The Tudors (TV Series 2007-2010)
Drama | History | Romance | War
The Tudors is an Irish-produced historical fiction television series created by Michael Hirst. The series is based upon the reign of English monarch Henry VIII, and is named after the Tudor dynasty.
Starring: Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Henry Cavill, Anthony Brophy, James Frain, Guy Carleton, Natalie Dormer
Creator: Michael Hirst
Kagemusha / The Shadow Warrior (1980)
Drama | History | War
On the death of a clan chief his place is taken by the lookalike hired to overlook the battlefields while the chief is really busy elsewhere.
Starring: Tatsuya Nakadai, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Kenichi Hagiwara
Director: Akira Kurosawa
The Battle of the River Plate (1956)
Action | Adventure | Drama | History | War
Hans Langsdorff is captaining the crack German battleship Graf Spee through the South Atlantic, unaware that a small number of lightweight British battle cruisers are hot on his trail. When the British cruisers manage to trap the powerful German ship in the Uruguayan harbor of Montevideo, they attempt to trick Langsdorff into believing that an entire battle fleet is waiting to destroy his vessel at sea.
Starring: John Gregson, Anthony Quayle, Ian Hunter, Jack Gwillim, Bernard Lee
Director: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
The Thin Red Line (1998)
Action | Drama | War
As US soldiers land on the island of Guadalcanal, hoping to capture it from the Japanese, the job of venturing into the jungle falls to the 'C for Charlie' company and the troops are faced by both the enemy and struggles within their own camp. The war takes a heavy toll upon the young soldiers, leading them on a path of disillusion and possibly death.
Starring: Kirk Acevedo, Sean Penn, Penelope Allen, James Caviezel, George Clooney
Director: Terrence Malick
Senso (1954)
Drama | History | Romance | War
A troubled and neurotic Italian Countess betrays her entire country for a self-destructive love affair with an Austrian Lieutenant.
Starring: Farley Granger, Alida Valli, Heinz Moog, Heinz Moog, Rina Morelli, Christian Marquand, Sergio Fantoni
Director: Luchino Visconti
La grande vadrouille / Don't Look Now: We're Being Shot At (1966)
Comedy | War
An allied bomberplane is shot down over Paris by the Germans. Its crew (Terry Thomas as a flight captain) land there by parachute. With the help of some French civilians (Louis de Funès in the role of a conductor and Bourvil as a house painter) they try to escape over the demarcation line into the southern part of France, still not occupied by the Germans.
Starring: Bourvil, Louis de Funès, Claudio Brook, Andréa Parisy, Colette Brosset
Director: Gérard Oury
Gods and Generals (2003)
Action | Drama | History | War
A sweeping epic charting the early years of the Civil War and how campaigns unfolded from Manassas to the Battle of Fredericksburg, this prequel to the film Gettysburg explores the motivations of the combatants and examines the lives of those who waited at home.
Starring: Robert Duvall, Stephen Lang, Jeff Daniels, Mira Sorvino, Bruce Boxleitner
Director: Ronald F. Maxwell
5 Days of War (2011)
Action | Drama | War
A drama set centered around the war between Russia and Georgia, and focused on a journalist from the US, his cameraman, and a Georgian native who become caught in the crossfire.
Starring: Rupert Friend, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Richard Coyle, Andy Garcia, Val Kilmer, Dean Cain
Director: Renny Harlin
Pathfinders: In the Company of Strangers (2011)
Action | History | War
Untold and lost history. A true story of the American Pathfinders, the volunteer paratroopers whose deadly mission was to land 30 minutes before the Normandy invasion, locate and mark strategic "drop zones" and set up the top-secret navigation equipment needed to guide the main airborne assault on D-Day.
Starring: Christopher Serrone, Michael Conner Humphreys, Jon Ashley Hall
Director: Curt A. Sindelar
Defiance (2008)
Action | Drama | History | Thriller | War
Four Jewish brothers living in Nazi occupied Poland escape into the forest where they join up with Russian resistance fighters in battling the Nazis. Throughout the war they built a village inside the forest and saved the lives of more than 1200 other Jews. Based on a true story.
Starring: Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber, Jamie Bell, Alexa Davalos, Alan Corduner
Director: Edward Zwick
Valiant (2005)
Animation | Adventure | Comedy | Family | War
Set in 1944, Valiant is a woodland pigeon who wants to become a great hero someday. When he hears they are hiring recruits for the Royal Homing Pigeon Service, he immediately sets out for London. On the way, he meets a smelly but friendly pigeon named Bugsy, who joins him, mainly to get away from clients he cheated in a game of find-the pebble, and helps him sign up for the war.
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Ricky Gervais, Tim Curry, Jim Broadbent, Hugh Laurie, John Cleese, John Hurt
Director: Gary Chapman
Born on the Fourth of July (1989)
Biography | Drama | War
The biography of Ron Kovic. Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, he becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought for.
