King David (1985)
Adventure | Biography | Drama | War
This is a movie about the life of Israel's king David.
Starring: Richard Gere, Edward Woodward, Alice Krige, Denis Quilley, Niall Buggy, Cherie Lunghi
Director: Bruce Beresford
Hanover Street (1979)
Action | Adventure | Drama | Romance | War
During the Second World War, an American Pilot stationed in England meets a young British nurse during an air raid on London. The two instantly fall in love, despite the fact that the young Nurse is already married; a secret she keeps hidden from her American lover. After being shot down behind enemy lines, while being assigned to ferry a British agent into France, the American pilot realizes that his secret agent cargo is in fact his lover's husband, and that the two must now work together in order to survive.
Starring: Harrison Ford, Lesley-Anne Down, Christopher Plummer, Alec McCowen, Richard Masur, Patsy Kensit
Director: Peter Hyams
Yanks (1979)
Drama | War
Set in England at the end of WWII, the story concerns three American GIs and their affairs with British women of varying social status. The central romance concerns Sgt. Matt Dyson and Jean Moreton, who is the daughter of shopkeepers. He falls in love with her but she is still infatuated with her boyfriend Ken. Higher up on the class scale, the officer John has a brief extramarital affair with socialite Helen. The third pairing involves Sgt. Danny Ruffelo in a fling with Mollie. Eventually, the Americans and the Britains find themselves surrounded by racism at a New Year's Eve dance.
Starring: Richard Gere, Lisa Eichhorn, Vanessa Redgrave, William Devane, Chick Vennera, Wendy Morgan
Director: John Schlesinger
The Wackiest Ship in the Army (1960)
Comedy | War
During World War II, the Army recruits Navy Officer Rip Crandall (Jack Lemmon) to command a battered old Schooner for a top secret mission. Masquerading as a Japanese fishing boat, this nautical nightmare must smuggle a spy through the mine-infested waters of the South Pacific. Unfortunately for Crandall, he has inherited a wild crew of butter-fingered landlubbers, including First Officer Tommy Hanson (Ricky Nelson).
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Ricky Nelson, John Lund, Chips Rafferty, Tom Tully, Joby Baker
Director: Richard Murphy
Kajaki (2014)
Adventure | Drama | Thriller | War
Kajaki Dam 2006. A company of young British soldiers encounter an unexpected, terrifying enemy. A dried-out river bed, and under every step the possibility of an anti-personnel mine. A mine that could cost you your leg – or your life.
Starring: Mark Stanley, David Elliot, Malachi Kirby, Paul Luebke, Ali Cook
Director: Paul Katis
Testament of Youth (2014)
Biography | Drama | History | War
A British woman recalls coming of age during World War I.
Starring: Kit Harington, Hayley Atwell, Alicia Vikander, Dominic West
Director: James Kent
Battle for Sevastopol / Bitva za Sevastopol (2015)
Biography | Drama | Romance | War
Battle for Sevastopol is biographical film about the life path of Lyudmila Pavlichenko woman-sniper who became a hero during the siege of Sevastopol in 1941–1942.
Starring: Yuliya Peresild, Evgeniy Tsyganov, Joan Blackham, Anatoliy Kot, Oleg Vasilkov, Nikita Tarasov, Stanislav Boklan
Director: Sergey Mokritskiy
Far from Vietnam / Loin du Vietnam (1967)
Documentary | Drama | War
In seven different parts, Godard, Klein, Lelouch, Marker, Resnais and Varda show their sympathy for the North-Vietnamees army during the Vietnam-war.
Starring: Jean-Luc Godard, Joris Ivens, William Klein, Claude Lelouch, Chris Marker, Alain Resnais
Director: Joris Ivens, William Klein, Agnès Varda, Chris Marker, Alain Resnais
Waterloo (1970)
Action | Drama | History | War
The allies enter Paris and Napoleon (in Fontainbleau) is obliged to abdicate. After heartfelt farewells to his army he is led off to exile on Elba. But after only a few months he manages to elude his captors and return to power at the Tuileries. France once again has to prepare itself to confront the allied armies. And it is Waterloo which is finally chosen as the site of the final battle.
Starring: Rod Steiger, Christopher Plummer, Orson Welles, Jack Hawkins, Virginia McKenna, Dan O'Herlihy
Director: Sergey Bondarchuk
Uncommon Valor (1983)
Action | Drama | Thriller | War
A group of Vietnam War veterans re-unite to rescue one of their own left behind and taken prisoner by the Vietnamese. Supported his father (a retired military man himself) and a rich businessman whose son was also a POW, the group engages in a dangerous and violent adventure trying to rescue the POWs and at the same time re-direct their lives.
