10 War Films Where Everyone Survives

10. Bridge Of Spies

One of Spielberg's best films of the 21st century, Bridge of Spies is a Cold War film all about the process of saving lives, going through bureaucratic systems and international negotiations to keep people alive at a time of global conflict. It's an incredibly heartfelt and intimate film about doing what you can to make the world a better place, even when it seems like the end is inevitable.

Tom Hanks plays an American lawyer during the Cold War, who is recruited to defend a KGB spy in an Oscar winning performance by Mark Rylance. Their attorney/client relationship and a growing trust between the two leads to Hanks being the lead American negotiator for a hostage exchange in Berlin, swapping Rylance for a crashed American pilot that the Russians have incarcerated.

Spielberg chooses to focus on the developing relationship between Hanks and Rylance’s characters, as mutual respect and admiration begins to define them even as their countries threaten war.

There is barely any violence, except for some torture sequences with the captive pilot, and no on screen deaths. There is more focus on Hanks’ sneezing than there is bloodshed, and that’s incredibly refreshing for the war genre.