This list of war film

War film

War films are a film genre concerned with warfare, usually about naval, air or land battles, sometimes focusing instead on prisoners of war, covert operations, military training or other related subjects. At times war films focus on daily military or civilian life in wartime without depicting battles...

s and TV specials that are films and television series such as Documentaries, TV mini series and drama serials depicting aspects of historical wars.

Anglo-Saxon invasion of England 

• King Arthur
  King Arthur (film)
  King Arthur is a 2004 film directed by Antoine Fuqua and written by David Franzoni. It stars Clive Owen as the title character, Ioan Gruffudd as Lancelot, and Keira Knightley as Guinevere....
  
  (2004), depiction of the Battle of Mons Badonicus
  Battle of Mons Badonicus
  The Battle of Mons Badonicus was a battle between a force of Britons and an Anglo-Saxon army, probably sometime between 490 and 517 AD. Though it is believed to have been a major political and military event, there is no certainty about its date, location or the details of the fighting...
  
  

Mercenaries in the Third World

See also Mercenaries in popular culture: Films

• Africa Addio
  Africa Addio
  Africa Addio is a 1966 Italian documentary about the end of the colonial era in Africa. The film was released in a shorter format under the names "Africa Blood and Guts" in the USA and "Farewell Africa" in the UK...
  
  (Africa - Blood and Guts) (1966)
• Cerný prapor (The Black Battalion/Das schwarze Bataillon/Bataillon des Teufels) (1958)
• Code Name: Wild Geese
  Code Name: Wild Geese
  Code Name: Wild Geese is a 1984 Italian "macaroni combat" war film directed by Antonio Margheriti and starring Lewis Collins.- Plot :In Hong Kong, DEA man Fletcher heads up an operation to cut off the supply of opium to the west; to fund this operation Fletcher has found himself allied with...
  
  (1984)
• Commando Leopard
  Commando Leopard
  Commando Leopard is a 1985 Italian war film directed by Antonio Margheriti and starring Lewis Collins. It's the second film in the Margheriti/Collins trilogy, that started with Codename: Wildgeese and concluded with The Commander....
  
  (1985)
• Dark of the Sun
  Dark of the Sun
  Dark of the Sun is a 1968 adventure-war film starring Rod Taylor, Yvette Mimieux, Jim Brown, and Peter Carsten...
  
  /The Mercenaries (1968)
• The Dogs of War
  The Dogs of War (film)
  The Dogs of War is a 1980 war film based upon the novel The Dogs of War by Frederick Forsyth, directed by John Irvin. It stars Christopher Walken and Tom Berenger as part of a small, international unit of mercenary soldiers privately hired to depose President Kimba of a fictional "Republic of...
  
  (1981)
• Der Fall Bernd K. (The Case of Bernd K.) (1967)
• Geschwader Fledermaus
  Geschwader Fledermaus
  Geschwader Fledermaus is an East German film. It was released in 1958.-Cast:*Wolfgang Heinz - General Lee*Christine Laszar - Flessy*Günther Simon - Tex Stankowsky*Kurd Pieritz - Mitch Bryk*Norbert Christian - Terry Varney...
  
  (Bat Squadron) (1957)
• High Velocity (1976)
• Immer wenn der Steiner kam (Every Time Steiner Came) (1976), not released
• Kommando 52 (Commando 52) (1965)
• Der lachende Mann - Bekenntnisse eines Mörders (The Laughing Man - Confessions of a Killer) (1966)
• The Last Grenade
  The Last Grenade
  The Last Grenade is a 1970 British war film directed by Gordon Flemyng and starring Stanley Baker and Alex Cord as two soldiers of fortune, formerly comrades, who now find themselves on opposite sides...
  
  (1970)
• The Last Mercenary (1968)
• Madeleine und der Legionär (Madeleine and the Legionary) (1958)
• Men of War
  Men of War (film)
  Men of War is a 1994 American action drama directed by Perry Lang and starring Dolph Lundgren as a former Special Ops soldier who leads a group of mercenaries to a treasure island in the South China Sea.-Plot:...
  
  (1994)
• PS zum lachenden Mann (PS to the Laughing Man) (1967)
• Scorticateli Vivi (Wild Geese Attack/Skin 'Em Alive) (1978)
• Seduto alla sua destra (Black Jesus) (1968)
• Sette Baschi Rossi
  Sette baschi rossi
  Sette baschi rossi also known as The Red Berets, Seven Red Berets and Congo Hell is a 1969 Italian West German co-production about a fictional group of mercenaries filmed in Ethiopia produced and directed by screenwriter Mario Siciliano in his debut as a director...
  
  (The Red Berets) (1969)
• The Wild Geese
  The Wild Geese
  The Wild Geese is a British 1978 film about a group of mercenaries in Africa. It stars Richard Burton, Roger Moore, Richard Harris and Hardy Krüger...
  
   (1978)

Trojan War

Trojan War

In Greek mythology, the Trojan War was waged against the city of Troy by the Achaeans after Paris of Troy took Helen from her husband Menelaus, the king of Sparta. The war is among the most important events in Greek mythology and was narrated in many works of Greek literature, including the Iliad...

 (1194BC–1184 BC)

• Helen of Troy
  Helen of Troy (film)
  Helen of Troy is a 1956 Warner Bros. epic film, based on Homer's Iliad. It was directed by Robert Wise, from a screenplay by Hugh Gray and John Twist, adapted by Hugh Gray and N. Richard Nash...
  
  (1956)
• Helen of Troy
  Helen of Troy (TV miniseries)
  Helen of Troy is a 2003 television miniseries based upon Homer's story of the Trojan War, as recounted in the epic poem, Iliad. This TV miniseries also shares the name with a 1956 movie starring Stanley Baker...
  
  (2003)
• Troy
  Troy (film)
  Troy is a 2004 epic war film written by David Benioff and directed by Wolfgang Petersen based on the events of the Trojan War. Its cast includes Brad Pitt as Achilles, Eric Bana as Hector.It was nominated for the Academy Award for Costume Design.-Plot:...
  
  (2004)

Greco-Persian Wars

Greco-Persian Wars

The Greco-Persian Wars were a series of conflicts between the Achaemenid Empire of Persia and city-states of the Hellenic world that started in 499 BC and lasted until 449 BC. The collision between the fractious political world of the Greeks and the enormous empire of the Persians began when Cyrus...

 (499 BC – 450 BC)

• The 300 Spartans
  The 300 Spartans
  The 300 Spartans is a 1962 Cinemascope film depicting the Battle of Thermopylae. Made with the cooperation of the Greek government, it was shot in the village of Perachora in the Peloponnese...
  
  (1962)
• 300
  300 (film)
  300 is a 2007 American fantasy action film based on the 1998 comic series of the same name by Frank Miller. It is a fictionalized retelling of the Battle of Thermopylae. The film was directed by Zack Snyder, while Miller served as executive producer and consultant...
  
  (2007)

Warring States Period

Warring States Period

The Warring States Period , also known as the Era of Warring States, or the Warring Kingdoms period, covers the Iron Age period from about 475 BC to the reunification of China under the Qin Dynasty in 221 BC...

 (476 BC – 221 BC)

• The Emperor's Shadow
  The Emperor's Shadow
  The Emperor's Shadow is a 1996 Chinese historical film directed by Zhou Xiaowen and starring Jiang Wen, Ge You, Xu Qing and Ge Zhijun. It was the most expensive Chinese film produced at the time of its release.-Plot:...
  
  (1996)
• The Emperor and the Assassin
  The Emperor and the Assassin
  The Emperor and the Assassin, also known as The First Emperor, is a 1998 Chinese historical romance film based primarily on Jing Ke's assassination attempt on the King of Qin, as described in Sima Qian's Records of the Grand Historian. The film was directed by Chen Kaige and stars Gong Li, Zhang...
  
  (1999)
• A Battle of Wits
  A Battle of Wits (2006 film)
  A Battle of Wits is a 2006 Hong Kong film based on a Japanese historical novel, written by Ken'ichi Sakemi. A manga series was written by Hideki Mori, also based on the novel. Directed by Jacob Cheung, the film starred Andy Lau, Ahn Sung-ki, Wang Zhiwen, Fan Bingbing, Nicky Wu and Choi Siwon...
  
  (2006)

Wars of Alexander the Great (338 BC – 325 BC)

• Alexander the Great
  Alexander the Great (1956 film)
  Alexander the Great is a 1956 America sword and sandal epic film written, directed and produced by Robert Rossen with Gordon S. Griffith as executive producer...
  
  (1956)
• Alexander
  Alexander (film)
  Alexander is a 2004 epic film based on the life of Alexander the Great. It is not a remake of the 1956 film which starred Richard Burton. It was directed by Oliver Stone, with Colin Farrell in the title role...
  
  (2004), depictions of the Battles of Gaugamela
  Battle of Gaugamela
  The Battle of Gaugamela took place in 331 BC between Alexander the Great and Darius III of Persia. The battle, which is also called the Battle of Arbela, resulted in a massive victory for the ancient Macedonians and led to the fall of the Achaemenid Empire.-Location:Darius chose a flat, open plain...
  
   and Hydaspes
  Battle of the Hydaspes River
  The Battle of the Hydaspes River was fought by Alexander the Great in 326 BC against King Porus of the Hindu Paurava kingdom on the banks of the Hydaspes River in the Punjab near Bhera in what is now modern-day Pakistan...
  
  

Wars of the Roman Republic/Empire 

• Attila
  Attila (1954 film)
  Attila is a 1954 Franco-Italian film co-production, directed by Pietro Francisci and produced by Dino De Laurentiis. Based on the life of Attila the Hun, it stars Anthony Quinn as Attila and Sophia Loren as Honoria, with Henri Vidal, Irene Papas, Ettore Manni and Christian Marquand. Scott Marlowe ...
  
  (1954), European campaign of Attila the Hun
  Attila the Hun
  Attila , more frequently referred to as Attila the Hun, was the ruler of the Huns from 434 until his death in 453. He was leader of the Hunnic Empire, which stretched from the Ural River to the Rhine River and from the Danube River to the Baltic Sea. During his reign he was one of the most feared...
  
  
• Ben Hur
  Ben-Hur (1959 film)
  Ben-Hur is a 1959 American epic film directed by William Wyler and starring Charlton Heston in the title role, the third film adaptation of Lew Wallace's 1880 novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ. The screenplay was written by Karl Tunberg, Gore Vidal, and Christopher Fry. The score was composed by...
  
  (1959)
• Spartacus
  Spartacus (film)
  Spartacus is a 1960 American epic historical drama film directed by Stanley Kubrick and based on the novel of the same name by Howard Fast...
  
  (1960), the Third Servile War
  Third Servile War
  The Third Servile War , also called the Gladiator War and the War of Spartacus by Plutarch, was the last of a series of unrelated and unsuccessful slave rebellions against the Roman Republic, known collectively as the Roman Servile Wars...
  
  
• Annibale
  Annibale (film)
  Annibale is a 1959 Italian film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti....
  
  (1960), the Second Punic War
  Second Punic War
  The Second Punic War, also referred to as The Hannibalic War and The War Against Hannibal, lasted from 218 to 201 BC and involved combatants in the western and eastern Mediterranean. This was the second major war between Carthage and the Roman Republic, with the participation of the Berbers on...
  
  
• King of Kings (1961)
• Brenno il nemico di Roma (1963), the first Gallic invasion of Italy
  Battle of the Allia
  The Battle of the Allia was a battle of the first Gallic invasion of Rome. The battle was fought near the Allia river: the defeat of the Roman army opened the route for the Gauls to sack Rome. It was fought in 390/387 BC.-Background:...
  
  
• Cleopatra
  Cleopatra (1963 film)
  Cleopatra is a 1963 British-American-Swiss epic drama film directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. The screenplay was adapted by Sidney Buchman, Ben Hecht, Ranald MacDougall, and Mankiewicz from a book by Carlo Maria Franzero. The film starred Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison, Roddy...
  
  (1963), Battle of Actium
  Battle of Actium
  The Battle of Actium was the decisive confrontation of the Final War of the Roman Republic. It was fought between the forces of Octavian and the combined forces of Mark Antony and Cleopatra VII. The battle took place on 2 September 31 BC, on the Ionian Sea near the city of Actium, at the Roman...
  
  
• The Fall of the Roman Empire
  The Fall of the Roman Empire (film)
  The Fall of the Roman Empire is a 1964 English-language epic film produced by Samuel Bronston Productions and the Rank Organisation, and released by Paramount Pictures. It was directed by Anthony Mann and produced by Samuel Bronston with Jaime Prades and Michal Waszynski as associate producers. The...
  
  (1964), the Marcomanni War
• Asterix animated films based on the comic book character and the Gallic Wars
  Gallic Wars
  The Gallic Wars were a series of military campaigns waged by the Roman proconsul Julius Caesar against several Gallic tribes. They lasted from 58 BC to 51 BC. The Gallic Wars culminated in the decisive Battle of Alesia in 52 BC, in which a complete Roman victory resulted in the expansion of the...
  
  
• Gladiator
  Gladiator (2000 film)
  Gladiator is a 2000 historical epic film directed by Ridley Scott, starring Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen, Ralf Möller, Oliver Reed, Djimon Hounsou, Derek Jacobi, John Shrapnel and Richard Harris. Crowe portrays the loyal Roman General Maximus Decimus Meridius, who is betrayed...
  
  (2000), the Marcomanni War
• Druids
  Druids (film)
  Druids is a French film first released on 31 August 2001, directed by Jacques Dorfmann...
  
  (a.k.a. Vercingétorix) (2001), the Gallic Wars
  Gallic Wars
  The Gallic Wars were a series of military campaigns waged by the Roman proconsul Julius Caesar against several Gallic tribes. They lasted from 58 BC to 51 BC. The Gallic Wars culminated in the decisive Battle of Alesia in 52 BC, in which a complete Roman victory resulted in the expansion of the...
  
  
• Attila
  Attila (TV Miniseries)
  Attila was an American TV miniseries set during the waning days of the Western Roman Empire, in particular during the invasions of the Huns in Europe.-Synopsis:...
  
  (2001), TV miniseries of the European campaign of Attila the Hun
• Boudica
  Boudica (film)
  Boudica is a British film released in 2003. Starring Alex Kingston, Steven Waddington and Emily Blunt, the film is a biopic of the queen of the Iceni tribe, Boudica.- Production :...
  
  (2003), fictionalized story of Boudicca, Queen of the Iceni
  Iceni
  The Iceni or Eceni were a British tribe who inhabited an area of East Anglia corresponding roughly to the modern-day county of Norfolk between the 1st century BC and the 1st century AD...
  
   of Britain and the revolt against Roman occupation.
• Hannibal - Rome's Worst Nightmare
  Hannibal - Rome's Worst Nightmare
  Hannibal - Rome's Worst Nightmare is a 2006 television film, made by the British Broadcasting Corporation. It was presented as a dramatised documentary.The film is chiefly centred on the Italian campaign of Hannibal, the famous Carthaginian general....
  
  (2006), TV depiction of the Second Punic War
• Rome (TV series)
  Rome (TV series)
  Rome is a British-American–Italian historical drama television series created by Bruno Heller, John Milius and William J. MacDonald. The show's two seasons premiered in 2005 and 2007, and were later released on DVD. Rome is set in the 1st century BC, during Ancient Rome's transition from Republic...
  
  (2005/2007)
• Centurion (film)
  Centurion (film)
  Centurion is a 2010 British action thriller film directed by Neil Marshall, loosely based on the supposed disappearance of the Roman Ninth Legion in Caledonia in the second century CE. The film stars Michael Fassbender, Olga Kurylenko and Dominic West....
  
  (2010), Roman ninth Legion in 2nd century Britain
• The Eagle (2011 film) (2011), Roman centurion in 2nd century Britain

Wars of the Three Kingdoms

Three Kingdoms

The Three Kingdoms period was a period in Chinese history, part of an era of disunity called the "Six Dynasties" following immediately the loss of de facto power of the Han Dynasty rulers. In a strict academic sense it refers to the period between the foundation of the state of Wei in 220 and the...

 (220–280)

• Red Cliff (2008)
• Three Kingdoms: Resurrection of the Dragon
  Three Kingdoms: Resurrection of the Dragon
  Three Kingdoms: Resurrection of the Dragon is a 2008 Hong Kong film loosely based on parts of the Chinese classical novel Romance of Three Kingdoms. It was directed by Daniel Lee with a reported budget of US$25 million...
  
  (2008)

Campaigns of Muhammad

Muhammad as a general

The military career of Muhammad lasted for the final ten years of his life when he served as the leader of the ummah at Medina.-History:Muhammad spent his last ten years, from 622 to 632, as the leader of Medina in a state of war with pagan Mecca...

 (622–632)

• Mohammad, Messenger of God (1976)

Crusades

Crusades

The Crusades were a series of religious wars, blessed by the Pope and the Catholic Church with the main goal of restoring Christian access to the holy places in and near Jerusalem...

 (1095–1272)

• Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic
  Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic
  Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic is a direct to DVD animated film released on February 9, 2010. The film is a spin-off from Electronic Arts' Dante's Inferno video game.-Plot:...
  
  (2010)
• The Crusades (1935), a Cecil B. De Mille production, starring Henry Wilcoxon
  Henry Wilcoxon
  Henry Wilcoxon was an actor born in Roseau, Dominica, British West Indies, and best known as a leading man in many of Cecil B. DeMille's films, also serving as DeMille's associate producer on his later films....
  
   as Richard Lionheart
• The Seventh Seal
  The Seventh Seal
  The Seventh Seal is a 1957 Swedish film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman. Set during the Black Death, it tells of the journey of a medieval knight and a game of chess he plays with the personification of Death , who has come to take his life. Bergman developed the film from his own play...
  
  (1957)
• Robin and Marian
  Robin and Marian
  Robin and Marian is a 1976 British/American co-produced romantic adventure period film filmed in Pamplona, Spain starring Sean Connery as Robin Hood, Audrey Hepburn as Lady Marian, Nicol Williamson as Little John, Robert Shaw as the Sheriff of Nottingham and Richard Harris as King Richard. It also...
  
  (1976)
• Ivanhoe (1982 film)
  Ivanhoe (1982 film)
  Ivanhoe is a 1982 television film adaptation of Sir Walter Scott's novel of the same name. The film was directed by Douglas Camfield and screenplay written by John Gay...
  
  (1982) (TV)
• Hearts and Armour (1983)
• Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
  Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
  Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves is a 1991 American adventure film directed by Kevin Reynolds. Kevin Costner heads the cast list as Robin Hood...
  
  (1991)
• Kingdom of Heaven
  Kingdom of Heaven (film)
  Kingdom of Heaven is a 2005 epic action film directed by Ridley Scott and written by William Monahan. It stars Orlando Bloom, Eva Green, Jeremy Irons, David Thewlis, Marton Csokas, Brendan Gleeson, Kevin McKidd, Alexander Siddig, Ghassan Massoud, Edward Norton, Jon Finch, Michael Sheen and Liam...
  
  (2005), depiction of the Battle (Siege) of Jerusalem
  Siege of Jerusalem (1187)
  On July 4, 1187 the Kingdom's army was defeated at the Battle of Hattin by Saladin and only Balian of Ibelin commanding a small number of soldiers remained in Jerusalem. The Siege of Jerusalem lasted from September 20 to October 2, 1187. On October 2, 1187 Balian of Ibelin surrendered Jerusalem to...
  
  
• Arn (2007)

Mongol conquests

Mongol Conquests

Mongol invasions progressed throughout the 13th century, resulting in the vast Mongol Empire which covered much of Asia and Eastern Europe by 1300....

 (1206–1324)

• Musa the Warrior
  Musa (film)
  Musa , released as both The Warrior and The Ultimate Warrior in English-speaking countries, is a 2001 South Korean epic film directed by Kim Seong-soo, starring Jung Woo-sung, Ahn Sung-ki, Ju Jin-mo and Chinese actress Zhang Ziyi...
  
  (2001)
• Genghis Khan
  Genghis Khan (1965 film)
  Genghis Khan is a 1965 film depicting the life and conquests of the Mongol emperor Genghis Khan. It was released in the United Kingdom and the United States in 1965 by Columbia Pictures, and was directed by Henry Levin, and starred Omar Sharif, who that same year starred in another epic, Doctor...
  
  (1965)
• Genghis Khan
  Genghis Khan (1992 film)
  Genghis KhanGenghis Khan is a 1992 film, started in Kyrgyzstan by Russian director Tolomush Okeyev but after several weeks of shooting and a lot of money spent in project development, preparation and pre-production the film was stopped since it became clear that was not suitable for an...
  
  (1992)
• The Conqueror
  The Conqueror (film)
  The Conqueror is a 1956 CinemaScope epic film produced by Howard Hughes and starring John Wayne as the Mongol conqueror Genghis Khan. Other performers included Susan Hayward, Agnes Moorehead, and Pedro Armendáriz. Directed by actor/director Dick Powell, the film was principally shot near St...
  
  (1956)
• Genghis Khan: To the Ends of the Earth and Sea
  Genghis Khan: To the Ends of the Earth and Sea
  is a 2007 Japanese - Mongolian historical drama film depicting the life of Genghis Khan.-Cast:*Takashi Sorimachi as Temüjin/Genghis Khan*Rei Kikukawa as Börte*Mayumi Wakamura as Hoelun*Kenichi Matsuyama as Jochi*Yoshihiko Hakamada as Hasar*Go Ara as Khulan...
  
  (2007)
• Mongol
  Mongol (film)
  Mongol is a 2007 semi-historical film directed by Sergei Bodrov. The storyline was conceived from a screenplay written by Bodrov and Arif Aliev. Producers for the film comprised Bodrov, Sergei Selyanov and Anton Melnik. The film is based on the early life of Temüjin, who later came to be known as...
  
  (2007)

Wars of Scottish Independence

Wars of Scottish Independence

The Wars of Scottish Independence were a series of military campaigns fought between the independent Kingdom of Scotland and the Kingdom of England in the late 13th and early 14th centuries....

 (1296–1328), (1332–1357)

• Braveheart
  Braveheart
  Braveheart is a 1995 epic historical drama war film directed by and starring Mel Gibson. The film was written for the screen and then novelized by Randall Wallace...
  
  (1995), depictions of the Battles of Stirling
  Battle of Stirling Bridge
  The Battle of Stirling Bridge was a battle of the First War of Scottish Independence. On 11 September 1297, the forces of Andrew Moray and William Wallace defeated the combined English forces of John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey and Hugh de Cressingham near Stirling, on the River Forth.-The main...
  
   and Falkirk
  Battle of Falkirk (1298)
  The Battle of Falkirk, which took place on 22 July 1298, was one of the major battles in the First War of Scottish Independence...
  
  
• The Bruce
  The Bruce (film)
  The Bruce is a 1996 film set in Scotland and England in the early 14th century. The film focuses primarily on the rise to power of Robert I of Scotland, culminating in the Battle of Bannockburn in AD 1314....
  
  (1996), depiction of the Battle of Bannockburn
  Battle of Bannockburn
  The Battle of Bannockburn was a significant Scottish victory in the Wars of Scottish Independence...
  
   (1314)

Hundred Years' War

Hundred Years' War

The Hundred Years' War was a series of separate wars waged from 1337 to 1453 by the House of Valois and the House of Plantagenet, also known as the House of Anjou, for the French throne, which had become vacant upon the extinction of the senior Capetian line of French kings...

 (1337–1453)

• Henry V
  Henry V (1944 film)
  Henry V is a 1944 film adaptation of William Shakespeare's play of the same name. The on-screen title is The Cronicle History of King Henry the Fift with His Battell Fought at Agincourt in France . It stars Laurence Olivier, who also directed. The play was adapted for the screen by Olivier, Dallas...
  
  (1944)
• Henry V
  Henry V (1989 film)
  Henry V is a 1989 film directed by Kenneth Branagh, based on William Shakespeare's play The Life of Henry the Fifth about the famous English king. Branagh stars in the title role, and wrote the screenplay. The film was highly acclaimed on its release....
  
  (1989)
• Joan of Arc
  Joan of Arc (1948 film)
  Joan of Arc is a 1948 Technicolor film directed by Victor Fleming; starring Ingrid Bergman as the French religious icon and war heroine. It was produced by Walter Wanger. It is based on Maxwell Anderson's successful Broadway play Joan of Lorraine, which also starred Bergman, and was adapted for the...
  
  (1948)
• Joan of Arc (1999, TV miniseries)
• The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
  The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
  The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc is a French/American historical drama film directed by Luc Besson. The screenplay was written by Besson and Andrew Birkin, and the original music score was composed by Éric Serra....
  
  (1999), depiction of the Siege of Orléans
  Siege of Orléans
  The Siege of Orléans marked a turning point in the Hundred Years' War between France and England. This was Joan of Arc's first major military victory and the first major French success to follow the crushing defeat at Agincourt in 1415. The outset of this siege marked the pinnacle of English power...
  
