To make out this important ranking is the prestigious Guardian that he has entrusted to his critics with the difficult task of identifying, among many, the 10 best war movies that have shaped the history of this genre. And you could not from Apocalypse Now , directed by Francis Ford Coppola in 1979, based on the novel by Joseph Conrad , Heart of Darkness , and that tells the Vietnam War. In second place among the 10 most beautiful war movie are Paths of Glory (Paths of Glory), directed by Stanley Kubrick , 1957.
This movie was inspired to some episodes really happened in the army during the First World War. The third of this ranking is instead the prerogative of The Thin Red Line (The Thin Red Line), from Terrence Malick , the movie relatively more recent than the other two (1998), which tells the story of some American soldiers engaged in the conquest of the island Guadalcanal in 1942, during the Second World War.
THE Top 10 BEST MOVIES WAR OF ALL TIME LIST:
1. Apocalypse Now – Francis Ford Coppola, 1979
2. Paths of Glory – Stanley Kubrick, 1957
3. The Thin Red Line – Terrence Malick, 1998
4. Ran – Akira Kurosawa, 1985
5. Come and See Idi i smotri – Elem Klimov, 1985
6. Three Kings – David O. Russell, 1999
7. The Deer Hunter – Michael Cimino, 1978
8. La Grande illusion – Jean Renoir, 1937
9. Roma città aperta – Roberto Rossellini, 1945
10. Where Eagles Dare – Brian G.Hutton, 1969