Starring: Tom Cruise, Raymond J. Barry, Caroline Kava
Director: Oliver Stone
Valkyrie / Walküre (2008)
Drama | History | Thriller | War
Tom Cruise stars in the true story of Col. Claus von Stauffenberg and the daring plot to eliminate one of the most evil tyrants the world has ever known.
Starring: Tom Cruise, Kenneth Branagh, Bill Nighy, Tom Wilkinson, Carice van Houten
Director: Bryan Singer
Head in the Clouds (2004)
Drama | Romance | War
HEAD IN THE CLOUDS is a sweeping romantic drama set in 1930's England, Paris, and Spain. Gilda Bessé shares her Paris apartment with an Irish schoolteacher, Guy Malyon, and Mia, a refugee from Spain. As the world drifts toward war, Gilda defiantly pursues her hedonistic lifestyle and her burgeoning career as a photographer. But Guy and Mia feel impelled to join the fight against fascism, and the three friends are separated – seemingly forever.
Starring: Charlize Theron, Stuart Townsend, Penélope Cruz, Thomas Kretschmann
Director: John Duigan
Restrepo (2010)
Documentary | War
Award-winning journalists Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger chronicle the deployment of a platoon of American soldiers at one of the most dangerous outposts in Afghanistan, capturing the day-to-day reality of modern warfare as never seen before. From June 2007 to July 2008, Hetherington and Junger embedded with the soldiers of Second Platoon, Battle Company in the remote Korengal Valley in eastern Afghanistan, as they fought to build and maintain a remote 15-man outpost named "Restrepo" after a platoon medic who was killed in action. The filmmakers avoid all outside commentary and political context in order to present us war as it is actually lived by soldiers, through their own eyes and in their own words – the backbreaking labor, the deadly firefights, the boredom, the camaraderie.
Starring: Dan Kearney, Lamonta Caldwell, Kevin Rice, Misha C. Pemble-Belkin, Juan Restrepo
Director: Tim Hetherington, Sebastian Junge
Courage Under Fire (1996)
Action | Drama | Mystery | War
When Lt. Colonel Nathaniel Serling (Denzel Washington) is asked to review the posthumous candidacy of the first woman (Meg Ryan) to receive a medal of honor, he finds himself plunged into an apparent cover-up surrounding the actions that led to her death. As he struggles to uncover the truth, he also finds himself forced to confront his own tormenting demons. Matt Damon co-stars in this powerful and provocative drama.
Starring: Denzel Washington, Meg Ryan, Lou Diamond Phillips, Michael Moriarty, Matt Damon
Director: Edward Zwick
The Patriot (2000)
Action | Drama | War
In 1776 South Carolina, widower and legendary war hero Benjamin Martin finds himself thrust into the midst of the American Revolutionary War as he helplessly watches his family torn apart by the savage forces of the British Redcoats. Unable to remain silent, he recruits a band of reluctant volunteers, including his idealistic patriot son, Gabriel, to take up arms against the British. Fighting to protect his family's freedom and his country's independence, Martin discovers the pain of betrayal, the redemption of revenge and the passion of love.
Starring: Mel Gibson, Heath Ledger, Joely Richardson, Jason Isaacs, Chris Cooper
Director: Roland Emmerich
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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (2008)
Drama | History | War
Set during World War II, a story seen through the innocent eyes of Bruno, the eight-year-old son of the commandant at a concentration camp, whose forbidden friendship with a Jewish boy on the other side of the camp fence has startling and unexpected consequences.
Starring: Asa Butterfield, David Thewlis, Rupert Friend
Director: Mark Herman
Rambo / Rambo IV (2008)
Action | Adventure | Drama | Thriller
When a group of missionary aid workers in Myanmar disappear into the vast green inferno, vigilante Vietnam War veteran John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) leaves his job as a Salween River boatman behind to accompany a group of mercenaries on a daring rescue mission. It's been twenty years since Rambo helped mujahedeen rebels fend off Soviet invaders in Afghanistan, and these days the former soldier lives a simple life in northern Thailand. But it's time now for Rambo to take up arms once more and mete out his own, unique, brand of justice.
Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Julie Benz, Paul Schulze, Matthew Marsden, Graham McTavish
Director: Sylvester Stallone
Battle of Britain (1969)
Action | Drama | War
A powerful, colourful and star-studded re-creation of the epic 1940 battle that took place in the skies over England. Surprised and understaffed, the British forces used determination and guile to valiantly hold off the superior forces of the German Luftwaffe in the early days of World War II. If England had lost, the Germans may very well have won the war. The incredible cast includes Michael Caine, Robert Shaw, Curt Jurgens, and Laurence Olivier, in a no-expense-spared production featuring stunning airborne dog-fight sequences.
Starring: Harry Andrews, Trevor Howard, Michael Caine, Curd Jürgens, Ralph Richardson
Director: Guy Hamilton
