The Top 250 Highest Rated War Narrative Feature Films on Letterboxd, as defined by Letterboxd.
Last updated: June 20th, 2026
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Film eligibility criteria:
-- Must have a minimum of 1,000 ratings on Letterboxd.
-- Cannot be a short film (minimum 40 minutes).
-- Cannot be a television miniseries.
-- Cannot be a compilation of short serials.
-- Cannot be a documentary.
-- Cannot be a non-narrative project (paint drying for 10 hours, a timelapse of the construction of a building, abstract images, etc).
-- Cannot be a recording of a live performance (stand-up specials, recordings of live theater, concert films, etc).
-- Cannot be a television special episode, though feature film…
The Top 250 Highest Rated War Narrative Feature Films on Letterboxd, as defined by Letterboxd.
Last updated: June 20th, 2026
Check out more of the lists I update regularly!
Film eligibility criteria:
-- Must have a minimum of 1,000 ratings on Letterboxd.
-- Cannot be a short film (minimum 40 minutes).
-- Cannot be a television miniseries.
-- Cannot be a compilation of short serials.
-- Cannot be a documentary.
-- Cannot be a non-narrative project (paint drying for 10 hours, a timelapse of the construction of a building, abstract images, etc).
-- Cannot be a recording of a live performance (stand-up specials, recordings of live theater, concert films, etc).
-- Cannot be a television special episode, though feature film spin-offs from television shows are allowed.
-- Feature film spin-offs from television shows must contain original material, not just recap or compilation of existing material.
-- Entries that have scores inflated because they share a name with a popular television show are removed, as I notice them.
The ten most appearing directors:
Sergey Bondarchuk: 7
Stanley Kubrick: 5
Nobuhiko Obayashi: 4
Masaki Kobayashi: 3
Steven Spielberg: 3
David Lean: 3
Roberto Rossellini: 3
Andrzej Wajda: 3
Miklós Jancsó: 3
Andrew Grieve: 3
The ten most appearing actors:
Sergey Bondarchuk: 6
Angelina Stepanova: 6
Vyacheslav Tikhonov: 5
Tatsuya Nakadai: 4
Taketoshi Naitō: 4
Jun Hamamura: 4
Nikolay Smorchkov: 4
Jack Hawkins: 4
Ludmila Savelyeva: 4
Viktor Stanitsyn: 4
The ten most appearing decades:
1960: 47
1980: 32
1970: 32
2000: 31
2010: 28
1950: 23
1990: 23
1940: 13
2020: 8
1930: 7
The Ten Most Appearing Genres (Excluding War):
Drama: 223
History: 84
Romance: 37
Action: 25
Comedy: 24
Adventure: 16
Thriller: 16
Animation: 11
TV Movie: 6
Science Fiction: 6
The ten most appearing studios:
Mosfilm: 16
Warner Bros. Pictures: 7
Paramount Pictures: 7
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer: 7
Universal Pictures: 6
Mafilm: 6
20th Century Fox: 6
United Artists: 5
Filmové studio Barrandov: 5
BBC: 5
The ten most appearing languages:
English: 129
German: 79
French: 59
Russian: 45
Japanese: 35
Italian: 18
Chinese: 15
Arabic: 15
Polish: 13
Spanish: 12
The ten most appearing countries:
USA: 72
France: 48
UK: 47
Italy: 27
Germany: 27
Japan: 26
USSR: 23
Poland: 11
Spain: 10
Belgium: 9
Have a great day!