WAR Movies and Tvshows - Page 40

The Steel Helmet (1951)

IMDb: 7.4
1951

A ragtag group of American stragglers battles against superior Communist troops in an abandoned Buddhist temple during the Korean War

Ithaca (2015)

IMDb: 5.5
2015

With his older brother off to war, fourteen year old telegram messenger Homer Macauley comes of age in the summer of 1942

The Book Thief (2013)

IMDb: 7.5
2013

While subjected to the horrors of World War II Germany, young Liesel finds solace by stealing books and sharing them with others In the basement of her home, a Jewish refugee is being protected by her adoptive parents

Emperor (2012)

IMDb: 6.5
2012

As the Japanese surrender at the end of World War II, General Fellers is tasked with deciding if Emperor Hirohito will be hanged as a war criminal Influencing his ruling is his quest to find Aya, an exchange student he met years ear

Fort Bliss (2014)

IMDb: 6.4
2014

After returning home from an extended tour in Afghanistan, a decorated U S Army medic and single mother struggles to rebuild her relationship with her young son

None Shall Escape (1944)

IMDb: 7.0
1944

The career of a Nazi officer shown as flashbacks from his trial as a war criminal

A Bridge Too Far (1977)

IMDb: 7.4
1977

Operation Market Garden, September 1944 The Allies attempt to capture several strategically important bridges in the Netherlands in the hope of breaking the German lines

Chosen (2016)

IMDb: 5.3
2016

An unassuming young lawyer leads a fight against the Nazis near the end of World War II

American Son (2008)

IMDb: 5.7
2008

The story of a young Marine, fresh from Camp Pendleton, who is forced to confront the complexities of adulthood and a volatile home life during a four day Thanksgiving leave

Sand Castle (2017)

IMDb: 6.3
2017

The story follows a young soldier, and his introduction into the 2003 invasion of Iraq Based on true events, it bears witness to the destruction, and horrors of war

The History of Love (2016)

IMDb: 6.3
2016

The story of a long lost book that mysteriously reappears and connects an old man searching for his son with a girl seeking a cure for her mothers loneliness

The Devastator (1986)

IMDb: 5.0
1986

This wars in your own backyard Violent warfare erupts in Northern California when Vietnam vet Deacon Porter reassembles his Combat Strike Force to avenge the death of a commanding officer

The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968)

IMDb: 6.6
1968

In 1854, during the Crimean War, poor planning leads to the British Light Brigade openly charging a Russian artillery position with tragic consequences

Mudbound (2017)

IMDb: 7.4
2017

Two men return home from World War II to work on a farm in rural Mississippi, where they struggle to deal with racism and adjusting to life after war

In Enemy Hands (2004)

IMDb: 6.0
2004

When American submarine Swordfish is torpedoed the survivors are picked up by a passing German U boat but an outbreak of meningitis threatens all aboard

Indochine (1992)

IMDb: 7.1
1992

Eliane adopts Camille, whose Vietnamese parents were friends In 1930, a French navy officer is interested in Eliane owns 60km2 plantation and later in Camille Theres an uprising in Vietnam against French colonial power

Jew Suss: Rise and Fall (2010)

IMDb: 6.1
2010

Rise and fall of actor Ferdinand Marian, who takes the chance and stars in the anti semitic movie Jud Su 1940

How the Holocaust Began (2023)

IMDb: 5.5
2023

The Nazi evolution from murderous anti semitism into organised death camps, as documented in this sober piece of historical excavation from Holocaust specialist James Bulgin, is truly shocking in its specificity An ad hoc interpr

Bomb Girls: Facing the Enemy (2014)

IMDb: 7.3
2014

Follows a woman at victory munitions as they contend with a saboteur in the factory

In Country (1989)

IMDb: 5.9
1989

A young girl whose father died in the Vietnam War becomes determined to find out more about him and his experiences

On the Double (1961)

IMDb: 6.5
1961

At the time of the Invasion of Normandy, an American soldier is asked to impersonate a British General in order to confuse the Nazi spies and assassins in London

Wings (1927)

IMDb: 7.5
1927

Two young men one rich, one middle class who are in love with the same woman, become fighter pilots in World War I

Lost Command (1966)

IMDb: 6.3
1966

French Army Colonel Raspeguy leads his paratroopers in battle against the Communist Viet Minh in Indochina and against Algerian guerrilla during the Algerian War

At War with the Army (1950)

IMDb: 5.7
1950

Alvin Corwin is low man on the totem pole, and goes from one mishap to another at an army training camp in World War II

Joy Division (2006)

IMDb: 6.1
2006

A teenage orphan fights against the Red Army at the end of WWII and in the aftermath is adopted by a Commissar Years later he is sent to London during the Cold war to work for the KGB, where he questions his life

White Ghost (1988)

IMDb: 4.5
1988

An M I A US soldier nicknamed White Ghost lives in hiding in the jungles of communist Vietnam The US army finds out about him and sends a black ops team to rescue him However, the team is led by a man who wants White Ghost dead

Saving General Yang (2013)

IMDb: 6.4
2013

In ancient China, the seven heirs of the Yang family face a horde of enemies to rescue their father

Things to Come (1936)

IMDb: 6.7
1936

The story of a century a decades long second World War leaves plague and anarchy, then a rational state rebuilds civilization and attempts space travel

Birdy (1984)

IMDb: 7.3
1984

After two friends return home from the Vietnam War one becomes mentally unstable and obsesses with becoming a bird

The True Story of Lilli Marlene (1944)

IMDb: 6.7
1944

How Lili Marlene became the signature tune for the British army in North Africa

Beachhead (1954)

IMDb: 5.8
1954

In 1943, in the wake of the Allied amphibious landing on the Japanese held Bougainville Island, four Marines are sent to scout the location of Japanese minefields

The Veteran (2006)

IMDb: 3.6
2006

Thirty years after the fall of Saigon, politician Ray Watson returns to Vietnam to lay his demons to rest, but he is confronted by a POW he left behind who forces him to relive the day of their capture

The More the Merrier (1943)

IMDb: 7.7
1943

During the World War II housing shortage in Washington, two men and a woman share a single apartment and the older man plays Cupid to the other two

War Photographer (2001)

IMDb: 8.0
2001

Documentary about war photographer James Nachtwey, considered by many the greatest war photographer ever

American Guerrilla in the Philippines (1

IMDb: 6.1
1950

American soldiers stranded in the Philippines after the Japanese invasion form guerrilla bands to fight back

The Battles of Coronel and Falkland Isla

IMDb: 7.3
1927

Dramatic reconstruction of two 1914 naval battles off Coronel and the Falkland Islands The first a defeat of the British by Vice Admiral Maximilian von Spee, the second a retaliation by the British under vice Admiral Sturdee