Best movies — guerre on Apple TV+ : our Top 20

1998 · Steven Spielberg

As Allied forces sweep onto the beaches of Normandy, three brothers are killed in combat and a fourth is left stranded behind enemy lines. Captain John Miller, a U.S. Army Ranger, leads a seven-man squad on a dangerous incursion into German-held territory to find the young soldier and bring him home.

With Tom Hanks, Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns, Matt Damon, Barry Pepper, Adam Goldberg and Vin Diesel

1986 · Oliver Stone

An inexperienced soldier sent to Vietnam, Chris Taylor watches his idealism crumble as the savagery of combat forces him to face a wrenching moral dilemma and the disturbing coexistence of compassion and cruelty within himself and those around him.

With Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, Charlie Sheen, Forest Whitaker, Francesco Quinn, John C. McGinley and Richard Edson

1959 · Henri Verneuil

he leads a cow tethered on a rope as a decoy to slip past guards and checkpoints. With only the animal and his wits, he embarks on a perilous journey across wartime Germany, relying on improvisation, courage and unlikely encounters to try to make it back home to France.

With Fernandel, René Havard, Bernard Musson, Ellen Schwiers, Pierre-Louis, Franziska Kinz and Maurice Nasil

2019 · Sam Mendes

During the fiercest days of the First World War, two young British soldiers are forced to cross enemy territory to deliver a vital message that could avert a deadly assault on hundreds of their comrades.

With George MacKay, Dean-Charles Chapman, Mark Strong, Andrew Scott, Richard Madden, Claire Duburcq and Colin Firth

1998 · Terrence Malick

A band of soldiers from an Army rifle company known as "C‑for‑Charlie" is tested to its limits on Guadalcanal, undergoing physical and emotional transformations as the campaign grinds on. Their voyage begins with an eerily easy landing, but soon gives way to relentless, brutal engagements that strip away illusions and force each man to confront fear, loss, and what it means to endure. Through confusion, comradeship, and sacrifice, they are remade by war — and the story closes with the quiet, hard-won departure of the handful who survive.

With Sean Penn, Jim Caviezel, Adrien Brody, Ben Chaplin, Elias Koteas, John Cusack and Woody Harrelson

2001 · Jean-Jacques Annaud

In the shattered streets of Stalingrad during World War II, a Soviet sniper and his German counterpart become embroiled in a tense, lethal duel of wits and patience, stalking one another through ruined buildings and burning ruins as the city itself collapses around them.

With Jude Law, Joseph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz, Ed Harris, Bob Hoskins, Ron Perlman and Eva Mattes

1995 · Richard Loncraine

When multiple pipe bombs detonate at a packed concert, quick-thinking security guard Richard Jewell springs into action, helping evacuate attendees and averting far greater loss of life — only to find himself the target of a bungled FBI investigation and a frenzied media onslaught that wrongly casts him as the perpetrator.

With Ian McKellen, Annette Bening, Jim Broadbent, Robert Downey Jr., Kristin Scott Thomas, Adrian Dunbar and Maggie Smith

2008 · Kathryn Bigelow

Amid the Iraq War, a newly assigned sergeant in an army bomb-disposal unit clashes with his squadmates as his unorthodox, risk-taking methods for handling explosives strain trust, discipline, and their chances of survival.

With Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, David Morse, Guy Pearce, Evangeline Lilly and Ralph Fiennes

2013 · Brian Percival

In wartime Germany, young Liesel copes with fear by quietly lifting books and circulating their stories to anyone who will listen. Hidden in a cramped space beneath the family’s staircase, a Jewish refugee is kept safe by her adoptive parents, forging a fragile household bond amid the dangers and deprivations of the Nazi era.

With Geoffrey Rush, Sophie Nélisse, Emily Watson, Nico Liersch, Ben Schnetzer, Heike Makatsch and Barbara Auer

2008 · Larry Charles

Comedian and commentator Bill Maher adopts a devil’s-advocate stance toward religion as he speaks with believers around the world about their faith. Traveling through communities shaped by Christianity, Judaism and Islam, he scrutinizes key doctrines and practices—questioning attitudes toward homosexuality, the historical evidence for Jesus, observance of the Jewish Sabbath, and the rise of violent Islamist extremism.

