- HD 1080
- Runtime: 91m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: en
- Country: United States of America, Canada
- Director: John Frankenheimer
- Stars: Roy Scheider, Jürgen Prochnow, Lara Harris, Harry Dean Stanton, Dale Dye
- keywords: germany, cold war, eastern germany, border, czechoslovakia
- Production_studio: Aurora Production, Kodiak Films, The Cannon Group
- Slogan: Two proud heroes with no one left to fight... But each other.
- providers: MGM Plus
- The The Fourth War is featured in the top rankings of 1990
- #78 in Top Thriller Movies of 1990
Cold War adversaries Col. Jack Knowles and his Russian counterpart, Col. Valachev, are stationed on opposite sides of the German-Czech border. Both men are responsible for a group of troops in their remote settings, and both have been shaped by their combat experiences and a shared aversion to their superiors' ways of doing things. After a defector is killed, things escalate into a full-fledged battle with serious geopolitical ramifications.