Contrary to the dreams of perfect-hearted idealists, wars have been going on, going on, and it seems they will end only with the disappearance of humanity. Introducing the best films about the warpublished from 2000 to 2017. The selection includes Russian and foreign films. The war events in most films took place between 1845 and 1945.
10.28 Panfilovites (2016)
Rating - 7.6
There are good feature and documentary Soviet films on military topics. "They fought for the Motherland", "Only old men go to battle", "Ordinary fascism" and many, many others. Contemporary Russian cinema rarely pleases viewers with high-quality military films, such as 9 Company about the events in Afghanistan and Zvezda about Soviet intelligence officers during the Great Patriotic War. And the new military-historical drama “Panfilov's 28” was a real breakthrough, showing that even without the support of the Cinema Fund, one of the best films about the Great Patriotic War can be shot.
The events of the film take place near Volokolamsk. The Germans are already on the outskirts of Moscow, but the 316th Infantry Division, commanded by General I.V. Panfilov, blocks their way. In "28 Panfilovs" it is very realistic, without strain and pathos, the feat that ordinary people performed is shown.
9. Inglourious Basterds (2009)
Rating - 7.8
The non-standard presentation of the story about Jewish Americans taking revenge on the Nazis, popular actors (Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Diane Kruger, Melanie Laurent), casual jokes and equally casual murders - all this makes Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds a striking and memorable movie.
8. Pearl Harbor (2001)
Rating - 7.9
Two friends Danny and Rafe fell in love with the same girl. It would seem a trivial and unremarkable plot. However, the audience will not be bored, since 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, a lot of special effects, action and shooting.
7. Patriot (2000)
Rating - 7.9
When a war is going on in the country, one cannot stay away. Benjamin Martin (Mel Gibson) realizes 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
The South Korean war drama film depicts the fate of an individual family during the Korean War of 1950-53. The head of the family, who sent his relatives to the south of the Korean Peninsula, finds himself on the front line 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 of 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 man who received the 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 suppress the samurai uprising.At first, Elgren refers to the samurai as savages, but once captured by them, he understands that samurai are noble, brave and ready for self-sacrifice. He is imbued with such respect for his captors that he is ready to side with them against the Japanese emperor.
3. Mandarins (2013)
Rating - 8
In an old Estonian village located in Abkhazia, only a few people remained: Dr. Johan, 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. Thus, two irreconcilable enemies appear next to each other.
2. Boy in striped pajamas (2008)
Rating - 8.1
A carefree and innocent child, Bruno, the son of a concentration camp commandant, accidentally meets and befriends a 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 taken by a film based on the autobiography of the famous Polish pianist Vladislav Shpilman, a Jew by nationality. With the arrival of the Nazis in Poland, all Jews were placed in the Warsaw ghetto. In 1943, Spielmann escaped from the ghetto and wandered among 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 war through the eyes of one person. But this did not make the picture less cruel.