With Bill Maher, Jose Luis De Jesus Miranda, Andrew Newberg, Steve Burg, Tal Bachman, Jonathan Boulden and Francis Collins

2006 · Ken Loach

In 1920s Ireland, young physician Damien O'Donovan is poised to leave for a hospital appointment in London when a visit to a friend's farm is shattered by an incursion of British Black and Tans that leaves a local man dead. Shocked and outraged, Damien enlists alongside his brother Teddy in the Irish Republican Army, but the escalating political turmoil and moral compromises of the struggle drive an increasing wedge between them.

With Cillian Murphy, Pádraic Delaney, Liam Cunningham, Orla Fitzgerald, Gerard Kearney, William Ruane and Roger Allam

1980 · François Truffaut

By decree of King Charles VI, Sir Jean de Carrouges is forced to resolve his bitter feud with his estranged squire, Jacques Le Gris, by facing him in a formally sanctioned duel.

With Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu, Jean Poiret, Andréa Ferréol, Paulette Dubost, Jean-Louis Richard and Maurice Risch

2010 · Roselyne Bosch

A rigorously researched, historically grounded dramatization that reconstructs the 1942 Vel' d'Hiv roundup and the circumstances leading up to it as well as its immediate aftermath.

With Jean Reno, Mélanie Laurent, Gad Elmaleh, Raphaëlle Agogué, Sylvie Testud, Hugo Leverdez and Oliver Cywie

2005 ·

After losing everything in the Great Recession, a woman in her sixties converts a van into a makeshift home and sets out across the American West, reinventing herself as a modern-day nomad while navigating vast landscapes, fragile connections, and the unexpected freedoms and hardships of life on the road.

With Kuno Becker, Jay Hernandez, Jason Scott Lee, Doskhan Zholzhaksynov, Ayanat Ksenbai, Mark Dacascos and Aziz Beyshenaliev

1977 · Richard Attenborough

Late in World War II, Allied forces mounted Operation Market Garden, a bold bid to hasten victory by seizing three strategic bridges across the Netherlands and opening a passage over the Rhine into Germany. Misjudged intelligence and the unforeseen presence of two experienced German panzer divisions doomed the campaign’s culminating goal—the bridge at Arnhem—turning the daring plan into a costly failure.

With Dirk Bogarde, James Caan, Michael Caine, Sean Connery, Edward Fox, Elliott Gould and Anthony Hopkins

2005 · John Dahl

In Sheffield, a recently laid-off steelworker called Gaz, desperate for fast money, persuades his circle of friends to put on a one-night-only strip act in a bid to raise cash.

With Franklin D. Roosevelt, Benjamin Bratt, James Franco, Connie Nielsen, Logan Marshall-Green, Joseph Fiennes and Marton Csokas

2006 · Werner Herzog

In 2018, an international coalition of divers, rescuers and volunteers mounted a desperate, against-the-odds operation to free twelve young soccer players and their coach who were trapped deep inside a flooded cave system in northern Thailand.

With Christian Bale, Steve Zahn, Toby Huss, François Chau, Marshall Bell, Jeremy Davies and Pat Healy

1989 · Oliver Stone

Wounded and paralyzed by his service in Vietnam, Ron Kovic, feeling abandoned by the nation he fought for, rises as a passionate opponent of the war and a relentless advocate for human rights.

With Tom Cruise, Raymond J. Barry, Caroline Kava, Holly Marie Combs, Kyra Sedgwick, Tom Berenger and Rob Camilletti

2011 · Renny Harlin

Caught in the opening air raids as war erupts over Georgia, an American journalist and his cameraman scramble for safety and stumble upon Tatia, a young schoolteacher torn from her family in the chaos. They pull her to safety, and she agrees to act as their interpreter while they promise to help track down her loved ones. As the trio moves through the shattered countryside, they record the unfolding catastrophe—relentless crossfire, ruined towns, and the brutal killings of civilians—turning their desperate flight into a witness to the human cost of conflict.

With Rupert Friend, Val Kilmer, Andy García, Dean Cain, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Heather Graham and Mikko Nousiainen

2015 · Alejandro Monteverde

An eight-year-old boy sets out on a courageous, single-minded quest to bring the fighting of World War II to an end and welcome his father back home. Through his hopeful, sometimes reckless actions, the film tenderly uncovers the profound, mutual devotion between parent and child — a father's selfless protectiveness and a son's unwavering love and longing.

With Jakob Salvati, Emily Watson, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Michael Rapaport, David Henrie, Ben Chaplin and Eduardo Verástegui