to a…

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    #15 Zulu (1964) · ★ 7.4 · 588 votes · 2h 18m · action, drama, history

    In 1879, during the Anglo-Zulu War, man-of-the-people Lt. Chard and snooty Lt. Bromhead are in charge of defending the isolated and vastly outnumbered Natal outpost of Rorke's Drif…

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    #16 The Guns of Navarone (1961) · ★ 7.3 · 913 votes · 2h 40m · action, adventure, thriller

    A team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue…

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    #17 How the West Was Won (1962) · ★ 7.0 · 514 votes · 2h 44m · action, western, war

    The epic tale of the development of the American West from the 1830s through the Civil War to the end of the century, as seen through the eyes of one pioneer family.…

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