War films and military conflict movies ranked by total worldwide box office gross in millions of USD. Dunkirk (2017) and 1917 (2019) represent the modern benchmark for critically and commercially successful war filmmaking — with Christopher...
About: Highest-Grossing War Films of All Time
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War films and military conflict movies ranked by total worldwide box office gross in millions of USD. Dunkirk (2017) and 1917 (2019) represent the modern benchmark for critically and commercially successful war filmmaking — with Christopher Nolan's near-real-time evacuation epic and Sam Mendes' continuous-shot trench warfare film both demonstrating that technically innovative, historically grounded war films can achieve mainstream commercial success without the action-spectacle framing of earlier Hollywood war cinema.
Key Findings
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1917 (2019) leads with 385 in 2019.
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Average value in 2019: 257 · median: 257.
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2017 recorded the highest combined total across all categories.
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Gap in 2019: 1917 (2019) is 3× larger than Midway (2019).
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Highest-Grossing War Films of All Time
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Data Points
8
8 categories
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6 years
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Top Value
527
Dunkirk (2017)
Worldwide Box Office (Million USD) · 2017
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Metrics
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Worldwide Box Office (Million USD)
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Period
1979 – 2019
6 years of data
Category Rankings
Ranked by 2019 value · vs. 1979| # | Category | 2019 | 1979 | Change |
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| 🥇 | 1917 (2019) | 385 | — | — |
| 🥈 | Midway (2019) | 128 | — | — |
Statistical Summary — 2019
385
Maximum
128
Minimum
257
Average
257
Median
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