Pork Chop Hill (1959)
Action | Drama | War
During the Korean War peace talks, U.S. troops fight to retake a hill from the Communist Chinese forces.
Starring: Gregory Peck, Harry Guardino, Rip Torn, George Peppard, Carl Benton Reid, James Edwards
Director: Lewis Milestone
The Battleship Island / Goonhamdo (2017)
Action | Drama | History | War
During the Japanese colonial era, roughly 400 Korean people, who were forced onto Battleship Island ("Hashima Island") to mine for coal, attempt to a dramatic escape.
Starring: Jung-min Hwang, Ji-seob So, Joong-Ki Song, Jung-hyun Lee, Su-an Kim, In-woo Kim, Joong-hee Kim
Director: Seung-wan Ryoo
Dunkirk (2017)
Action | Drama | History | Thriller | War
Allied soldiers from Belgium, the British Empire and France are surrounded by the German Army, and evacuated during a fierce battle in World War II.
Starring: Fionn Whitehead, Tom Glynn-Carney, Jack Lowden, Harry Styles, Aneurin Barnard, James D'Arcy
Director: Christopher Nolan
Tuntematon sotilas / The Unknown Soldier (1955)
Drama | War
It is the summer of 1941. An eastern-Finnish machine gun company receives an order to turn in their surplus equipment. The company is transferred to the front lines. The next morning the soldiers wake to the sound of guns – the war has begun. The Finnish troops attack and quickly move across the border. The young, nervous rookies of the company get their baptism of fire, and the men become familiar with death and the hardships of war. Under strength and badly equipped they fight a superior enemy. The lists of heroes and of the dead seem endless. Edvin Laine's epic interpretation of Väinö Linna's war novel "Tuntematon Sotilas" is an entire chapter in the book of Finnish movie history.
Starring: Kosti Klemelä, Heikki Savolainen, Reino Tolvanen, Veikko Sinisalo, Åke Lindman
Director: Edvin Laine
Wolf Warrior 2 / Zhan lang II (2017)
Action | Adventure | Drama | Thriller | War
China's deadliest special forces operative settles into a quiet life on the sea. When sadistic mercenaries begin targeting nearby civilians, he must leave his newfound peace behind and return to his duties as a soldier and protector.
Starring: Jing Wu, Frank Grillo, Celina Jade, Gang Wu, Hans Zhang, Nan Yu, Oleg Prudius
Director: Jing Wu
Unfallen (2017)
Action | Adventure | War
Seven year-old old twin brothers, separated during the Civil War in Tajikistan, face each other years later in a new war where one is an American soldier and the other is Taliban.
Starring: James Hong, Michael Madsen, James Nasimi, Andre McCoy
Director: Dante, Josh Hodgins
Barry Lyndon (1975)
Adventure | Drama | History | War
An Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband's aristocratic position in 18th-century England.
Starring: Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee, Hardy Krüger, Steven Berkoff, Gay Hamilton
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Puppet Master: Axis Termination (2017)
Fantasy | Horror | Sci-Fi | War
Since its inception in 1989, the "Puppet Master Series" has been our most celebrated, beloved, and enduring franchise. It's the most successful independent direct to video horror franchise of all time! With classic characters like Blade, Jester, Pinhead, Tunneler and Leech Woman returning to thrill dedicated fans and general audiences alike. For the 11th installment in the series, Charles Band will be directing "Puppet Master: Axis Termination! Set in Los Angeles during World War II, "Axis Termination" continues the Axis Trilogy, which began with "Puppet Master: Axis of Evil" and continued with "Axis Rising". This is the same time period as David DeCoteau's classic "Puppet Master III: Toulon's Revenge."
Starring: Paul Logan, Diana Prince, Tonya Kay, David DeCoteau, Robin Sydney, Jean Louise O'Sullivan
Director: Charles Band
HHhH / The Man with the Iron Heart (2017)
Action | Biography | Thriller | War
1942: The Third Reich is at its peak. The Czech resistance in London decides to plan the most ambitious military operation of WWII: Anthropoid. Two young recruits in their late twenties, Jozef Gabcik and Jan Kubis, are sent to Prague to assassinate the most ruthless Nazi leader – Reich-protector Reinhard Heydrich, Head of the SS, the Gestapo, and the architect of the "Final Solution".
Starring: Jason Clarke, Rosamund Pike, Jack O'Connell, Jack Reynor, Mia Wasikowska
Director: Cédric Jimenez
City 40 (2016)
Documentary | Drama | History | News | War
Behind the walls of a forbidden city, the only thing more dangerous than its secrets is the truth.
