War Movies
The Charge of the Light Brigade

The Charge of the Light Brigade

The Charge of the Light Brigade
IMDb: 6.6
139

During the Crimean War between Britain and Russia in the 1850s, a British cavalry division, led by the overbearing Lord Cardigan, engages in an infamously reckless strategic debacle against a…

Genre: Drama, History, War
Attack on the Iron Coast

Attack on the Iron Coast

Attack on the Iron Coast
IMDb: 5.5
89

The film depicts an account of Allied Combined Operations Headquarters commandos executing a daring raid on the German-occupied French coast during the Second World War. The story is based on…

Genre: War
Anzio

Anzio

Anzio
IMDb: 6
117

American troops land unopposed on Italian beaches during World War II, but instead of pushing on to Rome, they dig in and the Germans fight back ferociously.

Genre: Action, Drama, War
Kill Them All and Come Back Alone

Kill Them All and Come Back Alone

Kill Them All and Come Back Alone
IMDb: 6.2
100

During the American Civil War, a Confederate prisoner, Clyde McKay, attempts to steal a box of gold from a Union prison camp. He is aided by a group of prisoners…

Genre: Action, War, Western
The Young Warriors

The Young Warriors

The Young Warriors
IMDb: 5.6
93

In World War II, a tough sergeant is put in charge of a squad of young recruits and assigned to lead them on a mission against the Germans.

Genre: Drama, War
Westerplatte Resists

Westerplatte Resists

Westerplatte Resists
IMDb: 7
91

Westerplatte is a small peninsula at the entry to the Gdańsk Harbour. Before World War II, it functioned as a Polish ammunition depot in the Free City of Danzig. Its…

Genre: War
War and Peace, Part IV: Pierre Bezukhov

War and Peace, Part IV: Pierre Bezukhov

War and Peace, Part IV: Pierre Bezukhov
IMDb: 8.1
97

As Moscow is set ablaze by the retreating Russians, the Rostovs flee their estate, taking wounded soldiers with them, and unbeknownst to them, also Andrei. Pierre, dressed as a peasant,…

Genre: Drama, History, War
War and Peace, Part III: The Year 1812

War and Peace, Part III: The Year 1812

War and Peace, Part III: The Year 1812
IMDb: 8.3
82

In 1812, Napoleon’s Army invades Russia. Kutuzov asks Bolkonsky to join him as a staff officer, yet the prince requests a command in the field. Pierre sets out to watch…

Genre: Drama, History, War
The 25th Hour

The 25th Hour

The 25th Hour
IMDb: 7.4
121

A Romanian peasant fights to get back to his family after he’s imprisoned by the Nazis.The picture is based on real events. It includes Hungary’s government in collaboration with the…

Genre: Drama, War
Shock Troops

Shock Troops

Shock Troops
IMDb: 7
110

A French resistance group frees twelve captured soldiers from a German prison camp, but apparently there is an additional prisoner among them who is suspected of being an enemy spy.

Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Tobruk

Tobruk

Tobruk
IMDb: 6.4
107

In September 1942, the German Afrika Korps under Rommel have successfully pushed the Allies back into Egypt. A counter-attack is planned, for which the fuel dumps at Tobruk are a…

Genre: Drama, History, War
A Time for Killing

A Time for Killing

A Time for Killing
IMDb: 5.4
88

During the Civil War, Confederate soldiers escape from a Union prison and head for the Mexican border. Along the way, they kill a Union courier bearing the news that the…

Genre: War, Western
Hell in Normandy

Hell in Normandy

Hell in Normandy
IMDb: 4.8
90

The movie is set during World War II in the days just prior to the D-Day invasion. A special parachute unit is sent to destroy a German flame thrower installation…

Genre: Drama, TV Movie, War
Snow Treasure

Snow Treasure

Snow Treasure
IMDb: 6.5
95

It is 1940 in Norway, a neutral, peace-loving country that is invaded by Nazi Germany. A gang of Norwegian children do what Norwegian children like best – ski. They are…

Genre: Action, Drama, War
Japan’s Longest Day

Japan’s Longest Day

Japan’s Longest Day
IMDb: 7.7
157

Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the Allies for unconditional surrender. Minister of the…

Genre: Drama, History, War
The Night of the Generals

The Night of the Generals

The Night of the Generals
IMDb: 7.2
148

A German intelligence officer investigates a prostitute’s killing in Warsaw during World War II. He lands on three major Nazi generals as suspects, two of whom are also involved in…

Far from Vietnam

Far from Vietnam

Far from Vietnam
IMDb: 7.3
116

In seven different parts, Godard, Ivens, Klein, Lelouch, Marker, Resnais, and Varda show their sympathy for the North-Vietnamese army during the Vietnam War.

How I Won the War

How I Won the War

How I Won the War
IMDb: 5.5
109

An inept British WWII commander leads his troops to a series of misadventures in North Africa and Europe.

