Top 10: Free War Movies on Fancast

War movies are a tradition, and we’ve got a slew of great ones right here on Fancast that you can watch for free in their entirety, right here and right now. From the World Wars to the Napoleonic Wars, from John Wayne to Steve McQueen, we’ve got your dramatized history covered.

1. The Longest Day [watch the movie]
A balanced account of the invasion of Normandy from both the Allied and Axis perspectives, with a massive cast featuring John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Robert Mitchum, Richard Burton, Red Buttons, Peter Lawford, Roddy McDowall, Rod Steiger, Robert Wagner and Sean Connery.

2. The Sand Pebbles
The legendary Steve McQueen scored his only Oscar-nomination for this Best Picture 1966 nominee about a life aboard the USS San Pablo, charged with protecting American interests along the Yangtze River as a civil war threatens to erupt in 1926 China. McQueen, of course, is a maverick as the only guy on the boat that doesn’t farm his duties off to the locals, preferring to handle his own work. Also starring Richard Crenna, Candice Bergen, Mako and Richard Attenborough.

3. Von Ryan’s Express [watch the movie]
Frank Sinatra is an American soldier in World War II leading Trevor Howard and a pack of Allied troops in their efforts to escape an Italian P.O.W. camp by hijacking a German train through Italy in hopes of reaching Switzerland.

4. Halls of Montezuma [watch the movie]
Richard Widmark is Lt. Carl Anderson, a no-nonsense Marine leading his outnumbered squad on missions to capture Japanese soldiers to interrogate them about their experimental rocket base. Also starring Jack Palance, Robert Wagner, Karl Malden and Neville Brand, with Jack Webb as a chain-smoking war correspondent.

5. Guadalcanal Diary [watch the movie]
In a stunningly quick turnaround time, this 1943 film details the battle in the Pacific theater of WWII only a year after the first significant Allied victory over the Japanese actually happened. Starring Anthony Quinn, William Bendix, Richard Jaeckel and Lionel Stander.

6. The Desert Rats [watch the movie]
The international perspective features Richard Burton as a Scottish commando put in charge of an Australian regiment fighting the crucial battles against Rommel’s (James Mason) forces in North Africa during the Siege of Tobruk.

7. The Man Who Never Was
A true tale of Allied skullduggery that diverted the Nazis from the invasion of Sicily, where bogus invasion plans were planted on a dead body passed off as a spy and allowed to wash up on shore. Dash cunning of them! The plan, however, might have a spanner thrown in the works by the dead man’s girlfriend (Gloria Grahame).

8. The Blue Max
George Peppard is a German fighter pilot named Bruno Stachel, who is determined to win the Blue Max - the highest honour in aviation (it’s a British film, so we’ll add the ‘u’ to honor). To do so, he must shoot down 20 enemy aircrafts. His quest puts him at odds with some of his fellow soldiers, who believe he cares more about earning the medal than protecting his allies and winning the war. When General Von Klugermann (James Mason) meets Stachel, he decides the man has potential in propaganda, and begins to exploit his exploits. Even Stachel’s affair with Von Klugermann’s wife Kaeti (Ursula Andress) doesn’t derail his agenda.

9. Behind Enemy Lines
the story of Lt. Chris Burnett (Owen Wilson), a Navy pilot frustrated with his lack of action who winds up getting more than he bargained for once his jet is shot down over the Balkans, stranding him alone in hostile territory. His superior officer, Admiral Reigert (Gene Hackman) then proceeds to defy orders and protocol to mount a rescue mission for his wayward soldier.

10. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
For this, we head back to the Napoleonic Wars, where Captain Jack Aubrey (Russell Crowe) of the British frigate HMS Surprise is stalking the vastly more powerful French warship Acheron off the coast of South America, while forging an unlikely bond with the ship’s naturalist surgeon (Paul Bettany) who eschews the violence of Aubrey’s profession.