TOP 10 best films about the war and the military

This article presents the best films about the military. The Great Patriotic War brought a lot of grief to our people. Each family felt this tragedy - someone died, crippled, was captured, thousands of injured destinies. Films about the war were shot with deep respect, sincerely, because the directors and actors know about the war firsthand.

“And the Dawns Here Are Quiet,” 1972

• Year: 1972
• Genre: Military, Drama, Historical
• Country: USSR
• Cast: Elena Drapeko, Ekaterina Markova, Olga Ostroumova, Irina Shevchuk, Irina Dolganova, Andrey Martynov, Lyudmila Zaitseva, Alla Meshcheryakova, Alexey Chernov, Victor Avdyushko

An experienced soldier Vaskov and five girls anti-aircraft gunners engage in battle with German saboteurs. Vaskov’s death has been seen many times. But he will never forget what happened in the Karelian swamps. He failed to protect his subordinates, his girls who dreamed of family warmth, tenderness and great love. They believed in tomorrow, believed in life ... But a fierce war fell on their lot. So stupid to die at nineteen.

The surviving Nazis hid in a gatehouse, shocked Vaskov bursts into them to avenge the dead girls.

Ballad of a Soldier, 1959

• Year: 1959
• Genre: Military, Drama, Romance
• Country: USSR
• Cast: Vladimir Ivashov, Zhanna Prokhorenko, Antonina Maksimova, Nikolay Kryuchkov, Evgeny Urbansky, Elsa Lezhdey, Alexander Kuznetsov, Evgeny Teterin, Valentina Markova, Maria Kremneva

There are practically no fighting in the film. There are no partisans, no saboteurs, skirmishes, bombings. There are only people - sincere, open and real. Alexey Skvortsov destroys several enemy tanks. A soldier really does a feat. They want to present him for an award, but he wants to see his mother and asks for a vacation.

On the way home, the soldier helps the girl Shura and the disabled soldier, rescues the children, helps transfer the package to the soldier's dad. He nevertheless got home, stayed there for several minutes, hugged his mother and, with the words “I will be back!” Leaves for the war. This film is about millions of such simple soldiers.

“Twenty-eight Panfilovites”, 2016

• Year: 2016
• Genre: Military, Drama
• Country Russia
• Cast: Alexander Ustyugov, Yakov Kucherevsky, Azamat Nigmanov, Oleg Fedorov, Alexey Morozov, Anton Kuznetsov, Alexey Longin, Maxim Belborodov, Dmitry Murashev, Vitaliy Kovalenko

On November 16, 1941, at the approaches to Moscow, 28 soldiers stopped a battalion of German tanks. The operation is commanded by General I.V. Panfilov. The film shows the feat accomplished by Russian soldiers, and is focused on this particular plot. There are no love stories, storylines, sticks instead of weapons, criminals, beasts, political instructors.

“At war as at war”, 1968

• Year: 1968
• Genre: Military, Drama
• Country: USSR
• Cast: Mikhail Kononov, Oleg Borisov, Fedor Odinokov, Victor Pavlov, Mikhail Gluzsky, Valentin Zubkov, Yuri Dubrovin, Boris Tabarovsky, German Kolushkin, Boris Arakelov

Junior Lieutenant Maleshkin is just graduating from a military school. Now he is the commander of "self-propelled guns", where the crew consists of experienced and experienced soldiers. At every step, the authority of the young commander is tested. Right-bank Ukraine is being liberated. The crew of Maleshkin in the first battle is in the very center of the attack. The guys bravely engage in battle with a superior enemy.

This is truly the best war film in which death at the front and the horror of war are mixed with humor and everyday life.

Brest Fortress, 2010

• Year: 2010
• Genre: Military, Drama
• Country: Russia, Belarus
• Cast: Alexey Kopashov, Andrey Merzlikin, Pavel Derevyanko, Alexander Korshunov, Evgeny Tsyganov, Maxim Kostromykin, Anatoly Kot, Yana Esipovich, Sergey Tsepov, Anna Tsukanova

The film shows the defense of the Brest Fortress. June 22, 1941 she took the first blow of the Nazi invaders. A complete chronology of events is shown.

Sasha Akimov is a fifteen-year-old boy who survived the defense of the Brest Fortress. The whole film is shown by his eyes.

In these difficult days and nights of confrontation, the main characters of the film do not forget for a minute about their dear and close people. The heavy burden of war also fell on their shoulders. An important part of the film is the interweaving of the lines of struggle with the enemy and love.

