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War Movies

Name: War Movies
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Top 500 war films from a catalog of 2,708, ranked by TMDB rating. Includes director, cast, and plot overview.

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Title↕	Year↕	Director↕	Genres↕	TMDB Rating↕	Votes↕	Language↕	Country↕	Overview↕
War	1,911	Unknown	War	9.5	21	English	United States of America	In the gray dawn of an October day, as the inhabitants of a village street in Tripoli are engaged in the enjoyment of their several pursuits of life, an Arab rushes upon the peaceful scene, announcing that Italy has declared war against Turkey and that the Italian warships are now in the harbor, shelling the city.
WAR	2,023	Miklós Horváth Milán	Thriller, War, Drama, Animation, Mystery	9.4	21	English	Hungary	A war veteran tells his personal experience in “The War” to a psychiatrist, as a part of a social experiment. But nothing is as it seems…
Fatal Mission	1,990	George Rowe	War, Action, Adventure	9	35	English	Philippines	A CIA Agent must rely on reluctant help from a female spy in the North Vietnam jungle in order to pass through enemy lines.
Schindler's List	1,993	Steven Spielberg	Drama, History, War	8.6	17,125	English	United States of America	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.
The Eagle and the Lion: Hitler vs Churchill	2,017	David Korn-Brzoza	Documentary, History, War, TV Movie	8.6	10	French	Belgium	Winston Churchill, one of the most revered men of the twentieth century. Adolf Hitler, one of the most hated leaders in contemporary history. Between 1940 and 1945, these two enormously contradictory personalities faced each other in both politics and war. A clash of giants whose story begins in the trenches of the World War I and ends with the debacle of the World War II.
The Pianist	2,002	Roman Polanski	Drama, War	8.4	9,922	English	France	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.
Grave of the Fireflies	1,988	Isao Takahata	Animation, Drama, War	8.4	6,363	Japanese	Japan	In the final months of World War II, 14-year-old Seita and his sister Setsuko are orphaned when their mother is killed during an air raid in Kobe, Japan. After a falling out with their aunt, they move into an abandoned bomb shelter. With no surviving relatives and their emergency rations depleted, Seita and Setsuko struggle to survive.
The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer	1,961	Masaki Kobayashi	War, Drama, History	8.4	203	Japanese	Japan	After the Japanese defeat to the Russians, Kaji leads the last remaining men through Manchuria. Intent on returning to his dear wife and his old life, Kaji faces great odds in a variety of different harrowing circumstances as he and his fellow men sneak behind enemy lines.
Wreaths at the Foot of the Mountain	1,984	Xie Jin	Drama, War	8.4	19	Chinese	China	Wreaths at the Foot of the Mountain is a 1984 Chinese film about the life of the soldiers in a PLA army company before, during and after the Sino-Vietnamese War.
Space Runaway Ideon: Be Invoked	1,982	Yoshiyuki Tomino	Science Fiction, Animation, Action, War, Drama	8.4	13	Japanese	Japan	The epic conclusion to the Ideon saga, featuring what was meant to be the final 5 episodes of the TV series. The Solo Ship and its crew continue their intense battle with the Buff Clan leading to a final battle that will determine the fate of all life in the universe. This movie was the second part of a double feature along with "The Ideon: A Contact".
King Petar the First	2,018	Petar Ristovski	War, Drama, History	8.4	11	Serbian	Greece	The story of the Serbian army, led by the King Peter, through the World War I.
Apocalypse Now	1,979	Francis Ford Coppola	Drama, War	8.3	8,885	English	United States of America	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.
The Great Dictator	1,940	Charlie Chaplin	Comedy, War	8.3	3,621	English	United States of America	Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.
Paths of Glory	1,957	Stanley Kubrick	War, Drama	8.3	3,203	English	United States of America	A commanding officer defends three scapegoats on trial for a failed offensive that occurred within the French Army in 1916.
MBF: Man's Best Friend	2,019	Anthony Hornus	Drama, Family, War	8.3	37	English	United States of America	An engaging tale that shows the parallels between the treatment of wounded military veterans and 'last chance' shelter dogs.
A Melody to Remember	2,016	Lee Han	Drama, War	8.3	27	Korean	South Korea	Second Lieutenant Han Sang-yeol leads his platoon during the Korean War in the early 1950s. He carries emotional scars and pain within. So when he meets some children from a choir, who have lost everything in the war, Sang-yeol is deeply moved and tries to protect to them.
Ukraine: Enemy in the Woods	2,024	Jamie Roberts	Documentary, War	8.3	10	English	Ukraine	A revealing and moving portrait of lives compromised by war, filmed exclusively by Ukrainian soldiers with extraordinary access to a tightly-controlled frontline.
Inglourious Basterds	2,009	Quentin Tarantino	Drama, Thriller, War	8.2	23,758	English	Germany	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.
Saving Private Ryan	1,998	Steven Spielberg	War, Drama, History	8.2	16,889	English	United States of America	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.
Hacksaw Ridge	2,016	Mel Gibson	Drama, History, War	8.2	14,609	English	Australia	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.
Come and See	1,985	Elem Klimov	Drama, War	8.2	1,753	Russian	Soviet Union	The invasion of a village in Belarus by German forces sends young Florya into the forest to join the weary Resistance fighters, against his family's wishes. There he meets a girl, Glasha, who accompanies him back to his village. On returning home, Florya finds his family and fellow peasants massacred. His continued survival amidst the brutal debris of war becomes increasingly nightmarish, a battle between despair and hope.
For Sama	2,019	Waad al-Kateab	Documentary, War	8.2	302	English	Syrian Arab Republic	A love letter from a young mother to her daughter, the film tells the story of Waad al-Kateab’s life through five years of the uprising in Aleppo, Syria as she falls in love, gets married and gives birth to Sama, all while cataclysmic conflict rises around her. Her camera captures incredible stories of loss, laughter and survival as Waad wrestles with an impossible choice– whether or not to flee the city to protect her daughter’s life, when leaving means abandoning the struggle for freedom for which she has already sacrificed so much.
The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity	1,959	Masaki Kobayashi	War, Drama, History	8.2	212	Japanese	Japan	Kaji is sent to the Japanese army labeled Red and is mistreated by the vets. Along his assignment, Kaji witnesses cruelties in the army and revolts against the abusive treatment against the recruit Obara. He also sees his friend Shinjô Ittôhei defecting to the Russian border, and he ends in the front to fight a lost battle against the Russian tanks division.
Devils on the Doorstep	2,001	Jiang Wen	Drama, War	8.2	184	Chinese	China	During the Japanese occupation of China, two prisoners are dumped in a peasant's home in a small town. The owner is bullied into keeping the prisoners until the next New Year, at which time they will be collected. The village leaders convene to interrogate the prisoners. The townspeople then struggle to accommodate the prisoners. One is a bellicose Japanese nationalist, the other a nervous translator. Will the townspeople manage to keep the prisoners until the New Year?
2000 Meters to Andriivka	2,025	Mstyslav Chernov	Documentary, War	8.2	38	English	United States of America	Amid the failing counteroffensive, a journalist follows a Ukrainian platoon on their mission to traverse one mile of heavily fortified forest and liberate a strategic village from Russian occupation. But the farther they advance through their destroyed homeland, the more they realize that this war may never end.
Argentine Soldier Only Known by God	2,017	Rodrigo Fernández Engler	Drama, War, History	8.2	36	Spanish	Argentina	The story is centered on the human drama of three young people from a small town in Traslasierra, Córdoba, who from very different ideological places, are forever transformed by the war in Malvinas Argentinas (Falkland Islands).
Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Overture to a New War	1,993	Keizo Shimizu	Animation, Science Fiction, War	8.2	36	Japanese	Japan	Reinhard von Müsel and Yang Wen-li return to their respective homes, one victorious and the other defeated. While Reinhard earns the new name Lohengramm, while Yang and his friends celebrate some welcome news.
Full Metal Jacket	1,987	Stanley Kubrick	Drama, War	8.1	11,233	English	United Kingdom	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.
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb	1,964	Stanley Kubrick	Comedy, War	8.1	6,032	English	United Kingdom	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 it.
Incendies	2,010	Denis Villeneuve	Drama, War, Mystery	8.1	3,156	French	Canada	A mother's last wishes send twins Jeanne and Simon on a journey to Middle East in search of their tangled roots. Adapted from Wajdi Mouawad's acclaimed play, Incendies tells the powerful and moving tale of two young adults' voyage to the core of deep-rooted hatred, never-ending wars and enduring love.
Das Boot	1,981	Wolfgang Petersen	Drama, History, War	8.1	2,436	German	Germany	A German submarine hunts allied ships during the Second World War, but it soon becomes the hunted. The crew tries to survive below the surface, while stretching both the boat and themselves to their limits.
Innocent Voices	2,005	Luis Mandoki	Drama, War	8.1	511	Spanish	United States of America	A young boy, attempting to have a normal childhood in 1980s El Salvador, is caught up in a dramatic fight for his life when he desperately tries to avoid the war that is raging all around him.
The Great War	1,959	Mario Monicelli	Comedy, War, Drama	8.1	363	Italian	France	Italy, 1916. Oreste Jacovacci and Giovanni Busacca are called, as all the Italian youths, to serve the army in the WWI. They both try in every way to avoid serving the army.
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love	1,959	Masaki Kobayashi	War, Drama, History	8.1	273	Japanese	Japan	After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labor chief at a large mining operation in Manchuria, which also grants him exemption from military service. He accepts, and moves to Manchuria with his newly-wed wife Michiko, but when he tries to put his ideas of more humane treatment into practice, he finds himself at odds with scheming officials, cruel foremen, and the military police.
Cinco de Mayo: The Battle	2,013	Rafael Lara Ruiz	War, History, Drama	8.1	113	Spanish	Mexico	On May 5th, 1862, a few thousand Mexican soldiers put their lives on the line against the world's largest and most powerful army in one legendary battle for freedom and for Mexico.
Swing Kids	2,018	Kang Hyoung-chul	Drama, War	8.1	81	Korean	South Korea	Rebellious Ki-soo from North Korea is mesmerized by tap dance in prison camps. Ki-soo joins as a team member of a dance team named 'Swing Kids'. Yet suddenly, their dreams about dancing in prison camps are put in danger.
Mission «Sky»	2,021	Igor Kopylov	Drama, War	8.1	55	Russian	Russia	In the center of the story are three main characters - Lieutenant Colonel Soshnikov, Captain Muravyov and Major Zakharov. Three ages, three different characters, three different destinies, which are destined to meet at the Khmeimim military base.
Atatürk II 1881 – 1919	2,024	Mehmet Ada Öztekin	History, Drama, War	8.1	18	Turkish	Turkey	Mustafa Kemal had just begun his journey after proving himself in 1915 at the Gallipoli front. He would go on to face major battles on the eastern front against the Russians and later against the British in Syria, ultimately becoming the only Ottoman officer not to lose a battle during WW1. However, despite all his success, he would encounter an unexpected challenge upon his return to Istanbul.
Decisive Engagement: The Liaoxi Shenyang Campaign	1,991	Yang Guangyuan	War, History	8.1	15	Chinese	China	First part of the Decisive Engagement trilogy. Directed by Pingfen Li et al.
The Imitation Game	2,014	Morten Tyldum	History, Drama, Thriller, War	8	17,833	English	United States of America	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.
1917	2,019	Sam Mendes	War, History, Drama, Action, Adventure	8	13,292	English	United States of America	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.
Jojo Rabbit	2,019	Taika Waititi	Comedy, War, Drama	8	10,208	English	New Zealand	Jojo, a lonely German boy during World War II has his world shaken when he learns that his single mother is hiding a Jewish girl in their home. Influenced by a buffoonish imaginary version of Adolf Hitler, he begins to question his beliefs and confront the conflict between propaganda and his own humanity.
The Deer Hunter	1,978	Michael Cimino	Drama, War	8	4,137	English	United Kingdom	Three steelworkers enlist in the army and are sent to Vietnam, one leaving behind a rushed marriage, the others a shared love. What they encounter during the war changes their lives forever.
Lawrence of Arabia	1,962	David Lean	Adventure, History, War	8	3,334	English	United Kingdom	During World War I, English officer Thomas Edward 'T.E.' Lawrence sets out to unite and lead the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes to fight the Turks.
Barry Lyndon	1,975	Stanley Kubrick	Drama, Romance, War, History	8	3,097	English	United Kingdom	An Irish rogue uses his cunning and wit to work his way up the social classes of 18th century England, transforming himself from the humble Redmond Barry into the noble Barry Lyndon.
Rome, Open City	1,945	Roberto Rossellini	Drama, War	8	959	Italian	Italy	During the Nazi occupation of 1944 Rome, Resistance leader Giorgio Manfredi is pursued by the Nazis as he seeks refuge and a means of escape.
Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War	2,004	Kang Je-kyu	Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War	8	753	Korean	South Korea	When two brothers are forced to fight in the Korean War, the elder decides to take the riskiest missions if it will help shield the younger from battle.
Ayla: The Daughter of War	2,017	Can Ulkay	Drama, War, History	8	385	Turkish	Turkey	In 1950, amidst the ravages of the Korean War, Sergeant Süleyman stumbles upon a a half-frozen little girl, with no parents and no help in sight and he risks his own life to save her, smuggling her into his army base and out of harm’s way.
To Live	1,994	Zhang Yimou	Drama, Romance, War	8	360	Chinese	China	Married couple Fugui and Jiazhen endure tumultuous events in mid-20th century mainland China as their personal fortunes move from wealthy landownership to peasantry.
20 Days in Mariupol	2,023	Mstyslav Chernov	Documentary, War	8	268	English	United States of America	As the Russian invasion begins, a team of Ukrainian journalists trapped in the besieged city of Mariupol struggle to continue their work documenting the war's atrocities.
Saga of Tanya the Evil: The Movie	2,019	Yutaka Uemura	Animation, Action, War, Fantasy	8	192	Japanese	Japan	The time is UC 1926. The Imperial Army's 203rd Air Mage Battalion led by Major Tanya Degurechaff has won the battle to the south against the Republic's stragglers. They expected to be given a vacation after returning victorious, but instead receive special orders from Staff HQ as soon as they get home. They are told that there were signs of a large-scale deployment near the Empire-Federation border. Faced with the prospect of a new major enemy, the desperate Empire fans the flame of war. Meanwhile, an international volunteer army spearheaded by the Commonwealth set foot in Federation territory. As they say, the enemy of an enemy is your friend. They suffer through misfortune purely out of national interest, and among them is a young girl. She is Warrant Officer Mary Sue, and she takes up arms hoping to bring the Empire, who killed her father, to justice.
The Fifth Seal	1,976	Zoltán Fábri	Drama, War	8	92	Hungarian	Hungary	In 1944 Budapest, one of a group of four friends poses a hypothetical moral question to the others, an act that will unexpectedly alter their lives forever.
Dead to Rights	2,025	Shen Ao	Drama, War, History	8	67	Chinese	China	During the 1937 Nanjing Massacre, a postman poses as a photo developer, helping Japanese forces while secretly sheltering Chinese refugees. He later risks his life evacuating them and revealing evidence of the atrocities.
Hell Boats	1,970	Paul Wendkos	War, Drama	8	22	English	United States of America	A war drama of motor torpedo boats which did much unsung work in WW2, but the naval battles merely provide an exciting story in which an even more special romantic drama is wrapped up.
Cabaret	1,993	Sam Mendes	Romance, Music, Drama, War	8	18	English	United Kingdom	Filmed live during the 1993 revival, Sam Mendes' directorial debut takes place at the Donmar Warehouse in London's West End. Jane Horrocks stars as Sally Bowles, Adam Godley as Cliff, and Alan Cumming as the eccentric Emcee. Inside the Kit Kat Club in 1931 Berlin, starry-eyed singer Sally and the lewd Emcee sound the clarion call to decadence, while outside, the Nazi party grows into a brutal force.
Hiroshima: The Aftermath	2,015	Lucy van Beek	Documentary, History, War	8	17	English	United Kingdom	Brand new documentary marking the 70th anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings which ended WWII and began the nuclear age. Features interviews with survivors from both sides.
The Ghost Army	2,013	Rick Beyer	Documentary, War	8	14	English	United States of America	During World War II, a hand-picked group of American GI's undertook a bizarre mission: create a traveling road show of deception on the battlefields of Europe, with the German Army as their audience. The 23rd Headquarters Special Troops used inflatable rubber tanks, sound trucks, and dazzling performance art to bluff the enemy again and again, often right along the front lines. Many of the men picked to carry out these dangerous deception missions were artists. Some went on to become famous, including fashion designer Bill Blass. In their spare time, they painted and sketched their way across Europe, creating a unique and moving visual record of their war. Their secret mission was kept hushed up for nearly 50 years after the war's end.
Winston Churchill: A Giant in the Century	2,014	David Korn-Brzoza	Documentary, History, War, TV Movie	8	10	French	Belgium	A new look at the public and private life of one of the most important statesmen in the history of Europe: Winston Churchill (1874-1965), soldier, politician, writer, painter, leader of his country in the darkest hours, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, a myth, a giant of the 20th century.
Braveheart	1,995	Mel Gibson	Action, Drama, History, War	7.9	10,879	English	United States of America	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.
Gone with the Wind	1,939	Victor Fleming	Drama, War, Romance	7.9	4,306	English	United States of America	The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era.
Downfall	2,004	Oliver Hirschbiegel	Drama, History, War	7.9	4,199	German	Austria	In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the east and the Allied Expeditionary Force attacking from the west. In Berlin, capital of the Third Reich, Adolf Hitler proclaims that Germany will still achieve victory and orders his generals and advisers to fight to the last man. When the end finally does come, and Hitler lies dead by his own hand, what is left of his military must find a way to end the killing that is the Battle of Berlin, and lay down their arms in surrender.
The Great Escape	1,963	John Sturges	Adventure, Drama, War	7.9	2,769	English	United States of America	The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocate them to a high-security 'escape-proof' camp to sit out the remainder of the war. Undaunted, the prisoners plan one of the most ambitious escape attempts of World War II. Based on a true story.
Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!	1,966	Gérard Oury	Comedy, War	7.9	1,438	French	France	During World War II, two French civilians and a downed British Bomber Crew set out from Paris to cross the demarcation line between Nazi-occupied Northern France and the South. From there they will be able to escape to England. First, they must avoid German troops – and the consequences of their own blunders.
The General	1,926	Clyde Bruckman	Action, Adventure, Comedy, War, Romance	7.9	1,380	English	United States of America	During America’s Civil War, Union spies steal engineer Johnny Gray's beloved locomotive, 'The General'—with Johnnie's lady love aboard an attached boxcar—and he single-handedly must do all in his power to both get The General back and to rescue Annabelle.
The Battle of Algiers	1,966	Gillo Pontecorvo	Drama, War, History	7.9	865	Italian	Italy	Paratrooper commander Colonel Mathieu, a former French Resistance fighter during World War II, is sent to Algeria to reinforce efforts to squelch the uprisings of the Algerian War. There he faces Ali la Pointe, a former petty criminal who, as the leader of the Algerian Front de Liberation Nationale, directs terror strategies against the colonial French government occupation. As each side resorts to ever-increasing brutality, no violent act is too unthinkable.
Grand Illusion	1,937	Jean Renoir	Drama, History, War	7.9	756	French	France	A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieutenant Maréchal, grapple with their own class differences after being captured and held in a World War I German prison camp. When the men are transferred to a high-security fortress, they must concoct a plan to escape beneath the watchful eye of aristocratic German officer von Rauffenstein, who has formed an unexpected bond with de Boeldieu.
Army of Shadows	1,969	Jean-Pierre Melville	War, Drama, Thriller	7.9	724	French	France	Betrayed by an informant, Philippe Gerbier finds himself trapped in a torturous Nazi prison camp. Though Gerbier escapes to rejoin the Resistance in occupied Marseilles, France, and exacts his revenge on the informant, he must continue a quiet, seemingly endless battle against the Nazis in an atmosphere of tension, paranoia and distrust.
In This Corner of the World	2,016	Sunao Katabuchi	Drama, Animation, Romance, War, History	7.9	611	Japanese	Japan	Japan, 1943, during World War II. Young Suzu leaves her village near Hiroshima to marry and live with her in-laws in Kure, a military harbor. Her creativity to overcome deprivation quickly makes her indispensable at home. Inhabited by an ancestral wisdom, Suzu impregnates the simple gestures of everyday life with poetry and beauty. The many hardships, the loss of loved ones, the frequent air raids of the enemy, nothing alters her enthusiasm…
Where Hands Touch	2,018	Amma Asante	War, Drama, Romance	7.9	531	English	United Kingdom	Germany, 1944. Leyna, the 15-year old daughter of a white German mother and a black African father, meets Lutz, a compassionate member of the Hitler Youth whose father is a prominent Nazi soldier, and they form an unlikely connection in this quickly changing world.
The Cranes Are Flying	1,957	Mikheil Kalatozishvili	Drama, Romance, War	7.9	438	Russian	Soviet Union	Veronika and Boris come together in Moscow shortly before World War II. Walking along the river, they watch cranes fly overhead, and promise to rendezvous before Boris leaves to fight. Boris misses the meeting and is off to the front lines, while Veronika waits patiently, sending letters faithfully. After her house is bombed, Veronika moves in with Boris' family, into the company of a cousin with his own intentions.
