War Movies
The Execution of Private Slovik

The Execution of Private Slovik

The Execution of Private Slovik
IMDb: 7.5
120

The story of Eddie Slovik, who was executed by the Army in 1945, the only American soldier to be executed for desertion since the Civil War.

Genre: Drama, War
The Bamboo House of Dolls

The Bamboo House of Dolls

The Bamboo House of Dolls
IMDb: 5.4
110

A nurse in a Japanese women’s POW camp during World War II masterminds an escapee.

Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, War
She Devils of the SS

She Devils of the SS

She Devils of the SS
IMDb: 4.1
95

In the last days of WW2, women are volunteering from all over Germany to serve in the front lines by having sex with the brave Nazi soldiers. But when they…

Genre: Drama, War
The Triple Echo

The Triple Echo

The Triple Echo
IMDb: 6.4
97

After her husband is captured during WWII, homesteader Alice is forced to maintain their land herself. One day, a wandering soldier named Barton stops by the farm and the pair…

Genre: Drama, War
The Spook Who Sat by the Door

The Spook Who Sat by the Door

The Spook Who Sat by the Door
IMDb: 7.1
102

A black man plays Uncle Tom in order to gain access to CIA training, then uses that knowledge to plot a new American Revolution.

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, War
Massacre in Rome

Massacre in Rome

Massacre in Rome
IMDb: 6.5
99

In the Nazi occupied city of Rome, an assault on an SS brigade draws retaliation from the military governship. “Massacre in Rome” is the true story of how this partisan…

Genre: Drama, History, War
The Naked Ape

The Naked Ape

The Naked Ape
IMDb: 5.2
85

Somewhat based on Desmond Morris’s fascinating book of pop anthropology, this partially animated satirical docudrama produced by Playboy Magazine publisher Hugh Hefner, traces the evolution of human kind and offers…

Genre: Animation, Comedy, War
Hitler: The Last Ten Days

Hitler: The Last Ten Days

Hitler: The Last Ten Days
IMDb: 6.5
106

Hitler: The Last Ten Days takes us into the depths of der Furher’s Berlin bunker during his final days. Based on the book by Gerhard Boldt, it provides a bleak…

Genre: Drama, History, War
Death Race

Death Race

Death Race
IMDb: 6.2
74

In the North African desert in World War II, a crippled American fighter plane that is unable to take off tries to evade and destroy a pursuing Nazi tank.

Genre: TV Movie, War
The Blockhouse

The Blockhouse

The Blockhouse
IMDb: 5.8
93

A group of Slave workers, drafted by the Nazis to help construct their coastal defences in 1944, are trapped in an underground bunker when the Allies land at Normandy on…

Genre: Drama, War
Young Winston

Young Winston

Young Winston
IMDb: 6.7
149

This historical drama is an account of the early life of British politician Winston Churchill, including his childhood years, his time as a war correspondent in Africa, and culminating with…

The New One-Armed Swordsman

The New One-Armed Swordsman

The New One-Armed Swordsman
IMDb: 7.2
102

Lei Li lost his right-arm in a sword duel with the master of a martial arts school, long ago. Now, he is able to defend himself well with just his…

Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Slaughterhouse-Five

Slaughterhouse-Five

Slaughterhouse-Five
IMDb: 6.8
100

Billy Pilgrim, a veteran of the Second World War, finds himself mysteriously detached from time, so that he is able to travel, without being able to help it, from the…

Our Miss Fred

Our Miss Fred

Our Miss Fred
IMDb: 5.4
92

Danny La Rue stars in this 1970s drag comedy as Fred Wimbush, a Shakespearean actor who is drafted into WWII and is appearing in a camp show in France when…

Genre: Comedy, War
The Heroes

The Heroes

The Heroes
IMDb: 4.9
N/A

Four soldiers and a beautiful Greek nurse, thrown together in North Africa during World War II, team up to pull off a heist of two-million pounds in boxes marked “plasma.”

Genre: Adventure, Comedy, War
Agent #1

Agent #1

Agent #1
IMDb: 5.5
97

Jerzy Szajnowicz-Ivanov, the son of a Polish mother and a Russian father, raised in Greece, reports to the Carpathian Brigade in the spring of 1941. While the Poles are wary…

Genre: Action, History, War
Zeppelin

Zeppelin

Zeppelin
IMDb: 6.1
101

The outbreak of World War I places Scots officer Geoffrey Richter-Douglas in an uncomfortable position. Although his allegiance is to Britain, his mother was from an aristocratic Bavarian family, and…

Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
The Third Part of the Night

The Third Part of the Night

The Third Part of the Night
IMDb: 7.3
102

Set during the Nazi occupation of Poland, in which Michał witnesses the murder of his mother, wife and child. He is hurled into a life that literally is not his…

Genre: Drama, Horror, War
Von Richthofen and Brown

Von Richthofen and Brown

Von Richthofen and Brown
IMDb: 6
97

Spend time on both sides of World War I, partly with German flying ace Baron Manfred Von Richthofen (John Phillip Law), aka “The Red Baron,” and his colorful “flying circus”…

Genre: Action, Drama, War
Raid on Rommel

Raid on Rommel

Raid on Rommel
IMDb: 5.5
99

Captain Foster plans on raiding German-occupied Tobruk with hand- picked commandos, but a mixup leaves him with a medical unit led by a Quaker conscientious objector.

