Top 10 Greatest World War II Movies

10. Das Boot, 1981
Das Boot is a 1981 German epic war film written and directed by Wolfgang Petersen, produced by Günter Rohrbach, and starring Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer, and Klaus Wennemann.

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9. The Longest Day, 1962
The Longest Day is a 1962 war film based on the 1959 history book The Longest Day by Cornelius Ryan, about D-Day, the Normandy landings on June 6, 1944, during World War II.

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8. The Guns of Navarone, 1961
The Guns of Navarone is a 1961 British-American action/adventure war film directed by J. Lee Thompson.

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7. Schindler's List, 1993
Schindler's List is a 1993 American epic historical drama film directed and co-produced by Steven Spielberg and scripted by Steven Zaillian. It is based on the novel Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally, an Australian novelist.

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6. The Dirty Dozen, 1967
The Dirty Dozen is a 1967 war film directed by Robert Aldrich, released by MGM, and starring Lee Marvin.

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5. Band of Brothers, 2001
Band of Brothers is a ten-part, 11-hour television World War II miniseries, originally produced and broadcast in 2001, based on historian Stephen E. Ambrose's 1992 book of the same title. The executive producers were Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks, who had collaborated on the 1998 World War II film Saving Private Ryan.

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4. Patton, 1970
Patton is a 1970 American biographical war film about U.S. General George S. Patton during World War II. It stars George C. Scott, Karl Malden, Michael Bates and Karl Michael Vogler.

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3. The Great Escape, 1963
The Great Escape is based on the true story of a group of Allied prisoners of war who managed to escape from an allegedly impenetrable Nazi prison camp during World War II. At the beginning of the film, the Nazis gather all their most devious and troublesome POWs and place them at a new prison camp, which was designed to be impervious to escapes.

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2. The Bridge on the River Kwai, 1957
The Bridge on the River Kwai is a 1957 British World War II film directed by David Lean, based on the eponymous French novel by Pierre Boulle.

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1. Saving Private Ryan, 1998
Saving Private Ryan is a 1998 American epic war film set during the invasion of Normandy in World War II.

It was directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Robert Rodat.
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