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1960s War Movies

Public list by WPS with 139 movies or TV shows/series

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Spartacus(1960)

3h 17min | History, War, Drama, Adventure
3.8/5 (with 914 votes)

The rebellious Thracian Spartacus, born and raised a slave, is sold to Gladiator trainer Batiatus. After weeks of being trained to kill for the arena, Spartacus turns on his owners and leads the other slaves in rebellion. As the rebels move from town to town, their numbers swell as escaped slaves join their ranks. Under the leadership of Spartacus, they make their way to southern Italy, where they will cross the sea and return to their homes.

Directed by Stanley Kubrick - With Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton, Peter Ustinov, Tony Curtis, ...
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Lawrence of Arabia(1962)

NR
| 3h 47min | Adventure, Drama, History, War
4.0/5 (with 1,261 votes)

The story of British officer T.E. Lawrence's mission to aid the Arab tribes in their revolt against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. Lawrence becomes a flamboyant, messianic figure in the cause of Arab unity but his psychological instability threatens to undermine his achievements.

Directed by David Lean - With Jack Hawkins, Anthony Quinn, Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Omar Sharif, José Ferrer, ...
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The Great Escape(1963)

NR
| 2h 53min | Adventure, Drama, History, Thriller, War
4.0/5 (with 1,090 votes)

The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocate them to a high-security 'escape-proof' camp to sit out the remainder of the war. Undaunted, the prisoners plan one of the most ambitious escape attempts of World War II. Based on a true story.

Directed by John Sturges - With Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough, James Donald, Charles Bronson, Donald Pleasence, ...
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Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb(1964)

PG
| 1h 35min | Drama, Comedy, War
4.1/5 (with 2,445 votes)

After the insane General Jack D. Ripper initiates a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union, a war room full of politicians, generals and a Russian diplomat all frantically try to stop the nuclear strike.

Directed by Stanley Kubrick - With Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn, Slim Pickens, James Earl Jones, ...
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The Guns of Navarone(1961)

NR
| 2h 38min | War, Action
3.7/5 (with 323 votes)

A team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers.

Directed by J. Lee Thompson - With Gregory Peck, James Robertson Justice, David Niven, Anthony Quinn, Anthony Quayle, Stanley Baker, ...
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The Dirty Dozen(1967)

NR
| 2h 30min | Action, Adventure, War
3.8/5 (with 499 votes)

12 American military prisoners in World War II are ordered to infiltrate a well-guarded enemy château and kill the Nazi officers vacationing there. The soldiers, most of whom are facing death sentences for a variety of violent crimes, agree to the mission and the possible commuting of their sentences.

Directed by Robert Aldrich - With Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson, Jim Brown, John Cassavetes, Richard Jaeckel, ...
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Doctor Zhivago(1965)

PG-13
| 3h 20min | Drama, Romance / Love, War
3.8/5 (with 473 votes)

The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.

Directed by David Lean - With Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin, Rod Steiger, Alec Guinness, Tom Courtenay, ...
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Zulu(1964)

NR
| 2h 18min | Action, Drama, History, War
3.7/5 (with 209 votes)

In 1879, during the Anglo-Zulu War, man-of-the-people Lt. Chard and snooty Lt. Bromhead are in charge of defending the isolated and vastly outnumbered Natal outpost of Rorke's Drift from tribal hordes.

Directed by Cy Endfield - With Stanley Baker, Michael Caine, Jack Hawkins, Ulla Jacobsson, James Booth, Nigel Green, ...
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The Longest Day(1962)

PG
| 2h 58min | War, Action, Drama
3.8/5 (with 398 votes)

The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day".

Directed by Ken Annakin, Bernhard Wicki, Darryl F. Zanuck, Gerd Oswald - With John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, Henry Fonda, Richard Burton, Robert Ryan, Rod Steiger, ...
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Ivan's Childhood(1962)

1h 35min | Drama, War
3.9/5 (with 290 votes)

In WW2, twelve year old Soviet orphan Ivan Bondarev works for the Soviet army as a scout behind the German lines and strikes a friendship with three sympathetic Soviet officers.

Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky - With Andrei Konchalovsky, Nikolai Burlyayev, Valentin Zubkov, Nikolai Grinko, Irma Raush, Yevgeny Zharikov, ...
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Judgment at Nuremberg(1961)

NR
| 2h 59min | Drama, History, War
4.0/5 (with 322 votes)

In 1947, four German judges who served on the bench during the Nazi regime face a military tribunal to answer charges of crimes against humanity. Chief Justice Haywood hears evidence and testimony not only from lead defendant Ernst Janning and his defense attorney Hans Rolfe, but also from the widow of a Nazi general, an idealistic U.S. Army captain and reluctant witness Irene Wallner.

Directed by Stanley Kramer - With Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Marlene Dietrich, Judy Garland, Maximilian Schell, ...