  
• The Passion of Joan of Arc
  The Passion of Joan of Arc
  The Passion of Joan of Arc is a silent film produced in France in 1928. It is based on the record of the trial of Joan of Arc. The film was directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer and stars Renée Jeanne Falconetti...
  
  (1928)
• Saint Joan
  Saint Joan (1957 film)
  Saint Joan is a 1957 British-American film adapted from the George Bernard Shaw play of the same title about the life of Joan of Arc. The restructured screenplay by Graham Greene, directed by Otto Preminger, begins with the play's last scene, which then becomes the springboard for a long flashback,...
  
  (1957)

Hussite Wars

Hussite Wars

The Hussite Wars, also called the Bohemian Wars involved the military actions against and amongst the followers of Jan Hus in Bohemia in the period 1419 to circa 1434. The Hussite Wars were notable for the extensive use of early hand-held gunpowder weapons such as hand cannons...

 (1419–1434)

• Jan Hus
  Jan Hus (film)
  Jan Hus is a 1954 Czechoslovak film directed by Otakar Vávra. It is the first part of the "Hussite Revolutionary Triology", one of the most famous works of the czechoslovak director, completed with Jan Žižka and Proti všem .The film starred Josef Kemr....
  
  (1954)
• Jan Žižka
  Jan Žižka (film)
  Jan Žižka is a 1955 Czechoslovak film directed by Otakar Vávra. The film starred Josef Kemr....
  
  (1955)
• Proti všem (Against All) (1957)

Sengoku Period

Sengoku period

The or Warring States period in Japanese history was a time of social upheaval, political intrigue, and nearly constant military conflict that lasted roughly from the middle of the 15th century to the beginning of the 17th century. The name "Sengoku" was adopted by Japanese historians in reference...

 (1467–1573)

• Kagemusha
  Kagemusha
  is a 1980 film by Akira Kurosawa. The title is a term used for an impersonator. It is set in the Warring States era of Japanese history and tells the story of a lower-class criminal who is taught to impersonate a dying warlord in order to dissuade opposing lords from attacking the newly vulnerable...
  
  (The Shadow Warrior) (1980)
• Ran
  Ran (film)
  is a 1985 Japanese-French jidaigeki film written and directed by Akira Kurosawa. The film starred Tatsuya Nakadai as Hidetora Ichimonji, an aging Sengoku-era warlord who decides to abdicate as ruler in favor of his three sons. It also stars Mieko Harada as the wife of Ichimonji's eldest son...
  
  (1985)
• Shōgun
  Shogun (TV miniseries)
  Shōgun is an American television miniseries based on the namesake novel by James Clavell. As with the novel, the title is often shown as Shōgun in order to conform to Hepburn romanization. The miniseries was broadcast over five nights, between September 15 and September 19, 1980 on NBC in the...
  
  (1980)

Battle of Mactan

Battle of Mactan

The Battle of Mactan was fought in the Philippines on April 27, 1521. The warriors of Lapu-Lapu, a native chieftain of Mactan Island, defeated Spanish forces under the command of Ferdinand Magellan, who was killed in the battle.- Background :...

 (1521)

• Lapu Lapu (1955)
• Lapu Lapu (2002)

Philippine Revolts Against Spain

Philippine revolts against Spain

During the Spanish colonial period in the Philippines, there were several revolts against of the Spanish colonial government by native-born Filipinos and Chinese, often with the goal of re-establishing the rights and powers that had traditionally belonged to tribal chiefs and Chinese traders...

 (1567–1872)

• Dagohoy (1953)
• Diego Silang (1951)
• Gabriela Silang (1971)

Eighty Years' War (1568-1648)

• La Kermesse Héroique (1935)
• Alatriste
  Alatriste
  Alatriste is a 2006 Spanish historical film directed by Agustín Díaz Yanes, based on the main character of a series of novels written by Arturo Pérez-Reverte, The Adventures of Captain Alatriste ....
  
  (2006)
• De Vliegende Hollander (1995)

St. Bartholomew's Day massacre

St. Bartholomew's Day massacre

The St. Bartholomew's Day massacre in 1572 was a targeted group of assassinations, followed by a wave of Roman Catholic mob violence, both directed against the Huguenots , during the French Wars of Religion...

 (1572)

• La Reine Margot
  La Reine Margot (1994 film)
  La Reine Margot is a 1994 French period film directed by Patrice Chéreau, based on the 1845 historical novel of the same name by Alexandre Dumas, père. It stars Isabelle Adjani, Daniel Auteuil, Virna Lisi and Vincent Pérez...
  
  (Queen Margot) (1994)

Polish–Muscovite War (1605–1618)

• 1612
  1612 (film)
  1612 is a 2007 Russian historical fantasy film about the Time of Troubles and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth–Muscovite War . It was directed by Vladimir Khotinenko and produced by Nikita Mikhalkov...
  
   (2007)

Thirty Years' War

Thirty Years' War

The Thirty Years' War was fought primarily in what is now Germany, and at various points involved most countries in Europe. It was one of the most destructive conflicts in European history....

 (1618–1648)

• Alatriste
  Alatriste
  Alatriste is a 2006 Spanish historical film directed by Agustín Díaz Yanes, based on the main character of a series of novels written by Arturo Pérez-Reverte, The Adventures of Captain Alatriste ....
  
  (2006), depiction of the Battle of Rocroi
  Battle of Rocroi
  The Battle of Rocroi was fought on 19 May 1643, late in the Thirty Years' War. It resulted in a victory of the French army under the Duc d'Enghien, against the Spanish army under General Francisco de Melo.-Prelude:...
  
  
• The Last Valley
  The Last Valley
  The Last Valley is a 1970 historical drama film directed by James Clavell. Set during the Thirty Years War, it stars Michael Caine as the leader of a band of mercenaries, and Omar Sharif as a teacher fleeing from the violence endemic to Germany during this period...
  
  (1970)

American Indian Wars (1622–1898)

• Custer's Last Stand (1936)
• They Died with Their Boots On
  They Died with Their Boots On
  They Died with Their Boots On is a 1941 western film directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland. Despite being rife with historical inaccuracies, the film was one of the top-grossing films of the year, being the last of eight Flynn–de Havilland collaborations.Like...
  
   (1941), depiction of the Battle of Little Big Horn
• Fort Apache
  Fort Apache (film)
  Fort Apache is a 1948 Western film directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne and Henry Fonda. The film was the first of the director's "cavalry trilogy" and was followed by She Wore a Yellow Ribbon and Rio Grande , both also starring Wayne...
  
  (1948)
• She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
  She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
  She Wore a Yellow Ribbon is a 1949 Western film directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne. The film was the second of Ford's trilogy of films focusing on the US Cavalry ; the other two films were Fort Apache and Rio Grande...
  
  (1949)
• Rio Grande
  Rio Grande
  The Rio Grande is a river that flows from southwestern Colorado in the United States to the Gulf of Mexico. Along the way it forms part of the Mexico – United States border. Its length varies as its course changes...
  
  (1950)
• Only the Valiant
  Only the Valiant
  Only the Valiant is a 1951 western film produced by William Cagney , directed by Gordon Douglas and starring Gregory Peck and Barbara Payton. The screenplay was written by Edmund H...
  
  (1951)
• Major Dundee
  Major Dundee
  Major Dundee is a 1965 Western film written by Harry Julian Fink and directed by Sam Peckinpah. It starred Charlton Heston and Richard Harris as officers from opposing sides in the American Civil War who band together to hunt down a band of Apaches....
  
  (1965)
• Custer of the West
  Custer of the West
  Custer of the West is a 1967 American Western film directed by Robert Siodmak. It tells a highly fictionalised version of the life and death of George Armstrong Custer. It was directed by Robert Siodmak and starring Robert Shaw as Custer, Robert Ryan and Mary Ure...
  
  (1967)
• Little Big Man
  Little Big Man
  Little Big Man is a 1970 American Western film directed by Arthur Penn and based on the 1964 comic novel by Thomas Berger. It is a picaresque comedy about a Caucasian boy raised by the Cheyenne nation during the 19th century...
  
  (1970), depiction of the Battle of Little Big Horn
• Soldier Blue
  Soldier Blue
  Soldier Blue is a 1970 American Revisionist Western movie directed by Ralph Nelson and inspired by events of the 1864 Sand Creek massacre in the Colorado Territory....
  
  (1970)
• Ulzana's Raid
  Ulzana's Raid
  Ulzana's Raid is a 1972 revisionist Western starring Burt Lancaster, Richard Jaeckel and Bruce Davison. The film, which was filmed on location in Arizona, was directed by Robert Aldrich based on a script by Alan Sharp....
  
  (1972)
• The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer (1977) (TV)
• Dances with Wolves
  Dances with Wolves
  Dances with Wolves is a 1990 epic western film directed by and starring Kevin Costner. It is a film adaptation of the 1988 book of the same name by Michael Blake and tells the story of a Union Army Lieutenant who travels to the American frontier to find a military post, and his dealings with a...
  
  (1990)
• Son of the Morning Star
  Son of the Morning Star (film)
  Son of the Morning Star is a TV movie released by Chrysalis based on Evan S. Connell's best-selling book of the same name. It starred Gary Cole and featured Dean Stockwell , Roseanna Arquette , Rodney A...
  
  (1991), depiction of the Battle of Little Big Horn (TV)
• Geronimo: An American Legend
  Geronimo: An American Legend
  Geronimo: An American Legend is a 1993 film, starring Wes Studi as Geronimo, Jason Patric as 1st Lt. Charles B. Gatewood, Gene Hackman as Brig. Gen. George Crook, Robert Duvall as Chief of Scouts Al Sieber, and Matt Damon as 2nd Lt. Britton Davis. The film was directed by Walter Hill from a...
  
  (1994)
• Crazy Horse
  Crazy Horse (film)
  Crazy Horse is a 1996 film based on the true story of Crazy Horse directed by John Irvin. It stars Michael Greyeyes as the titular role, Ned Beatty as Dr...
  
  (1996) (TV)
• Buffalo Soldiers (1997), (TV)
• The Miracle Men (2002), (TV)
• Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron
  Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron
  Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron is a 2002 American animated film that was released by DreamWorks. It follows the adventures of a young Kiger mustang stallion living in the 19th century wild west. The film, written by John Fusco and directed by Kelly Asbury and Lorna Cook, was nominated for the...
  
  (2002)
• Hidalgo
  Hidalgo (film)
  Hidalgo is a 2004 film based on the legend of the American distance rider Frank Hopkins and his mustang Hidalgo, and recounts Hopkins' racing his horse in Arabia in 1891 against Bedouin riding pure-blooded Arabian horses. The movie was written by John Fusco and directed by Joe Johnston...
  
  (2004), the early part of the film depicts the 1890 Battle of/Massacre at Wounded Knee
  Wounded Knee Massacre
  The Wounded Knee Massacre happened on December 29, 1890, near Wounded Knee Creek on the Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, USA. On the day before, a detachment of the U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment commanded by Major Samuel M...
  
  

English Civil War

English Civil War

The English Civil War was a series of armed conflicts and political machinations between Parliamentarians and Royalists...

 (1642–1651)

• Cromwell
  Cromwell (film)
  Cromwell is a 1970 film, based on the life of Oliver Cromwell who led the Parliamentary forces during the English Civil War and, as Lord Protector, ruled Great Britain and Ireland in the 1650s. It features an all-star cast led by Richard Harris as Cromwell and Alec Guinness as King Charles I...
  
  (1970), depictions of the Battles of Edgehill
  Battle of Edgehill
  The Battle of Edgehill was the first pitched battle of the First English Civil War. It was fought near Edge Hill and Kineton in southern Warwickshire on Sunday, 23 October 1642....
  
   and Naseby
  Battle of Naseby
  The Battle of Naseby was the key battle of the first English Civil War. On 14 June 1645, the main army of King Charles I was destroyed by the Parliamentarian New Model Army commanded by Sir Thomas Fairfax and Oliver Cromwell.-The Campaign:...
  
  
• To Kill a King
  To Kill a King
  To Kill a King is a UK 2003 English Civil War film directed by Mike Barker, starring Tim Roth and Dougray Scott. It relates the relationship between Oliver Cromwell and Thomas Fairfax in the post-war period from 1648 until the former's death, in 1658. It deals with the corruption of Parliament...
  
  
• Witchfinder General
  Witchfinder General (film)
  Witchfinder General is a 1968 British horror film directed by Michael Reeves and starring Vincent Price, Ian Ogilvy, and Hilary Dwyer. The screenplay was by Reeves and Tom Baker based on Ronald Bassett's novel of the same name. Made on a low budget of under £100,000, the movie was coproduced by...
  
  
• The Devil's Whore
  The Devil's Whore
  The Devil's Whore is a four-part television series set during the English Civil War, produced by Company Pictures for Channel 4 in 2008. It centres on the adventures of the fictional Angelica Fanshawe, and the historical Leveller soldier Edward Sexby...
  
  , numerous battles and skirmishes of the Civil War and the harrying of Ireland

Khmelnytsky Uprising

Khmelnytsky Uprising

The Khmelnytsky Uprising, was a Cossack rebellion in the Ukraine between the years 1648–1657 which turned into a Ukrainian war of liberation from Poland...

 (1648–1654)

• With Fire and Sword
  With Fire and Sword (film)
  With Fire and Sword is the English title of the Polish film Ogniem i Mieczem, a historical drama directed by Jerzy Hoffman, released in 1999...
  
  (1999)
• Bohdan-Zinovii Hmelnytskyi (2007)

Polish Commonwealth Wars (1648–1672)

• Ogniem i Mieczem (With Fire and Sword) (1999) civil war - Cossaks revolt 1648-1651
• Potop
  The Deluge (film)
  The Deluge is the English title of the Polish film Potop, a historical drama directed by Jerzy Hoffman, released in 1974. The film is based on the novel by the Nobel Prize-winning Polish author Henryk Sienkiewicz...
  
  (The Deluge) (1974) Second Northern War 1655-1660
• Pan Wolodyjowski (Colonel Wolodyjowski) (1969) 1660-1672 - skirmishs with Tartars and the beginning of Turkish - Polish Commonwealth war 1672-1676

Great Northern War

Great Northern War

The Great Northern War was a conflict in which a coalition led by the Tsardom of Russia successfully contested the supremacy of the Swedish Empire in northern Central Europe and Eastern Europe. The initial leaders of the anti-Swedish alliance were Peter I the Great of Russia, Frederick IV of...

 (1700–1721)

• Karl XII (1925)
• Pyotr perviy (Petr the First) (1937–1938) (Петр первый in Russia)
• Kalabaliken i Bender (1983)
• Sluga Gosudarev (The Sovereigns Servant
  The Sovereign's Servant
  The Sovereign's Servant , is a 2007 Russian war film, depicting the Great Northern War, and particularly events focusing around the Battle of Poltava.-Criticism:...
  
  ) (2007) (СЛУГА ГОСУДАРЕВ in Russia)

Seven Years' War

Seven Years' War

The Seven Years' War was a global military war between 1756 and 1763, involving most of the great powers of the time and affecting Europe, North America, Central America, the West African coast, India, and the Philippines...

 (1756–1763) and French and Indian War

French and Indian War

The French and Indian War is the common American name for the war between Great Britain and France in North America from 1754 to 1763. In 1756, the war erupted into the world-wide conflict known as the Seven Years' War and thus came to be regarded as the North American theater of that war...

 (1754–1763)

• Barry Lyndon
  Barry Lyndon
  Barry Lyndon is a 1975 British-American period romantic war film produced, written, and directed by Stanley Kubrick based on the 1844 novel The Luck of Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray which recounts the exploits of an 18th century Irish adventurer...
  
  (1975)
• The Deerslayer and Chingachgook
  The Deerslayer and Chingachgook
  The Deerslayer and Chingachgook is the feature-length first part of the two-part 1920 German adventure film Lederstrumpf , directed by Arthur Wellin and featuring Béla Lugosi. It is based on the novel The Deerslayer by James Fenimore Cooper...
  
  (1920) German silent film
• The Last of the Mohicans (1920) American film
• The Last of the Mohicans (1920) German film
• The Last of the Mohicans
  The Last of the Mohicans (serial)
  The Last of the Mohicans is a 1932 Mascot movie serial based on the novel The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper.-Cast:*Harry Carey as Natty Bumppo/Hawkeye*Hobart Bosworth as Chingachgook, 'the Sagamore'*Frank Coghlan Jr...
  
  (1932), serial
• The Last of the Mohicans
  The Last of the Mohicans (1936 film)
  The Last of the Mohicans is a 1936 adventure film adaptation of James Fenimore Cooper's novel of the same name starring Randolph Scott, Binnie Barnes, Henry Wilcoxon and Bruce Cabot....
  
  (1936)
• The Last of the Mohicans
  The Last of the Mohicans (1992 film)
  The Last of the Mohicans is a 1992 historical epic film set in 1757 during the French and Indian War and produced by Morgan Creek Pictures. It was directed by Michael Mann and based on James Fenimore Cooper's novel of the same name, although it owes more to George B. Seitz's 1936 film adaptation...
  
  (1992)
• Leatherstocking serial, silent
• Nouvelle-France
  Nouvelle-France (film)
  Nouvelle-France is a 2004 historical romance directed by Jean Beaudin, written by Pierre Billon and starring Noémie Godin-Vigneau, David La Haye, Juliette Gosselin, Sébastien Huberdeau, Gérard Depardieu, Bianca Gervais, Irène Jacob, Pierre Lebeau, Vincent Perez, Isabel Richer, Tim Roth, Jason...
  
  (The Battle of the Brave) (2004)
• Northwest Passage (1940)
• Unconquered
  Unconquered
  Unconquered is a 1947 adventure film produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille and released by Paramount. The film depicts the violent struggles between American colonists and Native Americans on the western frontier in the mid-18th century during the time of Pontiac's Rebellion, primarily around...
  
  (1947)

American Revolutionary War

American Revolutionary War

The American Revolutionary War , the American War of Independence, or simply the Revolutionary War, began as a war between the Kingdom of Great Britain and thirteen British colonies in North America, and ended in a global war between several European great powers.The war was the result of the...

 (1775–1783)

• 1776
  1776 (musical)
  1776 is a musical with music and lyrics by Sherman Edwards and a book by Peter Stone. The story is based on the events surrounding the signing of the Declaration of Independence...
  
  (1972), from the musical of the same name
• April Morning (1988), made for TV
• The Battle of Bunker Hill (1911)
• Benedict Arnold: A Question of Honor
  Benedict Arnold: A Question of Honor
  Benedict Arnold: A Question of Honor is a 2003 American television film directed by Mikael Salomon and starring Aidan Quinn, Kelsey Grammer, Flora Montgomery and John Light. It portrays the career of Benedict Arnold in the American Revolutionary War and his dramatic switch in 1780 from fighting for...
  
  (2002), A&E
  A&E Network
  The A&E Network is a United States-based cable and satellite television network with headquarters in New York City and offices in Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, London, Los Angeles and Stamford. A&E also airs in Canada and Latin America. Initially named the Arts & Entertainment Network, A&E launched...
  
   film
• The Crossing (2000), A&E film
• The Devil's Disciple
  The Devil's Disciple
  The Devil's Disciple is an 1897 play written by Irish dramatist, George Bernard Shaw. The play is Shaw's eighth, and after Richard Mansfield's original 1897 American production it was his first financial success, which helped to affirm his career as a playwright...
  
  (1959)
• Drums Along the Mohawk
  Drums Along the Mohawk
  Drums Along the Mohawk is a 1939 historical Technicolor film based upon a 1936 novel of the same name by American author, Walter D. Edmonds. The film was produced by Darryl F. Zanuck and directed by John Ford. Henry Fonda and Claudette Colbert portray settlers on the New York frontier during the...
  
  (1939)
• John Adams (TV miniseries)
  John Adams (TV miniseries)
  John Adams is a 2008 American television miniseries chronicling most of President John Adams's political life and his role in the founding of the United States. Paul Giamatti portrays John Adams. The miniseries was directed by Tom Hooper. Kirk Ellis wrote the screenplay based on the book John...
  
  (2008)
• Mary Silliman's War (1995)
• Johnny Tremain
  Johnny Tremain (film)
  Johnny Tremain is a 1957 film made by Walt Disney Productions, based on the 1944 Newbery Medal-winning children's novel of the same name by Esther Forbes, retelling the story of the years in Boston, Massachusetts prior to the outbreak of the American Revolution. The movie was directed by Robert...
  
  (1957)
• The Patriot
  The Patriot (2000 film)
  The Patriot is a 2000 historical war film directed by Roland Emmerich, written by Robert Rodat, and starring Mel Gibson, Chris Cooper, and Heath Ledger. It was produced by the Mutual Film Company and Centropolis Entertainment and was distributed by Columbia Pictures...
  
  (2000), depiction of the Battle of Camden
  Battle of Camden
  The Battle of Camden was a major victory for the British in the Southern theater of the American Revolutionary War...
  
  , Battle of Elizabeth town, Siege of Yorktown
  Siege of Yorktown
  The Siege of Yorktown, Battle of Yorktown, or Surrender of Yorktown in 1781 was a decisive victory by a combined assault of American forces led by General George Washington and French forces led by the Comte de Rochambeau over a British Army commanded by Lieutenant General Lord Cornwallis...
  
  , Militia actions and Battle of Cowpens
  Battle of Cowpens
  The Battle of Cowpens was a decisive victory by Patriot Revolutionary forces under Brigadier General Daniel Morgan, in the Southern campaign of the American Revolutionary War...
  
  
• Revolution
  Revolution (1985 film)
  Revolution is a 1985 film directed by Hugh Hudson, written by Robert Dillon and starring Al Pacino, Helen Porter, Donald Sutherland, Nastassja Kinski, Joan Plowright, Dave King, Annie Lennox, Danny Turner, Steven Berkoff, Graham Greene, and Robbie Coltrane....
  
  (1985)
• Valley Forge
  Valley Forge (film)
  Valley Forge is a 1975 videotaped adaptation of the 1934 Broadway play by Maxwell Anderson about the American Revolutionary War encampment at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, shot partly on location in Canada. This television version was directed by Fielder Cook. The play starred Philip Merivale. The...
  
  (1975), made for TV

French Revolutionary Wars

French Revolutionary Wars

The French Revolutionary Wars were a series of major conflicts, from 1792 until 1802, fought between the French Revolutionary government and several European states...

 (1792–1802)

• Hornblower
  Hornblower (TV series)
  Hornblower is the umbrella title of a series of television drama programmes based on C. S. Forester's novels about the fictional character Horatio Hornblower, a Royal Naval officer during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars....
  
   (1998–2003 TV series), first four episodes (The Duel, The Fire Ships, The Duchess and the Devil, The Wrong War)
• Napoleon
  Napoléon (miniseries)
  Napoleon is a historical miniseries which explored the life of Napoleon Bonaparte. In 2002, it was the most expensive television miniseries in Europe, costing the equivalent of $US46,330,000 to produce. The miniseries covered Napoleon's military successes and failures, including the Battles of...
  
   (2002) (TV mini-series), early half of first episode showing Napoleon's first Italian campaign and the Battle of Arcole
• Napoleon and Josephine: A Love Story (1987) (TV mini-series), early segment of miniseries showing Napoleon's Egyptian campaign

Napoleonic Wars

Napoleonic Wars

The Napoleonic Wars were a series of wars declared against Napoleon's French Empire by opposing coalitions that ran from 1803 to 1815. As a continuation of the wars sparked by the French Revolution of 1789, they revolutionised European armies and played out on an unprecedented scale, mainly due to...

 (1803–1815)

• Austerlitz
  Austerlitz (film)
  Austerlitz is a 1960 film directed by Abel Gance and starring Jean Marais, Rossano Brazzi, Jack Palance, Claudia Cardinale, Vittorio de Sica, Orson Welles, Leslie Caron and Elvire Popesco. Pierre Mondy portrays Napoleon in this film about one of his greatest victories at the Battle of Austerlitz...
  
  (1960), depiction of the Battle of Austerlitz
  Battle of Austerlitz
  The Battle of Austerlitz, also known as the Battle of the Three Emperors, was one of Napoleon's greatest victories, where the French Empire effectively crushed the Third Coalition...
  
  
• Captain Horatio Hornblower
  Captain Horatio Hornblower
  Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. is a 1951 naval adventure film. It was directed by Raoul Walsh and stars Gregory Peck, Virginia Mayo, Robert Beatty and Terence Morgan.It was based upon three of C. S...
  
  (1951), naval warfare
  Naval warfare
  Naval warfare is combat in and on seas, oceans, or any other major bodies of water such as large lakes and wide rivers.-History:Mankind has fought battles on the sea for more than 3,000 years. Land warfare would seem, initially, to be irrelevant and entirely removed from warfare on the open ocean,...
  
