The Black Tent (1956)
Drama | Romance | War
In the African desert, a British soldier romances the native chief's daughter and helps the tribe fight off a Nazi attack.
Starring: Donald Sinden, Anthony Steel, Anna-Maria Sandri, André Morell, Donald Pleasence, Ralph Truman
Director: Brian Desmond Hurst
Bravo Two Zero (1999)
Action | Adventure | Drama | Thriller | War
This is the true story of the most highly decorated British patrol since the Boer war: an eight man SAS team inserted behind Iraqi lines during the Gulf War in January 1991. Their mission was to take out the scud missiles which Saddam Hussein was using to terrorize his enemies, as well as to sever strategic communication lines between Baghdad and North West Iraq. This top secret mission was called "Bravo Two Zero" and it was commanded by Sergeant Andy McNab. Of the eight who went out, only five returned. Dropped into "scud alley" carrying 210-pound packs, McNab and his men soon found themselves surrounded by Saddam's army. Their radios didn't work; the weather was brutally cold. And they had been spotted.
Starring: Sean Bean, Steve Nicolson, Rick Warden, Richard Graham, Robert Hobbs
Director: Tom Clegg
La sporca insegna del coraggio / Brothers in Blood (1987)
Adventure | War
War is Hell… especially NAM. A group of battle weary soldiers in Vietnam are trapped behind enemy lines. There is no way back. No help on the way. It's only a matter of time and these guys intend to "Die Fighting" Bo Svenson and Peter Hooten together again join the Late, great Werner Porchat in this explosive Italian commando film.
Starring: Bo Svenson, Carlo Mucari, Peter Hooten, Werner Pochath, Nat Kelly Cole, Franklin Dominguez, Martin Balsam
Director: Tonino Valerii
The Notebook (2004)
Drama | Romance | War
A poor yet passionate young man falls in love with a rich young woman, giving her a sense of freedom, but they are soon separated because of their social differences.
Starring: Ryan Gosling, Rachel McAdams, James Garner, Gena Rowlands, James Marsden, Joan Allen
Director: Nick Cassavetes
Mulan (1998)
Adventure | Animation | Family | Fantasy | Musical | War
To save her father from death in the army, a young maiden secretly goes in his place and becomes one of China's greatest heroines in the process.
Starring: Ming-Na Wen, Eddie Murphy, BD Wong, Miguel Ferrer, James Hong, Pat Morita
Director: Tony Bancroft, Barry Cook
Bright Young Things (2003)
Comedy | Drama | War
An adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's novel "Vile Bodies", is a look into the lives of a young novelist, his would-be lover, and a host of young people who beautified London in the 1930s.
Starring: Emily Mortimer, Stephen Campbell Moore, Dan Aykroyd, Jim Broadbent, Stockard Channing, Guy Henry, James McAvoy, Michael Sheen, David Tennant, Fenella Woolgar, Peter O'Toole
Director: Stephen Fry
The Birdcatcher / The Bird Catcher (2019)
Drama | History | Thriller | War
A Jewish girl Esther is forced to conceal her identity as a boy on a Nazi-Norwegian farm. Plotting her escape to Sweden, her daily challenge to keep her true identity a secret, leads to a series of choices and consequences.
Starring: Sarah-Sofie Boussnina, Arthur Hakalahti, Jakob Cedergren, Laura Birn, August Diehl, Johannes Kuhnke
Director: Ross Clarke
Dauntless: The Battle of Midway (2019)
Action | Adventure | History | War
By June 1942, the Japanese Navy has swept across the Pacific. In an effort to change the course of the war, a United States carrier group is positioned off the coast of Midway, tasked with springing a trap on the enemy. During this pivotal battle, the two-man crew of a U.S. Navy dive bomber is forced to ditch in the sea. Set adrift, the men look towards their comrades for rescue; namely, the ragtag crew of a PBY Catalina, who are sent to search for survivors. Amid the vast openness of the Pacific, with days passing and the chance of rescue fading, the men are forced to face their own mortality.
Starring: Jade Willey, Adam Peltier, John Enick, James Austin Kerr, Byrne Offutt, Aidan Bristow
Director: Mike Phillips
The Island on Bird Street (1997)
Drama | War
Alex is an 11-year old boy who, during WWII, hides in the Jewish ghetto from Nazis after all the relatives have been sent to the concentration camp. The movie portrays the ghetto through his eyes.
