Top 30 War Movies Fan Favorites from 2002

The story of 160 elite U.S. soldiers who dropped into Mogadishu in October 1993 to capture two top lieutenants of a renegade warlord, but found themselves in a desperate battle with a large force of heavily armed Somalis. Read about Black Hawk Down / IMDB / YouTube

The story of the first major battle of the American phase of the Vietnam War, and the soldiers on both sides that fought it, while their wives wait nervously and anxiously at home for the good news or the bad news. Details on We Were Soldiers / IMDB / YouTube

CIA analyst Jack Ryan must stop the plans of a Neo-Nazi faction that threatens to induce a catastrophic conflict between the United States and Russia's President by detonating a nuclear weapon at a football game in Baltimore, Maryland. Find out about The Sum of All Fears / IMDB / YouTube

Two U.S. Marines in World War II are assigned to protect the Navajo Marines who use their native language as an unbreakable radio cipher. More about Windtalkers / IMDB / YouTube

When Russia's first nuclear submarine malfunctions on its maiden voyage, the crew must race to save the ship and prevent a nuclear disaster. Find out about K-19: The Widowmaker / IMDB / YouTube

A law student becomes a lieutenant during World War II, is captured and asked to defend a black prisoner of war falsely accused of murder. Check out Hart's War / IMDB / YouTube

A young British officer resigns his commission just before his regiment is sent to battle and soon receives four white feathers from his friends and fiancee as symbols of what they view as his cowardice. Info on The Four Feathers / IMDB / YouTube

A criminal subculture operates among U.S. soldiers stationed in West Germany just before the fall of the Berlin wall. Learn about Buffalo Soldiers / IMDB / YouTube

A dramatization of the Irish civil rights protest march and subsequent massacre by British troops on January 30, 1972. Look into Bloody Sunday / IMDB / YouTube

A young genius frantically races against time to crack an enemy code and solve the mystery surrounding the woman he loves. Read about Enigma / IMDB / YouTube

Interrogated by a customs officer, a young man recounts how his life was changed during the making of a film about the Armenian genocide. Read about Ararat / IMDB / YouTube

During WWII SS officer Kurt Gerstein tries to inform Pope Pius XII about Jews being sent to extermination camps. Young Jesuit priest Riccardo Fontana helps him in the difficult mission to inform the world. Learn about Amen. / IMDB / YouTube

In the middle of World War I, nine British soldiers caught behind enemy lines seek refuge in a complex network of German trenches. What they soon discover is that they aren't alone - and it isn't a German soldier that's hunting them down. Explore Deathwatch / IMDB / YouTube

A young Scottish woman joins the French Resistance during World War II to rescue her Royal Air Force boyfriend who is lost in France. Info on Charlotte Gray / IMDB / YouTube

A little girl is told by her parents that she is adopted. Determined to find her real mother, she begs to be taken to Sri Lanka, where her mother works with a militant group of activists. Learn about A Peck on the Cheek / IMDB / YouTube

In World War II, a Finnish sniper is left chained to a rock by German soldiers, while a captain of the Red Army, en route to his court martial, is almost blown up by Russian planes. A Lapp woman gives shelter to both of them at her farm. Info on The Cuckoo / IMDB / YouTube

Romance blooms between two soldiers (Knoller, Levi) stationed in an Israeli outpost on the Lebanese border. Look into Yossi & Jagger / IMDB / YouTube

Twin sisters Lotte and Anne grow up very differently after their parents death. Now adults, they want to reunite but World War II and their growing socioeconomic differences complicate things. Details on Twin Sisters / IMDB / YouTube

This film surveys the disaster of the Kuwaiti oil fields in flames, with little narration and scarcely any interviews. Hell on Earth is presented in such transcendent visions and music that one can only be fascinated by it. Info on Lessons of Darkness / IMDB / YouTube

When a Newsweek photojournalist disappears in war-torn Yugoslavia, his wife travels to Europe to find him. Find out about Harrison's Flowers / IMDB / YouTube

Germany, 1944. The forests of the Ardennes. A platoon of battle weary German soldiers, forced into confusion and retreat by advancing Allied forces, take refuge in an isolated Siegfried Line bunker. Find out about The Bunker / IMDB / YouTube

During the bloody war in Chechnya, a British couple and two Russian soldiers are taken hostage by Chechen rebels. Two of the hostages are then released to bring the money for the British woman who is forced to wait for the ransom. Look into War / IMDB / YouTube

CNN producer Robert Wiener, his colleague and their crew venture to the Iraqi capital to cover the Gulf War. Read about Live from Baghdad / IMDB / YouTube

A Jewish strongman performs in Berlin as the blond Aryan hero Siegfried. More about Invincible / IMDB / YouTube

In the mid 1960s, President Lyndon B. Johnson (Sir Michael Gambon) and his foreign-policy team debate the decision to withdraw from or escalate the war in Vietnam. More about Path to War / IMDB / YouTube

Separated by a checkpoint, Palestinian lovers from Jerusalem and Ramallah arrange clandestine meetings. Explore Divine Intervention / IMDB / YouTube

After the end of World War II, a famous German conductor is accused of loyalty to the Nazi regime. He argues that art and politics are separate. An investigator thinks otherwise. Check out Taking Sides / IMDB / YouTube

A member of Coast Guard Platoon 23, Private Kang monitors a high-infiltration stretch of beach lined with barbed-wire fencing. Driven by the belief that killing a spy is the highest honor, he waits for a chance to prove his worth. Info on The Coast Guard / IMDB / YouTube

In 1942, in occupied Paris, the apolitical grocer Edmond Batignole lives with his wife and daughter in a small apartment in the building of his grocery. When Pierre-Jean Lamour, his future son-in-law and collaborator of the Germans calls the Germans to arrest the Jewish Bernstein family, they move to the confiscated apartment. Some days later, the young Simon Bernstei. Details on Monsieur Batignole / IMDB / YouTube

In the midst of the Chechen War, a remote psychiatric institution is left without staff leaving the patients to fend for themselves. Based on a true story. Read about House of Fools / IMDB / YouTube