Battle of the Bulge(1965)

NR
| 2h 47min | Drama, History, War
3.5/5 (with 105 votes)

In the winter of 1944, the Allied Armies stand ready to invade Germany at the coming of a New Year. To prevent it, Hitler orders an all-out offensive to re-take French territory and capture the major port city of Antwerp.

Directed by Ken Annakin - With Henry Fonda, Robert Shaw, Robert Ryan, Charles Bronson, Ty Hardin, Pier Angeli, ...
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The Heroes of Telemark(1965)

2h 11min | Action, Drama, War
3.5/5 (with 65 votes)

Set in German-occupied Norway, resistance fighter Knut Straud enlists the reluctant physicist Rolf Pedersen in an effort to destroy the German heavy water production plant in rural Telemark.

Directed by Anthony Mann - With Kirk Douglas, Richard Harris, Ulla Jacobsson, Michael Redgrave, Richard Harris, Roy Dotrice, ...

Story of a Prostitute(1965)

1h 36min | Drama, Romance / Love, War
3.4/5 (with 14 votes)

Volunteering as a "comfort woman" on the Manchurian front, where she is expected to service hundreds of soldiers, Harumi is commandeered by the brutal Lieutenant Narita but falls for the sensitive Mikami, Narita's direct subordinate. Seijun Suzuki's Story of a Prostitute is a tragic love story as well as a rule-bending take on a popular Taijiro Tamura novel, challenging military and fraternal codes of honor, as seen through Harumi's eyes.

Directed by Seijun Suzuki - With Yumiko Nogawa, Isao Tamagawa, Shoichi Ozawa

Exodus(1960)

3h 28min | War, Drama
3.3/5 (with 90 votes)

Ari Ben Canaan, a passionate member of the Jewish paramilitary group Haganah, attempts to transport 600 Jewish refugees on a dangerous voyage from Cyprus to Palestine on a ship named the Exodus. He faces obstruction from British forces, who will not grant the ship passage to its destination.

Directed by Otto Preminger - With Paul Newman, Eva Marie Saint, Ralph Richardson, Peter Lawford, Sal Mineo, Jill Haworth, ...
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Operation Crossbow(1965)

PG-13
| 1h 55min | Drama, War
3.4/5 (with 46 votes)

Allied agents infiltrate the Nazi rocket complex at Peenemunde in order to obtain their secrets and sabotage the plant.The film alternates between German developments of the V-1 missile and V-2 rocket (with a German cast speaking their own language) and discovery by British Intelligence of the weapon.

Directed by Michael Anderson - With George Peppard, Sophia Loren, Trevor Howard, John Mills, Tom Courtenay, Richard Johnson, ...
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The Hill(1965)

NR
| 2h 3min | Drama, War
3.8/5 (with 86 votes)

North Africa, World War II. British soldiers on the brink of collapse push beyond endurance to struggle up a brutal incline. It's not a military objective. It's The Hill, a manmade instrument of torture, a tower of sand seared by a white-hot sun. And the troops' tormentors are not the enemy, but their own comrades-at-arms.

Directed by Sidney Lumet - With Sean Connery, Harry Andrews, Ian Bannen, Ossie Davis, Ian Hendry, Roy Kinnear, ...
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War and Peace(1966)

7h 2min | War, Drama, History, Romance / Love
3.9/5 (with 44 votes)

A seven-hour epic adaptation of the novel by Leo Tolstoy. The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Great Patriotic War of 1812 against Napoleon's invading army.

Directed by Sergei Bondarchuk - With Ludmila Savelyeva, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Sergei Bondarchuk, Oleg Tabakov, Oleg Yefremov, Georgy Millyar, ...

Is Paris Burning?(1966)

PG
| 2h 55min | War, Drama, History
3.6/5 (with 85 votes)

Near the end of World War II, Gen. Dietrich von Choltitz receives orders to burn down Paris if it becomes clear the Allies are going to invade, or if he cannot maintain control of the city. After much contemplation Choltitz decides to ignore his orders, enraging the Germans and giving hope to various resistance factions that the city will be liberated. Choltitz, along with Swedish diplomat Raoul Nordling, helps a resistance leader organize his forces.

Directed by René Clément - With Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Boyer, Leslie Caron, Jean-Pierre Cassel, George Chakiris, Bruno Cremer, ...
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Von Ryan's Express(1965)

NR
| 1h 57min | War, Action, Drama, History, Thriller
3.6/5 (with 84 votes)

Von Ryan's Express stars Frank Sinatra as a POW colonel who leads a daring escape from WWII Italy by taking over a freight train, but he has to win over the British soldiers he finds himself commanding.

Directed by Mark Robson - With Frank Sinatra, Trevor Howard, Adolfo Celi, Raffaella Carrà, Sergio Fantoni, Brad Dexter, ...
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The Battle of Algiers(1966)

2h 1min | Drama, War, History
4.0/5 (with 299 votes)

Tracing the struggle of the Algerian Front de Liberation Nationale to gain freedom from French colonial rule as seen through the eyes of Ali from his start as a petty thief to his rise to prominence in the organisation and capture by the French in 1957. The film traces the rebels' struggle and the increasingly extreme measures taken by the French government to quell the revolt.