Genre: Action, War
Nicholas and Alexandra

Nicholas and Alexandra

Nicholas and Alexandra
IMDb: 7.2
189

Tsar Nicholas II, the inept last monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overthrown and exiled to Siberia with his family.

Genre: Drama, History, War
Red Psalm

Red Psalm

Red Psalm
IMDb: 6.7
86

Set in the 1890s on the Hungarian plains, a group of farm workers go on strike in which they face harsh reprisals and the reality of revolt, oppression, morality and…

Genre: Drama, Music, War
Murphy’s War

Murphy’s War

Murphy’s War
IMDb: 6.7
107

Murphy is the sole survivor of his crew, that has been massacred by a German U-Boat in the closing days of World War II. He is rescued, and ends up…

Genre: Drama, War
Macbeth

Macbeth

Macbeth
IMDb: 7.4
141

Scotland, 11th century. Driven by the twisted prophecy of three witches and the ruthless ambition of his wife, warlord Macbeth, bold and brave, but also weak and hesitant, betrays his…

Genre: Drama, War
Johnny Got His Gun

Johnny Got His Gun

Johnny Got His Gun
IMDb: 7.8
112

A young American soldier, rendered in pseudocoma from an artillery shell from WWI, recalls his life leading up to that point.

Genre: Drama, War
Dad’s Army

Dad’s Army

Dad’s Army
IMDb: 6.9
95

Dad’s Army was a 1971 feature film based on the BBC television sitcom Dad’s Army. Directed by Norman Cohen, it was filmed between series three and four and was based…

Genre: Comedy, War
The Birdmen

The Birdmen

The Birdmen
IMDb: 6.6
74

During WWII an American soldier sent to Norway to help with the escape of a scientist working on the atomic bomb for the Germans. Before they can escape they are…

The Beguiled

The Beguiled

The Beguiled
IMDb: 7.2
105

Offbeat Civil War drama in which a wounded Yankee soldier, after finding refuge in an isolated girls’ school in the South towards the end of the war, becomes the object…

Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Adiós, Sabata

Adiós, Sabata

Adiós, Sabata
IMDb: 5.9
104

Set in Mexico under the rule of Emperor Maximilian I, Sabata is hired by the guerrilla leader Señor Ocaño to steal a wagonload of gold from the Austrian army. However,…

Genre: Action, War, Western
Agnus Dei

Agnus Dei

Agnus Dei
IMDb: 6.4
84

Allegory of the suppression of the 1919 revolution and the advent of fascism in Hungary; in the countryside, a unit of the revolutionary army spares the life of father Vargha,…

Genre: History, War
You Can’t Win ‘Em All

You Can’t Win ‘Em All

You Can’t Win ‘Em All
IMDb: 5.7
97

During the 1922 Turkish Civil War, two Americans and a group of foreign mercenaries offer their services to a local Turkish governor who hires them as guards for a secret…

Which Way to the Front?

Which Way to the Front?

Which Way to the Front?
IMDb: 4.6
96

Brendan Byers III, one of the richest men in America, has been pronounced 4-F and can’t serve his country in its war against Hitler. Byers does not take “No” for…

Genre: Comedy, War
The White Sun of the Desert

The White Sun of the Desert

The White Sun of the Desert
IMDb: 7.7
83

The setting is the east shore of the Caspian Sea (today’s Turkmenistan) where the Red Army soldier Fyodor Sukhov has been fighting the Civil War in Russian Asia for a…

Waterloo

Waterloo

Waterloo
IMDb: 7.3
134

After defeating France and imprisoning Napoleon on Elba, ending two decades of war, Europe is shocked to find Napoleon has escaped and has caused the French Army to defect from…

Genre: Drama, History, War
Underground

Underground

Underground
IMDb: 5.2
100

An American intelligence agent attempts to kidnap a top Nazi general.

Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Tora! Tora! Tora!

Tora! Tora! Tora!

Tora! Tora! Tora!
IMDb: 7.5
144

In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. “Tora! Tora! Tora!”, named…

Genre: Drama, History, War
Too Late the Hero

Too Late the Hero

Too Late the Hero
IMDb: 6.6
145

A WWII film set on a Pacific island. Japanese and allied forces occupy different parts of the island. When a group of British soldiers are sent on a mission behind…

Genre: Action, Drama, War
Patton

Patton

Patton
IMDb: 7.9
172

“Patton” tells the tale of General George S. Patton, famous tank commander of World War II. The film begins with Patton’s career in North Africa and progresses through the invasion…

Genre: Drama, History, War
Atlantic Wall

Atlantic Wall

Atlantic Wall
IMDb: 5.8
107

1944. Léon Duchemin owns a restaurant with his sister. His clients are Germans, Résistance et black marketeers. Léon unwillingly joins the Résistance when a British pilot is shot down and…

Genre: Adventure, Comedy, War
Michael the Brave

Michael the Brave

Michael the Brave
IMDb: 8.4
203

An epic fresco depicting the reign (1593-1601) of Mihai Pătrașcu (better known as “Mihai Viteazul” / “Michael the Brave”), the famous prince who united the three provinces: Transalpine Vallachia, Transylvania…

Genre: Drama, History, War