War Movies
High Barbaree

High Barbaree

High Barbaree
IMDb: 6.4
91

After his plane is downed in the South Pacific, a Navy flier recounts his life to a co-pilot while awaiting rescue.

Genre: Action, Drama, War
Frieda

Frieda

Frieda
IMDb: 7.1
98

An RAF pilot who was shot down during WWII returns home to his English village with his new bride. The trouble is that she is the German lady who helped…

Genre: Drama, War
Desire Me

Desire Me

Desire Me
IMDb: 6
91

A war widow falls in love with the man who informed her of her husband’s death.

Genre: Drama, Romance, War
The Beginning or the End

The Beginning or the End

The Beginning or the End
IMDb: 6.6
112

The research, development, and deployment of the first atomic bomb, as well as the bombing of Hiroshima, are detailed in this docudrama.

No Regrets for Our Youth

No Regrets for Our Youth

No Regrets for Our Youth
IMDb: 7.1
111

Over more than a decade, the daughter of a Kyoto Imperial University professor comes of age as she witnesses her father fired for opposing the rise of fascism in Japan…

Genre: Drama, History, War
Till the End of Time

Till the End of Time

Till the End of Time
IMDb: 6.7
105

Three former marines have a hard time readjusting to civilian life. Perry can’t deal with the loss of the use of his legs. William is in trouble with bad debts….

Genre: Drama, Romance, War
School for Secrets

School for Secrets

School for Secrets
IMDb: 6.4
108

Wartime tale of a group of British scientists efforts to develop the first radar system. They did it just in time for it to be used in the Battle of…

Genre: Drama, War
Rome, Open City

Rome, Open City

Rome, Open City
IMDb: 8
103

In WWII-era Rome, underground resistance leader Manfredi attempts to evade the Gestapo by enlisting the help of Pina, the fiancée of a fellow member of the resistance, and Don Pietro,…

Genre: Drama, War
Piccadilly Incident

Piccadilly Incident

Piccadilly Incident
IMDb: 6.5
100

A newly married WREN, presumed drowned when her ship is torpedoed, spends three years on a tropical island before returning to England to find her husband remarried with a baby…

Genre: Drama, War
Paisan

Paisan

Paisan
IMDb: 7.6
125

During the Allied invasion of Italy in World War II, six stories unfold in various regions, from Sicily to the northern Po Valley. These tales follow the interactions between American…

Genre: Drama, War
O.S.S.

O.S.S.

O.S.S.
IMDb: 6.6
107

The (O)ffice of (S)trategic (S)ervices’ Cmdr. Brady (Patric Knowles) forms Operation “Applejack” (based on a composite of actual incidents during WWII) and sends Lt. (j.g.) Philip Masson, U.S.N.R. aka John…

A Matter of Life and Death

A Matter of Life and Death

A Matter of Life and Death
IMDb: 8
104

When a young RAF pilot miraculously survives bailing out of his aeroplane without a parachute, he falls in love with an American radio operator. But the officials in the other…

Let There Be Light

Let There Be Light

Let There Be Light
IMDb: 7.4
58

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…

Genre: Documentary, War
Journey Together

Journey Together

Journey Together
IMDb: 6.5
95

Two Englishmen (Richard Attenborough, Jack Watling) train with the Royal Air Force, ending with a bombing raid on Berlin.

Genre: Drama, War
Johnny Frenchman

Johnny Frenchman

Johnny Frenchman
IMDb: 6.3
100

The fisherman from a Cornish village have a friendly rivalry with the fishermen (and one formidable woman) from a French port. Then war comes and they must all rethink their…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, War
From This Day Forward

From This Day Forward

From This Day Forward
IMDb: 6.3
95

A young American soldier, with an honorable discharge, returns home from World War II to his bride, whom he married after a short courtship and has not seen for several…

Genre: Drama, Romance, War
The Fleet That Came to Stay

The Fleet That Came to Stay

The Fleet That Came to Stay
IMDb: 6.6
21

A propaganda short film produced by the US Navy in 1945 about the naval engagements of the invasion of Okinawa.

Genre: Documentary, War
Cloak and Dagger

Cloak and Dagger

Cloak and Dagger
IMDb: 6.6
106

Italian partisans help a professor sent by the OSS to find an atomic scientist held by Nazis.

Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
The Captive Heart

The Captive Heart

The Captive Heart
IMDb: 7
104

A series of stories about the lives and loves of men in a Prisoner of War camp over five years. The main story is of Hasek (Redgrave) a Czech soldier…

Genre: Drama, War
The Battle of the Rails

The Battle of the Rails

The Battle of the Rails
IMDb: 7
85

A 1946 war movie which tells the courageous efforts by French railway workers to sabotage Nazi reinforcement-troop trains.

