Best War movies of 1971

Actors : Romolo Valli, Rod Steiger, James Coburn, Maria Monti,
Directors : Sergio Leone,

An I.R.A. explosives expert on the run in Mexico meets an amoral Mexican bandit; together they are drawn into the Mexican revolution.

Actors : Jason Robards, Timothy Bottoms, Kathy Fields, Marsha Hunt,
Directors : Dalton Trumbo,

A World War I soldier, rendered blind, deaf, limbless, and mute by a horrific artillery shell attack, finds a unique way of communicating with his doctors.

Actors : Elizabeth Hartman, Geraldine Page, Clint Eastwood, Jo Ann Harris,
Directors : Don Siegel,

While imprisoned in a Confederate girls' boarding school, an injured Union soldier cons his way into each of the lonely women's hearts, causing them to turn on each other, and eventually, on him.

Actors : Siân Phillips, Horst Janson, Philippe Noiret, Peter O'Toole,
Directors : Peter Yates,

A lone survivor from a British naval ship is obsessed with getting revenge on a German U-boat crew that massacred his shipmates in the water.

Actors : Nigel Davenport, Florinda Bolkan, Michael Caine, Omar Sharif,
Directors : James Clavell,

People in a small German village in the last valley to remain untouched by the devastating Thirty Years' War try to exist in peace with a group of soldiers occupying the valley.

Actors : John Laurie, Clive Dunn, Arthur Lowe, John Le Mesurier,
Directors : Norman Cohen,

The misadventures of a ragtag group of elderly Home Guard local defense volunteers at the onset of WW2.

Actors : Richard Burton, John Colicos, Clinton Greyn, Wolfgang Preiss,
Directors : Henry Hathaway,

In 1942 Libya, a German-speaking British Intelligence officer uses former British POWs, some dressed in German uniforms, to fulfill a secret sabotage mission inside German-captured Tobruk.

Actors : Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Vladimir Zamanskiy, Rolan Bykov, Oleg Borisov,
Directors : Aleksey German,

The Russian POW joins the partisan guerrillas and proves his loyalty fighting the Nazis.

Actors : Núria Espert, Anouk Ferjac, Mahdi Chaouch, Ivan Henriques,
Directors : Fernando Arrabal,

At the end of the Spanish civil war, Fando, a boy of about ten, tries to make sense of war and his father's arrest. His mother is religious, sympathetic to the Fascists; his father is ...

Actors : Jan Nowicki, Malgorzata Braunek, Leszek Teleszynski, Jerzy Golinski,
Directors : Andrzej Zulawski,

Set during the occupation of Poland during World War II. Some German soldiers, slaughter a woman, her son and daughter-in-law. The husband and his father escape by being in the forest. The ...

Actors : Peter Carsten, Elke Sommer, Marius Goring, Michael York,
Directors : Etienne Périer,

In 1915, frustrated with the German air-raids on London, British Intelligence sends Scots officer Geoffrey Richter-Douglas, who has German ancestry, to Germany, to find information about the latest German Zeppelin.

Actors : Mikhail Ulyanov, Aleksey Batalov, Tatyana Tkach, Lyudmila Saveleva,

The defeat of the "White Army" in the Russian Civil War of 1918-21, causing massive emigration of the upper classes and nobility, called "White Russians". Set in Crimea, Constantinopol and ...

Actors : Gérard Filipelli, Luis Rego, Jean-Guy Fechner, Gérard Rinaldi,
Directors : Claude Zidi,

Actors : Bilal Inci, Hulusi Kentmen, Hülya Koçyigit, Kadir Savun,
Directors : Ertem Egilmez,

A young hapless couple's devotion for each other is tested through harsh times of war as they are forced to negate patriotism and dependability to their families and nations, for a length of a lifetime before during and after the war.

Actors : Georgi Partsalev, Nikola Anastasov, Valcho Kamarashev, Kiril Gospodinov,
Directors : Zako Heskiya,

In 1945, on the battlefields in Hungary, three Bulgarian soldiers from the reserve have to fight for the liberation of the country. They are totally unprepared for the war and have no ...

Actors : Horst Buchholz, Muriel Catalá, Roger Lumont, Hélène Vallier,
Directors : Michel Mardore,

In 1943, rural French teenager Nanette meets an injured British airman and decides to give him shelter at her family's farm after falling in-love with him.

Actors : Mikhail Ulyanov, Larisa Golubkina, Nikolay Olyalin, Mikhail Nozhkin,
Directors : Yuriy Ozerov,

This five part WW2 epic drama gives a dramatized detailed account of the five major eastern front Soviet campaigns against Nazi Germany.

Actors : Tatsuya Nakadai, Keiju Kobayashi, Tetsurô Tanba, Yûzô Kayama,
Directors : Kihachi Okamoto,

Actors : Bogdan Stupka, Larisa Kadochnikova, Ivan Mykolaichuk, Yuri Mikolajchuk,
Directors : Yuri Ilyenko,

Colourful 'optimistic tragedy' of a poor family in Ukraine, living in the Carpathian mountains near the Romanian border, during the Second World War. Five sons of the family make up the ...

Actors : Bulle Ogier, Roger Van Hool, Mathieu Carrière, Anna Karina,
Directors : André Delvaux,

In 1917, the First World War is raging. Julien is from Luxemburg, so instead of having to go to war he studies piano in Paris. One day his friend Jacques, also a musician and now a fighter ...