War

When the Emperor of China issues a decree that one man per family must serve in the Imperial Chinese Army to defend the country from Huns, Hua Mulan, the eldest daughter of an honored warrior, steps in to take the place of her ailing father. She is spirited, determined and quick on her feet. Disguised as a man by the name of Hua Jun, she is tested every step of the way and must harness her innermost strength and embrace her true potential.

Director: Niki Caro

Genres: Drama , Action , War , Fantasy

Actors: Liu Yifei, Donnie Yen, Gong Li, Jet Li, Jason Scott Lee

A small unit of U.S. soldiers, alone at the remote Combat Outpost Keating, located deep in the valley of three mountains in Afghanistan, battles to defend against an overwhelming force of Taliban fighters in a coordinated attack. The Battle of Kamdesh, as it was known, was the bloodiest American engagement of the Afghan War in 2009 and Bravo Troop 3-61 CAV became one of the most decorated units of the 19-year conflict.

Director: Rod Lurie

Genres: War , Drama , History , Action

Actors: Scott Eastwood, Caleb Landry Jones, Orlando Bloom, Ernest Cavazos, Taylor John Smith

A group of World War II American soldiers encounter a supernatural enemy as they occupy a French castle previously under Nazi control.

Director: Eric Bress

Genres: Horror , Thriller , War , Fantasy

Actors: Brenton Thwaites, Theo Rossi, Skylar Astin, Kyle Gallner, Alan Ritchson

A first-time captain leads a convoy of allied ships carrying thousands of soldiers across the treacherous waters of the “Black Pit” to the front lines of WW2. With no air cover protection for 5 days, the captain and his convoy must battle the surrounding enemy Nazi U-boats in order to give the allies a chance to win the war.

Director: Aaron Schneider

Genres: War , Action , Drama

Actors: Tom Hanks, Elisabeth Shue, Stephen Graham, Matt Helm, Craig Tate

The story of Vera Atkins, a crafty spy recruiter, and two of the first women she selects for Churchill's "secret army": Virginia Hall, a daring American undaunted by a disability and Noor Inayat Khan, a pacifist. These civilian women form an unlikely sisterhood while entangled in dangerous missions to turn the tide of the war.

Director: Lydia Dean Pilcher

Genres: Drama , Thriller , War

Actors: Stana Katic, Radhika Apte, Sarah Megan Thomas, Linus Roache, Rossif Sutherland

At the height of the First World War, two young British soldiers must cross enemy territory and deliver a message that will stop a deadly attack on hundreds of soldiers.

Director: Sam Mendes

Genres: War , Drama , Action , History

Actors: George MacKay, Dean-Charles Chapman, Mark Strong, Andrew Scott, Richard Madden

The incredible true story of Vietnam War hero William H. Pitsenbarger, a U.S. Air Force Pararescuemen medic who personally saved over sixty men. Thirty-two years later, Pentagon staffer Scott Huffman investigates a Congressional Medal of Honor request for Pitsenbarger and uncovers a high-level conspiracy behind the decades-long denial of the medal, prompting Huffman to put his own career on the line to seek justice for the fallen airman.

Director: Todd Robinson

Genres: Drama , War

Actors: Sebastian Stan, Christopher Plummer, William Hurt, Ed Harris, Samuel L. Jackson

In the last months of World War II, as the Allies make their final push in the European theatre, a battle-hardened U.S. Army sergeant named 'Wardaddy' commands a Sherman tank called 'Fury' and its five-man crew on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. Outnumbered and outgunned, Wardaddy and his men face overwhelming odds in their heroic attempts to strike at the heart of Nazi Germany.

Director: David Ayer

Genres: War , Drama , Action

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A fictional history of two legendary revolutionaries journey away from home before they began fighting for their country in the 1920s.

Director: S.S. Rajamouli

Genres: Action , Drama , War , History

Actors: N.T. Rama Rao Jr., Ram Charan, Alia Bhatt, Olivia Morris, Ajay Devgn

WWII American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, who served during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people and becomes the first Conscientious Objector in American history to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor.

