Lions for Lambs (2007)
Drama | Thriller | War
Injuries sustained by two Army rangers behind enemy lines in Afghanistan set off a sequence of events involving a congressman, a journalist and a professor.
Starring: Meryl Streep, Robert Redford, Tom Cruise, Michael Peña, Andrew Garfield, Peter Berg
Director: Robert Redford
Trench 11 (2017)
Horror | Thriller | War
In the final days of WWI a shell-shocked soldier must lead a mission deep beneath the trenches to stop a German plot that could turn the tide of the war.
Starring: Rossif Sutherland, Robert Stadlober, Charlie Carrick
Director: Leo Scherman
Re: Born (2016)
Action | Crime | Drama | War
A legend covert soldier with a mysterious past now decides to once again unleash his beast inside of him to stand up for what he cares about.
Starring: Tak Sakaguchi , Yura Kondo, Takumi Saitoh, Hitomi Hasebe, Mariko Shinoda, Akio Ôtsuka
Director: Yûji Shimomura
Die Fälscher / The Counterfeiters (2007)
Crime | Drama | War
The story of the Operation Bernhard, the largest counterfeiting operation in history, carried out by Germany during WWII.
Starring: Karl Markovics, August Diehl, Devid Striesow, Martin Brambach, August Zirner, Veit Stübner
Director: Stefan Ruzowitzky
Fat Man and Little Boy (1989)
Biography | Drama | History | War
This film reenacts the Manhattan Project, the secret wartime project in New Mexico where the first atomic bombs were designed and built.
Starring: Paul Newman, Dwight Schultz, Bonnie Bedelia, John Cusack, Laura Dern, John C. McGinley
Director: Roland Joffé
Red Sorghum / Hong gao liang (1988)
Drama | History | Romance | War
When a leprous winery owner in 1930s China dies a few days after his arranged marriage, his young widow is forced to run the winery to make a living while contending with bandits, her drunkard lover, and the invading Japanese army.
Starring: Li Gong, Wen Jiang, Rujun Ten, Ji Liu, Ming Qian, Chunhua Ji
Director: Yimou Zhang
The Yellow Birds (2017)
Drama | War
Two young soldiers, Bartle and Murph navigate the terrors of the Iraq war under the command of the older, troubled Sergeant Sterling. All the while, Bartle is tortured by a promise he made to Murph's mother before their deployment.
Starring: Jennifer Aniston, Tye Sheridan, Alden Ehrenreich, Toni Collette, Jack Huston, Jason Patric
Director: Alexandre Moors
Bajirao Mastani (2015)
Action | Drama | History | Romance | War
An account of the romance between the Maratha general, Baji Rao I and Mastani, princess of Bundelkhand.
Starring: Ranveer Singh, Deepika Padukone, Priyanka Chopra, Tanvi Azmi, Mahesh Manjrekar
Director: Sanjay Leela Bhansali
China Salesman / Zhong guo tui xiao yuan (2017)
Action | Adventure | Crime | Drama | Thriller | War
Yan Jian, a young Chinese IT engineer who volunteers to go to North Africa and help the company he works for to win a competition. The winner can own the right to control the communication between south and north. French spy Michael works for the West. His boss ordered him to go to the North Africa and win the competition, and they can control the great mineral resources of Africa. He hired the best mercenary in Africa whose name is Lauder and a former general Kabbah to help him. Yan has discovered their conspiracy, he is the only one who can stop them.
Starring: Dong-xue Li, Mike Tyson, Steven Seagal, Janicke Askevold, Li Ai, Eriq Ebouaney, Zijian Wang
Director: Tan Bing
Operation Red Sea / Hong hai xing dong (2018)
Action | Drama | Thriller | War
PLA Navy Marine Corps launch a hostage rescue operation in Ihwea and undergo a fierce battle with rebellions and terrorism.
Starring: Yi Zhang, Johnny Huang, Hai-Qing, Jiang Du, Luxia Jiang, Sanâa Alaoui, Fang Yin, Yutian Wang, Jiahao Guo, Henry Prince Mak
Director: Dante Lam
The 12th Man / Den 12. mann (2017)
Drama | History | Thriller | War
True World War II story about Jan Baalsruds, one of the 12 saboteurs sent in 1943 from England to the Nazi occupied Northern Norway. After their boat is sunk by the Germans, Jan goes on the run towards the neutral Sweden. However, the brutal weather conditions turn out to possibly be an even greater foe than the Nazi patrols.
