10 War Films Where The Villain Kills The Hero

10. Pearl Harbor (2001)

In a tale of two main characters - best friends Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker - we follow their complicated love triangle before the bombing of Pearl Harbor by Japanese forces in December 1941.

Putting their love-lives aside, the pair of USAAC fighter pilots spring into action in the defence of the ship fleet, commandeering a P-40 airplane and launching a counter-attack.

The USA declares war on Japan the following day, and Danny and Rafe are set to be deployed in the war effort from California. Instead, they volunteer for a secret mission to bomb Tokyo using specially modified aircraft.

The bombing run is successful but their plane crashes in Japan before it can reach allied China.

They are held at gunpoint by a group of Japanese soldiers, and after a valiant effort to escape Rafe seems all but dead after he runs out of ammunition.

Instead, Danny throws himself into the volley of oncoming bullets, saving his best friend but losing his own life in the process.