Best War Movies of the 1990s
#1 Schindler's List (1993) · ★ 8.6 · 17,970 votes · 3h 15m · drama, history, warThe true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.…
#2 Saving Private Ryan (1998) · ★ 8.2 · 17,802 votes · 2h 49m · drama, history, warAs U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fourth trapped behind enemy lines. Ranger captain John Miller and seven men are tas…
#3 Braveheart (1995) · ★ 7.9 · 11,460 votes · 2h 58m · action, drama, historyEnraged at the slaughter of Murron, his new bride and childhood love, Scottish warrior William Wallace slays a platoon of the local English lord's soldiers. This leads the village…
#4 Underground (1995) · ★ 7.7 · 811 votes · 2h 50m · comedy, drama, warBlack marketeers Marko and Blacky manufacture and sell weapons to the Communist resistance in WWII Belgrade, living the good life along the way. Marko's surreal duplicity propels h…
#5 Mediterraneo (1991) · ★ 7.6 · 1,094 votes · 1h 36m · comedy, romance, warGreek Sea, World War II. An Italian ship leaves a handful of soldiers in a little island; their mission is to spot enemy ships and to hold the island in case of attack. The village…
#6 The Last of the Mohicans (1992) · ★ 7.4 · 3,562 votes · 1h 52m · action, adventure, romanceIn war-torn colonial America, in the midst of a bloody battle between British, the French and Native American allies, the aristocratic daughter of a British Colonel and her party a…
#7 The Thin Red Line (1998) · ★ 7.4 · 3,425 votes · 2h 51m · drama, history, warThe story of a group of men, an Army Rifle company called C-for-Charlie, who change, suffer, and ultimately make essential discoveries about themselves during the fierce World War…
#8 Legends of the Fall (1994) · ★ 7.4 · 2,960 votes · 2h 13m · action, adventure, romanceIn early 20th-century Montana, Col. William Ludlow lives on a ranch in the wilderness with his sons, Alfred, Tristan, and Samuel. Eventually, the unconventional but close-knit fami…
#9 Stalingrad (1993) · ★ 7.3 · 655 votes · 2h 14m · drama, history, warA German Platoon is explored through the brutal fighting of the Battle of Stalingrad. After half of their number is wiped out and they're placed under the command of a sadistic cap…
#10 Crimson Tide (1995) · ★ 7.2 · 2,076 votes · 1h 56m · action, thriller, dramaAfter the Cold War, a breakaway Russian republic with nuclear warheads becomes a possible worldwide threat. U.S. submarine Capt. Frank Ramsey signs on a relatively green but highly…
#11 The English Patient (1996) · ★ 7.1 · 2,473 votes · 2h 42m · romance, drama, warIn the 1930s, Count Almásy is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to chart the vast expanses of the Sahara Desert along with several other prominent ex…
#12 Michael Collins (1996) · ★ 6.9 · 537 votes · 2h 12m · thriller, drama, historyMichael Collins plays a crucial role in the establishment of the Irish Free State in the 1920s, but becomes vilified by those hoping to create a completely independent Irish republ…
#13 Rob Roy (1995) · ★ 6.7 · 736 votes · 2h 19m · action, adventure, dramaIn the highlands of Scotland in the 1700s, Rob Roy tries to lead his small town to a better future, by borrowing money from the local nobility to buy cattle to herd to market. When…
#14 Hot Shots! (1991) · ★ 6.6 · 2,540 votes · 1h 25m · action, comedy, warThe gang that created Airplane! and The Naked Gun sets its sights on Top Gun in this spoof. Topper Harley is a talented but unstable fighter pilot with an axe to grind: clearing th…
#15 Three Kings (1999) · ★ 6.6 · 2,381 votes · 1h 54m · action, comedy, warA group of American soldiers stationed in Iraq at the end of the Gulf War find a map they believe will take them to a huge cache of stolen Kuwaiti gold hidden near their base, and…
#16 Courage Under Fire (1996) · ★ 6.6 · 1,097 votes · 1h 56m · thriller, drama, warA US Army officer, who made a "friendly fire" mistake that was covered up, has been reassigned to a desk job. He is tasked to investigate a female chopper commander's worthiness to…
#17 Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993) · ★ 6.5 · 2,139 votes · 1h 28m · action, comedy, warTopper Harley is found to be working as an odd-job-man in a monastery. The CIA want him to lead a rescue mission into Iraq, to rescue the last rescue team, who went in to rescue th…
#18 G.I. Jane (1997) · ★ 6.5 · 1,920 votes · 2h 5m · action, drama, warIn response to political pressure from Senator Lillian DeHaven, the U.S. Navy begins a program that would allow for the eventual integration of women into its combat services. The…
#19 The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999) · ★ 6.4 · 1,658 votes · 2h 38m · action, adventure, dramaIn 1429, a French teenager stood before her King with a message she claimed came from God; that she would defeat the world's greatest army and liberate her country from its politic…
#20 The Postman (1997) · ★ 6.3 · 1,241 votes · 2h 58m · action, adventure, science-fictionIn 2013, there are no highways, no I-ways, no dreams of a better tomorrow, only scattered survivors across what was once the United States. Into this apocalyptic wasteland comes an…
#21 Screamers (1995) · ★ 6.2 · 625 votes · 1h 48m · horror, science-fiction, warSIRIUS 6B, Year 2078. On a distant mining planet ravaged by a decade of war, scientists have created the perfect weapon: a blade-wielding, self-replicating race of killing devices…
#22 Legionnaire (1998) · ★ 5.9 · 637 votes · 1h 38m · action, adventure, historyAlain Lefevre is a boxer paid by a Marseille mobster to take a dive. When he wins the fight he attempts to flee to America with the mobster's girlfriend Katrina. This plan fails an…