  
• Hornblower
  Hornblower (TV series)
  Hornblower is the umbrella title of a series of television drama programmes based on C. S. Forester's novels about the fictional character Horatio Hornblower, a Royal Naval officer during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars....
  
   (1998–2003 TV series) – last four episodes (Mutiny, Retribution, Loyalty, Duty)
• Hussar Ballad (1962) ("Гусарская баллада" in Russia), musical comedy set in Napoleon's invasion of Russia
• Kolberg
  Kolberg (film)
  Kolberg is a 1945 German propaganda film directed by Veit Harlan and Wolfgang Liebeneiner. It opened on January 30, 1945 simultaneously in Berlin and to the crew of the naval base at La Rochelle. It was also screened in the Reich chancellery after the broadcast of Hitler's last radio address on...
  
  (1945), German film about the siege of Kolberg in 1807
• Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
  Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
  Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World is a 2003 film directed by Peter Weir, starring Russell Crowe as Jack Aubrey, with Paul Bettany as Stephen Maturin and released by 20th Century Fox, Miramax Films and Universal Studios...
  
  (2003), naval warfare
• Napoléon (1927), depiction of the Siege of Toulon
  Siege of Toulon
  The Siege of Toulon was an early Republican victory over a Royalist rebellion in the Southern French city of Toulon. It is also often known as the Fall of Toulon.-Context:...
  
  
• Napoleon
  Napoléon (miniseries)
  Napoleon is a historical miniseries which explored the life of Napoleon Bonaparte. In 2002, it was the most expensive television miniseries in Europe, costing the equivalent of $US46,330,000 to produce. The miniseries covered Napoleon's military successes and failures, including the Battles of...
  
  (2002) (TV mini-series)
• Napoleon and Love
  Napoleon and Love
  Napoleon and Love was a 1974 British television series originally aired on ITV and lasting for 9 episodes from 5 March to 30 April 1974. The series starred Ian Holm in the title role as Napoleon I and depicts his relationships with the woman who featured in his life as a backdrop to his rise and...
  
   (1974) Napoleons relationships with his women as a backdrop to his rise and fall.
• Monsieur N (2003) Depicts Napoleon's life while imprisoned on St Helena, an investigating British officer later begins to doubt the official story.
• Sharpe
  Sharpe (TV series)
  Sharpe is a British series of television dramas starring Sean Bean about Richard Sharpe, a fictional British soldier in the Napoleonic Wars. Sharpe is the hero of a number of novels by Bernard Cornwell; most, though not all, of the episodes are based on the books...
  
  (1993–2006) (TV series)
• War and Peace
  War and Peace (1956 film)
  War and Peace is the first English-language film version of the novel War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. It is an American/Italian version, directed by King Vidor and produced by Dino De Laurentiis and Carlo Ponti. The music score was by Nino Rota and the cinematography by Jack Cardiff...
  
  (1956, USA)
• War and Peace
  War and Peace (1968 film)
  War and Peace is a Soviet-produced film adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's novel War and Peace. Sergei Bondarchuk directed the film, co-wrote the screenplay and also acted in the lead role of Pierre. It was produced over a seven year period and released in four parts between 1965 and...
  
  (1968, USSR) (Война и мир in Russia)
• Waterloo (1970), depiction of the Battle of Waterloo
  Battle of Waterloo
  The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday 18 June 1815 near Waterloo in present-day Belgium, then part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands...
  
  
• The Duellists
  The Duellists
  The Duellists is a 1977 historical drama film that was Ridley Scott's first feature film as a director. It won the Best Debut Film award at the 1977 Cannes Film Festival...
  
  (1978) Napoleonic war film
• The Emperor's New Clothes (2001 film) Adaptation
  Adaptation
  An adaptation in biology is a trait with a current functional role in the life history of an organism that is maintained and evolved by means of natural selection. An adaptation refers to both the current state of being adapted and to the dynamic evolutionary process that leads to the adaptation....
  
   of the novel 'The Death of Napoleon'. A what if tale of Napoleon's exile at St. Helena.

War of 1812

War of 1812

The War of 1812 was a military conflict fought between the forces of the United States of America and those of the British Empire. The Americans declared war in 1812 for several reasons, including trade restrictions because of Britain's ongoing war with France, impressment of American merchant...

 

• The Buccaneer
  The Buccaneer (1938 film)
  The Buccaneer is a 1938 American adventure film made by Paramount Pictures based on Jean Lafitte and the Battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812. It was produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille from a screenplay by Harold Lamb, Edwin Justus Mayer and C. Gardner Sullivan adapted by Jeanie...
  
  (1938)
• The Buccaneer
  The Buccaneer (1958 film)
  The Buccaneer is a 1958 War film, made by Paramount Pictures like the 1938 version and shot in Technicolor and VistaVision. It takes place during the War of 1812, and tells a heavily fictionalized version of how the pirate Jean Lafitte helped in the Battle of New Orleans and how he had to choose...
  
  (1958), depiction of the Battle of New Orleans
• Mutiny! (1952), depiction of naval warfare
• North and South in 1812,

Texas War of Independence

Texas Revolution

The Texas Revolution or Texas War of Independence was an armed conflict between Mexico and settlers in the Texas portion of the Mexican state Coahuila y Tejas. The war lasted from October 2, 1835 to April 21, 1836...

 (1835–1836)

• The Alamo
  The Alamo (1936 film)
  The Alamo: Shrine of Texas Liberty is a 1938 American black-and-white war film directed by Stuart Paton and produced by H. W. Kier and Norman Sheldon. The film was a two-reel short produced in a couple of weeks San Antonio, Texas. The film was done in pantomime and audio was done by narration and...
  
  (1936)
• The Alamo
  The Alamo (1960 film)
  The Alamo is a 1960 American historical epic released by United Artists. The film was directed by John Wayne, who also starred as Davy Crockett. The cast also includes Richard Widmark as Jim Bowie and Laurence Harvey as William B...
  
  (1960)
• The Alamo: Thirteen Days to Glory
  The Alamo: Thirteen Days to Glory
  The Alamo: Thirteen Days to Glory is a made-for-TV film starring Brian Keith as Davy Crockett, James Arness as James Bowie, Alec Baldwin as Col. Travis, Raul Julia as Santa Anna, and a single scene cameo by Lorne Greene as Sam Houston...
  
  (1987)
• The Alamo (2004), depiction of the the siege of the Alamo and ensuing defeat of Santa Anna at Battle of San Jacinto
  Battle of San Jacinto
  The Battle of San Jacinto, fought on April 21, 1836, in present-day Harris County, Texas, was the decisive battle of the Texas Revolution. Led by General Sam Houston, the Texian Army engaged and defeated General Antonio López de Santa Anna's Mexican forces in a fight that lasted just eighteen...
  
  
• Texas (1994), television film
• Heroes of the Alamo
  Heroes of the Alamo
  Heroes of the Alamo is a low-budget retelling of the events of the Texas Revolution and the Battle of the Alamo. It was produced by Anthony J. Xydias and reuses the battle scenes of his 1926 silent film Davy Crockett at the Fall of the Alamo...
  
  (1937)
• The Last Command
  The Last Command (film)
  The Last Command is a 1928 silent film directed by Josef von Sternberg, and written by John F. Goodrich and Herman J. Mankiewicz, from a story by Lajos Biró. Star Emil Jannings won the very first Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his performances in this film and The Way of All...
  
  (1955)
• Two for Texas (1998)

Opium Wars

Opium Wars

The Opium Wars, also known as the Anglo-Chinese Wars, divided into the First Opium War from 1839 to 1842 and the Second Opium War from 1856 to 1860, were the climax of disputes over trade and diplomatic relations between China under the Qing Dynasty and the British Empire...

 (1839–1842, 1856–1860)

• Huo shao yuan ming yuan (The Burning of the Imperial Palace) (1983) (TV mini-series), Second Opium War
• The Opium War
  The Opium War (film)
  The Opium War is a 1997 Chinese historical epic film directed by Xie Jin. The winner of the 1997 Golden Rooster and 1998 Hundred Flowers Awards for Best Picture, the film was screened in several international film festivals, notably Cannes and Montreal...
  
  (1997), First Opium War

Mexican–American War

Mexican–American War

The Mexican–American War, also known as the First American Intervention, the Mexican War, or the U.S.–Mexican War, was an armed conflict between the United States and Mexico from 1846 to 1848 in the wake of the 1845 U.S...

 (1846–1848)

• North and South
  North and South (TV miniseries)
  North and South is the title of three American television miniseries broadcast on the ABC network in 1985, 1986, and 1994. Set before, during, and immediately after the American Civil War, they are based on the 1980s trilogy of novels North and South by John Jakes. The 1985 first installment, North...
  
  (TV miniseries, 1985–1986), depiction of the Battle of Churubusco
  Battle of Churubusco
  The Battle of Churubusco took place on August 20, 1847, in the immediate aftermath of the Battle of Contreras during the Mexican-American War. After defeating the Mexican army at Churubusco, the U.S. Army was only 5 miles away from Mexico City, the capital of the nation...
  
  
• One Man's Hero
  One Man's Hero
  One Man's Hero is a 1999 film starring Tom Berenger and directed by Lance Hool. The film has the distinction of being the last one released by Orion Pictures....
  
   (1999), starring Tom Berenger and focusing on the Batallón de San Patricio (Saint Patrick's Battalion
  Saint Patrick's Battalion
  The Saint Patrick's Battalion , formed and led by Jon Riley, was a unit of 175 to several hundred immigrants and expatriates of European descent who fought as part of the Mexican Army against the United States in the Mexican-American War of 1846 to 1848. Most of the battalion's members had...
  
  ) during the American invasion of Mexico

Crimean War

Crimean War

The Crimean War was a conflict fought between the Russian Empire and an alliance of the French Empire, the British Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and the Kingdom of Sardinia. The war was part of a long-running contest between the major European powers for influence over territories of the declining...

 (1853–1856)

• The Charge of the Light Brigade
  The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936 film)
  The Charge of the Light Brigade is a 1936 historical film made by Warner Bros. It was directed by Michael Curtiz and produced by Samuel Bischoff, with Hal B. Wallis as executive producer, from a screenplay by Michael Jacoby and Rowland Leigh, from a story by Michael Jacoby based on the poem The...
  
  (1936), American version directed by Michael Curtiz
  Michael Curtiz
  Michael Curtiz was an Academy award winning Hungarian-American film director. He had early creditsas Mihály Kertész and Michael Kertész...
  
  , depiction of the Battle of Balaclava
  Battle of Balaclava
  The Battle of Balaclava, fought on 25 October 1854 during the Crimean War, was part of the Anglo-French-Turkish campaign to capture the port and fortress of Sevastopol, Russia's principal naval base on the Black Sea...
  
  
• The Charge of the Light Brigade
  The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968 film)
  The Charge of the Light Brigade is a 1968 British war film made by Woodfall Film Productions and distributed by United Artists . It was directed by Tony Richardson and produced by Neil Hartley....
  
  (1968), British version directed by Tony Richardson
  Tony Richardson
  Cecil Antonio "Tony" Richardson was an English theatre and film director and producer.-Early life:Richardson was born in Shipley, Yorkshire in 1928, the son of Elsie Evans and Clarence Albert Richardson, a chemist...
  
  , depiction of the Battle of Balaclava

Indian Rebellion of 1857

Indian Rebellion of 1857

The Indian Rebellion of 1857 began as a mutiny of sepoys of the British East India Company's army on 10 May 1857, in the town of Meerut, and soon escalated into other mutinies and civilian rebellions largely in the upper Gangetic plain and central India, with the major hostilities confined to...

 and subsequent colonial conflicts in India (1857)

• Gunga Din
  Gunga Din (film)
  Gunga Din is a 1939 RKO adventure film directed by George Stevens, loosely based on the poem of the same name by Rudyard Kipling, combined with elements of his novel Soldiers Three...
  
  (1939), suppression of the Thugees and local rebellions
• Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935), about suppressing rebellious Indians towards the beginning of the 20th century
• Mangal Pandey: The Rising
  Mangal Pandey: The Rising
  Mangal Pandey: The Rising or The Rising: Ballad of Mangal Pandey is an Indian movie based on the life of Mangal Pandey, an Indian soldier who is known for his role in the Indian Mutiny of 1857. It is directed by Ketan Mehta, produced by Bobby Bedi, and with a screenplay by Farrukh Dhondy...
  
  , about the 1857 mutiny
• Jhansi Ki Rani (1956) about the 1857 mutiny
• Kranti
  Kranti
  Kranti is a 1981 Indian Hindi film. Produced and directed by Manoj Kumar, starring Manoj Kumar along with a very large cast consisting of Dilip Kumar, Shashi Kapoor, Hema Malini, Shatrughan Sinha, Parveen Babi, Sarika, Prem Chopra, Madan Puri and Paintlal. The story was written by Javed Akhtar...
  
  , drama about the 1857 war of independence
• Junoon
  Junoon (1978 film)
  The soundtrack features 4 songs, composed by Vanraj Bhatia, with original lyrics from Yogesh Praveen and other lyrics by Amir Khusro, Jigar Moradabadi and Sant Kabir.#"Khusro rain piya ki jaagi pee ke sang" – Jamil Ahmad...
  
  (1979) about the 1857 mutiny
• The Chess Players (1977) about the 1857 mutiny
• Wee Willie Winkie
  Wee Willie Winkie
  "Wee Willie Winkie" is a Scottish nursery rhyme, whose titular figure has become popular the world over as a personification of sleep. The poem, written by William Miller and titled "Willie Winkie", was first published in Whistle-binkie: Stories for the Fireside in 1841...
  
  (1936), features British forces suppressing Indian rebels, but the focus on child star Shirley Temple may cause many to exclude this film from a 'war film' category)

American Civil War

American Civil War

The American Civil War was a civil war fought in the United States of America. In response to the election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States, 11 southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America ; the other 25...

 (1861–1865)

(Also see American Civil War films, Cinema and television about the American Civil War

Cinema and television about the American Civil War

-Before 1920:*Barbara Frietchie: The Story of a Patriotic American Woman *The Guerrilla *The Fugitive *The House with Closed Shutters *In the Border States *The Battle , directed by D.W...

)

• The Battle of Gettysburg
  The Battle of Gettysburg (1913 film)
  The Battle of Gettysburg is a 1913 silent drama film directed by Charles Giblyn and Thomas H. Ince. The film is now considered to be lost, although some battlefield footage was used by Mack Sennett in his comedy Cohen Saves the Flag, which was shot on location alongside this production. However...
  
  (1913)
• Birth of a Nation
  The Birth of a Nation
  The Birth of a Nation is a 1915 American silent film directed by D. W. Griffith and based on the novel and play The Clansman, both by Thomas Dixon, Jr. Griffith also co-wrote the screenplay , and co-produced the film . It was released on February 8, 1915...
  
  (1915), first English Language epic film
• The General
  The General (1927 film)
  The General is a 1926 American silent comedy film released by United Artists inspired by the Great Locomotive Chase, which happened in 1862. Buster Keaton starred in the film and co-directed it with Clyde Bruckman...
  
  (1927), a comedy starring Buster Keaton
  Buster Keaton
  Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton was an American comic actor, filmmaker, producer and writer. He was best known for his silent films, in which his trademark was physical comedy with a consistently stoic, deadpan expression, earning him the nickname "The Great Stone Face".Keaton was recognized as the...
  
  
• Gone with the Wind
  Gone with the Wind (film)
  Gone with the Wind is a 1939 American historical epic film adapted from Margaret Mitchell's Pulitzer-winning 1936 novel of the same name. It was produced by David O. Selznick and directed by Victor Fleming from a screenplay by Sidney Howard...
  
  (1939)
• The Red Badge of Courage
  The Red Badge of Courage
  The Red Badge of Courage is a war novel by American author Stephen Crane . Taking place during the American Civil War, the story is about a young private of the Union Army, Henry Fleming, who flees from the field of battle. Overcome with shame, he longs for a wound—a "red badge of courage"—to...
  
  (1951)
• The Battle of Gettysburg
  The Battle of Gettysburg (1955 film)
  The Battle of Gettysburg is a 1955 American documentary film about the Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War. The film was nominated for two Academy Awards....
  
  (1956)
• The Great Locomotive Chase
  The Great Locomotive Chase (film)
  The Great Locomotive Chase is a 1956 Walt Disney Productions CinemaScope adventure film based on the real Great Locomotive Chase that occurred in 1862 during the American Civil War. The film stars Fess Parker as James J...
  
  (1956), Andrews' Raiders
• The Horse Soldiers
  The Horse Soldiers
  The Horse Soldiers is a 1959 DeLuxe Color war film, set in the American Civil War, directed by John Ford, starring John Wayne, William Holden and Constance Towers...
  
  (1959)
• Johnny Shiloh (1963), Wonderful World Of Disney
• Advance to the Rear (1964)
• Major Dundee
  Major Dundee
  Major Dundee is a 1965 Western film written by Harry Julian Fink and directed by Sam Peckinpah. It starred Charlton Heston and Richard Harris as officers from opposing sides in the American Civil War who band together to hunt down a band of Apaches....
  
  (1965)
• Shenandoah
  Shenandoah (film)
  Shenandoah is a 1965 American Civil War film starring James Stewart, Doug McClure, Glenn Corbett, Patrick Wayne, and Katharine Ross. The picture was directed by Andrew V. McLaglen. Though set during the American Civil War, the film's strong antiwar and humanitarian themes resonated with audiences...
  
  (1965)
• Alvarez Kelly
  Alvarez Kelly
  Alvarez Kelly is a 1966 war film set in the American Civil War. It starred William Holden and Richard Widmark. The film was based on the real-life Beefsteak Raid of September 1864.-Plot:...
  
  (1966)
• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
  The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
  The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is a 1966 Italian epic spaghetti western film directed by Sergio Leone, starring Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, and Eli Wallach in the title roles. The screenplay was written by Age & Scarpelli, Luciano Vincenzoni and Leone, based on a story by Vincenzoni and Leone...
  
  (1966)
• The Undefeated
  The Undefeated (1969 film)
  The Undefeated is a 1969 American Western film directed by Andrew V. McLaglen and John Wayne and starring John Wayne and Rock Hudson. The film portrays events surrounding the French Intervention in Mexico and is also loosely based on General J. O...
  
  (1969)
• The Andersonville Trial
  The Andersonville Trial
  The Andersonville Trial was a television adaptation of a 1959 hit Broadway play by Saul Levitt, presented as an episode of PBS's 1970-71 season of Hollywood Television Theatre....
  
  (1970), made for TV
• The Beguiled
  The Beguiled
  The Beguiled is a 1971 drama film directed by Don Siegel, starring Clint Eastwood and Geraldine Page. The script was written by Albert Maltz and is based on the 1966 Southern Gothic novel written by Thomas P. Cullinan, originally titled A Painted Devil...
  
  (1971)
• The Outlaw Josey Wales
  The Outlaw Josey Wales
  The Outlaw Josey Wales is a 1976 American revisionist Western film set during and after the end of the American Civil War. It was directed by and starred Clint Eastwood , with Chief Dan George, Sondra Locke, Sam Bottoms, and Geraldine Keams.The film was adapted by Sonia Chernus and Philip Kaufman...
  
  (1976)
• North and South
  North and South (TV miniseries)
  North and South is the title of three American television miniseries broadcast on the ABC network in 1985, 1986, and 1994. Set before, during, and immediately after the American Civil War, they are based on the 1980s trilogy of novels North and South by John Jakes. The 1985 first installment, North...
  
  (TV miniseries, 1985–86) – Book II episodes, depictions of the battles of Bull Run I
  First Battle of Bull Run
  First Battle of Bull Run, also known as First Manassas , was fought on July 21, 1861, in Prince William County, Virginia, near the City of Manassas...
  
  , Antietam
  Battle of Antietam
  The Battle of Antietam , fought on September 17, 1862, near Sharpsburg, Maryland, and Antietam Creek, as part of the Maryland Campaign, was the first major battle in the American Civil War to take place on Northern soil. It was the bloodiest single-day battle in American history, with about 23,000...
  
  , Wilderness
  Battle of the Wilderness
  The Battle of the Wilderness, fought May 5–7, 1864, was the first battle of Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's 1864 Virginia Overland Campaign against Gen. Robert E. Lee and the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. Both armies suffered heavy casualties, a harbinger of a bloody war of attrition by...
  
   and Petersburg III
  Battle of Petersburg III
  The Third Battle of Petersburg, also known as the Breakthrough at Petersburg or the Fall of Petersburg, was a decisive Union assault on the Confederate trenches, ending the ten-month Siege of Petersburg and leading to the fall of Petersburg and Richmond, Virginia.-Fort Mahone:The Union IX Corps...
  
  
• Glory (1989), depictions of the Battle of Antietam
  Battle of Antietam
  The Battle of Antietam , fought on September 17, 1862, near Sharpsburg, Maryland, and Antietam Creek, as part of the Maryland Campaign, was the first major battle in the American Civil War to take place on Northern soil. It was the bloodiest single-day battle in American history, with about 23,000...
  
   and the Second Battle of Fort Wagner
• Dances with Wolves
  Dances with Wolves
  Dances with Wolves is a 1990 epic western film directed by and starring Kevin Costner. It is a film adaptation of the 1988 book of the same name by Michael Blake and tells the story of a Union Army Lieutenant who travels to the American frontier to find a military post, and his dealings with a...
  
  (1990), early scenes
• Gettysburg (1993), depiction of the Battle of Gettysburg
  Battle of Gettysburg
  The Battle of Gettysburg , was fought July 1–3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The battle with the largest number of casualties in the American Civil War, it is often described as the war's turning point. Union Maj. Gen. George Gordon Meade's Army of the Potomac...
  
  
• Class of '61
  Class of '61
  Class of '61 is a 1993 television film produced by Steven Spielberg as a projected television series about the American Civil War. The film was filmed in Charleston, South Carolina and Atlanta and was the first collaboration between Spielberg and cinematographer Janusz Kaminski.-Plot:The film...
  
  (1993)
• Enemy Gold
  Enemy Gold
  Enemy Gold is a 1993 action/adventure film starring Bruce Penhall, Mark Barriere and Suzi Simpson. It was directed by Christian Drew Sidaris and written by Wess Rahn and Christian Drew Sidaris....
  
  (1993), opening Scene
• Andersonville
  Andersonville (film)
  Andersonville is a film directed by John Frankenheimer about a group of Union soldiers during the American Civil War who are captured by the Confederates and sent to an infamous Confederate prison camp....
  
  (1996), made for TV
• The Hunley
  The Hunley
  The Hunley is a 1999 television movie directed by John Gray and starring Armand Assante, Donald Sutherland, Alex Jennings, Michael Dolan and Christopher Bauer. The film is based on the true story of the H. L. Hunley submarine and the Action of 17 February 1864....
  
  (1997)
• Ride with the Devil (1999)
• Gods and Generals
  Gods and Generals (film)
  Gods and Generals is a 2003 American film based on the novel Gods and Generals by Jeffrey Shaara. It depicts events that take place prior to those shown in the 1993 film Gettysburg, which was based on The Killer Angels, a novel by Shaara's father, Michael...
  
  (2003)
• Wicked Spring (2003), the Battle of the Wilderness
  Battle of the Wilderness
  The Battle of the Wilderness, fought May 5–7, 1864, was the first battle of Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's 1864 Virginia Overland Campaign against Gen. Robert E. Lee and the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. Both armies suffered heavy casualties, a harbinger of a bloody war of attrition by...
  
  
• Cold Mountain
  Cold Mountain (film)
  Cold Mountain is a 2003 war drama film written and directed by Anthony Minghella. The film is based on the bestselling novel of the same name by Charles Frazier...
  
  (2003), depiction of the Battle of the Crater
  Battle of the Crater
  The Battle of the Crater was a battle of the American Civil War, part of the Siege of Petersburg. It took place on July 30, 1864, between the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, commanded by General Robert E. Lee and the Union Army of the Potomac, commanded by Major General George G. Meade The...
  
  
• The Colt
  The Colt (film)
  The Colt is a 2005 television movie made for Hallmark Channel. The film is set during the American Civil War, and is based on the short story by Nobel Prize winner Mikhail Sholokhov.-Plot:...
  
  (2005)
• Sahara
  Sahara (2005 film)
  Sahara is a 2005 action-comedy adventure film directed by Breck Eisner and based on the best-selling book of the same name by Clive Cussler...
  
  (2005), opening scene
• Ambrose Bierce: Civil War Stories (2006), depiction of "Bitter Bierce" and a dramatization of three Civil War tales
• The Last Confederate: The Story of Robert Adams
  The Last Confederate: The Story of Robert Adams
  The Last Confederate: The Story of Robert Adams is a 2007 film, starring Julian Adams, Amy Redford, Mickey Rooney, Tippi Hedren about the life of Confederate Captain Robert Adams II. It was released in 2007 by ThinkFilm, and garnered 10 awards on the film festival circuit.-External links:**** *...
  
