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1. Top Gun: Maverick (2022)
PG-13 | 130 min | Action, Drama
After thirty years, Maverick is still pushing the envelope as a top naval aviator, but must confront ghosts of his past when he leads TOP GUN's elite graduates on a mission that demands the ultimate sacrifice from those chosen to fly it.
Director: Joseph Kosinski | Stars: Tom Cruise, Jennifer Connelly, Miles Teller, Val Kilmer
Votes: 699,305 | Gross: $718.73M
2. Sicario (2015)
R | 121 min | Action, Crime, Drama
An idealistic FBI agent is enlisted by a government task force to aid in the escalating war against drugs at the border area between the U.S. and Mexico.
Director: Denis Villeneuve | Stars: Emily Blunt, Josh Brolin, Benicio Del Toro, Jon Bernthal
Votes: 477,430 | Gross: $46.89M
3. The Tomorrow War (2021)
PG-13 | 138 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A family man is drafted to fight in a future war where the fate of humanity relies on his ability to confront the past.
Director: Chris McKay | Stars: Chris Pratt, Yvonne Strahovski, J.K. Simmons, Betty Gilpin
Votes: 228,196
4. Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018)
PG-13 | 147 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
Ethan Hunt and his IMF team, along with some familiar allies, race against time after a mission gone wrong.
Director: Christopher McQuarrie | Stars: Tom Cruise, Henry Cavill, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg
Votes: 378,526 | Gross: $220.16M
5. Skyfall (2012)
PG-13 | 143 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
James Bond's loyalty to M is tested when her past comes back to haunt her. When MI6 comes under attack, 007 must track down and destroy the threat, no matter how personal the cost.
Director: Sam Mendes | Stars: Daniel Craig, Javier Bardem, Naomie Harris, Judi Dench
Votes: 731,570 | Gross: $304.36M
6. Lone Survivor (2013)
R | 121 min | Action, Biography, Drama
Marcus Luttrell and his team set out on a mission to capture or kill notorious Taliban leader Ahmad Shah, in late June 2005. Marcus and his team are left to fight for their lives in one of the most valiant efforts of modern warfare.
Director: Peter Berg | Stars: Mark Wahlberg, Taylor Kitsch, Emile Hirsch, Ben Foster
Votes: 306,925 | Gross: $125.10M
7. The Final Countdown (1980)
PG | 103 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
A modern aircraft carrier is thrown back in time to 1941 near Hawaii, just hours before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
Director: Don Taylor | Stars: Kirk Douglas, Martin Sheen, Katharine Ross, James Farentino
Votes: 26,984 | Gross: $16.65M
8. Devotion (II) (2022)
PG-13 | 139 min | Action, Biography, Drama
A pair of U.S. Navy fighter pilots risk their lives during the Korean War and become some of the Navy's most celebrated wingmen.
Director: J.D. Dillard | Stars: Jonathan Majors, Glen Powell, Christina Jackson, Thomas Sadoski
Votes: 28,001
9. Memphis Belle (1990)
PG-13 | 107 min | Action, Drama, War
In 1943, the crew of a B-17 based in the UK prepares for its 25th and final bombing mission over Germany before returning home to the USA.
Director: Michael Caton-Jones | Stars: Matthew Modine, Eric Stoltz, Tate Donovan, D.B. Sweeney
Votes: 30,561 | Gross: $27.44M
10. Act of Valor (2012)
R | 110 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
An elite team of Navy SEALs embark on a covert mission to recover a kidnapped CIA agent.
Directors: Mike McCoy, Scott Waugh | Stars: Alex Veadov, Roselyn Sanchez, Nestor Serrano, Rorke Denver
Votes: 71,821 | Gross: $70.01M
11. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II (2022 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Crime
Task Force 141 faces its greatest threat yet - a newly aligned menace with deep, yet unknown, connections.
