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Number 1: The Great Escape | The 1963 World War II epic is based on an escape by British Commonwealth prisoners of war from a German POW camp during World War II, starring Steve McQueen, James Garner, and Richard Attenborough. The film is based on Paul Brickhill's 1950 book of the same name, a non-fiction first-hand account of the mass escape from Stalag Luft III in Sagan (Poland), in the province of Lower Silesia, Nazi Germany.
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Number 2: Saving Private Ryan | The 1998 film set during the Invasion of Normandy in World War II was directed by Steven Spielberg. It follows United States Army Rangers Captain John H. Miller (Tom Hanks) and a squad as they search for a paratrooper, Private First Class James Francis Ryan (Matt Damon), who is the last-surviving brother of four servicemen. It was nominated for 11 Academy Awards.
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Number 4: Apocalypse Now | The 1979 Vietnam War epic was directed by Francis Ford Coppola and stars Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall and Martin Sheen. It was nominated for eight Academy Awards. (Chas Gerretsen/Nederlands Fotomuseum/Zoetrope Corp. via AP)
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Number 5: Platoon | The 1986 Vietnam War film was written and directed by Oliver Stone, starring Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, and Charlie Sheen. Platoon won the Academy Award for Best Picture of 1986; it also won Best Director for Oliver Stone.
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Number 6: The Deer Hunter | The 1978 Vietnam War drama co-written and directed by Michael Cimino about a trio of Russian-American steelworkers whose lives are changed forever after they fight in the Vietnam War. The film won five Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director for Cimino, and Best Supporting Actor for Christopher Walken. It also marked Meryl Streep's very first Academy Award nomination (for Best Supporting Actress).
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Number 7: The Dirty Dozen | The 1967 film was directed by Robert Aldrich, released by MGM, and starring Lee Marvin. The film was nominated for four Academy Awards, winning in the category Best Sound Effects.
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Number 8: Glory | The 1989 Civil War film directed by Edward Zwick and starring Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Cary Elwes and Morgan Freeman. The film was nominated for five Academy Awards and won three, including Denzel Washington for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Private Trip.
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Number 9: Patton | Actor George C. Scott played legendary U.S. Gen. George Patton in the 1970 film that was added to the U.S. National Film Registry in 2003.
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Number 10: The Hurt Locker | The 2008 film was directed by Kathryn Bigelow and stars Jeremy Renner, The Hurt Locker received widespread acclaim and won six Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Bigelow won the award for Best Director, making it the only film by a female director to win in either category.
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Number 11: Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb | The 1964 film directed by Stanley Kubrick and starring Peter Sellers satirizes the Cold War fears of a nuclear conflict between the USSR and the US.
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Number 12: Black Hawk Down | Directed by Ridley Scott in 2001, it is based on the 1999 non-fiction book of the same name by Mark Bowden, chronicling the events of a 1993 raid in Mogadishu by the U.S. military aimed at capturing faction leader Mohamed Farrah Aidid, and the ensuing firefight, known as the Battle of Mogadishu.
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Number 13: Inglourious Basterds | This 2009 film set during World War II starring Brad Pitt and Christoph Waltz is one of director Quentin Tarantino's highest-grossing movies. (Courtesy Universal Studios Home Entertainment)
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Number 14: The Longest Day | This 1962 film depicting the D-Day invasion of Normandy, France, won two Academy Awards.
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Number 15: 1917 | This image released by Universal Pictures shows George MacKay, center, in a scene from the 2019 film "1917," directed by Sam Mendes. (François Duhamel/Universal Pictures via AP)
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Number 16. The Thin Red Line | This 1998 film was directed by Terrence Malick, and stars Sean Penn, Jim Caviezel and Nick Nolte
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Number 17: Full Metal Jacket | The 1987 film was directed by Stanley Kubrick and received an Oscar nomination for best adapted screenplay.
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Number 18: Schindler's List | Directed and co-produced by Steven Spielberg the 1993 film was the recipient of seven Academy Awards (out of twelve nominations), including Best Picture.
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Number 19: M*A*S*H | Donald Sutherland (left) and Elliott Gould on a lobby card for M*A*S*H, directed in 1970 by Robert Altman. (Courtesy 20th Century-Fox Home Entertainment)
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Number 20: Fury | This photo released by Sony Pictures Entertainment shows, from left, Shia LaBeouf as Boyd "Bible" Swan, Logan Lerman as Norman, Brad Pitt as Sgt. Don “Wardaddy” Collier, Michael Pena as Trini "Gordo" Garcia, and Jon Bernthal as Grady "Coon-Ass" Travis, in Columbia Pictures' 2014 film, "Fury." (AP Photo/Sony Pictures Entertainment, Giles Keyte)
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President Trump joked on May 21, 2020, that he wouldn't mind sending a few reporters into space during a press conference Thursday outside the White House. (screengrab via CBS News)