My Way	2,011	Kang Je-kyu	Drama, Action, History, War	7.9	432	Korean	South Korea	During the invasion of Normandy the photograph of a slim Korean man in German uniform was found. It transpired that the man had served as a soldier in the Japanese, Russian and German armies. His incredible story inspired director Kang Je-Gyu to create this epic war drama.
The Ascent	1,977	Larisa Shepitko	Drama, War	7.9	235	Russian	Soviet Union	Two Soviet partisans leave their starving band to get supplies from a nearby farm. The Germans have reached the farm first, so the pair must go on a journey deep into occupied territory, a voyage that will also take them deep into their souls.
Virunga	2,014	Orlando von Einsiedel	Documentary, War	7.9	230	English	Congo	Virunga in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is Africa’s oldest national park, a UNESCO world heritage site, and a contested ground among insurgencies seeking to topple the government that see untold profits in the land. Among this ongoing power struggle, Virunga also happens to be the last natural habitat for the critically endangered mountain gorilla. The only thing standing in the way of the forces closing in around the gorillas: a handful of passionate park rangers and journalists fighting to secure the park’s borders and expose the corruption of its enemies. Filled with shocking footage, and anchored by the surprisingly deep and gentle characters of the gorillas themselves, Virunga is a galvanizing call to action around an ongoing political and environmental crisis in the Congo.
Ballad of a Soldier	1,959	Grigoriy Chukhray	Drama, Romance, War	7.9	214	Russian	Soviet Union	During World War II, earnest young Russian soldier Alyosha Skvortsov is rewarded with a short leave of absence for performing a heroic deed on the battlefield. Feeling homesick, he decides to visit his mother. Due to his kindhearted nature, however, Alyosha is repeatedly sidetracked by his efforts to help those he encounters, including a lovely girl named Shura. In his tour of a country devastated by war, he struggles to keep hope alive.
Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero	2,018	Richard Lanni	Animation, Adventure, Family, History, War	7.9	208	English	Canada	The true story of the most decorated dog in American military history -- Sgt. Stubby -- and the enduring bonds he forged with his brothers-in-arms in the trenches of World War I.
The Burmese Harp	1,956	Kon Ichikawa	Drama, War	7.9	167	Japanese	Japan	In Burma during the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier separated from his unit disguises himself as a Buddhist monk to escape imprisonment as a POW.
Only Old Men Are Going to Battle	1,973	Leonid Bykov	War, Drama, Comedy, Romance	7.9	124	Russian	Soviet Union	Alexey Titarenko is very talented pilot and brave leader of "Singing group". He also must look after some new cadets and fight together with them against German Luftwaffe planes. Close to Alexey always are his friends, they are all from different parts of the country, but they all became real brothers.
Pretty Village, Pretty Flame	1,996	Srđan Dragojević	Drama, War	7.9	102	Serbian	Yugoslavia	In the opening stages of the Bosnian War, a small group of Serbian soldiers are trapped in a tunnel by a Muslim force.
Legend of the Galactic Heroes: My Conquest Is the Sea of Stars	1,988	Noboru Ishiguro	Animation, Science Fiction, War	7.9	49	Japanese	Japan	For the past 150 years, humanity’s two greatest nations have been deadlocked in a meaningless war. In what is hoped to be a miraculous victory, the Alliance embarks on a battle to break through the Empire’s frontline. Like many other “decisive” battles, this can only end in disaster; a sentiment shared by Imperial nobleman Reinhard von Lohengramm and Alliance Commodore Yang Wen Li, both of whom realize how to turn the fight in their favor. And while the tides of war may never change, these two men must rise to the occasion, solidifying their place in history as heroes.
Five Came Back	2,017	Laurent Bouzereau	Documentary, War	7.9	45	English	United States of America	The extraordinary story of how Hollywood changed World War II – and how World War II changed Hollywood, through the interwoven experiences of five legendary filmmakers who went to war to serve their country and bring the truth to the American people: John Ford, William Wyler, John Huston, Frank Capra, and George Stevens. Based on Mark Harris’ best-selling book, “Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War.”
Blood Money: Inside the Nazi Economy	2,021	Gil Rabier	History, War, Documentary	7.9	11	French	France	How did Nazi Germany, from limited natural resources, mass unemployment, little money and a damaged industry, manage to unfurl the cataclysm of World War Two and come to occupy a large part of the European continent? Based on recent historical works of and interviews with Adam Tooze, Richard Overy, Frank Bajohr and Marie-Bénédicte Vincent, and drawing on rare archival material.
Uncovered: The War on Iraq	2,004	Robert Greenwald	Documentary, History, War	7.9	10	English	Unknown	The feature-length version of producer/director Robert's Greenwald's short documentary phenomenon "Uncovered: The Whole Truth About The Iraq War." The film deconstructs the current American administration's case for war in Iraq through interviews with U.S. intelligence professionals, diplomats and former Pentagon officials, including a former director of the C.I.A., two former Secretaries of Defense, a former ambassador to Saudi Arabia and even President Bush's former Secretary of the Army.
Pan's Labyrinth	2,006	Guillermo del Toro	Fantasy, Drama, War	7.8	11,268	Spanish	Mexico	In post–civil war Spain, 10-year-old Ofelia moves with her pregnant mother to live under the control of her cruel stepfather. Drawn into a mysterious labyrinth, she meets a faun who reveals that she may be a lost princess from an underground kingdom. To return to her true father, she must complete a series of surreal and perilous tasks that blur the line between reality and fantasy.
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas	2,008	Mark Herman	Drama, War, History	7.8	7,541	English	United Kingdom	When his family moves from their home in Berlin to a strange new house in Poland, young Bruno befriends Shmuel, a boy who lives on the other side of the fence where everyone seems to be wearing striped pajamas. Unaware of Shmuel's fate as a Jewish prisoner or the role his own Nazi father plays in his imprisonment, Bruno embarks on a dangerous journey inside the camp's walls.
The Wind Rises	2,013	Hayao Miyazaki	Drama, Animation, Romance, War, History	7.8	3,288	Japanese	Japan	A lifelong love of flight inspires Japanese aviation engineer Jiro Horikoshi, whose storied career includes the creation of the A-6M World War II fighter plane.
The Bridge on the River Kwai	1,957	David Lean	Drama, History, War	7.8	2,312	English	United Kingdom	The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence officers conspire to blow up the structure, but Col. Nicholson, the commander who supervised the bridge's construction, has acquired a sense of pride in his creation and tries to foil their plans.
Land of Mine	2,015	Martin Zandvliet	War, Drama, History	7.8	1,446	Danish	Germany	In the days following the surrender of Germany in May 1945, a group of young German prisoners of war is handed over to the Danish authorities and subsequently sent to the West Coast, where they are ordered to remove the more than two million mines that the Germans had placed in the sand along the coast. With their bare hands, crawling around in the sand, the boys are forced to perform the dangerous work under the leadership of a Danish sergeant.
See You Up There	2,017	Albert Dupontel	Drama, Crime, War	7.8	1,341	French	Canada	In November 1918, a few days before the Armistice, when Lieutenant Pradelle orders a senseless attack, he causes a useless disaster; but his outrageous act also binds the lives of two soldiers who have nothing more in common than the battlefield: Édouard saves Albert, although at a high cost. They become companions in misfortune who will attempt to survive in a changing world. Pradelle, in his own way, does the same.
Emancipation	2,022	Antoine Fuqua	Drama, War, History	7.8	1,230	English	United States of America	Inspired by the gripping true story of a man who would do anything for his family—and for freedom. When Peter, an enslaved man, risks his life to escape and return to his family, he embarks on a perilous journey of love and endurance.
The Breadwinner	2,017	Nora Twomey	Animation, War, Drama, Family	7.8	899	English	Canada	A headstrong young girl in Afghanistan, ruled by the Taliban, disguises herself as a boy in order to provide for her family.
A Bag of Marbles	2,017	Christian Duguay	War, Drama	7.8	888	French	Belgium	At the beginning of the 1940s, in a France occupied by Nazi forces, lived the Jewish Joffo family. Happy and tight-knit, she sees her future darken when all members of the family are forced to wear the yellow star. Fearing the worst, the parents organized their family to flee to the free zone in the south of the country. Maurice, twelve years old, and Joseph, ten years old, will therefore leave alone in order to maximize their chances of finding their older brothers already settled in Nice. The brothers left to their own devices demonstrate an incredible amount of cleverness, courage, and ingenuity to escape the enemy invasion and to try to reunite their family once again.
Ivan's Childhood	1,962	Andrei Tarkovsky	Drama, War	7.8	812	Russian	Soviet Union	In WW2, twelve year old Soviet orphan Ivan Bondarev works for the Soviet army as a scout behind the German lines and strikes a friendship with three sympathetic Soviet officers.
To Be or Not to Be	1,942	Ernst Lubitsch	Comedy, War, Romance	7.8	809	English	United States of America	During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy.
Kagemusha	1,980	Akira Kurosawa	Action, Drama, History, War	7.8	715	Japanese	Japan	Akira Kurosawa's lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersonate Shingen, an aging warlord, in order to avoid attacks by competing clans. When Shingen dies, his generals reluctantly agree to have the impostor take over as the powerful ruler. He soon begins to appreciate life as Shingen, but his commitment to the role is tested when he must lead his troops into battle against the forces of a rival warlord.
They Shall Not Grow Old	2,018	Peter Jackson	Documentary, History, War	7.8	642	English	United Kingdom	A documentary about World War I with never-before-seen footage to commemorate the centennial of Armistice Day, and the end of the war.
Two Women	1,960	Vittorio De Sica	Drama, War	7.8	563	Italian	France	A young widow flees from Rome during WWII and takes her lonely twelve-year-old-daughter to her rural hometown but the horrors of war soon catch up with them.
The Shadow in My Eye	2,021	Ole Bornedal	War, Drama, History	7.8	538	Danish	Denmark	On March 21st, 1945, the British Royal Air Force set out on a mission to bomb Gestapo's headquarters in Copenhagen. The raid had fatal consequences as some of the bombers accidentally targeted a school and more than 120 people were killed, 86 of whom were children.
Fail Safe	1,964	Sidney Lumet	Thriller, Drama, War	7.8	451	English	United States of America	Because of a technical defect an American bomber team mistakenly orders the destruction of Moscow. The President of the United States has but little time to prevent an atomic catastrophe from occurring.
Forbidden Games	1,952	René Clément	Drama, War	7.8	343	French	France	Orphaned after a Nazi air raid, Paulette, a young Parisian girl, runs into Michel, an older peasant boy, and the two quickly become close. Together, they try to make sense of the chaotic and crumbling world around them, attempting to cope with death as they create a burial ground for Paulette's deceased pet dog. Eventually, however, Paulette's stay with Michel's family is threatened by the harsh realities of wartime.
White Bird	2,023	Marc Forster	Drama, War	7.8	226	English	United States of America	After being expelled from Beecher Prep for his treatment of a classmate with a facial deformity, Julian has struggled to fit in at his new school. To transform his life, Julian's grandmother finally reveals her own story of courage of her youth in Nazi-occupied France, where a classmate shelters her from mortal danger.
Napoleon	1,927	Abel Gance	Drama, History, War	7.8	213	French	France	A biopic of Napoleon Bonaparte, tracing the Corsican's career from his schooldays (where a snowball fight is staged like a military campaign) to his flight from Corsica, through the French Revolution (where a real storm is intercut with a political storm) and the Terror, culminating in his triumphant invasion of Italy in 1797.
Lessons of Darkness	1,992	Werner Herzog	War, Documentary, TV Movie	7.8	146	German	France	Shortly after the Gulf War, oil fires were raging all through Kuwait. In the week before this sea of fire would be extinguished, Werner Herzog filmed this apocalyptic landscape with its murky skies, scorched earth and capricious flames.
Sister	2,019	Aleksandr Galibin	War, Drama	7.8	81	Russian	Russia	How many Yamil remembers himself, war has always been. He is very much waiting for it to end - after all, then the father will return, whom the boy knows only from photographs and letters. One day, Mom leaves for a distant city and brings the silent girl Oksana with her. Mum transmits the order of his father to take care of Oksana, as if he was a little sister ... A film adaptation of the story “The Joy of Our Home” by the classic of Soviet literature Mustay Karim.
Enamorada	1,946	Emilio Fernández	Drama, Romance, War	7.8	58	Spanish	Mexico	In Mexican Revolution times, a guerrilla general and his troops take the conservative town of Cholula, near by Mexico City. As the revolutionaries mistreat the town's riches, General Reyes falls for beautiful and wild Beatriz Peñafiel, the daughter of one of the town's richest men.
Chaco	2,020	Diego Mondaca	War, Drama	7.8	52	Spanish	Argentina	In 1934, Bolivia is at war with Paraguay. Liborio and Ticona and other Bolivian indigenous soldiers are lost in the hell of the Chaco, under the commandment of German Captain Kundt. They're looking for the Paraguayan enemy that they haven't seen for months, and that they will never find. They leave together in a search that will make them realize, progressively, the destiny they have been pushed into and the inevitable condition of a defeated troop. They're walking like shadows, wandering forever in the middle of dust and silence.
Palestine 36	2,025	Annemarie Jacir	Drama, History, War	7.8	31	English	Palestinian Territory	In 1936, as Palestinian villages revolt against British colonial rule and Zionist immigration from Europe accelerates toward the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, Yusuf moves between Jerusalem and his rural home amid escalating unrest and a decisive moment for the British Empire.
The Real Inglorious Bastards	2,012	Min Sook Lee	Documentary, History, War	7.8	26	English	Canada	The truth is way stranger than fiction,” muses one interviewee in this unbelievable true account of an incredible war time saga. As the Second World War was coming to a close, the US Office of Strategic Services trained and parachuted two Jewish refugees and a German deserter deep into Nazi occupied Austria. Through vivid first-person accounts, re-enactments, archival footage and learned commentary, the film reveals how their efforts disrupted a vital supply route between Germany and the Italian front to bring about the surrender of Innsbruck to Allied Forces. Their unbelievable adventure has a finale that beats any Hollywood movie hands down — but a story so powerful that it became the basis for Quentin Tarantino’s mega hit.
Scream for Me Sarajevo	2,018	Tarik Hodžić	Documentary, War	7.8	17	BS	Bosnia and Herzegovina	In 1994, Sarajevo was a city under siege. Mortars and rocket propelled grenades rained onto the city, killing indiscriminately, every day. Amongst the madness, two United Nations personnel: a British military officer and another Brit working for the UN Fire Department, decided it would be fun to persuade a global rock star, Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden, to come and play a gig to the population. Scream for Me Sarajevo brings that story, in all its madness, to the big screen. A story of musicians who risked their lives to play a gig to people who risked their lives to live them.
Korea: The Never-Ending War	2,019	John Maggio	Documentary, War	7.8	13	English	United States of America	Shedding new light on a geopolitical hot spot, the film — written and produced by John Maggio and narrated by Korean-American actor John Cho — confronts the myth of the “Forgotten War,” documenting the post-1953 conflict and global consequences.
Occupation	2,009	Nick Murphy	Drama, War	7.8	12	English	United Kingdom	Three ex-servicemen return to Basra, each for a different reason.
La stella di Andra e Tati	2,018	Rosalba Vitellaro	Animation, Drama, War, History	7.8	11	Italian	Italy	Little Andra and Tati Bucci, Italian Jews from Fiume, were 6 and 4 years old when, on March 29, 1944, they were deported to Auschwitz together with their mother, grandmother, aunt, and little cousin Sergio. They managed to survive the initial selections in the concentration camp because Dr. Mengele mistook them for twins and decided to take them to the Kinderblock, the barracks for children destined for eugenics experiments. The bond they formed with each other and the compassion of a female camp guard allowed the little sisters to survive until the liberation of the camp on January 27, 1945.
Platoon	1,986	Oliver Stone	Drama, War, Action	7.7	4,968	English	United Kingdom	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.
All Quiet on the Western Front	2,022	Edward Berger	War, History, Drama	7.7	4,518	German	Germany	Paul Baumer and his friends Albert and Muller, egged on by romantic dreams of heroism, voluntarily enlist in the German army. Full of excitement and patriotic fervour, the boys enthusiastically march into a war they believe in. But once on the Western Front, they discover the soul-destroying horror of World War I.
Hotel Rwanda	2,004	Terry George	Drama, History, War	7.7	3,090	English	United States of America	Inspired by true events, this film takes place in Rwanda in the 1990s when more than a million Tutsis were killed in a genocide that went mostly unnoticed by the rest of the world. Hotel owner Paul Rusesabagina houses over a thousand refuges in his hotel in attempt to save their lives.
Guy Ritchie's The Covenant	2,023	Guy Ritchie	War, Action, Thriller	7.7	3,053	English	United Kingdom	During the war in Afghanistan, a local interpreter risks his own life to carry an injured sergeant across miles of grueling terrain.
Waltz with Bashir	2,008	Ari Folman	Animation, Documentary, Drama, War	7.7	1,033	Hebrew	Australia	An Israeli film director interviews fellow veterans of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon to reconstruct his own memories of his term of service in that conflict.
All Quiet on the Western Front	1,930	Lewis Milestone	Drama, War	7.7	905	English	United States of America	When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during the Great War, they are assigned to the Western Front, where their patriotism is destroyed by the harsh realities of combat.
Underground	1,995	Emir Kusturica	Comedy, Drama, War	7.7	757	Serbian	Yugoslavia	A group of Serbian socialists prepares for the war in a surreal underground filled by parties, tragedies, love and hate.
Stalag 17	1,953	Billy Wilder	Comedy, Drama, War	7.7	647	English	United States of America	After two American prisoners are killed by guards in the act of escaping from a German POW camp in World War II, barracks black marketeer J.J. Sefton is suspected of being an informer.
Tangerines	2,013	Zaza Urushadze	Drama, War	7.7	576	ET	Estonia	War in Abkhazia, 1992. An Estonian man Ivo has stayed behind to harvest his crops of tangerines. In a bloody conflict at his door, a wounded man is left behind, and Ivo is forced to take him in.
The Fog of War	2,003	Errol Morris	Documentary, TV Movie, History, War	7.7	294	English	United States of America	Using archival footage, cabinet conversation recordings, and an interview of the 85-year-old Robert McNamara, The Fog of War depicts his life, from working as a WWII whiz-kid military officer, to being the Ford Motor Company's president, to managing the Vietnam War as defense secretary for presidents Kennedy and Johnson.
The Champion	2,021	Maciej Barczewski	Drama, History, War	7.7	211	Polish	Poland	It is 1940. The first transport of prisoners arrives at the newly created concentration camp Auschwitz. One of them is Tadeusz “Teddy” Pietrzykowski, pre-war boxing champion of Warsaw. The camp officers force him to fight in the ring for his and other prisoners’ lives. However, his every win strengthens the hope that Nazis are not invincible. Auschwitz officers notice the growing resistance. The confrontation with the authorities of the camp becomes inevitable.
The War Game	1,966	Peter Watkins	War, TV Movie	7.7	182	English	United Kingdom	A docudrama depicting a hypothetical nuclear attack on Britain. After backing the film's development, the BBC refused to air it, publicly stating "the effect of the film has been judged by the BBC to be too horrifying for the medium of broadcasting." It debuted in theaters in 1966 and went on to great acclaim, but remained unseen on British television until 1985.
1942: Unknown Battle	2,019	Igor Kopylov	War, Drama, History	7.7	163	Russian	Russia	WWII 1942: Rzhev, USSR. Stuck in a crucial strategical position, a small company from the Red Army does whatever it takes to fend off the Nazis.
Kanal	1,957	Andrzej Wajda	War, Drama	7.7	152	Polish	Poland	In the last few days of the Warsaw Uprising during World War II, a modest group of Resistance members remains. The band must take refuge in the sewers under the orders of leader Zadra, but it's only a matter of time before they will have to emerge. However, when they try, they are met only with intense hostility from the Nazis. Despite their attempts stay resolute through immense mental strain, it becomes increasingly apparent that they may be doomed.
Paskal	2,018	Adrian Teh	Action, War, Drama, History, Adventure, Crime	7.7	79	Malay	Malaysia	The true events of Lieutenant Commander Arman Anwar of PASKAL, an elite unit in the Royal Malaysian Navy, and his team's mission to rescue the MV Bunga Laurel, a tanker which was hijacked by Somalian Pirates in 2011.
Sympathy for the Devil	2,019	Guillaume de Fontenay	War, Drama	7.7	68	French	Belgium	In an urban war zone where everything that moves is a target, Paul tries to live, love and inform.
Nazi Concentration Camps	1,945	George Stevens	Documentary, History, War	7.7	60	English	United States of America	Produced and presented as evidence at the Nuremberg war crimes trial of Hermann Göring and twenty other Nazi leaders, this film consists primarily of dead and surviving prisoners and of facilities used to kill and torture during the World War II.
Heneral Luna	2,015	Jerrold Tarog	Action, Drama, History, War	7.7	46	Filipino	Philippines	A Filipino general who believes he can turn the tide of battle in the Philippine-American war. But little does he know that he faces a greatest threat to the country's revolution against the invading Americans.