"In August of the 44th," 2001

• Year: 2001
• Genre: Action, Military, Detectives, Drama, Thriller
• Country: Russia, Belarus
• Cast: Evgeny Mironov, Vladislav Galkin, Yuri Kolokolnikov, Beata Tyshkevich, Alexey Petrenko, Alexander Feklistov, Ramaz Chkhikvadze, Alexander Baluev, Yaroslav Boyko, Andrzej Pechinsky

The film tells about the operation, which is called "Neman". Captain Alekhine leads the counterintelligence team. Actions take place in mid-1944. Until the end of the war for a long time. From the territory of liberated Belarus, scouts periodically go on the air to inform the enemy of the whereabouts of Soviet troops. SMERSH officer with a detachment of scouts goes in search of spies. The task of neutralizing them was accomplished thanks to the inventiveness, fearlessness and professionalism of the Soviet military, although the task was complicated by the fact that in the area of ​​the operation there were many anti-Soviet elements.

“For reasons of conscience”, 2016

• Year: 2016
• Genre: Drama, Military, Biographical, Historical
• Country: Australia, USA
• Cast: Andrew Garfield, Sam Worthington, Teresa Palmer, Luke Bracey, Vince Vaughn, Hugo Weaving, Rachel Griffiths, Nathaniel Buzolic, Richard Roxburgh, Fieress Dirani

Real events became the basis for the staging of this film. The film was awarded many nominations.

The film tells about the war hero Desmond Doss. He went into the army to fight the Japanese. But he cannot take arms into his hands - he is a Seventh-day Adventist. The co-workers eschew such a soldier, and the command wants to get rid of a principled soldier at all. Desmond was given to the tribunal, but as it turns out, he may not take up arms. This is what the US Constitution says. The battle of Okinawa will be a baptism of fire for his company.

"Stalingrad", 1992

• Year: 1992
• Genre: Drama, Military
• Country: Germany
• Cast: Dominic Horvitz, Thomas Kretschman, Jochen Nickel, Sebastian Rudolph, Dana Vavrova, Martin Benrath, Sylvester Grot, Karel Gerzhmanek, Heinz Emigholz, Ferdinand Schuster

The film directed by Joseph Filsmeier is shown through the eyes of the Nazis. In the completely destroyed Stalingrad, the Sixth Wehrmacht Army fights. Elite German soldiers are fighting for survival. Half of the personnel die in the first battle.

German soldiers after fighting in North Africa rested in Italy. From here they are transferred to the Volga region. What they had to endure in the battles for each house in the frosty fields can be called more than hell. To the brink of madness they bring cold, hunger, the roar of "Katyusha" and the whistle of bullets. Before death, practically nothing holds them back. Every minute the movie is worse.

The Living and the Dead, 1963

• Year: 1963
• Genre: Drama, Military
• Country: USSR
• Cast: Kirill Lavrov, Anatoly Papanov, Oleg Efremov, Mikhail Ulyanov, Oleg Tabakov, Evgeny Samoilov, Zinovy ​​Vysokovsky, Boris Chirkov, Victor Avdyushko, Alexey Glazyrin

The first days of the war. Under the onslaught of the Germans, Soviet troops were retreating. Ivan Sintsov falls on the Western Front. He serves on the frontline newspaper as an army newspaperman.

The film tells about a terrible war and about ordinary people who were completely unprepared for front-line horrors. People had their own purpose and their priceless life. But no one wants to die. All are different, but one thing unites people - they are all Alive.

"They fought for their homeland," 1975

• Year: 1975
• Genre: Dramas, Military, Historical
• Country: USSR
• Cast: Vasily Shukshin, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Sergey Bondarchuk, Georgy Burkov, Yuri Nikulin, Ivan Lapikov, Nikolai Gubenko, Andrey Rostotsky, Nikolai Volkov, Nikolai Shutko

The events of the film take place in July 1942. Bearing on the approaches to Stalingrad, exhausted, bloodless Soviet troops suffer heavy losses.

The film shows the true price of victory, love for the native land, the feat of ordinary soldiers. You can’t remain indifferent from watching a movie, it is true. The difficult period of the retreat of Soviet troops is shown. Our soldiers look into the eyes of people to whom the Germans will come to the house tomorrow, but they did not have the strength, they could not, could not ...

In order not to go crazy from the constant proximity of death, from the pain of a terrible war, at least sometimes you need to laugh ...