Best War movies of 1965

Actors : Jim Hutton, Richard Harris, James Coburn, Charlton Heston,
Directors : Sam Peckinpah,

In 1864, due to frequent Apache raids from Mexico into the U.S., a Union officer decides to illegally cross the border and destroy the Apache, using a mixed army of Union troops, Confederate POWs, civilian mercenaries, and scouts.

Actors : Geraldine Chaplin, Rod Steiger, Julie Christie, Omar Sharif,
Directors : David Lean,

The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during the First World War and then the October Revolution.

Actors : Raffaella Carrà, Frank Sinatra, Trevor Howard, Brad Dexter,
Directors : Mark Robson,

An American POW leads a group of mainly British prisoners to escape from the Germans in WWII.

Actors : Robert Ryan, Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews, Robert Shaw,
Directors : Ken Annakin,

A dramatization of Nazi Germany's final Western Front counterattack of World War II.

Actors : Patricia Neal, Kirk Douglas, Tom Tryon, John Wayne,
Directors : Otto Preminger,

A naval officer reprimanded after Pearl Harbor is later promoted to rear admiral and gets a second chance to prove himself against the Japanese.

Actors : Simone Signoret, José Ferrer, Lee Marvin, Vivien Leigh,
Directors : Stanley Kramer,

A varied group of passengers boarding a ship bound for post-war Germany represents a microcosm of 1930s society.

Actors : Sean Connery, Harry Andrews, Ian Bannen, Alfred Lynch,
Directors : Sidney Lumet,

In a North African military prison during World War II, five new prisoners struggle to survive in the face of brutal punishment and sadistic guards.

Actors : Doug McClure, Glenn Corbett, James Stewart, Patrick Wayne,
Directors : Andrew V. McLaglen,

During the Civil War, a Virginia farmer and his family vow to remain neutral but one of the sons is captured by Union soldiers, sending the farmer to his rescue.

Actors : John Mills, George Peppard, Trevor Howard, Sophia Loren,
Directors : Michael Anderson,

Allied agents attempt to infiltrate the Nazis' rocket research site.

Actors : James Fox, Patrick O'Neal, Tom Courtenay, George Segal,
Directors : Bryan Forbes,

A fast-taking wheeler-dealer corporal in a Malaysian POW camp during WWII uses bribery and larceny to take de facto control of the camp from his senior officers.

Actors : Vladimir Privaltsev, Aleksandr Nazarov, Sergo Zakariadze, Aleksandr Lebedev,
Directors : Rezo Chkheidze,

During World War II, Georgy Makharashvili, an old peasant wine-grower, leaves his Georgian village and goes off to the front lines to find his son, a wounded soldier. But before the father ...

Actors : Claudia Cardinale, Renzo Ricci, Jean Sorel, Michael Craig,
Directors : Luchino Visconti,

Sandra returns to her childhood village to take care of family business, but her childhood memories and secrets soon overcome her.

Actors : Tatsuya Mihashi, Takeshi Katô, 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 : 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 : Pauline Murray, Sebastian Shaw, Bart Allison, Reginald Marsh,

In 1940, the Nazis invade Britain and transform it into a fascist state where some Britons collaborate and others resist.

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.

Actors : Sergey Bondarchuk, Viktor Stanitsyn, Lyudmila Saveleva, Vyacheslav Tikhonov,
Directors : Sergey Bondarchuk,

Napoleon's tumultuous relations with Russia including his disastrous 1812 invasion serve as the backdrop for the tangled personal lives of five aristocratic Russian families.

Actors : Bruno Cremer, Manuel Zarzo, Jacques Perrin, Pierre Fabre,
Directors : Pierre Schoendoerffer,

In Vietnam, 1954, a French platoon isolated behind enemy lines tries to come back. It is led by the inexperienced, idealistic sous-lieutenant Torrens, and by adjutant Willsdorf, a WWII veteran of the Werhmacht.

Actors : Sergey Nikonenko, Béla Barsi, Jurij Bodovszkij, András Kozák,
Directors : Miklós Jancsó,

In the final days of WWII, a seventeen-year-old boy wanders the countryside. He is captured by Soviet troops, then released, then captured once more - after he has donned a German uniform ...

Actors : Miroslav Machácek, Zdenka Procházková, Jirí Adamíra, Olga Scheinpflugová,
Directors : Zbynek Brynych,

A Jewish doctor in Nazi occupied Czechoslovakia risks his life and attempts to regain his identity by assisting a wounded political fugitive.