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
Camp X-Ray (2014)
Drama | War
A young soldier escapes her suffocating small town by joining the military, only to find that she isn't going for a tour of duty in Iraq as she hoped. Instead, she's sent to Guantanamo. Met with hatred and abuse from the Muslim men in her charge, she forges an odd friendship with a young man who has been imprisoned at Gitmo for eight years.
Starring: Kristen Stewart, Tara Holt, Lane Garrison, Julia Duffy, John Carroll Lynch, Peyman Moaadi
Director: Peter Sattler
The Water Diviner (2014)
Drama | War
An Australian man travels to Turkey after the Battle of Gallipoli to try and locate his three missing sons. While staying at a hotel in Istanbul, he meets Ayshe, the hotel manager. And tries to find a way to Gallipoli.
Starring: Russell Crowe, Olga Kurylenko, Yilmaz Erdogan, Cem Yilmaz, Jai Courtney, Ryan Corr
Director: Russell Crowe
The Admiral: Roaring Currents / Myeong-ryang (2014)
Adventure | Biography | War
At the strait known as 'Roaring Currents', master strategist Admiral Yi and his 12 battleships oppose an enemy fleet of 330, and win an incredible victory.
Starring: Min-sik Choi, Seung-ryong Ryu, Jin-woong Jo, Myung-gon Kim, Ku Jin
Director: Han-min Kim
1941 / The Night the Japs Attacked (1979)
Action | Comedy | War
After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, mass hysteria breaks out in Southern California, while the bumbling crew of a Japanese sub searches for Hollywood and an "honorable" target to destroy.
Starring: Dan Aykroyd, Ned Beatty, John Belushi, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton, Christopher Lee
Director: Steven Spielberg
W.M.D. (2013)
Action | Thriller | War
The Iraq war has turned from 'Mission Accomplished' into a hellhole with an indeterminate outcome. There are no WMDs. No links to Al Qaeda. No imminent threat as promised by the administration. In an alternate reality, a group of angry and disgruntled U.S. soldiers set out on a suicide mission to uncover the truth. Doing the unthinkable, they kidnap the Commander in Chief and interrogate him using the same techniques they were trained to inflict upon the people whose country they invaded.
Starring: Tom Kiesche, John Posey, Weetus Cren, Leila Birch, John Brickner, Kate Mines, Jeff Prewett
Director: Richard Halpern
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Best Defense (1984)
Comedy | War
If you're out to build the ultimate Super Tanker/Super Weapon, and you find out Dudley Moore has something to do with designing the missile guidance system, you've got to be concerned. Then, when you find out Eddie Murphy is going to test the tank in an actual combat situation, you ought to forget about it all together. Luckily for us, the government and Dynatechnics Incorporated don't know Moore and Murphy like we do. And both comics are turned loose on a high-tech, hilarious adventure that sets modern warfare back a couple of hundred years.
Starring: Dudley Moore, Eddie Murphy, Kate Capshaw, George Dzundza, Helen Shaver, Mark Arnott, Peter Michael Goetz, Tom Noonan, David Rasche
Director: Willard Huyck
I Am Soldier (2014)
Action | Thriller | War
Action thriller about the brutal SAS selection process. Military chef Mickey Tomlinson attempts to join the Special Air Service (SAS), the British Army regiment which is known as the most elite fighting force in the world. He is put through his paces with each gruelling stage of the selection process but even if he manages to endure such extreme tests on his mind and body he will still have to prove himself on the battlefield.
Starring: Tom Hughes, Noel Clarke, Alex Reid, George Russo, Miranda Raison, Josh Myers
Director: Ronnie Thompson
Amen. / Eyewitness (2002)
Crime | Drama | War
In World War II, the sanitation engineer and family man Kurt Gerstein is assigned by SS to be the Head of the Institute for Hygiene to purify the water for the German Army in the front. Later, he is invited to participate in termination of plagues in the concentration camps and he develops the lethal gas Zyklon-B. When he witnesses that the SS is killing Jews instead, he decides to denounce the genocide to the Pope to expose to the world and save the Jewish families. The idealist Jesuit priest Riccardo Fontana from an influent Italian family gives his best efforts being the liaison of Gerstein and the leaders of the Vatican.
