| Heartbreak Ridge | Clint Eastwood | United States |
| Ran | Akira Kurosawa | France, Japan |
| Invasion U.S.A. | Joseph Zito | United States |
| Battle of Moscow | Yuri Ozerov | Soviet Union, East Germany, Germany, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Vietnam |
| A Year of the Quiet Sun | Krzysztof Zanussi | Germany, United States, Poland, Italy, West Germany |
| Uncommon Valor | Ted Kotcheff | United States |
| High Road to China | Brian G. Hutton | United Kingdom, United States, Yugoslavia |
| Teheran 43 | Aleksandr Alov, Vladimir Naumov | France, Soviet Union, Switzerland |
| Southern Comfort | Walter Hill | United States |
| Das Boot | Wolfgang Petersen | West Germany |
| Starfall | Igor Talankin | Soviet Union |
| The Battle of Guningtou | Chang Tseng-chai | Taiwan |
| Pogonya v stepi | Abdulla Karsakbayev | Soviet Union |
| 1941 | Steven Spielberg | United States |
| The Message | Moustapha Akkad, Andrew Marton | Libya, Morocco |
| Fourth Height | Igor Voznesensky | Soviet Union |
| Front Beyond the Front Line | Igor Gostev | Soviet Union |
| The Ascent | Larisa Shepitko | Soviet Union |
| Midway | Jack Smight | United States |
| Front Without Flanks | Igor Gostev | Soviet Union |
| The Dam Busters | Michael Anderson | United Kingdom |
| At Home Among Strangers | Nikita Mikhalkov | Soviet Union |
| Under en steinhimmel | Igor Maslennikov, Knut Andersen | Soviet Union, Norway |
| The Bamboo House of Dolls | Kuei Chih-hung | British Hong Kong |
| Commander of the Lucky "Pike" | Boris Volchek | Soviet Union |
| Hot Snow | Gabriel Egiazarov | Soviet Union |
| The Dawns Here Are Quiet | Stanislav Rostotsky | Soviet Union |
| Dauria | Viktor Tregubovich | Soviet Union |
| Officers | Vladimir Rogovoy | Soviet Union |
| The Headquarters | Matti Kassila | Finland |
| Catch-22 | Mike Nichols | United States |
| Kelly's Heroes | Brian G. Hutton | United States, Yugoslavia |
| White Sun of the Desert | Vladimir Motyl | Soviet Union |
| Djamila | Irina Poplavskaya, Sergei Yutkevich | Soviet Union |
| On the Way to Berlin | Mikhail Yershov | Soviet Union |
| At War as at War | Viktor Tregubovich | Soviet Union |
| Battle of the Last Panzer | José Luis Merino | Spain, Italy |
| The Green Berets | Mervyn LeRoy, John Wayne, Ray Kellogg | United States |
| Submarine X-1 | William A. Graham | United Kingdom |
| Goodbye, Boys | Mikhail Kalik | Soviet Union |
| War and Peace | Sergei Bondarchuk | Soviet Union |
| While Defending the Front Line | Yuly Fayt | Soviet Union |
| Angels with Dirty Faces | Michael Curtiz | United States |
| The Earth's Span | Andrei Smirnov | Soviet Union |
| Captain Newman, M.D. | David Miller | United States |
| Seven Winds | Stanislav Rostotsky | Soviet Union |
| The Alamo | John Wayne | United States |
| The Great Dictator | Charlie Chaplin | United States |