Defining Genre
THE WAR
THE FRONT LINE, FRAMED
The genre that asks the audience to sit inside the worst chapter of a century. Where every shot is also a memorial.
Peak 2010s
2,736
Films Catalogued
68.0
Avg Master Score
6.6
Avg IMDb
2010s
Peak Decade
RAOUL WALSH
Top Director
Of which 120 won at least one Oscar
The Defining Three
ESSENTIAL VIEWING
Top-ranked by master score. If you only saw three films from this decade, these are the three.
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Master Score
Awards
Showing 60 of 2,736
01
Schindler's List
1993 · Steven Spielberg · 7 Oscars
94.6
02Gone with the Wind
1939 · Victor Fleming · 8 Oscars
93.8
03Shoah
1985 · Claude Lanzmann
92.5
04The Bridge on the River Kwai
1957 · David Lean · 7 Oscars
92.4
05The Best Years of Our Lives
1946 · William Wyler · 7 Oscars
92.2
06Come and See
1985 · Elem Klimov
92.0
07Ugetsu
1953 · Kenji Mizoguchi · 1 nom
91.7
08The Big Parade
1925 · King Vidor, George W. Hill
91.3
09Rome, Open City
1945 · Roberto Rossellini · 1 nom
91.3
10For Sama
2019 · Waad Al-Kateab, Edward Watts · 1 nom
91.0
11The Grand Illusion
1937 · Jean Renoir · 1 nom
90.9
12Saving Private Ryan
1998 · Steven Spielberg · 5 Oscars
90.5
13The Great Dictator
1940 · Charles Chaplin · 5 noms
90.5
14Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
1964 · Stanley Kubrick · 4 noms
90.5
15Platoon
1986 · Oliver Stone · 4 Oscars
90.4
16Underground
1995 · Emir Kusturica
90.3
17The Mountain II
2016 · Alper Caglar
90.3
18Casablanca
1942 · Michael Curtiz · 3 Oscars
89.8
19Downfall
2004 · Oliver Hirschbiegel · 1 nom
89.7
20Patton
1970 · Franklin J. Schaffner · 7 Oscars
89.5
21From Here to Eternity
1953 · Fred Zinnemann · 8 Oscars
89.5
22Battleship Potemkin
1925 · Sergei Eisenstein
89.4
23Lawrence of Arabia
1962 · David Lean · 7 Oscars
89.4
24To Have and Have Not
1944 · Howard Hawks
89.3
25The Caine Mutiny
1954 · Edward Dmytryk · 7 noms
89.2
26Love and Death
1975 · Woody Allen
89.1
27Turtles Can Fly
2004 · Bahman Ghobadi
89.0
28Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War
2004 · Kang Je-kyu
88.8
29Duck Soup
1933 · Leo McCarey
88.8
30Lessons of Darkness
1992 · Werner Herzog
88.8
31The English Patient
1996 · Anthony Minghella · 9 Oscars
88.7
32A Time for Drunken Horses
2000 · Bahman Ghobadi
88.7
33The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
1961 · Masaki Kobayashi
88.4
34First Blood
1982 · Ted Kotcheff
88.3
35Border
1997 · J.P. Dutta
88.2
36Doctor Zhivago
1965 · David Lean · 5 Oscars
88.2
37Bloody Sunday
2002 · Paul Greengrass
88.1
38Conspiracy
2001 · Frank Pierson
87.9
39Pretty Village, Pretty Flame
1996 · Srdjan Dragojevic
87.9
40Good Morning, Vietnam
1987 · Barry Levinson · 1 nom
87.9
41The Wounds
1998 · Srdjan Dragojevic
87.8
42Mudbound
2017 · Dee Rees · 4 noms
87.7
43The Burmese Harp
1956 · Kon Ichikawa · 1 nom
87.6
44Restrepo
2010 · Tim Hetherington, Sebastian Junger · 1 nom
87.6
45The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
1959 · Masaki Kobayashi
87.5
46Mosul
2019 · Matthew Michael Carnahan
87.5
47Train of Life
1998 · Radu Mihaileanu
87.5
48They Shall Not Grow Old
2018 · Peter Jackson
87.4
49Mrs. Miniver
1942 · William Wyler · 6 Oscars
87.3
50The Cranes Are Flying
1957 · Mikhail Kalatozov
87.3
51The Mountain
2012 · Alper Caglar
87.3
52Shershaah
2021 · Vishnuvardhan
87.2
53A Man Escaped
1956 · Robert Bresson
87.1
54Tangerines
2013 · Zaza Urushadze · 1 nom
87.1
55Army of Shadows
1969 · Jean-Pierre Melville
87.1
56The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity
1959 · Masaki Kobayashi
87.0
57Zulu
1964 · Cy Endfield
87.0
58White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
2007 · Steven Okazaki
86.9
59Ivan's Childhood
1962 · Andrei Tarkovsky, Eduard Abalov
86.9
60Fahrenheit 9/11
2004 · Michael Moore
86.8
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