Director: Jeffrey Keith Negus | Stars: Alain Mesa, Barry Sloane, Ramon Fernandez, Claudia Doumit
Votes: 3,039
12. Twelve O'Clock High (1949)
Not Rated | 132 min | Drama, War
A tough-as-nails general (Gregory Peck as General Savage) takes over a B-17 bomber unit suffering from low morale and whips them into fighting shape.
Director: Henry King | Stars: Gregory Peck, Hugh Marlowe, Gary Merrill, Millard Mitchell
Votes: 15,816
13. Monsters: Dark Continent (2014)
R | 119 min | Action, Drama, Horror
Monsters' reign continues to spread throughout the Earth.
Director: Tom Green | Stars: Johnny Harris, Sam Keeley, Joe Dempsie, Sofia Boutella
Votes: 11,169
14. Strategic Air Command (1955)
Approved | 112 min | Action, Drama, War
An ex-pilot and current baseballer is recalled into the U.S. Air Force and assumes an increasingly important role in Cold War deterrence.
Director: Anthony Mann | Stars: James Stewart, June Allyson, Frank Lovejoy, Barry Sullivan
Votes: 4,086
15. The Dam Busters (1955)
Approved | 105 min | Drama, History, War
Drama based on the attempt by the RAF to destroy six dams in Germany during World War II.
Director: Michael Anderson | Stars: Richard Todd, Michael Redgrave, Ursula Jeans, Basil Sydney
Votes: 11,383
16. The War Lover (1962)
Approved | 105 min | Adventure, Drama, War
In 1943, while stationed in Britain, arrogant Captain Buzz Rickson is in command of a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bomber, but his recklessness is endangering everyone around him.
Director: Philip Leacock | Stars: Steve McQueen, Robert Wagner, Shirley Anne Field, Gary Cockrell
Votes: 2,120
17. All Through the Night (1942)
Approved | 107 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Runyonesque Broadway gamblers turn patriotic when they stumble onto a cell of Nazi saboteurs.
Director: Vincent Sherman | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Conrad Veidt, Karen Verne, Jane Darwell
Votes: 4,931
18. Magellan (2017)
103 min | Action, Adventure, Mystery
After NASA picks up a trio of mysterious signals from within our own solar system, astronaut Roger Nelson is dispatched on a multi-year solo mission aboard the Magellan spacecraft to investigate the sources.
Director: Rob York | Stars: Brandon Ray Olive, K. Danor Gerald, Whitney Palmer, Matthew Mercer
Votes: 1,874
19. Objective, Burma! (1945)
Approved | 142 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A platoon of special ops are tasked to parachute into the remote Burmese jungle and destroy a strategic Japanese radar station, but getting out isn't as easy.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Errol Flynn, James Brown, William Prince, George Tobias
Votes: 5,550
20. Operation Daybreak (1975)
PG | 118 min | Drama, History, War
In 1942, Britain sends a group of British-trained Czech commandos to Prague to assassinate SS-General Reinhard Heydrich, head of the Nazi security services.
Director: Lewis Gilbert | Stars: Timothy Bottoms, Martin Shaw, Joss Ackland, Nicola Pagett
Votes: 2,394
21. Angel of the Skies (2013)
Not Rated | 98 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
War is declared and Britain must take action against Nazi Germany if Europe is going to be saved from its ruthless clutches.
Director: Christopher-Lee dos Santos | Stars: Nicholas Van Der Bijl, Andre Frauenstein, Brad Backhouse, Ryan Dittmann
Votes: 837
22. Return to Castle Wolfenstein (2001 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
In 1945, the Nazis are planning to resurrect Heinrich I. After being imprisoned, it is up to O.S.A. soldier B.J. Blazkowicz to foil the operation.
Directors: Drew Markham, Brandon James | Stars: James Alcroft, Steve Blum, Cam Clarke, Jonathan David Cook
Votes: 2,712
23. OSS 117: Mission for a Killer (1965)
99 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
Agent OSS 117 is dispatched to Rio de Janeiro to investigate an organization developing a mysterious drug which is capable of completely controlling anyone injected with it.
