Greatest 29 War Movies Editor's Pick Released in 1980

A petty thief with an utter resemblance to a samurai warlord is hired as the lord's double. When the warlord later dies the thief is forced to take up arms in his place. Learn about Kagemusha: The Shadow Warrior / IMDB / YouTube

A sheltered young high-society woman joins the United States Army on a whim and finds herself in a trickier situation than she ever expected. Details on Private Benjamin / IMDB / YouTube

A modern aircraft carrier is thrown back in time to 1941 near Hawaii, just hours before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. See more about The Final Countdown / IMDB / YouTube

In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of stairs and stops growing. In 1939, World War II breaks out. Info on The Tin Drum / IMDB / YouTube

A hardened sergeant and the four core members of his infantry unit try to survive World War II as they move from battle to battle throughout Europe. Read about The Big Red One / IMDB / YouTube

It's April 5, 1941, somewhere in Serbia. A group of people go on a bus to Belgrade, on a journey that will change their lives forever. Check out Who's Singin' Over There? / IMDB / YouTube

Three Australian lieutenants are court martialed for executing prisoners as a way of deflecting attention from war crimes committed by their superior officers. Get info on Breaker Morant / IMDB / YouTube

An English navigator becomes both pawn and player in the deadly political games in feudal Japan. Explore Shogun / IMDB / YouTube

The daughter of a politically disgraced university professor struggles to find a place for herself in love and life, in the uncertain world of Japan leading into WWII. Check out No Regrets for Our Youth / IMDB / YouTube

In the Siberian wilderness in the village of Yelan, two families live, who have long been at war with each other: the «kulaks» of Solomina and the «poor people» of Ustyuzhanina. Check out Siberiade / IMDB / YouTube

A group of mentally traumatized veteran patients is followed as they go through psychiatric treatment. Explore Let There Be Light / IMDB / YouTube

An ex-aristocrat from France and an alcoholic English lawyer find themselves crossing paths and in love with the same woman during the French Revolution. Info on A Tale of Two Cities / IMDB / YouTube

Germany 1939. Hans and Lene marry the day before the war breaks out, and Hans is sent to the Eastern front. During a bombing raid their daughter Anna is born. The house is destroyed and Lene and Anna moves in with relatives in Berlin. Hans survives the war but he is not the same person as in 1939, and he and Lene find it difficult to live together again. See more about Germany Pale Mother / IMDB / YouTube

Four Third-World Christs try to stop the American industrialist John Brahms in Glauber Rocha's experimental film inspired by Pier Paolo Pasolini's murder. Find out about The Age of the Earth / IMDB / YouTube

1936. Sylvia a rich but sterile woman, marries Akos but needs an heir to inherit her father's money. She bribes Irene a Jewish girl to have a child by her husband. Get info on The Heiresses / IMDB / YouTube

In 1978, a group of heavily armed rebels from Katanga attacked the mining town of Kolwezi in Zaire and started killing the civilians among whom many Europeans. France sent the legion to evacuate the civilian population. Find out about Operation Leopard / IMDB / YouTube

The life of Dacian war-leader Burebista who ruled between 80-44 B.C.and founded a strong Dacian Kingdom despite considerable pressure from the neighboring Celtic warlords and the Greek cities of the Black Sea coast. Check out Burebista / IMDB / YouTube

The South African businessman David Swansey (Richard Harris) is delivering illegal German helicopters to Rhodesia. That makes patriot Gideon Marunga (Richard Roundtree) an angry man. Info on Game for Vultures / IMDB / YouTube

An Estonian folk tale about Tõll, the giant hero who lived on the Baltic Sea island of Saaremaa. Get info on Suur Tõll / IMDB / YouTube

The decision to drop the atom bomb, the secrecy surrounding the mission, and the men who flew it. See more about Enola Gay: The Men, the Mission, the Atomic Bomb / IMDB / YouTube

Aboriginal woman Manganinnie survives a Black Line raid which claims the life of her husband, Meenopeekameena. Read about Manganinnie / IMDB / YouTube

A detective investigating a murder follows a convoluted trail littered with treachery, ruined lives, and tragedy. Info on The Last Witness / IMDB / YouTube

A secret group of Jewish activists locates and murders the Nazi doctors and soldiers who tortured and murdered their relatives in a notorious extermination camp. Find out about Holocaust 2: The Revenge / IMDB / YouTube

Set during the Sung Dynasty, patriotic monks of the Shaolin Temple fight against foreign invasion Get info on War of the Shaolin Temple / IMDB / YouTube

This movie is about the liberation by the Sandinistas of the Anastasio Somoza regime in NIcaragua. The movie covers some of te key points in the fight for León, a city close to the capital Managua, and the first liberated territory. Many of the inhabitants of León who participated in the guerrilla and members of the sandinista army participated in the film. See more about La insurrección / IMDB / YouTube