Top psychological war movies

War movies are a special genre of cinema. Thanks to him, the viewer has the opportunity to see and feel what happened during the most famous wars in the history of mankind. Your attention is invited to the twenty best military and truly psychological film masterpieces of all time - according to the editors of the site.

20. Road test

Winter of 1942 A partisan detachment operates in the territory occupied by the fascists under the leadership of a former rural militia officer, Lieutenant Lokotkov.

One day, a former accomplice of the German authorities, Alexander Lazarev, voluntarily surrenders to Soviet soldiers. A man wants to atone for his guilt before the motherland. For this he is ready for anything! But is it worth believing someone who has already betrayed once? ...

19. Pearl Harbor

The film tells the story of two military pilots and best friends - Rafe and Danny. The fate of these young guys fell a difficult test - World War II, and with it the passion ... for the same girl.

In the conditions of the all-consuming chaos of war, shrouded in a bright flame of fire, each of them will have to fight for their future, both on earth and in the sky ...

18. And the dawns here are quiet

In submission to the former intelligence officer, a veteran of the Finnish war, and now foreman Fedot Vaskov, five volunteer girls fall. Soon a group of young anti-aircraft gunners headed by an experienced military will have to enter an unequal battle with the enemy - a division of German paratroopers of special purpose.

Fragile recruits, who until recently dream of a great and bright love, will have to forget about their girlish dreams and take up arms in order to plunge into the cruel realities of a merciless war ...

17. Rescue Private Ryan

Mother of many children gets three funerals - three of her four sons died, defending their homeland from the enemy troops. The command decides to find the only surviving son of the poor woman and send him home.

In search of Private James Ryan sent a detachment of eight soldiers, led by captain John Miller. They were assigned a task - at any price to snatch the guy from the enemy’s fierce paws and save his life ...

16. Apocalypse today

1969 The action takes place in the midst of the Vietnam War. Immersed in an endless intoxicating fog and tormented by terrible memories of the war, Captain Benjamin Willard, after long days of waiting, was called to command headquarters.

He gets the task: to find in the Cambodian jungle a fallen colonel of the American army, who imagines himself a god of war and has assembled a real army of fierce killer monsters. Together with several soldiers, the captain goes in search of a madman ...

15. Letters from Iwo Jima

This is a different look at one of the most important battles between the United States and Japan during the Pacific campaign - the tragic battle of the island of Iwo Jima.

This event was not only a turning point in the course of the Japanese-American war, but also a real clash of two completely different cultures and ideologies ...

14. Paths of glory

The events of the film roman take the viewer away during the First World War. Colonel Dax, commander of the French infantry regiment, receives an order: to attack a strategically important enemy position called "Ant Hill".

The failure of this special operation is obvious initially, but after the attack of the enemy ended in complete fiasco, the military authorities decide to find "guilty". They become three randomly selected soldiers of the Dax Regiment.

Will an honest commander be able to protect his innocent subordinates, or will they have to die while covering up the folly and personal ambitions of the top leadership? ...

13. 38 parallel

With the beginning of the Korean War, the peaceful and quiet well-being of the Jin-tae family, all its lightest dreams and happy expectations collapse in an instant. Now the main thing - to survive at any cost.

Under the terrible rumble of tanks, the fierce whistle of bullets and the deafening explosions of shells, the main character furiously tries to save his family. He decides to send his relatives to the south of the Korean Peninsula. The man truly believes that they will be safer there. But wouldn't this place be a death trap? ...

12. Only old men go to battle

The war drama tells about the last years of the Great Patriotic War. To the experienced fighter pilots from the second "singing" squadron comes a young recruitment. "Old men" have a lot to teach the "green". Together they will fight with the fearless "aces" of Goering, to spend fun carefree everyday life: make friends, love and enjoy life.

Without stopping at nothing, to the sounds of fervent songs, they will again and again rise into the sky to engage in battle with the enemy - a battle that may be the last in my life ...

11. Platoon

Volunteer Chris Taylor goes to the border between Vietnam and Cambodia to see with his own eyes all the ins and outs of the brutal war that has become the embodiment of real hell on earth.

