Greatest 23 War Movies Worth Watching Released in 1978

France, 1801. Due to a minor perceived slight, mild-mannered Lieutenant d'Hubert is forced into a duel with the hot-headed and irrational, Lieutenant Feraud; their disagreement ultimately resulting in scores of duels spanning several years. Read about The Duellists / IMDB / YouTube

During World War II, several oddly assorted military experts are teamed in a mission to raid and destroy a bridge vital to enemy strategy. Details on Force 10 from Navarone / IMDB / YouTube

In 1968 California, a woman whose husband is a Marine officer fighting in Vietnam falls in love with a former high school classmate who suffered a paralyzing combat injury in the war. See more about Coming Home / IMDB / YouTube

A British banker hires a former British Army colonel turned mercenary to parachute into Africa with his team and rescue a deposed president of a southern African nation from the hands of a corrupt dictator. Explore The Wild Geese / IMDB / YouTube

In 1944 France, a group of escaped American military prisoners en route to Switzerland volunteers to steal a German V2 rocket warhead for the Allies. Info on The Inglorious Bastards / IMDB / YouTube

Queen Elizabeth I travels 400 years into the future to witness the appalling revelation of a dystopian London overrun by corruption and a vicious gang of punk guerrilla girls led by the new Monarch of Punk. Look into Jubilee / IMDB / YouTube

In 1967, five young men undergo boot camp training before being shipped out to Vietnam. Once they get there, the experience proves worse than they could have imagined. Find out about The Boys in Company C / IMDB / YouTube

A Vietnam veteran involves his Wife and a war buddy in the dangerous world of drug smuggling. Read about Who'll Stop the Rain / IMDB / YouTube

During the early 1960s, U.S. military advisers in South Vietnam discover the same challenges that plagued the French army in Indochina ten years prior. More about Go Tell the Spartans / IMDB / YouTube

An aging Sir Hector Geste takes a young greedy wife who's after his famed Blue Water sapphire, but his sons hide the gem and join the French Foreign Legion in North Africa. See more about The Last Remake of Beau Geste / IMDB / YouTube

Director Hans-Jurgen Syberberg examines the rise and fall of the Third Reich in this brooding seven-hour masterpiece, which incorporates puppetry, rear-screen projection, and a Wagnerian score into a singular epic vision. Syberberg, who grew up under Nazi tyranny, ruminates on good and evil and the rest of humanity's complicity in the horrors of the holocaust. More about Hitler: A Film from Germany / IMDB / YouTube

When British Lieutenant Feversham resigns his commission rather than fight in the 1882 Sudan war, his army pals present him with the four white feathers of cowardice. Explore The Four Feathers / IMDB / YouTube

An American Vietnam soldier on his way home is left for dead and is saved by a pair of Japanese stragglers from WWII, who train him in the way of the samurai. See more about Fighting Mad / IMDB / YouTube

How World War II affected the lives of a German family and an American family, both of whom had sons and fathers fighting in the war. Read about The Biggest Battle / IMDB / YouTube

In a Dutch village during the German occupation, a small group of badly organized resistance fighters attempt to assassinate a collaborator. Details on Pastorale 1943 / IMDB / YouTube

Helga moves the action to South America, where she lords over a castle of female political prisoners, who are stripped and tortured at whim. Learn about Helga, la louve de Stilberg / IMDB / YouTube

A young American girl meets a German prisoner of war. Explore Summer of My German Soldier / IMDB / YouTube

Explores the subject of atrocities during wartime, especially during World War II and the Vietnam War. Find out about The Memory of Justice / IMDB / YouTube

It follows the events around the Battle of Paulis, fought during World War II. More about Pe aici nu se trece / IMDB / YouTube