| Where Once We Walked | Peter Lindholm | Finland |
| War of the Arrows | Kim Han-min | South Korea |
| Burnt by the Sun 2: The Citadel | Nikita Mikhalkov | Russia |
| Brothers | Jim Sheridan | United States |
| Kandahar | Major Ravi | India |
| Skyline | Greg Strause, Colin Strause | United States |
| 71: Into the Fire | Lee Jae-han | South Korea |
| Chicogrande | Felipe Cazals | Mexico |
| Caterpillar | Kōji Wakamatsu | Japan |
| Mulan | Jingle Ma | People's Republic of China, United States |
| Attack on Leningrad | Aleksandr Buravskiy | United Kingdom, Russia |
| Six Sisters in the War | Ping Wang | People's Republic of China |
| A Woman in Berlin | Max Färberböck | Germany, Poland |
| Mongol | Sergei Bodrov | Russia, Germany, Kazakhstan |
| Alexander | Igor Kalyonov | Russia |
| The Warlords | Peter Chan | People's Republic of China |
| Tali-Ihantala 1944 | Sakari Kirjavainen, Åke Lindman | Finland |
| American Gangster | Ridley Scott | United States |
| The Wind That Shakes the Barley | Ken Loach | France, United Kingdom, Germany, Ireland, Spain, Belgium, Italy, Switzerland |
| The Blossoming of Kamiya Etsuko | Kazuo Kuroki | Japan |
| Valley of the Wolves: Iraq | Serdar Akar | Turkey |
| On the Mountain of Tai Hang | Shen Dong, Chen Jian, Wei Lian | People's Republic of China |
| The Great Raid | John Dahl | United States |
| Brothers | Susanne Bier | United Kingdom, Norway, Sweden, Denmark |
| King Arthur | Antoine Fuqua | United Kingdom, Ireland, United States |
| Taegukgi | Kang Je-gyu | South Korea |
| Once Upon a Time in a Battlefield | Lee Joon-ik | South Korea |
| Bless the Woman | Stanislav Govorukhin | Russia |
| The Cuckoo | Aleksandr Rogozhkin | Russia |
| Enigma | Michael Apted | United Kingdom, Germany, United States, Netherlands |
| Black Hawk Down | Ridley Scott | United States |
| Charlotte Gray | Gillian Armstrong | United Kingdom, Germany, Australia |
| Captain Corelli's Mandolin | John Madden | France, United Kingdom, United States |
| In August of 1944 | Michail Ptashuk | Russia, Belarus |
| Enemy at the Gates | Jean-Jacques Annaud | France, United Kingdom, Germany, Ireland, United States |
| U-571 | Jonathan Mostow | France, United States |
| Abandoned Houses, Empty Homes | Lauri Törhönen | Finland |
 The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc | Luc Besson | France |
| Tea with Mussolini | Franco Zeffirelli | United Kingdom, Italy |
| Legionnaire | Peter MacDonald | United States |
| Carla's Song | Ken Loach | United Kingdom, Germany, Spain |
| The Truce | Francesco Rosi | France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland |
| Screamers | Christian Duguay | Canada, Japan, United States |
| Underground | Emir Kusturica | France, Germany, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia |
| In the Army Now | Daniel Petrie | United States |
| Rob Roy | Michael Caton-Jones | United States |
| Burnt by the Sun | Nikita Mikhalkov | France, Russia |
| Swing Kids | Thomas Carter | United States |