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150 Best War Movies of All Time

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By Isao Takahata, Robert Bresson, Michael Curtiz
| Rotten Tomatoes Verified
THE LATEST: In celebration of America’s 250th anniversary, we’re updating our list of the best war movies of all time (hoo-rah!). We’re adding such recent hits as Sisu, Pressure, Blitz, and the newly released Young Washington (in theaters everywhere!), bringing our total from 100 to 150! Check out the list below. From peacetime to frontlines, from coming home to left behind: Rotten Tomatoes presents the 150 best-reviewed war movies of all time, ranked by Certified Fresh films first.
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De laatste films & specials wekelijks in je mailbox?

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By Isao Takahata
| kinorotterdam.nl
Special Kaboom Anime Series Wonderfully energetic adventure story marked the first collaboration between director Isao Takahata and his protégé Hayao Miyazaki – later founders of Studio Ghibli. With its mythological source material (an epic of the indigenous Ainu) and socialist message (well received by 1968’s students), Horus became known as the first ‘grown-up’ anime.
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Letterboxd — Your life in film

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By Isao Takahata
| Letterboxd
GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES (adapt & dir by Isao Takahata, from a short story by Akiyuki Nosaka, Studio Ghibli, 89mns, Japan, 1988) *Part of Secret Movie Club's Top 1000. A ridiculous number we know. But there are easily 1000 must see movies in cinema. Probably many of thousands. But this number feels right to us. There are only a very few movies that can touch your soul so profoundly you might actually change because of them.
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