War Movies
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
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
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
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
The Human Condition III: A Soldier’s Prayer

The Human Condition III: A Soldier’s Prayer

The Human Condition III: A Soldier’s Prayer
IMDb: 8.8
190

After the Japanese defeat to the Russians, Kaji leads the last remaining men through Manchuria. Intent on returning to his dear wife and his old life, Kaji faces great odds…

Genre: Drama, History, War
The Last Time I Saw Archie

The Last Time I Saw Archie

The Last Time I Saw Archie
IMDb: 5.7
98

Two Air Force friends have fun during their enlistment.

Genre: Comedy, War
It Happened Here

It Happened Here

It Happened Here
IMDb: 6.7
101

World War II, 1940. When the Nazi hordes invade and occupy Great Britain, the English citizens are soon divided between those who choose to submissively collaborate and those who are…

The Guns of Navarone

The Guns of Navarone

The Guns of Navarone
IMDb: 7.5
160

A team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped…

Foxhole in Cairo

Foxhole in Cairo

Foxhole in Cairo
IMDb: 5.8
80

A German spy in Cairo must report back to Rommel with information on British positions.

Genre: Drama, War
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
IMDb: 6.6
153

In Argentina, one daughter of patriarch Madariaga is married to a Frenchman while the other is married to a German thus leading to a crisis when Nazi Germany occupies France…

Genre: Drama, War
During One Night

During One Night

During One Night
IMDb: 6.2
85

Story of a young U.S. Army officer, stationed in England during World War II, who is suddenly conscious of a desire to “prove” himself sexually.

Genre: Drama, Romance, War
El Cid

El Cid

El Cid
IMDb: 7.2
187

Epic film of the legendary Spanish hero, Rodrigo Diaz (“El Cid” to his followers), who, without compromising his strict sense of honour, still succeeds in taking the initiative and driving…

Dondi

Dondi

Dondi
IMDb: 3.6
99

World War II GIs adopt an Italian war orphan.

Westward Desperado

Westward Desperado

Westward Desperado
IMDb: 7
107

In this patriotic WW II drama, the Japanese army demonstrates its courage and willingness to do anything to win as they endeavor to sneak into Communist China to bring back…

Genre: Drama, War
Two Women

Two Women

Two Women
IMDb: 7.7
100

A young widow flees from Rome during WWII and takes her lonely twelve-year-old-daughter to her rural hometown but the horrors of war soon catch up with them.

Genre: Drama, War
Battle at Bloody Beach

Battle at Bloody Beach

Battle at Bloody Beach
IMDb: 5.4
83

This is only the second Audie Murphy movie set in WWII after his autobiographical “To Hell and Back.” Here Murphy steps out of his usual kid-Western role to play a…

Genre: Drama, War