These war/thriller hybrid movies are ranked below, starting with the good and ending with the great.

A favoriteofAcademy Award-winning directorSteven Spielberg,Where Eagles Dareremains a seminal entry in the war genre.

As they navigate treacherous terrain and formidable adversaries, the team must employ cunning strategies to achieve their objective.

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Das Bootpresents a nuanced view of these men, acknowledging their allegiance without subscribing to traditional good-versus-evil tropes.

Like every Nolan movie,Dunkirkis thrilling, tense, action-packed, and technically dazzling.

Shaffer and John Smith talking in Where Eagles Dare

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Where Eagles Dare: During World War II, an elite team of Allied soldiers embarks on a daring mission to rescue an American general held captive in the impregnable Schloss Adler, a remote Bavarian fortress. As they navigate treacherous terrain and formidable adversaries, the team must employ cunning strategies to achieve their objective.

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A sailor leans his elbow on machinery in the U-Boat in Das Boot

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Tommy crawling on a beach surrounded by smoke and other soldiers in Dunkirk

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Helen Mirren in Eye in the Sky

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Lee Smith, staring out a car window, in Civil War.

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British soldier running through battlefield in 1917

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A man tied to a chair sits and a man sitting a desk in ‘Army of Shadows’

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