War Movies

France, June 1944. On the eve of D-Day, some American paratroopers fall behind enemy lines after their aircraft crashes while on a mission to destroy a radio tower in a small village near the beaches of Normandy. After reaching their...

Genre: Horror, Science Fiction, War

Director: Hannah Boschi, Julius Avery, Martina Vazzoler, Roxanne Cuenca

Cast: Dominic Applewhite, Gianny Taufer, Iain De Caestecker, Jacob Anderson, John Magaro

Returning home after fighting in Africa during World War II, a soldier with PTSD finds reintegrating with family life increasingly difficult as he relives the battle of Kasserine Pass.

Genre: War

Director: Aaron Kurmey

Cast: Adam Munro, Christopher Giles, Gin Fedotov, Kelsey Flower, Kelten Jensen

They were 12 saboteurs. The Nazis killed 11 of them. This is the true story of the one who got away...

Genre: Drama, War

Director: Harald Zwart, Michael Dignum, Petter Skafle Henriksen, Silje Paulsen

Cast: Alexander Zwart, Anders Wang, J.I. Falck, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Kim Jøran Olsen

American college students head to the jungles of Vietnam to search for lost gold. They become hopelessly lost, and they may not be alone.

Genre: Crime, Thriller, War

An Indian spy is married to a Pakistani military officer during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.

Genre: Drama, Thriller, War

Director: Chandradeep Singh Rathore, Meghna Gulzar, Tripathi Ankur

Cast: Alia Bhatt, Amruta Khanvilkar, Arif Zakaria, Jaideep Ahlawat, Kanwaljit Singh

With unprecedented access, this documentary follows the extraordinary journey of “Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently”—a group of anonymous citizen journalists who banded together after their homeland was overtaken by ISIS—as they risk their lives to stand up against one of...

Genre: Documentary, War

Director: Matthew Heineman

Cast: Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, Hamoud, Hassan, Hussam, Mohamad

The 25th Anniversary performance – filmed at London's Prince Edward Theatre in 2014 – of the epic musical tale of a young Vietnamese bar girl, Kim, who falls in love with Chris, an American GI. But their lives are torn...

Genre: Drama, Music, Romance, War

Director: Brett Sullivan, Laurence Connor

Cast: Alistair Brammer, Eva Noblezada, Hugh Maynard, Jon Jon Briones, Jonathan Pryce

On 9 April 1940, German soldiers arrive in the city of Oslo. The King of Norway faces a choice that will change his country forever. The King's Choice is a story about the three most dramatic days in Norway's history,...

Genre: Action, Drama, War

Director: Erik Poppe

Cast: Anders Baasmo Christiansen, Andreas Lust, Arthur Hakalahti, Jesper Christensen, Juliane Köhler

Raised suckling poison arrows among the sparring Iga ninja factions, Mumon (Satoshi Ohno, of idol group Arashi) is a carefree 16th-century mercenary. When the ninja council makes a power play to defeat the young Nobukatsu Oda struggling to step into...

Genre: Action, War

Director: Yoshihiro Nakamura

Cast: Denden, Kitarô, Makita Sports, Ryohei Suzuki, Satomi Ishihara

When a bitter rivalry between two brothers finally erupts into bloody, life-changing violence it is younger bother Greg who signs up for frontline battle in France. Greg discovers a world of uncompromising brutality as we follow him on his journey...

Genre: Drama, War

Director: Mike Carter

Cast: Clare Fettarappa, Daniel Attwell, Fiona Bruce, Gordon Winter, Natasha Staples

Set between the two World Wars and based on true historical events, Bitter Harvest conveys the untold story of the Holodomor, the genocidal famine engineered by the tyrant Joseph Stalin. The film displays a powerful tale of love, honour, rebellion...

Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War

Director: Cornelia Stefan, George Mendeluk

Cast: Aneurin Barnard, Barry Pepper, Lucy Brown, Max Irons, Richard Brake

Based on true events an epic story of one man's struggle for survival. Jussi Ketola, returns to Finland from the great depression struck America only to face growing political unrest. One summer night of 1930, nationalist thugs violently abduct Ketola...

Genre: Drama, History, War

Director: Antti-Jussi Annila

Cast: Amalia Holm Bjelke, Helén Söderqvist Henriksson, Irina Björklund, Jari Virman, Jarkko Niemi

January 1945. The first French regiment of paratroopers to fight with an American unit to liberate Alsace in France. An Allied Division must take the forest bordering the town of Jebsheim, several days before the attack that would later be...

Genre: Action, Drama, War

Director: Alain Marseglia, David Aboucaya

Cast: Adrien Caus, Benoit Davin, Brian Messina, David Aboucaya, Laurent Aboucava

Christmas 1944, The Germans make one final push against the attacking allied armies in the West. Lt. Robert Cappa and his platoon of 2nd Infantry Division soldiers have been ordered to hold a vital road junction against the German aggressors....

