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True Story War Movies

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War and historical films based on real events — battles, resistance movements, and wartime heroism.

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Title↕	Year↕	Director↕	IMDB Rating↕	Genre↕	Country↕	Runtime (min)↕	Overview↕
Schindler's List	1993	Steven Spielberg	8.6	Drama, History, War	United States of America	195	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 Pianist	2002	Roman Polanski	8.4	Drama, War	France	150	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 eve...
Saving Private Ryan	1998	Steven Spielberg	8.2	War, Drama, History	United States of America	169	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	2016	Mel Gibson	8.2	Drama, History, War	Australia	139	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.
The Imitation Game	2014	Morten Tyldum	8	History, Drama, Thriller, War	United States of America	113	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.
Oppenheimer	2023	Christopher Nolan	8	Drama, History	United Kingdom	181	The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.
Lawrence of Arabia	1962	David Lean	8	Adventure, History, War	United Kingdom	228	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.
A Taxi Driver	2017	Jang Hoon	8	Action, Drama, History	South Korea	138	May, 1980. Man-seob is a taxi driver in Seoul who lives from hand to mouth, raising his young daughter alone. One day, he hears that there is a foreigner who will pay big money for a drive down to Gwangju city. Not knowing that he’s a German journalist with a hidden agenda, Man-seob takes the job.
Braveheart	1995	Mel Gibson	7.9	Action, Drama, History, War	United States of America	178	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.
Downfall	2004	Oliver Hirschbiegel	7.9	Drama, History, War	Austria	155	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 advi...
The Great Escape	1963	John Sturges	7.9	Adventure, Drama, War	United States of America	173	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 ...
Emancipation	2022	Antoine Fuqua	7.8	Drama, War, History	United States of America	132	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.
Hotel Rwanda	2004	Terry George	7.7	Drama, History, War	United States of America	122	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.
The Woman King	2022	Gina Prince-Bythewood	7.6	Action, Drama, History, War	Canada	135	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 d...
The Longest Day	1962	Ken Annakin	7.6	War, Action, Drama	United States of America	178	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 t...
Letters from Iwo Jima	2006	Clint Eastwood	7.5	Action, Drama, War	United States of America	141	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.
Glory	1989	Edward Zwick	7.5	Drama, History, War	United States of America	122	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.
The Round Up	2010	Roselyne Bosch	7.5	Drama, History, War	France	115	A faithful retelling of the 1942 "Vel' d'Hiv Roundup" and the events surrounding it.
Dunkirk	2017	Christopher Nolan	7.4	War, Action, Drama	United Kingdom	107	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	2014	Clint Eastwood	7.4	War, Action	United States of America	133	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 h...
Black Hawk Down	2001	Ridley Scott	7.4	Action, War, History	United Kingdom	145	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.
Darkest Hour	2017	Joe Wright	7.4	Drama, History	United Kingdom	125	In May 1940, the fate of World War II hangs on Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotiate with Adolf Hitler or fight on knowing that it could mean the end of the British Empire.
Lone Survivor	2013	Peter Berg	7.4	War, Action, Drama	United States of America	121	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 ...
Enemy at the Gates	2001	Jean-Jacques Annaud	7.4	Drama, War, History, Romance	United States of America	131	A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII.
Greyhound	2020	Aaron Schneider	7.4	War, Action, Drama	Canada	92	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 a...
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi	2016	Michael Bay	7.3	War, Action, History, Drama, Thriller	United States of America	144	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.
The Zookeeper's Wife	2017	Niki Caro	7.3	Drama, History, War	Czech Republic	126	The account of keepers of the Warsaw Zoo, Jan and Antonina Zabinski, who helped save hundreds of people and animals during the Nazi invasion.
The Patriot	2000	Roland Emmerich	7.2	Drama, History, War, Action	Germany	165	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...
Escape from Pretoria	2020	Francis Annan	7.2	Drama, History, Thriller	Australia	102	South Africa, 1978. Tim Jenkin and Stephen Lee, two white political activists from the African National Congress imprisoned by the apartheid regime, put a plan in motion to escape from the infamous Pretoria Prison.
Midway	2019	Roland Emmerich	7.1	Action, War, History	Canada	138	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	2002	Randall Wallace	7.1	Action, History, War	Germany	138	The story of the first major battle of the American phase of the Vietnam War and the soldiers on both sides that fought it.
United 93	2006	Paul Greengrass	7.1	Drama, History, Crime, Thriller, Action	France	111	A real-time account of the events on United Flight 93, one of the planes hijacked on 9/11 that crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania when passengers foiled the terrorist plot.
An Officer and a Spy	2019	Roman Polanski	7.1	History, Drama, Thriller	France	132	In 1894, French Captain Alfred Dreyfus is wrongfully convicted of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment at the Devil’s Island penal colony.

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