14th ANNIVERSARY!!!

 On this day in 2010, I started this blog.  The first post was an introduction to the blog. It began as a mission to review Military History magazine's 100 Greatest War Movies. It took a lot longer than I expected because I soon added reviews of movies not on the list. I have since finished the 100 and have started my own 100 Best War Movies. I have loved every minute of it and have now reviewed over 700 movies. For this anniversary, I thought I would do something different. I have seen so many deaths on celluloid over the 14 years. Here is a list of the war movies that had the most deaths.

War Movie Body Counts

            There are sites that count the number of people killed in movies.  I thought you might be interested in which war movies made the top 100.  You would think the genre would have a good number of movies on the list, but of the top 100, only 22 are what I would call war movies.  For instance, “The Wild Bunch” is #31 with 145 deaths, but I don’t consider it a war movie.  And I do not consider the Lord of the Rings movies to be war movies.  “LOTR: The Return of the King” is number 1 with 836.  Here are the war movies that made the list:

2.  Kingdom of Heaven -  610  (Balian kills 40)

3.  300  -  600  (Leonidas kills 30)

4.  Troy  -  572  (Achilles kills 35)

5.  The Last Samurai  -  558  (Algren kills 41)

10.  We Were Soldiers  -  305  (Moore kills 15)

11.  Starship Troopers -  256  (128 humans and 128 bugs)  (Rico kills 15)

12.  Saving Private Ryan  -  247  (Miller kills 9)

20.  Braveheart  -  184  (Wallace kills 33)

23.  Last of the Mohicans  -  172  (Hawkeye kills 16)

26.  Pearl Harbor  -  153  (Rafe kills 7)

33.  Zulu  -  140

34.  Kelly’s Heroes  -  140

41.  The Patriot  -  123  (Martin kills 21)

44.  Operation Delta Force  -  120

47.  Red Dawn (1984)  -  118

51.  Hot Shots!  Part Deux  -  111  (Topper kills 103)

58.  Platoon Leader  -  106

62.  Where Eagles Dare  -  100  (Schaffer kills 73)

62.  Missing in Action  -  100  (Braddock kills 59)

69.  Flags of Our Fathers  -  93

70.  Delta Force 2  -  92

76.  Letters from Iwo Jima  -  84

80.  Team America  -  78

85.  Star Wars: A New Hope  -  75  (Han Solo kills 13)

95.  Rambo 2  - 67  (Rambo kills 51)

CHARACTER COUNTS

(#1 is Ogami Itto of Lone Wolf and Cub:  White Heaven in Hell  -  150)

4.  Topper (Hot Shots!  Part Deux)  -  103

12.  Schaffer (Where Eagles Dare)  -  73

18.  Braddock  (Missing in Action)  -  59

28.  Rambo  (Rambo 2)  -  51

40.  Algren  (The Last Samurai)  -  41

41.  Balain (Kingdom of Heaven)  -  40

52.  Achilles  (Troy)  -  35

54.  Wallace (Braveheart)  -  33

64.  Leonidas  (300)  -  30

77.  Katsumato  (Last Samurai)  -  26

77.  Smith  (Where Eagles Dare)  -  26

87.  Astinos  (Last Samurai)  -  25

87.  Ujio  (Last Samurai)  -  23

Source:    http://www.moviebodycounts.com/Top-Movies.htm