Director: Mel Gibson

Genres: Drama , History , War

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A World War II satire that follows a lonely German boy whose world view is turned upside down when he discovers his single mother is hiding a young Jewish girl in their attic. Aided only by his idiotic imaginary friend, Adolf Hitler, Jojo must confront his blind nationalism.

Director: Taika Waititi

Genres: Comedy , War , Drama

Actors: Roman Griffin Davis, Thomasin McKenzie, Scarlett Johansson, Taika Waititi, Sam Rockwell

The story of mime Marcel Marceau as he works with a group of Jewish boy scouts and the French Resistance to save the lives of ten thousand orphans during World War II.

Director: Jonathan Jakubowicz

Genres: Drama , History , War

Actors: Jesse Eisenberg, Ed Harris, Edgar Ramírez, Clémence Poésy, Matthias Schweighöfer

Based on the real life story of legendary cryptanalyst Alan Turing, the film portrays the nail-biting race against time by Turing and his brilliant team of code-breakers at Britain's top-secret Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park, during the darkest days of World War II.

Director: Morten Tyldum

Genres: History , Drama , Thriller , War

Actors: Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode, Rory Kinnear, Allen Leech

In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds, lead by Lt. Aldo Raine soon cross paths with a French-Jewish teenage girl who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers.

Director: Quentin Tarantino

Genres: Drama , Action , Thriller , War

Actors: Brad Pitt, Mélanie Laurent, Christoph Waltz, Eli Roth, Michael Fassbender

In the occupied Netherlands during World War II, banker Walraven van Hall is asked to use his financial contacts to help the Dutch resistance. With his brother Gijs, he comes up with a risky plan to take out huge loans and use the money to finance the Resistance.

Director: Joram Lürsen

Genres: War , Drama

Actors: Barry Atsma, Jacob Derwig, Pierre Bokma, Götz Schubert, Fockeline Ouwerkerk

As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fourth trapped behind enemy lines. Ranger captain John Miller and seven men are tasked with penetrating German-held territory and bringing the boy home.

Director: Steven Spielberg

Genres: Drama , History , War

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1793, French Revolution. For three years now, Charette, a young man retired from the Royal Navy, has been back home. In the country, the anger of the peasants rumbles: they call on the young retiree to take command of the rebellion. In a few months, the idle sailor becomes a charismatic leader and a shrewd strategist, bringing in his wake peasants, deserters, women, old people and children, of which he makes a formidable army. The fight for freedom has only just begun.

Director: Paul Mignot

Genres: History , Action , War

Actors: Hugo Becker, Rod Paradot, Gilles Cohen, Grégory Fitoussi, Constance Gay

The story of the miraculous evacuation of Allied soldiers from Belgium, Britain, Canada and France, who were cut off and surrounded by the German army from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk between May 26th and June 4th 1940 during World War II.

Director: Christopher Nolan

Genres: War , Action , Drama

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The story of the Battle of Midway, and the leaders and soldiers who used their instincts, fortitude and bravery to overcome massive odds.

Director: Roland Emmerich

Genres: War , History , Action , Drama

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Topper Harley is found to be working as an odd-job-man in a monastery. The CIA want him to lead a rescue mission into Iraq, to rescue the last rescue team, who went in to rescue the last rescue team—who went in to rescue hostages left behind after Desert Storm.

Director: Jim Abrahams

Genres: Action , Comedy , War

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At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter Kurtz, who has been leading his personal army on illegal guerrilla missions into enemy territory.

Director: Francis Ford Coppola

Genres: Drama , War

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After rescuing Daniel from the terrorist Black Mask Organization, the team uncovers plans for a deadly bomb set to detonate in 36 hours that threatens world order. With no time to recover, Daniel must throw his life back on the line as he and his elite team of soldiers race against time to find the bomb and defeat their enemy once and for all. Outnumbered and overmatched, each soldier must find their inner strength and skill to overcome insurmountable odds.

