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Best War Movies of the 2000s, Ranked by IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
29 war films from the 2000s are in our catalog; the 29 best are ranked below. Top of the list is The Pianist (2002), at 8.5 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 7.3. Biggest split between audiences and critics: 300, 7.6 on IMDb against 52 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Pianist '2002 | Drama / War | 8.5 | 95% | 85 | 8.4 | Roman Polanski |
| 2 | Inglourious Basterds '2009 | Drama / Thriller / War | 8.4 | 89% | 69 | 8.2 | Quentin Tarantino |
| 3 | Pan's Labyrinth '2006 | Fantasy / Drama / War | 8.2 | 95% | 98 | 7.8 | Guillermo del Toro |
| 4 | Downfall '2004 | Drama / War | 8.2 | 90% | 82 | 7.9 | Oliver Hirschbiegel |
| 5 | Hotel Rwanda '2004 | Drama / War | 8.1 | 91% | 79 | 7.7 | Terry George |
| 6 | The Last Samurai '2003 | Drama / Action / War | 7.8 | 65% | 55 | 7.6 | Edward Zwick |
| 7 | 300 '2007 | Action / War | 7.6 | 61% | 52 | 7.2 | Zack Snyder |
| 8 | Black Hawk Down '2001 | Action / War | 7.7 | 77% | 74 | 7.4 | Ridley Scott |
| 9 | The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas '2008 | Drama / War | 7.7 | 65% | 55 | 7.8 | Mark Herman |
| 10 | The Hurt Locker '2008 | Drama / Thriller / War | 7.5 | 96% | 95 | 7.2 | Kathryn Bigelow |
| 11 | Letters from Iwo Jima '2006 | Action / Drama / War | 7.8 | 91% | 89 | 7.5 | Clint Eastwood |
| 12 | Enemy at the Gates '2001 | War | 7.5 | 53% | 53 | 7.4 | Jean-Jacques Annaud |
| 13 | Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World '2003 | Drama / War | 7.5 | 85% | 81 | 7.2 | Peter Weir |
| 14 | The Patriot '2000 | War / Drama | 7.2 | 61% | 63 | 7.2 | Roland Emmerich |
| 15 | Kingdom of Heaven '2005 | Drama / Action / War | 7.3 | 39% | 63 | 7.1 | Ridley Scott |
| 16 | We Were Soldiers '2002 | Action / War | 7.2 | 63% | 65 | 7.1 | Randall Wallace |
| 17 | Tropic Thunder '2008 | Comedy / War / Action | 7.1 | 82% | 71 | 6.7 | Ben Stiller |
| 18 | Cold Mountain '2003 | War / Romance | 7.2 | 69% | 73 | 6.9 | Anthony Minghella |
| 19 | Valkyrie '2008 | Drama / Thriller / War | 7.1 | 62% | 56 | 7.0 | Bryan Singer |
| 20 | Flags of Our Fathers '2006 | War / Drama | 7.1 | 76% | 79 | 6.9 | Clint Eastwood |
| 21 | Brothers '2009 | Drama / Thriller / War | 7.1 | 63% | 58 | 7.3 | Jim Sheridan |
| 22 | Defiance '2008 | Drama / War | 7.1 | 58% | 58 | 6.8 | Edward Zwick |
| 23 | Rambo '2008 | Action / Thriller / War | 7.0 | 38% | 46 | 6.7 | Sylvester Stallone |
| 24 | Jarhead '2005 | Drama / War | 7.0 | 60% | 58 | 6.7 | Sam Mendes |
| 25 | Tears of the Sun '2003 | War / Action / Drama | 6.6 | 34% | 48 | 6.9 | Antoine Fuqua |
| 26 | King Arthur '2004 | War / Action / Drama | 6.3 | 30% | 46 | 6.3 | Antoine Fuqua |
| 27 | Pearl Harbor '2001 | Drama / War | 6.3 | 24% | 44 | 6.9 | Michael Bay |
| 28 | The Men Who Stare at Goats '2009 | Comedy / War | 6.2 | 51% | 54 | 6.0 | Grant Heslov |
| 29 | Alexander '2004 | War / Action / Drama / Romance | 5.6 | 15% | 40 | 6.0 | Oliver Stone |
Our catalog covers roughly the 8,800 most-rated films on TMDB, so lesser-known titles may be missing. Order uses a confidence-weighted IMDb score so a perfect score from a handful of votes does not beat a well-established classic; the scores shown are the raw ones.
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Directors on this list
Roman Polanski Quentin Tarantino Guillermo del Toro Edward Zwick Zack Snyder Ridley Scott Kathryn Bigelow Clint Eastwood Jean-Jacques Annaud Peter Weir Roland Emmerich Ben Stiller
Actors on this list
Adrien Brody Thomas Kretschmann Brad Pitt Don Cheadle Tom Cruise Ken Watanabe Gerard Butler Josh Hartnett Ewan McGregor Vera Farmiga Jeremy Renner Anthony Mackie