Starring: Patrick Bergin, Jordan Kiziuk, Jack Warden, Lee Ross, Michael Byrne
Director: Søren Kragh-Jacobsen
Force 10 from Navarone (1978)
Action | Drama | War
During World War II, several oddly assorted military experts are teamed in a mission to raid and destroy a bridge vital to enemy strategy.
Starring: Robert Shaw, Harrison Ford, Barbara Bach, Edward Fox, Franco Nero, Carl Weathers
Director: Guy Hamilton
South Pacific (1958)
Musical | Romance | War
On a South Pacific island during World War II, love blooms between a young nurse and a secretive Frenchman who's being courted for a dangerous military mission.
Starring: Rossano Brazzi, Mitzi Gaynor, John Kerr, Ray Walston, Juanita Hall, France Nuyen
Director: Joshua Logan
Aircraft Carrier Ibuki / Kubo Ibuki (2019)
Action | Drama | Thriller | War
Japan builds its first aircraft carrier, the Ibuki, to deal with escalating world tensions.
Starring: Hidetoshi Nishijima, Kuranosuke Sasaki, Tatsuya Fuji, Jun Murakami, Hôshi Ishida, Shigeyuki Totsugi, Hayato Ichihara, Kinari Hirano
Director: Setsurô Wakamatsu
Resistance (2020)
Biography | Drama | History | War
The story of a group of Jewish Boy Scouts who worked with the French Resistance to save the lives of ten thousand orphans during World War II.
Starring: Jesse Eisenberg, Clémence Poésy, Ed Harris, Bella Ramsey, Alicia von Rittberg, Matthias Schweighöfer
Director: Jonathan Jakubowicz
Father Soldier Son (2020)
Documentary | War
When Sgt. First Class Brian Eisch is critically wounded in Afghanistan, it sets him and his sons on a journey of love, loss, redemption and legacy.
Starring: Brian Eisch
Director: Leslye Davis, Catrin Einhorn
Greyhound (2020)
Action | Drama | History | War
Early in World War II, an inexperienced U.S. Navy captain must lead an Allied convoy being stalked by Nazi U-boat wolfpacks.
Starring: Tom Hanks, Stephen Graham, Rob Morgan, Elisabeth Shue, Karl Glusman, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo
Director: Aaron Schneider
I Am Fear (2020)
Horror | Thriller | War
Held captive by terrorists, celebrity reporter, Sara Brown, sits in a cell awaiting her filmed beheading. Sara's captors wish to show the world the true face of terror but how can they, when even they have not seen it yet?
Starring: Kristina Klebe, Faran Tahir, Said Faraj, Eoin Macken, William Forsythe, Bill Moseley
Director: Kevin Shulman
Syngué sabour, pierre de patience / The Patience Stone (2012)
Drama | War
As war rages around a soft-spoken woman in an unknown war-torn Middle Eastern country, her husband lies in a coma. She is forced to send her two children to live with her aunt while she struggles to keep him alive. After falling into a relationship with a young soldier, she begins a secret dialogue with her ailing husband as a means of freeing herself.
Starring: Golshifteh Farahani
Director: Atiq Rahimi
Da 5 Bloods (2020)
Drama | War
Four African-American vets battle the forces of man and nature when they return to Vietnam seeking the remains of their fallen Squad Leader and the gold fortune he helped them hide.
Starring: Delroy Lindo, Jonathan Majors, Clarke Peters, Norm Lewis, Isiah Whitlock Jr., Mélanie Thierry, Paul Walter Hauser, Jasper Pääkkönen
Director: Spike Lee
Waiting for Anya (2020)
Drama | Thriller | War
During the harrows of WWII, Jo, a young shepherd along with the help of the widow Horcada, helps to smuggle Jewish children across the border from southern France into Spain.
Starring: Jean Reno, Anjelica Huston, Thomas Kretschmann, Noah Schnapp, Frederick Schmidt, Elsa Zylberstein
Director: Ben Cookson
The Battle: Roar to Victory / Bongoh Town Battle / Bongodong Jeontoo (2019)
Action | Drama | History | War
Over a 4 day period, a fierce battle takes place between Korean independence militias and imperialist Japanese forces in Manchuria, China. The militia includes a master swordsman and an expert marksman.
Starring: Hae-Jin Yoo, Jun-Yeol Ryu, Woo-jin Jo, Yoo-Bin Sung, Jae-in Lee, Kazuki Kitamura, Hiroyuki Ikeuchi, Ji-hwan Park
Director: Shin-yeon Won