Director: André Hunebelle | Stars: Frederick Stafford, Mylène Demongeot, Raymond Pellegrin, Perrette Pradier
Votes: 435
24. The Cockleshell Heroes (1955)
Approved | 97 min | Action, Drama, War
During World War II, German ships are "safely" docked upriver at Bordeaux, but the British send a team of kayakers to attack them.
Director: José Ferrer | Stars: José Ferrer, Trevor Howard, Dora Bryan, Christopher Lee
Votes: 1,998
25. The Venetian Affair (1966)
Approved | 89 min | Action, Thriller
Former CIA man, Bill Fenner, now a downbeat, loner journalist, is sent to Venice to investigate the shock suicide bombing by an American diplomat at a peace conference.
Director: Jerry Thorpe | Stars: Robert Vaughn, Elke Sommer, Felicia Farr, Karlheinz Böhm
Votes: 538
26. Fighter Squadron (1948)
Approved | 96 min | Action, War
During World War II, an insubordinate fighter pilot finds the shoe on the other foot when he's promoted.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Edmond O'Brien, Robert Stack, John Rodney, Tom D'Andrea
Votes: 1,027
27. Medal of Honor: Frontline (2002 Video Game)
T | Action, Adventure, War
Take on the role of Lieutenant James Patterson. You are the Allied force's most reliable military special agent. From storming the front lines of Normandy Beach as an infantryman to becoming an elite intel officer.
Stars: Andreas Beckett, Antoinette Boers, Steve Bulen, Neil Dickson
Votes: 1,766
28. Medal of Honor: Allied Assault (2002 Video Game)
T | Action, Adventure, War
Medal of Honor: Allied Assault drops you into World War II as American Lieutenant Mike Powell. Using anything at your disposal, you will fight your way from Arzew to Omaha Beach, and then straight into the heart of the Third Reich.
Stars: William Bassett, Steve Blum, Steve Bulen, Cam Clarke
Votes: 2,349
29. Medal of Honor (1999 Video Game)
T | Action, Adventure, War
Take the role of Lieutenant Jimmy Patterson, a former C-47 Skytrain pilot in the Air Transport Command during World War II.
Stars: William Morgan Sheppard, Charles de Vries, Kai Wulff, George Salden
Votes: 1,940
30. Orders to Kill (1958)
93 min | Drama, Thriller, War
American agent faces an engrossing moral dilemma when he is parachuted into France to eliminate a suspected traitor in the French Resistance.
Director: Anthony Asquith | Stars: Eddie Albert, Paul Massie, Lillian Gish, James Robertson Justice
Votes: 738
31. Medal of Honor: Rising Sun (2003 Video Game)
T | Action, Adventure, War
When the Japanese declare war on the United States of America with the attack on Pearl Harbour, Corporal Joseph D. "Joe" Griffin fights through the Pacific whilst on a mission to rescue his captured brother.
Stars: Dale Dye, Nick Jameson, Yuri Lowenthal, Mako
Votes: 1,185
32. Valkyria Chronicles (2008 Video Game)
T | Action, Adventure, Drama
The Empire's Imperial Army has invaded Gallia. A young man, Lt. Welkin Gunther, the son of the late Gen. Belgen Gunther, forced himself to enlist in the militia and forming Squad 7, making ... See full summary »
Directors: Gary Dunn, Shuntaro Tanaka, Takaharu Terada, Takeshi Ozawa | Stars: Dave Wittenberg, Colleen O'Shaughnessey, Fred Tatasciore, Hedy Burress
Votes: 569
33. Fighter Attack (1953)
Approved | 80 min | War
World War II action in Italy involving fighter pilot's last sortie, and the help he receives from Italian partisans in an effort to complete it.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Sterling Hayden, J. Carrol Naish, Joy Page, Kenneth Tobey
Votes: 200
34. Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault (2004 Video Game)
T | Action, Adventure, War
You play through the eyes of soldiers in various engagements of the Pacific Theatre of World War II.