Director: Mike Gunther

Genres: War , Action

Actors: Stephen Lang, Chris Mulkey, Will Yun Lee, Rory Markham, Katie Keene

John Rambo is released from prison by the government for a top-secret covert mission to the last place on Earth he'd want to return—the jungles of Vietnam.

Director: George P. Cosmatos

Genres: Action , Adventure , Thriller , War

Actors: Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna, Charles Napier, Steven Berkoff, Julia Nickson

The story of the Arthurian legend, based on the 'Sarmatian hypothesis' which contends that the legend has a historical nucleus in the Sarmatian heavy cavalry troops stationed in Britain, and that the Roman-British military commander, Lucius Artorius Castus is the historical person behind the legend.

Director: Antoine Fuqua

Genres: Adventure , War , History , Action

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Enraged at the slaughter of Murron, his new bride and childhood love, Scottish warrior William Wallace slays a platoon of the local English lord's soldiers. This leads the village to revolt and, eventually, the entire country to rise up against English rule.

Director: Mel Gibson

Genres: Action , Drama , History , War

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A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.

Director: Stanley Kubrick

Genres: Drama , War

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When U.S. Rangers and an elite Delta Force team attempt to kidnap two underlings of a Somali warlord, their Black Hawk helicopters are shot down, and the Americans suffer heavy casualties, facing intense fighting from the militia on the ground.

Director: Ridley Scott

Genres: Action , History , War

Actors: Josh Hartnett, Ewan McGregor, Jason Isaacs, Tom Sizemore, Orlando Bloom

Based on Frank Miller's graphic novel, "300" is very loosely based the 480 B.C. Battle of Thermopylae, where the King of Sparta led his army against the advancing Persians; the battle is said to have inspired all of Greece to band together against the Persians, and helped usher in the world's first democracy.

Director: Zack Snyder

Genres: Action , Adventure , War

Actors: Gerard Butler, Lena Headey, Dominic West, David Wenham, Vincent Regan

As a young and naive recruit in Vietnam, Chris Taylor faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man.

Director: Oliver Stone

Genres: Drama , War , Action

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The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.

Director: Steven Spielberg

Genres: Drama , History , War

Actors: Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes, Caroline Goodall, Jonathan Sagall

The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his family is deported in 1942, he stays behind, works for a while as a laborer, and eventually goes into hiding in the ruins of the war-torn city.

Director: Roman Polanski

Genres: Drama , War

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Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, which finds him learning to respect the samurai and the honorable principles that rule them. Pressed to destroy the samurai's way of life in the name of modernization and open trade, Algren decides to become an ultimate warrior himself and to fight for their right to exist.

Director: Edward Zwick

Genres: Drama , Action , War , History

Actors: Tom Cruise, Ken Watanabe, William Atherton, Chad Lindberg, Billy Connolly

An epic tale of three brothers and their father living in the remote wilderness of 1900s USA and how their lives are affected by nature, history, war, and love.

Director: Edward Zwick

Genres: Adventure , Drama , Romance , War , Western

Actors: Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, Aidan Quinn, Julia Ormond, Henry Thomas

Alexander, the King of Macedonia, leads his legions against the giant Persian Empire. After defeating the Persians, he leads his army across the then known world, venturing farther than any westerner had ever gone, all the way to India.

Director: Oliver Stone

Genres: War , History , Action , Adventure , Drama , Romance

Actors: Colin Farrell, Angelina Jolie, Val Kilmer, Jared Leto, Jonathan Rhys Meyers

After an abrupt and violent encounter with a French warship inflicts severe damage upon his ship, a captain of the British Royal Navy begins a chase over two oceans to capture or destroy the enemy, though he must weigh his commitment to duty and ferocious pursuit of glory against the safety of his devoted crew, including the ship's thoughtful surgeon, his best friend.

Director: Peter Weir

Genres: Adventure , Drama , War

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When former Green Beret John Rambo is harassed by local law enforcement and arrested for vagrancy, the Vietnam vet snaps, runs for the hills and rat-a-tat-tats his way into the action-movie hall of fame. Hounded by a relentless sheriff, Rambo employs heavy-handed guerilla tactics to shake the cops off his tail.