  (2007)

Franco-Mexican War

French intervention in Mexico

The French intervention in Mexico , also known as The Maximilian Affair, War of the French Intervention, and The Franco-Mexican War, was an invasion of Mexico by an expeditionary force sent by the Second French Empire, supported in the beginning by the United Kingdom and the Kingdom of Spain...

 (1861–1867)

• Vera Cruz
  Vera Cruz (film)
  Vera Cruz is a 1954 American Technicolor Western starring Gary Cooper and Burt Lancaster, and featuring Denise Darcel, Sara Montiel, and Cesar Romero. The movie was directed by Robert Aldrich from a story by Borden Chase...
  
  (1954)
• Major Dundee
  Major Dundee
  Major Dundee is a 1965 Western film written by Harry Julian Fink and directed by Sam Peckinpah. It starred Charlton Heston and Richard Harris as officers from opposing sides in the American Civil War who band together to hunt down a band of Apaches....
  
  (1965)
• The Undefeated
  The Undefeated (1969 film)
  The Undefeated is a 1969 American Western film directed by Andrew V. McLaglen and John Wayne and starring John Wayne and Rock Hudson. The film portrays events surrounding the French Intervention in Mexico and is also loosely based on General J. O...
  
  (1969)
• Two Mules for Sister Sara
  Two Mules for Sister Sara
  Two Mules for Sister Sara is an American-Mexican western film starring Clint Eastwood and Shirley MacLaine set during the French intervention in Mexico. The film was released in 1970 and directed by Don Siegel. It was to have been the first in a five-year exclusive association between Universal...
  
  (1970)

Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878)

• The Turkish Gambit
  The Turkish Gambit (film)
  The Turkish Gambit is a 2005 Russian film, an adaptation of Boris Akunin's popular novel The Turkish Gambit featuring detective Erast Fandorin. It was directed by Dzhanik Faiziyev, and starred Yegor Beroyev, Marat Basharov and Olga Krasko. Akunin adapted his own novel...
  
  (2005)

Anglo-Zulu War

Anglo-Zulu War

The Anglo-Zulu War was fought in 1879 between the British Empire and the Zulu Kingdom.Following the imperialist scheme by which Lord Carnarvon had successfully brought about federation in Canada, it was thought that a similar plan might succeed with the various African kingdoms, tribal areas and...

 (1879)

• Zulu
  Zulu (film)
  Zulu is a 1964 historical war film depicting the Battle of Rorke's Drift between the British Army and the Zulus in January 1879, during the Anglo-Zulu War....
  
   (1964), depiction of the Battle of Rorke's Drift
  Rorke's Drift
  The Battle of Rorke's Drift, also known as the Defence of Rorke's Drift, was a battle in the Anglo-Zulu War. The defence of the mission station of Rorke's Drift, under the command of Lieutenant John Chard of the Royal Engineers, immediately followed the British Army's defeat at the Battle of...
  
  
• Zulu Dawn
  Zulu Dawn
  Zulu Dawn is a 1979 war film about the historical Battle of Isandlwana between British and Zulu forces in 1879 in South Africa. The screenplay was by Cy Endfield, from his book, and Anthony Story. The film was directed by Douglas Hickox...
  
   (1979), depiction of the Battle of Isandlwana
  Battle of Isandlwana
  The Battle of Isandlwana on 22 January 1879 was the first major encounter in the Anglo-Zulu War between the British Empire and the Zulu Kingdom...
  
  

Colonial conflicts in Northern Africa

Scramble for Africa

The Scramble for Africa, also known as the Race for Africa or Partition of Africa was a process of invasion, occupation, colonization and annexation of African territory by European powers during the New Imperialism period, between 1881 and World War I in 1914...

 (1880s–1931)

• Beau Geste
  Beau Geste (1926 film)
  Beau Geste is a 1926 silent film, based on the novel by P. C. Wren. This version starred Ronald Colman as the title character. -Plot:The plot concerns a valuable gem, which one of the Geste brothers, Beau, is thought to have stolen from his adoptive family.-Cast:*Ronald Colman as Michael 'Beau'...
  
  (1926), starring Ronald Colman
  Ronald Colman
  Ronald Charles Colman was an English actor.-Early years:He was born in Richmond, Surrey, England, the second son and fourth child of Charles Colman and his wife Marjory Read Fraser. His siblings included Eric, Edith, and Marjorie. He was educated at boarding school in Littlehampton, where he...
  
  
• Beau Geste
  Beau Geste (1939 film)
  Beau Geste is a 1939 film produced by Paramount Pictures based on the novel of the same name by P. C. Wren. It was directed and produced by William A. Wellman from a screenplay by Robert Carson...
  
  (1939), featuring Gary Cooper
  Gary Cooper
  Frank James Cooper, known professionally as Gary Cooper, was an American film actor. He was renowned for his quiet, understated acting style and his stoic, but at times intense screen persona, which was particularly well suited to the many Westerns he made...
  
  
• Beau Geste
  Beau Geste (1966 film)
  Beau Geste is a 1966 film based on the novel by P. C. Wren filmed by Universal Pictures in Technicolor and Techniscope near Yuma, Arizona and directed by Douglas Heyes. This is the least faithful of the various film adaptations of the original novel...
  
  (1966), with Guy Stockwell
  Guy Stockwell
  Guy Harry Stockwell was an American actor who appeared in nearly 30 movies and 250 television series episodes....
  
  
• The Wind and the Lion
  The Wind and the Lion
  The Wind and the Lion is a 1975 adventure film. It was written and directed by John Milius and starred Sean Connery, Candice Bergen, Brian Keith and John Huston...
  
  (1975)
• March or Die
  March or Die (film)
  March or Die is a 1977 film directed by Dick Richards, starring Gene Hackman, Terence Hill, Catherine Deneuve and Ian Holm.The film celebrates the 1920s French Foreign Legion...
  
  (1977)
• Lion of the Desert
  Lion of the Desert
  Lion of the Desert is a 1981 Libyan historical action film starring Anthony Quinn as Libyan tribal leader Omar Mukhtar, a Bedouin leader fighting the Italian army in the years leading up to World War II and Oliver Reed as Italian General Rodolfo Graziani, who attempted to defeat Mukhtar. It was...
  
  (1981)
• Legionnaire
  Legionnaire (film)
  Legionnaire is a 1998 film starring Jean-Claude Van Damme as a 1920s boxer who wins a fight after having been hired by gangsters to lose it, then flees to join the French Foreign Legion. The cast includes Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Steven Berkoff, Nicholas Farrell and Jim Carter...
  
  (1998)

Mahdist Sudanese War

Mahdist War

The Mahdist War was a colonial war of the late 19th century. It was fought between the Mahdist Sudanese and the Egyptian and later British forces. It has also been called the Anglo-Sudan War or the Sudanese Mahdist Revolt. The British have called their part in the conflict the Sudan Campaign...

 (1881–1899)

• The Four Feathers
  The Four Feathers (1939 film)
  The Four Feathers is a 1939 adventure film directed by Zoltan Korda, starring John Clements, Ralph Richardson, June Duprez, C. Aubrey Smith. Set in the 1890s during the reign of Queen Victoria, it tells the story of a man accused of cowardice. It is one of a number of adaptations of the 1902 novel...
  
  (1939)
• The Four Feathers (1972)
• The Four Feathers
  The Four Feathers (2002 film)
  The Four Feathers is a 2002 action drama film directed by Shekhar Kapur, starring Heath Ledger, Wes Bentley, Djimon Hounsou and Kate Hudson...
  
  (2002)
• Khartoum
  Khartoum (film)
  Khartoum is a 1966 film written by Robert Ardrey and directed by Basil Dearden. It stars Charlton Heston as General Gordon and Laurence Olivier as the Mahdi and is based on Gordon's defence of the Sudanese city of Khartoum from the forces of the Mahdist army during the Siege of Khartoum.Khartoum...
  
  (1966), depiction of the Battle of Khartoum
  Battle of Khartoum
  The Battle of Khartoum or Siege of Khartoum lasted from March 13, 1884 to January 26, 1885. It was fought in and around Khartoum between Egyptian forces led by British General Charles George Gordon and a Mahdist Sudanese army led by the self-proclaimed Mahdi Muhammad Ahmad...
  
  
• Young Winston
  Young Winston
  Young Winston is a 1972 British film based on the early years of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.The film was based on the book My Early Life: A Roving Commission by Winston Churchill. The first part of the film covers Churchill's unhappy schooldays, up to the death of his father...
  
  (1972), depiction of the Battle of Omdurman
  Battle of Omdurman
  At the Battle of Omdurman , an army commanded by the British Gen. Sir Herbert Kitchener defeated the army of Abdullah al-Taashi, the successor to the self-proclaimed Mahdi Muhammad Ahmad...
  
  

Philippine Revolution

Philippine Revolution

The Philippine Revolution , called the "Tagalog War" by the Spanish, was an armed military conflict between the people of the Philippines and the Spanish colonial authorities which resulted in the secession of the Philippine Islands from the Spanish Empire.The Philippine Revolution began in August...

 (1896–1898)

• Aguila (1980)
• Alyas Sakay (1961)
• Andres Bonifacio: Ang Supremo (1963)
• Bisperas ng Kasaysayan (1994)
• Ang Buhay at Pag Ibig ni Dr. Jose Rizal (1956)
• Baler
  Baler (film)
  Baler is a 2008 drama film and the official entry of VIVA Films in the 2008 Metro Manila Film Festival, starring Anne Curtis and Jericho Rosales...
  
  (2008)
• Bayaning 3rd World
  Bayaning 3rd World
  Bayaning 3rd World is a 1999 Filipino film directed by Mike de Leon that examines the heroism of Philippine national hero Jose Rizal, particularly on his supposed retraction of his writings against the Roman Catholic Church in the Philippines during the Spanish colonization period in the...
  
  (2000)
• El Filibusterismo (1962)
• Elias, Basilio at Sisa (1972)
• Emilio Aguinaldo (2000)
• Diwa (2002)
• Dugo ng Katipunan (1949)
• Dugo at Pag Ibig sa Kapirasong Lupa (1975)
• Ganito Kami Noon, Paano Kayo Ngayon
  Ganito Kami Noon, Paano Kayo Ngayon
  Ganito kami noon, paano kayo ngayon is a 1976 FAMAS award and Gawad Urian award winning Filipino romantic musical drama set in the Spanish colonization era...
  
  (1976)
• Heneral Paua (1956)
• Hen. Gregorio del Pilar (1949)
• Himagsik (1956)
• Hubad na Bayani (1977)
• Ito Ang Pilipino (1966)
• Jose Rizal
  José Rizal (film)
  José Rizal is a 1998 award-winning Filipino film biopic directed by Marilou Diaz-Abaya.It was GMA Films' entry to the 1998 Metro Manila Film Festival. It is touted as one of the biggest films ever made in the history of Philippine cinema with a record-breaking P80-million budget despite the fact...
  
  (1998)
• Los últimos de Filipinas
  Los últimos de Filipinas
  Los últimos de Filipinas is a 1945 Spanish biographical war film directed by Antonio Román. It is based on a radio script by Enrique Llovet; Los Héroes de Baler; and novels by de Enrique Alfonso Barcones El Fuerte de Baler; and Rafael Sánchez Campoy El Fuerte de Baler.Nani Fernández played famous...
  
  (1945)
• La Vida de Rizal (1913)
• Lupang Kayumanggi (1955)
• Lupang Hinirang (1973)
• Noli Me Tangere (1961)
• Noli Me Tangere (1992)
• Padre Burgos (1949)
• Rizal sa Dapitan
  Rizal sa Dapitan
  Rizal sa Dapitan , is a 1997 film adaptation of life of the Filipino national hero Dr. Jose Rizal, starring Albert Martinez as Jose Rizal and Amanda Page as Josephine Bracken, the screenplay is by Pete Lacaba.-Plot:...
  
  (1997)
• Samahang Siete (1962)
• Sisa (1952)
• Tandang Sora (1947)
• Los últimos de Filipinas
  Los últimos de Filipinas
  Los últimos de Filipinas is a 1945 Spanish biographical war film directed by Antonio Román. It is based on a radio script by Enrique Llovet; Los Héroes de Baler; and novels by de Enrique Alfonso Barcones El Fuerte de Baler; and Rafael Sánchez Campoy El Fuerte de Baler.Nani Fernández played famous...
  
  (1945)

Spanish-American War

Spanish-American War

The Spanish–American War was a conflict in 1898 between Spain and the United States, effectively the result of American intervention in the ongoing Cuban War of Independence...

 (1898) - Cuban War of Independence

Cuban War of Independence

Cuban War of Independence was the last of three liberation wars that Cuba fought against Spain, the other two being the Ten Years' War and the Little War...

 (1895–1898)

• Tearing Down the Spanish Flag (1898), first war film ever made
• A Message to Garcia
  A Message to Garcia
  A Message to Garcia is a best-selling inspirational essay written in 1899 by Elbert Hubbard that has been made into two motion pictures.Felix Shay, Hubbard's personal assistant, wrote:...
  
  (1916/1936), (Cuban war of independence 1895–1898)
• Héroes del 95 (1947), (Cuban war of independence 1895–1898) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQhAHsLPvpM&feature=related
• The Rough Riders
  Rough Riders (film)
  Rough Riders is a 1997 three hour television miniseries about future President Theodore Roosevelt and the regiment . The series prominently shows the bravery of the volunteers at the Battle of San Juan Hill, part of the Spanish-American War of 1898. It was released on DVD in 2006...
  
  (1997), television film, depiction of the Cuban Campaign and specifically the Battle of San Juan Hill
  Battle of San Juan Hill
  The Battle of San Juan Hill , also known as the battle for the San Juan Heights, was a decisive battle of the Spanish-American War. The San Juan heights was a north-south running elevation about two kilometers east of Santiago de Cuba. The names San Juan Hill and Kettle Hill were names given by the...
  
  
• Mambí (1998), (Cuban war of independence 1895–1898) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcI5oD2p5cA
• Elpidio Valdés
  Elpidio Valdés
  Elpidio Valdés is a cartoon character and comic, who starred in a number of features, shorts and strips of the same name. It was created in 1970 by cartoonist and Cuban filmmaker Juan Padrón, considered the father of Cuban film animation and director of the first three animated feature films...
  
  (1974–2003),animation series (Cuban war of independence 1895–1898) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0ssvcSg9Ds
• Posse
  Posse (1993 film)
  Posse is a 1993 American Western film directed by and starring Mario Van Peebles. Featuring a large ensemble cast of mostly African-American actors, the film is about a posse of black soldiers and one ostracized white soldier, who are all betrayed by a corrupt colonel. The title of the film refers...
  
  (1993)

Philippine–American War (1899–1902/1913)

• Amigo (2010)
• Cavalry Command (1963)
• Diwa (2002)
• Hen. Gregorio del Pilar - Bayani sa Pasong Tirad (1949)
• Philippino War Dance (1903)
• Sakay (1937)
• Sakay
  Sakay (film)
  Sakay is a 1993 Filipino historical drama film directed by Raymond Red. The film stars Julio Diaz, Tetchie Agbayani, and Leopoldo Salcedo.- Plot :...
  
  (1993)
• The Real Glory (1939)
• This Bloody Blundering Business
  This Bloody Blundering Business
  This Bloody Blundering Business is a half-hour documentary film released in 1971. It examines the American occupation of the Philippines, following the Spanish–American War...
  
  (1975)
• Tirad Pass: The Story of Gen. Gregorio del Pilar (1997)

Boxer Rebellion

Boxer Rebellion

The Boxer Rebellion, also called the Boxer Uprising by some historians or the Righteous Harmony Society Movement in northern China, was a proto-nationalist movement by the "Righteous Harmony Society" , or "Righteous Fists of Harmony" or "Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists" , in China between...

 (1899–1901)

• The Marked Woman (D: O.A.C. Lund, USA 1914)
• Foreign Devils
  Foreign Devils
  Foreign Devils is an original novella written by Andrew Cartmel and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who...
  
  ( D: W.S. Van Dyke, USA 1928)
• 55 Days at Peking
  55 Days at Peking
  55 Days at Peking is a 1963 historical epic film starring Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, and David Niven, made by Samuel Bronston Productions, and released by Allied Artists. The movie was produced by Samuel Bronston and directed by Nicholas Ray, Andrew Marton , and Guy Green...
  
  (1963)
• Boxer Rebellion (1976)
• Boxer Rebellion (D: Celia Cotelo, 1994) (Doku)
• The Boxer Rebellion (Gefangen in Peking - Aufstand der Boxer, R: Tilman Remme, DEU 2009) (Doku)

Second Boer War

Second Boer War

The Second Boer War was fought from 11 October 1899 until 31 May 1902 between the British Empire and the Afrikaans-speaking Dutch settlers of two independent Boer republics, the South African Republic and the Orange Free State...

 (1899–1902)

• Arende (TV mini series)
• Breaker Morant
  Breaker Morant (film)
  Breaker Morant is a 1980 Australian film about the court martial of Breaker Morant, directed by Bruce Beresford and starring British actor Edward Woodward as Harry "Breaker" Morant...
  
  (1980)
• Commando (2007)
• Ohm Kruger
  Ohm Krüger
  Ohm Krüger was a 1941 propaganda film, produced in Nazi Germany, about Paul Kruger in the Boer War. It was the first film to be awarded the 'Film of the Nation' award. It was re-released in 1944.-Plot:...
  
  (1942)
• Torn Allegiance (1984)
• Untamed (1955)
• Young Winston
  Young Winston
  Young Winston is a 1972 British film based on the early years of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.The film was based on the book My Early Life: A Roving Commission by Winston Churchill. The first part of the film covers Churchill's unhappy schooldays, up to the death of his father...
  
  (1972)

Russo-Japanese War

Russo-Japanese War

The Russo-Japanese War was "the first great war of the 20th century." It grew out of rival imperial ambitions of the Russian Empire and Japanese Empire over Manchuria and Korea...

 (1904–1905)

• Port Arthur (1936)
• Kreiser Varyag (1946)
• Nichiro sensô shôri no hishi: Tekichû ôdan sanbyaku-ri (1957)
• Meiji tennô to nichiro daisenso (1958)
• Nihonkai daikaisen (1969)
• The Battle of Tsushima (1975) [documentary], depiction of the naval Battle of Tsushima
  Battle of Tsushima
  The Battle of Tsushima , commonly known as the “Sea of Japan Naval Battle” in Japan and the “Battle of Tsushima Strait”, was the major naval battle fought between Russia and Japan during the Russo-Japanese War...
  
  
• 203 kochi (1980), depiction of the Battle of Port Arthur
  Siege of Port Arthur
  The Siege of Port Arthur , 1 August 1904 – 2 January 1905, the deep-water port and Russian naval base at the tip of the Liaotung Peninsula in Manchuria, was the longest and most violent land battle of the Russo-Japanese War....
  
  
• Nihonkai daikaisen: Umi yukaba (1983)
• Bogatstvo (2004)
• Saka no ue no kumo
  Saka no ue no kumo
  , "Cloud over the slope," is a popular Japanese historical novel by Shiba Ryōtarō originally published serially from 1968 to 1972 in eight volumes...
  
  (2009)

Mexican Revolution

Mexican Revolution

The Mexican Revolution was a major armed struggle that started in 1910, with an uprising led by Francisco I. Madero against longtime autocrat Porfirio Díaz. The Revolution was characterized by several socialist, liberal, anarchist, populist, and agrarianist movements. Over time the Revolution...

 (1910–1920)

• Viva Villa!
  Viva Villa!
  Viva Villa! is a 1934 American film starring Wallace Beery as Pancho Villa and was written by Ben Hecht, adapted from a biography by Edgecumb Pinchon and Odo B. Stade. The picture was directed by Jack Conway. There was special, uncredited help with the script by Howard Hawks, James Kevin...
  
  (1934)
• Viva Zapata!
  Viva Zapata!
  Viva Zapata! is a 1952 fictional-biographical film directed by Elia Kazan. The screenplay was written by John Steinbeck, using as a guide Edgcomb Pinchon's book, 'Zapata the Unconquerable', a fact that is not credited in the titles of the film...
  
  (1952)
• A Bullet for the General
  A Bullet for the General
  A Bullet for the General , is a 1966 film which stars Gian Maria Volonté, Klaus Kinski, Lou Castel and Martine Beswick. Originally entitled El Chucho, quién sabe?, it is the story of El Chucho, the bandit, and Bill Tate who is a counter-revolutionary in Mexico...
  
   (Quien Sabe?) (1966)
• The Mercenary
  The Mercenary (film)
  The Mercenary , also known as A Professional Gun, is a 1968 spaghetti western film directed by Sergio Corbucci. The film stars Franco Nero, Jack Palance, Tony Musante and Giovanna Ralli, and features a musical score by Ennio Morricone and Bruno Nicolai...
  
  (1968)
• Villa Rides
  Villa Rides
  Villa Rides is a 1968 film starring Yul Brynner in toupee in the title role and Robert Mitchum as an American adventurer and pilot of fortune. The supporting cast includes Charles Bronson as Fierro, Herbert Lom as Huerta, and Alexander Knox as Madero...
  
  (1968)
• The Wild Bunch
  The Wild Bunch
  The Wild Bunch is a 1969 American Western film directed by Sam Peckinpah about an aging outlaw gang on the Texas-Mexico border, trying to exist in the changing "modern" world of 1913...
  
  (1969)
• 100 Rifles
  100 Rifles
  100 Rifles is a 1969 western directed by Tom Gries. The film stars Jim Brown, Burt Reynolds, Raquel Welch, and Fernando Lamas. The original music score was composed by Jerry Goldsmith.-Plot:...
  
  (1969)
• A Fistful of Dynamite
  A Fistful of Dynamite
  Duck, You Sucker! , also known as A Fistful of Dynamite and Once Upon a Time… the Revolution, is a 1971 Zapata Western film directed by Sergio Leone and starring Rod Steiger and James Coburn....
  
  (1971)
• Zapata (1970) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065688/)
• And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself
  And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself
  And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself is a 2003 television film starring Antonio Banderas as Pancho Villa.At the time of production, this was the most expensive 2-hour television/cable movie ever made, with a budget of over $30 million....
  
  (2003) HBO made-for-television film

Chinese Revolution / Chinese Civil War

Chinese Civil War

The Chinese Civil War was a civil war fought between the Kuomintang , the governing party of the Republic of China, and the Communist Party of China , for the control of China which eventually led to China's division into two Chinas, Republic of China and People's Republic of...

 (1911–1949)

• MODERN WARFARE IN CHINA 1924-1925 (documentary) (1925)
• Shanghai Express
  Shanghai Express (film)
  Shanghai Express is a 1932 American film directed by Josef von Sternberg. The pre-Code picture stars Marlene Dietrich, Clive Brook, Anna May Wong, and Warner Oland. It was written by Jules Furthman, based on a story by Harry Hervey. It was the fourth of seven teamings of Sternberg and Dietrich.The...
  
  (1932) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r-dinTpvlk)
• The Bitter Tea of General Yen
  The Bitter Tea of General Yen
  The Bitter Tea of General Yen is a pre-Code 1933 film, directed by Frank Capra based on the novel by Grace Zaring Stone and starring Barbara Stanwyck and Nils Asther....
  
  (1933)
• The Painted Veil
  The Painted Veil (1934 film)
  The Painted Veil is a 1934 drama film made by MGM. It was directed by Ryszard Bolesławski and produced by Hunt Stromberg from a screenplay by John Meehan, Salka Viertel, and Edith Fitzgerald, adapted from the 1925 W. Somerset Maugham novel The Painted Veil. The music score was by Herbert Stothart,...
  
  (1934)
• China Seas
  China Seas (film)
  China Seas is a 1935 adventure film starring Clark Gable as a brave sea captain, Jean Harlow as his brassy paramour, and Wallace Beery as an extremely suspicious-looking character...
  
  (1935) (http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/index.jsp?cid=32088)
• West of Shanghai
  West of Shanghai
  West of Shanghai is a 1937 adventure film directed by John Farrow and starring Boris Karloff as a Chinese warlord.-Plot:On a train bound for lawless northern China, businessman Gordon Creed encounters acquaintance Myron Galt and his attractive daughter Lola...
  
  (1937) (http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/index.jsp?cid=38887)
• Blood Alley
  Blood Alley
  Blood Alley is a 1955 seafaring adventure movie starring John Wayne and Lauren Bacall set in China.-Background:The film was written by Albert Sidney Fleischman from his novel, directed by William Wellman and was produced by Wayne's Batjac Productions...
  
  (1955)
• Yangtse Incident
  Yangtse Incident (1957 film)
  Yangtse Incident: The Story of HMS Amethyst is a 1957 British war film that tells the story of the British frigate HMS Amethyst caught up in the Chinese Civil War....
  