Starring: Lavrenti Beria, Viktor Fetisov, Mikhail Gorbachev, Sergei Kirillov, Igor Kurchatov, Nadezhda Kutepova
Director: Samira Goetschel
Sluga Gosudarev / The Sovereign's Servant (2007)
Action | Adventure | History | War
Europe, 1709. Russia and Sweden are at war. Two French duelists are exiled by King Louis XIV of France: one to the side of Czar Peter the Great of Russia, the other to the side of King Charles XII of Sweden. Although separated by war and allegiance, fate has not finished with them.
Starring: Dmitriy Miller, Aleksandr Bukharov, Kseniya Knyazeva, Valeriy Malikov
Director: Oleg Ryaskov
An Ordinary Man (2017)
Action | Drama | Thriller | War
A war criminal in hiding forms a relationship with his only connection to the outside world – his maid.
Starring: Ben Kingsley, Hera Hilmar, Peter Serafinowicz, Robert Blythe
Director: Brad Silberling
In This Corner of the World / Kono sekai no katasumi ni (2016)
Animation | Drama | History | War
Set in Hiroshima during World War II, an eighteen-year-old girl gets married and now has to prepare food for her family despite the rationing and lack of supplies. As she struggles with the daily loss of life's amenities she still has to maintain the will to live.
Starring: Rena Nônen, Megumi Han, Yoshimasa Hosoya, Daisuke Ono, Mayumi Shintani
Director: Sunao Katabuchi
A Mighty Heart (2007)
Biography | Drama | History | Thriller | War
Mariane Pearl embarks on a frantic search to locate her journalist husband, Daniel, when he goes missing in Pakistan.
Starring: Angelina Jolie, Dan Futterman, Irrfan Khan, Denis O'Hare, Archie Panjabi, Will Patton
Director: Michael Winterbottom
Our Time Will Come / Ming yue ji shi you (2017)
Drama | Thriller | War
In Japanese-occupied Hong Kong, a school teacher and her would-be-fiancé link up with Chinese guerrilla fighters, forging their own path to freedom.
Starring: Xun Zhou, Eddie Peng, Wallace Huo, Deannie Yip, Tony Leung
Director: Ann Hui
The Founding of an Army / Jian jun da ye (2017)
Drama | History | War
The Founding of an Army begins in the spring of 1927 when conservative Nationalist forces began carrying out violent suppressions of Communist party members in Shanghai and other cities. The purges effectively ended the tenuous United Front alliance between the Nationalists and Communists, and created open divisions in the KMT between Chiang Kai-shek and other party factions. In response to the purges, Communists and like-minded revolutionaries, under the planning and leadership of Zhou Enlai, launched a military insurrection on August 1, 1927, known as the Nanchang Uprising. This date marks the founding of the People's Liberation Army and the beginning of all-out civil war.
Starring: Ye Liu, Yawen Zhu, Hao Ou, Zhi-zhong Huang, Jingchun Wang
Director: Wai-Keung Lau
Revolt (2017)
Action | Sci-Fi | War
The story of humankind's last stand against a cataclysmic alien invasion. In the war-ravaged African countryside, a U.S. soldier and a French foreign aid worker team up to survive the alien onslaught. Their bond will be tested as they search for refuge across a crumbling world.
Starring: Lee Pace, Bérénice Marlohe, Amy Louise Wilson, Kenneth Fok, Tom Fairfoot, Alan Santini
Director: Joe Miale
The History of Love (2016)
Drama | Romance | War
The story of a long-lost book that mysteriously reappears and connects an old man searching for his son with a girl seeking a cure for her mother's loneliness.
Starring: Derek Jacobi, Sophie Nélisse, Gemma Arterton, Elliott Gould, Torri Higginson
Director: Radu Mihaileanu
Flight World War II / Flight 1942 (2015)
Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | War
After Flight 42 travels through a storm they find themselves in France, 1940, during World war II.
Starring: Faran Tahir, Robbie Kay, Aqueela Zoll, Matias Ponce, Howard Gordon, Alberto Barros Jr., Adam Blake
Director: Emile Edwin Smith
Tiger Raid (2016)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller | War
Two mercenaries ride a wave of pitch-black camaraderie as they travel through the desert night on their way to carry out a kidnapping in Iraq. As the raid progresses, their frenzied world turns in on itself as past misdeeds come to the surface, and violently threatening to tear them apart.
Starring: Brian Gleeson, Damien Molony, Sofia Boutella, Rory Fleck Byrne
Director: Simon Dixon