Mother at War	2,020	Henrik Ruben Genz	Drama, War	7.7	44	Danish	Belgium	1918. World War I rages in Europe while Erna Jensen tends to her ordinary life at home in Bramstrup, with her simple-minded son, Kalle. One day the village constable comes to enlist Kalle for military service for the German Empire – of which Southern Jutland is a part. If Erna is to save Kalle from certain death, she must follow him through thick and thin. Upon a chance meeting with a deserting solder she trades identities. Now disguised as Private Julius Rasmussen, Erna heads for the front. In her encounters with the other soldiers and in the presence of the war, unknown sides of Erna are awoken. This is the story of a woman who won’t let a war prevent her from fighting for what she loves.
The Best in Hell	2,022	Andrey Batov	War, Action, Drama	7.7	42	Russian	Russia	Propaganda movie about units of the "whites" (PMC "Wagner") who perform an assault operation to capture buildings. They are opposed by the "yellow" units, which have dug in these buildings and are also ready to fight to the end.
Sky Hook	2,000	Ljubiša Samardžić	Drama, War	7.7	27	Serbian	Italy	Belgrade during the height of the war Yugoslavia in 1999. Kaja struggles with daily destruction and the constant threat of being drafted, but also with his impending divorce from his wife Tijana, who wants to emigrate with their son.
Two Half-Times in Hell	1,961	Zoltán Fábri	War, Drama	7.7	22	Hungarian	Hungary	To celebrate Hitler's birthday, a soccer match is organised between the Germans and a group of Hungarian political prisoners, one of whom is a famous pre-war football star.
I Have Never Forgotten You: The Life & Legacy of Simon Wiesenthal	2,007	Richard Trank	Documentary, War	7.7	18	English	United States of America	"I Have Never Forgotten You" is a comprehensive look at the life and legacy of Simon Wiesenthal, the famed Nazi hunter and humanitarian. Narrated by Academy Award winning actress Nicole Kidman, it features interviews with longtime Wiesenthal associates, government leaders from around the world, friends and family members--many of whom have never discussed the legendary Nazi hunter and humanitarian on camera. Previously unseen archival film and photos also highlight the film. What was the driving force behind his work? What kept him going when for years the odds were against his efforts? What is his legacy today, more than 60 years after the end of World War Two?
Sandakan No. 8	1,974	Kei Kumai	Drama, War, History	7.7	17	Japanese	Japan	A young journalist interviews an elderly woman about being forced into prostitution in Borneo at a brothel called Sandakan No. 8.
Battle of Surabaya	2,015	Aryanto Yuniawan	Animation, War, Action, Adventure, Drama, History	7.7	15	Indonesian	Indonesia	Musa, who is only a thirteen-year-old shoe shiner, undergoes destiny through his adventure of waging war during the war time. Will he manage to bring peace among the troops who keep on fighting for nothing?
Tomka and His Friends	1,977	Xhanfise Keko	Drama, Family, War	7.7	15	SQ	Albania	Tomka is a boy who likes playing football with his friends. When the German army captures his town, the German soldiers establish their camp in the town stadium. Tomka with help from his friends and their parents organizes sabotage actions against the soldiers.
Twice: The Extraordinary Life of Tsutomu Yamaguchi	2,010	Hidetaka Inazuka	Documentary, War	7.7	14	Japanese	Japan	Tsutomu Yamaguchi is a hibakusha. A survivor of both atomic bomb blasts in 1945. First at Hiroshima, then again at Nagasaki. Now nearing 90, Yamaguchi finally speaks out. Breaking taboos of shame and sorrow, he responds to a call to fight for a world without nuclear weapons by telling his story, so that no one else will ever have to tell one like it again. Twice reconstructs Yamaguchi’s experiences in 1945 Japan, interviews him on the after-effects of exposure and documents the last five years of the late-blooming activist’s life.
Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket	1,989	Fumihiko Takayama	Action, Animation, Drama, Science Fiction, War	7.7	13	Japanese	Japan	In the final days of the One Year War, a Zeon special forces group infiltrates a colony to gather information on a new Gundam unit. Alfred Izuruha, a 10-year-old student, befriends Zeon rookie pilot Bernie Wiseman during a brief mobile suit combat. Meanwhile, Al meets up with Christina MacKenzie, his former neighbor and babysitter. Little does he know that not only is Christina a member of the Earth Federation, she's the test pilot of the new Gundam NT-4 prototype.
The Diary of Diana B.	2,019	Dana Budisavljević	Drama, History, War	7.7	12	Croatian	Croatia	Firmly believing her own life is no more precious than the lives of the innocent people being persecuted, with the help of a few friends, Diana embarks on a perilous campaign of rescuing more than 10,000 children from the Ustasha camps in Nazi-occupied Croatia.
Stephen the Great: Vaslui 1475	1,975	Mircea Drăgan	Action, Drama, History, War	7.7	10	Romanian	Romania	In 1475 when Stephen the Great, ruler of Moldavia is facing an invading Ottoman army of 120 000 men, the fate of Christian Europe largely depends on the battle's outcome.
The Immortals	1,974	Sergiu Nicolaescu	History, Action, War, Adventure, Thriller	7.7	10	Romanian	Romania	It's the story of a few men that wonder across Europe trying to come home and rebuild what Mihai Viteazul called "Romanian dream".
The Last Samurai	2,003	Edward Zwick	Drama, Action, War	7.6	7,363	English	United States of America	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.
The Woman King	2,022	Gina Prince-Bythewood	Action, Drama, History, War	7.6	2,309	English	Canada	The story of the Agojie, the all-female unit of warriors who protected the African Kingdom of Dahomey in the 1800s with skills and a fierceness unlike anything the world has ever seen, and General Nanisca as she trains the next generation of recruits and readies them for battle against an enemy determined to destroy their way of life.
Beasts of No Nation	2,015	Cary Joji Fukunaga	Drama, War	7.6	1,835	English	Brazil	Based on the experiences of Agu, a child fighting in the civil war of a West African country. Follows Agu's journey as he's forced to join a group of soldiers. While he fears his commander and many of the men around him, his fledgling childhood has been brutally shattered by the war raging through his country, and he is at first torn between conflicting revulsion and fascination.
The Dirty Dozen	1,967	Robert Aldrich	Action, Adventure, War	7.6	1,288	English	United Kingdom	12 American military prisoners in World War II are ordered to infiltrate a well-guarded enemy château and kill the Nazi officers vacationing there. The soldiers, most of whom are facing death sentences for a variety of violent crimes, agree to the mission and the possible commuting of their sentences.
Battleship Potemkin	1,925	Sergei Eisenstein	Drama, History, War	7.6	1,266	Russian	Soviet Union	A dramatized account of a great Russian naval mutiny and a resultant public demonstration, showing support, which brought on a police massacre.
Mediterraneo	1,991	Gabriele Salvatores	Comedy, Romance, War	7.6	1,050	Italian	Italy	Greek Sea, World War II. An Italian ship leaves a handful of soldiers in a little island; their mission is to spot enemy ships and to hold the island in case of attack. The village of the island seems abandoned and there isn't a single enemy in sight, so the soldiers begin to relax a little. Things change when their ship is hit and destroyed by the enemy, and the soldiers find themselves abandoned there.
The Longest Day	1,962	Ken Annakin	War, Action, Drama	7.6	998	English	United States of America	The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day"
Sniper: The White Raven	2,022	Marian Bushan	War, Action, Drama	7.6	855	Ukrainian	Ukraine	Mykola is an eccentric pacifist who wants to be useful to humanity. When the war begins in Donbas, Mykola’s naive world is collapsing as the militants kill his pregnant wife and burn his home to the ground. Recovered, he makes a cardinal decision and gets enlisted in a sniper company. Having met his wife’s killers, he emotionally breaks down and arranges “sniper terror” for the enemy.
Quo Vadis, Aida?	2,021	Jasmila Žbanić	War, Drama, History	7.6	460	Serbian	Austria	Bosnia, July 1995. Aida is a translator for the UN in the small town of Srebrenica. When the Serbian army takes over the town, her family is among the thousands of citizens looking for shelter in the UN camp. As an insider to the negotiations Aida has access to crucial information that she needs to interpret. What is at the horizon for her family and people – rescue or death? Which move should she take?
Threads	1,985	Mick Jackson	War, Drama, Science Fiction	7.6	385	English	Australia	Documentary style account of a nuclear holocaust and its effect on the working class city of Sheffield, England; and the eventual long run effects of nuclear war on civilization.
The Train	1,964	John Frankenheimer	War, Thriller	7.6	361	English	France	As the Allied forces approach Paris in August 1944, German Colonel Von Waldheim is desperate to take all of France's greatest paintings to Germany. He manages to secure a train to transport the valuable art works even as the chaos of retreat descends upon them. The French resistance however wants to stop them from stealing their national treasures but have received orders from London that they are not to be destroyed. The station master, Labiche, is tasked with scheduling the train and making it all happen smoothly but he is also part of a dwindling group of resistance fighters tasked with preventing the theft. He and others stage an elaborate ruse to keep the train from ever leaving French territory.
Bullet in the Head	1,990	John Woo	Action, Crime, Thriller, War	7.6	305	CN	Hong Kong	Three childhood friends from the slums of Hong Kong flee to war-time Saigon after accidentally murdering a gang leader, but their troubles only escalate.
Barefoot Gen	1,983	Mori Masaki	Animation, Drama, War, History	7.6	233	Japanese	Japan	A story about the effect of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on a boy's life and the lives of the Japanese people.
Unicorn Wars	2,022	Alberto Vázquez	Action, Animation, Fantasy, Horror, War	7.6	204	Spanish	Belgium	An army of bear cubs train and indoctrinate young recruits for the war against the unicorns, which threatens the safety of the cubs. Brothers Bluey and Tubby, along with a group of inexperienced cadets, are sent on a dangerous mission to save the Magic Forest, where the unicorns live, and start a terrible battle.
Fires on the Plain	1,959	Kon Ichikawa	Drama, War	7.6	121	Japanese	Japan	In the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier afflicted with tuberculosis is abandoned by his company and left to wander the Philippine island of Leyte.
Everybody Go Home!	1,960	Luigi Comencini	Comedy, War, Drama	7.6	116	Italian	Italy	When Italy surrenders to the Allies, part of the Italian army is dispersed and soldiers begin to return to their homes.
A Time for Drunken Horses	2,000	Bahman Ghobadi	Drama, War	7.6	115	Persian	Iran	After their father dies, a family of five children are forced to survive on their own in a Kurdish village on the border of Iran and Iraq.
Hearts and Minds	1,974	Peter Davis	Documentary, War	7.6	93	English	United States of America	Many times during his presidency, Lyndon B. Johnson said that ultimate victory in the Vietnam War depended upon the U.S. military winning the "hearts and minds" of the Vietnamese people. Filmmaker Peter Davis uses Johnson's phrase in an ironic context in this anti-war documentary, filmed and released while the Vietnam War was still under way, juxtaposing interviews with military figures like U.S. Army Chief of Staff William C. Westmoreland with shocking scenes of violence and brutality.
Emperor	2,020	Mark Amin	History, War, Drama	7.6	91	English	United States of America	An escaped slave travels north and has chance encounters with Frederick Douglass and John Brown. Based on the life story of Shields Green.
Fate of a Man	1,959	Sergey Bondarchuk	Drama, War	7.6	89	Russian	Soviet Union	The story of a man whose life was ruthlessly crippled by World War II. His wife and daughters were killed during the bombing of his village, he spe...
How I Unleashed World War II, Part II: Following the Arms	1,970	Tadeusz Chmielewski	Comedy, Adventure, War	7.6	75	Polish	Poland	After escaping across Europe from Stalag camp, Dolas's ride to Cyprus is stopped when his ship in sunk by an Italian submarine. Although he and some of his fellow sailors are rescued by an Allied ship, they find themselves conscripted into the French Foreign Legion in Beirut, Dolas becoming a cook.
Red Angel	1,966	Yasuzō Masumura	War, Drama, Romance	7.6	63	Japanese	Japan	In 1939, Sakura Nishi is a young army nurse who is sent to the field hospitals in China during the Sino-Japanese war. She has to assist the surgeon Dr. Okabe with an incredible number of amputations. In the crowded wards, she gives sympathy to some of the soldiers, including sexually servicing one who has lost both arms and has no hope of returning home. She falls in love with Dr. Okabe, and follows him to the front, even though he is impotent from his morphine addiction.
How I Unleashed World War II, Part I: The Escape	1,970	Tadeusz Chmielewski	Comedy, War, Adventure	7.6	60	Polish	Poland	On the night of August 31, 1939, Dolas, from a platoon reinforcing a train station on the German border, falls asleep in a train car and unknowingly crosses into Germany. The moment he shoots a German, who he thinks is a saboteur, the German invasion of Poland begins, and Dolas is convinced it was his fault. He is taken to Stalag POW camp, the first destination in his odyssey around Europe.
The 25th Hour	1,967	Henri Verneuil	Drama, War	7.6	53	French	France	A Romanian peasant fights to get back to his family after he's imprisoned by the Nazis.The picture is based on real events. It includes Hungary's government in collaboration with the Nazis, the encroachment of Romania by Stalin's troopers, and other happenings.
Kannathil Muthamittal	2,002	Mani Ratnam	Drama, War	7.6	49	Tamil	India	A little girl is told by her parents that she is adopted. Determined to find her birth mother, her family eventually agrees to take her to Sri Lanka, where they encounter the militant group known as the Tamil Tigers.
How I Unleashed World War II, Part III: Among Friends	1,970	Tadeusz Chmielewski	Comedy, Adventure, War	7.6	41	Polish	Poland	Disguised as an Italian medic, Dolas finds himself on a ship evacuating wounded Axis soldiers to Italy. He leaves the ship disguised as a Nazi soldier, but is found out, declared a deserter and sent to the Eastern Front. However, on the flight to Russia, he is able to escape with a parachute, and finds himself back in Poland, now occupied by Nazis.
La Commune (Paris, 1871)	2,003	Peter Watkins	War, Drama, History	7.6	40	French	France	We are in the year 1871. A journalist for Versailles Television broadcasts a soothing and official view of events while a Commune television is set up to provide the perspectives of the Paris rebels. On a stage-like set, more than 200 actors interpret characters of the Commune, especially the Popincourt neighborhood in the XIth arrondissement. They voice their thoughts and feelings concerning the social and political reforms.
White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki	2,007	Steven Okazaki	Documentary, War	7.6	32	English	United States of America	Steven Okazaki presents a deeply moving look at the painful legacy of the first -- and hopefully last -- uses of nuclear weapons in war. Featuring interviews with fourteen atomic bomb survivors - many who have never spoken publicly before - and four Americans intimately involved in the bombings, White Light/Black Rain provides a detailed exploration of the bombings and their aftermath.
Under the Flag of the Rising Sun	1,972	Kinji Fukasaku	Drama, Mystery, War	7.6	28	Japanese	Japan	A war widow determined to clear the name of her disgraced husband, who was court-martialed for desertion and executed. Official records have been destroyed, and the ministry that distributes benefits continues to deny her a pension. Twenty-six years after the war, she seeks out four survivors of her husband's garrison. Each tells a dramatically different story about her husband's conduct, but she is determined to learn the truth.
Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin V: Clash at Loum	2,017	Yoshikazu Yasuhiko	Action, Animation, Science Fiction, War	7.6	25	Japanese	Japan	Universal Century 0079. Humanity has turned even space itself into a battlefield, and the Principality of Zeon forces advance after wiping out half the world's population by carrying out the Operation British (colony drop). In response, the Earth Federation Forces mobilize their overwhelming fighting strength to regain the advantage. The complex intrigues of the Zabi family... Sayla Mass, as she contends with the whims of fate... Hamon and Ramba Ral, who is now a pilot in the Zeon forces... Amuro and Fraw, leading peaceful lives at Side 7... a dark shadow falls across them all. And the Zeon ace Char Aznable, driven by revenge, goes into action as the "Battle of Loum" finally begins.
Khaytarma	2,013	Akhtem Seitablaiev	Drama, History, War	7.6	18	Ukrainian	Ukraine	The film tells about the tragic date in the history of the Crimean Tatar people — May 18, 1944 — Stalin’s deportation of the Crimean Tatars. The plot of the film — a pilot, twice Hero of the Soviet Union, Amethan Sultan. In May, 1944, a year after liberation of Sevastopol Amethan goes on vacation to his native town Alupka. On May 18 his eyes witness begining of deportation of the Crimean Tatars.
The Burning Cold	2,023	Santi Trullenque	Drama, War	7.6	15	Catalan	Andorra	Winter of 1943. Andorra, a small country in the Pyrenees. In the tense calm of a borderland, where echoes of a nearby war reach the ears of the local inhabitants, Antonio and Sara, a young, married couple, are expecting their first child. No one knows exactly what is going on, nor what is being fought over, the priority is just to survive another day. When a family of Jews fleeing Nazi persecution arrives in the valley, the locals will find their lives disrupted and filled with a sense of fear and unease. Sara will have to face her own contradictions and decide whether to follow her head... or her conscience. The past, along with all the secrets that have remained buried under the snow for so many years, are about to surface. The burning cold has reached the mountains.
The Distant Barking of Dogs	2,017	Simon Lereng Wilmont	Documentary, War	7.6	15	English	Denmark	Hnutove, Donbass, eastern Ukraine, 2015. Young Oleg lives in a war zone where anti-aircraft gunshots and missile attacks often resonate dangerously near. Although many inhabitants have already left this dangerous area, he remains with his grandmother, who has cared for him since his mother's death, because they have nowhere to go. They are just waiting for the war to end.
Gone With the Wind	2,003	Kamel Ouali	Music, Western, War	7.6	15	French	France	Autant en emporte le vent is a French musical adaptation of the 1936 Margaret Mitchell novel Gone with the Wind produced by Dove Attia and Albert Cohen in 2003, with music and lyrics by Gérard Presgurvic and staging and choreography by Kamel Ouali.
The Fugitives	1,955	Jean-Paul Le Chanois	War, Drama	7.6	15	French	France	During the Second World War, in 1943, two French prisoners, François and Michel, escape from Stalag B377 in northern Germany near the Baltic Sea. They meet another escaped compatriot, Pierre, who has donned the uniform of a German officer and joins them. Their goal: to reach neutral Sweden. To get there, they'll have to walk part of the way, then take a train to the coast and, from there, find a way to cross the sea to the shores of Sweden.
Women at War (1939-1945)	2,015	Fabien Beziat	Documentary, War, History	7.6	14	French	France	Mothers, nurses, soldiers and deportees - these women fought against persecution for freedom and survival amid the turbulence of World war II.
Aguner Poroshmoni	1,995	Humayun Ahmed	Drama, War	7.6	12	Bengali	Bangladesh	A middle-class family shelters a freedom fighter in war-torn Dhaka.
Fury	2,014	David Ayer	War, Drama, Action	7.5	12,724	English	United States of America	April, 1945. As the Allies make their final push in the European Theatre, a battle-hardened army sergeant named Wardaddy commands a Sherman tank and her five-man crew on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. Outnumbered and outgunned, and with a rookie soldier thrust into their platoon, Wardaddy and his men face overwhelming odds in their heroic attempts to strike at the heart of Nazi Germany.
First Blood	1,982	Ted Kotcheff	Action, Adventure, Thriller, War	7.5	6,757	English	United States of America	When former Green Beret John Rambo is harassed by local law enforcement and arrested for vagrancy, he is forced to flee into the mountains and wage an escalating one-man war against his pursuers.
Spartacus	1,960	Stanley Kubrick	History, War, Drama, Adventure	7.5	2,325	English	United States of America	The rebellious Thracian Spartacus, born and raised a slave, is sold to Gladiator trainer Batiatus. After weeks of being trained to kill for the arena, Spartacus turns on his owners and leads the other slaves in rebellion. As the rebels move from town to town, their numbers swell as escaped slaves join their ranks. Under the leadership of Spartacus, they make their way to southern Italy, where they will cross the sea and return to their homes.
Letters from Iwo Jima	2,006	Clint Eastwood	Action, Drama, War	7.5	2,218	English	United States of America	The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of the Japanese who fought it.
Empire of the Sun	1,987	Steven Spielberg	Drama, History, War	7.5	2,068	English	United States of America	Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all foreigners into prison camps. Jamie is captured with an American sailor, who looks out for him while they are in the camp together. Even though he is separated from his parents and in a hostile environment, Jamie maintains his dignity and youthful spirit, providing a beacon of hope for the others held captive with him.
Glory	1,989	Edward Zwick	Drama, History, War	7.5	1,761	English	United States of America	Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of both his own Union army and the Confederates.
Doctor Zhivago	1,965	David Lean	Drama, Romance, War	7.5	1,246	English	Italy	The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.
Patton	1,970	Franklin J. Schaffner	War, Drama, History	7.5	1,182	English	United States of America	"Patton" tells the tale of General George S. Patton, famous tank commander of World War II. The film begins with Patton's career in North Africa and progresses through the invasion of Germany and the fall of the Third Reich. Side plots also speak of Patton's numerous faults such his temper and habit towards insubordination.
The Round Up	2,010	Roselyne Bosch	Drama, History, War	7.5	1,033	French	France	A faithful retelling of the 1942 "Vel' d'Hiv Roundup" and the events surrounding it.
