Best war films 1941 – 1950 - Charts
Best war films 1941 – 1950
1. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: William Wyler
Cast: Myrna Loy, Fredric March
2. Casablanca (1942)
USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman
3. The Search (1948)
USA / Switzerland, Drama / War
Directed by: Fred Zinnemann
Cast: Ivan Jandl, Jarmila Novotná
4. To Be or Not to Be (1942)
USA, Comedy / War
Directed by: Ernst Lubitsch
Cast: Carole Lombard, Jack Benny
5. Rome, Open City (1945)
Italy, Drama / War
Directed by: Roberto Rossellini
Cast: Aldo Fabrizi, Anna Magnani
6. Mrs. Miniver (1942)
USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: William Wyler
Cast: Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon
7. A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
UK, Fantasy / Romance
Directed by: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Cast: David Niven, Kim Hunter
8. Action in the North Atlantic (1943)
USA, War / Drama
Directed by: Lloyd Bacon, Byron Haskin
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Raymond Massey
9. Wolves' Lairs (1948)
Czechoslovakia, Drama / War
Directed by: Paľo Bielik
Cast: Beta Poničanová, Jozef Budský
10. The Last Stop (1948)
Poland, Drama / War
Directed by: Wanda Jakubowska
Cast: Wanda Bartówna, Huguette Faget
12. Objective, Burma! (1945)
USA, War / Adventure
Directed by: Raoul Walsh
Cast: Errol Flynn, James Brown
13. Lifeboat (1944)
USA, Drama / War
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Tallulah Bankhead, William Bendix
14. Saboteur (1942)
USA, Thriller / War
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Priscilla Lane, Robert Cummings
15. The Story of G.I. Joe (1945)
USA, War / Drama
Directed by: William A. Wellman
Cast: Burgess Meredith, Robert Mitchum
16. Paisan (1946)
Italy, War / Drama
Directed by: Roberto Rossellini
Cast: Carmela Sazio, Robert Van Loon
17. Le Silence de la Mer (1949)
France, Drama / War
Directed by: Jean-Pierre Melville
Cast: Howard Vernon, Nicole Stéphane
18. Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944)
USA, Drama / War
Directed by: Mervyn LeRoy
Cast: Van Johnson, Robert Walker
19. To Have and Have Not (1944)
USA, Thriller / War
Directed by: Howard Hawks
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Walter Brennan
20. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
UK, Drama / Comedy
Directed by: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Cast: James McKechnie, Vincent Holman
23. Twelve O'Clock High (1949)
USA, Drama / War
Directed by: Henry King
Cast: Gregory Peck, Hugh Marlowe
25. The Battle of the Rails (1946)
France, Drama / War
Directed by: René Clément
Cast: Jean Daurand, Jean Clarieux
26. They Died with Their Boots On (1941)
USA, Drama / Western
Directed by: Raoul Walsh
Cast: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland
27. Battleground (1949)
USA, Action / War
Directed by: William A. Wellman
Cast: Van Johnson, John Hodiak
30. For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)
USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Sam Wood
Cast: Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman
31. The White Cliffs of Dover (1944)
USA, Romance / War
Directed by: Clarence Brown
Cast: Irene Dunne, Alan Marshal
32. That Hamilton Woman (1941)
USA, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: Alexander Korda
Cast: Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier
33. The Chronicle History of King Henry the Fifth with His Battell Fought at Agincourt in France (1944)
UK, Drama / War
Directed by: Laurence Olivier
Cast: Laurence Olivier, Leslie Banks
34. Lost in the Suburbs (1948)
Czechoslovakia, Drama / War
Directed by: Martin Frič
Cast: Karel Höger, Běla Jurdová
36. I Was a Male War Bride (1949)
USA, Comedy / Romance
Directed by: Howard Hawks
Cast: Cary Grant, Ann Sheridan
37. Five Graves to Cairo (1943)
USA, Thriller / War
Directed by: Billy Wilder
Cast: Franchot Tone, Anne Baxter
38. Les Années difficiles (1948)
Italy, Drama / War
Directed by: Luigi Zampa
Cast: Delia Scala, Massimo Girotti
40. The Sullivans (1944)
USA, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Lloyd Bacon
Cast: Anne Baxter, Thomas Mitchell
41. The Fighting Lady (1944)
USA, Documentary / War
Directed by: William Wyler
Cast: Robert Taylor, Charles Boyer
42. War Comes to America (1945)
USA, Documentary / War
Directed by: Frank Capra, Anatole Litvak
Cast: Lloyd Nolan, Walter Huston
43. Edge of Darkness (1943)
USA, Drama / War
Directed by: Lewis Milestone
Cast: Errol Flynn, Ann Sheridan
44. Tunisian Victory (1944)
USA / UK, Documentary / War
Directed by: John Huston, Frank Capra
Cast: Leo Genn, Burgess Meredith
45. The Rainbow (1943)
Soviet Union, War / Drama
Directed by: Mark Donskoy
Cast: Нина Алисова, Natalija Užvij
49. Across the Pacific (1942)