Directed by Gillo Pontecorvo - With Jean Martin, Saadi Yacef, Brahim Hadjadj, Larbi Zekkal, Fusia El Kader, Mohamed Ben Kassen, ...
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The Blue Max(1966)

PG
| 2h 36min | War, Action, Adventure, Drama
3.4/5 (with 40 votes)

A young pilot in the German air force of 1918, disliked as lower-class and unchivalrous, tries ambitiously to earn the medal offered for 20 kills.

Directed by John Guillermin - With George Peppard, James Mason, Ursula Andress, Jeremy Kemp, Karl-Michael Vogler, Carl Schell, ...
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In Harm's Way(1965)

NR
| 2h 45min | War, Drama
3.3/5 (with 61 votes)

A naval officer reprimanded after Pearl Harbor is later promoted to rear admiral and gets a second chance to prove himself against the Japanese.

Directed by Otto Preminger - With John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Henry Fonda, Patricia Neal, Brandon deWilde, Tom Tryon, ...
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Sink the Bismarck!(1960)

1h 37min | War, Action, Drama, History
3.4/5 (with 39 votes)

The story of the breakout of the German battleship Bismarck—accompanied by the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen—during the early days of World War II. The Bismarck and her sister ship, Tirpitz, were the most powerful battleships in the European theater of World War II. The British Navy must find and destroy Bismarck before it can escape into the convoy lanes to inflict severe damage on the cargo shipping which was the lifeblood of the British Isles. With eight 15 inch guns, it was capable of destroying every ship in a convoy while remaining beyond the range of all Royal Navy warships.

Directed by Lewis Gilbert - With Kenneth More, Dana Wynter, Carl Möhner, Laurence Naismith, Edward R. Murrow, Karel Štěpánek, ...

King Rat(1965)

2h 14min | Drama, War
3.5/5 (with 32 votes)

When Singapore surrendered to the Japanese in 1942, the Allied POWs, mostly British but including a few Americans, were incarcerated in Changi prison. Among the American prisoners is Cpl. King, a wheeler-dealer who has managed to establish a pretty good life for himself in the camp. King soon forms a friendship with an upper-class British officer who is fascinated with King's enthusiastic approach to life.

Directed by Bryan Forbes - With George Segal, Tom Courtenay, James Fox, Patrick O'Neal, Denholm Elliott, James Donald, ...
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Anzio(1968)

PG
| 1h 57min | Action, Drama, War, History
2.8/5 (with 23 votes)

Allied forces land at Anzio unopposed but instead of moving straight inland their commanding officer decides to dig in. A battle-hardened war correspondent borrows a jeep and drives to Rome and back without meeting any German forces, but his report on this absence of the enemy is discounted. By the time it is finally decided to make a move the Germans have arrived in strength and a prolonged ...

Directed by Edward Dmytryk, Duilio Coletti - With Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan, Peter Falk, Arthur Kennedy, Earl Holliman, Mark Damon, ...
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H.M.S. Defiant(1962)

1h 41min | Adventure, History
3.2/5 (with 18 votes)

Defiant's crew is part of a fleet-wide movement to present a petition of grievances to the Admiralty. Violence must be no part of it. The continual sadism of Defiant's first officer makes this difficult, and when the captain is disabled, the chance for violence increases.

Directed by Lewis Gilbert - With Alec Guinness, Dirk Bogarde, Anthony Quayle, Maurice Denham, Nigel Stock, Richard Carpenter, ...

Shenandoah(1965)

NR
| 1h 45min | Western, War
3.5/5 (with 57 votes)

Charlie Anderson, a farmer in Shenandoah, Virginia, finds himself and his family in the middle of the Civil War he wants nothing to do with. When his youngest boy is taken prisoner by the North, the Civil War is forced upon him.

Directed by Andrew V. McLaglen - With James Stewart, Doug McClure, Glenn Corbett, Patrick Wayne, Katharine Ross, Rosemary Forsyth, ...
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Shame(1968)

1h 43min | War, Drama
3.8/5 (with 91 votes)

In the midst of a civil war, former violinists Jan and Eva Rosenberg, who have a tempestuous marriage, run a farm on a rural island. In spite of their best efforts to escape their homeland, the war impinges on every aspect of their lives.

Directed by Ingmar Bergman - With Liv Ullmann, Max von Sydow, Gunnar Björnstrand, Barbro Hiort af Ornäs, Sigge Fürst, Birgitta Valberg, ...
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Triple Cross(1966)

2h 20min | Adventure, War, Action
3.1/5 (with 26 votes)

A safecracker turns double agent during WWII.

Directed by Terence Young - With Christopher Plummer, Romy Schneider, Trevor Howard, Gert Fröbe, Claudine Auger, Yul Brynner, ...
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