Where Eagles Dare	1,968	Brian G. Hutton	Action, Adventure, War	7.5	958	English	United Kingdom	World War II is raging, and an American general has been captured and is being held hostage in the Schloss Adler, a Bavarian castle that's nearly impossible to breach. It's up to a group of skilled Allied soldiers to liberate the general before it's too late.
Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins	2,012	Keishi Otomo	Adventure, Action, Fantasy, War, History	7.5	883	Japanese	Japan	In 1868, after the Bakumatsu war ends, the ex-assassin Kenshin Himura traverses Japan with an inverted sword, to defend the needy without killing.
The Greatest Beer Run Ever	2,022	Peter Farrelly	Drama, Comedy, War	7.5	874	English	United States of America	Chickie wants to support his friends fighting in Vietnam, so he does something wild—personally bring them American beer. What starts as a well-meaning journey quickly changes Chickie's life and perspective.
The Killing Fields	1,984	Roland Joffé	Drama, History, War	7.5	808	English	United Kingdom	New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg is on assignment covering the Cambodian Civil War, with the help of local interpreter Dith Pran and American photojournalist Al Rockoff. When the U.S. Army pulls out amid escalating violence, Schanberg makes exit arrangements for Pran and his family. Pran, however, tells Schanberg he intends to stay in Cambodia to help cover the unfolding story — a decision he may regret as the Khmer Rouge rebels move in.
Au Revoir les Enfants	1,987	Louis Malle	Drama, War	7.5	710	French	Germany	Au revoir les enfants tells a heartbreaking story of friendship and devastating loss concerning two boys living in Nazi-occupied France. At a provincial Catholic boarding school, the precocious youths enjoy true camaraderie—until a secret is revealed. Based on events from writer-director Malle’s own childhood, the film is a subtle, precisely observed tale of courage, cowardice, and tragic awakening.
The Six Triple Eight	2,024	Tyler Perry	Drama, War, History	7.5	632	English	United States of America	During World War II, the US Army's only all-Black, all-women battalion takes on an impossible mission: sorting through a three-year backlog of 17 million pieces of mail that hadn't been delivered to American soldiers and finish within six months.
To Have and Have Not	1,945	Howard Hawks	Adventure, Romance, War	7.5	565	English	United States of America	A Martinique charter boat skipper gets mixed up with the underground French resistance operatives during WWII.
No Man's Land	2,001	Danis Tanović	Action, History, War	7.5	482	BS	France	Two soldiers from opposite sides get stuck between the front lines in the same trench. The UN is asked to free them and both sides agree on a ceasefire, but will they stick to it?
Persian Lessons	2,020	Vadim Perelman	War, Drama	7.5	471	German	Russia	Occupied France, 1942. Gilles is arrested by SS soldiers alongside other Jews and sent to a camp in Germany. He narrowly avoids sudden execution by swearing to the guards that he is not Jewish, but Persian. This lie temporarily saves him, but Gilles gets assigned a life-or-death mission: to teach Farsi to Head of Camp Koch, who dreams of opening a restaurant in Iran once the war is over. Through an ingenious trick, Gilles manages to survive by inventing words of "Farsi" every day and teaching them to Koch.
Johnny Got His Gun	1,971	Dalton Trumbo	War, Drama	7.5	409	English	United States of America	A young American soldier, rendered in pseudocoma from an artillery shell from WWI, recalls his life leading up to that point.
Paisan	1,946	Roberto Rossellini	Drama, War	7.5	342	Italian	Italy	Six stories unfold in various regions, from Sicily to the northern Po Valley as American military personnel interact with a variety of Italian locals over eighteen months in the push north during the Italian Campaign of WWII as German forces retreat.
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp	1,943	Emeric Pressburger	War, Drama, Romance, Comedy	7.5	264	English	United Kingdom	General Candy, who's overseeing an English squad in 1943, is a veteran leader who doesn't have the respect of the men he's training and is considered out-of-touch with what's needed to win the war. But it wasn't always this way. Flashing back to his early career in the Boer War and World War I, we see a dashing young officer whose life has been shaped by three different women, and by a lasting friendship with a German soldier.
The Hill	1,965	Sidney Lumet	Drama, War	7.5	241	English	United Kingdom	North Africa, World War II. British soldiers on the brink of collapse push beyond endurance to struggle up a brutal incline. It's not a military objective. It's The Hill, a manmade instrument of torture, a tower of sand seared by a white-hot sun. And the troops' tormentors are not the enemy, but their own comrades-at-arms.
Shame	1,968	Ingmar Bergman	War, Drama	7.5	237	Swedish	Sweden	In the midst of a civil war, a pair of former violinists in a tempestuous marriage oversee a farm on a rural island. In spite of their best efforts to escape their homeland, the war impinges on every aspect of their lives.
71: Into the Fire	2,010	John H. Lee	War	7.5	205	Korean	South Korea	In August 1950, waiting for UN troops to arrive, the South Korean army assembled to protect Nakdong River. Only 71 student-soldiers are left behind to guard the city of Pohang. Now they are on a mission to defend the country from North Korean troops.
The Mountain II	2,016	Alper Çağlar	War, Drama	7.5	195	Turkish	Turkey	In a desolate war zone where screams of the innocent echo, on the very line between disaster and valor, 7 Maroon Berets will dance with death.
The Bridge	1,959	Bernhard Wicki	Drama, History, War	7.5	186	German	Germany	A group of German boys are ordered to protect a small bridge in their home village during the waning months of the second world war. Truckloads of defeated, cynical Wehrmacht soldiers flee the approaching American troops, but the boys, full of enthusiasm for the "blood and honor" Nazi ideology, stay to defend the useless bridge. The film is based on a West German anti-war novel of the same name, written by Gregor Dorfmeister.
Sunflower	1,970	Vittorio De Sica	Drama, War	7.5	174	Italian	Italy	After World War II, a woman refuses to believe her husband, missing on the Russian front, is dead. Flashbacks reveal their brief courtship and marriage. Years later, she travels to Russia with his photo, determined to find him. What will she discover?
War and Peace	1,968	Sergey Bondarchuk	History, Drama, War, Romance	7.5	149	Russian	Soviet Union	The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Great Patriotic War of 1812 against Napoleon's invading army.
Seven Beauties	1,975	Lina Wertmüller	Comedy, Drama, War	7.5	148	Italian	Italy	Pasqualino Frafuso, known in Naples as "Pasqualino Seven Beauties" is a petty thief who lives off of the profits of his seven sisters while claiming to protect their honor at any cost, Pasqualino is arrested for murder and later sent to fight in the army after committing sexual assault. The Germans capture him and he gets sent to a concentration camp where he plots to make his escape by seducing a German officer.
12.12: The Day	2,023	Kim Sung-soo	Drama, Thriller, Action, War, History, Crime	7.5	142	Korean	South Korea	After the assassination of President Park, martial law has been declared. A coup d'état bursts out by Defense Security Commander Chun Doo-gwang and a private band of officers following him. Capital Defense Commander Lee Tae-shin, an obstinate soldier who believes the military should not take political actions, fights against Chun Doo-gwang to stop him. The conflict between the two grows while military leaders are holding their decision and Defense Minister is gone. In the midst of chaos, the spring of Seoul that everyone longed for heads to unexpected direction.
Le Silence de la mer	1,949	Jean-Pierre Melville	Drama, War	7.5	139	French	France	In a small town in WWII France, a German officer is billeted in the house of an elderly man and his niece who resist the occupation by refusing to interact with him, even as he speaks to them candidly about his life and hopes for the future of France and Germany.
Kingdom III: The Flame of Destiny	2,023	Shinsuke Sato	Action, Adventure, War	7.5	133	Japanese	Japan	To defend their kingdom against a sudden invasion, a mighty general returns to the battlefield alongside a war orphan, now grown up, who dreams of glory.
Patriots Time	2,022	Serikbol Utepbergenov	Action, War, Drama	7.5	133	Russian	Kazakhstan	The brothers Sultan and Bekzat Ibrayev are serving faithfully in the Armed Forces of Kazakhstan, and at the same time they are in family disagreement. Sultan is a valiant intelligence officer and Bekzat is a talented fighter pilot. While an international terrorist organization prepares a carefully planned attack on the country's strategically important facilities, the brothers have to face not only a mortal threat, but also face a family confrontation related to their dead father. Circumstances force them to unite in order to save human lives, and the brothers eventually understand that their homeland and family are the most valuable thing they have.
Ethel & Ernest	2,016	Roger Mainwood	Animation, Drama, War, History	7.5	123	English	United Kingdom	This hand drawn animated film, based on the award winning graphic novel by Raymond Briggs, is an intimate and affectionate depiction of the life and times of his parents, two ordinary Londoners living through extraordinary events.
The Big Parade	1,925	King Vidor	Romance, War, Drama	7.5	123	English	United States of America	The story of an idle rich boy who joins the US Army's Rainbow Division and is sent to France to fight in World War I, becomes friends with two working class men, experiences the horrors of trench warfare, and finds love with a French girl.
Five Broken Cameras	2,011	Guy Davidi	War, Documentary	7.5	98	English	France	Five broken cameras – and each one has a powerful tale to tell. Embedded in the bullet-ridden remains of digital technology is the story of Emad Burnat, a farmer from the Palestinian village of Bil’in, which famously chose nonviolent resistance when the Israeli army encroached upon its land to make room for Jewish colonists. Emad buys his first camera in 2005 to document the birth of his fourth son, Gibreel. Over the course of the film, he becomes the peaceful archivist of an escalating struggle as olive trees are bulldozed, lives are lost, and a wall is built to segregate burgeoning Israeli settlements.
Dara of Jasenovac	2,020	Predrag Antonijević	Drama, History, War	7.5	87	Serbian	Serbia	During the Nazi-occupied Ustasha regime "NDH" in former Yugoslavia during WWII, little girl Dara is sent to the concentration camp complex Jasenovac in Croatia also known as "Balkan's Auschwitz".
Infiltration	2,022	Aleksey Chadov	War, Drama	7.5	74	Russian	Russia	Ivan sets off on a dangerous mission into Syria to save his ex-commander Grey after his capture by ISIS. With the help of U.S. military patrols, he succeeds in freeing Grey and attempts to escape the country while being hunted by terrorists.
War and Peace, Part I: Andrei Bolkonsky	1,965	Sergey Bondarchuk	History, Romance, War, Drama	7.5	73	Russian	Soviet Union	In 1805 St. Petersburg, Pierre Bezukhov, illegitimate son of a rich nobleman, is introduced to high society. His friend, Prince Andrei Bolkonsky, joins the Imperial Russian Army as aide-de-camp of General Mikhail Kutuzov in the War of the Third Coalition against General Napoleon Bonaparte. Part one of the four-part adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's 1869 novel.
Hornblower: The Even Chance	1,998	Andrew Grieve	War, Adventure, TV Movie	7.5	57	English	United Kingdom	Portsmouth, 1794. Under thundery skies and in lashing rain, 17-year-old midshipman Horatio Hornblower takes the first tentative steps of his naval career, but a feud with a shipmate causes complications.
War and Peace, Part III: The Year 1812	1,967	Sergey Bondarchuk	History, Romance, War, Drama	7.5	57	Russian	Soviet Union	In 1812, as Napoleon's army invades Russia, Kutuzov asks Bolkonsky to join him as a staff officer, yet the prince requests a command in the field. Pierre sets out to watch the armies' impending confrontation. As the Battle of Borodino rages, he volunteers to assist in an artillery battery. Part three of the four-part adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's 1869 novel.
The French Revolution	1,989	Richard T. Heffron	Drama, War, History, Thriller	7.5	55	French	United Kingdom	A history of the French Revolution beginning from the decision of the king to convene the Etats-Generaux in 1789 in order to deal with France's debt problem. Part one spans the event until August 10, 1792 (when the King Louis XVI lost all authority and was imprisoned). Part two carries the story through the end of the terror in 1794.
The Four Days of Naples	1,962	Nanni Loy	Drama, War	7.5	51	Italian	Italy	September 1943. After Italy surrenders to the Allies, people in Naples believe the war is finally over, but soon they realize Germans are still in control — and as ruthless as ever. Armed with makeshift weapons, civilians rise up en masse against the invaders — and overwhelming odds.
Home Coming	2,022	Rao Xiaozhi	Drama, War	7.5	48	Chinese	China	Two members of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs are tasked with the evacuation of Chinese citizens when war breaks out in Numia, North Africa.
Harbin	2,024	Woo Min-ho	Action, Thriller, History, War	7.5	41	Korean	South Korea	In 1909, several years after Korea is forced into becoming a Japanese colony, freedom fighters plot the daring assassination of Japan's prime minister during their quest for independence.
The War on Democracy	2,007	John Pilger	History, Documentary, War	7.5	41	English	Australia	Set both in Latin America and the United States, the film explores the historic and current relationship of Washington with countries such as Venezuela, Bolivia and Chile. Pilger says that the film "...tells a universal story... analysing and revealing, through vivid testimony, the story of great power behind its venerable myths. It allows us to understand the true nature of the so-called "war on terror". According to Pilger, the film’s message is that the greed and power of empire is not invincible and that people power is always the "seed beneath the snow".
The Good Soldier Švejk	1,957	Karel Steklý	Comedy, War	7.5	40	Czech	Czechoslovakia	Good-natured and garrulous, Schweik becomes the Austrian army's most loyal Czech soldier when he is called up on the outbreak of World War I -- although his bumbling attempts to get to the front serve only to prevent him from reaching it. Playing cards and getting drunk, he uses all his cunning and genial subterfuge to deal with the police, clergy, and officers who chivy him toward battle.
The Future Awaits	2,025	Nils Tavernier	Drama, History, War	7.5	33	French	France	In July 1942, during the Vel’ d’Hiv’ Roundup of Jewish families in Paris, 13 year old Tauba Birenbaum and her parents, who are Polish Jews, find refuge in a tiny room for the next 765 days. Living conditions are tough and they fear being discovered at any moment. But while her parents sink further into despair, Tauba’s fighting spirit shines through. She finds joy in every little thing, from a piano drawn on the floor, to the views of Paris through an open window. Despite extreme circumstances, she will keep hope until the liberation of Paris, and take back control of her life.
Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt: December Sky	2,016	Ko Matsuo	Action, Animation, Drama, Science Fiction, War	7.5	26	Japanese	Japan	During the One Year War of U.C. 0079, the Earth Federation and Principality of Zeon engage in a fierce battle at the "Thunderbolt Sector", a shoal zone in the former Colony Side 4 "Moore". After successfully infiltrating Zeon's sniper field, ace Federation pilot and jazz enthusiast Io Fleming is given control of the latest Gundam prototype.
The Dacians	1,967	Sergiu Nicolaescu	War, Drama, History	7.5	26	Romanian	France	The great King of Dacia, Decebal (Decebalus), is disposed to make the ultimate sacrifice in order to keep the integrity of his people. His own son, Cotyso, is given to the god Zamolxis to the dismay of the King and his daughter Meda. Septimius Severus, a young Roman devoted to his adopted country, must make the choice between his blood origins and the culture he was introduced to.
Samurai Banners	1,969	Hiroshi Inagaki	Action, War, History	7.5	23	Japanese	Japan	Kansuke Yamamoto is a samurai who dreams of a country united, peaceful from sea to sea. He enters the service of Takeda, the lord of Kai domain. He convinces Takeda to kill the lord of neighboring Suwa and take his wife as a concubine. He then convinces the widow, Princess Yu, to accept this arrangement and to bear Takeda a son. He pledges them his life. He then spends years using treachery, poetic sensibility, military and political strategy to expand Takeda's realm, advance the claim of Yu's son as the heir, and prepare for an ultimate battle with the forces of Echigo. Has Kansuke overreached? Are his dreams, blinded by love, too big?
To Be Twenty in the Aures	1,972	René Vautier	Drama, War	7.5	16	French	France	A group of refractory and pacifist Bretons is sent to Algeria. These beings confronted with the horrors of war gradually become killing machines. One of them did not accept it and deserted, taking with him an FLN prisoner who was to be executed the next day.
Forbidden School	2,019	Francesco Miccichè	Drama, History, War, TV Movie	7.5	15	Italian	Unknown	Mixing dramatizations and real-life interviews, this film tells the story of four Jewish children who endured the brutal anti-Semitism of fascist Italy.
The Last Assault	1,985	Sergiu Nicolaescu	War	7.5	15	Romanian	Romania	The film tells about the period when Romania joined the Allies against the Axis in WW2.
Operation Hadal	2,025	Dante Lam Chiu-Yin	Drama, Action, War	7.5	13	Chinese	China	Mercenaries have occupied an offshore platform in Chinese territorial waters by force. The Chinese Navy sets sail to repel the invaders as the Jiao Long commando team prepares for a fierce fight in the deep sea.
Gold, Silver, Death	1,982	Peque Gallaga	War, Drama	7.5	12	Filipino	Philippines	The story follows the Lorenzos and the Ojedas, the two land-owning clans in the island province of Negros, who were trying to cope and survive the war that lasted three tumultuous years, where they experienced or witnessed violence, blood, horror, and death. It is structured into three parts: Oro, a life of luxury and comfort in the city; Plata, a still-luxurious time of refuge in a provincial hacienda; and finally, Mata, a toilsome retreat deeper into the mountains. A war not only turned them into miserable people but also turned them into animals.
The Battle of Okinawa	1,971	Kihachi Okamoto	War, History	7.5	12	Japanese	Japan	The Americans are swiftly closing on Okinawa, an island just south of the Japanese mainland. The Imperial command sends top generals and several army divisions to defend it at all costs. The mission quickly degenerates as vital resources and troops are diverted to other islands. After a civilian evacuation ends in tragedy most of non-combatants are forced to remain on the island. Many convert to soldier status. Tokyo sends mixed messages that squander time and resources, as when they order the defenders to build an airstrip for aircraft that never come. The truth soon becomes obvious: the high command decides that the island cannot be held and effectively abandons the Okinawan defenders. When the Americans land many troops are deployed in the wrong places. As the slaughter mounts, a suicidal attitude takes hold. Okinawa becomes a death trap, for civilian volunteers and non-combatants as well.
The River Fuefuki	1,960	Keisuke Kinoshita	War, Drama, History	7.5	12	Japanese	Japan	In a time of continuous civil wars ravaging the fields of feudal Japan, the eldest son of a very poor peasant family, living alongside the bridge over the Fuefuki river, decides to serve a warlord to escape his miserable condition, being soon followed by his younger brothers. Although not all the men of the family take this tragic path of death, women of the family will be doomed to endure the pain of loss during the next five generations.
Myrnyi-21	2,023	Akhtem Seitablaiev	War, Drama	7.5	11	Ukrainian	Ukraine	The story of trust and its absence against the background of events unfolding in Eastern Ukraine in early 2014. The main topic is revealed through the prism of the Luhansk border base, whose fighters the separatists and Russian special services tried unsuccessfully force to betray their country.
Above and Beyond	2,015	Roberta Grossman	War, Documentary, Adventure, History	7.5	11	English	Israel	In 1948, a group of World War II pilots volunteered to fight for Israel in the War of Independence.
Hubal	1,973	Bohdan Poręba	War, Drama, History	7.5	10	Polish	Poland	Major Henryk "Hubal" Dobrzański refuses to surrender to the Germans in the wake of the 1939 campaign and continues to lead his regiment in guerilla warfare against the invaders.
Dunkirk	2,017	Christopher Nolan	War, Action, Drama	7.4	17,324	English	United Kingdom	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.
American Sniper	2,014	Clint Eastwood	War, Action	7.4	13,474	English	United States of America	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.
Black Hawk Down	2,001	Ridley Scott	Action, War, History	7.4	6,213	English	United Kingdom	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.
Lone Survivor	2,013	Peter Berg	War, Action, Drama	7.4	4,638	English	United States of America	Four Navy SEALs on a covert mission to neutralize a high-level Taliban operative must make an impossible moral decision in the mountains of Afghanistan that leads them into an enemy ambush. As they confront unthinkable odds, the SEALs must find reserves of strength and resilience to fight to the finish.
Unbroken	2,014	Angelina Jolie	Drama, War	7.4	4,316	English	United States of America	A chronicle of the life of Louis Zamperini, an Olympic runner who was taken prisoner by Japanese forces during World War II.
Enemy at the Gates	2,001	Jean-Jacques Annaud	Drama, War, History, Romance	7.4	3,943	English	United States of America	A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII.
The Last of the Mohicans	1,992	Michael Mann	Action, History, Romance, War	7.4	3,335	English	United States of America	In war-torn colonial America, in the midst of a bloody battle between British, the French and Native American allies, the aristocratic daughter of a British Colonel and her party are captured by a group of Huron warriors. Fortunately, a group of three Mohican trappers comes to their rescue.
Greyhound	2,020	Aaron Schneider	War, Action, Drama	7.4	3,218	English	Canada	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 WWII. 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.
The Thin Red Line	1,998	Terrence Malick	Drama, History, War	7.4	3,218	English	United States of America	The story of a group of men, an Army Rifle company called C-for-Charlie, who change, suffer, and ultimately make essential discoveries about themselves during the fierce World War II battle of Guadalcanal. It follows their journey, from the surprise of an unopposed landing, through the bloody and exhausting battles that follow, to the ultimate departure of those who survived.
