10 Great War Movies That Bombed At The Box Office

Hollywood erased a $160 million Viking war movie, butchered Ridley Scott's Crusade epic into nonsense, and forced John Woo to turn a Navajo code talker story into a Nicolas Cage shootout. These weren't just flops—they were sabotage jobs, and you're about to see every last one of them.

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0:00 - Intro
0:19 - Windtalkers (2002)
1:30 - Operation Finale (2018)
2:42 - War Dogs (2016)
3:38 - Hotel Rwanda (2004)
4:57 - Jarhead (2005)
5:57 - G.I. Jane (1997)
7:01 - Kingdom Of Heaven (2005)
8:41 - The Thin Red Line (1998)
9:56 - Stalingrad (1993)
10:55 - The 13th Warrior (1999)

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[timffhill]

13th Warrior was brilliant, really underrated

[almcdermid]

The 13th Warrior is one of my favorite films, but one look at the trailer illustrated why it bombed.

[billshepherd]

I like the 13th Warrior!
I never realized it flopped that bad.

[medievilzombie]

Saw the 13th Warrior when it came out - loved it! Seriously underrated movie - final battle and epilogue were perfect.

[andreaslermen]

Kingdom of Heaven is such a memorable movie in it's director's cut. A shame that it never made it to the cinema.
Stalingrad is more to the dark and gritty side of war movies. Just don't expect the smallest of happy ending.

[markothwriter]

13th Warrior is a classic. I don't care what the box office said.

[EastRD]

13th warrior still one of my favourite movies

[quinnfable]

Saw the thumbnail and came here to say the 13th warrior was incredible. Maybe masterpiece isn’t the right word but it’s solid cinema and criminally underrated.

[lr]

Stalingrad is one of the most memorable movies I have ever seen.

[BarryH-eg]

'Kelly's Heros' = a comedy that became one of the greatest war movies ever

[stanislavpetrov]

Come and See is regarded as one of the greatest war films ever made. But in 1985 when it came out in its native Russia, it actually tanked *hard* . The number one movie that year? Critically-derided American import, Convoy, a trucker movie featuring Kris Kristofferson that was released all the way back in 1978!

[DianeMaguire-svxj]

Wind talkers was underrated
13th Warrior was awesome

[Gringosaurus]

6:10 fun story: I went to navy Boot Camp in 97. Back then SEALs would come in and talk to you about joining the teams. He literally said he hates G.I. Jane and not a single thing in that film resembles seal training. He even said “it’s hell week not hell day” He had complete distain for that movie.

[unicron]

My brother fell asleep watching A Thin red line. I couldn't wait for it to end. I should have walked out.

[brianfondofbbq]

The directors cut of Kingdom of Heaven is one of the best films ever made. I watched the theater version when it came out and left thinking “this needs another hour”. Just happened to see it for sale one day and just love the movie.
13th Warrior is one of my favorite movie of my youth. I had no idea it was a box office bomb

[Ken-puz]

One night, someone tagged the Navajo Code Talker's monument at the University of Northern Arizona.
They shut down the town. They stopped traffic on the roads. They came over the radio asked for information. They demanded the culprit's immediate surrender.
I have never seen anything quite like this in America. It worked. They got the stupid kids that tagged the monument within hours of the crime.

[andrewjames]

The Beast - about a Russian tank team at the end of the Afghan war, great movie, underated to the point of unknown.

[bongfuhrer]

13th Warrior I liked very much. But as a Norseman i'm kind of biased. It was the first Hollywood(?) movie were they used Norwegian (and Scandinavian) actors to play the vikings. There's even a few scenes were the actors speak Norwegian. For me, that was amazing, since it was still the age where all nationalities in movies spoke English with a weird accent.

[xXLordoftheRingsXx]

Terrance Malick’s films are not everyone’s cup of tea. But when they connect with the viewer, they can be some of the most moving and immersive cinema ever made. The Thin Red Line will always be a masterpiece to me.

[jimflores]

13th Warrior is in my all time top 20 films of any kind. As is Kingdom of Heaven. Thin Red Line is in my top ten war films for sure.