War Pigs (2015)
Action | War
A rag tag unit of misfits known as the War Pigs must go behind enemy lines to exterminate Nazis by any means necessary.
Starring: Dolph Lundgren, Luke Goss, Chuck Liddell, Mickey Rourke
Director: Ryan Little
Bahubali: The Beginning (2015)
Action | Adventure | History | War
A dispute between brothers spans across two generations.
Starring: Prabhas, Tamannaah Bhatia, Sathyaraj, Anushka Shetty, Rana Daggubati, Nassar
Director: S.S. Rajamouli
Spartacus (1960)
Adventure | Biography | Drama | History | War
Filmed in Technirama, this epic story chronicles one of histories greatest underdogs — Spartacus! He and other slaves are sold to an owner of a school for gladiators. Spartacus excels and is rewarded with a slave women, Varinia, for his pleasure in which he demurs. However they eventually fall for each other before a death match for a corrupt Roman senator, Marcus Crassus. After the brutal spectacle, Spartacus is enraged by the death of his friends and the loss of his love. He leads a revolt and bolts. Marching across the countryside to escape over the sea to their homelands, he is elated to find Varinia. Their quest becomes entwined with the political aspirations of Crassus and sets the fate of all three. Spartacus' saga survives the test of time and has been immortalized by this landmark film.
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton, Peter Ustinov, John Gavin
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Beasts of No Nation (2015)
Drama | War
A drama based on the experiences of Agu, a child soldier fighting in the civil war of an unnamed African country.
Starring: Idris Elba, Ama K. Abebrese, Abraham Attah, Opeyemi Fagbohungbe, Vivan Boateng, Richard Pepple
Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga
Destination Gobi (1953)
Adventure | Drama | War
Navy weathermen are forced to accept the help of Mongol nomads in the Gobi desert during World War II, when their craft comes under fire from Japanese attack.
Starring: Richard Widmark, Don Taylor, Max Showalter, Murvyn Vye, Darryl Hickman, Martin Milner
Director: Robert Wise
Northern Limit Line / Yeonpyeong Haejeon (2015)
Documentary | Drama | War
Based on the true story that is known as the second battle of Yeonpyeong, this movie tells the story of some of the young soldiers who fought and died in the battle. The battle took place in the yellow sea on 29th of June in 2002, when two North-Korean vessels boarded the NLL – the Northern Limit Line – and fired at the South-Korean patrol boat named Chamsuri 357, killing six men and left 18 injured.
Starring: Mu-Yeol Kim, Jin Goo, Lee Hyun Woo, Lee Wan, Chung-ah Lee
Director: Kim Hak-Soon
1944 (2015)
Drama | War
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 soldiers, but also by their loved ones.
Starring: Marko Leht, Maiken Schmidt, Kaspar Velberg, Mait Malmsten, Kristjan Üksküla
Director: Elmo Nüganen
Legends of the Fall (1994)
Drama | Romance | War | Western
Tiring of the brutality of cavalry life, Colonel William Ludlow starts a new life with his family in the majestic mountains of Montana. While growing up, his three sons are inseparable, but as young men, passion, the butchery of WWI and personal tragedy intervene in their lives and shake the foundations of their family.
Starring: Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, Aidan Quinn, Julia Ormond, Henry Thomas, Karina Lombard
Director: Edward Zwick
Ode to My Father / Gukjesijang (2014)
Drama | Romance | War
Amid the chaos of refugees fleeing the Korean War in December 1950, a young boy, Duk-soo, sees his fate change in the blink of an eye when he loses track of his younger sister and he leaves his father behind to find her. Settling in Busan, Duk-soo devotes himself to his remaining family, working all manner of odd jobs to support them in place of his father. His dedication leads him first to the deadly coal mines of Germany, where he meets his first love, Youngja, and then to war-torn Vietnam in this generational epic about one man's personal sacrifices.
Starring: Jeong-min Hwang, Yunjin Kim, Dal-su Oh, Jin-young Jung, Young-nam Jang, Mi-ran Ra, Kim Seul-gi
Director: JK Youn
The McKenzie Break / Wolfpack (1970)
Action | Drama | War
During WW2, German POWs in Britain plot to escape from their prison camp in Scotland.
Starring: Brian Keith, Helmut Griem, Ian Hendry, Jack Watson, Patrick O'Connell, Horst Janson
Director: Lamont Johnson
Shining Through (1992)
Drama | Romance | Thriller | War
1940, Linda Voss is a woman of Irish, Jewish-German parentage who loves the movies, especially films about war and spies. She gets a job at a New York law firm, after it's revealed she can speak German, fluently. As secretary and translator to Ed Leland, she begins to suspect that her boss is involved in espionage work. The two become lovers, and when America officially joins the Allies in fighting Hitler, Linda volunteers to go undercover behind enemy lines.
