Best War movies of 1960s

Actors : Didi Perego, Laurent Terzieff, Emmanuelle Riva, Susan Strasberg,
Directors : Gillo Pontecorvo,

A young Jewish girl leads an escape attempt from a concentration camp.

Actors : John Alderton, Wolfgang Preiss, Michael J. Pollard, Oliver Reed,
Directors : Michael Winner,

A prisoner of war working at a zoo gets the chance to escape from the Germans, so he does and he takes with him the elephant that he's been caring for. Together they head for the Swiss border and freedom.

Actors : Lyudmila Volynskaya, Nonna Mordyukova, Rolan Bykov, Raisa Nedashkovskaya,
Directors : Aleksandr Askoldov,

Klavdia Vavilova, a Red Army cavalry commissar, is waylaid by an unexpected pregnancy. She stays with a Jewish family to give birth and is softened somewhat by the experience of family life.

Actors : Hardy Krüger, Lino Ventura, Maurice Biraud, Charles Aznavour,
Directors : Denys de La Patellière,

During World War II, French Commandos join forces with a German officer in order to survive the African desert.

Actors : Sandra Dal Sasso, Pilar Castel, Dada Gallotti, Fred Robsahm,
Directors : Raffaele Andreassi,

Heinz Prulier (Fred Robsahm) is a German soldier stationed as a sniper overlooking his own army from a tree. When he falls asleep, his troops are gone and he is left alone to defend the ...

Actors : Phil Silvers, Shelley Winters, Peter Lawford, Gina Lollobrigida,
Directors : Melvin Frank,

Carla Campbell receives maintenance payment by three former GIs who all believe to be the father of her daughter Gia.

Actors : Jack Hawkins, Flora Robson, John Leyton, Richard Attenborough,
Directors : John Guillermin,

An anachronistic martinet RSM on a remote Colonial African army caught in a local coup d'etat must use his experience to defend those in his care.

Actors : Marek Walczewski, Anna Ciepielewska, Jan Kreczmar, Aleksandra Slaska,

While being aboard a transatlantic ship, German woman Liza notices someone who looks like Marta, the former inmate at Auschwitz, where Liza used to be the guard.

Actors : Tommy Sands, Robert Walker Jr., Burl Ives, Walter Matthau,
Directors : Joshua Logan,

Life becomes so harried after Ensign Pulver's prank, he and the Captain are swept off deck during a storm, ending up on a tropical island, a group of ship wrecked nurses, dancing natives and 1 very big case of appendicitis.

Actors : Jason Robards, John Gielgud, Charlton Heston, Richard Johnson,
Directors : Stuart Burge,

The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but they have both ...

Actors : Ivan Asic, Antonín Kumbera, Ilse Bischofova, Ladislav Jánsky,
Directors : Jan Nemec,

Diamonds in the night is the tense, brutal story of two Jewish boys who escape from a train transporting them from one concentration camp to another. Ultimately, they are hunted down by a ...

Actors : Ian Hendry, Jack Watson, Helmut Griem, Brian Keith,
Directors : Lamont Johnson,

During WW2, German POWs in Britain plot to escape from their prison camp in Scotland.

Actors : Takeshi Katô, Tatsuya Mihashi, Clint Walker, Frank Sinatra,
Directors : Frank Sinatra,

During WW2, a platoon of Marines crash-lands on a tiny Pacific island occupied by a small Japanese unit.

Actors : Michèle Morgan, Anthony Quinn, George Segal, Alain Delon,
Directors : Mark Robson,

French Army Colonel Raspeguy leads his paratroopers in battle against the Communist Viet Minh in Indochina and against Algerian guerrilla during the Algerian War.

Actors : Yvonne Mitchell, Lilli Palmer, Sylvia Syms, Ronald Lewis,
Directors : Ralph Thomas,

Catholic nuns risk their lives to help Jewish children in an Italian internment camp escape to Palestine during World War II.

Actors : James Cagney, Ward Costello, Dennis Weaver, Vaughn Taylor,
Directors : Robert Montgomery,

A semi-documentary dramatization of five weeks in the life of Vice Admiral William F. "Bull" Halsey, Jr., from his assignment to command the U.S. naval operations in the South Pacific to the Allied victory at Guadalcanal.

Actors : Virna Lisi, Anthony Quinn, Grégoire Aslan, Michael Redgrave,
Directors : Henri Verneuil,

In WW2, a Romanian Gentile peasant is denounced by the village gendarme and sent to a concentration camp for Jews where, due to an error, he's drafted into the SS.

Actors : Igor Ilyinsky, Larisa Golubkina, Yuriy Yakovlev, Nikolay Kryuchkov,
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 : Isao Tamagawa, Yumiko Nogawa, Tamio Kawaji, Shôichi Ozawa,
Directors : Seijun Suzuki,

In WW2 Manchuria, a prostitute grows to resent an abusive adjutant and falls in love with his aide.

Actors : Stefan Ciubotarasu, Victor Rebengiuc, György Kovács, Liviu Ciulei,
Directors : Liviu Ciulei,

In 1916 as an officer in the Habsburg Army ethnic Romanian Apostol Bologa is torn between remaining loyal to the Habsburgs or deserting to the Romanian Army across enemy lines.