Best War movies of 1962

Actors : Valentin Zubkov, Nikolay Burlyaev, Stepan Krylov, Evgeniy Zharikov,

In WW2, twelve year old Soviet orphan Ivan Bondarev works for the Soviet army as a scout behind the German lines and strikes a friendship with three sympathetic Soviet officers.

Actors : Steve McQueen, Harry Guardino, Fess Parker, Bobby Darin,
Directors : Don Siegel,

Small squad must hold off German attack.

Actors : Melvyn Douglas, Robert Ryan, Paul Rogers, Peter Ustinov,
Directors : Peter Ustinov,

Billy is an innocent, naive seaman in the British Navy in 1797. When the ship's sadistic master-at-arms is murdered, Billy is accused and tried.

Actors : Lilli Palmer, William Holden, Hugh Griffith, Carl Raddatz,
Directors : George Seaton,

Blacklisted in modern day WW2, a Swedish oil trader opts to assist British Allies, by means of infiltrating and surveying Nazi Germany.

Actors : Jeff Chandler, Peter Brown, Andrew Duggan, Ty Hardin,
Directors : Samuel Fuller,

During WW2, a 3000-strong American unit, known as Merrill's Marauders, battles the Japanese forces in Burma.

Actors : Lee J. Cobb, Charles Boyer, Ingrid Thulin, Glenn Ford,
Directors : Vincente Minnelli,

In Argentina, the family man Julio Madariaga is the patriarch of his family and considers his farm the paradise on Earth. One of his daughters, Luisa Desnoyers, has married the Frenchman ...

Actors : Shirley Anne Field, Steve McQueen, Gary Cockrell, Robert Wagner,
Directors : Philip Leacock,

Buzz Rickson is a dare-devil World War II bomber pilot with a death wish. Failing at everything not involving flying, Rickson lives for the most dangerous missions. His crew lives with this...

Actors : Dirk Bogarde, Maria Perschy, Nigel Stock, Alfred Lynch,
Directors : Andrew L. Stone,

A World War II British officer named Charles Coward, having been captured by the Germans, tries everything he can to escape. In the process, among many other adventures he gets awarded the ...

Actors : Igor Ilyinsky, Larisa Golubkina, Nikolay Kryuchkov, Yuriy Yakovlev,
Directors : Eldar Ryazanov,

A young girl decides to join a Husar squadron and fight against Napoleon. Dressed as a man she has a hard time adjusting to the rude Husar life styles.

Actors : Sydney Pollack, John Saxon, Charles Aidman, Tommy Matsuda,
Directors : Denis Sanders,

Dispatched to the front lines during the Korean War, an idealistic American soldier discovers the horrors of combat and comes at odds with a psychopathic member of his platoon.

Actors : Vesa-Matti Loiri, Uti Saurio, Pentti Tarkiainen, Hannu Vironmäki,
Directors : Mikko Niskanen,

A group of mischievous Finnish boys experience the ups and downs of life during World War 2.

Actors : Corinne Calvet, Richard Beymer, Fred Clark, Diane Baker,
Directors : Martin Ritt,

An immature young man from Middle America grows to manhood after a cross-country journey and his military service in World War I.

Actors : William Holden, France Nuyen, Clifton Webb, Athene Seyler,

During the Chinese Civil War of 1949, the Communists constantly harass the two priests of a remote Catholic mission outpost.

Actors : Marshall Thompson, Jeffrey Hunter, Ronald Remy, Barbara Perez,

During the early Pacific war years, American seaman George Tweed is the only U.S. serviceman on Guam not captured by the Japanese forces.

Actors : Raffaele Barbato, Silvana Buzzanca, Regina Bianchi, Charles Belmont,
Directors : Nanni Loy,

The film shows the history of the Neapolitan popular revolt against the invading Germans, during the second world war. During the four days in Naples the revolt turns over in just few hours...

Actors : Bert Sotlar, Velimir 'Bata' Zivojinovic, Milena Dravic, Olivera Markovic,
Directors : Veljko Bulajic,

Battle on Kozara known as the 'third offensive' is the hardest and most tragic battle led by the Yugoslav Partisans in World War II. In June of 1942 Germans and their collaborators decide ...

Actors : Jim Hutton, Paula Prentiss, Jim Backus, Jack Carter,
Directors : Richard Thorpe,

A military comedy about a luckless army intelligence lieutenant who finds himself stationed on a remote island army outpost during World War II, where all the action is between the sheets.

Actors : Richard Basehart, Martin Kosleck, Maria Emo, Cordula Trantow,
Directors : Stuart Heisler,

Richard Basehart stars as one of the most influential and one of the most reviled men in history in this probing psychological study of a man who nearly gained dominance over the entire ...

Actors : Salvatore Baccaloni, Harry Guardino, Elsa Martinelli, Charlton Heston,
Directors : Melville Shavelson,

In 1944, two American spies, posing as priests, infiltrate German occupied Rome to relay information to HQ but can only communicate via pigeons due to the imposed radio silence.

Actors : Michael Anderson Jr., Harry Andrews, Oliver Grimm, Kay Walsh,
Directors : Philip Leacock,

During World War II, in a small English coastal town, teenage boys eager to join the army but unable to do so participate in their own homemade private brutal war games with tragic results.