Legends of the Fall	1,994	Edward Zwick	Drama, Western, Romance, War, Action	7.4	2,789	English	United States of America	In early 20th-century Montana, Col. William Ludlow lives on a ranch in the wilderness with his sons, Alfred, Tristan, and Samuel. Eventually, the unconventional but close-knit family are bound by loyalty, tested by war, and torn apart by love, as told over the course of several decades in this epic saga.
Sisu	2,022	Jalmari Helander	Action, War, Thriller	7.4	2,693	Finnish	Finland	When an ex-soldier who discovers gold in the Lapland wilderness tries to take the loot into the city, German soldiers led by a brutal SS officer battle him.
Black Book	2,006	Paul Verhoeven	Drama, Thriller, War	7.4	1,225	Dutch	Belgium	Israel, 1956: Jewish teacher Rachel Stein rather unexpectedly meets an old friend at the kibbutz. It brings back memories of her experiences in the Netherlands during the war, memories of betrayal. In September 1944, Rachel's hiding place is bombed by Allied troops; she makes contact with a resistance member and joins a group of Jews to be smuggled across the Biesbosch to the freed South Netherlands. Only Rachel escapes a massacre by patrol Germans, and is rescued by a resistance group under the leadership of Gerben Kuipers, whose son is captured trying to smuggle weapons. Kuipers asks Rachel to seduce SS-hauptsturmführer Ludwig Müntze, a mission that she will soon learn that the boat attack wasn't a coincidence.
Joyeux Noel	2,005	Christian Carion	Drama, War, Romance, History	7.4	909	French	Belgium	France, 1914, during World War I. On Christmas Eve, an extraordinary event takes place in the bloody no man's land that the French and the Scots dispute with the Germans…
The Flowers of War	2,011	Zhang Yimou	Drama, History, War	7.4	871	Chinese	China	A Westerner finds refuge with a group of women in a church during Japan's rape of Nanking in 1937. Posing as a priest, he attempts to lead the women to safety.
First They Killed My Father	2,017	Angelina Jolie	War, Drama, History	7.4	702	English	United States of America	A 5-year-old girl embarks on a harrowing quest for survival amid the sudden rise and terrifying reign of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia.
The Counterfeiters	2,007	Stefan Ruzowitzky	Drama, War	7.4	673	German	Germany	The story of Jewish counterfeiter Salomon Sorowitsch, who was coerced into assisting the Nazi operation of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp during World War II.
Justice Society: World War II	2,021	Jeff Wamester	Animation, War, Science Fiction	7.4	597	English	United States of America	When the Flash finds himself dropped into the middle of World War II, he joins forces with Wonder Woman and her top-secret team known as the Justice Society of America.
Balkan Line	2,019	Andrey Volgin	Drama, Action, War	7.4	566	Russian	Russia	After the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999, the Yugoslav army pulls out of Kosovo region, leaving Serbian people at the mercy of the Albanian UCK. A small band of soldiers must take over the Slatina airport, and hold it until the Russian peacekeepers arrive.
Zulu	1,964	Cy Endfield	Action, Drama, History, War	7.4	554	English	United Kingdom	In 1879, during the Anglo-Zulu War, man-of-the-people Lt. Chard and snooty Lt. Bromhead are in charge of defending the isolated and vastly outnumbered Natal outpost of Rorke's Drift from tribal hordes.
Sisu: Road to Revenge	2,025	Jalmari Helander	Action, War	7.4	547	Finnish	Finland	Returning to the house where his family was brutally murdered during the war, "the man who refuses to die" dismantles it, loads it on a truck, and is determined to rebuild it somewhere safe in their honor. When the commander who killed his family comes back hellbent on finishing the job, a relentless, eye-popping cross-country chase ensues.
Lifeboat	1,944	Alfred Hitchcock	War, Drama	7.4	468	English	United States of America	During World War II, a small group of survivors is stranded in a lifeboat together after the ship they were traveling on is destroyed by a German U-boat.
Operation Red Sea	2,018	Dante Lam Chiu-Yin	Action, Thriller, War, Adventure	7.4	426	Chinese	China	A squad of the Jiaolong Commando Unit - Sea Dragon, a spec ops team of the Chinese Navy, carries out a hostage rescue operation in the nation of Yewaire, on the Arabian Peninsula, and fiercely fights against local rebel groups and Zaka, a terrorist organization.
Kalashnikov AK-47	2,020	Konstantin Buslov	War, History, Drama	7.4	345	Russian	Russia	A Russian military propaganda film about the tank commander Kalashnikov, severely injured in battle in 1941. The accident leaves him incapacitated and unable to return to the front line. While recovering in the hospital, he begins creating the initial sketches of what will become one of the world’s most legendary weapons. A self-taught inventor is only 29 when he develops the now iconic assault riffle — the AK-47. Shot in occupied Crimea.
When the Wind Blows	1,986	Jimmy T. Murakami	Animation, War, Drama	7.4	319	English	United Kingdom	With the help of government-issued pamphlets, an elderly British couple build a shelter and prepare for an impending nuclear attack, unaware that times and the nature of war have changed from their romantic memories of World War II.
Train of Life	1,998	Radu Mihăileanu	Drama, Comedy, War	7.4	290	French	Belgium	In 1941, the inhabitants of a small Jewish village in Central Europe organize a fake deportation train so that they can escape the Nazis and flee to Palestine.
Ashes and Diamonds	1,958	Andrzej Wajda	Drama, War, Romance	7.4	265	Polish	Poland	A young academy soldier, Maciek Chelmicki, is ordered to shoot the secretary of the KW PPR. A coincidence causes him to kill someone else. Meeting face to face with his victim, he gets a shock. He faces the necessity of repeating the assassination. He meets Krystyna, a girl working as a barmaid in the restaurant of the "Monopol" hotel. His affection for her makes him even more aware of the senselessness of killing at the end of the war. Loyalty to the oath he took, and thus the obligation to obey the order, tips the scales.
Amaran	2,024	Rajkumar Periasamy	Action, Drama, Adventure, War	7.4	250	Tamil	India	A heroic true story of Major Mukund Varadarajan, an Indian Army officer who displayed extraordinary bravery during a counterterrorism mission in Kashmir’s Shopian district. The film captures his courage in protecting his nation and the devotion of his wife Indhu Rebecaa Varghese.
The Keeper	2,018	Marcus H. Rosenmüller	Drama, War, History	7.4	233	German	Belgium	The story of a man whose love for football, for England and for the love of his life, Margaret, saw him rise from Nazi 'villain' to British hero. Bert Trautmann, the German goalkeeper won over even his harshest opponents by winning the FA Cup Final for Manchester City in 1956 - playing on with a broken neck to secure victory.
City of Life and Death	2,009	Lu Chuan	Drama, History, War	7.4	233	Chinese	China	In 1937, during the height of the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Imperial Japanese Army has just captured Nanjing, then-capital of the Republic of China. What followed was known as the Nanking Massacre, or the Rape of Nanking, a six week period wherein tens of thousands of Chinese soldiers and civilians were killed.
Firebird	2,021	Peeter Rebane	Drama, Romance, War	7.4	220	English	Estonia	At the height of the Cold War, a troubled soldier forms a forbidden love triangle with a daring fighter pilot and his female comrade amid the dangerous surroundings of a Soviet Air Force Base.
Unknown Soldier	2,017	Aku Louhimies	War, Drama	7.4	212	Finnish	Iceland	The film follows Finnish army machine gun company in Continuation War against Soviet Union, 1941–1944. Based on Väinö Linna's best selling novel Tuntematon Sotilas (The Unknown Soldier) and the novel's uncensored version, Sotaromaani (A War Novel).
The White Helmets	2,016	Orlando von Einsiedel	Documentary, War	7.4	206	Arabic	United Kingdom	As daily airstrikes pound civilian targets in Syria, a group of indomitable first responders risk their lives to rescue victims from the rubble.
Welcome to Dongmakgol	2,005	Bae Jong	Comedy, Drama, War	7.4	196	Korean	South Korea	Based on the long running play by Jang Jin, the story is set in Korea during the Korean War in 1950. Soldiers from both the North and South, as well as an American pilot, find themselves in a secluded and naively idealistic village, its residents unaware of the outside world, including the war.
Before the Rain	1,994	Milcho Manchevski	Drama, War	7.4	182	MK	United Kingdom	The circularity of violence seen in a story that circles on itself. In Macedonia, during the war in Bosnia, Christians hunt an ethnic Albanian girl who may have murdered one of their own. A young monk who's taken a vow of silence offers her protection. In London, a photographic editor who's pregnant needs to talk it out with her estranged husband and chooses a toney restaurant.
Halo Legends	2,010	Hiroshi Yamazaki	Animation, War, Action, Science Fiction	7.4	167	English	Germany	The universe of the Halo video game series is expanded in seven short animated films from Japan's greatest anime directors and studios.
General Della Rovere	1,959	Roberto Rossellini	Drama, War	7.4	143	Italian	France	The Gestapo forces con man Victorio Bardone to impersonate a dead partisan general in order to extract information from his fellow inmates.
The Windermere Children	2,020	Michael Samuels	Drama, War, History	7.4	119	English	Germany	The story of the pioneering project to rehabilitate child survivors of the Holocaust on the shores of Lake Windermere.
Ulysses' Gaze	1,995	Theo Angelopoulos	Drama, History, War	7.4	118	Greek	Greece	An exiled filmmaker finally returns to his home country where former mysteries and afflictions of his early life come back to haunt him once more.
The 317th Platoon	1,965	Pierre Schoendoerffer	War, History, Drama	7.4	78	French	France	In Laos, 1954, eight days before the french defeat in the Indochina war, the 317th platoon – four french soldiers and 41 laotian combatants – has been ordered to leave its outpost and to retreat for the plains of Diên Biên Phu, where the french army is getting stucked. Led by the inexperienced and idealistic sous-lieutenant Torrens, fresh out of the military academy, and by adjutant Willsdorf, a WWII veteran of the Werhmacht, the group must cross 150 kilometers of jungle. But dripping rainwater, hostile nature, and the Viêt-minh ambushes expose them to constant danger.
All the Moons	2,020	Igor Legarreta	Drama, Fantasy, Horror, War	7.4	70	EU	Spain	During the final throes of the last Carlist war, a little girl is rescued from an orphanage by a mysterious woman who lives deep inside the forest.
Control Room	2,004	Jehane Noujaim	Documentary, War	7.4	59	English	United States of America	A chronicle which provides a rare window into the international perception of the Iraq War, courtesy of Al Jazeera, the Arab world's most popular news outlet. Roundly criticized by Cabinet members and Pentagon officials for reporting with a pro-Iraqi bias, and strongly condemned for frequently airing civilian causalities as well as footage of American POWs, the station has revealed (and continues to show the world) everything about the Iraq War that the Bush administration did not want it to see.
Culloden	1,964	Peter Watkins	TV Movie, War, History, Drama	7.4	55	English	United Kingdom	Culloden, Scottish Highlands, April 16th, 1746. It was one of the most mishandled and brutal battles ever fought in Great Britain. Its aftermath was tragic. The men responsible for such a disaster must be exposed. The men, women and children who suffered because of it must be remembered.
Triumph Over Violence	1,965	Mikhail Romm	Documentary, History, War	7.4	53	Russian	Soviet Union	Romm pulls out all the stops in its selection of documentary material to draw the viewer not only into absolute horror about fascism and nazism in the 1920s–1940s Europe, but also to a firm conviction that nothing of the sort should be allowed to happen again anywhere in the world.
War and Peace, Part IV: Pierre Bezukhov	1,967	Sergey Bondarchuk	History, Romance, War, Drama	7.4	52	Russian	Soviet Union	As Moscow is set ablaze by the retreating Russians, the Rostovs flee their estate, taking wounded soldiers with them, and unbeknownst to them, also Andrei. Pierre, dressed as a peasant, tries to assassinate Napoleon but is taken prisoner. As the French are forced to retreat, he's marched for months with the Grande Armée, until being freed by a raiding party. Part four of the four-part adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's 1869 novel.
Hornblower: The Examination for Lieutenant	1,998	Andrew Grieve	War, Adventure, TV Movie	7.4	47	English	United Kingdom	Acting Lieutenant Hornblower attempts to study for his promotion examination, but becomes distracted by the serious supply problems that face his crew.
Silence of the Sea	2,004	Pierre Boutron	Romance, Drama, War, TV Movie	7.4	36	French	France	In a small town in the West of France, during the German Occupation, a room is requisitioned by a Wehrmacht captain, Werner von Ebrennac. The house...
We Stand Alone Together: The Men of Easy Company	2,001	Mark Cowen	Documentary, War, TV Movie	7.4	36	English	United States of America	Over a period of two years, Mark Cowen and his crew travelled to thirty U.S. states and ten European cities, to interview the veterans of Easy Company. The stories told by the veterans themselves, create a history of the Second World War from the point of view of this heroic company of men, made famous in the mini-series Band of Brothers.
S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine	2,003	Rithy Panh	Documentary, History, War	7.4	33	French	Australia	Documentary of the S-21 genocide prison in Phnom Penh with interviews of prisoners and guards. On the search for reasons why this could have happened.
Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport	2,000	Mark Jonathan Harris	Documentary, History, War	7.4	32	English	United Kingdom	In the nine months prior to World War II, 10.000 innocent children left behind their families, their homes, their childhood, and took the journey... to Britain to escape the Nazi Holocaust.
Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin VI – Rise of the Red Comet	2,018	Yoshikazu Yasuhiko	Action, Animation, Science Fiction, War	7.4	31	Japanese	Japan	On January 23, U.C. 0079, a decisive battle between Zeon and the Earth Federation begins at Side 5, or Loum. Though the Zeon forces are overwhelmin...
The Rape of Europa	2,007	Richard Berge	Documentary, History, War	7.4	28	English	United States of America	World War II was not just the most destructive conflict in humanity, it was also the greatest theft in history: lives, families, communities, property, culture and heritage were all stolen. The story of Nazi Germany's plundering of Europe's great works of art during World War II and Allied efforts to minimize the damage.
The Paper Will Be Blue	2,006	Radu Muntean	Drama, Action, Thriller, War	7.4	28	Romanian	Romania	Out of enthusiasm, a Militia soldier abandons his platoon and decides to fight for the cause of the Revolution. His Lieutenant and the rest of the crew look for him during the confused night of 22-23 December 1989.
Atatürk 1881 - 1919	2,023	Mehmet Ada Öztekin	History, Drama, War	7.4	27	Turkish	Turkey	A biopic focusing on to the childhood and the early years of the military career of the founder and the first President of the Turkish Republic, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.
Camp de Thiaroye	1,988	Ousmane Sembène	War, Drama	7.4	21	French	Algeria	A Senegalese platoon of soldiers from the French Free Army are returned from combat in France and held for a temporary time in a military encampment with barbed wire fences and guard towers in the desert. Among their numbers are Sergeant Diatta, the charismatic leader of the troop who was educated in Paris and has a French wife and child, and Pays, a Senegalese soldier left in a state of shock from the war and concentration camps and who can only speak in guttural screams and grunts.
Final Account	2,021	Luke Holland	Documentary, War	7.4	20	German	United Kingdom	A depiction of the last living generation of German participants in Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich.
Forbidden Songs	1,947	Leonard Buczkowski	Music, War, Drama	7.4	20	Polish	Poland	Set during the German occupation of Warsaw during WWII, this musical tells the story of several inhabitants of the same tenement house.
Stars	1,959	Konrad Wolf	Drama, War	7.4	19	German	Bulgaria	Stationed in a secluded Bulgarian village in 1943, Walter – a German Wehrmacht sergeant and artist – lives in almost idyllic distance from the war. Then a transit camp is set up for Jews arriving from Greece. When Ruth, one of the internees, asks Walter to help a pregnant woman, the two form an unlikely bond.
Genocide	1,982	Arnold Schwartzman	Documentary, History, War	7.4	18	English	United States of America	The mass murder of Jewish people by the Nazi regime is chronicled, with a warning that anti-Semitism is on the rise and the events of the Holocaust could happen again. The history of European Jewish culture and events before and during the Holocaust are seen in newsreels, photographs, and animated segments. The words of the victims of the era are read, and footage from the liberation os a concentration camp is shown.
Lethal Kittens	2,020	Volodymyr Tykhyy	Comedy, War	7.4	17	Ukrainian	Canada	In 2014 Russia’s hybrid war against Ukraine turns hot. An engineer, actor, soccer coach and florist volunteer to fight on the front line. Unaware of the pivotal role they will play in the war, they discover the meaning of true leadership.
Long Live the Republic	1,965	Karel Kachyňa	War, Drama	7.4	16	Czech	Czechoslovakia	Oldrich is the runt of his village, beaten by his father, bullied by the other boys. But he has imagination on his side, and a wiry toughness they can’t defeat. The village is in turmoil, because the Nazi occupiers have just retreated and the Red Army is advancing. Oldrich dodges amid the mayhem and panic, taking his share of blows but always managing to stay one step ahead. Beautifully shot and darkly ironic, Karel Kachyna’s forgotten masterpiece jumbles reality, memory and fantasy to capture the intensity and confusion of childhood in a war zone.
Assassination	1,965	Jiří Sequens	War, Drama, History	7.4	16	Czech	Czechoslovakia	In autumn 1941, Reich Protector Reinhard Heydrich’s brutal rule in occupied Bohemia and Moravia fuels Czech resistance. In spring 1942, the government-in-exile sends trained paratroopers led by Lt. Král on a mission to assassinate him. Masters Strnad and Vyskočil ambush Heydrich’s open Mercedes in Prague’s Libeň district, mortally wounding him despite a jammed submachine gun. Their success triggers harsh Nazi reprisals, mass executions, and an intense manhunt for the operatives.
Jiseul	2,013	O Muel	Drama, History, War	7.4	13	Korean	South Korea	The populace of a South Korean island rebels against police brutality. The protesters are labeled as communists, and the army is dispatched.
Brothers	2,023	Tomáš Mašín	History, Drama, War, Action	7.4	12	Czech	Czech Republic	Based on the true story of brothers Josef and Ctirad Mašín who, in 1953, tried to escape communist Czechoslovakia to join the US army in West Berlin.
This Life of Mine	1,950	Shi Hui	Drama, War, Crime	7.4	12	Chinese	China	Fifty years of modern Chinese history (1900-1950), including wars, revolutions and corrupt politics, as seen through the life and times of a simple Beijing policeman and his family.
Hakkenden	2,024	Fumihiko Sori	Drama, Fantasy, War	7.4	11	Japanese	Japan	Takizawa Bakin, a popular Edo period author, begins to recount a story he is planning in front of his friend, the artist Katsushika Hokusai. The story is about eight warriors who, each carrying a jewel, gather together as if guided by fate and embark on a harsh journey to fight the curse of the Satomi family. Hokusai is drawn into the story that Bakin is telling, and visits Bakin on various occasions to hear the rest of the story, and a strange relationship between the two begins. The serialization becomes Bakin's life's work, with the idea of "rewarding good and punishing evil in a world where evil is rampant," but after 28 years, as the story finally approaches its climax, Bakin begins to lose his sight. With the completion of the story in doubt, he receives an unexpected proposal from his daughter-in-law. Will the story ever be completed?
200,000 Phantoms	2,007	Jean-Gabriel Périot	Documentary, History, War	7.4	11	French	France	In 1914, the Czech architect Jan Letzel designed in the Japanese city of Hiroshima Center for the World Expo, which has turned into ruins after the atomic bombing in August 1945. “Atomic Dome” – all that remains of the destroyed palace of the exhibition – has become part of the Hiroshima memorial. In 2007, French sculptor, painter and film director Jean-Gabriel Périot assembled this cinematic collage from hundreds of multi-format, color and black and white photographs of different years’ of “Genbaku Dome”.
Hunting Down the Nazis	2,007	Isabelle Clarke	Documentary, History, War, TV Movie	7.4	11	French	France	For the first time, a film recounts the story of the long pursuit of Nazis in hiding from 1945 to the present day. Sixty years of investigations, set-backs trials and dramas, brought about principally by three extraordinary individuals—the Austrian Simon Wiesenthal, and the German-French couple, Beate and Serge Klarsfeld.
Pink Panzer	1,965	Hawley Pratt	Animation, Comedy, Family, War	7.4	11	English	United States of America	The next-door neighbor neglects to return the Pink Panther's lawn mower, resulting in a feud that escalates into all-out war.
The Train of Salt and Sugar	2,016	Licínio Azevedo	Adventure, Drama, War	7.4	10	Portuguese	Mozambique	In 1989, Mozambique is a country ruined by civil war. The train that connects Nampula to Malawi is the only hope for people willing to risk their lives to exchange a few bags of salt for sugar. Running slowly over sabotaged tracks, the journey is filled with obstacles and violence. Mariamu, a frequent traveler, shares her trip with her friend Rosa, a nurse who is going to her new hospital, living the reality of war for the first time, Lieutenant Taiar, who only knows the reality of his military life, and another soldier, Salomão, with whom he doesn’t get along. Amongst bullets and laughter, stories of love and war unfold as the train advances towards the next stop.
Death Is My Trade	1,977	Theodor Kotulla	War, Drama	7.4	10	German	Germany	A biography of Auschwitz commander Rudolf Höss.
