Best War movies of 2002

Actors : Nicholas Farrell, Tim Pigott-Smith, Allan Gildea, James Nesbitt,
Directors : Paul Greengrass,

A dramatization of the Irish civil rights protest march and subsequent massacre by British troops on January 30, 1972.

Actors : Adam Beach, Peter Stormare, Noah Emmerich, Nicolas Cage,
Directors : John Woo,

Two U.S. Marines in World War II are assigned to protect Navajo Marines, who use their native language as an unbreakable radio cypher.

Actors : Colin Farrell, Cole Hauser, Bruce Willis, Terrence Howard,
Directors : Gregory Hoblit,

A law student becomes a lieutenant during World War II, is captured and asked to defend a black prisoner of war falsely accused of murder.

Actors : Charles Aznavour, Brent Carver, Eric Bogosian, Simon Abkarian,
Directors : Atom Egoyan,

Interrogated by a customs officer, a young man recounts how his life was changed during the making of a film about the Armenian genocide.

Actors : Leelee Sobieski, John Cusack, Molly Parker, Noah Taylor,
Directors : Menno Meyjes,

A film studying the depiction of a friendship between an art dealer named Rothman and his student, Adolf Hitler.

Actors : Ohad Knoller, Yehuda Levi, Assi Cohen, Aya Steinovitz,
Directors : Eytan Fox,

Romance blooms between two soldiers (Knoller, Levi) stationed in an Israeli outpost on the Lebanese border.

Actors : Viktor Bychkov, Anni-Kristiina Juuso, Ville Haapasalo, Mikhail Korobochkin,
Directors : Aleksandr Rogozhkin,

The beauty of this movie is that you, as the reader of the subtitles, are the only one who knows what is going on. The woman and the two men all speak different languages. It is a comedy of errors up until the end.

Actors : Elia Suleiman, Manal Khader, George Ibrahim, Amer Daher,
Directors : Elia Suleiman,

Separated by a checkpoint, Palestinian lovers from Jerusalem and Ramallah arrange clandestine meetings.

Actors : Kenneth Cranham, Leo Bill, Rosanna Lavelle, Derek Jacobi,
Directors : John Henderson,

Comedy drama based on the true story of two British Army dentists who in 1942, eager to see action, go AWOL and invade occupied France on their own.

Actors : Rúaidhrí Conroy, Mike Downey, Laurence Fox, Jamie Bell,
Directors : Michael J. Bassett,

In the middle of World War I, nine British soldiers caught behind enemy lines seek refuge in a complex network of German trenches. What they soon discover is that they aren't alone - and it isn't a German soldier that's hunting them down.

Actors : Moni Moshonov, Andrei Kashkar, Helena Yaralova, Yussuf Abu-Warda,
Directors : Amos Gitai,

In May 1948, shortly before the creation of the State of Israel, hundreds of immigrants from across Europe arrive in Palestine--only to risk arrest by British troops.

Actors : Gudrun Okras, Nadja Uhl, Ellen Vogel, Thekla Reuten,
Directors : Ben Sombogaart,

Twin Sisters is an epic love story based on the Dutch bestseller by Tessa de Loo that has been read by more than 3.5 million readers in Holland and Germany.

Actors : Nandita Das, Madhavan, P.S. Keerthana, Simran,
Directors : Mani Ratnam,

A little girl is told by her parents that she is adopted. Determined to find her birth mother, she begs to be taken to Sri Lanka, where her mother works with a militant group of activists.

Actors : Meredith Monroe, Jonathan Brandis, Charlie Finn, Jay R. Ferguson,
Directors : Jay Craven,

The Year That Trembled is a 1970 coming-of-age story set in the shadow of Kent State that focuses on a group of young characters facing the Vietnam Draft Lottery.

Actors : Jules Sitruk, Michèle Garcia, Jean-Paul Rouve, Gérard Jugnot,
Directors : Gérard Jugnot,

In 1942, in an occupied Paris, the apolitical grocer Edmond Batignole lives with his wife and daughter in a small apartment in the building of his grocery. When his future son-in-law and ...

Actors : Sergey Bodrov, Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Aleksey Chadov, Ian Kelly,
Directors : Aleksey Balabanov,

During the bloody war in Chechnya, a British couple and two Russian soldiers are taken hostage by Chechen rebels. Two of the hostages are then released to bring the money for the British woman who is forced to wait for the ransom.

Actors : Ji-a Park, Jeong-hak Kim, Hae-jin Yoo, Dong-gun Jang,
Directors : Ki-duk Kim,

At South Korea's border with the North, troops guard the coast. Each bullies those ranking beneath him; tensions are high. PFC Kang and his friend Private Kim are on patrol when drinking ...

Actors : Priit Võigemast, Indrek Sammul, Hele Kõre, Alo Kõrve,
Directors : Elmo Nüganen,

This movie is about the Estonian War of Independence (1918-1920), specifically the students fighting on the nationalist side, but also shown the conflict between two ideologies (Estonian nationalism and communism).

Actors : Pierfrancesco Favino, Paolo Briguglia, Emilio Solfrizzi, Luciano Scarpa,
Directors : Enzo Monteleone,

War seen through the eyes of Serra, a university student from Palermo who volunteers in 1942 to fight in Africa. He is assigned to the Pavia Division on the southern line in Egypt. Rommel ...

Actors : Eloy Azorín, Rubén Ochandiano, Carla Perez, Eduardo Noriega,
Directors : Daniel Calparsoro,

The tragic story of a platoon of Spanish soldiers, in the hell of the Kosovo war in 2000