Before the rank and file of the 25th Infantry Regiment there will appear not the otherworldly, but a completely real world of cruelty and violence - Hell, on whose territory desperate bloody battles take place. However, this struggle is not with an external enemy, but with an internal one: two sergeants came together in a mortal combat ...

10. Inglorious bastards

Events develop during the Second World War, somewhere in France. By coincidence, there are five war criminals in the wild.

The company has gathered quite a motley one: among the runaways there are both a virtuoso thief, and terrible murderers, and an ordinary deserter.

Involuntarily being "in the same boat," the men decide to go on the run, away from war and justice. However, on the way something happens to them, which is why they are forced to radically change their plans ...

9. Life is beautiful

Once, two Jews are sent to a German concentration camp: a father and his little son. They are followed by a mother, an Italian, who decided to voluntarily join her family.

A loving father, wanting to save his son from death, comes up with a story for him that everything that happens around is a big game, in which the main prize is a tank. He convinces the boy that the winner can only be the one who will be able to not catch the eye of strict guards.

So begins the story of the survival of their small family ...

8. Alexander Nevsky

Terrible troops of the Teutonic Order are attacking great Russia. They ruthlessly demolish everything in their path and greedily divide the lands that have not yet been conquered and titles.

Alarmed people decide to assemble a squad for decent resistance to the enemy. The command is called an experienced warrior and the famous commander of Prince Alexander Nevsky. Among his troops are two bogatyrs, who decided to marry to the same girl. The beauty's heart will be received by the one who best manifests himself in a tough battle ...

7. Merry Christmas

In 1914, during the First World War, a real Christmas miracle happens. The Scottish priest, the German tenor with his beloved, and the French lieutenant suddenly find themselves in the center of a spontaneous truce that arose between the British, French and Germans.

In their eyes, the warring parties lay down their arms to go out to meet each other, exchange goodies and wish each other a merry Christmas ...

6. Bunker

April 1945 Allied forces are coming closer to the capital of Germany. The command of the Third Reich is in agony, in the face of imminent death, the Nazis seek salvation in their secret refuge - the bunker.

A distraught Führer convinces his faithful servants that the moment of victory is near. He gives the order to destroy Berlin and discusses the details of his suicide.

The last refuge of the beastly executioners is thoroughly imbued with fear and despair. Will one of them manage to get out alive from the concrete hell to tell the story of the gloomy fall of the famous German dictator? ...

5. Full Metal Jacket

At the American military base is the next training of new recruits - future marines. The cruel system is designed to turn them into real killer robots who do not know feelings of pity and mercy.

Here, young boys are transformed into adult men - warriors who have to kill every day, often without understanding why and why ...

4. Battle of the Red Rock

Ancient China. The cunning prime minister Cao Cao guesses the emperor with cunning to start a war with two neighboring kingdoms. Numerous army easily breaks the defense of the kingdom of Shu and forces the remnants of his troops to the foot of the Red Rocks.

Once in the death trap, the prisoners have no choice but to ask for help from the ruler of the neighboring kingdom.

Armed with his support, the warriors are preparing for the final battle. What will win - brute force or a sharp mind? ...

3. The Last Samurai

The film takes place in the second half of the XIX century. The Army of the Rising Sun requires immediate modernization. The emperor invites retired American cavalryman Olgren to Japan to teach local soldiers how to fight with rifles in their hands.

However, this does not help the imperial army to win the battle with the samurai. The American is captured. From this moment begins his acquaintance with the history of ancient Japanese warriors, their distinctive culture and unique philosophy ...

2. 300

The screen version of the legendary story of how 300 brave and courageous Spartans led by King Leonid engaged in an unequal battle with the many thousands of troops of the Persian king Xerxes.

Thanks to the courage, bravery and heroism shown in this merciless battle, the Spartans managed to change the course of the Greco-Persian wars. Their fearlessness and belief in victory became a real inspiration for all of Greece ...

1. Brest Fortress

This is the story of the heroic defense of the Brest Fortress, which took the first blow of the German fascists at the beginning of the Great Patriotic War.

With documentary accuracy, the viewer reveals the details of what is happening in the early days of the war.

In the center of events are three main centers of resistance headed by regiment commander Gavrilov, head of the 9th frontier post Andrei and military commissar Fomin ...