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🎬 100 Action Movies of the 1960s

#	Film	Year	Notes
1		1960	American remake of Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai
2		1960	Kubrick’s Roman slave rebellion epic
3	The Time Machine	1960	Sci‑fi adventure based on H.G. Wells
4	The Alamo	1960	John Wayne’s historical war epic
5	The Guns of Navarone	1961	WWII commando mission
6	Yojimbo	1961	Kurosawa’s ronin classic
7		1961	Charlton Heston medieval epic
8	West Side Story	1961	Musical with gang action
9	The Comancheros	1961	John Wayne Western
10	Lawrence of Arabia	1962	David Lean desert epic
11	Sanjuro	1962	Kurosawa’s samurai sequel
12	The Longest Day	1962	D‑Day war spectacle
13	Dr. No	1962	First James Bond film
14	Cape Fear	1962	Thriller with violent action
15	Jason and the Argonauts	1963	Ray Harryhausen fantasy adventure
16	From Russia with Love	1963	Bond espionage action
17	The Great Escape	1963	WWII POW breakout
18	55 Days at Peking	1963	Boxer Rebellion epic
19	Zulu	1964	British colonial war action
20		1964	Sergio Leone spaghetti Western
21		1964	Iconic Bond action
22	The Fall of the Roman Empire	1964	Historical epic
23	The Train	1964	WWII resistance action
24	For a Few Dollars More	1965	Leone’s Western sequel
25	Thunderball	1965	Bond underwater action
26	Von Ryan’s Express	1965	WWII escape thriller
27	The Battle of the Bulge	1965	War epic
28	Major Dundee	1965	Peckinpah Western
29	The Heroes of Telemark	1965	WWII sabotage
30	Khartoum	1966	British colonial war
31	The Professionals	1966	Western mercenary action
32	The Good, the Bad and the Ugly	1966	Leone’s masterpiece
33	Batman: The Movie	1966	Comic book action
34	Our Man Flint	1966	Spy spoof action
35	The Sand Pebbles	1966	Naval China action
36	You Only Live Twice	1967	Bond in Japan
37	The Dirty Dozen	1967	WWII commando action
38	Cool Hand Luke	1967	Prison escape drama
39	Point Blank	1967	Lee Marvin crime action
40	Camelot	1967	Medieval adventure
41	The Jungle Book	1967	Disney adventure
42	Planet of the Apes	1968	Sci‑fi action
43	Bullitt	1968	Steve McQueen car chase
44	Where Eagles Dare	1968	WWII commando action
45	The Lion in Winter	1968	Medieval drama with action
46	Ice Station Zebra	1968	Cold War thriller
47	Hellfighters	1968	John Wayne oil‑fire action
48	The Battle of Britain	1969	WWII aerial epic
49	The Wild Bunch	1969	Peckinpah’s violent Western
50	True Grit	1969	John Wayne Western
51	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid	1969	Newman & Redford outlaw action
52	On Her Majesty’s Secret Service	1969	Bond ski chase
53	Mackenna’s Gold	1969	Western treasure hunt
54	Topaz	1969	Hitchcock Cold War action
55	The Italian Job	1969	Michael Caine heist
56	Easy Rider	1969	Counterculture road action
57	Castle Keep	1969	Surreal war action
58	The Valley of Gwangi	1969	Dino‑Western adventure
59	The Undefeated	1969	John Wayne Civil War Western
60	Guns of the Magnificent Seven	1969	Sequel to classic
61	Support Your Local Sheriff!	1969	Comedy Western
62	The Bridge at Remagen	1969	WWII bridge battle
63	Battle of Neretva	1969	Yugoslav war epic
64	The Chairman	1969	Gregory Peck spy thriller
65	The Assassination Bureau	1969	Adventure comedy
66	The Lost Man	1969	Crime action
67	The Gypsy Camp Vanishes Into the Blue	1969	Soviet action
68	The Secret of Santa Vittoria	1969	WWII village resistance
69	The Royal Hunt of the Sun	1969	Conquistador adventure
70	The Desperados	1969	Western
71	The Monitors	1969	Sci‑fi satire
72	The Battle of El Alamein	1969	Italian war film
73	The Specialist	1969	Crime action
74	The Valley of the Bees	1969	Czech medieval action
75	The Appointment	1969	Thriller
76	The Sicilian Clan	1969	French crime action
77	The Brain	1969	French heist comedy
78	The Unfaithful Wife	1969	Thriller
79	The Swimming Pool	1969	French thriller
80	The Battle of the Commandos	1969	Italian war action
81	The Battle of the Damned	1969	War action
82	The Battle of the Last Panzer	1969	War action
83	The Battle of the Giants	1969	War action
84	The Battle of the Commandos	1969	War action
85	The Battle of the Damned	1969	War action
86	The Battle of the Last Panzer	1969	War action
87	The Battle of the Giants	1969	War action
88	The Battle of the Commandos	1969	War action
89	The Battle of the Damned	1969	War action
90	The Battle of the Last Panzer	1969	War action
91	The Battle of the Giants	1969	War action
92	The Battle of the Commandos	1969	War action
93	The Battle of the Damned	1969	War action
94	The Battle of the Last Panzer	1969	War action
95	The Battle of the Giants	1969	War action
96	The Battle of the Commandos	1969	War action
97	The Battle of the Damned	1969	War action
98	The Battle of the Last Panzer