Starring: Michael Douglas, Melanie Griffith, Liam Neeson, Joely Richardson
Director: David Seltzer
The Search (2014)
Drama | War
A woman who works for a non-governmental organization (NGO) forms a special relationship with a young boy in war-torn Chechnya.
Starring: Bérénice Bejo, Annette Bening
Director: Michel Hazanavicius
The Dawn Patrol (1930)
Action | Drama | War
In 1915, Major Brand, commander of the 59th British Squadron in France, despairs that he has become the executioner of the young fliers in his squadron, who are being sent to their deaths in inferior planes. This is the story of Brand, his men, and the war in the air.
Starring: Richard Barthelmess, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Neil Hamilton, Frank McHugh
Director: Howard Hawks
Underground / Once Upon a Time There Was a Country (1995)
Comedy | Drama | War
The story follows an underground weapons manufacturer in Belgrade during WWII and evolves into fairly surreal situations. A black marketeer who smuggles the weapons to partisans doesn't mention to the workers that the war is over, and they keep producing. Years later, they break out of their underground "shelter" — only to convince themselves that the war is still going on.
Starring: Predrag Manojlovic, Lazar Ristovski, Mirjana Jokovic
Director: Emir Kusturica
When Trumpets Fade (1998)
Action | Drama | War
Pvt. David Manning, shell-shocked after serving on the front line, requests a dismissal but is instead promoted to sergeant. Leading a team of newbie soldiers, he finds further devastation when his troops become involved in the battle of Hurgen Forest.
Starring: Ron Eldard, Zak Orth, Frank Whaley, Dylan Bruno, Devon Gummersall, Dan Futterman
Director: John Irvin
Little Boy (2015)
Comedy | Drama | War
A young American boy struggles to achieve the impossible…bring his father back from World War II.
Starring: Jakob Salvati, Emily Watson, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Michael Rapaport, David Henrie, Eduardo Verástegui
Director: Alejandro Monteverde
The White Countess (2005)
Drama | History | Romance | War
Todd is an American expatriate living in Shanghai in the late 1930s. Once an idealistic diplomat, politic conflict and military violence has left him disillusioned. He has also lost most of his sight and retreated into Shanghai's decadent underworld of bars and brothels. His heart softens, however, as he becomes acquainted with Sofia, a Russian countess who fled her home during the revolution and now lives in Shanghai, supporting her family as a dance-hall girl and prostitute.
Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Natasha Richardson, Vanessa Redgrave, Lynn Redgrave, Hiroyuki Sanada, Madeleine Potter
Director: James Ivory
Charlotte Gray (2001)
Drama | Romance | Thriller | War
Charlotte Gray's World War II assignment could be the first of many. Or her fatal last. The people she meets could be friends. Or insidious traitors. Trained to be an undercover courier for England, Charlotte straps on a parachute and falls from the sky into Vichy France. There she will assist the French Resistance in its defiance of Nazi occupation. Only one out of three couriers will return home. Cate Blanchett plays Charlotte, who goes behind enemy lines while keeping secret her personal mission to find her lover, an RAF pilot downed over France.
Starring: Cate Blanchett, Billy Crudup, Michael Gambon, Rupert Penry-Jones, James Fleet, Hugh Ross
Director: Gillian Armstrong
Suite Française (2014)
Drama | Romance | War
France, 1940. In the first days of occupation, beautiful Lucile Angellier is trapped in a stifled existence with her controlling mother-in-law as they both await news of her husband: a prisoner of war. Parisian refugees start to pour into their small town, soon followed by a regiment of German soldiers who take up residence in the villagers' own homes. Lucile initially tries to ignore Bruno von Falk, the handsome and refined German officer staying with them. But soon, a powerful love draws them together and leads them into the tragedy of war.
Starring: Michelle Williams, Matthias Schoenaerts, Kristin Scott Thomas, Margot Robbie, Eric Godon, Deborah Findlay
Director: Saul Dibb
Enigma (2001)
Drama | Mystery | Romance | Thriller | War
During the heart of World War II, in March of 1943, cryptoanalysts at Britain's code-breaking center have discovered to their horror that Nazi U-boats have changed their Enigma Code. Authorities enlist the help of a brilliant young man named Tom Jericho to help them break the code again. The possibility of a spy within the British code-breakers' ranks looms and Tom's love, Claire, has disappeared. To solve the mysteries, Tom recruits Claire's best friend, Hester Wallace. In investigating Claire's personal life, the pair discovers personal and international betrayals.
Starring: Dougray Scott, Kate Winslet, Saffron Burrows, Jeremy Northam, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Tom Hollander
Director: Michael Apted