The Hurt Locker	2,008	Kathryn Bigelow	Drama, Thriller, War	7.3	6,028	English	United States of America	During the Iraq War, a Sergeant recently assigned to an army bomb squad is put at odds with his squad mates due to his maverick way of handling his work.
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi	2,016	Michael Bay	War, Action, History, Drama, Thriller	7.3	3,856	English	United States of America	An American Ambassador is killed during an attack at a U.S. compound in Libya as a security team struggles to make sense out of the chaos.
Brothers	2,009	Jim Sheridan	Drama, Thriller, War	7.3	3,854	English	United States of America	When his helicopter goes down during his fourth tour of duty in Afghanistan, Marine Sam Cahill is presumed dead. Back home, brother Tommy steps in to look over Sam’s wife, Grace, and two children. Sam’s surprise homecoming triggers domestic mayhem.
War Horse	2,011	Steven Spielberg	War, History, Adventure	7.3	3,606	English	United States of America	On the brink of the First World War, Albert's beloved horse Joey is sold to the Cavalry by his father. Against the backdrop of the Great War, Joey begins an odyssey full of danger, joy, and sorrow, and he transforms everyone he meets along the way. Meanwhile, Albert, unable to forget his equine friend, searches the battlefields of France to find Joey and bring him home.
Good Morning, Vietnam	1,987	Barry Levinson	Comedy, Drama, War	7.3	2,935	English	United States of America	A disk jockey goes to Vietnam to work for the Armed Forces Radio Service. While he becomes popular among the troops, his superiors disapprove of his humor.
The Zookeeper's Wife	2,017	Niki Caro	Drama, History, War	7.3	1,552	English	Czech Republic	The account of keepers of the Warsaw Zoo, Jan and Antonina Zabinski, who helped save hundreds of people and animals during the Nazi invasion.
Land of Bad	2,024	William Eubank	Action, War, Thriller	7.3	1,417	English	United States of America	When a Delta Force special ops mission goes terribly wrong, Air Force drone pilot Reaper has 48 hours to remedy what has devolved into a wild rescue operation. With no weapons and no communication other than the drone above, the ground mission suddenly becomes a full-scale battle when the team is discovered by the enemy.
A Very Long Engagement	2,004	Jean-Pierre Jeunet	Drama, Romance, War	7.3	1,294	French	France	Young Frenchwoman Mathilde searches for the truth about her missing fiancé, lost during World War I, and learns many unexpected things along the way. The love of her life is gone. But she refuses to believe he's gone forever — and she needs to know for sure.
Sophie's Choice	1,982	Alan J. Pakula	Drama, Romance, War	7.3	914	English	United Kingdom	Stingo, a young writer, moves to Brooklyn in 1947 to begin work on his first novel. As he becomes friendly with Sophie and her lover Nathan, he learns that she is a Holocaust survivor. Flashbacks reveal her harrowing story, from pre-war prosperity to Auschwitz. In the present, Sophie and Nathan's relationship increasingly unravels as Stingo grows closer to Sophie and Nathan's fragile mental state becomes ever more apparent.
The Wind That Shakes the Barley	2,006	Ken Loach	Drama, War	7.3	874	English	Ireland	In 1920s Ireland young doctor Damien O'Donovan prepares to depart for a new job in a London hospital. As he says his goodbyes at a friend's farm, British Black and Tans arrive, and a young man is killed. Damien joins his brother Teddy in the Irish Republican Army, but political events are soon set in motion that tear the brothers apart.
The Guns of Navarone	1,961	J. Lee Thompson	War, Adventure, Thriller, Action	7.3	844	English	United Kingdom	A team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers.
Duck Soup	1,933	Leo McCarey	Comedy, War	7.3	841	English	United States of America	Rufus T. Firefly is named president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of wealthy Mrs. Teasdale.
Megan Leavey	2,017	Gabriela Cowperthwaite	Drama, War	7.3	835	English	Spain	The true story of Marine Corporal Megan Leavey, who forms a powerful bond with an aggressive combat dog, Rex. While deployed in Iraq, the two complete more than 100 missions and save countless lives, until an IED explosion puts their faithfulness to the test.
Kelly's Heroes	1,970	Brian G. Hutton	Adventure, Comedy, War	7.3	786	English	United States of America	A misfit group of World War II American soldiers goes AWOL to rob a bank behind German lines.
Testament of Youth	2,015	James Kent	History, Drama, War	7.3	783	English	Denmark	Testament of Youth is a powerful story of love, war and remembrance, based on the First World War memoir by Vera Brittain, which has become the classic testimony of that war from a woman’s point of view. A searing journey from youthful hopes and dreams to the edge of despair and back again, it’s a film about young love, the futility of war and how to make sense of the darkest times.
Sarah's Key	2,010	Gilles Paquet-Brenner	Drama, War	7.3	706	French	France	On the night of 16 July 1942, ten year old Sarah and her parents are being arrested and transported to the Velodrome d'Hiver in Paris where thousands of other jews are being sent to get deported. Sarah however managed to lock her little brother in a closet just before the police entered their apartment. Sixty years later, Julia Jarmond, an American journalist in Paris, gets the assignment to write an article about this raid, a black page in the history of France. She starts digging archives and through Sarah's file discovers a well kept secret about her own in-laws.
From Here to Eternity	1,953	Fred Zinnemann	War, Romance, Drama	7.3	693	English	United States of America	In 1941 Hawaii, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his captain's wife and second in command are falling in love.
Stalingrad	1,993	Joseph Vilsmaier	Drama, History, War	7.3	613	German	Germany	A German Platoon is explored through the brutal fighting of the Battle of Stalingrad. After half of their number is wiped out and they're placed under the command of a sadistic captain, the platoon lieutenant leads his men to desert. The platoon members attempt escape from the city, now surrounded by the Soviet Army.
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence	1,983	Nagisa Ōshima	Drama, History, War	7.3	509	Japanese	Japan	Island of Java, 1942, during World War II. British Major Jack Celliers arrives at a Japanese prison camp, run by the strict Captain Yonoi. Colonel John Lawrence, who has a profound knowledge of Japanese culture, and Sergeant Hara, brutal and simpleton, will witness the struggle of wills between two men from very different backgrounds who are tragically destined to clash.
Battle for Sevastopol	2,015	Sergey Mokritsky	War, Drama, Romance	7.3	489	Russian	Russia	The story of Lyudmila Pavlichenko, the most successful female sniper in history.
Red Cliff II	2,009	John Woo	Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War	7.3	484	Chinese	China	The battle of Red Cliff continues and the alliance between Xu and East Wu is fracturing. With Cao Cao's massive forces on their doorstep, will the kingdoms of Xu and East Wu survive?
The Last Full Measure	2,020	Todd Robinson	Drama, Action, War	7.3	478	English	United States of America	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.
Twice Born	2,012	Sergio Castellitto	Drama, Romance, War	7.3	469	Italian	Italy	Full-throttle melodrama about an ill-starred romance set against the backdrop of the siege of Sarajevo. A mother brings her teenage son to Sarajevo, where his father died in the Bosnian conflict years ago.
Conspiracy	2,001	Frank Pierson	History, Drama, War, TV Movie	7.3	456	English	United Kingdom	At the Wannsee Conference on January 20, 1942, senior Nazi officials meet to determine the manner in which the so-called "Final Solution to the Jewish Question" can be best implemented.
Now Where Did the Seventh Company Get to?	1,973	Robert Lamoureux	Comedy, War	7.3	377	French	France	1940: During the chaotic running fights of the French army the 7th company disappears - nobody knows they've been taken captive. Only their scouting patrol, three witty but lazy guys, can escape and now wanders around behind the German lines. They'd like to just stay out the fights, but a Lieutenant urges them to use a captured truck to break through to their troops.
Restrepo	2,010	Tim Hetherington	War, Documentary	7.3	353	English	United States of America	Directors Hetherington and Junger spend a year with the 2nd Battalion of the United States Army located in one of Afghanistan's most dangerous valleys. The documentary provides insight and empathy on how to win the battle through hard work, deadly gunfights and mutual friendships while the unit must push back the Taliban.
The Seventh Company Has Been Found	1,975	Robert Lamoureux	Comedy, War	7.3	305	French	France	The second part of the Seventh Company adventures.
Land and Freedom	1,995	Ken Loach	War, Drama, History	7.3	291	English	United Kingdom	David Carr is a British Communist who is unemployed. In 1936, when the Spanish Civil War begins, he decides to fight for the Republican side, a coalition of liberals, communists and anarchists, so he joins the POUM militia and witnesses firsthand the betrayal of the Spanish revolution by Stalin's followers and Moscow's orders.
Lion of the Desert	1,981	Moustapha Akkad	History, War, Drama	7.3	193	English	Libyan Arab Jamahiriya	This movie tells the story of Omar Mukhtar, an Arab Muslim rebel who fought against the Italian conquest of Libya during the second Italo-Senussi War. It gives western viewers a glimpse into this little-known region and chapter of history, and exposes the savage means by which the conquering army attempted to subdue the natives.
Hatred	2,016	Wojtek Smarzowski	War, Drama, History	7.3	146	Polish	Poland	Summer of 1939. Zosia is a young Polish girl who is deeply in love with Ukrainian Petro. Their great love will be put to the test when her father decides to marry her to a wealthy widower Skiba. Right after wedding she is left alone because her husband is drafted to the Polish army for the war with Germany. Meanwhile, tensions grow due to Jews, Poles, and Ukrainians living side by side.
Kingdom	2,019	Shinsuke Sato	Action, Adventure, War, History, Fantasy	7.3	144	Japanese	Japan	Set in Qin Dynasty during the warring states period in ancient China. Shin was a war orphan. He has a dream of becoming a great general Shin has a fateful encounter with young King Eisei. King Eisei aims to unify all of China.
Many Wars Ago	1,970	Francesco Rosi	Drama, War	7.3	140	Italian	Italy	Time after time, soldiers of the Italian Army are forced to leave their mountain trenches in attempts to storm an enemy fortress, always with the same disastrous results. As casualties mount, indignation spreads among the rank and file. Disturbed by his superiors' decisions, Lieutenant Sassu is led to question the purpose of war and reconsider where his real duties lie.
The Breath	2,009	Levent Semerci	War, Action, Drama	7.3	139	Turkish	Turkey	A small task force of the Turkish army have to defend a relay station in the middle of nowhere against a possible terrorist raid.
Naked Among Wolves	2,015	Philipp Kadelbach	History, Drama, War	7.3	134	German	Germany	Taking place at the Concentration camp Buchenwald at the end of March 1945, prisoner Hans Pippig discovers in a carrying case of an incoming prisoner a Jewish child. If reported the three-year-old is sure to die. On the other hand, a violation of the rules of the camp would threaten the long prepared uprising of the concentration camp prisoners against the SS.
Kingdom 2: Far and Away	2,022	Shinsuke Sato	Action, Adventure, War	7.3	126	Japanese	Japan	It follows a young man who dreams of becoming a general and Ying Zheng, whose goal is unification.
The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler	2,009	John Kent Harrison	Drama, War	7.3	120	English	United States of America	Irena Sendler is a Catholic social worker who has sympathized with the Jews since her childhood, when her physician father died of typhus contracted while treating poor Jewish patients. When she initially proposes saving Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto, her idea is met with skepticism by fellow workers, her parish priest, and even her own mother Janina.
Shershaah	2,021	Vishnu Varadhan	Action, Drama, Thriller, War	7.3	115	Hindi	India	Inspired by the life of Captain Vikram Batra (PVC), the film celebrates his bravery, valiant spirit and honors his invaluable sacrifice during the Kargil War of 1999, at the age of 24.
Eastern Condors	1,987	Sammo Hung Kam-Bo	Action, Adventure, War	7.3	114	CN	Hong Kong	A motley group of Chinese prisoners held in the US is sent on a covert mission with the promise of a pardon: to go deep into Vietnam and destroy a secret depot of missiles that the US left behind during the pull-out.
Youth	2,017	Feng Xiaogang	Drama, History, War	7.3	107	Chinese	China	A group of performing art troupe members each face their own trials and tribulations in Chengdu; from escaping a family scandal to dealing with unrequited love, each experiences rejection that shapes their lives.
Macross: Do You Remember Love?	1,984	Shoji Kawamori	Animation, Science Fiction, War, Action	7.3	102	Japanese	Japan	It is A.D. 2009 and the human race is caught in a war between giant humanoids, male Zentrans and female Meltrans. Returning from the edge of our solar system after making a space fold, the SDF-1 Macross makes the long journey back to Earth with survivors of South Ataria Island.
Ice Cold in Alex	1,958	J. Lee Thompson	War, Adventure, Drama	7.3	96	English	United Kingdom	A group of army personnel and nurses attempt a dangerous and arduous trek across the deserts of North Africa during the second world war. The leader of the team dreams of his ice cold beer when he reaches Alexandria.
Irena's Vow	2,024	Louise Archambault	War, Drama, History	7.3	95	English	Canada	19 year old Irena Gut is promoted to housekeeper in the home of a highly respected Nazi officer in Poland when she finds out that the Jewish ghetto is about to be liquidated. Determined to help twelve Jewish workers, she decides to shelter them in the safest place she can think of – the basement of the German Major's house. Over the next eight months, Irena uses her wit, humour and immense courage to hide her friends as long as possible.
Last Days in Vietnam	2,014	Rory Kennedy	War, Documentary	7.3	93	English	United States of America	During the chaotic final weeks of the Vietnam War, the North Vietnamese Army closes in on Saigon as the panicked South Vietnamese people desperately attempt to escape. On the ground, American soldiers and diplomats confront a moral quandary: whether to obey White House orders to evacuate only U.S. citizens.
The Last Command	1,928	Josef von Sternberg	Drama, History, War, Romance	7.3	88	English	United States of America	A former Imperial Russian general and cousin of the Czar ends up in Hollywood as an extra in a movie directed by a former revolutionary.
Night Train to Munich	1,940	Carol Reed	Drama, Thriller, War	7.3	85	English	United Kingdom	Czechoslovakia, March 1939, on the eve of World War II. As the German invaders occupy Prague, inventor Axel Bomasch manages to flee and reach England; but those who need to put his knowledge at the service of the Nazi war machine, in order to carry out their evil plans of destruction, will stop at nothing to capture him.
The Unknown Soldier	1,955	Edvin Laine	Drama, War	7.3	72	Finnish	Finland	It is the summer of 1941. An eastern-Finnish machine gun company receives an order to turn in their surplus equipment. The company is transferred to the front lines. The next morning the soldiers wake to the sound of guns – the war has begun.
I Accuse	1,919	Abel Gance	War, Drama	7.3	63	French	France	The story of two men, one married, the other the lover of the other's wife, who meet in the trenches of the First World War, and how their tale becomes a microcosm for the horrors of war.
Cyborgs	2,017	Akhtem Seitablaiev	War, Action, Drama	7.3	61	Ukrainian	Ukraine	‘The Cyborgs’ is re-telling the recent history of Ukraine – the legendary fight for Donetsk Airport in 2014 during Russian invasion. The freedom fighters from various divisions of Ukrainian army and volunteer battalions took a 242-days stand against the Russian backed militants until the complete destruction of the airport’s terminal.
Take Off	2,017	Mahesh Narayanan	Drama, Thriller, War	7.3	52	Malayalam	India	A group of Malayali nurses stranded in Iraq, must survive their capture by the extremists and reach out to the rescue team headed by the Indian government.
WWII From Space	2,012	Simon George	Documentary, History, War	7.3	49	English	United Kingdom	WWII from Space delivers World War II in a way you've never experienced it before. This HISTORY special uses an all-seeing CGI eye that offers a satellite view of the conflict, allowing you to experience it in a way that puts key events and tipping points in a global perspective. By re-creating groundbreaking moments that could never have been captured on camera, and by illustrating the importance of simultaneity and the hidden effects of crucial incidents, HISTORY presents the war's monumental moments in a never-before-seen context. And with new information brought to the forefront, you'll better understand how a nation ranked 19th in the world's militaries in 1939 emerged six years later as the planet's only atomic superpower.
Knights of the Teutonic Order	1,960	Aleksander Ford	Adventure, Drama, History, War	7.3	47	Polish	Poland	A tale of a young impoverished nobleman, who with his uncle returns from a war against the order of the Teutonic Knights in Lithuania. He falls in love with a beautiful woman and pledges an oath to bring her "three trophies" from the Teutonic Knights.
The Battle: Roar to Victory	2,019	Won Shin-yun	History, Action, War	7.3	46	Korean	South Korea	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.
Hornblower: Mutiny	2,001	Andrew Grieve	War, Adventure, TV Movie	7.3	43	English	United Kingdom	Hornblower and his comrades come under the command of a revered but mentally unstable captain and are forced to mutiny in order to save their ship, the HMS Renown.
Let There Be Light	1,946	John Huston	Documentary, War	7.3	42	English	United States of America	The final entry in a trilogy of films produced for the U.S. government by John Huston. Some returning combat veterans suffer scars that are more psychological than physical. This film follows patients and staff during their treatment. It deals with what would now be called PTSD, but at the time was categorised as psychoneurosis or shell-shock. Government officials deemed this 1946 film counterproductive to postwar efforts; it was not shown publicly until 1981.
Breakthrough	2,019	Dejan Babosek	War, Drama	7.3	40	SL	Slovenia	Young partisan resistance fighter commander Franc Sever Franta faces an impossible task when he has to rescue 500 freedom fighters surrounded and outnumbered by a Nazi German division high in the mountains in harsh winter condition.
Hornblower: Retribution	2,001	Andrew Grieve	War, Adventure, TV Movie	7.3	39	English	United Kingdom	Hornblower and the other officers of the Renown must return to Jamaica to face a court-martial and possible execution for their actions in relieving their unstable captain.
The Soviet Story	2,008	Edvīns Šņore	Documentary, War, History	7.3	37	English	Latvia	“The Soviet Story” is a story of an Allied power, which helped the Nazis to fight Jews and which slaughtered its own people on an industrial scale....
Invasion	2,014	Abner Benaim	Documentary, History, War	7.3	33	Spanish	Panama	INVASION is a documentary about the collective memory of a country. The invasion of Panama by the U.S in 1989 serves as an excuse to explore how a people remember, transform, and often forget their past in order to re-define their identity and become who they are today.
Bashu, the Little Stranger	1,991	Bahram Beyzai	Drama, War	7.3	32	Persian	Iran	During the Iran-Iraq War, Bashu, a young boy loses his house and all his family. Scared, he sneaks into a truck that is leaving the area. He gets off the truck in the Northern part of the country, where everything from landscape to language is different. He meets Naii, who is trying to raise her two young children on a farm, while her husband is away. Despite cultural differences, and the fact that they do not speak the same language, Bashu and Naii slowly form a strong bond.
Shadow of Fire	2,023	Shinya Tsukamoto	Drama, War	7.3	31	Japanese	Japan	In the black market, a war orphan is confronted with the struggles of people living in the immediate aftermath of WWII.
Friend	2,015	Jamie Donoughue	Drama, History, War	7.3	31	SQ	Kosovo	The friendship of two boys is tested to its limits as they battle for survival during the Kosovo war.
Seisaku's Wife	1,965	Yasuzō Masumura	Drama, Romance, War	7.3	25	Japanese	Japan	On the eve of the Russo-Japanese war at the beginning of the 20th century, small-town girl Okane has married an old wealthy man to escape a life of poverty.
Birth Certificate	1,961	Stanisław Różewicz	Drama, War	7.3	22	Polish	Poland	Three separate stories depicting the tense everyday life during occupation, as seen through the eyes of children. In “On the Road,” the two main protagonists are lost in the September’s strife: a young boy, and a soldier transporting the valueless documents of his broken unit. In “Letter from the Concentration Camp” the story’s protagonists are young boys who help their mother during the hardships of the occupation. Their treasure is an officer uniform belonging their father who is being held in a prisoner of war camp. In “Blood Drop,” the Germans find a set of typical Aryan characteristics in this story’s protagonist – a Jewish girl, hiding in an orphanage.
I Was Nineteen	1,968	Konrad Wolf	Drama, History, War	7.3	19	German	East Germany	A young soldier enters Germany with Soviet troops at the end of WWII, feeling like a stranger in his homeland. As he meets Germans, he grapples with his ambivalence, realizing he is both a victor and one of the vanquished. His inquisitive nature leads him to confront the atrocities and lies he encounters along the way.
Son of Babylon	2,009	Mohamed Al Daradji	Drama, War	7.3	18	Arabic	Iraq	A willful young boy follows his just and obstinate grandmother on a journey across Iraq, determined to discover the fate of her missing son, Ahmed's father, who never returned from war.
German Concentration Camps Factual Survey	2,017	Sidney Bernstein	Documentary, History, War	7.3	17	English	United Kingdom	On the 29th September 1945, the incomplete rough cut of a brilliant documentary about concentration camps was viewed at the MOI in London. For five months, Sidney Bernstein had led a small team – which included Stewart McAllister, Richard Crossman and Alfred Hitchcock – to complete the film from hours of shocking footage. Unfortunately, this ambitious Allied project to create a feature-length visual report that would damn the Nazi regime and shame the German people into acceptance of Allied occupation had missed its moment. Even in its incomplete form (available since 1984) the film was immensely powerful, generating an awed hush among audiences. But now, complete to six reels, this faithfully restored and definitive version produced by IWM, is being compared with Alain Resnais’ Night and Fog (1955).