Starring: Ulrich Tukur, Mathieu Kassovitz, Ulrich Mühe, Michel Duchaussoy, Marcel Iures, Friedrich von Thun
Director: Costa-Gavras
The Beguiled (1971)
Drama | Romance | Thriller | War
During the civil war, injured Yankee soldier, John McBurney is rescued on the verge of death by a teenage girl from a southern boarding school. She manages to get him back to the school, and at first the all-female staff and pupils are scared. As he starts to recover, one by one he charms them and the atmosphere becomes filled with jealousy and deceit.
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Geraldine Page, Elizabeth Hartman, Jo Ann Harris, Darleen Carr, Mae Mercer
Director: Don Siegel
An Act of War (2015)
Drama | War
Battling insomnia & undiagnosed PTSD, a war veteran works nights as a projectionist at a decrepit theater. While struggling to adapt to civilian life, he soon finds himself tangled in an inescapable web of seduction, addiction, & violence.
Starring: Russ Russo, Natasha Alam, Doug E. Doug, Joseph R. Gannascoli, Robert Miano, Kiowa Gordon
Director: Ryan M. Kennedy
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Alexander Revisited: The Final Cut / Alexander (2004)
Action | Adventure | Biography | Drama | History | Romance | War
Oliver Stone's "Alexander" is based on the true story of one of history's most luminous and influential leaders – a man who had conquered 90% of the known world by the age of 25. The film chronicles Alexander's path to becoming a living legend, from a youth fuelled by dreams of myth, glory, and adventure, to his intense bonds with his closest companions, to his lonely death as a ruler of a vast empire.
Starring: Colin Farrell, Angelina Jolie, Val Kilmer, Jared Leto, Anthony Hopkins, Rosario Dawson
Director: Oliver Stone
Under Fire (1983)
Drama | War
Nicaragua 1979: Star photographer Russel Price covers the civil war against president Somoza. Facing the cruel fighting – people versus army – it's often hard for him to stay neutral. When the Guerillas have him take a picture of the leader Rafael, who's believed to be dead, he gets drawn into the happenings. Together with his reporter friends Claire and Alex he has to hide from the army.
Starring: Nick Nolte, Gene Hackman, Joanna Cassidy, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Richard Masur, Ed Harris
Director: Roger Spottiswoode
Unbroken (2014)
Biography | Drama | Sport | War
A chronicle of the life of Louis Zamperini, an Olympic runner who was taken prisoner by Japanese forces during World War II.
Starring: Jack O'Connell, Garrett Hedlund, Jai Courtney, Domhnall Gleeson, Alex Russell, Finn Wittrock
Director: Angelina Jolie
Unbroken (2014)
Biography | Drama | Sport | War
A chronicle of the life of Louis Zamperini, an Olympic runner who was taken prisoner by Japanese forces during World War II.
Starring: Jack O'Connell, Garrett Hedlund, Jai Courtney, Domhnall Gleeson, Alex Russell, Finn Wittrock
Director: Angelina Jolie
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The Imitation Game (2014)
Biography | Drama | Thriller | War
English mathematician and logician, Alan Turing, helps crack the Enigma code during World War II.
Starring: Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode, Rory Kinnear, Allen Leech, Matthew Beard
Director: Morten Tyldum
Allies (2014)
Action | War
August 1944. A team of British soldiers led by a US Captain are dropped behind enemy lines in France on a mission that could shorten the war. As nothing goes according to plan, commando Sergeant Harry McBain and Captain Gabriel Jackson know they must put aside personal animosity if the mission is to succeed. Inspired by true events, Allies tells the story of friendship and survival.
Starring: Julian Ovenden, Chris Reilly, Matt Willis, Edmund Kingsley, Leon Vickers
Director: Dominic Burns
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