| American Gangster | Ridley Scott | United States |
| 1612 | Vladimir Khotinenko | Russia |
| Pan's Labyrinth | Guillermo del Toro | Spain |
| Promise | Ilkka Vanne | Finland |
| Kingdom of Heaven | Ridley Scott | United Kingdom, Germany, United States |
| Brothers | Susanne Bier | United Kingdom, Norway, Sweden, Denmark |
| Alexander | Oliver Stone | France, United Kingdom, Germany, United States, Italy, Netherlands |
| Downfall | Oliver Hirschbiegel | Germany, Italy, Austria |
| King Arthur | Antoine Fuqua | United Kingdom, Ireland, United States |
| Taegukgi | Kang Je-gyu | South Korea |
| Tears of the Sun | Antoine Fuqua | United States |
| Windtalkers | John Woo | United States |
| Captain Corelli's Mandolin | John Madden | France, United Kingdom, United States |
| Enemy at the Gates | Jean-Jacques Annaud | France, United Kingdom, Germany, Ireland, United States |
| The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc | Luc Besson | France |
| Legionnaire | Peter MacDonald | United States |
| The English Patient | Anthony Minghella | United Kingdom, United States |
| Screamers | Christian Duguay | Canada, Japan, United States |
| Pretty Village, Pretty Flame | Srđan Dragojević | Federal Republic of Yugoslavia |
| In the Army Now | Daniel Petrie | United States |
| Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin | Jiří Menzel | France, United Kingdom, Russia, Czech Republic, Italy |
| Geronimo: An American Legend | Walter Hill | United States |
| Burnt by the Sun | Nikita Mikhalkov | France, Russia |
| Swing Kids | Thomas Carter | United States |
| Captain America | Albert Pyun | United States, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia |
| Dances with Wolves | Kevin Costner | United States |
| Glory | Edward Zwick | United States |
| The Hunt for Red October | — | United States |
| Henry V | Kenneth Branagh | United Kingdom |
| Pereprava | Viktor Turov, Marek Brodzki | Soviet Union, Poland |
| Ran | Akira Kurosawa | France, Japan |
| The Assault | Fons Rademakers | Netherlands |
| Red Dawn | John Milius | United States |
| Les Morfalous | Henri Verneuil | France, Tunisia |
| A Special Unit | Vladimir Ivanov, Georgy Shchukin | Soviet Union |
| A Year of the Quiet Sun | Krzysztof Zanussi | Germany, United States, Poland, Italy, West Germany |
| The Turning Point | Frank Beyer | East Germany |
| Teheran 43 | Aleksandr Alov, Vladimir Naumov | France, Soviet Union, Switzerland |
| The Imperial Japanese Empire | Toshio Masuda | Japan |
| Front in the Rear of the Enemy | Igor Gostev | Soviet Union, East Germany, Germany, Czechoslovakia |
| Stripes | Ivan Reitman | United States |
| Southern Comfort | Walter Hill | United States |
| Escape to Victory | John Huston | Hungary, United States |
| Hit Back | Mikhail Tumanishvili | Soviet Union |
| Squadron of Flying Hussars | Nikita Khubov, Stanislav Rostotsky | Soviet Union |
| Corps of General Shubnikov | Damir Vyatich-Berezhnykh | Soviet Union |
| The Sea Wolves | Andrew V. McLaglen | United Kingdom, United States, Switzerland |
| The Battle of Guningtou | Chang Tseng-chai | Taiwan |