| Apocalypse Now | Francis Ford Coppola | United States |
| Shadows of a Hot Summer | František Vláčil | Czechoslovakia |
| March or Die | Dick Richards | United Kingdom |
| Destiny | Yevgeny Matveyev | Soviet Union |
| Aty-baty, shli soldaty... | Leonid Bykov | Soviet Union |
| Midway | Jack Smight | United States |
| Operation Daybreak | Lewis Gilbert | United States, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia |
| Nights and Days | Jerzy Antczak | Poland |
| The Dam Busters | Michael Anderson | United Kingdom |
| At Home Among Strangers | Nikita Mikhalkov | Soviet Union |
| Sokolovo | Otakar Vávra | Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia |
| The Bamboo House of Dolls | Kuei Chih-hung | British Hong Kong |
| El principio | Gonzalo Martínez Ortega | Mexico |
| Hot Snow | Gabriel Egiazarov | Soviet Union |
| Avoir 20 ans dans les Aurès | René Vautier | France |
| A Soldier Came Back from the Front | Nikolai Gubenko | Soviet Union |
| Kelly's Heroes | Brian G. Hutton | United States, Yugoslavia |
| Rosolino Paternò, soldato... | Nanni Loy | Italy, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia |
| Patton | Franklin J. Schaffner | United States |
| White Sun of the Desert | Vladimir Motyl | Soviet Union |
| Castle Keep | Sydney Pollack | United States, Yugoslavia |
| Che! | Richard Fleischer | United States |
| Scorched Earth | Knut Andersen | Norway |
| Battle of the Last Panzer | José Luis Merino | Spain, Italy |
| Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell | Melvin Frank | United States |
| Two Comrades Were Serving | Yevgeni Karelov | Soviet Union |
| Moabite Notebook | Leonid Kvinikhidze | Soviet Union |
| Risk More Than Death | Knut Bohwim | Norway |
| The Red and the White | Miklós Jancsó | Soviet Union, Hungary |
| Tobruk | Arthur Hiller | United States |
| On Thin Ice | Damir Vyatich-Berezhnykh | Soviet Union |
| Von Ryan's Express | Mark Robson | United States |
| The Adventures of Werner Holt | Joachim Kunert | East Germany |
| Father of a Soldier | Revas Chkheidze | Georgian SSR |
| Intramuros | Eddie Romero | Philippines |
| The Alive and the Dead | Aleksandr Stolper | Soviet Union |
| Naganiacz | Czesław Petelski, Ewa Petelska | Polish People's Republic |
| Captain Newman, M.D. | David Miller | United States |
| Conquered City | Joseph Anthony, Mario Chiari | United States, Italy |
| The Longest Day | Gerd Oswald, Darryl F. Zanuck, Ken Annakin, Bernhard Wicki | United States |
| The Immoral Moment | Jacques Doniol-Valcroze | France |
| Seven Winds | Stanislav Rostotsky | Soviet Union |
| Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse | Vincente Minnelli | United States, Mexico |
| Peace to Him Who Enters | Aleksandr Alov, Vladimir Naumov | Soviet Union |
| Battle at Bloody Beach | Herbert Coleman | United States |
| Five Days, Five Nights | Heinz Thiel, Lev Arnshtam | Soviet Union, East Germany, Germany |
| Exodus | Otto Preminger | United States |
| Surrounded | Arne Skouen | Norway |