Starring: Thomas Gullestad, Jonathan Rhys Meyers
Director: Harald Zwart
Padmaavat / Rani Padmavati (2018)
Drama | History | Romance | War
Set in medieval Rajasthan, Queen Padmavati is married to a noble king and they live in a prosperous fortress with their subjects until an ambitious Sultan hears of Padmavati's beauty and forms an obsessive love for the Queen of Mewar.
Starring: Deepika Padukone, Ranveer Singh, Shahid Kapoor, Sanjay Dutt, Aditi Rao Hydari, Danny Denzongpa
Director: Sanjay Leela Bhansali
Winter War (2017)
War
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 called the 'French Stalingrad.' Prisoners of the cold, snow, and harsh winter conditions, and pounded by German forces, the French and American soldiers learn the violence and hell of war In this struggle for freedom and survival, they will face an unexpected enemy.
Starring: Manuel Gonçalves, Laurent Guiot, Laurent Cerulli, Benoit Davin, Brian Messina, Tommy Lee Baïk
Director: David Aboucaya
Naked Among Wolves / Nackt unter Wölfen (2015)
Drama | History | War
Taking place at the Concentration camp Buchenwald at the end of March 1945, prisoner Hans Pippig discovers in a carrying case of an incoming prisoner a Jewish child. If reported the three-year-old is sure to die. On the other hand, a violation of the rules of the camp would threaten the long prepared uprising of the concentration camp prisoners against the SS.
Starring: Florian Stetter, Peter Schneider, Sylvester Groth, Sabin Tambrea, Robert Gallinowski, Rainer Bock, Thorsten Merten
Director: Philipp Kadelbach
Fugitive Pieces (2007)
Adventure | Drama | War
A child escapes from Poland during World War II and first heads to Greece before coming of age in Canada.
Starring: Robbie Kay, Stephen Dillane, Rosamund Pike, Nina Dobrev, Monika Schurmann, Rade Serbedzija, Devon Bostick, Ayelet Zurer, Rachelle Lefevre, Ed Stoppard
Director: Jeremy Podeswa
Home of the Brave (2006)
Action | Drama | War
Three soldiers struggle to readjust to life at home after returning home from a lengthy tour in Iraq.
Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Jessica Biel, Brian Presley, Curtis Jackson, Victoria Rowell, Christina Ricci
Director: Irwin Winkler
Journey's End (2017)
Drama | War
Set in a dugout in Aisne in 1918, it is the story of a group of British officers, led by the mentally disintegrating young officer Stanhope, as they await their fate.
Starring: Sam Claflin, Paul Bettany, Asa Butterfield, Toby Jones, Stephen Graham, Tom Sturridge
Director: Saul Dibb
Gelibolu / Gallipoli (2005)
Documentary | War
Gallipoli (Turkish title Gelibolu) is a 2005 film by Turkish filmmaker Tolga Örnek. It is a documentary about the 1915 Gallipoli campaign, narrated by both sides, the Turks on one side and the British soldiers and Anzacs (soldiers of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) on the other side.
Starring: Sam Neill, Zafer Ergin, Demetri Goritsas, Jeremy Irons
Director: Tolga Örnek
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story (2017)
Biography | Documentary | History | War
The life and career of the hailed Hollywood movie star and underappreciated genius inventor, Hedy Lamarr.
Starring: Hedy Lamarr, Peter Bogdanovich, Mel Brooks, Diane Kruger, Robert Osborne
Director: Alexandra Dean
12 Strong / Horse Soldiers (2018)
Action | Drama | History | War
12 Strong tells the story of the first Special Forces team deployed to Afghanistan after 9/11; under the leadership of a new captain, the team must work with an Afghan warlord to take down for the Taliban.
Starring: Chris Hemsworth, Michael Shannon, Michael Peña, Elsa Pataky, Trevante Rhodes, Geoff Stults
Director: Nicolai Fuglsig
