War Movies
The Great Escape

The Great Escape

The Great Escape
IMDb: 8.2
173

The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocate them to a high-security ‘escape-proof’ camp to sit out…

Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
IMDb: 8.3
95

After the insane General Jack D. Ripper initiates a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union, a war room full of politicians, generals and a Russian diplomat all frantically try to…

Genre: Comedy, War
The Descent Upon Drvar

The Descent Upon Drvar

The Descent Upon Drvar
IMDb: 6.2
101

German forces in Yugoslavia set out to destroy the stronghold of Tito with a traitor’s help, but are overcome by Partisan resistance.

Genre: War
Cry of Battle

Cry of Battle

Cry of Battle
IMDb: 5.6
99

During World War II, the spoiled son of a wealthy businessman finds himself involved in the guerrilla movement fighting against the Japanese, and finds romance and adventure.

The Scarlet Blade

The Scarlet Blade

The Scarlet Blade
IMDb: 5.6
83

A cruel Roundhead Colonel is on the trail of royalist sympathizers, but unaware of his daughters royalist sympathies. When she falls into a love triangle with Cavalier Edward Beverly and…

The Cardinal

The Cardinal

The Cardinal
IMDb: 6.7
175

A young Catholic priest from Boston confronts bigotry, Nazism, and his own personal conflicts as he rises to the office of cardinal.

Genre: Drama, History, War
The Carabineers

The Carabineers

The Carabineers
IMDb: 6.7
80

During a war in an imaginary country, unscrupulous soldiers recruit poor farmers with promises of an easy and happy life. Two of these farmers write to their wives of their…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Captain Newman, M.D.

Captain Newman, M.D.

Captain Newman, M.D.
IMDb: 6.9
126

In 1944, Capt. Josiah J. Newman is the doctor in charge of Ward 7, the neuropsychiatric ward, at an Army Air Corps hospital in Arizona. The hospital is under-resourced and…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
55 Days at Peking

55 Days at Peking

55 Days at Peking
IMDb: 6.7
154

Diplomats, soldiers and other representatives of a dozen nations fend off the siege of the International Compound in Peking during the 1900 Boxer Rebellion. The disparate interests unite for survival…

Genre: Drama, History, War
The War Lover

The War Lover

The War Lover
IMDb: 6.5
105

Buzz Rickson is a dare-devil World War II bomber pilot with a death wish. Failing at everything not involving flying, Rickson lives for the most dangerous missions. His crew lives…

Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
War Hunt

War Hunt

War Hunt
IMDb: 6.2
83

Dispatched to the front lines during the Korean War, an idealistic American soldier discovers the horrors of combat and comes at odds with a psychopathic member of his platoon.

Genre: Drama, War
Taras Bulba

Taras Bulba

Taras Bulba
IMDb: 6.3
119

Ukraine, 16th century. While the Poles dominate the Cossack steppes, Andrei, son of Taras Bulba, a Cossack leader, must choose between his love for his family and his folk and…

The Silent Invasion

The Silent Invasion

The Silent Invasion
IMDb: 4.5
70

During WWII, a German garrison is stationed in the small French town of Mereux. French local Maria falls in love with a German captain. However, the romance comes to an…

Genre: War
The Boys

The Boys

The Boys
IMDb: 7.2
106

When Continuation War started in Summer 1941, German soldiers arrived to Oulu. With their charm they conquered women and town boys. Finnish boys communicated with them on many levels: had…

Genre: Drama, War
The Password Is Courage

The Password Is Courage

The Password Is Courage
IMDb: 6.8
116

Sergeant-Major Charles Coward, a brave British soldier is captured by German forces during World War II. When he’s thrown into a prisoner of war camp, he immediately plans his escape….

Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
The Nun and the Sergeant

The Nun and the Sergeant

The Nun and the Sergeant
IMDb: 5.2
74

A weary sergeant in Korea commands military prisoners on a dangerous mission and is joined by a nun and a group of schoolgirls in enemy territory.

Genre: Drama, War
No Man Is an Island

No Man Is an Island

No Man Is an Island
IMDb: 6.6
114

The true story of George Tweed, an American sailor who became the only serviceman on the island of Guam to avoid capture by the Japanese during the early years of…

Genre: Action, Drama, War
Merrill’s Marauders

Merrill’s Marauders

Merrill’s Marauders
IMDb: 6.6
98

Brigadier General Frank D. Merrill leads the 3,000 American volunteers of his 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), aka “Merrill’s Marauders”, behind Japanese lines across Burma to Myitkyina, pushing beyond their limits…

Genre: Action, Drama, War
The Longest Day

The Longest Day

The Longest Day
IMDb: 7.7
178

The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of…

Genre: Action, Drama, War
Lawrence of Arabia

Lawrence of Arabia

Lawrence of Arabia
IMDb: 8.3
228

The story of British officer T.E. Lawrence’s mission to aid the Arab tribes in their revolt against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. Lawrence becomes a flamboyant, messianic…

Ivan’s Childhood

Ivan’s Childhood

Ivan’s Childhood
IMDb: 8
95

In WW2, twelve year old Soviet orphan Ivan Bondarev works for the Soviet army as a scout behind the German lines and strikes a friendship with three sympathetic Soviet officers.