Genre: Drama, War
I See a Dark Stranger

I See a Dark Stranger

I See a Dark Stranger
IMDb: 6.9
112

Proud Irishwoman Bridie Quilty journeys to Dublin while World War II rages across Europe. During her travels, she encounters J. Miller, who recruits her as a Nazi spy. She acquires…

Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
13 Rue Madeleine

13 Rue Madeleine

13 Rue Madeleine
IMDb: 6.9
95

Bob Sharkey, an instructor of would-be spies for the Allied Office of Strategic Services, becomes suspicious of one of the latest batch of students, Bill O’Connell, who is too good…

Genre: Thriller, War
The Way to the Stars

The Way to the Stars

The Way to the Stars
IMDb: 7.3
109

Life on a British bomber base, and the surrounding towns, from the opening days of the Battle of Britain, to the arrival of the Americans, who join in the bomber…

Genre: Drama, Romance, War
A Walk in the Sun

A Walk in the Sun

A Walk in the Sun
IMDb: 6.9
117

In the 1943 invasion of Italy, one American platoon lands, digs in, then makes its way inland to attempt to take a fortified farmhouse, as tension and casualties mount.

Genre: Drama, War
A Friend Will Come Tonight

A Friend Will Come Tonight

A Friend Will Come Tonight
IMDb: 6.3
125

Commander Gerard and his band of guerrillas have found the ideal hideout: a nursing home in the Alps where, along with the mentally ill, are also hiding a Jewish girl…

Genre: Drama, War
This Man’s Navy

This Man’s Navy

This Man’s Navy
IMDb: 6.2
100

During World War II, Chief Aviation Pilot Ned Trumpet is in charge of an airship at Lakehurst, New Jersey naval base. Trumpet orders an unauthorized and premature attack on a…

Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
They Were Expendable

They Were Expendable

They Were Expendable
IMDb: 7.2
135

After a demonstration of new PT boats, navy brass are still unconvinced of their viability in combat, leaving Lt. “Rusty” Ryan frustrated. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, however, Ryan…

Genre: Drama, War
Story of G.I. Joe

Story of G.I. Joe

Story of G.I. Joe
IMDb: 7.2
108

War correspondent Ernie Pyle joins Company C, 18th Infantry as this American army unit fights its way across North Africa in World War II. He comes to know the soldiers…

Genre: Drama, War
Pride of the Marines

Pride of the Marines

Pride of the Marines
IMDb: 7.3
119

Marine hero Al Schmid is blinded in battle and returns home to be rehabilitated. He readjusts to his civilian life with the help of his soon to be wife.

Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Objective, Burma!

Objective, Burma!

Objective, Burma!
IMDb: 7.3
142

A group of men parachute into Japanese-occupied Burma with a dangerous and important mission: to locate and blow up a radar station. They accomplish this well enough, but when they…

Keep Your Powder Dry

Keep Your Powder Dry

Keep Your Powder Dry
IMDb: 6.4
93

A debutante, a serviceman’s bride and a girl from a military family join the Women’s Army Corps.

Genre: Drama, War
Hotel Berlin

Hotel Berlin

Hotel Berlin
IMDb: 6.8
98

An assortment of diverse characters gather at the Hotel Berlin in World War II Germany as the Third Reich falls.

Genre: Drama, War
God Is My Co-Pilot

God Is My Co-Pilot

God Is My Co-Pilot
IMDb: 6.5
90

Robert L. Scott has dreamed his whole life of being a fighter pilot, but when war comes he finds himself flying transport planes over The Hump into China. In China,…

Genre: Action, Adventure, War
Counter-Attack

Counter-Attack

Counter-Attack
IMDb: 6.8
90

Two Russians fight to escape the seven Nazi soldiers trapped with them in a bombed building.

Genre: Drama, War
Blood on the Sun

Blood on the Sun

Blood on the Sun
IMDb: 6
94

Nick Condon, an American journalist in 20s Tokyo, publishes the Japanese master plan for world domination. Reaction from the understandably upset Japanese provides the action, but this is overshadowed by…

Genre: Action, Drama, War
Back to Bataan

Back to Bataan

Back to Bataan
IMDb: 6.6
95

An Army colonel leads a guerrilla campaign against the Japanese in the Philippines.

Genre: Drama, War
Wing and a Prayer

Wing and a Prayer

Wing and a Prayer
IMDb: 6.6
97

An aircraft carrier is sent on a decoy mission around the Pacific, with orders to avoid combat, thus lulling Japanese alertness before the battle of Midway.

Genre: Action, Drama, War
The White Cliffs of Dover

The White Cliffs of Dover

The White Cliffs of Dover
IMDb: 7
126

American Susan travels with her father to England for a vacation. Invited to a society ball, Susan meets Sir John Ashwood and marries him after a whirlwind romance. However, she…

Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Warn That Man

Warn That Man

Warn That Man
IMDb: 5.7
82

At the height of World War II, the Germans discover that a certain British personage is to stay at the country house of Lord Buckley. They devise a plan whereby…

Genre: Comedy, Thriller, War
The Way Ahead

The Way Ahead

The Way Ahead
IMDb: 6.9
115

A mismatched collection of conscripted civilians find training tough under Lieutenant Jim Perry and Sergeant Ned Fletcher when they are called up to replace an infantry battalion that had suffered…

Genre: Drama, War