USA, Action / Adventure
Directed by: Vincent Sherman, John Huston
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor
50. The Heroes Are Silent (1946)
Czechoslovakia, War / Drama
Directed by: Miroslav Cikán
Cast: Ladislav Boháč, Zdeněk Dítě
51. Destination Tokyo (1943)
USA, Adventure / War
Directed by: Delmer Daves
Cast: Cary Grant, John Garfield
53. Back to Bataan (1945)
USA, Drama / War
Directed by: Edward Dmytryk
Cast: John Wayne, Anthony Quinn
54. A Guy Named Joe (1943)
USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Victor Fleming
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Irene Dunne
55. 49th Parallel (1941)
UK, Drama / Thriller
Directed by: Michael Powell
Cast: Eric Portman, Niall MacGinnis
57. Since You Went Away (1944)
USA, Drama / War
Directed by: John Cromwell, David O. Selznick
Cast: Claudette Colbert, Jennifer Jones
58. Silent Barricade (1949)
Czechoslovakia, Drama / War
Directed by: Otakar Vávra
Cast: Jaroslav Průcha, Barbara Drapińska
59. The Young Guard (1948)
Soviet Union, Drama / War
Directed by: Sergey Gerasimov
Cast: Vladimir Ivanov, Инна Макарова
60. Days of Glory (1944)
USA, Drama / War
Directed by: Jacques Tourneur
Cast: Tamara Toumanova, Gregory Peck
61. The First of the Few (1942)
UK, Biography / Drama
Directed by: Leslie Howard
Cast: Leslie Howard, David Niven
63. Ona zashchishchayet Rodinu (1943)
Soviet Union, War
Directed by: Fridrikh Ermler
Cast: Ivan Pelttser, Georgi Semyonov
65. Captains of the Clouds (1942)
USA, Drama / War
Directed by: Michael Curtiz
Cast: James Cagney, Dennis Morgan
66. Cloak and Dagger (1946)
USA, Romance / Adventure
Directed by: Fritz Lang
Cast: Gary Cooper, Lilli Palmer
67. Desperate Journey (1942)
USA, War / Action
Directed by: Raoul Walsh
Cast: Errol Flynn, Ronald Reagan
68. A Canterbury Tale (1944)
UK, Drama / Mystery
Directed by: Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
Cast: Eric Portman, Dennis Price
69. December 7th (1943)
USA, Action / War
Directed by: John Ford, Gregg Toland
Cast: Walter Huston, Harry Davenport
70. They Met in the Dark (1943)
UK, Mystery / Romance
Directed by: Karel Lamač
Cast: James Mason, Tom Walls
71. Immortal Sergeant (1943)
USA, Drama / War
Directed by: John M. Stahl
Cast: Henry Fonda, Maureen O'Hara
72. The Battle of China (1944)
USA, Documentary / War
Directed by: Frank Capra, Anatole Litvak
Cast: Walter Huston, Anthony Veiller
73. This Land Is Mine (1943)
USA, Drama / War
Directed by: Jean Renoir
Cast: Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara
74. A Walk in the Sun (1945)
USA, Drama / War
Directed by: Lewis Milestone
Cast: Dana Andrews, Richard Conte
75. In Which We Serve (1942)
UK, Drama / War
Directed by: Noël Coward, David Lean
Cast: Noël Coward, John Mills
76. Victory Through Air Power (1943)
USA, Animation / Documentary
Directed by: Perce Pearce, James Algar
Cast: Art Baker
78. Northern Pursuit (1943)
USA, Adventure / War
Directed by: Raoul Walsh
Cast: Errol Flynn, Julie Bishop
79. The Fighting Seabees (1944)
USA, Action / Drama
Directed by: Edward Ludwig
Cast: John Wayne, Susan Hayward
82. Went the Day Well? (1942)
UK, Thriller / War
Directed by: Alberto Cavalcanti
Cast: Leslie Banks, C.V. France
83. One of Our Aircraft Is Missing (1942)
UK, Drama / War
Directed by: Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
Cast: Godfrey Tearle, Eric Portman
84. Blood on the Sun (1945)
USA, Action / Drama
Directed by: Frank Lloyd
Cast: James Cagney, Sylvia Sidney
85. Reunion in France (1942)
USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Jules Dassin
Cast: Joan Crawford, John Wayne
86. Sergeant York (1941)
USA, Drama / War
Directed by: Howard Hawks
Cast: Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan
88. The Fall of Berlin (1945)
Soviet Union, Documentary / War
Directed by: Yuliy Rayzman
Cast: Adolf Hitler, Wilhelm Keitel
89. Wake Island (1942)
USA, War / Drama
Directed by: John Farrow
Cast: Brian Donlevy, Macdonald Carey
91. The Big Noise (1944)
USA, Comedy / Adventure
Directed by: Malcolm St. Clair
Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy
92. Flying Tigers (1942)
USA, Action / Drama
Directed by: David Miller
Cast: John Wayne, John Carroll
94. The Small Back Room (1949)
UK, Drama / Thriller
Directed by: Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
Cast: David Farrar, Kathleen Byron
95. Hangmen Also Die (1943)
USA, Drama / Film-Noir
Directed by: Fritz Lang
Cast: Brian Donlevy, Walter Brennan
96. Passage to Marseille (1944)
USA, Drama / Adventure
Directed by: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Claude Rains
97. Hail the Conquering Hero (1944)
USA, Comedy / War
Directed by: Preston Sturges
Cast: Eddie Bracken, Ella Raines
98. Joan of Arc (1948)
USA, Drama / Biography
Directed by: Victor Fleming
Cast: Ingrid Bergman, José Ferrer