Making any great war movie requires immense talent.

The best and most revered war movies have marvelous talent behind the camera.

Here are impressive war films ranked by their incredible direction.

Tommy crawling on a beach surrounded by smoke and other soldiers in Dunkirk

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Schindler’s Listis themost compelling Best Picture win of the 1990s.

Overall, the film is a glorious example of everything coming together to make a perfect war film.

Thisclassic black-and-white war epicdoes not sugarcoat its intended purpose: war brings out the worst in people.

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The acting and dialog are sharp and spot-on.

It follows a young recruit, Pvt.

The Thin Red Line cast

Image via 20th Century Fox

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a Super-imposed shot of a soldier over a graveyard in All Quiet on the Western Front

Image via Universal Pictures

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A little girl in a red coat walking alone in Schindler’s List

Image via Universal Pictures

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Lace Cpl. Schofield in a trench, surrounded by debris and other soldiers, looking up in ‘1917’

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George C. Scott as General Patton saluting the American troops while standing against a backdrop of the American flag.

Image via 20th Century Fox

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Kirk Douglas holding a gun and blowing a whistle on a poster for Paths of Glory (1958)

Image via United Artists

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Two soldiers standing in front of a bridge in the daylight in The Bridge on the River Kwai

Image via Columbia Pictures

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Elias (Willem Dafoe) raises his arms and falls to his knees as he is shot from behind in the jungle, in Platoon

Image via Orion Pictures

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Apocalypse Now

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