Film · 1965 · Films · 1960s
War and Peace
Scored from 68 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1960s (1,929 peers).
Summary
Sergei Bondarchuk's four-part Soviet adaptation of Tolstoy's novel follows Russian aristocratic society from 1805 through Napoleon's invasion of 1812. Pierre Bezukhov (played by Bondarchuk), the awkward illegitimate son who unexpectedly inherits his father's fortune, drifts into a ruinous marriage with Hélène Kuragina; his friend Prince Andrei Bolkonsky (Vyacheslav Tikhonov) looks for meaning in soldiering; and the young countess Natasha Rostova (Lyudmila Savelyeva) comes of age between them. Their salons, duels and disappointments are cut against Austerlitz, Borodino and the burning of Moscow, staged with tens of thousands of Soviet Army troops as extras.
War and Peace is a 1965 drama, romance and war film. It runs 7h 11m. It plays in Russian. Its country of origin is listed as the Soviet Union.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 294 of whom clear the calibration test. 1,928 other films from the 1960s form the cohort it is ranked inside. Only 68 of its IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 68 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this title against every other title those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — a 7/10 from a hard grader sits well above their average, while a 7/10 from a generous grader sits below theirs. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a raw average.
- Global percentile
- Where War and Peace lands against every title we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — titles of the same format released in the same decade. A 1970s film is judged against 1970s films, not against last year's streaming series. Ranked against Films · 1960s (1,929 titles).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each title keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 68.
Cohort: Films · 1960s