Genre: Comedy, War
Fort Yuma Gold

Fort Yuma Gold

Fort Yuma Gold
IMDb: 6
105

Near the end of the Civil War, an imprisoned Confederate raider is sent under guard to warn both his men and the Army at Fort Yuma that an impending rebel…

Genre: War, Western
First to Fight

First to Fight

First to Fight
IMDb: 5.7
97

Jack is the sole survivor of a Japanese attack on his squad at Guadalcanal. Because of his heroism and the fact that he is still alive, he becomes a Medal…

Genre: War
The Fastest Guitar Alive

The Fastest Guitar Alive

The Fastest Guitar Alive
IMDb: 4.3
87

Confederate super-spy Johnny and his partner in crime Steve travel to San Francisco near the end of the Civil War, masquerading, respectively, as a singer/guitar instructor and a magic-elixir vendor….

Triple Cross

Triple Cross

Triple Cross
IMDb: 6.3
140

A safecracker turns double agent during WWII.

Genre: Action, Adventure, War
The Dirty Dozen

The Dirty Dozen

The Dirty Dozen
IMDb: 7.7
149

12 American military prisoners in World War II are ordered to infiltrate a well-guarded enemy château and kill the Nazi officers vacationing there. The soldiers, most of whom are facing…

Genre: Action, Adventure, War
The Red and the White

The Red and the White

The Red and the White
IMDb: 7.5
90

In 1919, Hungarian Communists aid the Bolsheviks’ defeat of Czarists, the Whites. Near the Volga, a monastery and a field hospital are held by one side and then the other.

Genre: Drama, War
Beach Red

Beach Red

Beach Red
IMDb: 6.2
103

American troops storm ashore on a Japanese-held island and push inland while their enemies plan a counterattack in this look at warfare. Soldiers on both sides are haunted by memories…

Genre: Drama, War
What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?

What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?

What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?
IMDb: 6.6
116

A by-the-book Captain is ordered to capture a strategic village in Italy. The Italian soldiers are willing to surrender, if they can have a festival first. The lieutenant convinces the…

Genre: Comedy, War
War and Peace, Part II: Natasha Rostova

War and Peace, Part II: Natasha Rostova

War and Peace, Part II: Natasha Rostova
IMDb: 8
98

In the end of 1809, Natasha attends her first ball. Andrei falls in love with her and intends to marry her, but her father demands they wait. The prince travels…

The Sand Pebbles

The Sand Pebbles

The Sand Pebbles
IMDb: 7.5
196

Engineer Jake Holman arrives aboard the gunboat USS San Pablo, assigned to patrol a tributary of the Yangtze in the middle of exploited and revolution-torn 1926 China. His iconoclasm and…

Genre: Drama, War
King of Hearts

King of Hearts

King of Hearts
IMDb: 7.3
102

An ornithologist mistaken for an explosives expert is sent alone into a small French town during WWI to investigate a garbled report from the resistance about a bomb which the…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!

The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!

The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!
IMDb: 7
126

When a Soviet submarine gets stuck on a sandbar off the coast of a New England island, its commander orders his second-in-command, Lieutenant Rozanov, to get them moving again before…

Genre: Comedy, War
The Ashes

The Ashes

The Ashes
IMDb: 7.1
226

Set in the time of Napoleon wars, shows how the wars swept over the unfortunate Polish country at the beginning of the XIX-th century. Story revolves around the Polish legion…

Genre: Drama, History, War
Is Paris Burning?

Is Paris Burning?

Is Paris Burning?
IMDb: 6.8
173

Near the end of World War II, Gen. Dietrich von Choltitz receives orders to burn down Paris if it becomes clear the Allies are going to invade, or if he…

Genre: Drama, History, War
Closely Watched Trains

Closely Watched Trains

Closely Watched Trains
IMDb: 7.6
93

At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice longs to liberate himself from his virginity. Oblivious to the war and the resistance that surrounds him, this…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Lost Command

Lost Command

Lost Command
IMDb: 6.3
129

After being freed from a Vietnamese war prison, French Lt. Col. Pierre Raspeguy is sent to help quell resistance forces in Algeria. With the help of the Capt. Esclavier, who…

Genre: Action, War
Line of Demarcation

Line of Demarcation

Line of Demarcation
IMDb: 7.1
120

It is based on upon the memoir Mémoires d’un agent secret de la France libre et La Ligne de démarcation by Gilbert Renault under his pseudonym Colonel Rémy. A small…

Genre: Drama, War
Carriage to Vienna

Carriage to Vienna

Carriage to Vienna
IMDb: 7.7
76

A WW2 story of a young Austrian soldier running from the Russian army and a woman whom he forces to come along in order to save his wounded mate.

Genre: Drama, War
Khartoum

Khartoum

Khartoum
IMDb: 6.8
134

English General Charles George Gordon is appointed military governor of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan by the Prime Minister. Ordered to evacuate Egyptians from the Sudan, Gordon stays on to protect the people…

Judith

Judith

Judith
IMDb: 5.6
109

A Jewish woman is recruited to help track down a German commander who was her former husband.

Genre: Drama, War
I Deal In Danger

I Deal In Danger

I Deal In Danger
IMDb: 5.5
90

Compilation of the show Blue Light.

Genre: Drama, War
The Dacians

The Dacians

The Dacians
IMDb: 7.6
110

The great King of Dacia, Decebal (Decebalus), is disposed to make the ultimate sacrifice in order to keep the integrity of his people. His own son, Cotyso, is given to…

Genre: Drama, History, War