Genre: War

Director: Steven Luke

Cast: Aaron Courteau, Adam Simon, Andrew Stecker, Apostolos Gliarmis, Casey Sill

During a shaky 24-hour holiday truce amid the Battle of the Bulge, American Captain John Myers and a Belgian farm girl, Alina, fall in love. Forced to separate when fighting resumes, the couple vows to reunite, under a bell tower,...

Genre: Drama, Romance, TV Movie, War

Director: Brian Skiba

Cast: Adam DiMarco, Ali Liebert, Craig Olejnik, Josh Blacker, Kate Vernon

An American soldier deployed at Abu Ghraib finds himself behind the walls of the infamous Hard Site, where he develops a secret friendship with an Iraqi detainee.

Genre: Drama, Thriller, War

Director: Luke Moran

Cast: Elijah Kelley, Jermaine Williams, John Heard, John Robinson, Kristen Rakes

Battle-scarred and disillusioned by the war, Corporal Chris Merrimette is put in charge of a unit whose next mission is to resupply a remote outpost on the edge of Taliban-controlled territory. While driving through the hostile Helmand province, a Navy...

Genre: Action, War

Director: Don Michael Paul, Stefania Velichkova

Cast: Bokeem Woodbine, Cassie Layton, Cole Hauser, Danielle Savre, Esai Morales

A beautiful story about youth, love, friendship and the pursuit of adventure during the bloody and brutal reality of the Warsaw Uprising.

Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War

Director: Jan Komasa

Cast: Anna Próchniak, Jasmina Polak, Józef Pawłowski, Karolina Staniec, Mads Hjulmand

Testament of Youth is a powerful story of love, war and remembrance, based on the First World War memoir by Vera Brittain, which has become the classic testimony of that war from a woman’s point of view. A searing journey...

Genre: Drama, History, War

Director: James Kent

Cast: Alicia Vikander, Anna Chancellor, Colin Morgan, Dominic West, Emily Watson

Mina, a young college student, has her life ripped away after her family is killed. When she finds out their murder was part of a botched kidnapping to return her to her real father—a terrorist in the middle east.

Genre: Action, Thriller, War

Director: Vicky Jewson, Zara Carnegie

Cast: Avin Shah, Jade Hudson, James Frain, Joey Ansah, Lisa Kay

Following two fatal aircraft accidents aboard an Aircraft Carrier, a government agent is placed aboard the ship. His mission is to determine what may be at the root of these mishaps and prevent the inevitable third chain breaking accident which...

Genre: Drama, Romance, War

Director: D.M.W. Greer

Cast: Chris Chalk, Cotter Smith, Mark Doherty, Michael Cumpsty, Michael Sirow

At the beginning of the 20th century, China is in a state of crisis. The country is split into warring factions, the citizens are starving, and recent political reforms have made matters worse, not better. The ruling Qing Dynasty, led...

Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War

Director: Jackie Chan, 张立 | Zhang Li

Cast: Hu Ge, Jackie Chan, Jaycee Chan, Jiang Wu, Joan Chen

During the Bosnian War, Danijel, a soldier fighting for the Serbs, re-encounters Ajla, a Bosnian who's now a captive in his camp he oversees. Their once promising connection has become ambiguous as their motives have changed.

Genre: Drama, Romance, War

Director: Angelina Jolie, Carmen Tabanyi

Cast: Branko Đurić, Dolya Gavanski, Džana Pinjo, Feđa Štukan, Goran Jevtić

The true story of the formation of Ian Fleming's 30 Commando unit, a precursor for the elite forces in the U.K.

Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War

Director: Adrian Vitoria

Cast: Danny Dyer, Erik Madsen, Izabella Miko, James D'Arcy, John Dagleish

Jun-shik, who works for Tatsuo’s grandfather’s farm while Korea is colonized by Japan, dreams about participating in the Tokyo Olympics as a marathon runner. Tatsuo also aims to become a marathon runner, so the two become rivals. But the war...

Genre: Action, Drama, History, War

Director: Kang Je-gyu

Cast: Cheon Ho-jin, Fan Bingbing, Jang Dong-gun, Joe Odagiri, Kim Hee-won

After her Nazi parents are imprisoned, Lore leads her younger siblings across a war-torn Germany in 1945. Amidst the chaos, she encounters mysterious Jewish refugee Thomas, who shatters her fragile reality with hatred and desire. To live, she must trust...

Genre: Drama, Thriller, War

Director: Alisa Leptihn, Cate Shortland

Cast: André Frid, Eva-Maria Hagen, Hans-Jochen Wagner, Kai-Peter Malina, Katrin Pollitt

An American girl on holiday in the English countryside with her family finds herself in hiding and fighting for her survival as war breaks out.

Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War

Director: Kevin Macdonald

Cast: Anna Chancellor, Corey Johnson, George MacKay, Harley Bird, Natasha Jones

War in Abkhazia 1990. An Estonian man Ivo has stayed behind to harvest his crops of tangerines. In a bloody conflict at his door, a wounded man is left behind, and Ivo is forced to take him in.

Genre: Drama, War

Director: Zaza Urushadze

Cast: Aleko Begalishvili, Elmo Nüganen, Gia Gogishvili, Giorgi Nakashidze, Jano Izoria

When a young soldier in Vietnam gets dumped by his hometown girl, he and his best friend decide to go AWOL and return to the States to win her back.

Genre: Drama, Romance, War

Director: Danny Mooney

Cast: Aimee Teegarden, Austin Stowell, Chris Lowell, Chris Newman, Liam Hemsworth

Based on the failed June 28, 2005 mission "Operation Red Wing." Four members of SEAL Team 10, were tasked with the mission to capture or kill notorious Taliban leader, Ahmad Shah. Only one member of the team survived.

Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War

Director: Peter Berg

Cast: Alexander Ludwig, Ali Suliman, Ben Foster, Dan Bilzerian, Emile Hirsch

Afghanistan. War correspondent Elsa Casanova is taken hostage by the Taliban. Faced with her imminent execution, a Special Forces unit is dispatched to free her. In some of the world’s most breathtaking yet hostile landscapes, a relentless pursuit begins between...

Genre: Action, Drama, War

Director: Stéphane Rybojad

Cast: Alain ALIVON, Alain Figlarz, Benoît Magimel, Denis Ménochet, Diane Kruger

A chilling vision of the House of Saddam Hussein comes to life through the eyes of the man who was forced to become the double of Hussein's sadistic son.

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller, War

Director: Lee Tamahori, Rowena Radbury

Cast: Dar Salim, Dominic Cooper, Khalid Laith, Ludivine Sagnier, Mehmet Ferda

A ticking-clock thriller following Winston Churchill in the 24 hours before D-Day.

Genre: Drama, Thriller, War

Director: Aina Sabaté-Giralt, Jonathan Teplitzky

Cast: Brian Cox, Danny Webb, Ella Purnell, George Anton, James Purefoy

The true story of Australia's cat-and-mouse underground mine warfare – one of the most misunderstood, misrepresented and mystifying conflicts of WW I. It was a secret struggle BENEATH the Western Front that combined daring engineering, technology and science, and few...

Genre: Drama, History, War

Director: Jeremy Sims, Kira Bohn

Cast: Alan Dukes, Alex Thompson, Anthony Hayes, Brendan Cowell, Gyton Grantley

Winner of the 2010 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize for a Documentary, Restrepo chronicles the deployment of a U.S. platoon of courageous American soldiers in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley, considered to be one of the most dangerous postings in the...

Genre: Documentary, War

Director: Sebastian Junger, Tim Hetherington

Cast: Aron Hijar, Dan Kearney, Juan, LaMonta Caldwell

On the night of 16 July 1942, ten year old Sarah and her parents are being arrested and transported to the Velodrome d'Hiver in Paris where thousands of other jews are being send to get deported. Sarah however managed to...

Genre: Drama, War

Director: Gilles Paquet-Brenner

Cast: Aidan Quinn, Dominique Frot, Frédéric Pierrot, Gisèle Casadesus, Kristin Scott Thomas

World World II: Shortly after D-Day, three American soldiers and two Army Corps nurses are stranded behind enemy lines. They take a high-ranking German officer as their prisoner and try to orchestrate an escape.

Genre: Action, Drama, War

Director: Eric Colley

Cast: Brett Cullen, Cody Kasch, Darren Keefe, Elizabeth Rice, Gilles Marini

The movies follows the incident knows as the second battle of Yeonpyeong which happened in 2002.

Genre: Drama, War

Director: Kim Hak-soon

Cast: Jin Goo, Kim Dong-hee, Kim Ji-hoon, Kim Mu-yeol, Lee Chung-a

The events of the war in 1944, from the Blue Hills to Sõrve Peninsula. Shown through the eyes of Estonian soldiers who had to pick sides and fight against fellow brothers. Choices have to be made, not only by the...

Genre: Drama, War

Director: Elmo Nüganen

Cast: Gert Raudsep, Henrik Kalmet, Karl-Andreas Kalmet, Kaspar Velberg, Kristjan Üksküla

International Flight 42 is on course, when all of a sudden a massive and weird storm crops up around the plane. This sends the plane back in time to the year 1940- smack dab in the middle of WWII! Now,...

Genre: Action, Science Fiction, War

Director: Emile Edwin Smith

Cast: Alberto Barros Jr., Angie Teodora Dick, Aqueela Zoll, Daniel Mentz, David Campfield