  (1957)
• The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
  The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
  The Inn of the Sixth Happiness is a 1958 American 20th Century Fox film based on the true story of Gladys Aylward, a tenacious British maid, who became a missionary in China during the tumultuous years leading up to World War II...
  
  (1958)
• The Sand Pebbles
  The Sand Pebbles (film)
  The Sand Pebbles is a 1966 American period war film directed by Robert Wise. It tells the story of an independent, rebellious U.S. Navy Machinist's Mate aboard the fictional gunboat USS San Pablo in 1920s China....
  
  (1966) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNr_tndGK_0)
• The Roots of Madness (1967) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3R6kntniDPI)
• The Warlord (大军阀) (1972) (http://www.56.com/u47/v_MTgwMTk1MzI.html)
• High Road to China
  High Road to China
  High Road to China is a 1983 adventure-comedy film, set in the 1920s, starring Tom Selleck as a hard-drinking biplane pilot hired by society heiress Eve 'Evie' Tozer to find her missing father . The supporting cast includes Robert Morley and Brian Blessed. The Golden Harvest film was directed by...
  
  (1983)
• Peking Opera Blues
  Peking Opera Blues
  Peking Opera Blues is a 1986 Hong Kong film directed by Tsui Hark. The movie combines comedy, Hong Kong action, and serious drama with scenes involving Peking Opera...
  
  (1986)
• Clash of the Warlords (直奉大战) (1987) (http://www.56.com/u75/v_NTExNTU1MjA.html)
• A Home Too Far
  A Home Too Far
  A Home Too Far is a 1990 film directed by Chu Yen-ping starring Andy Lau. It is based on a novel by Bo Yang.-Plot:The film follows a group of soldiers and their families in 1950s China as they fight for the Republic of China against Communist China...
  
  (1990)
• The Painted Veil
  The Painted Veil (2006 film)
  The Painted Veil is a 2006 Chinese-American drama film directed by John Curran. The screenplay by Ron Nyswaner is based on the 1925 novel of the same title by W. Somerset Maugham...
  
  (2006)
• Assembly
  Assembly (film)
  Assembly is a 2007 Chinese war-drama film written by Liu Heng and directed by Feng Xiaogang. It stars Zhang Hanyu, Deng Chao, Yuan Wenkang, Tang Yan, Wang Baoqiang, Liao Fan, Hu Jun, Ren Quan and Li Naiwen....
  
  (2007)
• The first of August (八月一日 ) (2007) (http://www.56.com/u31/v_MjEwOTYzNDg.html)
• The Founding of a Republic
  The Founding of a Republic
  The Founding of a Republic is a 2009 Chinese historical film commissioned by China's film regulator and made by the state-owned China Film Group to mark the 60th anniversary of the People's Republic of China...
  
  (2009)
• 1911 (2011)

World War I

World War I

World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...

 (1914–1918)

(See also: World War I films)

• Aces High
  Aces High (film)
  Aces High is a 1976 British war film directed by Jack Gold and starring Malcolm McDowell, Christopher Plummer and Simon Ward. The screenplay was written by Howard Barker. As acknowledged in the opening credits, the film is based on the 1930s play Journey's End by R. C. Sherriff and the memoir...
  
  (1976), air warfare
  Aviation in World War I
  World War I was the first war in which aircraft were deployed on a large scale. Tethered observation balloons had already been employed in several wars, and would be used extensively for artillery spotting. Germany employed Zeppelins for reconnaissance over the North Sea and strategic bombing raids...
  
  
• The African Queen (1951)
• All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
• All Quiet on the Western Front
  All Quiet on the Western Front (1979 film)
  All Quiet on the Western Front is a television movie produced by ITC Entertainment, released on November 14, 1979, starring actors Richard Thomas from The Waltons fame as Paul Baumer, and Ernest Borgnine as Katczinsky...
  
  (1979)
• All the King's Men (1999)
• Anzacs
  Anzacs
  Anzacs was a 1985 5-part Australian mini series set in World War I. The series follows the lives of a group of young Australian men who enlist in the 8th Battalion of the First Australian Imperial Force in 1914, fighting first at Gallipoli in 1915, and then on the Western Front for the remainder...
  
  (1985), mini-series following Australian and New Zealand troops from recruitment to Gallipoli and the Western Front
• Beneath Hill 60
  Beneath Hill 60
  Beneath Hill 60 is a 2010 Australian war film directed by Jeremy Sims and written by David Roach.Set during World War I, the film tells the story of the 1st Australian Tunnelling Company’s effort to mine beneath a German bunker and detonate an explosive charge to aid the advance of British troops...
  
  (2010)
• Berge in Flammen (1931)
• The Big Parade
  The Big Parade
  The Big Parade is a 1925 silent film. It tells 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.The film was...
  
  (1925)
• Biggles: Adventures in Time
  Biggles: Adventures in Time
  Biggles: Adventures in Time is a 1986 adventure film based on the character of Biggles from the series of novels written by Captain W.E. Johns...
  
  (1986), air warfare
• Black and White in Color (1976)
• Blackadder Goes Forth
  Blackadder Goes Forth
  Blackadder Goes Forth is the fourth and final series of the BBC situation comedy Blackadder, written by Richard Curtis and Ben Elton, which aired from 28 September to 2 November 1989 on BBC One....
  
  (1989), comedy
  Comedy
  Comedy , as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in...
  
  -mini-series following a couple of british Soldiers in a trench
  Trench
  A trench is a type of excavation or depression in the ground. Trenches are generally defined by being deeper than they are wide , and by being narrow compared to their length ....
  
   in Flanders
  Flanders
  Flanders is the community of the Flemings but also one of the institutions in Belgium, and a geographical region located in parts of present-day Belgium, France and the Netherlands. "Flanders" can also refer to the northern part of Belgium that contains Brussels, Bruges, Ghent and Antwerp...
  
  
• The Blue Max
  The Blue Max
  The Blue Max is an 1966 British war film about a German fighter pilot on the Western Front during World War I. It was directed by John Guillermin, stars George Peppard, James Mason and Ursula Andress, and features Karl Michael Vogler and Jeremy Kemp. The screenplay was written by David Pursall,...
  
  (1966), air warfare
• Canakkale Arslanlari (The Lions of Gallipoli War) (1964)
• Capitaine Conan
  Capitaine Conan
  Capitaine Conan is a 1996 French film that is directed by Bertrand Tavernier. The film is based on the 1934 Prix Goncourt-winning novel Captain Conan by Roger Vercel.-Plot:...
  
  (1996)
• Company K
  Company K
  Company K is a 1933 novel by William March, first serialised in parts in the New York magazine Forum from 1930 to 1932, and published in its entirety by Smith and Haas on 19 January 1933, in New York. The book's title was taken from the Marine company that March served in during World War I...
  
  (2004)
• Darling Lili
  Darling Lili
  Darling Lili is a 1970 American musical film. The screenplay was written by William Peter Blatty and Blake Edwards, who also directed. The cast included Julie Andrews, Rock Hudson, and Jeremy Kemp.-Plot:...
  
  (1970)
• The Dawn Patrol (1930), air warfare
• The Dawn Patrol
  The Dawn Patrol (1938 film)
  The Dawn Patrol is a 1938 American war film, a remake of the pre-Code 1930 film of the same name. Both were based on the short story "The Flight Commander" by John Monk Saunders, an American writer said to have been haunted by his inability to get into combat as a flyer with the U.S...
  
  (1938), air warfare
• Deathwatch (2002)
• Distant Bridges (1999)
• Dr. Zhivago
  Doctor Zhivago (1965 film)
  Doctor Zhivago is a 1965 epic drama-romance-war film directed by David Lean and loosely based on the famous novel of the same name by Boris Pasternak...
  
  (1965)
• The End of St. Petersburg
  The End of St. Petersburg
  The End of St. Petersburg is a 1927 silent film directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin and produced by Mezhrabpom. Commissioned to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the October Revolution, The End of St Petersburg was to be Pudovkin's most famous film and secured his place as one of the foremost Soviet...
  
  (1927)
• A Farewell to Arms
  A Farewell to Arms (1932 film)
  A Farewell to Arms is a 1932 American romantic drama film directed by Frank Borzage, and starring Gary Cooper and Helen Hayes. The screenplay by Oliver H.P...
  
  (1932)
• A Farewell to Arms
  A Farewell to Arms (1957 film)
  A Farewell to Arms is a 1957 American drama film directed by Charles Vidor. The screenplay by Ben Hecht, based in part on a 1930 play by Laurence Stallings, was the second feature film adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's 1929 semi-autobiographical novel of the same name. It was the last film produced...
  
   (1957)
• Fighting 69th
  Fighting 69th
  The Fighting 69th is an American war film starring James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, and George Brent. The plot is based upon the actual exploits of New York City's 69th Infantry Regiment during the First World War. The regiment was first given that nickname by opposing General Robert E...
  
  (1940)
• Flyboys (2006), air warfare
• Forty Thousand Horsemen
  Forty Thousand Horsemen
  Forty Thousand Horsemen is a 1940 Australian war film directed by Charles Chauvel. The film tells the story of the Australian Light Horse cavalry which operated in the desert at the Sinai and Palestine Campaign during World War I. It follows the adventures of three rowdy heroes in fighting and...
  
  (1940)
• Fräulein Doktor
  Fräulein Doktor
  Fräulein Doktor is a First World War drama filmed in 1968 and released in 1969. It was a European co-production, starring Suzy Kendall, Kenneth More, Capucine, James Booth, Giancarlo Giannini and Nigel Green. It was produced by Dino De Laurentiis and directed by Alberto Lattuada, with a music...
  
  (1969), spy drama from the German point of view
• Gallipoli
  Gallipoli (1981 film)
  Gallipoli is a 1981 Australian film, directed by Peter Weir and starring Mel Gibson and Mark Lee, about several young men from rural Western Australia who enlist in the Australian Army during the First World War. They are sent to Turkey, where they take part in the Gallipoli Campaign. During the...
  
  (1981), depiction of the Battle of Gallipoli
  Battle of Gallipoli
  The Gallipoli Campaign, also known as the Dardanelles Campaign or the Battle of Gallipoli, took place at the peninsula of Gallipoli in the Ottoman Empire between 25 April 1915 and 9 January 1916, during the First World War...
  
  
• Gallipoli
  Gallipoli (2005 film)
  Gallipoli is a 2005 film by Turkish filmmaker Tolga Örnek. It is a documentary about the 1915 Gallipoli campaign, narrated by both sides, the Turks on one side and the British soldiers and Anzacs on the other side.-Synopsis:Through the use of surviving diaries, letters and photographs from...
  
  (2005), documentary
• The Great Dictator
  The Great Dictator
  The Great Dictator is a comedy film by Charlie Chaplin released in October 1940. Like most Chaplin films, he wrote, produced, and directed, in addition to starring as the lead. Having been the only Hollywood film maker to continue to make silent films well into the period of sound films, this was...
  
  (1940) set during World War I and the inter-war period.
• La Grande guerra
  The Great War (1959 film)
  The Great War is a 1959 Italian film directed by Mario Monicelli. It tells the story of an odd couple of army buddies in World War I; the movie, while played on a comedic register, does not hide from the viewer the horrors and grimness of trench warfare...
  
  (1959)
• Jericho (1937)
• Hell's Angels
  Hell's Angels (film)
  Hell's Angels is a 1930 American war film, directed by Howard Hughes and starring Jean Harlow, Ben Lyon, and James Hall. The film, which was produced by Hughes and written by Harry Behn and Howard Estabrook, centers on the combat pilots of World War I...
  
  (1930)
• Hell Below
  Hell Below
  Hell Below is an MGM film set in the Adriatic during World War I about submarine warfare based on Commander Edward Ellsberg's novel Pigboats, starring Robert Montgomery, Walter Huston, Robert Young, Madge Evans, and Jimmy Durante....
  
  (1933)
• In Love and War
  In Love and War (1958 film)
  In Love and War is a 1958 Cinemascope film based on a novel called The Big War by Anton Myrer and directed by Philip Dunne.-Plot summary:The film traces the progress of three Marines on shore leave during WWII, in the Pacific...
  
  (1958)
• In Love and War
  In Love and War (1996 film)
  In Love and War is a romance drama film based on the book, Hemingway in Love and War by Henry S. Villard and James Nagel, starring Mackenzie Astin, Chris O'Donnell, Sandra Bullock, and Margot Steinberg. This film takes place during World War I, and is based on the World War I experiences of the...
  
  (1996)
• Joyeux Noël (Merry Christmas) (2005)
• Johnny Got His Gun
  Johnny Got His Gun (film)
  Johnny Got His Gun is a 1971 anti-war film based on the novel of the same name written and directed by Dalton Trumbo and starring Timothy Bottoms, Jason Robards and Donald Sutherland with Diane Varsi...
  
  (1971)
• King of Hearts
  King of Hearts (1966 film)
  King of Hearts is a 1966 French comedy-drama film directed by Philippe de Broca and starring Alan Bates....
  
  (1966)
• La Grande Illusion (1937)
• Lawrence of Arabia
  Lawrence of Arabia (film)
  Lawrence of Arabia is a 1962 British film based on the life of T. E. Lawrence. It was directed by David Lean and produced by Sam Spiegel through his British company, Horizon Pictures, with the screenplay by Robert Bolt and Michael Wilson. The film stars Peter O'Toole in the title role. It is widely...
  
  (1962), depiction of the Battle of Aqaba
  Battle of Aqaba
  Battle of Aqaba was fought for the Jordanian port of Aqaba. The attacking forces of the Arab Revolt, led by Auda ibu Tayi and T. E. Lawrence , were victorious over the Turkish defenders.-Background:...
  
  
• Legends of the Fall
  Legends of the Fall
  Legends of the Fall is a 1994 epic drama film based on the 1979 novella of the same title by Jim Harrison. It was directed by Edward Zwick and stars Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins and Aidan Quinn. The film was nominated for the Academy Awards for Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction , and Best...
  
  (1994)
• The Lighthorsemen
  The Lighthorsemen (film)
  The Lighthorsemen is a 1987 Australian feature film about the men of a World War I light horse unit involved in the 1917 Battle of Beersheeba...
  
  (1987), depiction of the Battle of Beersheba
• The Lost Battalion
  The Lost Battalion
  The Lost Battalion is the 1919 film about units of the 77th Infantry Division penetrating deep into the Argonne Forest of France during World War I. The soldiers under the command of Major Charles Whittlesey are then trapped and surrounded by German soldiers...
  
  (1919)
• The Lost Battalion
  The Lost Battalion (2001 film)
  The Lost Battalion is the 2001 remake of the 1919 film of the same name. The film was directed by Russell Mulcahy, written by James Carabatsos and starred former child actor Rick Schroder as Major Charles Whittlesey. It took place during World War I....
  
  (2001)
• The Lost Patrol
  The Lost Patrol (1934 film)
  The Lost Patrol is a 1934 war film made by RKO. It was directed and produced by John Ford, with Merian C. Cooper as executive producer and Cliff Reid as associate producer. The screenplay was by Dudley Nichols, adapted by Garrett Fort from the novel Patrol by Philip MacDonald. The music score was...
  
   (1934)
• March on the Drina (1964)
• Morgenrot (1933)
• My Boy Jack
  My Boy Jack (film)
  My Boy Jack is a 2007 television drama based on David Haig's 1997 play of the same name. It was filmed in August 2007, with Haig as Rudyard Kipling and Daniel Radcliffe as John Kipling. It does not include act three of the play, which extended to the 1920s and 1930s. Instead it ends with Kipling...
  
  (2008)
• Oh! What a Lovely War
  Oh! What a Lovely War
  Oh! What a Lovely War is a musical film based on the stage musical Oh, What a Lovely War! originated by Charles Chilton as a radio play, The Long Long Trail in December 1961, and transferred to stage by Gerry Raffles in partnership with Joan Littlewood and her Theatre Workshop created in 1963,...
  
  (1969)
• Pack Up Your Troubles
  Pack Up Your Troubles
  Pack Up Your Troubles is a 1932 Laurel and Hardy film directed by George Marshall and Raymond McCarey, named after the World War I song "Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit-Bag, and smile, smile, smile." It is the team's second feature-length picture....
  
  (1932)
• Passchendaele
  Passchendaele (film)
  Passchendaele is a 2008 Canadian war film from Alliance Films, written, co-produced, directed by, and starring Paul Gross. The film, which was shot in Calgary, Alberta, Fort Macleod, Alberta, and in Belgium, focuses on the experiences of a Canadian soldier, Michael Dunne, at the Battle of...
  
  (2008)
• Paths of Glory
  Paths of Glory
  Paths of Glory is a 1957 American anti-war film by Stanley Kubrick based on the novel of the same name by Humphrey Cobb. Set during World War I, the film stars Kirk Douglas as Colonel Dax, the commanding officer of French soldiers who refused to continue a suicidal attack...
  
  (1957)
• The Red Baron (film)
  The Red Baron (film)
  The Red Baron is a German biopic by Nikolai Müllerschön from 2008, about the legendary World War I fighter pilot Manfred von Richthofen. It was filmed in the Czech Republic, France and Germany, entirely in English to improve its international commercial viability.-Plot:In 1906, a young Baron...
  
  (2008)
• Regeneration
  Regeneration (1997 film)
  Regeneration is a 1997 film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Pat Barker. The film is directed by Gillies MacKinnon. It was released as Behind the Lines in the USA in 1998.-Plot:...
  
  (1997)
• The Road Back
  The Road Back (film)
  The Road Back is a 1937 drama film made by Universal Pictures, directed by James Whale. The screenplay is by Charles Kenyon and R.C. Sherriff from the eponymous novel by Erich Maria Remarque.The novel on which the film is based was banned during Nazi rule...
  
  (1937)
• The Road to Glory (1936)
• Sergeant York
  Sergeant York
  Sergeant York is a 1941 biographical film about the life of Alvin York, the most-decorated American soldier of World War I. It was directed by Howard Hawks and was the highest-grossing film of the year....
  
  (1941)
• Shoulder Arms
  Shoulder Arms
  Shoulder Arms is Charlie Chaplin's second film for First National Pictures. Released in 1918, it is a silent comedy set in France during World War I. The main part of the film occurs in a dream. It co-starred Edna Purviance and Sydney Chaplin, Chaplin's brother...
  
  (1918)
• Shout at the Devil
  Shout at the Devil
  Shout at the Devil is the second album by heavy metal band Mötley Crüe, released on September 26, 1983. "Looks That Kill" and "Too Young to Fall in Love" became huge hits and "Shout at the Devil" became very popular as well.-Reception:...
  
  (1976)
• The Spy in Black
  The Spy in Black
  The Spy in Black is a 1939 British film, and the first collaboration between the British filmmakers Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. They were brought together by Alexander Korda to make the World War I spy thriller by Joseph Storer Clouston into a film...
  
  (1939)
• Tell England
  Tell England
  Tell England: A Study in a Generation is a novel written by Ernest Raymond and published in February 1922 in the UK about the First World War and the young men sent to fight in it. A film adaptation was released in 1931 under the title "Tell England"...
  
  (1930)
• The Trench
  The Trench (film)
  The Trench is a 1999 film directed by William Boyd that portrays a group of young British soldiers on the eve of the Battle of the Somme in the last 48 hours.-Synopsis:...
  
  (1999), depiction of the Battle of the Somme
• Verdun, visions d'histoire (1928), depiction of the Battle of Verdun
  Battle of Verdun
  The Battle of Verdun was one of the major battles during the First World War on the Western Front. It was fought between the German and French armies, from 21 February – 18 December 1916, on hilly terrain north of the city of Verdun-sur-Meuse in north-eastern France...
  
  
• A Very Long Engagement
  A Very Long Engagement
  A Very Long Engagement is a 2004 French romantic war film, directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and starring Audrey Tautou. It is a fictional tale about a young woman's desperate search for her fiancé who might have been killed on the battle of the Somme, during World War I...
  
  (2004)
• Von Richthofen and Brown
  Von Richthofen and Brown
  Von Richthofen and Brown also known as The Red Baron, is a film directed by Roger Corman, and starring John Phillip Law and Don Stroud as the titular characters....
  
  (1971), air warfare
• War Horse (film)
  War Horse (film)
  War Horse is a 2011 British-American war drama film directed by Steven Spielberg and is intended for release in the United States on 25 December 2011 and in the United Kingdom on 13 January 2012...
  
  (2011)
• Westfront 1918
  Westfront 1918
  Westfront 1918 is a German film, set mostly in the trenches of the Western Front during World War I. It was directed in 1930 by Georg Wilhelm Pabst, from the novel Vier von der Infanterie by Ernst Johannsen, and deals with the impact of the war on a group of infantrymen...
  
  (1930)
• What Price Glory (1926)
• What Price Glory
  What Price Glory? (1952 film)
  What Price Glory is a 1952 World War I film based on a 1924 play by Maxwell Anderson and Laurence Stallings, though it used virtually none of Anderson's dialogue. Originally intended as a musical, it was filmed as a straight comedy, directed by John Ford and released by 20th Century Fox on 22...
  
  (1952)
• Wings
  Wings (film)
  Wings is a silent film about World War I fighter pilots, produced by Lucien Hubbard, directed by William A. Wellman and released by Paramount Pictures. Wings was the first film, and the only silent film, to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. Wings stars Clara Bow, Charles "Buddy" Rogers, and...
  
  (1927), air warfare
• Ypres (film) (1925)
• Zeppelin
  Zeppelin (film)
  Zeppelin is a 1971 British World War I action/drama film of a fictitious German attempt to raid Great Britain in a giant Zeppelin and steal the Magna Carta from its hiding place in one of Scotland's castles...
  
  (1971), air warfare

Russian Revolution (1917) and Russian Civil War

Russian Civil War

The Russian Civil War was a multi-party war that occurred within the former Russian Empire after the Russian provisional government collapsed to the Soviets, under the domination of the Bolshevik party. Soviet forces first assumed power in Petrograd The Russian Civil War (1917–1923) was a...

 (1917–1921)

• The Battleship Potemkin
  The Battleship Potemkin
  The Battleship Potemkin , sometimes rendered as The Battleship Potyomkin, is a 1925 silent film directed by Sergei Eisenstein and produced by Mosfilm...
  
  (1925)
• Dr. Zhivago
  Doctor Zhivago (1965 film)
  Doctor Zhivago is a 1965 epic drama-romance-war film directed by David Lean and loosely based on the famous novel of the same name by Boris Pasternak...
  
  (1965)
• The End of St. Petersburg
  The End of St. Petersburg
  The End of St. Petersburg is a 1927 silent film directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin and produced by Mezhrabpom. Commissioned to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the October Revolution, The End of St Petersburg was to be Pudovkin's most famous film and secured his place as one of the foremost Soviet...
  
  (1927)
• The Forty-First (1927 film)
  The Forty-First (1927 film)
  The Forty-First is a 1927 Soviet film directed by Yakov Protazanov based on a story of the same title by Boris Lavrenyov....
  
  (1927)
• October: Ten Days That Shook the World (1927)
• Arsenal
  Arsenal (film)
  Arsenal is a 1928 Soviet film by Ukrainian director Alexander Dovzhenko. It is the second film in his "Ukraine Trilogy", the first being Zvenigora and the third being Earth ....
  
  (1928)
• Tommy
  Tommy (1931 film)
  Tommy is a 1931 Soviet film directed by Yakov Protazanov based on a play Armoured Train 14-69 by Vsevolod Ivanov.-Cast:* Aleksei Temerin* A. Zhutayev - British Soldier* Mikhail Kedrov - Chinaman* Vasili Kovrigin - Leader* Vasili Vanin - Guide...
  
  (1931)
• Chapaev
  Chapaev (film)
  Chapaev is a 1934 Soviet film. It was directed by the Vasilyev brothers on Lenfilm. It is a story about Vasily Ivanovich Chapaev , a legendary Red Army commander who became a hero of the Russian Civil War...
  
  (1934)
• The Three Women
  Girl Friends (1936 film)
  Girl Friends is a 1936 Soviet film directed by Lev Arnshtam. The film tells story of the friendship between three girls from Petrograd who grow up together and become nurses during the Russian Civil War...
  
  (1936)
• Friends
  Friends (1938 film)
  Friends is a 1938 Soviet film directed by Lev Arnshtam.-Plot:The film is based on the life of Sergey Kirov. During the Russian Civil War, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union sends Aleksey to Caucasus Mountains to help organize an armed uprising....
  
  (1938)
• Lenin in 1918
  Lenin in 1918
  Lenin in 1918 is a 130-minute long Soviet revolution film released in 1939. It gives the background of the Russian Civil War after the October Revolution.The film was directed by Mikhail Romm with E. Aron and I. Simkov as co-directors...
  
