The best Michael Bates’s war movies

Michael Bates

Michael Bates

04/12/1920- 11/01/1978
We present our ranking of the best Michael Bates’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Michael Bates.

Dunkirk

Dunkirk
7.1/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 20/03/1958
  • Character: Froome
A British Corporal in France finds himself responsible for the lives of his men when their officer is killed. He has to get them back to Britain somehow. Meanwhile, British civilians are being dragged into the war with Operation Dynamo, the scheme to get the French and British forces back from the Dunkirk beaches. Some come forward to help, others were less willing.

Patton

Patton
7.9/10
  • Genre: DramaHistoryWar
  • Release: 25/01/1970
  • Character: Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery
"Patton" tells the tale of General George S. Patton, famous tank commander of World War II. The film begins with patton's career in North Africa and progresses through the invasion of Germany and the fall of the Third Reich. Side plots also speak of Patton's numerous faults such his temper and habit towards insubordination.

Battle of Britain

Battle of Britain
6.9/10
In 1940, the Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle against the might of the Luftwaffe for control of the skies over Britain, thus preventing the Nazi invasion of Britain.

Oh! What a Lovely War

Oh! What a Lovely War
7/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusicWar
  • Release: 10/03/1969
  • Character: Drunk Lance Corporal
Satire about the First World War based on a stage musical of the same name, portraying the "Game of War" and focusing mainly on the members of one family (last name Smith) who go off to war. Much of the action in the movie revolves around the words of the marching songs of the soldiers, and many scenes portray some of the more famous (and infamous) incidents of the war, including the assassination of Duke Ferdinand, the Christmas meeting between British and German soldiers in no-mans-land, and the wiping out by their own side of a force of Irish soldiers newly arrived at the front, after successfully capturing a ridge that had been contested for some time.

Carrington V.C.

Carrington V.C.
6.9/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 09/12/1954
  • Character: Major Broke-Smith
Major Charles Carrington (David Niven), is arrested for taking £125 from the base safe, he also face two other charges that could finish his distinguished service career. He decides to act on his own defence at his court martial hearing, his argument being that he is owed a lot of money from the army for his various postings that have cost him out of his own pocket. To further complicate the proceedings, Carrington alleges he told his superior, the very disliked Colonel Henniker, that he was taking the money from the safe. A mans career, his marriage, and quite a few reputations, all hang in the balance.

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