Starring: Gene Hackman, Patrick Swayze, Fred Ward, Randall Cobb, Harold Sylvester, Robert Stack
Director: Ted Kotcheff
Oliver Sherman (2010)
Drama | Thriller | War
Feeling lost and disconnected, with no family of his own, veteran Sherman Oliver sets out to the countryside in search of the soldier who saved him back in the war. That man, Franklin Page, has long since moved on – to a wife, two children, and a reliable job in a reliably safe and quiet rural town. Upon arriving, Sherman seems at first a harmless if awkward shell of a man. But as he inserts himself further into the Pages' life, he reveals himself to be an angry, unstable individual prone to great jealousy and deep resentment. The stability Franklin worked so hard to establish is soon threatened, and the violence he believed he'd left behind in the war begins to re-emerge and cloud over both the household and the town itself.
Starring: Garret Dillahunt, Donal Logue, Molly Parker, Duane Murray
Director: Ryan Redford
Stalingrad (1993)
Drama | War
In the spring of 1942, German troops advanced deep into the Soviet Union en route to Stalingrad. Hitler seriously misjudged the tenacity of the Red Army and was convinced that the city could be conquered before winter. Ordinary foot soldiers, inadequately clothed and without sufficient food, struggled just to stay alive. Abandoned by their leaders, Nazi troops froze and starved to death in a conflict that left over one million dead. Stalingrad graphically depicts this turning point in World War II as a vast tableau of horror in which the average German soldier was as much a victim of Nazi evil as the Soviet people.
Starring: Dominique Horwitz, Thomas Kretschmann, Jochen Nickel, Sebastian Rudolph, Dana Vávrová, Martin Benrath
Director: Joseph Vilsmaier
Escape to Victory / Victory (1981)
Action | Drama | Sport | War
In World War II, a group of Nazi officers come up with a propaganda event in which an all star Nazi team will play a team composed of Allied Prisoners of War in a Soccer (Football) game. The Prisoners agree, planning on using the game as a means of escape from the camp.
Starring: Michael Caine, Sylvester Stallone, Max von Sydow, Tim Pigott-Smith, Maurice Roëves, Michael Cochrane
Director: John Huston
At' zije Republika / Long Live the Republic (1965)
Drama | War
The story of the bitter end of the second World War, seen through the eys of a small boy in a Czech countryside. As the responsibility of caring for the horses is passed on from father to son, the young boy experiences the distorted mentalities and anger characteristic of this war.
Starring: Frank Argus, Josef Barta, Eduard Bredun, Jirí Chmelar, Nadezda Gajerová
Director: Karel Kachyna
Sunny / You Are in a Far Away Nation / Nim-eun-meon-go-sae (2008)
Romance | War
A man in the Korea army leaves his wife for another woman. Unable to live with himself, he volunteers to go to the Vietnam War. His wife, Soon-yi, goes to search for her husband and bring him home. In order to make it there, Soon-yi must join a band as an entertainer and make her way across a war zone.
Starring: Soo Ae, Jin-yeong Jeong, Kyung Ho Jung
Director: Joon-ik Lee
The Lucky Ones / The Return (2008)
Comedy | Drama | War
Three soldiers returning from Iraq become companions on an unexpected road trip across the U.S.
Starring: Rachel McAdams, Tim Robbins, Michael Peña, Arden Myrin, John Heard, Katherine LaNasa
Director: Neil Burger
American Sniper (2014)
Action | Biography | Thriller | War
A Navy SEAL recounts his military career, which includes more than 150 confirmed kills.
Starring: Bradley Cooper, Kyle Gallner, Cole Konis, Ben Reed, Elise Robertson, Brandon Salgadotelis
Director: Clint Eastwood
Four Days of Snow and Blood / Ni-ni-roku / 226 (1989)
Action | Drama | War
Based on the "2.26 Incident", an attempted coup d'état in Japan 1936, launched by radical ultra-nationalist parts of the military. Several leading politicians were killed and the center of Tokyo was briefly held by the insurgents before the coup was suppressed.
Starring: Ken'ichi Hagiwara, Tomokazu Miura, Masahiro Motoki
Director: Hideo Gosha
Vikings (TV Series 2013- )
Action | Drama | History | War
Vikings follows the adventures of Ragnar Lothbrok the greatest hero of his age. The series tells the sagas of Ragnar's band of Viking brothers and his family, as he rises to become King of the Viking tribes. As well as being a fearless warrior, Ragnar embodies the Norse traditions of devotion to the gods, legend has it that he was a direct descendant of Odin, the god of war and warriors.
Starring: Travis Fimmel, Clive Standen, Gustaf Skarsgård, Katheryn Winnick, George Blagden, Jessalyn Gilsig, Maude Hirst, Alyssa Sutherland, Jefferson Hall
Creator: Michael Hirst
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
Drama | History | War
In 1948, an American court in occupied Germany tries four Nazi judges for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Starring: Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Marlene Dietrich, Judy Garland, Maximilian Schell
Director: Stanley Kramer