Genre: Drama, War
Hitler

Hitler

Hitler
IMDb: 5.7
107

Richard Basehart stars as one of the most influential and one of the most reviled men in history in this probing psychological study of a man who nearly gained dominance…

Genre: History, War
The Horizontal Lieutenant

The Horizontal Lieutenant

The Horizontal Lieutenant
IMDb: 5.9
90

A luckless army intelligence lieutenant finds himself stationed on a remote island army outpost during World War II, where all the action is between the sheets.

Genre: Comedy, Romance, War
Hell Is for Heroes

Hell Is for Heroes

Hell Is for Heroes
IMDb: 6.9
90

World War II drama where the action centers around a single maneuver by a squad of GIs in retaliation against the force of the German Siegfried line. Reese joins a…

Genre: War
Ballad of a Hussar

Ballad of a Hussar

Ballad of a Hussar
IMDb: 7.4
96

A young girl decides to join a Hussar squadron and fight against Napoleon. Dressed as a man, she proves herself an excellent, even heroic soldier, but complications ensue when her…

Genre: Comedy, War
The Shortest Day

The Shortest Day

The Shortest Day
IMDb: 5.8
87

Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an important battle.

Genre: Comedy, History, War
H.M.S. Defiant

H.M.S. Defiant

H.M.S. Defiant
IMDb: 7.1
101

Defiant’s crew is part of a fleet-wide movement to present a petition of grievances to the Admiralty. Violence must be no part of it. The continual sadism of Defiant’s first…

The Counterfeit Traitor

The Counterfeit Traitor

The Counterfeit Traitor
IMDb: 7.4
140

Blacklisted in modern day WW2, a Swedish oil trader opts to assist British Allies, by means of infiltrating and surveying Nazi Germany.

Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
The Elusive Corporal

The Elusive Corporal

The Elusive Corporal
IMDb: 7
105

The story serves as a companion piece to Renoir’s 1937 film, Grand Illusion, once more bringing together men from across the broad social spectrum of French society to depict one…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
The 300 Spartans

The 300 Spartans

The 300 Spartans
IMDb: 6.5
114

Essentially true story of how Spartan king Leonidas led an extremely small army of Greek Soldiers (300 of his personal body guards from Sparta) to hold off an invading Persian…

The Storm of the Pacific

The Storm of the Pacific

The Storm of the Pacific
IMDb: 6.3
118

Lt. Koji Kitami is a navigator-bombardier in Japan’s Naval Air Force. He participates in the Japanese raid on the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor in 1941 and is welcomed…

Genre: Drama, War
Tarnished Heroes

Tarnished Heroes

Tarnished Heroes
IMDb: 5.5
73

According to the officer’s handbook, ‘an officer will perform whatever task confronts him with whatever men are available’ and for Major Bell the men in question are drunks, thieves and…

Genre: Drama, War
Birth Certificate

Birth Certificate

Birth Certificate
IMDb: 7.5
104

Three separate stories depicting the tense everyday life during occupation, as seen through the eyes of children. In “On the Road,” the two main protagonists are lost in the September’s…

Genre: Drama, War
The Steel Claw

The Steel Claw

The Steel Claw
IMDb: 4.8
96

A Marine stationed in the Philippines loses a hand in an accident and is discharged from the Corps. When the Japanese invade the Philippines, he is called back into service…

Genre: Drama, War
Square of Violence

Square of Violence

Square of Violence
IMDb: 7.2
96

Set in Italy, the story takes place in this very country, during WW2, where German occupation army ruled everything, just before the allied forces came, in 1944. Crawford plays here…

Genre: Drama, War
The Catch

The Catch

The Catch
IMDb: 6.8
105

Towards the end of the Second World War, a downed U.S. pilot is captured and imprisoned by rural Japanese villagers, who await official instructions as to how to proceed with…

Genre: Drama, War
The Outsider

The Outsider

The Outsider
IMDb: 7.2
108

Ira Hayes, a young Pima Indian, enlists in the Marine Corps. At boot camp, he is shunned and mocked by everyone, aside from a Marine named Sorenson, who he befriends….

Genre: Drama, War
Daredevil in the Castle

Daredevil in the Castle

Daredevil in the Castle
IMDb: 6.3
95

During the raging war between the Toyotomi and Tokugawa clans, the swordsman Mohei (whose family has been completely decimated) is recruited by Toyotomi to overcome the seat of power, Osaka…

Genre: Action, History, War
Operation Bottleneck

Operation Bottleneck

Operation Bottleneck
IMDb: 4.9
77

WWII Burma…Six paratroopers undertake an extremely dangerous mission against the Japanese. It will ultimately cost them their lives, except for one “lucky” survivor.

Genre: Drama, War
On the Double

On the Double

On the Double
IMDb: 6.4
92

American GI Ernie Williams, admittedly weak-kneed, has an uncanny resemblance to British Colonel MacKenzie. Williams, also a master of imitation and disguise, is asked to impersonate the Colonel, ostensibly to…

Genre: Comedy, War