The Boy Soldier	1,981	Yves Boisset	Drama, War	7.3	16	French	France	In the 1930s a young fellow, Simon Chalumet, is sent to a military school by his overbearing father, an ex-soldier who has little sympathy for his son's more gentle temperament, or for his interest in films.
This Is Congo	2,017	Daniel McCabe	Documentary, War	7.3	15	English	Congo	An unfiltered look in to the lives of 3 characters surviving amongst the most recent cycle of conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo, otherwise known as the M23 rebellion.
Tombstone of the Fireflies	2,008	Taro Hyugaji	Drama, War	7.3	15	Japanese	Japan	Set during World War II, the film follows a young brother and sister as they attempt to survive the aftermath of the firebombing of Kobe City.
Guerrilla	2,011	Nasiruddin Yousuff	Drama, History, War	7.3	14	Bengali	Bangladesh	Bilkis Banu lost her husband Hasan on the night of 25th March 1971. She tries to forget him and concentrate on the urban guerrilla movements of Dhaka with Altaf Mahmud, Shahadat, Mrs Khan and many more. But when spies and the razakars inform them, most of their people get arrested and Bilkis has to run for her life, towards her village.
Who Will Write Our History?	2,018	Roberta Grossman	Documentary, History, War, Drama	7.3	12	English	Poland	Documentary about a group of Jews, who collected and hid a lot of stories and documents about everyday jewish life in the Warsaw Ghetto.
Port Arthur	1,980	Toshio Masuda	War, Drama, History	7.3	12	Japanese	Japan	Depicts the bloody siege of the fortress of Port Arthur, one of the most strongly fortified positions in the world, during the Russo-Japanese War of (1904 - 1905). In the story dominated the character Lt Takeshi Kogyo (Teruhiko Aoi), teachers, and a reserve officer who became commander of the platoon and later company. At the same time monitors the conduct of the army commander general Nogi (Tatsuya Nakadai), which was commissioned of the emperor Matsuhito (Toshirô Mifune) to the conquest of the fort.
Three Years Without God	1,976	Mario O'Hara	Drama, Romance, War	7.3	12	Filipino	Philippines	Set during World War II, Rosario, a school teacher, enters a forbidden relationship with a Japanese soldier, Masugi.
Soldier's Lullaby	2,018	Predrag Antonijević	War	7.3	11	Serbian	Serbia	Stevan Jakovljević, a biology teacher and World War I veteran who fought for the Serbian army, arrives to the celebration of the twentieth anniversary of the end of the war and the opening of an ossuary in the village where he used to be stationed with his first company, the Fifth Artillery Battery. There he encounters only the aged Commander, and through their flashbacks we see the fate of the Fifth Battery which was disbanded in that very village.
Mercenaries' Trap	1,982	Sergiu Nicolaescu	War, Adventure	7.3	11	Romanian	East Germany	The movie is based on a true story from the end of WWI, in Transylvania. A nobleman who owned some land in Transylvania returns home to find a part of his fortune burned to ashes during late 1918 when power was trasfered from AustroHungary to Romania. Looking for revenge, he ordered the killing of innocent Romanian peasants from a neighbouring village, which he suspected to be guilty for the losses he suffered. A Romanian officer from Romanian Transylvanian Volunteers Corp, decides to help the villagers to face the menace of the nobleman
300	2,007	Zack Snyder	Action, Adventure, War	7.2	14,494	English	United States of America	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.
Troy	2,004	Wolfgang Petersen	War, Action, History	7.2	10,847	English	United Kingdom	In year 1250 B.C. during the late Bronze age, two emerging nations begin to clash. Paris, the Trojan prince, convinces Helen, Queen of Sparta, to leave her husband Menelaus, and sail with him back to Troy. After Menelaus finds out that his wife was taken by the Trojans, he asks his brother Agamemnon to help him get her back. Agamemnon sees this as an opportunity for power. They set off with 1,000 ships holding 50,000 Greeks to Troy.
War for the Planet of the Apes	2,017	Matt Reeves	Drama, Science Fiction, War	7.2	9,564	English	United States of America	Caesar and his apes are forced into a deadly conflict with an army of humans led by a ruthless Colonel. After the apes suffer unimaginable losses, Caesar wrestles with his darker instincts and begins his own mythic quest to avenge his kind. As the journey finally brings them face to face, Caesar and the Colonel are pitted against each other in an epic battle that will determine the fate of both their species and the future of the planet.
The Patriot	2,000	Roland Emmerich	Drama, History, War, Action	7.2	4,214	English	Germany	After proving himself on the field of battle in the French and Indian War, Benjamin Martin wants nothing more to do with such things, preferring the simple life of a farmer. But when his son Gabriel enlists in the army to defend their new nation, America, against the British, Benjamin reluctantly returns to his old life to protect his son.
The King	2,019	David Michôd	Drama, History, War	7.2	3,487	English	Australia	England, 15th century. Hal, a capricious prince who lives among the populace far from court, is forced by circumstances to reluctantly accept the throne and become Henry V.
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World	2,003	Peter Weir	Adventure, Drama, War	7.2	3,433	English	United States of America	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.
The English Patient	1,996	Anthony Minghella	Drama, Romance, War	7.2	2,341	English	United Kingdom	In the 1930s, Count Almásy is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to chart the vast expanses of the Sahara Desert along with several other prominent explorers. As World War II unfolds, Almásy enters into a world of love, betrayal, and politics.
Crimson Tide	1,995	Tony Scott	Thriller, Action, Drama, War	7.2	1,939	English	United States of America	After the Cold War, a breakaway Russian republic with nuclear warheads becomes a possible worldwide threat. U.S. submarine Capt. Frank Ramsey signs on a relatively green but highly recommended Lt. Cmdr. Ron Hunter to the USS Alabama, which may be the only ship able to stop a possible Armageddon. When Ramsey insists that the Alabama must act aggressively, Hunter, fearing they will start rather than stop a disaster, leads a potential mutiny to stop him.
Suite Française	2,015	Saul Dibb	Drama, Romance, War	7.2	1,134	English	Belgium	France, 1940. In the first days of occupation, beautiful Lucile Angellier is trapped in a stifled existence with her controlling mother-in-law as they both await news of her husband: a prisoner of war. Parisian refugees start to pour into their small town, soon followed by a regiment of German soldiers who take up residence in the villagers' own homes. Lucile initially tries to ignore Bruno von Falk, the handsome and refined German officer staying with them. But soon, a powerful love draws them together and leads them into the tragedy of war.
A Bridge Too Far	1,977	Richard Attenborough	Drama, History, War	7.2	903	English	United Kingdom	The story of Operation Market Garden—a failed attempt by the allies in the latter stages of WWII to end the war quickly by securing three bridges in Holland allowing access over the Rhine into Germany. A combination of poor allied intelligence and the presence of two crack German panzer divisions meant that the final part of this operation (the bridge in Arnhem over the Rhine) was doomed to failure.
The Last Kingdom: Seven Kings Must Die	2,023	Edward Bazalgette	Action, Adventure, War	7.2	792	English	United Kingdom	In the wake of King Edward's death, Uhtred of Bebbanburg and his comrades adventure across a fractured kingdom in the hopes of uniting England at last.
A Hidden Life	2,019	Terrence Malick	History, Drama, War	7.2	765	English	Germany	Austrian farmer Franz Jägerstätter faces the threat of execution for refusing to fight for the Nazis during World War II.
The Duellists	1,977	Ridley Scott	Drama, War	7.2	613	English	United Kingdom	In 1800, as Napoleon Bonaparte rises to power in France, a rivalry erupts between Armand and Gabriel, two lieutenants in the French Army, over a perceived insult. For over a decade, they engage in a series of duels amidst larger conflicts, including the failed French invasion of Russia in 1812, and shifts in the political and social systems of Europe.
Little Boy	2,015	Alejandro Monteverde	Comedy, Drama, War	7.2	553	English	United States of America	An eight-year-old boy is willing to do whatever it takes to end World War II so he can bring his father home. The story reveals the indescribable love a father has for his little boy and the love a son has for his father.
At War for Love	2,016	Pif	War, Drama, Comedy, Romance	7.2	515	Italian	Italy	It's 1943 and World War II is raging in Europe. In New York, Arturo and Flora the daughter of a restaurant owner are in love, but she is promised in marriage to the son of a Mafia boss. There is a way around this, but to be able to marry Flora, Arturo needs to get permission from her father, who lives in a village in Sicily. Arturo doesn't have any money, so the only way he can get to Sicily is to enlist in the U.S. Army, which is preparing for a landing on the island.
The Last Metro	1,980	François Truffaut	Drama, Romance, War	7.2	515	French	France	In occupied Paris, an actress wed to a Jewish theater owner must keep him hidden from the Nazis while doing both of their jobs.
Promise at Dawn	2,017	Eric Barbier	Drama, Romance, History, War	7.2	508	French	Belgium	From his childhood in Poland to his adolescence in Nice to his years as a student in Paris and his tough training as a pilot during World War II, this tragi-comedy tells the romantic story of Romain Gary, one of the most famous French novelists and sole writer to have won the Goncourt Prize for French literature two times.
The Captain	2,018	Robert Schwentke	War, Drama, History	7.2	483	German	Germany	Germany, 1945. Soldier Willi Herold, a deserter of the German army, stumbles into a uniform of Nazi captain abandoned during the last and desperate weeks of the Third Reich. Newly emboldened by the allure of a suit that he has stolen only to stay warm, Willi discovers that many Germans will follow the leader, whoever he is.
Operation Petticoat	1,959	Blake Edwards	Comedy, War, Romance	7.2	405	English	United States of America	A World War II submarine commander finds himself stuck with a damaged sub, a con-man executive officer, and a group of army nurses.
The Caine Mutiny	1,954	Edward Dmytryk	Drama, War	7.2	358	English	United States of America	When a US Naval captain shows signs of mental instability that jeopardize his ship, the first officer relieves him of command and faces court martial for mutiny.
Warhorse One	2,023	Johnny Strong	Action, War, Drama	7.2	322	English	United States of America	A gunned down Navy SEAL Master Chief must guide a child to safety through a gauntlet of hostile Taliban insurgents and survive the brutal Afghanistan wilderness.
Wings	1,927	William A. Wellman	Drama, Action, War, Romance	7.2	312	English	United States of America	Two young men, one rich, one middle class, both in love with the same woman, become US Air Corps fighter pilots and, eventually, heroic flying aces during World War I. Devoted best friends, their mutual love of the girl eventually threatens their bond. Meanwhile, a hometown girl who's the lovestruck lifelong next door neighbor of one of them pines away.
Europa Europa	1,990	Agnieszka Holland	History, Drama, War	7.2	270	German	France	A Jewish boy separated from his family in the early days of WWII poses as a German orphan and is taken into the heart of the Nazi world as a 'war hero' and eventually becomes a Hitler Youth.
The Sand Pebbles	1,966	Robert Wise	Drama, War	7.2	270	English	United States of America	Engineer Jake Holman arrives aboard the gunboat USS San Pablo, assigned to patrol a tributary of the Yangtze in the middle of exploited and revolution-torn 1926 China. His iconoclasm and cynical nature soon clash with the 'rice-bowl' system which runs the ship and the uneasy symbiosis between Chinese and foreigner on the river. Hostility towards the gunboat's presence reaches a climax when the boat must crash through a river-boom and rescue missionaries upriver at China Light Mission.
Closely Watched Trains	1,966	Jiří Menzel	Comedy, Drama, War	7.2	260	Czech	Czechoslovakia	At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice longs to liberate himself from his virginity. Oblivious to the war and the resistance that surrounds him, this young man embarks on a journey of sexual awakening and self-discovery, encountering a universe of frustration, eroticism, and adventure within his sleepy backwater depot.
Zeitgeist: Addendum	2,008	Peter Joseph	Documentary, History, War	7.2	255	English	United States of America	Zeitgeist: Addendum premiered at the 5th Annual Artivist Film Festival. Director Peter Joseph stated: "The failure of our world to resolve the issues of war, poverty, and corruption, rests within a gross ignorance about what guides human behavior to begin with. It address the true source of the instability in our society, while offering the only fundamental, long-term solution."
Senso	1,954	Luchino Visconti	Romance, Drama, War	7.2	247	Italian	Italy	A troubled and neurotic Italian Countess betrays her entire country for a self-destructive love affair with an Austrian Lieutenant.
Chimes at Midnight	1,965	Orson Welles	Comedy, Drama, History, War	7.2	237	English	Spain	Henry IV usurps the English throne, sets in motion the factious War of the Roses and now faces a rebellion led by Northumberland scion Hotspur. Henry's heir, Prince Hal, is a ne'er-do-well carouser who drinks and causes mischief with his low-class friends, especially his rotund father figure, John Falstaff. To redeem his title, Hal may have to choose between allegiance to his real father and loyalty to his friend.
Sergeant York	1,941	Howard Hawks	War, Drama	7.2	227	English	United States of America	Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is then called to serve his country and despite deep religious and moral objections to fighting becomes one of the most celebrated American heroes of WWI.
Taking Chance	2,009	Ross Katz	Drama, War, TV Movie	7.2	224	English	United States of America	Lt. Col. Michael Strobl, a volunteer military escort accompanies the body of Lance Cpl. Chance Phelps to his hometown in Wyoming.
The Chinese Widow	2,017	Bille August	Drama, Romance, History, War	7.2	221	Chinese	China	It’s 1941 and the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor has destroyed America’s morale. The US President Franklin D. Roosevelt then decides to risk it all by bombing Tokyo and raise more hope for his citizens. After completing its mission, a unit of the US Air Force is forced to make an emergency landing in China. Its commander Jack Turner (Emilie Hirsch) barely survives but gets rescued by Ying (Crystal Liu), a local widow who will stop at nothing to hide him from the Japanese occupant.
Is Paris Burning?	1,966	René Clément	War, Drama, History	7.2	219	French	France	Near the end of World War II, Gen. Dietrich von Choltitz receives orders to burn down Paris if it becomes clear the Allies are going to invade, or if he cannot maintain control of the city. After much contemplation Choltitz decides to ignore his orders, enraging the Germans and giving hope to various resistance factions that the city will be liberated. Choltitz, along with Swedish diplomat Raoul Nordling, helps a resistance leader organize his forces.
Escape from Sobibor	1,987	Jack Gold	Drama, Thriller, War, TV Movie	7.2	202	English	United Kingdom	The true story of WWII's notorious Sobibor Nazi death camp, where a courageous inmate orchestrates and leads the escape of over 300 prisoners.
Run Boy Run	2,014	Pepe Danquart	Drama, War, History	7.2	194	German	Germany	A true story of Jurek, an eight-year-old boy, who escapes from the Warsaw ghetto, then manages to survive in the woods and working as a farmhand, disguising himself as a Polish orphan.
The Front Line	2,011	Jang Hoon	Drama, Action, War	7.2	194	Korean	South Korea	In 1951 ceasefire is declared, but two remaining armies fought their final battle on the front line Towards the end of the Korean War, a South Korean battalion is fiercely battling over a hill on the front line border against the North in order to capture a strategic point that would determine the new border between two nations. The ownership of this small patch of land would swap multiple times each day. Kang is dispatched to the front line in order to investigate the tacit case that’s been happening there.
Fortress of War	2,010	Aleksandr Kott	War, Drama, History, Action	7.2	180	Russian	Belarus	The film covers the heroic defence of the Brest Fortress, which was attacked during the first strike of German invaders on June 22 1941. The story describes the events of the first days of the defence, including the three main resistance zones, headed by the regiment commander, Pyotr Mikhailovich Gavrilov, the commissar Efim Moiseevich Fomin and the head of the 9th frontier outpost, Andrey Mitrofanovich Kizhevatov. Many years later veteran Alexander Akimov again recalls the memories of the time, when he, then a 15 year old Sasha Akimov was deeply in love with the beautiful Anya and suddenly found himself in the middle of the bloody events of war.
Savior	1,998	Predrag Antonijević	History, Drama, War	7.2	179	English	United States of America	A hardened mercenary in the Foreign Legion begins to find his own humanity when confronted with atrocities during the fighting in Bosnia.
The Rifleman	2,019	Dzintars Dreibergs	War, Drama, History	7.2	169	LV	Latvia	The love story of sixteen-year-old Arturs is interrupted by the First World War. After losing his mother and his home, he finds some consolation in joining the army, because this is the first time national battalions are allowed in the Russian Empire. But war is nothing like Arturs imagined – no glory, no fairness. It is brutal and painful. Arturs is now completely alone as war takes the lives of his father and brother. Also, no progress is made in the promised quick resolution of the war and timely return home. Within the notion that only he alone cares about returning home and that his homeland is just a playground for other nations, Arturs finds strength for the final battle and eventually returns home to start everything from scratch, just like his newly born country.
The White Sun of the Desert	1,969	Vladimir Motyl	Action, Drama, Romance, Comedy, Adventure, War	7.2	160	Russian	Soviet Union	The setting is the east shore of the Caspian Sea (today's Turkmenistan) where the Red Army soldier Fyodor Sukhov has been fighting the Civil War in...
Sahara	1,943	Zoltan Korda	Adventure, War	7.2	152	English	United States of America	In Libya, an American tank commander, along with a handful of Allied soldiers, tries to defend an isolated well with a limited supply of water from a German Afrika Korps battalion during the Western Desert Campaign of World War II.
As Far As My Feet Will Carry Me	2,001	Hardy Martins	Drama, War	7.2	144	German	Germany	The German soldier Clemens Forel - determined to be reunited with his beloved family - makes a dramatic escape through bitter cold winters, desolate landscapes, and life threatening ventures from a Siberian labor camp after World War II. 8000 miles and three endless years of uncertainty later, he is finally about to reach his destination... An edge of your seat drama that celebrates the power of the human spirit and the force of will, while inspired and impowered by love.
Ghost Recon: Alpha	2,012	Hervé de Crécy	Action, Science Fiction, Thriller, War	7.2	127	English	United States of America	Ghost Recon: Alpha sees a team led by Ghost Leader infiltrate a trade at a Russian depot between a general and a mysterious other figure.
Code Geass: Lelouch of the Re;surrection	2,019	Goro Taniguchi	Animation, Science Fiction, Crime, Mystery, War	7.2	113	Japanese	Japan	The story takes place several years after Lelouch's "Zero Requiem" plan. He gave up his life to save the world and protect the ones he loved. The day Lelouch vi Brittannia fell was the day this war-torn world found peace. Now, as his friends work to keep the peace, a terrorist attack could risk everything. Can the brilliant tactician outwit death and save them all? Or will Lelouch’s legacy fall here?
A Time to Love and a Time to Die	1,958	Douglas Sirk	Drama, War, Romance	7.2	95	English	United States of America	A German soldier home on leave falls in love with a girl, then returns to World War II.
City of Ghosts	2,017	Matthew Heineman	War, Documentary	7.2	93	English	United States of America	With unprecedented access, this documentary follows the extraordinary journey of “Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently”—a group of anonymous citizen journalists who banded together after their homeland was overtaken by ISIS—as they risk their lives to stand up against one of the greatest evils in the world today.
The Travelling Players	1,975	Theo Angelopoulos	Drama, War, History	7.2	91	Greek	Greece	A traveling theatre troupe tours the Greek countryside from 1939 to the early 1950s, staging “Golfo the Shepherdess”. As the years pass, its members endure persecution, betrayal, executions, and exile. Their personal stories become entangled with the country’s major historical events, in a seemingly endless cycle of violence and loss.
Life and Nothing But	1,989	Bertrand Tavernier	War, Drama	7.2	87	French	France	In 1920, Major Dellaplane, a man of honor and ethics, searches for missing French soldiers. He meets Madame Irène de Courtil, a politically connected Parisian, and their paths cross.
The Deluge	1,974	Jerzy Hoffman	History, Adventure, War, Romance	7.2	85	Polish	Poland	During the Swedish invasion of Poland, the brave warrior Andrzej Kmicic, considered a traitor to the nation, fights for a country, redemption and love across the 17th-century Polish territories.
Farha	2,021	Darin J. Sallam	Drama, History, War	7.2	78	Arabic	Jordan	Palestine, 1948. After the withdrawal of the British occupiers, tensions rise between Arabs and Jews. Meanwhile, Farha, the smart daughter of the mayor of a small village, unaware of the coming tragedy, dreams of going to study in the big city.
Violent Summer	1,959	Valerio Zurlini	Drama, Romance, War	7.2	78	Italian	France	Summer, 1943: wealthy youth in the Riccione district of Rimini play while the war gets closer. Carlo Caremoli, a young man who follows the crowd, has found ways to avoid military service. Then, on the beach, he meets Roberta, a war widow with a child. Roberta's mother warns Roberta to avoid Carlo, but to her, he seems attentive and to her daughter he is kind. Romance develops. Within a few weeks, Roberta is risking everything. Can there be a resolution between passion, on the one hand, and war, duty, and social expectation on the other?