  (1939)
• Shchors
  Shchors (film)
  Shchors is a 1939 Soviet film by Ukrainian director Alexander Dovzhenko. Commissioned by Joseph Stalin, the film is a biography of the partisan leader and Ukrainian Bolshevik Nikolai Shchors. Shchors is played by Yevgeny Samoylov ....
  
  (1939)
• The Forty-First (1956 film)
  The Forty-First (1956 film)
  The Forty-First, is a 1956 Soviet film based on the novel of the same name by Boris Lavrenyev. The film was directed by Grigori Chukhrai and starred Izolda Izvitskaya and Oleg Strizhenov...
  
  (1956)
• Miles of Fire
  Miles of Fire
  Miles of Fire/The Burning Miles is an early Red Western filmed by Samson Samsonov in 1957. Often considered the earliest of the 'Red Westerns' , it was made before the term was coined...
  
  (1957)
• The Red and the White
  The Red and the White (film)
  The Red and the White is a 1967 film directed by Miklós Jancsó and dealing with the Russian Civil War. The original Hungarian title, Csillagosok, katonák, can be translated as "Stars on their Caps" , which, as with a number of Jancsó film titles, is a quote from a song...
  
  (1967)
• Two Comrades Were Serving
  Two Comrades Were Serving
  Two Comrades Were Serving is a 1968 Soviet film directed by Yevgeni Karelov, script by Yuli Dunsky and Valeri Frid. The film is about the Russian civil war, in particular, the battle for the Crimean peninsula.- Plot :...
  
  (1968)
• The Adjutant of His Excellency
  The Adjutant of His Excellency
  The Adjutant of His Excellency is a Soviet television mini-series which was produced in 1969 and is set during the Russian civil war. The plot revolves around Captain Pavel Koltsov, an agent working for the Soviet secret police who is spying on the white Volunteer Army, posing as an adjutant to a...
  
  (1969 miniseries)
• White Sun of the Desert
  White Sun of the Desert
  White Sun of the Desert , a classic 'Eastern' or Ostern film of the Soviet Union.The film is one of the most popular Russian films of all time. Its blend of action, comedy, music and drama has made it wildly successful and it has since achieved the status of a cult film in Soviet and Russian...
  
  (1969)
• Bumbarash
  Bumbarash
  Bumbarash is a 1971 Soviet adventure film, a musical comedy in two series loosely based on some early works and the novel Bumbarash by Arkady Gaidar.Directed by Abram Naroditsky and Nikolai Rasheyev. Screenplay by Yevgeni Mitko....
  
  (1971)
• The Flight
  The Flight (1970 film)
  The Flight is a 1970 Soviet film, mainly based on writer Mikhail Bulgakov's play Flight, but also on his novel The White Guard and his libretto Black Sea...
  
  (1970)
• Dauria (1971)
• Reds (1981)
• Admiral
  Admiral (film)
  Admiral is a 2008 biopic about Alexander Kolchak, a Vice-Admiral in the Imperial Russian Navy and leader of the anti-communist White Movement during the Russian Civil War...
  
  (2008)
• Doctor Zhivago
  Doctor Zhivago (TV serial)
  Doctor Zhivago is a 2002 British television serial directed by Giacomo Campiotti and starring Keira Knightley and Sam Neill. The teleplay by Andrew Davies is based on the 1957 novel of the same title by Boris Pasternak....
  
  (2002) Television mini series

Finnish Civil War

Finnish Civil War

The Finnish Civil War was a part of the national, political and social turmoil caused by World War I in Europe. The Civil War concerned control and leadership of The Grand Duchy of Finland as it achieved independence from Russia after the October Revolution in Petrograd...

 (1918)

• Under the North Star
  Under the North Star
  Under the North Star is a novel trilogy by Finnish author Väinö Linna published 1959–1962. It follows the life of a Finnish family from 1880 to about 1950 while simultaneously describing the effects of the important ideals and events of that period have on ordinary people...
  
   (1968)
• Lunastus (1997)
• Raja 1918 (2007)
• Tears of April (2008)
• Under the North Star
  Under the North Star
  Under the North Star is a novel trilogy by Finnish author Väinö Linna published 1959–1962. It follows the life of a Finnish family from 1880 to about 1950 while simultaneously describing the effects of the important ideals and events of that period have on ordinary people...
  
   (2009)

Estonian War of Independence (1918–1920)

• Noored Kotkad
  Noored Kotkad
  Noored kotkad in an Estonian war and adventure silent film about Estonian War of Independence, fought in 1918-1920.Film was filmed in 1927 in Tartu, Tartu County, Mustvee and Värska. The film was digitally restored in 2008 by Taska Productions and Digital Film Finland....
  
  (The Young Eagles) (1927)
• Nimed marmortahvlil (Names in Marble) (2002)

Latvian War of Independence (1918–1920)

• Rigas Sargi (Defenders of Riga) (2007)

Irish War of Independence

Irish War of Independence

The Irish War of Independence , Anglo-Irish War, Black and Tan War, or Tan War was a guerrilla war mounted by the Irish Republican Army against the British government and its forces in Ireland. It began in January 1919, following the Irish Republic's declaration of independence. Both sides agreed...

 (1919–1921) and Irish Civil War

Irish Civil War

The Irish Civil War was a conflict that accompanied the establishment of the Irish Free State as an entity independent from the United Kingdom within the British Empire....

 (1922–1923)

• Beloved Enemy
  Beloved Enemy
  Beloved Enemy is a 1936 American drama film directed by H.C. Potter and starring Merle Oberon, Brian Aherne, and David Niven. It was loosely based on the life of Michael Collins.-Plot:...
  
  (1936)
• Michael Collins
  Michael Collins (film)
  Michael Collins is a 1996 historical biopic written and directed by Neil Jordan and starring Liam Neeson as General Michael Collins, the Irish patriot and revolutionary who died in the Irish Civil War. It won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival....
  
  (1996)
• Ryan's Daughter
  Ryan's Daughter
  Ryan's Daughter is a 1970 film directed by David Lean. The film, set in 1916, tells the story of a married Irish woman who has an affair with a British officer during World War I, despite opposition from her nationalist neighbours...
  
  (1970)
• The Wind That Shakes The Barley
  The Wind That Shakes the Barley (film)
  The Wind That Shakes the Barley is a 2006 Irish war drama film directed by Ken Loach, set during the Irish War of Independence and the Irish Civil War...
  
  (2006)
• Shake Hands With The Devil
  Shake Hands with the Devil (1959 film)
  Shake Hands with the Devil is a 1959 film directed by the English director Michael Anderson.It is set in 1921 Dublin, where the Irish Republican Army battles the "Black and Tans," the ex-British soldiers sent to suppress the IRA with excessively harsh measures.The film stars James Cagney as Sean...
  
  (1959)
• The Informer
  The Informer (film)
  The Informer is a 1935 dramatic film, released by RKO. The plot concerns the underside of the Irish War of Independence, set in 1922. It stars Victor McLaglen, Heather Angel, Preston Foster, Margot Grahame, Wallace Ford, Una O'Connor and J. M. Kerrigan. The screenplay was written by Dudley Nichols...
  
  (1935)

Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922)

• You Can't Win 'Em All
  You Can't Win 'Em All
  You Can't Win 'Em All is a 1970 war film, written by Leo Gordon and directed by Peter Collinson, starring Tony Curtis and Charles Bronson as two American soldiers in 1922 Turkey who protect the three daughters of a Turkish governor while thwarting an Turkish army colonel's attempt to take gold on...
  
  (1970)
• Kurtulus TV Mini-Series (1994)

Spanish Civil War

Spanish Civil War

The Spanish Civil WarAlso known as The Crusade among Nationalists, the Fourth Carlist War among Carlists, and The Rebellion or Uprising among Republicans. was a major conflict fought in Spain from 17 July 1936 to 1 April 1939...

 (1936–1939)

• España 1936
  España 1936 (film)
  España 1936 is a Spanish documentary short directed by Jean-Paul Le Chanois and written by by Luis Buñuel, about the early days of the Spanish Civil War. It contains much genuine newsreel footage.-Further reading:...
  
  (1937)
• The Spanish Earth
  The Spanish Earth
  The Spanish Earth was a propaganda film made during the Spanish Civil War in favor of the democratically elected Republicans ....
  
  (Joris Ivens
  Joris Ivens
  Joris Ivens was a Dutch documentary filmmaker and committed communist.-Early life and career:...
  
   (1937)
• Defenders of the Faith (1938)
• L'Assedio dell' Alcazar (1940)
• Raza
  Raza (film)
  Raza is a 1942 Spanish semi-autobiographical war film directed by José Luis Sáenz de Heredia. It is based on a novel by Francisco Franco under the pseudonym of "Jaime de Andrade."The film won the Prize of the National Syndicate of Spectacle....
  
  (1942)
• For Whom the Bell Tolls
  For Whom the Bell Tolls (film)
  For Whom the Bell Tolls is a 1943 film in Technicolor based on the novel of the same name by Ernest Hemingway. It stars Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Akim Tamiroff and Katina Paxinou. This was Ingrid Bergman's first technicolor film. Hemingway handpicked Cooper and Bergman for their roles. The film...
  
  (1943)
• The Fallen Sparrow
  The Fallen Sparrow
  The Fallen Sparrow is a 1943 spy film starring John Garfield, Maureen O'Hara, and Walter Slezak. It was based on the novel of the same name by Dorothy B. Hughes. An American returns home to find out who murdered his friend.-Plot:...
  
  (1943)
• The Angel Wore Red
  The Angel Wore Red
  The Angel Wore Red, also known as La Sposa Bella in its Italian version, is a 1960 Italian-American romantic war drama made by MGM and Titanus. It was directed by Nunnally Johnson and produced by Goffredo Lombardo, from a screenplay by Nunnally Johnson based on the 1953 novel The Fair Bride by...
  
  (1960)
• Five Cartridges
  Five Cartridges
  Five Cartridges is a 1960 East German film directed by Frank Beyer and starring Erwin Geschonneck, Armin Mueller-Stahl and Manfred Krug.-Plot:During the Spanish Civil War, a battalion of the International Brigades is cut off withouts water or ammunition...
  
  (Fünf Patronenhülsen, GDR 1960)
• Behold a Pale Horse
  Behold a Pale Horse (film)
  Behold a Pale Horse is a 1964 film directed by Fred Zinnemann, and starring Gregory Peck, Omar Sharif and Anthony Quinn. The film is based on the novel Killing a Mouse on Sunday by Emeric Pressburger, which loosely details the life of the Spanish anarchist guerrilla, Francisco Sabaté Llopart‎. The...
  
  , (1964)
• Viva la Muerte (1971)
• The Spirit of the Beehive
  The Spirit of the Beehive
  The Spirit of the Beehive is a 1973 Spanish drama film directed by Victor Erice. The film was Erice's debut and is considered a masterpiece of Spanish cinema...
  
  (1973)
• The Guernica Tree (1975)
• La Colmena
  La colmena (film)
  La Colmena is a 1982 Spanish film directed by Mario Camus. Based on the novel The Hive by Camilo José Cela, it depicts the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War and its impact on several characters. Cela has a small role as Matías.- Synopsis :The film is set in Madrid during the postwar period,...
  
  (1982)
• Bicycles Are for the Summer (1984)
• The Good Fight: The Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War (1984)
• The Heifer (1985)
• The Spanish Civil War (1987)
• Si Te Dicen Que Cai (1989)
• ¡Ay, Carmela! (1990)
• Belle Époque
  Belle Epoque (film)
  Belle Époque is a 1992 Spanish film directed by Fernando Trueba. The title derives from the period in French history known as the Belle Époque .-Plot:...
  
  (1992)
• Land and Freedom
  Land and Freedom
  Land and Freedom is a 1995 film directed by Ken Loach and written by Jim Allen. The film narrates the story of David Carr, an unemployed worker and member of the Communist Party of Great Britain, who decides to fight for the republican side in the Spanish Civil War...
  
  (1995)
• À la vie, à la mort! (1995)
• Fiesta (1995)
• Libertarias
  Libertarias
  Libertarias is a Spanish historical drama made in 1996. It was written and directed by Vicente Aranda.In 1936, Maria , a young nun is recruited by Pilar , a militant feminist, into an anarchist militia following the onset of the Spanish Civil War...
  
  (1996)
• Amor y Venganza (1996)
• Vivir la Utopia (1998)
• La hora de los valientes
  La hora de los valientes
  La hora de los valientes is a 1998 Spanish war drama film directed by Antonio Mercero about the Spanish Civil War. Adriana Ozores won a Goya Award as Best Supporting Actress.-Plot summary:...
  
  (1998)
• Butterfly's Tongue (1998), same as: La Lengua de las Mariposas
  Butterfly (1999 film)
  Butterfly's Tongue is the English language DVD release title for , a 1999 Spanish film directed by José Luis Cuerda. The film centres on Moncho and his coming-of-age experience in Galicia in 1936...
  
  (1999)
• El Mar (2000)
• El Portero (2000)
• The Devil's Backbone
  The Devil's Backbone
  The Devil's Backbone is a 2001 Spanish-Mexican gothic thriller film written by Guillermo del Toro, Antonio Trashorras and David Muñoz, and directed by Guillermo del Toro. It was independently produced by Pedro Almodóvar....
  
  (2001)
• Soldados de Salamina
  Soldados de Salamina
  Soldiers of Salamis is a novel published in 2001 by Spanish author Javier Cercas. A film adaptation Soldados de Salamina was released in 2003. The novel was well received in Spanish literary circles and the English translation by Anne McLean won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for...
  
  (2002)
• Carol's Journey (2002)
• Head in the Clouds
  Head in the Clouds
  Head in the Clouds is a 2004 drama film written and directed by John Duigan. The original screenplay focuses on the choices young lovers must make as they find themselves surrounded by increasing political unrest in late-1930s Europe.-Plot synopsis:...
  
  (2004)
• Pan's Labyrinth
  Pan's Labyrinth
  Pan's Labyrinth is a 2006 Spanish Spanish-language dark fantasy film, written and directed by Mexican film-maker Guillermo del Toro. It was produced and distributed by the Mexican film company Esperanto Films...
  
  (2006)
• An Anarchist's Story (2007)
• There Be Dragons
  There Be Dragons
  There Be Dragons is a historical epic written and directed by Roland Joffé, a British filmmaker well known for directing The Mission, The Killing Fields and Captivity. It is a drama set during the Spanish Civil War which features themes such as betrayal, love and hatred, forgiveness, friendship,...
  
  (2011)

Second Sino-Japanese War

Second Sino-Japanese War

The Second Sino-Japanese War was a military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. From 1937 to 1941, China fought Japan with some economic help from Germany , the Soviet Union and the United States...

 (1937–1945)

• Caterpillar
  Caterpillar (film)
  is a 2010 Japanese drama film directed by Kōji Wakamatsu, partially drawn from Edogawa Rampo's banned short-story .The film is a critique of the right-wing militarist nationalism that guided Japan's conduct in Asia during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II. The film deals with various...
  
  (2010)
• The Children of Huang Shi
  The Children of Huang Shi
  The Children of Huang Shi is a Chinese 2008 film...
  
  (2008)
• City of Life and Death (2009)
• Purple Sunset
  Purple Sunset
  Purple Sunset is a 2001 Chinese film written and directed by Feng Xiaoning. Feng also acted as the film's cinematographer.Purple Sunset is a anti-war film set in August 1945, at the time when the Japanese were in the throes of defeat during World War II and losing control of mainland China...
  
  (2001)
• Devils on the Doorstep (2000)
• Don't Cry, Nanking
  Don't Cry, Nanking
  Don't Cry, Nanking, also known as Nanjing 1937 , is a 1995 Chinese film about the 1937 Nanking Massacre committed by the Imperial Japanese Army in the former capital city Nanjing, China.-Plot:...
  
  (1995)
• Empire of the Sun
  Empire of the Sun (film)
  Empire of the Sun is a 1987 American coming of age war film based on J. G. Ballard's semi-autobiographical novel of the same name. Steven Spielberg directed the film, which stars Christian Bale, John Malkovich, Miranda Richardson, and Nigel Havers...
  
  (1987)
• Evening Bell
  Evening Bell
  Evening Bell is a 1988 Chinese war film directed by Wu Ziniu. The film stars Tao Zeru, Chong Peipei, and others, and was produced in part by the August First Film Studio, a production company associated with the People's Liberation Army....
  
  (1988)
• Letter with Feather
  Letter with Feather
  Leather with Feather is a 1954 Chinese film directed by Shi Hui and written by the playwright and filmmaker, Zhang Junxiang...
  
  (1954)
• Lover's Grief over the Yellow River
  Lover's Grief over the Yellow River
  Lover's Grief over the Yellow River is a 1999 Chinese film directed by Feng Xiaoning. It was China's official Best Foreign Language Film submission at the 72nd Academy Awards, but did not manage to receive a nomination.-External links:...
  
  (1999)
• Men Behind the Sun (1988)
• On the Mountain of Tai Hang
  On the Mountain of Tai Hang
  On the Mountain of Tai Hang is a 2005 Chinese film about the newly formed Eighth Route Army, led by general commander Zhu De, marching east cross the Yellow River to form Mount Tai Hang military region during the Second Sino-Japanese War. It was produced by the People's Liberation Army-associated...
  
  (2005)
• One and Eight
  One and Eight
  One and Eight is a landmark Chinese film from 1983. The film tells the story of eight criminals and a deserting Chinese officer in the communist Eighth Route Army caught in the midst of the Second Sino-Japanese War. Directed by Zhang Junzhao, One and Eight also features cinematography by the...
  
  (1983)
• Red Sorghum
  Red Sorghum
  Red Sorghum is a 1987 Chinese film about a young woman's life working on a distillery for sorghum liquor. It is based on a novel by Mo Yan....
  
  (1987)
• Tunnel War
  Tunnel War
  Tunnel War , also known as Tunnel Warfare, is a 1965 Chinese film produced before the Cultural Revolution about a small town which defends itself from the Japanese by use of a network of tunnels during the Second Sino-Japanese War...
  
  (1965)
• John Rabe
  John Rabe (film)
  John Rabe is a 2009 German-Chinese-French biopictorial film directed by Florian Gallenberger and starring Ulrich Tukur, Daniel Brühl and Steve Buscemi....
  
  (2009)

World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

 (1939–1945)

Because World War II was a major war, it is also recommended to see List of World War II films for a more detailed list of films.
(Also see World War II films)

• 08/15 (1954)
• 08/15 - Part two (1955)
• 08/15 - Back home (1955)
• 13 Rue Madeleine
  13 Rue Madeleine
  13 Rue Madeleine is a 1947 World War II spy film starring James Cagney, Annabella and Richard Conte.The title refers to the Le Havre address where a Gestapo headquarters is located.-Plot:...
  
  (1947)
• 1941
  1941 (film)
  1941 is a 1979 period comedy film directed by Steven Spielberg, written by Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale, and featuring an ensemble cast including John Belushi, Ned Beatty, John Candy, Toshiro Mifune, Christopher Lee and Dan Aykroyd...
  
  (1979)
• 633 Squadron
  633 Squadron
  633 Squadron is a 1964 British film which depicts the exploits of a fictional Second World War British fighter-bomber squadron. It was based on a novel of the same name by Frederick E. Smith, published in 1956, which itself drew on several real Royal Air Force missions. The film was directed by...
  
  (1963)
• Action in the North Atlantic
  Action in the North Atlantic
  Action in the North Atlantic is a 1943 war film directed by Lloyd Bacon, featuring Humphrey Bogart and Raymond Massey as sailors in the U.S. Merchant Marine in World War II.-Plot:...
  
  (1943) depiction of the Battle of the Atlantic
• Air Force
  Air force
  An air force, also known in some countries as an air army, is in the broadest sense, the national military organization that primarily conducts aerial warfare. More specifically, it is the branch of a nation's armed services that is responsible for aerial warfare as distinct from an army, navy or...
  
  (1943) depiction of Attack on Pearl Harbor
  Attack on Pearl Harbor
  The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941...
  
  
• Ambush (1999)
• Anzio
  Anzio (film)
  Anzio, also known as Lo Sbarco di Anzio or The Battle for Anzio, is a 1968 war film about Operation Shingle, the 1944 Allied seaborne assault on the Italian port of Anzio in World War II...
  
  (1968), depiction of the Battle of Anzio
• L'Armée des ombres
  L'Armée des ombres
  Army of Shadows is a 1969 French film directed by Jean-Pierre Melville. It is a film adaptation of Joseph Kessel's 1943 book of the same name, which blends Kessel's own experiences as a member of the French Resistance with fictionalized versions of other Resistance members...
  
  (1969), depiction of the French Resistance
  French Resistance
  The French Resistance is the name used to denote the collection of French resistance movements that fought against the Nazi German occupation of France and against the collaborationist Vichy régime during World War II...
  
  
• Atentat
  Atentat
  Atentát is a 1964 black-and-white Czech film directed by Jiří Sequens. The World War II story depicts events before and after the assassination of top German leader Reinhard Heydrich in Prague .-Synopsis:...
  
  (1964), depiction of the Operation Anthropoid
  Operation Anthropoid
  Operation Anthropoid was the code name for the targeted killing of top German SS leader Reinhard Heydrich. He was the chief of the Reich Main Security Office , the acting Protector of Bohemia and Moravia, and a chief planner of the Final Solution, the Nazi German programme for the genocide of the...
  
  
• Atonement (film)
  Atonement (film)
  Atonement is a 2007 British romantic suspense war film directed by Joe Wright. It is a film adaptation of the 2001 novel of the same name by Ian McEwan. The film stars James McAvoy, Keira Knightley, and Saoirse Ronan. It was produced by Working Title Films and filmed throughout the summer of 2006...
  
  (2007), depiction of Dunkirk before the evacuation
• Attack!
  Attack (1956 film)
  Attack, also known as Attack!, is a 1956 American war film. It was directed by Robert Aldrich and starred Jack Palance, Eddie Albert, Lee Marvin, William Smithers, Robert Strauss, Richard Jaeckel, Buddy Ebsen and Peter van Eyck...
  
  (1956)
• Attack Force Z
  Attack Force Z
  Attack Force Z is a 1982 Australian World War II film, directed by Tim Burstall. It is based on an actual event that took place during World War II, and was shot in Taiwan in 1980...
  
  (1981) depiction of a commando raid involving Z Special Unit
  Z Special Unit
  Z Special Unit was a joint Allied special forces unit formed during the Second World War to operate behind Japanese lines in South East Asia...
  
  
• Attack on the Iron Coast
  Attack on the Iron Coast
  Attack on the Iron Coast is a 1967 British-American Oakmont Productions international co-production war film directed by Paul Wendkos in the first of his five picture contract with Mirisch Productions, and starring Lloyd Bridges, Andrew Keir, Sue Lloyd, Mark Eden and Maurice Denham...
  
  (1967)
• Australia
  Australia (2008 film)
  Australia is a 2008 epic historical romance film directed by Baz Luhrmann and starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman. It is the second-highest grossing Australian film of all time, behind Crocodile Dundee. The screenplay was written by Luhrmann and screenwriter Stuart Beattie, with Ronald Harwood...
  
  (2008) depiction of the Bombing of Darwin
• Ballad of a Soldier
  Ballad of a Soldier
  Ballad of a Soldier , is a 1959 Soviet film directed by Grigori Chukhrai and starring Vladimir Ivashov and Zhanna Prokhorenko. While set during World War II, Ballad of a Soldier is not primarily a war film...
  
  (1959) ("Баллада о солдате" in Russia)
• Band of Brothers (2001 TV miniseries)
• Barefoot Gen (Hadashi no Gen) (1976), depiction of the dropping of Little Boy
  Little Boy
  "Little Boy" was the codename of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 by the Boeing B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay, piloted by Colonel Paul Tibbets of the 393rd Bombardment Squadron, Heavy, of the United States Army Air Forces. It was the first atomic bomb to be used as a weapon...
  
   on Hiroshima
  Hiroshima
  is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture, and the largest city in the Chūgoku region of western Honshu, the largest island of Japan. It became best known as the first city in history to be destroyed by a nuclear weapon when the United States Army Air Forces dropped an atomic bomb on it at 8:15 A.M...
  
  , Japan
  Japan
  Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
  
  
• La Battaglia di El Alamein (1969)
• La Bataille du rail
  La Bataille du rail
  La Bataille du rail is a 1946 war movie which tells the courageous efforts by French railway workers to sabotage Nazi reinforcement-troop trains....
  
  (1945)
• Battle at Bloody Beach
  Battle at Bloody Beach
  Battle at Bloody Beach is a 1961 Drama directed by Herbert Coleman, starring Audie Murphy and Gary Crosby. Battle at Bloody Beach is only the second Audie Murphy movie set in WWII, after his autobiographical To Hell and Back.-Plot:...
  
