Best 21 War Movies Hits from 1997

When an open-minded Jewish waiter and his son become victims of the Holocaust, he uses a perfect mixture of will, humor and imagination to protect his son from the dangers around their camp. Read about Life Is Beautiful / IMDB / YouTube

Heinrich Harrer, an Austrian climber, breaks out of prison and travels to the holy city of Lhasa. He is employed as an instructor to the 14th Dalai Lama and soon becomes his close confidante. Explore Seven Years in Tibet / IMDB / YouTube

Lt. Jordan, a US Navy topographic analyst, joins the US Navy Special Warfare Group and struggles to prove her worth in a unit dominated by men. But a cynical woman Texan senator has sold her out. Details on G.I. Jane / IMDB / YouTube

Two underground black marketeers, Marko and Blacky, sell weapons to the Communist resistance in wartime Belgrade, living the good life along the way. Details on Underground / IMDB / YouTube

During the war in Bosnia, two childhood friends eventually become enemies, as the tragic and devastating circumstances of the war put them on the opposite sides and expose the most gruesome and cruel aspects of the human nature. Read about Pretty Village, Pretty Flame / IMDB / YouTube

A bitter love story between a talented writer and a gentle nurse. See more about In Love and War / IMDB / YouTube

In 1930s Berlin, a gay Jew is sent to a concentration camp under the Nazi regime. Get info on Bent / IMDB / YouTube

American and British journalists Flynn and Michael Henderson, along with their respective news teams, meet at the beginning of the Bosnian war in Sarajevo. During their reports, the group find an orphanage run by the devoted Mrs. Savic near the frontline. Feeling sympathy, Henderson decides to take one of the children, Emira, illegally back to England. Find out about Welcome to Sarajevo / IMDB / YouTube

An exiled filmmaker finally returns to his home country where former mysteries and afflictions of his early life come back to haunt him once more. Details on Ulysses' Gaze / IMDB / YouTube

A group of women who are imprisoned on the island of Sumatra by the Japanese during World War II use music to relieve their misery. Explore Paradise Road / IMDB / YouTube

Two Russian soldiers, one battle-seasoned and the other barely into his boots and uniform, are taken prisoner by an anxious Islamic father from a remote village hoping to trade them for his captured son. Explore Prisoner of the Mountains / IMDB / YouTube

1987, love in time of war. Bus driver George Lennox meets Carla, a Nicaraguan exile living a precarious, profoundly-sad life in Glasgow. Her back is scarred, her boyfriend missing, her family dispersed; she's suicidal. George takes her to Nicaragua to find out what has happened to them and help her face her past. Info on Carla's Song / IMDB / YouTube

A man moves to post-WWII Paris and learns to reinvent himself as a war hero with help from a former Resistance fighter, but his carefully crafted new identity begins to unravel. Check out A Self-Made Hero / IMDB / YouTube

An alcoholic Bosnian poet sends his wife and daughter away from Sarajevo so they can avoid the troubles there. However, he is soon descended upon by a pair of orphaned brothers. The brothers have escaped a massacre in their own village and have come to the Bosnian capital in search of a long lost Aunt. The poet befriends the boys and together they try to survive the h. Info on The Perfect Circle / IMDB / YouTube

The war exploits of French captain Conan and his men during World War I and during the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War. Check out Captain Conan / IMDB / YouTube

A simple immigration issue spins wildly out of control for those involved, ranging from the President of the United States, to a news producer. See more about The Second Civil War / IMDB / YouTube

During World War II a Jewish boy is left on his own for months in a ruined house in the Warsaw Ghetto, where he must learn all the tricks of survival under constantly life-threatening conditions. Read about The Island on Bird Street / IMDB / YouTube

Norwegian Nobel Laureate Knut Hamsun's controversial support for the Nazi regime during World War II and its consequences for the Hamsun family after the war. Check out Hamsun / IMDB / YouTube

A love story or a tale of the resistance, this poignant movie tells both the haunting story of a French resistance cell in Lyon but also the love of Lucie Aubrac for her husband, and the lengths she goes to to rescue her husband from prison on more than one occasion. Based on a true story Lucie Aubrac works as both history lesson and love story. Info on Lucie Aubrac / IMDB / YouTube

The true story of the U.S. Government's 1932 Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, in which a group of black test subjects were allowed to die, despite a cure having been developed. Read about Miss Evers' Boys / IMDB / YouTube

The story of the post World War II Jewish refugee situation from liberation to the establishment of the modern state of Israel. Get info on The Long Way Home / IMDB / YouTube