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War and Peace

1968 · directed by Sergei Bondarchuk · 422 min
23,794 feet · Prominence
977th of 24,106 films scored
Not coveredNo Rewatchables episode on file.

How this film scores

Draw57

Lifetime worldwide gross $14m, re-releases included; about $133m in 2026 money.

Rank2,385 of 11,051In 196813 of 45

How Draw works

Inflation-adjusted worldwide box office, on one global curve, and nothing else. It does not know whether a film was good.

Praise100

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics100 baseAwards30 signal → +0 lift

Oscars1 won International Feature Film1 nominated Production Design
How Praise works

Critics set the score; a tiered award record, Picture and Directing carrying the most weight, claims half the headroom above it. Praise is the verdict at the time; Legacy is the verdict since. This film is near critically unanimous and barely registers on awards, so there is little headroom for awards to claim. The score is the critics' verdict, nearly untouched.

Legacy38

Judged directly: Monumental Soviet epic, almost never watched.

Verdict38 of 100IMDb8.3 from 9kWikipedia13k views a monthAge58 years

On the listsCriterion Collectionevidence, not an input to the score
Scored beside it · 1,869 of 4,039 films judged

If it does not belong in this company, the number is wrong.

How Legacy works

Legacy is a judgment, not a formula. A film can be adored by critics and culturally quiet, or lightly reviewed and permanently lodged in the culture, and no arithmetic over IMDb numbers tells the difference. Every signal behind it keeps updating.

draw 57 praise 100 legacy 38averages 65, placing it at23,794 ft
How the three become one number

Added, not multiplied, so a film transcendent on one pillar and weak on another is not zeroed out. A compression curve then squeezes the top, because the seven greatest films ever made should not be four thousand feet apart.

Whose apex this is

▲ Sergei Bondarchuk▲ Vyacheslav Tikhonov▲ Ludmila Savelyeva▲ Viktor Stanitsyn

In these careers — elevation for this film

Sergei Bondarchuk19,186 ftVyacheslav Tikhonov18,479 ftLudmila Savelyeva18,425 ftViktor Stanitsyn17,849 ftMykola Hrynko17,628 ft