Contrary to the dreams of the beautiful-hearted idealists, wars went on, they go, and it seems they will stop only with the disappearance of humanity. Introducing the best films about the warreleased from 2000 to 2017. The selection includes Russian and foreign films. Military events in most films took place from 1845 to 1945.
10.28 Panfilovites (2016)
Rating - 7.6
There are good feature and documentary Soviet films on military subjects. “They fought for their country,” “Some old people go into battle,” “Ordinary fascism” and many, many others. Modern Russian cinema rarely delights viewers with high-quality military films, such as 9th Company about events in Afghanistan and Zvezda about Soviet intelligence during the Great Patriotic War. And the new military historical drama "28 Panfilov" was a real breakthrough, showing that even without the support of the Film Fund, one of the best films about the Great Patriotic War can be shot.
The film takes place near Volokolamsk. The Germans are already on the outskirts of Moscow, but they are blocked by the 316th Infantry Division, commanded by General I.V. Panfilov. In “28 Panfilovites” it is very realistic, without tear and pathos, the feat shown by ordinary people is shown.
9. Inglourious Basterds (2009)
Rating - 7.8
A non-standard presentation of a plot about Jewish Americans revenge on the Nazis, popular actors (Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Diane Krueger, Melanie Laurent), laid-back jokes and equally laid-back murders - all this makes Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds a vivid and memorable movie.
8. Pearl Harbor (2001)
Rating - 7.9
Two friends Danny and Rafe fell in love with one girl. It would seem a trivial and unremarkable plot. However, the audience will not be bored, as this love line is complemented by the Japanese attack on the American military base Pearl Harbor. This is a film directed by Michael Bay, which means, according to tradition, there are a lot of special effects, action and shooting.
7. Patriot (2000)
Rating - 7.9
When a war is going on in a country, you cannot stay away. Benjamin Martin (Mel Gibson) understands this too late when he loses his son. And now the former peaceful planter stands at the head of the most severe detachment fighting against the British in the struggle for US independence.
6.38th parallel (2004)
Rating - 7.9
In the South Korean painting in the genre of "military drama" shows the fate of an individual family during the Korean War of 1950-53. The head of the family, who sent relatives to the south of the Korean Peninsula, is at the forefront, in the role of cannon fodder.
5. For reasons of conscience (2016)
Rating - 7.9
To be a believing pacifist means saving lives, not taking them away. And the American physician Desmond Doss, who served during the battle for Okinawa, categorically refuses to take up arms, despite the persecution of his superiors and colleagues. The film is based on a real biography of a person who received a Medal of Honor for his beliefs and actions.
4. The Last Samurai (2003)
Rating - 8
The main character of the film, American captain Nathan Elgren (Tom Cruise), received an offer to train Japanese soldiers in military craft so that they could crush a samurai rebellion. At first, Elgren refers to samurai as savages, but once captured, he understands that samurai are noble, brave and ready to sacrifice themselves. He penetrates his captors with such reverence that he is ready to take their side against the Japanese emperor.
3. Tangerines (2013)
Rating - 8
Only a few people remained in the old Estonian village located in Abkhazia: Dr. Juhan, Ivo, who makes boxes for storing tangerines and Margus, the owner of a tangerine plantation. The war between Abkhazia and Georgia, which broke out in 1992, reaches the village. And after the battle, Ivo and Margus find two men - a surviving mercenary from Chechnya who fought on the Abkhaz side and a wounded young Georgian. So next to each other are two irreconcilable enemies.
2. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (2008)
Rating - 8.1
The carefree and innocent child Bruno, the son of the commandant of the concentration camp, accidentally meets and makes friends with the Jewish boy Shmuel in the “striped
pajamas ”, located on the other side of the wire. Their acquaintance leads to an unpredictable ending.
1. The pianist (2002)
Rating - 8.4
In the list of the best films about the Second World War, the first line is occupied by a film shot on the autobiography of the famous Polish pianist Vladislav Shpilman, a Jew by nationality. With the advent of the Nazis in Poland, all Jews were placed in the Warsaw ghetto. In 1943, Shpilman escaped from the ghetto and wandered around acquaintances who hid him from the Nazis. The Pianist does not show the horrors of war on a national scale, it is a film about the war through the eyes of one person. But from this the picture did not become less cruel.
