Best War movies of 1980s

Actors : Ed Harris, Nick Nolte, Gene Hackman, Joanna Cassidy,
Directors : Roger Spottiswoode,

Three journalists in a romantic triangle are involved in political intrigue during the last days of the corrupt Somozoa regime in Nicaragua before it falls to a popular revolution in 1979.

Actors : Louis Gossett Jr., David Suchet, Jason Gedrick, Larry B. Scott,
Directors : Sidney J. Furie,

Heroic young pilot Doug Masters launches a rescue mission when his father, an Air Force veteran, is shot down over enemy territory and captured.

Actors : Andréa Ferréol, Jean Poiret, Gérard Depardieu, Catherine Deneuve,
Directors : François Truffaut,

In occupied Paris, an actress married to a Jewish theater owner must keep him hidden from the Nazis while doing both of their jobs.

Actors : Anjelica Huston, D.B. Sweeney, James Earl Jones, James Caan,
Directors : Francis Ford Coppola,

A sergeant must deal with his desires to save the lives of young soldiers being sent to Vietnam. Continuously denied the chance to teach the soldiers about his experiences, he settles for trying to help the son of an old army buddy.

Actors : Kevin Anderson, Bruce Willis, Emily Lloyd, Joan Allen,
Directors : Norman Jewison,

Samantha Hughes, a teenaged Kentucky girl, never knew her father, who died in Vietnam before her birth. Samantha lives with her Uncle Emmett, who also served in Vietnam. Emmett hangs around...

Actors : Fred Ward, Kurt Russell, Goldie Hawn, Christine Lahti,
Directors : Jonathan Demme,

A woman finds romance when she takes a job at an aircraft plant to help make ends meet after her husband goes off to war.

Actors : George Dzundza, Stephen Baldwin, Steven Bauer, Jason Patric,
Directors : Kevin Reynolds,

A Soviet tank and its warring crew become separated from their patrol and lost in an Afghan valley with a group of vengeance-seeking rebels on their tracks.

Actors : Jerry Reed, Gene Hackman, Danny Glover, David Marshall Grant,
Directors : Peter Markle,

During the Vietnam War, Colonel Hambleton's aircraft is shot down over enemy territory and a frantic rescue operation ensues.

Actors : Heikki Paavilainen, Vesa Vierikko, Timo Torikka, Taneli Mäkelä,
Directors : Pekka Parikka,

Set during World War 2. After Nazi Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, Russia attacked Finland in November 1939. Finnish reservists leave their homes and go to war. The film focuses ...

Actors : Kiefer Sutherland, Bruce Dern, Mariette Hartley, Robert Downey Jr.,
Directors : Ernest Thompson,

Two friends living in a small town during the 1960s, run away to enjoy their freedom during the Vietnam War, thus disappointing the father of one of them. When they return to town, they realize the importance of family unity.

Actors : Hugo Arana, Héctor Alterio, Norma Aleandro, Chunchuna Villafañe,
Directors : Luis Puenzo,

After the end of the Dirty War, a high school teacher sets out to find out who the mother of her adopted daughter is.

Actors : Kate Capshaw, George Dzundza, Eddie Murphy, Dudley Moore,
Directors : Willard Huyck,

A military weapons engineer struggles to do his job responsibly, while a hapless tank commander has to live with the consequences in combat years later.

Actors : Aki Aleong, Roland Harrah III, Miki Kim, Chuck Norris,
Directors : Aaron Norris,

Braddock mounts a one-man assault to free his wife and son who are still being held in a Vietnam prison camp.

Actors : Shizuko Hoshi, Tamlyn Tomita, Sab Shimono, Dennis Quaid,
Directors : Alan Parker,

The passionate romance between an Irish-American man and a Japanese-American woman is threatened when the Pearl Harbor attacks happen and the woman is forced into a prison camp because of her ethnicity.

Actors : Bill Murray, Denholm Elliott, Catherine Hicks, Theresa Russell,
Directors : John Byrum,

He had everything and wanted nothing. He learned that he had nothing and wanted everything. He saved the world and then it shattered. The path to enlightenment is as sharp and narrow as a razor's edge.

Actors : Fred Ward, Willem Dafoe, Gregory Hines, Amanda Pays,
Directors : Christopher Crowe,

McGriff and Albaby are probably doing the worst law enforcement job in the world - they are plain clothes U.S. military policemen on duty in war-time Saigon. However, their job becomes even...

Actors : Roger Moore, David Niven, Gregory Peck, Trevor Howard,
Directors : Andrew V. McLaglen,

A true World War II story: the British must attack a German ship, but it's safe, in neutral Goa. So they send civilians, ex-soldiers about sixty-years-old.

Actors : Michael Wright, Mitchell Lichtenstein, David Alan Grier, Matthew Modine,
Directors : Robert Altman,

Four young soldiers waiting to be shipped to Viet Nam deal with racial tension and their own intolerance when one soldier reveals he's gay.

Actors : Omero Antonutti, Miriam Guidelli, Claudio Bigagli, Margarita Lozano,

The Night of San Lorenzo, the night of the shooting stars, is the night when dreams come true in Italian folklore. In 1944, a group of Italians flee their town after hearing rumours that ...

Actors : Peter Phelps, John Heywood, Nick Waters, John Larking,
Directors : Simon Wincer,

In 1917 when the British forces are bogged down in front of the Turkish and German lines in Palestine they rely on the Australian light horse regiment to break the deadlock.