Best 24 War Movies Fan Favorite Released in 1971

While recuperating in a Confederate girls' boarding school, a Union soldier cons his way into each of the lonely women's hearts, causing them to turn on each other, and eventually, on him. Learn about The Beguiled / IMDB / YouTube

During World War I, a patriotic young American is rendered blind, deaf, limbless, and mute by a horrific artillery shell attack. Trapped in what's left of his body, he desperately looks for a way to end his life. Learn about Johnny Got His Gun / IMDB / YouTube

A ruthlessly ambitious Scottish lord seizes the throne with the help of his scheming wife and a trio of witches. Learn about Macbeth / IMDB / YouTube

The story of the Finzi-Continis, a noble family of Ferrara, during the Jewish persecution in Italy's 1930s. Look into The Garden of the Finzi-Continis / IMDB / YouTube

Tsar Nicholas II, the inept last monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overthrown and exiled to Siberia with his family. Details on Nicholas and Alexandra / IMDB / YouTube

A lone survivor from a British naval ship is obsessed with getting revenge on a German U-boat crew that massacred his shipmates in the water. Find out about Murphy's War / IMDB / YouTube

The misadventures of a ragtag group of elderly Home Guard local defense volunteers at the onset of WW2. Details on Dad's Army / IMDB / YouTube

During the Thirty Years' War of 1600s, a band of Protestant mercenaries peacefully coexist with German Catholic villagers in a hidden idyllic mountain valley untouched by war. More about The Last Valley / IMDB / YouTube

In 1942, in Libya, a German-speaking British intelligence officer uses former British POWs, some dressed in German uniforms, to fulfill a secret sabotage mission inside German-captured Tobruk. Explore Raid on Rommel / IMDB / YouTube

During the Sino-Japanese War, a young army nurse gives sympathy to her patients and falls in love with an impotent doctor who's addicted to morphine. Get info on The Red Angel / IMDB / YouTube

A devious martial arts master targets young, talented swordsmen, and makes a wager that whoever loses should cut off their arm, then surprises them with a secret technique they cannot counter. One of his previous victims have had enough. Info on Triple Irons / IMDB / YouTube

In 1915, frustrated with the German air-raids on London, British Intelligence sends Scots officer Geoffrey Richter-Douglas, who has German ancestry, to Germany, to find information about the latest German Zeppelin. Look into Zeppelin / IMDB / YouTube

During Spanish Civil War, young Fando navigates parents' clashing ideologies after father's arrest. Explores his imagination, friendships, views on sex and death amid family upheaval. Questions mother, seeks father's fate. Read about Long Live Death / IMDB / YouTube

The story of Manfred von Richthofen, the German air ace during World War I and his struggle with the enemy aces and some jealous German officers. Info on Von Richthofen and Brown / IMDB / YouTube

The defeat of the White Army in the Russian Civil War of 1918-21, causing massive emigration of the upper classes and nobility, called White Russians. Set in Crimea, Constantinopol and Paris. The Russian Civil War and emigration is shown through the eyes of the defeated Tsarist Generals - Vrangel, Khludov, Charnota, as well as intellectuals and aristocracy. Amidst. More about Beg / IMDB / YouTube

A self-proclaimed Russian prince, a Mexican bandit and a radical Irish female journalist team up during the Mexican Revolution to find fortune and notoriety. More about Don't Turn the Other Cheek! / IMDB / YouTube

A quintet of CIA-trained Hells Angels take their specially armored hogs to Cambodia and head across southeast Asia to rescue a captured presidential advisor. Look into The Losers / IMDB / YouTube

A former counter-revolutionary pirate befriends a mentally ill young woman and this in turn leads to tragedy after she falls in love with a French naval officer. Read about The Rover / IMDB / YouTube

An aging artist who lives a solitary life as a lighthouse keeper in an Essex fishing village assists a young orphan girl in caring for a wounded snow goose. Check out The Snow Goose / IMDB / YouTube

During World War II, American soldier Harry Cook is sent to Norway to aid in the defection of a scientist working on the atomic bomb for the Germans. Before they can escape Europe, they are captured and sent to a POW prison camp in a high alpine castle on the German-Swiss border. Cook must find a way to escape with the scientist before the Gestapo discover the Norwegi. Read about The Birdmen / IMDB / YouTube

In 1943, rural French teenager Nanette meets an injured British airman and decides to give him shelter at her family's farm after falling in-love with him. Look into The Saviour / IMDB / YouTube

The story of Macedonian soldiers who were captured by the Greek army and taken to the prison camps on Greek islands during Greek Civil War in 1946. Suspected of being communists, they are maltreated by the Greek officers running the camp. Check out Black Seed / IMDB / YouTube

Allegory of the suppression of the 1919 revolution and the advent of fascism in Hungary; in the countryside, a unit of the revolutionary army spares the life of father Vargha, a fanatical priest. He comes back and leads massacres. A new force, represented by Feher, apparently avenges the people, but only to impose a different, more refined and effective kind of repres. Read about Égi bárány / IMDB / YouTube

An American captain handpicks half a dozen soldiers for a desperate mission in Germany to get possession of vital plans - but he has another secret up his sleeve. Read about The Cut-Throats / IMDB / YouTube