Went the Day Well?	1,942	Alberto Cavalcanti	War, Thriller	7.2	76	English	United Kingdom	The quiet village of Bramley End is taken over by German troops posing as Royal Engineers. Their task is to disrupt England's radar network in preparation for a full scale German invasion. Once the villagers discover the true identity of the troops, they do whatever they can to thwart the Nazis plans.
Corn Island	2,014	Giorgi Ovashvili	Drama, War	7.2	74	KA	Czech Republic	The Inguri River forms a natural border dividing Georgia from Abkhazia. One of the spring floods has created a little island in the middle of the river, as if made for the cultivation of corn. At least, this is the belief of an old peasant, whose sunburned face resembles the landscape he has trodden for dozens of years.
The Last Train	2,006	Joseph Vilsmaier	War, Drama	7.2	74	German	Czech Republic	A group of people are imprisoned in a rail car bound from Berlin to a concentration camp in 1945.
Toyland	2,007	Jochen Alexander Freydank	Drama, War	7.2	70	German	Germany	On a winter morning, a mother goes to waken her son Heinrich; his bed is empty. She leaves her flat to find him. The neighbors' door, with a Star of David painted on it, is ajar, the furnishings in disarray, the family gone. She asks passersby, runs to the police then on to the rail yard. Flashbacks show that Heinrich and the neighbors' son Paul are six years old and best friends. Paul's family's deportation is expected soon; Heinrich's mother tells her son that they're going to Toyland. Heinrich wants to go with them, has a bag packed, and listens for their departure. His mother realizes he's joined them, and her resolve becomes more urgent. Will she arrive in time to save Heinrich?
This Land Is Mine	1,943	Jean Renoir	Drama, War	7.2	68	English	United States of America	Somewhere in Europe, in a city occupied by the Nazis, a gentle school teacher finds himself torn between collaboration and resistance, cowardice and courage.
The Island on Bird Street	1,997	Søren Kragh-Jacobsen	Drama, War	7.2	67	English	Unknown	Alex is an 11-year old boy who, during WWII, hides in the Jewish ghetto from Nazis after all his relatives have been sent to the concentration camp. The movie portrays the ghetto through his eyes.
Passenger	1,963	Andrzej Munk	Drama, War	7.2	65	Polish	Poland	A German woman on a ship returning to Europe notices a face of another woman which brings recollections from the past. She tells her husband that she had been an overseer in Auschwitz during the war, but she has actually saved a woman's life.
Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie	1,995	Peter Kuran	Documentary, History, War	7.2	61	English	United States of America	"Trinity and Beyond" is an unsettling yet visually fascinating documentary presenting the history of nuclear weapons development and testing between 1945-1963. Narrated by William Shatner and featuring an original score performed by the Moscow Symphony Orchestra, this award-winning documentary reveals previously unreleased and classified government footage from several countries.
The Wounds	1,998	Srđan Dragojević	War, Drama, Comedy, Crime	7.2	58	Serbian	Germany	This film follows two Belgrade youths on their rise to gangster legends in a decaying society.
No Time for Sergeants	1,958	Mervyn LeRoy	Comedy, War	7.2	51	English	United States of America	Georgia farm boy Will Stockdale is about to bust with pride. He’s been drafted. Will’s ready. But is Uncle Sam ready for Will?
Circles	2,013	Srdan Golubović	War, Drama	7.2	48	Serbian	Serbia	Circles (Serbian: Krugovi) is a Serbian movie based on the true story of a Serbian soldier who risked his life to protect a Muslim civilian during the war in Bosnia. During the war in Bosnia in 1993, a Serbian soldier pays for his life after protecting a Muslim civilian from being attacked by three other soldiers. 12 years later, the consequences of this act of heroism are still having their repercussions.
Hornblower: The Frogs and the Lobsters	1,999	Andrew Grieve	War, Adventure, TV Movie	7.2	47	English	United Kingdom	Lieutenant Hornblower and his shipmates are sent to accompany a doomed royalist invasion of revolutionary France.
Michael the Brave	1,971	Sergiu Nicolaescu	War, Drama, History	7.2	44	Romanian	France	An epic fresco depicting the reign (1593-1601) of Mihai Pătrașcu (better known as "Mihai Viteazul" / "Michael the Brave"), the famous prince who united the three provinces: Transalpine Vallachia, Transylvania and Moldavia, into the country of Romania, at the end of the 16th century (1599-1601) against the opposition of the Ottoman and Austrian Empires, this movie features large scale battle scenes mixed with political intrigues, murderous treachery, and family drama.
The Bloody Hundredth	2,024	Mark Herzog	War, Documentary, History	7.2	43	English	United States of America	Meet the real-life airmen who inspired Masters of the Air as they share the harrowing and transformative events of the 100th Bomb Group.
Enclave	2,015	Goran Radovanović	War, Drama	7.2	41	Serbian	Serbia	Nenad, ten years Christian boy from a Serbian enclave, determined to create a proper community burial for his late grandfather, crosses enemy lines and makes friends among the Muslim majority in deeply divided, war-torn Kosovo.
Hornblower: The Duchess and the Devil	1,999	Andrew Grieve	War, Adventure, TV Movie	7.2	40	English	United Kingdom	Acting Lieutenant Hornblower and his crew are captured by the enemy while escorting a Duchess who has secrets of her own.
Hotsunlight	2,021	Mikhail Vasserbaum	Drama, War, Action	7.2	37	Russian	Russia	Lugansk region, May 2014. The Novozhilov family, by chance, finds itself in the thick of events in Lugansk. Vlad Novozhilov is a former participant in the war in Afghanistan. He knows firsthand what war is. Having seen enough of the horrors of war in his time, in principle he does not even want to touch a weapon. In a situation, he sees only one way out - to leave the country. But you can't run away from the war, the border is already closed. To save his family, he will have to make difficult moral choices.
Yesterday's Enemy	1,959	Val Guest	War, Drama	7.2	37	English	United Kingdom	Set during the Burma Campaign of World War 2, this is the story of courage and endurance of the soldiers struggling at close quarters against the enemy. The film examines the moral dilemmas ordinary men face during war, when the definitions of acceptable military action and insupportable brutality become blurred and distorted.
Carriage to Vienna	1,966	Karel Kachyňa	War, Drama, Thriller	7.2	35	Czech	Czechoslovakia	A WW2 story of a young Austrian soldier running from the Russian army and a woman whom he forces to come along in order to save his wounded mate.
Hornblower: Duty	2,003	Andrew Grieve	War, Adventure, TV Movie	7.2	34	English	United Kingdom	Admiral Pellew interrupts Hornblower's wedding reception and tasks him to locate a British ship which has disappeared off the French coast, where Napoleon's troops are engaged in covert activities.
Saladin	1,963	Youssef Chahine	Drama, War, History	7.2	34	Arabic	Egypt	The first Sultan of Egypt and Syria leads the Muslim military campaign against the invading Christians from Europe during the Third Crusade.
Siberian Sniper	2,021	Sergey Zverev	War, History	7.2	31	Russian	Russia	After months of exhausting trench warfare, most of Major Belyaev's battalion was destroyed. The area is ruled by German aces snipers. Hope for replenishment collapses when the convoy, in which the Soviet snipers were traveling, falls under a German airstrike. A handful of soldiers and a young hunter from Yakutia, Yegor Cheerin, survive.
Sharpe's Sword	1,995	Tom Clegg	War, History, Action, Adventure, TV Movie	7.2	30	English	United Kingdom	Sharpe is tasked to protect the most important spy in Lord Wellington's network, but domestic issues, a traumatized young girl, and possible French spies all threaten his success
Bunker Hill Bunny	1,950	Friz Freleng	Animation, Comedy, War	7.2	30	English	United States of America	Sam Von Schamm The Hessian and Bugs Bunny fight it out in the little known American Revolutionary War Battle of Bagel Heights.
Sharpe's Waterloo	1,997	Tom Clegg	War, Action, Adventure, TV Movie, History	7.2	29	English	United Kingdom	Based on the novel by Bernard Cornwell, "Sharpe's Waterloo" brings maverick British officer Lt. Col. Richard Sharpe to his last fight against the French, in June of 1815.
Sharpe's Siege	1,996	Tom Clegg	War, Action, Adventure, TV Movie, History	7.2	29	English	United Kingdom	Sharpe, with his new commanding officer, is sent to capture a castle when news comes of locals who will rise against Bonaparte. However, he is somewhat distracted by thoughts of his wife whom he was forced to leave while stricken with fever.
Japan's Longest Day	1,967	Kihachi Okamoto	Drama, History, War	7.2	29	Japanese	Japan	Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the Allies for unconditional surrender. Minister of the Army Anami leads the military officers who propose to fight on, even to the death of every Japanese citizen. Emperor Hirohito, however, joins with his ministers in asking the unthinkable, the peaceful surrender of Japan. When the military plots a coup to overthrow the Emperor's civilian government, Anami must face the choice between his desires and loyalty to his Emperor.
La boca del lobo	1,988	Francisco J. Lombardi	Drama, Action, War	7.2	28	Spanish	Peru	The military anti-terrorist army takes control of "Chuspi", an unknown and faraway small village, isolated by the terrorist group "Sendero Luminoso" (Shining Path). A soldier called Vitin Luna, and other young soldiers face an invisible, perhaps superior force. Their unit is commanded by a brutal lieutenant who declares the entire village guilty of treason. In the face of this crisis, Vitin must choose between blind obedience and his own conscience.
Liberation: The Fire Bulge	1,968	Yuri Ozerov	Drama, War	7.2	28	Russian	East Germany	The "Fiery Arc" tells of a grandiose battle on the Kursk Bulge in the summer of 1943. Here was the largest tank battle in the history of World War II. Along with the personal fate of the heroes, the film shows battle scenes, the activities of headquarters and intelligence, those who worked at the front and in the rear.
One-Two, Soldiers Were Going...	1,976	Leonid Bykov	Drama, War	7.2	25	Russian	Soviet Union	The families of 18 soldiers who heroically died in 1944 are meeting at the place of the squad last battle.
Hands Up!	2,005	Feng Xiaoning	History, Comedy, War	7.2	23	Chinese	China	A Chinese peasant tries to protect a student from being caught during the Japanese invasion of the village.
Stars of Eger	1,968	Zoltán Várkonyi	War, History, Romance, Adventure	7.2	23	Hungarian	Hungary	This romantic and grandiose historical film depicts the era of the constant incursions and heroic battles fought by the defenders of the castle of Eger, led by captain István Dobó, against the heavy odds of superior numbers through the lives and love of Bornemissza Gergely and Cecey Éva. Gergely is inaugurated as a fighter already at the age of 7, when he escapes the captivity of the half-eyed Turk, Jumurdzsak, with Vica and the war-booty. In thirty years' time he becomes the first assistant of captain Dobó and the brain of the castle in the defence of Eger.
Orders to Kill	1,958	Anthony Asquith	War, Thriller, Drama	7.2	23	English	United Kingdom	A grounded American fighter pilot is switched to espionage on a special job in which he must kill a small-time Paris lawyer suspected of double-crossing France by selling out radio operators to the Nazis.
Four Sons	1,928	John Ford	War, Drama	7.2	23	English	United States of America	A family saga in which three of a Bavarian widow's sons go to war for Germany and the fourth goes to America, Germany's eventual opponent. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with L'Imaginne Ritrovato and Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in 1999.
Our Lady of Guadalupe	1,976	Alfredo Salazar	War	7.2	20	Spanish	Mexico
War Dance	2,007	Sean Fine	Documentary, Music, War	7.2	19	English	United States of America	Three children living in a displacement camp in northern Uganda compete in their country's national music and dance festival.
08/15	1,954	Paul May	War, Drama	7.2	16	German	Germany	Life in the barracks, drill, harassment, and private Asch′s pranks are the ingredients of Hans Hellmut Kirst′s successful novel "08/15" (the number of an Army regulation). Shortly before the outbreak of World War II: Private Asch and gunner Vierbein belong to the same unit but could not be more contrary. The instructors use every opportunity to bully the clumsy Vierbein with erratic corporal Platzek leading the way. The harassment starts with minor extra duties but soon the methods become more and more brutal. Finally, Asch comes to Vierbein′s help and takes on his superiors. Joachim Fuchsberger stars in his first major role.
The Execution of Private Slovik	1,974	Lamont Johnson	War, Drama	7.2	15	English	United States of America	The story of Eddie Slovik, who was executed by the Army in 1945, the only American soldier to be executed for desertion since the Civil War.
The Sea Shall Not Have Them	1,954	Lewis Gilbert	Drama, War	7.2	15	English	United Kingdom	During the autumn of 1944, RAF Hudson, carrying a VIP passenger in possession of highly secret information, is shot down and ditches in the North Sea. Fighting the elements and trying to keep up morale, the occupants of the aircraft's dinghy talk about their lives awaiting the rescue they hope will come. The film's title reflects the motto of the RAF's Air Sea Rescue Service, one of whose high speed launches battles against its own mechanical problems, enemy action, time and the weather to locate and rescue the downed crew and the vital secret papers they carry.
March on the River Drina	1,964	Žika Mitrović	Action, Drama, War	7.2	14	SH	Yugoslavia	A Serbian artillery battery of the Combined Division makes a forced march to the Cer Mountain in western Serbia to meet Austro-Hungarian troops, who have invaded the country by crossing over the Drina River. A chronicle of the Battle of Cer; a landmark battle of World War I and the first Allied victory over the Central Powers.
Tzadik	2,023	Sergei Ursuliak	War, Drama, History	7.2	13	Russian	Russia	In 1942, Red Army officer Nikolai Kiselyov receives orders to evacuate over 200 Jewish women, children, and elderly men facing brutality and death in Nazi-occupied Belarus. These exhausted, starving, terrified and bereaved people, deeply scarred by the horrors they have witnessed, must trek hundreds of kilometers along forest paths to regain hope of survival and faith in the future.
Beshoot	2,019	Ivan Tymchenko	War, Action, Drama	7.2	13	Ukrainian	Ukraine	Based on a true story. Two fighters of 'Donbas' Volunteer Battalion get locked inside city of Ilovaysk after regular Russian army enters Ukraine and shells the surrounded divisions of Ukrainian Army in the infamous would-be 'green corridor'. The fighters survive thanks to the help of the locals and manage to break out through the front line to reach the freed territory. Taras Kostanchuk who is playing himself as 'Beshoot' is that same Donbas commander who is the prototype of the story. Half of the actors and extras are real 'Donbas' volunteers who survived the battle.
Underfire: The Untold Story of Pfc. Tony Vaccaro	2,016	Max Lewkowicz	War, Documentary, Drama, History	7.2	13	English	Unknown	The remarkable story of WWII infantryman and photographer Tony Vaccaro, who created one of the most comprehensive, haunting and intimate photographic records of the war using a smuggled $47 camera while developing the negatives in his helmet at night.
Purple Sunset	2,001	Feng Xiaoning	Drama, War	7.2	13	Chinese	China	A Soviet Russian lady officer, a Chinese peasant and a Japanese schoolgirl must walk their way out of a forest toward the end of World War II, despite their mutual distrust of one another.
Heroic Times	1,984	József Gémes	Animation, History, War	7.2	13	Hungarian	Hungary	The tragic medieval tale of a man of inhuman strength, fierce temper and a desire for noble knighthood. While on the run as a murderer, he finds new life as a knight, only to face disillusionment, the horrors of war and ugly human vices.
Kayoko's Diary	1,991	Seiji Arihara	Animation, Drama, War	7.2	12	Japanese	Japan	Kayoko is a young girl in 1940, just starting first grade. Nothing can prepare her for 1945, and the bleak times that are soon to come.
North Korean Partisan in South Korea	1,990	Chung Ji-young	War, History, Drama	7.2	12	Korean	South Korea	Reporter for a North Korean news service joins the partisans when the Americans and UN forces invade South Korea.
To Live in Peace	1,947	Luigi Zampa	Comedy, Drama, War	7.2	12	Italian	Italy	An American prisoner, hidden by some Umbrian farmers, meets, drunk, with a German soldier who is also drunk. The two believe that the war is over and embrace each other emotionally. But it is not so and soon the cannon will thunder. Uncle Tigna, who was hiding the prisoner and two of his companions, will fall victim to the Nazis.
The Last Witness	1,980	Lee Doo-yong	Crime, Mystery, Drama, War	7.2	11	Korean	South Korea	Detective Oh goes searching for the murderer of Yang, a small-time brewer bludgeoned to death by a quiet riverside with no witnesses, no apparent motive. As he wanders about the winter landscape of South Jeolla Province and Seoul, he finds himself caught in a story of treachery, rape and murder.
Life in Shadows	1,949	Lorenzo Llobet Gràcia	Drama, History, War	7.2	11	Spanish	Spain	The creative and ambitious Carlos, a young Spanish film buff, manages to become a professional camera operator with time and effort, and is also blessed with the love of Ana, which he has longed for; but the outbreak of the Civil War in 1936 changes everything for both of them.
Air	2,024	Aleksei German Jr.	War, Drama, History	7.2	10	Russian	Russia	Young female fighter pilots arrive to the frontline. They have different stories and different fates. They are getting older, falling in love and lose their closest ones as well as take their place in the world of men. The air has become their home. However, at war no one knows whose fate is to live and who is doomed to die.
Curveball	2,021	Johannes Naber	Comedy, Drama, War	7.2	10	German	Germany	Although he already has searched Iraq unsuccessfully for weapons of mass destruction as a member of a UN mission, German bio-weapons expert Arndt Wolf is still obsessed with the idea that Saddam Hussein is hiding something. Nobody around him is interested in this topic any more. This changes abruptly when an Iraqi asylum seeker claims to have been involved in the manufacture of chemical weapons. The German Federal Intelligence Service summons Dr. Wolf to ascertain the legitimacy of the claims made by the informant, who has been given the code name “Curveball”.
Albert R.N.	1,953	Lewis Gilbert	War, History	7.2	10	English	United Kingdom	The British inmates of a POW camp think they have an informer among them after several escape attempts fail. One of the prisoners constructs a dummy which they christen "Albert" and use at roll call in order to foil the German guards.
Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst	1,957	Michael Anderson	War	7.2	10	English	United Kingdom	While sailing lawfully up the Yangste in 1949, the British warship Amethyst found its return to the open sea blocked by Communist Chinese shore batteries that unexpectedly opened fire. In charge, Lietenant Commander Kerans was not however prepared for his crew and his ship to remain as a hostage for the Chinese to use as an international pawn.
Midway	2,019	Roland Emmerich	Action, War, History	7.1	2,648	English	Canada	The story of the Battle of Midway, and the leaders and soldiers who used their instincts, fortitude and bravery to overcome massive odds.
We Were Soldiers	2,002	Randall Wallace	Action, History, War	7.1	2,216	English	Germany	The story of the first major battle of the American phase of the Vietnam War and the soldiers on both sides that fought it.
Warfare	2,025	Ray Mendoza	War, Action	7.1	1,313	English	United Kingdom	A platoon of Navy SEALs embarks on a dangerous mission in Ramadi, Iraq, with the chaos and brotherhood of war retold through their memories of the event.
Son of Saul	2,015	László Nemes	War, Drama, Thriller	7.1	1,152	Hungarian	Hungary	In the horror of 1944 Auschwitz, a prisoner forced to burn the corpses of his own people finds moral survival trying to save from the flames the body of a boy he takes for his son, seeking to give him a proper Jewish burial.
Anthropoid	2,016	Sean Ellis	History, Thriller, War	7.1	1,126	English	Czech Republic	In December 1941, Czech soldiers Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš parachute into their occupied homeland to assassinate Nazi officer Reinhard Heydrich.
Casualties of War	1,989	Brian De Palma	Drama, History, War	7.1	974	English	United States of America	During the Vietnam War, a soldier finds himself the outsider of his own squad when they unnecessarily kidnap a female villager.
The Siege of Jadotville	2,016	Richie Smyth	War, Drama, Thriller	7.1	927	English	Ireland	Irish Commandant Pat Quinlan leads a stand off with troops against French and Belgian Mercenaries in the Congo during the early 1960s.
Т-34	2,018	Alexey Sidorov	Action, Drama, History, War	7.1	916	Russian	Russia	In 1944, a courageous group of Russian soldiers managed to escape from German captivity in a half-destroyed legendary T-34 tank. Those were the times of unforgettable bravery, fierce fighting, unbreakable love, and legendary miracles.
Red Cliff	2,008	John Woo	Adventure, Drama, History, Action, War	7.1	871	Chinese	China	In 208 A.D., in the final days of the Han Dynasty, shrewd Prime Minster Cao convinced the fickle Emperor Han the only way to unite all of China was to declare war on the kingdoms of Xu in the west and East Wu in the south. Thus began a military campaign of unprecedented scale. Left with no other hope for survival, the kingdoms of Xu and East Wu formed an unlikely alliance.
Devotion	2,022	J.D. Dillard	War, Drama, Action	7.1	804	English	United States of America	The harrowing true story of two elite US Navy fighter pilots during the Korean War. Their heroic sacrifices would ultimately make them the Navy's most celebrated wingmen.
The Forgotten Battle	2,021	Matthijs van Heijningen Jr.	Action, War, Adventure, History, Drama	7.1	747	Dutch	Netherlands	During WWII's crucial Battle of the Scheldt, the lives of a glider pilot, a Nazi soldier and a reluctant Resistance recruit tragically intersect.

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