Directors: Mo Davoudian, Ali Donovan | Stars: Dave Wittenberg, Will Friedle, Bart Tangredi, Chris Cox
Votes: 1,279
35. Medal of Honor: Underground (2000 Video Game)
T | Action, Adventure, War
A young girl named Manon Batiste becomes an active member of the French Resistance, after Nazi Germany occupied her country during World War II.
Stars: Christian Aubert, Charles de Vries, Charles Fathy, Guido Föhrweißer
Votes: 769
36. Target for Today (1944)
Not Rated | 91 min | Documentary, History, War
Documentary about one bombing mission over Germany by the American Eighth Air Force, from the initial planning of the mission thru its final completion, with all of its intricacies from beginning to end.
Director: William Keighley
Votes: 84
37. Medal of Honor: Allied Assault - Spearhead (2003 Video Game)
T | Action, Adventure, War
Sergeant Jack Barnes will participate in the liberation of France and Belgium on the way to Berlin - center of the Nazi regime.
Stars: Gary Oldman, Robert Biehn, Kenneth Danziger, Guido Föhrweißer
Votes: 815
38. Sky Commando (1953)
Approved | 69 min | Drama, War
During the Korean War, two junior officers discuss their colonel's dour reputation dating back to his WW2 service in the bomber and reconnaissance command.
Director: Fred F. Sears | Stars: Dan Duryea, Frances Gifford, Mike Connors, Michael Fox
Votes: 81
39. BIONICLE: Toa Mahri (2007)
2 min | Animation, Short
The six Toa Mahri descend to the ocean depths to recover the lost Mask of Life.
Directors: Christian Faber, Jan Kjær | Stars: Jonathan Lowth, Tony Wedgwood
Votes: 57
40. Second Sight (2004 Video Game)
T | Action, Adventure, Mystery
John Vattic is awoken from a coma in a secret hi-tech medical facility with a wiped mind and a few bits of memories. Armed with his paranormal and psionic powers he goes off to unravel his past, and destroy the military conspiracy.
Stars: Andrew Lawson, Tom Clarke Hill, Doug Cockle, Lynsey Beauchamp
Votes: 255
41. B-17: The Flying Fortress (1987 Video)
30 min | Short
Stars: Edward Mulhare, Theodore S. Drew, Bud Kingsbury, Tom Landry
Votes: 5
42. Ready on Arrival (1966)
28 min | Documentary, Short
We are getting a look at U.S. Navy's aircraft carriers, their attack aircraft and the men who man them.
Director: William Joyce | Star: Alexander Scourby
43. Crusader: No Regret (1996 Video Game)
T | Action, Sci-Fi
You're a renegade Silencer out to settle a score with the powerful World Economic Consortium. Only your instincts, agility and firepower can get you through in one piece to the ultimate ... See full summary »
Director: Steve Hemphill | Stars: Rick Porter, Alex Morris, Kevin Page, Woody Skaggs
Votes: 69
45. Origin (IV) (2018)
13 min | Short, Sci-Fi
An astronaut from an interstellar colony returns to Earth to discover why they lost contact.
Director: David Parrella | Stars: Jonathan Flanders, Mitchell Horn, Hannah Rose Barfoot, Denali Huff
Votes: 28
46. Die Another Day: Equipment Briefing (2003 Video)
6 min | Short
Stars: Pierce Brosnan, John Cleese, Toby Stephens, Rick Yune
Votes: 8
47. S.C.I.: Special Criminal Investigation (1989 Video Game)
E | Action, Adventure, Crime
Truth and Justice are the by-words of the Bureau of Special Criminal Investigations. Now you are to embark on the most important case of your life. The Mayor's daughter has been kidnapped ... See full summary »
Director: Atsushi Iwaoka
Votes: 16
50.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
Force of Nature
(1993)
TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
While searching for a missing Federation medical transport, the Enterprise is accosted by two scientists from a nearby planet who claim that cumulative exposure to warp energy is weakening the fabric of space.
Director: Robert Lederman | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 2,774