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TOP WAR FILMS (full results)

Rank Film Points L #1
#1 Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979) 52 13 6
#2 Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick, 1957) 34 12 -
#3 The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick, 1998) 23 8 1
#4 Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick, 1987) 22 7 1
#5 Saving Private Ryan (Steven Spielberg, 1998) 20 6 1
#6 The Big Red One (Samuel Fuller, 1980) 19 6 3
#7 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Stanley Kubrick, 1964) 13 3 2
#8 They Were Expendable (John Ford, 1945) 11 4 -
#9 La Grande illusion (Jean Renoir, 1937) 9 3 -
#10 All Quiet On The Western Front (Lewis Milestone, 1930) 8 3 -
The Steel Helmet (Samuel Fuller, 1951) 8 3 -
#12 The Deer Hunter (Michael Cimino, 1978) 7 2 1
Platoon (Oliver Stone, 1986) 7 2 -
#14 The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966) 5 2 -
The Big Parade (King Vidor, 1925) 5 1 1
The Bridge on the River Kwai (David Lean, 1957) 5 1 1
Come and See (Elem Klimov, 1985) 5 1 1
Duck Soup (Leo McCarey, 1933) 5 1 1
The Longest Day (Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton & Darryl F. Zanuck, 1962) 5 1 1
A Matter of Life and Death (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1946) 5 1 1
Night of the Shooting Stars (Tavianai Brothers, 1982) 5 1 1
#22 Army of Shadows (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1969) 4 1 -
Battleground (William A. Wellman, 1949) 4 1 -
Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein, 1925) 4 1 -
The Dawns here are Quiet (Stanislav Rostevsky, 1972) 4 1 -
Pride of the Marines (Delmar Daves, 1945) 4 1 -
#27 Beach Red (Cornel Wilde, 1967) 3 1 -
Bitter Victory (Nicholas Ray, 1957) 3 1 -
Das Boot (Wolfgang Petersen, 1981) 3 2 -
Les Carabiniers (Jean-Luc Godard, 1963) 3 1 -
The General (Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman, 1927) 3 1 -
Hamburger Hill (John Irvin, 1987) 3 1 -
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1943) 3 1 -
M*A*S*H (Robert Altman, 1970) 3 1 -
Men in War (Anthony Mann, 1957) 3 1 -
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (Nagisa Oshima, 1983) 3 1 -
Paisan (Roberto Rossellini, 1946) 3 1 -
Rome, Open City (Roberto Rossellini, 1945) 3 1 -
Shame (Ingmar Bergman, 1968) 3 1 -
#40 A Boy and his Dog (L.Q. Jones, 1975) 2 1 -
The Boys in Company C (Sidney J. Furie, 1978) 2 1 -
Bullet in the Head (John Woo, 1990) 2 1 -
Closely Watched Trains (Jirí Menzel, 1966) 2 1 -
Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean, 1962) 2 1 -
Objective Burma! (Raoul Walsh, 1945) 2 1 -
Ran (Akira Kurosawa, 1985) 2 1 -
The Way to the Stars (Anthony Asquith, 1945) 2 1 -
Windtalkers (John Woo, 2002) 2 1 -
#49 1941 (Steven Spielberg, 1979) 1 1 -
Black Hawk Down (Ridley Scott, 2001) 1 1 -
Catch-22 (Mike Nichols, 1970) 1 1 -
The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons From the Life of Robert S. McNamara (Errol Morris, 2003) 1 1 -
Gettysburg (Ronald F Maxwell, 1993) 1 1 -
The Pianist (Roman Polanski, 2002) 1 1 -
San Pietro (John Huston, 1945) 1 1 -
Swimming to Cambodia (Jonathan Demme, 1987) 1 1 -
Thank Your Lucky Stars (David Butler, 1943) 1 1 -
Three Kings (David O. Russell, 1999) 1 1 -
L=How many lists each film appears on                   #1=How many number one votes each film recieves

*points are given as follows: for numbered lists, first place recieves 5 points, second place recieves 4, third place 3, fourth place 2 and fifth place gets 1 point; for unumbered lists, each film will recieve 3 points; total points are then tallied up and a comprehensive Top 5 list is created.

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