  (1961)
• Battle of the Bulge
  Battle of the Bulge (film)
  Battle of the Bulge is a widescreen war film produced in Spain that was released in 1965. It was directed by Ken Annakin. It starred Henry Fonda, Robert Shaw, Telly Savalas, Robert Ryan, Dana Andrews and Charles Bronson...
  
  (1965), depiction of the Battle of the Bulge
  Battle of the Bulge
  The Battle of the Bulge was a major German offensive , launched toward the end of World War II through the densely forested Ardennes mountain region of Wallonia in Belgium, hence its French name , and France and...
  
  
• Battleground (1949)
• Battle of the River Plate
  Battle of the River Plate
  The Battle of the River Plate was the first naval battle in the Second World War. The German pocket battleship had been commerce raiding since the start of the war in September 1939...
  
  (1956)
• The Battle of El Alamein (1969)
• Beach Red
  Beach Red
  Beach Red is a 1967 World War II film starring Cornel Wilde and Rip Torn. The film depicts a landing by the U.S. Marine Corps on an unnamed Japanese held Pacific island...
  
  (1967)
• The Best of Enemies
  The Best of Enemies
  The Best of Enemies is a 1961 film directed by Guy Hamilton that was an Italian and British co-production set during the WWII East African Campaign but filmed in Israel. It stars David Niven and Michael Wilding. It was nominated for three Golden Globe awards in 1963-Cast:*David Niven as Maj....
  
  (1962)
• The Best Years of Our Lives
  The Best Years of Our Lives
  The Best Years of Our Lives is a 1946 American drama film directed by William Wyler, and starring Fredric March, Myrna Loy, Dana Andrews, Teresa Wright, and Harold Russell, a United States paratrooper who lost both hands in a military training accident. The film is about three United States...
  
  (1946)
• The Big Red One
  The Big Red One
  The Big Red One is a World War II war film starring Lee Marvin and Mark Hamill. Written and directed by Samuel Fuller, it was produced by Lorimar and released by United Artists in the US on July 18, 1980...
  
  (1980)
• Black Book (2006)
• Black Brigade
  Black Brigade (film)
  Black Brigade is the DVD release title of the television movie Carter's Army, which aired as an ABC Movie of the Week on January 27, 1970...
  
  (1970)
• Blood Oath
  Blood Oath (film)
  Blood Oath is a 1990 Australian feature film, known in some countries as Prisoners of the Sun. The film is based on the real-life trial of Japanese soldiers for war crimes committed against Allied prisoners of war on the island of Ambon, in the Netherlands East Indies , such as the Laha massacre of...
  
  (1990; also known as Prisoners of the Sun)
• The Bridge (Die Brücke)
  Die Brücke (film)
  Die Brücke is a West-German anti-war novel written by Gregor Dorfmeister, under the pseudonym of Manfred Gregor, and published in 1958 by Heyne Bücher....
  
  (1959)
• The Bridge at Remagen
  The Bridge at Remagen
  The Bridge at Remagen is a 1969 war film starring George Segal, Ben Gazzara and Robert Vaughn. It was directed by John Guillermin and was shot on location in Czechoslovakia....
  
  (1969)
• The Bridge on the River Kwai
  The Bridge on the River Kwai
  The Bridge on the River Kwai is a 1957 British World War II film by David Lean based on The Bridge over the River Kwai by French writer Pierre Boulle. The film is a work of fiction but borrows the construction of the Burma Railway in 1942–43 for its historical setting. It stars William...
  
  (1957)
• A Bridge Too Far (1977), depiction of the Battle of Arnhem/Operation Market Garden
  Operation Market Garden
  Operation Market Garden was an unsuccessful Allied military operation, fought in the Netherlands and Germany in the Second World War. It was the largest airborne operation up to that time....
  
  
• The Bunker
  The Bunker
  The Bunker is an account, written by American journalist James P. O'Donnell, of the history of the Führerbunker in early 1945, as well as the last days of German dictator Adolf Hitler...
  
  (1980 television film)
• The Caine Mutiny
  The Caine Mutiny (film)
  The Caine Mutiny is a 1954 American drama film set during World War II, directed by Edward Dmytryk and produced by Stanley Kramer. It stars Humphrey Bogart, José Ferrer, Van Johnson and Fred MacMurray, and is based on the 1951 Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Herman Wouk The Caine Mutiny. The film...
  
  (1954)
• The Red Ball Express (1952) Military truck drivers kept the Allied armies supplied in Europe during World War II Starring Sidney Poitier
  Sidney Poitier
  Sir Sidney Poitier, KBE is a Bahamian American actor, film director, author, and diplomat.In 1963, Poitier became the first black person to win an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in Lilies of the Field...
  
  .
• Captain America: The First Avenger
  Captain America: The First Avenger
  Captain America: The First Avenger is a 2011 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Captain America. It is the fifth installment of the Marvel Cinematic Universe...
  
  (2011)
• Captain Corelli's Mandolin
  Captain Corelli's Mandolin (film)
  Captain Corelli's Mandolin is a 2001 film directed by John Madden and based on the novel of the same name by Louis de Bernières. It stars Nicolas Cage and Penélope Cruz.-Plot:...
  
  (2001)
• Captains of the Clouds
  Captains of the Clouds
  Captains of the Clouds is a 1942 Warner Bros. war film in Technicolor, directed by Michael Curtiz and starring James Cagney. It was produced by William Cagney , with Hal B. Wallis as executive producer. The screenplay was written by Arthur T. Horman, Richard Macaulay and Norman Reilly Raine,...
  
  (1942)
• The Captive Heart
  The Captive Heart
  The Captive Heart is a 1946 British war drama, directed by Basil Dearden for Ealing Studios. The film was entered into the 1946 Cannes Film Festival.-Plot:...
  
  (1946)
• Carve Her Name With Pride
  Carve Her Name with Pride
  Carve Her Name with Pride is a 1958 British drama film based on the book of the same name by R.J. Minney. Set during World War II, the film is based on the true story of the heroism of Special Operations Executive agent Violette Szabo, with Virginia McKenna in the lead role.The film includes the...
  
  (1958)
• Casablanca
  Casablanca (film)
  Casablanca is a 1942 American romantic drama film directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman and Paul Henreid, and featuring Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre and Dooley Wilson. Set during World War II, it focuses on a man torn between, in...
  
  (1943)
• Castle Keep
  Castle Keep
  Castle Keep is a 'firmly pro- and anti-war' 1969 American war film directed by Sydney Pollack, starring Burt Lancaster, Patrick O'Neal, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Bruce Dern, and Peter Falk...
  
  (1969)
• Catch-22
  Catch-22 (film)
  Catch-22 is a 1970 satirical war film adapted from the book of the same name by Joseph Heller. Considered a black comedy revolving around the "lunatic characters" of Heller's satirical anti-war novel, it was the work of a talented production team which included director Mike Nichols and...
  
  (1970)
• The Children of Huang Shi
  The Children of Huang Shi
  The Children of Huang Shi is a Chinese 2008 film...
  
  (2008)
• The Colditz Story
  The Colditz Story
  The Colditz Story is a 1955 prisoner of war film starring John Mills and Eric Portman and directed by Guy Hamilton.It is based on the book written by P.R...
  
  (1954)
• Come and See
  Come and See
  Come and See directed by Elem Klimov, is a 1985 Soviet war movie and psychological horror drama about and occurring during the Nazi German occupation of the Byelorussian SSR. Aleksei Kravchenko and Olga Mironova star as the protagonists Florya and Glasha. The screenplay is by Ales Adamovich and...
  
  (1985) ("Иди и смотри" in Russia)
• Command Decision
  Command Decision (film)
  Command Decision is a 1948 war film starring Clark Gable, Walter Pidgeon, Van Johnson and Brian Donlevy and directed by Sam Wood, based on a stage play of the same name written by William Wister Haines, which he based on his best-selling novel. The screenplay for the film was written by George...
  
  (1948)
• Commandos Strike at Dawn
  Commandos Strike at Dawn
  Commandos Strike at Dawn is a 1942 war film directed by John Farrow and written by Irwin Shaw from a story by C.S. Forester, starring Paul Muni, Anna Lee, Lillian Gish, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, and Robert Coote.-Plot:...
  
  (1942)
• Confessions of a Nazi Spy
  Confessions of a Nazi Spy
  Confessions of a Nazi Spy is a 1939 American spy thriller film and the first blatantly anti-Nazi film produced by a major Hollywood studio prior to World War II. The film stars Edward G. Robinson, Francis Lederer, George Sanders, and a large cast of German actors, including some who had emigrated...
  
  (1939)
• Corvette K-225
  Corvette K-225
  Corvette K -225 is a 1943 film starring Randolph Scott and Ella Raines. It was released in the UK as The Nelson Touch. Tony Gaudio was nominated for the 1943 Academy Award for Best Cinematography for his work on the film....
  
  
• The Cranes Are Flying
  The Cranes are Flying
  The Cranes Are Flying is a Soviet film about World War II. It depicts the cruelty of war and the damage suffered to the Soviet psyche as a result of World War II . It was directed at Mosfilm by the Georgian-born Soviet director Mikhail Kalatozov in 1957 and stars Aleksey Batalov and Tatiana...
  
  (1957) ("Летят журавли" in Russia)
• Crash Dive
  Crash Dive
  Crash Dive is a World War II film in Technicolor released in 1943. It was directed by Archie Mayo, written by Jo Swerling and W.R. Burnett, and starred Tyrone Power, Dana Andrews and Anne Baxter...
  
  (1943)
• Cross of Iron
  Cross of Iron
  Cross of Iron is a 1977 war film directed by Sam Peckinpah, featuring James Coburn, Maximilian Schell, James Mason and David Warner. The film is set on the Eastern Front in World War II during the Soviet's Caucasus operations that forced the Wehrmacht to retreat from the Taman Peninsula on the...
  
  (1977)
• The Cruel Sea
  The Cruel Sea (book)
  The Cruel Sea is a 1951 novel by Nicholas Monsarrat. It follows the lives of a group of Royal Navy sailors fighting the Battle of the Atlantic during World War II....
  
  (1953)
• The Dam Busters
  The Dam Busters (film)
  The Dam Busters is a 1955 British Second World War war film starring Michael Redgrave and Richard Todd and directed by Michael Anderson. The film recreates the true story of Operation Chastise when in 1943 the RAF's 617 Squadron attacked the Möhne, Eder and Sorpe dams in Germany with Wallis's...
  
  (1954)
• Danger Within
  Danger Within
  Danger Within is a 1959 British war film set in a prisoner of war camp in northern Italy during the summer of 1943.-Plot:After a clever escape plan fails, the escape committee, led by Lieutenant Colonel David Baird suspects that there is an informer in their ranks...
  
  (1958)
• Dark Blue World
  Dark Blue World
  Dark Blue World is a 2001 film by Czech director Jan Svěrák about Czechoslovak pilots who fought for the British Royal Air Force during World War II. The screenplay was written by Zdeněk Svěrák, the father of the director....
  
  (2001)
• Das Boot
  Das Boot
  Das Boot is a 1981 German epic war film written and directed by Wolfgang Petersen, produced by Günter Rohrbach, and starring Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer, and Klaus Wennemann...
  
  (1981)
• Days of Glory (2006)
• D-Day the Sixth of June
  D-Day the Sixth of June
  D-Day the Sixth of June is a 1956 romantic war film made by 20th Century Fox. It was directed by Henry Koster and produced by Charles Brackett from a screenplay by Ivan Moffat and Harry Brown, based on the novel, The Sixth of June by Lionel Shapiro....
  
  (1956)
• Decision Before Dawn
  Decision Before Dawn
  Decision Before Dawn is a 1951 American war film directed by Anatole Litvak, starring Richard Basehart, Oskar Werner, and Hans Christian Blech. It tells the story of the American Army using potentially unreliable German prisoners of war to gather intelligence in the closing days of World War II...
  
  
• Defiance
  Defiance (2008 film)
  Defiance is a 2008 World War II era film written, produced, and directed by Edward Zwick, set during the occupation of Belarus by Nazi Germany. The film is an account of the Bielski partisans, a group led by three Jewish brothers who saved and recruited Jews in Poland during the Second World War...
  
  (2008)
• The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
  The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
  The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel is a 1951 biographical film about Field Marshal Erwin Rommel in the later stages of World War II. It stars James Mason in the title role, was directed by Henry Hathaway, and was based on the book Rommel by Brigadier Desmond Young, who served in the Indian Army in...
  
  (1951)
• The Desert Rats (film)
  The Desert Rats (film)
  The Desert Rats is a 1953 American war film about the World War II siege of Tobruk. It stars Richard Burton and was directed by Robert Wise.-Plot:...
  
  (1953)
• Destination Tokyo
  Destination Tokyo
  Destination Tokyo is a 1943 submarine war film. It was directed by Delmer Daves and written by Daves, Steve Fisher and Albert Maltz, and stars Cary Grant and John Garfield with featured performances by Dane Clark, Robert Hutton and Warner Anderson. Production began on June 21, 1943 and continued...
  
  (1943)
• The Devil's Brigade (film)
  The Devil's Brigade (film)
  The Devil's Brigade is a 1968 American war film based on the 1966 book of the same name co-written by American novelist and historian Robert H. Adleman and Col...
  
  (1968)
• Dieppe
  Dieppe (film)
  Dieppe is a two-part Canadian television mini-series that aired on CBC Television in 1993. It was based on the book Unauthorized Action: Mountbatten and the Dieppe Raid by Brian Loring Villa...
  
  (1993) (television film) – by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)
• The Dirty Dozen
  The Dirty Dozen
  The Dirty Dozen is a 1967 film directed by Robert Aldrich and released by MGM. It was filmed in England and features an ensemble cast, including Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson, Jim Brown, John Cassavetes, Telly Savalas, and Robert Webber. The film is based on E. M...
  
  (1967)
• Downfall (2004) (Der Untergang)
• Dunkirk
  Dunkirk (film)
  Dunkirk is a 1958 British war film directed by Leslie Norman and starring John Mills, Richard Attenborough and Bernard Lee. It was based on two novels: Elleston Trevor's The Big Pick-Up and Lt. Col. Ewan Hunter and Maj. J. S...
  
  (1958)
• The Eagle Has Landed
  The Eagle Has Landed
  The Eagle Has Landed is a book by Jack Higgins set during World War II. It first published in 1975. It was made into a film of the same name in 1976 starring Michael Caine...
  
  (1976)
• Empire of the Sun
  Empire of the Sun (film)
  Empire of the Sun is a 1987 American coming of age war film based on J. G. Ballard's semi-autobiographical novel of the same name. Steven Spielberg directed the film, which stars Christian Bale, John Malkovich, Miranda Richardson, and Nigel Havers...
  
  (1987)
• To End All Wars
  To End All Wars
  To End All Wars is a 2001 war film starring Robert Carlyle, Kiefer Sutherland and Sakae Kimura and directed by David L. Cunningham.- Storyline :...
  
  (2001)
• The Edge Of Love
  The Edge of Love
  The Edge of Love is a 2008 John Maybury film starring Keira Knightley, Sienna Miller, Cillian Murphy and Matthew Rhys from a script by Sharman Macdonald, Knightley's mother...
  
  
• Enemy at the Gates
  Enemy at the Gates
  Enemy at the Gates is a 2001 war film directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud, starring Joseph Fiennes, Jude Law, Rachel Weisz, Bob Hoskins and Ed Harris set during the Battle of Stalingrad in World War II....
  
  (2001), depiction of the Battle of Stalingrad
  Battle of Stalingrad
  The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in southwestern Russia. The battle took place between 23 August 1942 and 2 February 1943...
  
  
• The Enemy Below
  The Enemy Below
  The Enemy Below is a 1957 war film which tells the story of the battle between the captain of an American destroyer escort and the commander of a German U-boat during World War II. It stars Robert Mitchum, Curt Jürgens, David Hedison and Theodore Bikel. The movie was directed and produced by Dick...
  
  (1957)
• Escape from Sobibor
  Escape from Sobibor
  Escape from Sobibor is a 1987 British made-for-TV film which aired on CBS. It deals with the extermination camp at Sobibor, the site of the most successful uprising by Jewish prisoners of German extermination camps...
  
  (1987)
• Escape to Victory
  Escape to Victory
  Escape to Victory, known simply as Victory in North America, is a 1981 film about Allied prisoners of war who are interned in a German prison camp during World War II...
  
  (1981)
• Etulinjan edessä
• Father Goose
  Father Goose (film)
  Father Goose is a 1964 romantic comedy film set in World War II, starring Cary Grant, Leslie Caron and Trevor Howard. The title derives from "Mother Goose", the codename assigned to Grant's character...
  
  (1964)
• The Fifth Day of Peace
  The Fifth Day of Peace
  The Fifth day of Peace, Italian title: Dio è con noi, is an Italo-Yugoslavian movie from 1969.-Synopsis:Two German deserters, Ensign Bruno Grauber and Corporal Reiner Schultz are captured by the Canadians at the end of World War 2...
  
  (1969)
• The Fighting Seabees
  The Fighting Seabees
  The Fighting Seabees is a 1944 war film starring John Wayne and Susan Hayward. The picture portrays a heavily fictionalized account of the dilemma that led to the creation of the U.S. Navy's "Seabees" in World War II...
  
  (1944)
• The Fighting Sullivans
  The Fighting Sullivans
  The Fighting Sullivans, originally released as The Sullivans, is a 1944 American biographical war film directed by Lloyd Bacon and written by Edward Doherty, Mary C. McCall Jr. and Jules Schermer...
  
  (1942)
• Flags of Our Fathers
  Flags of Our Fathers
  Flags of Our Fathers is a New York Times bestselling book by James Bradley with Ron Powers about the five United States Marines and one United States Navy Corpsman who would eventually be made famous by Joe Rosenthal's lauded photograph of the flag raising at Iwo Jima, one of the costliest and...
  
  (2006)
• Flying Leathernecks
  Flying Leathernecks
  Flying Leathernecks is a 1951 action film directed by Nicholas Ray, produced by Edmund Grainger, and starring John Wayne and Robert Ryan. The movie details the exploits and personal battles of United States Marine Corps aviators during World War II...
  
  (1951)
• Flying Tigers
  Flying Tigers
  The 1st American Volunteer Group of the Chinese Air Force in 1941–1942, famously nicknamed the Flying Tigers, was composed of pilots from the United States Army , Navy , and Marine Corps , recruited under presidential sanction and commanded by Claire Lee Chennault. The ground crew and headquarters...
  
  (1942)
• For Those We Love
  For Those We Love
  For Those We Love is a 1921 silent film rural drama produced by and starring Betty Compson and distributed by Goldwyn Pictures. It co-starred Lon Chaney and was directed by Arthur Rosson. Today it is a lost film. -Cast:*Betty Compson - Bernice Arnold...
  
  (2007)
• Force Ten from Navarone (1978)
• Flame & Citron
  Flame & Citron
  Flame & Citron is a 2008 Danish drama/action co-written and directed by Ole Christian Madsen. The film, a fictionalized account based on fact, is about two Danish resistance movement fighters during the Nazi occupation of Denmark.- Plot :...
  
  
• Foreign Correspondent
  Foreign Correspondent (film)
  Foreign Correspondent is a 1940 American spy thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock which tells the story of an American reporter who tries to expose enemy spies in Britain, a series of events involving a continent-wide conspiracy that eventually leads to the events of a fictionalized World War...
  
  (1940)
• 49th Parallel
  49th Parallel (film)
  49th Parallel is the third film made by the British writer-director team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. It was released in the United States as The Invaders. Despite the title, no scene in the movie is set at the 49th parallel, which forms much of the U.S.-Canadian border...
  
  (1941)
• The Frogmen (1951)
• From Here to Eternity
  From Here to Eternity
  From Here to Eternity is a 1953 drama film directed by Fred Zinnemann and based on the novel of the same name by James Jones. It deals with the troubles of soldiers, played by Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Frank Sinatra and Ernest Borgnine stationed on Hawaii in the months leading up to the...
  
  (1953), depiction of the Attack on Pearl Harbor
  Attack on Pearl Harbor
  The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941...
  
  
• Good
  Good (film)
  Good is a British-German-Hungarian motion picture based on the stage play by C. P. Taylor and starring Viggo Mortensen, Jason Isaacs and Jodie Whittaker...
  
  (2008)
• La Grande Vadrouille
  La Grande Vadrouille
  La Grande Vadrouille is a 1966 Franco-British comedy film about how the crew of a Royal Air Force B-17 shot down over Paris must then make their way through German-occupied France with the main help of two French citizens with very different mindsets.For over forty...
  
  (1966)
• Grave of the Fireflies
  Grave of the Fireflies
  is a 1988 Japanese animated war tragedy film written and directed by Isao Takahata. This is the first film produced by Shinchosha, who hired Studio Ghibli to do the animation production work...
  
  (1988)
• The Great Escape
  The Great Escape (film)
  The Great Escape is a 1963 American film about an escape by Allied prisoners of war from a German POW camp during World War II, starring Steve McQueen, James Garner, and Richard Attenborough...
  
  (1963)
• Gränsen (2011), Swedish film depicting Swedish insurgencies into occupied Norway
• Guadalcanal Diary
  Guadalcanal Diary (film)
  Guadalcanal Diary is a 1943 World War II war film starring Preston Foster, Lloyd Nolan, William Bendix, Richard Conte, Anthony Quinn and the film debut of Richard Jaeckel...
  
  (1943)
• Gung Ho!
  Gung Ho! (1943 film)
  Gung Ho! is a 1943 war film starring Randolph Scott. The story is based on the real-life World War II Makin Island raid led by Lieutenant Colonel Evans Carlson's 2nd Marine Raider Battalion.-Plot:The film begins with a tough Greek Lieutenant Gung Ho! (full title: Gung Ho!: The Story of Carlson's...
  
  (1943)
• The Guns of Navarone
  The Guns of Navarone (film)
  The Guns of Navarone is a 1961 British-American Action/Adventure war film based on the 1957 novel of the same name about the Dodecanese Campaign of World War II by Scottish thriller writer Alistair MacLean. It stars Gregory Peck, David Niven and Anthony Quinn, along with Anthony Quayle and Stanley...
  
  (1961)
• Halls of Montezuma
  Halls of Montezuma (film)
  Halls of Montezuma is a 1951 World War II war film starring Richard Widmark, Jack Palance and Karl Malden. The film, which is about U.S. marines fighting on a Japanese-held island, was directed by academy-award winner Lewis Milestone. It also starred Robert Wagner in his first credited screen role...
  
  (1950)
• Hangmen Also Die
  Hangmen Also Die
  Hangmen Also Die! is a 1943 war film directed by the Austrian director Fritz Lang and written by John Wexley, Bertolt Brecht and Lang. The film stars Hans Heinrich von Twardowski, Brian Donlevy, Walter Brennan and Anna Lee, and features Gene Lockhart and Dennis O'Keefe...
  
  (1943)
• Hart's War
  Hart's War
  Hart's War is a 2002 film about a World War II prisoner of war based on the novel by John Katzenbach starring Bruce Willis, Colin Farrell, Terrence Howard and Marcel Iureş...
  
  (2002)
• Hell in the Pacific
  Hell in the Pacific
  Hell in the Pacific is a 1968 World War II film starring Lee Marvin and Toshirō Mifune, the only two actors in the entire film. It was directed by John Boorman....
  
  (1968)
• Hell Is for Heroes
  Hell Is for Heroes (film)
  Hell Is for Heroes is a 1962 war film directed by Don Siegel and starring Steve McQueen. It tells the story of a squad of American soldiers, who in the fall of 1944 must hold off an entire German company for approximately 48 hours along the Siegfried Line until reinforcements reach them.-Plot:Squad...
  
  (1962)
• The Heroes of Telemark
  The Heroes of Telemark
  The Heroes of Telemark is a 1965 war film directed by Anthony Mann based on the true story of the Norwegian heavy water sabotage during World War II...
  
  (1965)
• Hitler
  Hitler (1962 film)
  Hitler is a black and white U.S. made film . The film stars Richard Basehart in the title role of Adolf Hitler. Cordula Trantow stars as Geli Raubal and Maria Emo as Eva Braun. John Banner stars as Gregor Strasser...
  
  (1962)
• Hogan's Heroes
  Hogan's Heroes
  Hogan's Heroes is an American television sitcom that ran for 168 episodes from September 17, 1965, to March 28, 1971, on the CBS network. The show was set in a German prisoner of war camp during the Second World War. Bob Crane had the starring role as Colonel Robert E...
  
  (1965–1971)
• Hope and Glory (1987)
• Ill Met By Moonlight (1957)
• Inimesed sõdurisinelis (1968)
• In Which We Serve
  In Which We Serve
  In Which We Serve is a 1942 British patriotic war film directed by David Lean and Noël Coward. It was made during the Second World War with the assistance of the Ministry of Information ....
  
