War Movies

star 3.5

Steal the Sky

1988

Steal the Sky

1988

star 3.5
An Israeli agent entices an Iraqi jet pilot to defect with his MIG fighter.

The Great Indian Wars 1840-1890

1991

star 6
Documentation of the encroachment of European settlers upon Native American lands and the violent reaction of the Indians in their struggle to survive.

Sampoorna Ramayanam

1958

star 8
The story of the complete Ramayana, from the birth of Lord Rama to his Pattabhisheka after completing his exile.

The Alamut Ambush

1986

This British espionage thriller stars Terence Stamp as David Audley, former Oxford professor turned intelligence agent.

Operation Swallow: The Battle for Heavy Water

1948

star 5.2
A factual reconstruction of the sabotage events which took place to prevent Hitler's Germany from getting the heavy water needed to make an atomic bomb during the Second World War.
star 4.9

Franz + Polina

2006

Franz + Polina

2006

star 4.9
A sad story of love between German soldier Franz and Russian girl Polina.
star 6.2

Forræderne

1983

Forræderne

1983

star 6.2
Two Danish youngsters see action in the USSR as volunteers in a special legion under German command in 1944-45. Returned to a camp in their native country, they go AWOL, having first killed a couple of officers. They are now being chased through a wintry Denmark by the German Army, Danish Quislings and the Danish freedom fighters. Love crosses their path when they take a Jewish girl as hostage.

Il carro armato dell'8 settembre

1960

star 1
Italy signed the armistice and in the general confusion a corporal decides to bring the tank back from the coast to the barracks.
star 4

The Gypsy Warriors

1978

The Gypsy Warriors

1978

star 4
American soldiers (Tom Selleck and James Whitmore Jr.) must travel behind enemy lines to procure the formula for a deadly Nazi toxin in this World War II adventure.
star 4.8

The Better 'Ole

1926

The Better 'Ole

1926

star 4.8
The adventures of Old Bill and his friends Bert and Alf in the trenches of the first World War.

Surprise Attack on a House at Daybreak

1898

star 4.8
Soldiers ambush a house.

April

1961

April

1961

Set at the end of the war. A hot-headed colonel tries to force his men on to heroics although the war is almost over. A war-weary lieutenant tries to muffle his efforts but he keeps on with his men and is killed fighting in the front lines, all his men decide to get his body.
star 5.2

Gemmeker

2020

Gemmeker

2020

star 5.2
In 1948, Albert Gemmeker, the former commander of the Dutch concentration camp Westerbork, finds himself in an interrogation room opposite a man unknown to him. It soon turns out that Gemmeker's interrogator has a personal reason to force him to confess about his war past and the transportation of 80.000 Jews to the extermination camps.

The Siege of Manchester

1965

A German mercenary is hired to defend the small township of Manchester during the English Civil War.
star 5

Catch-22

1973

Catch-22

1973

star 5
Bombardier Yossarian is stationed on the small island of Pianosa during World War II. In addition to the enemy trying to kill him, Yossarian also has to endure the bureaucratic SNAFUs of group leaders and the insane antics of other 256th Squadron members. Failed television pilot for a sitcom adaptation of Joseph Heller’s satirical black comedy novel Catch-22.
star 10

War Party

0000

War Party

0000

star 10
Navy SEAL drama, which is expected to be based on a true story. Further plot details are being kept under wraps.

The Unprecedented Defence of the Fortress Deutschkreuz

1967

star 5.1
A satire on war and on the stupid things war inspires people to do. Four young men enter an abandoned fortress. Inside, they find military uniforms, which they immediately resolve to use to stage a bizarre war game. Their actions appear all the more senseless in relation to the peaceful everyday reality of the workers in the surrounding countryside.
star 5.4

West of Shanghai

1937

West of Shanghai

1937

star 5.4
American businessmen and missionaries working in China are captured and held prisoner by a local warlord.
star 5.5

The Leatherneck

1929

The Leatherneck

1929

star 5.5
A film about male bonding. At the end of WW I, two Americans befriend a simple minded German and win him over into becoming an American. All three are still peacetime officers in the US Marines when an unscrupulous character steals Boyd's girl and his two buddies go off to rescue her. When they don't come back, Boyd goes after them to rescue all. This is all done in flashback from a court martial trial for desertion.