Director: Ted Kotcheff

Genres: Action , Adventure , Thriller , War

Actors: Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna, Brian Dennehy, Bill McKinney, Jack Starrett

A group of working-class friends decide to enlist in the Army during the Vietnam War and finds it to be hellish chaos -- not the noble venture they imagined. Before they left, Steven married his pregnant girlfriend -- and Michael and Nick were in love with the same woman. But all three are different men upon their return.

Director: Michael Cimino

Genres: Drama , War

Actors: Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, John Cazale, John Savage, Meryl Streep

France, June 1944. On the eve of D-Day, some American paratroopers fall behind enemy lines after their aircraft crashes while on a mission to destroy a radio tower in a small village near the beaches of Normandy. After reaching their target, the surviving paratroopers realise that, in addition to fighting the Nazi troops that patrol the village, they also must fight against something else.

Director: Julius Avery

Genres: Horror , War , Science Fiction

Actors: Mathilde Ollivier, Jovan Adepo, Wyatt Russell, John Magaro, Pilou Asbæk

The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the two ace fighter pilots become entangled in a love triangle with beautiful Naval nurse Evelyn Johnson. But the rivalry between the friends-turned-foes is immediately put on hold when they find themselves at the center of Japan's devastating attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.

Director: Michael Bay

Genres: History , Romance , War , Drama

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After the insane General Jack D. Ripper initiates a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union, a war room full of politicians, generals and a Russian diplomat all frantically try to stop the nuclear strike.

Director: Stanley Kubrick

Genres: Drama , Comedy , War

Actors: Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn, Slim Pickens

After his wife dies, a blacksmith named Balian is thrust into royalty, political intrigue and bloody holy wars during the Crusades.

Director: Ridley Scott

Genres: Drama , Action , Adventure , History , War

Actors: Orlando Bloom, Eva Green, Jeremy Irons, Marton Csokas, Brendan Gleeson

U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle takes his sole mission—protect his comrades—to heart and becomes one of the most lethal snipers in American history. His pinpoint accuracy not only saves countless lives but also makes him a prime target of insurgents. Despite grave danger and his struggle to be a good husband and father to his family back in the States, Kyle serves four tours of duty in Iraq. However, when he finally returns home, he finds that he cannot leave the war behind.

Director: Clint Eastwood

Genres: War , Action

Actors: Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller, Kyle Gallner, Cole Konis, Ben Reed

Major Ronan Jackson (Devon Sawa), an accomplished fighter pilot for the Israel Defense Forces and son of a U.S. Senator (Robert Patrick), is shot down while flying through Syrian airspace. After miraculously surviving the crash, Jackson is taken captive by a group of Hezbollah militiamen. A gripping and powerful story packed with hard-hitting action, Jarhead: Law of Return follows a squad of elite soldiers, led by Gunnery Sergeant Dave Torres (Amaury Nolasco), as they risk their own lives in the hopes of saving an ally they've never met.

Director: Don Michael Paul

Genres: War

Actors: Yael Eitan, Nicholas Aaron, Devon Sawa, Ben Cross, Amaury Nolasco

Drawn from the same events that later inspired Gladiator, the film charts the power-hungry greed and father-son betrayal that led to Rome's collapse at the bloody hands of the Barbarians.

Director: Anthony Mann

Genres: Drama , History , War

Actors: Sophia Loren, Stephen Boyd, Alec Guinness, James Mason, Christopher Plummer

Salamanca, Spain, 1936. In the early days of the military rebellion that began the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), writer Miguel de Unamuno supports the uprising in the hope that the prevailing political chaos will end. But when the confrontation becomes bloody, Unamuno must question his initial position.

Director: Alejandro Amenábar

Genres: Drama , History , War

Actors: Karra Elejalde, Eduard Fernández, Santi Prego, Nathalie Poza, Luis Bermejo