The Six Triple Eight (2024)
Drama | History | War
855 women joined the war to fix the three-year backlog of undelivered mail. Faced with discrimination and a country devastated by war, they managed to sort more than 17 million pieces of mail ahead of time.
Starring: Kerry Washington, Ebony Obsidian, Dean Norris, Sam Waterston, Oprah Winfrey
Director: Tyler Perry
Black Hawk Down (2001)
Action | Drama | History | War
The story of 160 elite U.S. soldiers who dropped into Mogadishu in October 1993 to capture two top lieutenants of a renegade warlord, but found themselves in a desperate battle with a large force of heavily armed Somalis.
Starring: Josh Hartnett, Ewan McGregor, Tom Sizemore, Eric Bana, William Fichtner, Ewen Bremner
Director: Ridley Scott
Blitz (2024)
Action | Drama | History | War
The stories of a group of Londoners during the German bombing campaign of the British capital during World War II.
Starring: Saoirse Ronan, Elliott Heffernan, Harris Dickinson, Benjamin Clémentine, Kathy Burke, Paul Weller, Stephen Graham
Director: Steve McQueen
Stella: A Life / Last Song for Stella / Stella. Ein leben. (2023)
Biography | Drama | History | War
Stella Goldschlag grows up in Berlin during the Nazi regime. She dreams of a career as a jazz singer, but is forced to go into hiding with her parents in 1944, and her life turns into an hopeless tragedy.
Starring: Paula Beer, Jannis Niewöhner, Katja Riemann
Director: Kilian Riedhof
Lee (2023)
Biography | Drama | History | War
The story of American photographer Lee Miller, a fashion model who became an acclaimed war correspondent for Vogue magazine during World War II.
Starring: Kate Winslet, Marion Cotillard, Andrea Riseborough, Andy Samberg, Noémie Merlant, Josh O'Connor, Alexander Skarsgård
Director: Ellen Kuras
Uprising / Jeon, Ran (2024)
Action | Drama | History | Thriller | War
In the Joseon Dynasty, two friends who grew up together, one the master and one the servant, reunite post-war as enemies on opposing sides.
Starring: Gang Dong-won, Park Jeong-min, Cha Seung-won, Kim Shin-rock, Jin Seon-kyu, Jung Sung-il
Director: Sang-man Kim
Lost Command (1966)
Action | Drama | War
French Army colonel Raspeguy leads his paratroopers in battle against the Communist Viet Minh in Indochina and against Algerian guerrillas during the Algerian War.
Starring: Anthony Quinn, Alain Delon, George Segal, Michèle Morgan, Maurice Ronet, Claudia Cardinale
Director: Mark Robson
Napoleon (2023)
Action | Adventure | Biography | Drama | History | War
An epic that details the chequered rise and fall of French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and his relentless journey to power through the prism of his addictive, volatile relationship with his wife, Josephine.
Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Vanessa Kirby, Tahar Rahim, Rupert Everett, Mark Bonnar, Paul Rhys
Director: Ridley Scott
Hannibal Rising (2007)
Adventure | Crime | Drama | Thriller | War
Trauma and tragedy during World War II warp young Hannibal Lecter's mind.
Starring: Aaran Thomas, Gaspard Ulliel, Gong Li, Dominic West, Rhys Ifans, Helena-Lia Tachovská
Director: Peter Webber
Haywire (2023)
War
Haywire is about an armoured tank crew who go behind enemy lines to find "Hitler's Treasure", but they find something a lot more sinister that the Nazi's are hiding. We follow Sergeant Charles Taylor who takes his crew AWOL, and along the way they find a young girl, Mathilde, who has a number of unexplainable abilities. They are forced to take her along with them, and soon they discover an underworld of kidnapping, torture, and experiments with the occult.
Starring: Tom Snape, Tom O'Connell, Finlay Whittle, Teague Selmon
Director: Craig McLearie
Before Dawn (2024)
Drama | History | War
The journey of fictional WA outback kid Jim Collins and his battalion on the Western Front.
Starring: Levi Miller, Travis Jeffery, Myles Pollard, Tim Franklin, Jordan Dulieu, Peter Sullivan, Ed Oxenbould, Stephen Peacocke
Director: Jordon Prince-Wright
Behind the Line: Escape to Dunkirk (2020)
Action | Drama | Sport | War
A group of British soldiers retreating from the Germans toward Dunkirk during World War II are captured. A renowned British boxer among them is forced into the ring to fight an equally talented German boxer as the Brits plan to escape.
Starring: Sam Gittins, Joe Egan, Ryan Winsley, Jennifer Martin
Director: Ben Mole
Alatriste / Captain Alatriste (2006)
Adventure | Drama | History | Romance | Thriller | War
Viggo Mortensen plays the Spanish soldier-turned-mercenary Captain Alatriste, a heroic figure from the country's 17th century imperial wars.
Starring: Viggo Mortensen, Elena Anaya, Unax Ugalde, Eduard Fernández, Eduardo Noriega, Ariadna Gil
Director: Agustín Díaz Yanes
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (2024)
Action | Drama | War
The British military recruits a small group of highly skilled soldiers to strike against German forces behind enemy lines during World War II.
Starring: Henry Cavill, Eiza González, Alan Ritchson, Alex Pettyfer, Hero Fiennes Tiffin, Babs Olusanmokun, Henry Golding, Cary Elwes
Director: Guy Ritchie
Home Coming / Wan li gui tu (2022)
Action | Drama | Thriller | War
Two members of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs who are tasked with the evacuation of Chinese citizens when war breaks out in Numia, North Africa.
Starring: Yi Zhang, Karry Wang, Tao Yin, Taishen Cheng, Zixian Zhang, Amy Chen
Director: Xiaozhi Rao, Frant Gwo
Noryang: Deadly Sea / Noryang: Jugeumui Bada (2023)
Action | Biography | History | War
Winter of 1598, the story of Yi Sun-shin's last naval battle during the Japanese invasions of Korea that happened in the Noryang Strait.
Starring: Kim Yoon-seok, Baek Yoon-Seok, Jeong Jae-yeong, Huh Joon-ho
Director: Han-min Kim
The Unknown Soldier / Tuntematon sotilas (2017)
Drama | War
A film adaptation of Väinö Linna's best selling novel The Unknown Soldier (1954) and the novel's unedited manuscript version, Sotaromaani.
Starring: Alina Tomnikov, Eero Aho, Johannes Holopainen, Samuel Vauramo, Marketta Tikkanen, Hannes Suominen
Director: Aku Louhimies
The Zone of Interest (2023)
Drama | History | War
Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss and his wife Hedwig strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden beside the camp.
Starring: Christian Friedel, Sandra Hüller
Director: Jonathan Glazer
Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970)
Adventure | Drama | Romance | War | Western
When a former Civil War soldier saves a nun from a gang of bandits, they team up to help the Mexicans in their war against the French.
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Shirley MacLaine, Manuel Fábregas, Alberto Morin, Armando Silvestre, John Kelly
Director: Don Siegel
The Dirty Dozen (1967)
Action | Adventure | War
During World War II, a rebellious U.S. Army Major is assigned a dozen convicted murderers to train and lead them into a mass assassination mission of German officers.
Starring: Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson, Jim Brown, John Cassavetes, Richard Jaeckel, George Kennedy
Director: Robert Aldrich