  (1942)
• Inglourious Basterds (2009)
• In Harm's Way
  In Harm's Way
  In Harm's Way is a 1965 American epic war film produced and directed by Otto Preminger and starring John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Patricia Neal, Tom Tryon, Paula Prentiss, Stanley Holloway, Burgess Meredith, Brandon De Wilde, Jill Haworth, Dana Andrews, and Henry Fonda.It was the last black-and-white...
  
  (1965)
• Is Paris Burning?
  Is Paris Burning?
  Is Paris Burning? is a 1966 film dealing with the 1944 liberation of Paris by rival branches of the French Resistance and the Free French Forces.-Plot:...
  
   (1966), depiction of the Liberation of Paris
  Liberation of Paris
  The Liberation of Paris took place during World War II from 19 August 1944 until the surrender of the occupying German garrison on August 25th. It could be regarded by some as the last battle in the Battle for Normandy, though that really ended with the crushing of the Wehrmacht forces between the...
  
  
• Islands in the Stream (film)
  Islands in the Stream (film)
  Islands in the Stream is a 1977 American drama film, an adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's novel of the same name. The film was directed by Franklin J. Schaffner and starred George C...
  
  (1977)
• I Was Monty's Double (film)
  I Was Monty's Double (film)
  I Was Monty's Double is a 1958 film made by Associated British Picture Corporation . It was directed by John Guillermin, from a screenplay adapted by Bryan Forbes.- Plot :...
  
  (1958)
• Katyń
  Katyn (film)
  Katyń is a 2007 Polish film about the 1940 Katyn massacre, directed by Academy Honorary Award winner Andrzej Wajda. It is based on the book Post Mortem: The Story of Katyn by Andrzej Mularczyk...
  
  (2007)
• Kelly's Heroes
  Kelly's Heroes
  Kelly's Heroes is an offbeat 1970 comedy/war film about a group of World War II soldiers who go AWOL to rob a bank behind enemy lines. Directed by Brian G...
  
  (1970)
• Kokoda
  Kokoda
  Kokoda is a station town in the Oro Province of Papua New Guinea. It is famous as the northern end of the Kokoda Track, site of the eponymous Kokoda Track campaign of World War II. In that campaign, it had strategic significance because it had the only airfield along the Track...
  
  (2006)
• Last Days of Mussolini
  Last Days of Mussolini
  Last Days of Mussolini is a 1975 Italian drama film directed by Carlo Lizzani and starring Rod Steiger, Franco Nero and Lisa Gastoni. The film depicts the down fall of the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini.-Cast:...
  
  (1977)
• La vita è bella
  Life Is Beautiful
  Life Is Beautiful is a 1997 Italian film which tells the story of a Jewish Italian, Guido Orefice , who must employ his fertile imagination to help his family during their internment in a Nazi concentration camp.At the 71st Academy Awards in 1999, Benigni won the Academy Award for Best Actor and...
  
  (1997)
• Little Iron Men (2008), depiction of the 442nd Infantry Regiment
• The Liberation (1971) ("Освобождение" in Russia)
• The Longest Day
  The Longest Day (film)
  The Longest Day is a 1962 war film based on the 1959 history book The Longest Day by Cornelius Ryan, about "D-Day", the Normandy landings on 6 June 1944, during World War II....
  
  (1962), depiction of the Battle of Normandy
  Operation Overlord
  Operation Overlord was the code name for the Battle of Normandy, the operation that launched the invasion of German-occupied western Europe during World War II by Allied forces. The operation commenced on 6 June 1944 with the Normandy landings...
  
  
• Malaya
  Malaya (film)
  Malaya is a 1949 war film set in colonial Malaya during World War II, starring Spencer Tracy and James Stewart. The movie was directed by Richard Thorpe.-Plot:...
  
  (1949)
• A Man Called Sarge
  A Man Called Sarge
  A Man Called Sarge is a 1990 American parody film, written and directed by Stuart Gillard, starring Gary Kroeger, Marc Singer, Gretchen German and introducing a young Natasha Lyonne...
  
  (1990), comedy involving the Second Battle of El Alamein
  Second Battle of El Alamein
  The Second Battle of El Alamein marked a major turning point in the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War. The battle took place over 20 days from 23 October – 11 November 1942. The First Battle of El Alamein had stalled the Axis advance. Thereafter, Lieutenant-General Bernard Montgomery...
  
  
• Man Hunt
  Man Hunt (1941 film)
  Man Hunt is a 1941 American thriller film directed by Fritz Lang and starring Walter Pidgeon and Joan Bennett. It is based on the 1939 novel Rogue Male by Geoffrey Household and is set just prior to the Second World War. A Jewish liberal, Lang had fled Germany into exile in the mid 1930s - this was...
  
  (1941)
• Marine Raiders
  Marine Raiders (film)
  Marine Raiders is a 1944 RKO war film showing a fictional depiction of the 1st Marine Raider Battalion and 1st Marine Parachute Battalion on Guadalcanal, R&R in Australia, retraining in Camp Elliott and a fictional attack in the Solomon Islands. Produced by Robert Fellows, and directed by Harold D...
  
   (1944)
• Max Manus (film)
  Max Manus (film)
  Max Manus is a Norwegian 2008 biographic war film based on the real events of the life of resistance fighter Max Manus . The story follows Manus from the Winter War against the Soviet Union, through the outbreak of World War II and the German occupation of Norway until peacetime in 1945...
  
  
• The McKenzie Break
  The McKenzie Break
  The McKenzie Break is a 1970 British war drama film directed by Lamont Johnson, starring Brian Keith as Jack Connor, an intelligence officer investigating recent disturbances at a German prisoner of war camp in Scotland...
  
  (1970)
• Memphis Belle
  Memphis Belle (film)
  Memphis Belle is a 1990 film directed by Michael Caton-Jones and written by Monte Merrick, starring Matthew Modine and Eric Stoltz and introducing Harry Connick Jr. in his screen debut...
  
  (1990)
• Merrill's Marauders
  Merrill's Marauders (film)
  Merrill's Marauders is a 1962 Cinemascope war film directed and co-written by Samuel Fuller based on the exploits of the jungle warfare unit of the same name in the Burma Campaign. The source is the non-fiction book The Marauders, written by Charlton Ogburn Jr., a communications officer who served...
  
  (1962)
• Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
  Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
  Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence is a 1983 film directed by Nagisa Oshima, produced by Jeremy Thomas and starring Jack Thompson, David Bowie, Tom Conti, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Yuya Uchida, and Takeshi Kitano.It was written by Oshima and Paul Mayersberg and based on Laurens van der Post's experiences...
  
  (1983)
• A Midnight Clear
  A Midnight Clear
  A Midnight Clear is a 1992 American war film directed by former actor Keith Gordon with an ensemble cast featuring Ethan Hawke, Gary Sinise, Peter Berg, Kevin Dillon, and Arye Gross...
  
  (1992)
• Midway
  Midway (film)
  Midway is a 1976 war film directed by Jack Smight and produced byWalter Mirisch from a screenplay by Donald S. Sanford. The music score was by John Williams and the cinematography by Harry Stradling, Jr...
  
  (1976), depiction of the Battle of Midway
  Battle of Midway
  The Battle of Midway is widely regarded as the most important naval battle of the Pacific Campaign of World War II. Between 4 and 7 June 1942, approximately one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea and six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States Navy decisively defeated...
  
  
• Miracle at St. Anna
  Miracle at St. Anna
  Miracle at St. Anna is a 2008 war film, directed by Spike Lee and written by James McBride, based on McBride's novel of the same name. The film was released on September 26, 2008, and is set during World War II, in fall of 1944 in Tuscany and in the winter of 1983 in New York City and Rome...
  
  (2008)
• Morituri (1965 film)
• The Mountain Road
  The Mountain Road
  The Mountain Road is a 1960 war film starring James Stewart and directed by Daniel Mann. Based on a book by Theodore White, the film follows the attempts of a U.S. Army major to destroy bridges and roads potentially useful to the Japanese during World War II.Starting on Sunday, June 28, 1959,...
  
  (1961)
• Murphy's War
  Murphy's War
  Murphy's War is a 1971 war film starring Peter O'Toole. It was directed by Peter Yates.-Plot:In the closing days of World War II, an Irishman Murphy is the sole survivor of the crew of a merchant ship, Mount Kyle, which has been sunk by a German U-Boat, which then machine-gunned the survivors in...
  
  (1971)
• Mussolini and I
  Mussolini and I
  Mussolini and I is a 4 hour docu-drama that was made for television. It originally aired on HBO in September 1985. It is about Italy's fascist regime leader Benito Mussolini. The film starts just before World War II and shows the political and personal side of Benito Mussolini aka Il Duce's fall...
  
   (1985) (TV mini-series)
• Mussolini: Ultimo atto (Mussolini: The Last Four Days) (1974)
• My Name is Ivan
  My Name is Ivan
  Ivan's Childhood , sometimes released as My Name Is Ivan in the US, is a 1962 Soviet film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky. The film was originally directed by Edward Gaikovich Abalyan. It is based on the 1957 short story Ivan by Vladimir Bogomolov, with the screenplay written by Mikhail Papava and...
  
  (1963) (Иваново детство in Russia)
• The Naked and the Dead
  The Naked and the Dead
  The Naked and the Dead is a 1948 novel by Norman Mailer. It was based on his experiences with the 112th Cavalry Regiment during the Philippines Campaign in World War II...
  
  (1958)
• The Next of Kin
  The Next of Kin
  The Next of Kin, also known as Next of Kin, is a 1942 World War II propaganda film produced by Ealing Studios.The film was originally commissioned by the British War Office as a training film to promote the government propaganda message that "Careless talk costs lives"...
  
  (1942)
• The Night of the Generals
  The Night of the Generals
  The Night of the Generals is a 1967 suspense thriller film directed by Anatole Litvak. Set during World War II, the story was adapted from the novel of the same name by Hans Hellmut Kirst. It stars Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif, Tom Courtenay, Donald Pleasence, Joanna Pettet and Philippe Noiret.The...
  
  (1967)
• The Night of the Shooting Stars
  The Night of the Shooting Stars
  The Night of the Shooting Stars is a 1982 Italian fantasy war drama film directed by Paolo Taviani and Vittorio Taviani. It was entered into the 1982 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Jury Special Grand Prix....
  
  (1982)
• No Man Is an Island
  No Man Is an Island (film)
  No Man Is an Island is a 1962 war film about the exploits of George Ray Tweed, a United States Navy radioman who avoided capture and execution by the Japanese during their years-long World War II occupation of Guam. It stars Jeffrey Hunter as Tweed...
  
  (1962)
• None But the Brave
  None But the Brave
  None But the Brave, also known as in Japan, is a 1965 war film starring Frank Sinatra, Clint Walker, Tatsuya Mihashi, Tommy Sands and Brad Dexter. This is the only film directed by Frank Sinatra, and the first Japanese-American co-production, produced by Sinatra for Warner Bros...
  
  (1965)
• The North Star
  The North Star (1943 film)
  The North Star is a 1943 war film produced and distributed by RKO Radio Pictures. It was directed by Lewis Milestone and written by Lillian Hellman. The film starred Anne Baxter, Dana Andrews, Walter Huston, Walter Brennan and Erich von Stroheim...
  
  (1943)
• One of Our Aircraft Is Missing
  One of Our Aircraft is Missing
  One of Our Aircraft is Missing is a 1942 British war film, the fourth collaboration between the British writer-director-producer team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger and the first film they made under the banner of The Archers...
  
  (1942)
• Only the Brave
  Only the Brave
  Only the Brave is a 2006 independent film about the 100th Infantry Battalion/442nd Regimental Combat Team, a segregated World War II fighting unit completely made up of Japanese Americans, which for its size and length service became the most decorated unit in U.S. military history...
  
  (2005), depiction of 100th Infantry Battalion
• Operation Daybreak
  Operation Daybreak
  Operation Daybreak is a 1975 World War II film based on the true story of the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich in Prague - starring Anthony Andrews, Timothy Bottoms and Martin Shaw. It was directed by Lewis Gilbert and shot mostly on location in Prague. It was adapted from the book Seven Men...
  
  (1975)
• Operation Pacific
  Operation Pacific
  Operation Pacific is a 1951 World War II submarine film starring John Wayne and directed by George Waggner. The technical advisor for this film was Admiral Charles A...
  
  (1951)
• Operation Petticoat
  Operation Petticoat
  Operation Petticoat is a 1959 comedy film directed by Blake Edwards, and starring Cary Grant and Tony Curtis. It was the basis for a television series in 1977 starring John Astin in Grant's role...
  
  (1959)
• Otoko-tachi no Yamato
  Otoko-tachi no Yamato
  is a 2005 Japanese war film. It was directed by Junya Sato and is based on a book by Jun Henmi. With a framing story set in the present day, by flashbacks it tells the story of the crew of the World War II Japanese battleship Yamato, concentrating on the ship's demise during Operation...
  
  (2005)
• The Pacific
  The Pacific (miniseries)
  The Pacific is a 2010 television series produced by HBO, Seven Network Australia, Sky Movies, Playtone and DreamWorks that premiered in the United States on March 14, 2010....
  
  (2010) depiction of the Pacific War
  Pacific War
  The Pacific War, also sometimes called the Asia-Pacific War refers broadly to the parts of World War II that took place in the Pacific Ocean, its islands, and in East Asia, then called the Far East...
  
  
• Patton
  Patton (film)
  Patton is a 1970 American biographical war film about U.S. General George S. Patton during World War II. It stars George C. Scott, Karl Malden, Michael Bates, and Karl Michael Vogler. It was directed by Franklin J. Schaffner from a script by Francis Ford Coppola and Edmund H...
  
  (1970), depiction of the Battle of El Guettar
  Battle of El Guettar
  The Battle of El Guettar was a World War II battle that took place during the Tunisia Campaign, fought between elements of the Army Group Afrika under Jürgen von Arnim and U.S. II Corps under Lieutenant General George Patton in south-central Tunisia. It was the first battle in which U.S...
  
  
• Pearl Harbor
  Pearl Harbor (film)
  Pearl Harbor is a 2001 American action drama war film directed by Michael Bay and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and Randall Wallace, who wrote the screenplay...
  
  
• The Pianist
  The Pianist (2002 film)
  The Pianist is a 2002 biographical war film directed by Roman Polanski, starring Adrien Brody. It is an adaptation of the autobiography of the same name by Jewish-Polish musician Władysław Szpilman...
  
  (2002)
• PT 109 (1963)
• The Purple Heart
  The Purple Heart
  The Purple Heart is a 1944 American war film directed by Lewis Milestone.It is a dramatization of the trial of a number of US airmen by the Japanese during the Second World War...
  
  (1944)
• The Purple Plain
  The Purple Plain
  The Purple Plain is a 1954 British war film, directed by Robert Parrish, with Gregory Peck playing a Canadian pilot serving in the Royal Air Force in Burma in the closing months of the World War II, who is battling with depression after having lost his wife...
  
   (1954)
• Prisoners of the Sun
  Blood Oath (film)
  Blood Oath is a 1990 Australian feature film, known in some countries as Prisoners of the Sun. The film is based on the real-life trial of Japanese soldiers for war crimes committed against Allied prisoners of war on the island of Ambon, in the Netherlands East Indies , such as the Laha massacre of...
  
  (1990)
• Raid On Rommel (1971)
• Reach for the Sky
  Reach for the Sky
  Reach for the Sky is a 1956 British biographical film of aviator Douglas Bader, based on the 1954 biography of the same name by Paul Brickhill. The film stars Kenneth More and was directed by Lewis Gilbert. It won the BAFTA Award for Best British Film of 1956.-Plot:In 1928, Douglas Bader, a...
  
  (1956)
• Rengo kantai shirei chôkan: Yamamoto Isoroku (Admiral Yamato) (1968), starring Toshiro Mifune
• Roma, città aperta
• Run Silent, Run Deep
  Run Silent, Run Deep
  Run Silent, Run Deep is a novel published first in 1955 by then-Commander Edward L. Beach, Jr.. The name refers to "silent running", a submarine stealth tactic. It is also the name of a 1958 movie based on the same novel...
  
  (1956)
• Sahara (1943)
• Saints and Soldiers
  Saints and Soldiers
  Saints and Soldiers is a 2003 drama-war film featuring Corbin Allred, Alexander Niver, Kirby Heyborne, Lawrence Bagby and Peter Holden.It is based loosely around events taking place shortly after the Malmedy massacre during the Battle of the Bulge where several US soldiers and a downed British...
  
  (2003)
• Saving Private Ryan
  Saving Private Ryan
  Saving Private Ryan is a 1998 American war film set during the invasion of Normandy in World War II. It was directed by Steven Spielberg, with a screenplay by Robert Rodat. The film is notable for the intensity of its opening 27 minutes, which depicts the Omaha Beach assault of June 6, 1944....
  
  (1998), depiction of the Battle of Normandy
  Operation Overlord
  Operation Overlord was the code name for the Battle of Normandy, the operation that launched the invasion of German-occupied western Europe during World War II by Allied forces. The operation commenced on 6 June 1944 with the Normandy landings...
  
  
• Schindler's List
  Schindler's List
  Schindler's List is a 1993 American film about Oskar Schindler, a German businessman who saved the lives of more than a thousand mostly Polish-Jewish refugees during the Holocaust by employing them in his factories. The film was directed by Steven Spielberg, and based on the novel Schindler's Ark...
  
  (1993)
• The Sea Wolves
  The Sea Wolves
  The Sea Wolves is a 1980 war film starring Gregory Peck, Roger Moore and David Niven. The film is based on the book Boarding Party by James Leasor, which itself is based on a real incident which took place in World War II...
  
  (1980)
• Seventeen Moments of Spring
  Seventeen Moments of Spring
  Seventeen Moments of Spring is a 1973 Soviet TV miniseries. It was filmed at Gorky Film Studio, directed by Tatyana Lioznova and based on the book of the same title by the novelist Yulian Semyonov. The series comprises 12 episodes of 70 minutes each...
  
  (1973 Soviet TV mini series) ("Семнадцать мгновений весны" in Russia)
• Shining Through
  Shining Through
  Shining Through is a 1992 British-American World War II film drama, directed and written by David Seltzer and starring Michael Douglas and Melanie Griffith, with Liam Neeson, Joely Richardson and John Gielgud in supporting roles. Although based on the novel of the same name by Susan Isaacs, the...
  
  (1992)
• Silent Night
  Silent Night (2002 film)
  Silent Night is a fact-based 2002 television film set on Christmas Eve in 1944, during World War II.-Plot:A German mother , who had already lost her eldest son in the Battle of Stalingrad and whose husband is a cook serving in the German army, and her son are seeking refuge in a cabin near the...
  
  (2002)
• Sinimäed
  Sinimäed (film)
  The Blue Hills is a 2006 Estonian film directed by Raimo Jõerand. It is a documentary film about the 1944 Battle of Tannenberg Line. Based upon the war diaries of Paul Maitla, the film tells the story of this epic battle and the young Estonian men who had to choose between two totalitarian powers....
  
  (2006)
• Sink the Bismarck
  Sink the Bismarck
  "Sink the Bismark" is a song, written by country music singer Johnny Horton and Tillman Franks, based on the pursuit and eventual sinking of the German battleship Bismarck in May 1941, during World War II. Horton released this song in 1960, where it reached #3 on the charts...
  
  (1960)
• So Proudly We Hail!
  So Proudly We Hail!
  So Proudly We Hail! is a 1943 film directed by Mark Sandrich, and starring Claudette Colbert, Paulette Goddard – who was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance – and Veronica Lake...
  
  (1943)
• Soldaat van Oranje
  Soldier of Orange
  Soldier of Orange is a 1977 Dutch film directed by Paul Verhoeven and produced by Rob Houwer, starring Rutger Hauer and Jeroen Krabbé. The film is set during the German occupation of the Netherlands during World War II, and shows how individual students have different roles in the war...
  
  (Soldier of Orange) (1977)
• Stalag 17
  Stalag 17
  Stalag 17 is a 1953 war film which tells the story of a group of American airmen held in a German World War II prisoner of war camp, who come to suspect that one of their number is a traitor...
  
  (1953)
• Stalingrad
  Stalingrad (film)
  Stalingrad is a 1993 war drama film directed by Joseph Vilsmaier. It depicts combat on the Eastern Front of World War II, specifically the Battle of Stalingrad and showing the German Wehrmacht in a sympathetic light....
  
  (1993), depiction of the Battle of Stalingrad
  Battle of Stalingrad
  The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in southwestern Russia. The battle took place between 23 August 1942 and 2 February 1943...
  
  
• The Story of G.I. Joe
  The Story of G.I. Joe
  The Story of G.I. Joe, also credited in prints as Ernie Pyle's Story of G.I. Joe, is a 1945 American war film directed by William Wellman, starring Burgess Meredith and Robert Mitchum. The film was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Mitchum's only nomination for Best Supporting Actor.The...
  
  (1945)
• Surnupealuu sõdurid (2004)
• Talvisota
  Talvisota (film)
  The Winter War is a 1989 Finnish war film directed by Pekka Parikka, based on The Winter War, a novel by Antti Tuuri. It tells the story of a Finnish infantry regiment "JR 23", which consists almost solely of men from Southern Ostrobothnia, focusing mainly on a platoon of reservists from Kauhava...
  
  (The Winter War) (1989), the Winter War
  Winter War
  The Winter War was a military conflict between the Soviet Union and Finland. It began with a Soviet offensive on 30 November 1939 – three months after the start of World War II and the Soviet invasion of Poland – and ended on 13 March 1940 with the Moscow Peace Treaty...
  
   in Finland
• The Tanks Are Coming
  The Tanks Are Coming (1941)
  The Tanks Are Coming is a 1941 Technicolor short movie. It is primarily a recruitment movie, but can also be regarded as a propaganda movie or a documentary with some light relief...
  
  (1941)
• The Tanks are Coming (1951)
• They Fought for the Motherland (1975) ("Они сражались за родину" in Russia)
• They Were Expendable
  They Were Expendable
  They Were Expendable is a 1945 American war film directed by John Ford and starring Robert Montgomery and John Wayne. The film is based on the book by William L. White, relating the story of the exploits of Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron Three, a PT boat unit defending the Philippines against Japanese...
  
  (1945)
• The Thin Red Line
  The Thin Red Line (1998 film)
  The Thin Red Line is a 1998 American war film which tells a fictional story of United States forces during the Battle of Mount Austen in World War II. It portrays men in: C Company, 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division; in particular those soldiers played by Sean Penn, Jim...
  
  (1998), depiction of the Battle of Guadalcanal
• Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
  Thirty Seconds over Tokyo
  Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo is a 1944 MGM war film. It is based on the true story of America's first retaliatory air strike against Japan four months after the December 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The movie was directed by Mervyn LeRoy and produced by Sam Zimbalist. The screenplay by...
  
  (1944)
• This Land Is Mine (1943)
• To Have and Have Not (film)
  To Have and Have Not (film)
  To Have and Have Not is a 1944 romance-war-adventure film. The movie was directed by Howard Hawks and stars Humphrey Bogart, Walter Brennan, and Lauren Bacall in her first film...
  
  (1944)
• To Hell and Back
  To Hell and Back (film)
  To Hell and Back is a CinemaScope war film released in 1955. It was directed by Jesse Hibbs and starred Audie Murphy as himself and Kyle Sanville. It is based on the 1949 autobiography of the same name and is an account of Murphy's World War II experiences as a soldier in the U.S. Army...
  
  (1955) Story of Audie Murphy
  Audie Murphy
  Audie Leon Murphy was a highly decorated and famous soldier. Through LIFE magazine's July 16, 1945 issue , he became one the most famous soldiers of World War II and widely regarded as the most decorated American soldier of the war...
  
  
• To Live in Peace
  To Live in Peace
  To Live in Peace is a 1947 Italian comedy-drama war film directed by Luigi Zampa.-Selected cast:*Aldo Fabrizi as Tigna*Gar Moore as Ronald*Mirella Monti as Silvia*John Kitzmiller as Joe*Heinrich Bode as Hans*Ave Ninchi as Corinna...
  
  (1947)
• Too Late the Hero
  Too Late the Hero
  Too Late the Hero is a 1970 Anglo-American war film directed by Robert Aldrich, and starring Michael Caine, Henry Fonda, Cliff Robertson, Ken Takakura, Denholm Elliott, Ian Bannen, Lance Percival, Ronald Fraser, Harry Andrews and Percy Herbert.-Plot:...
  
  (1970)
• Tora! Tora! Tora!
  Tora! Tora! Tora!
  is a 1970 American-Japanese war film that dramatizes the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, to the extent these facts were known at the time of production. The film was directed by Richard Fleischer and stars an all-star cast, including So Yamamura, E.G...
  
  (1970), depiction of the Attack on Pearl Harbor
  Attack on Pearl Harbor
  The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941...
  
  
• The Train (1964)
• Tobruk
  Tobruk (film)
  Tobruk is a 1967 American war film starring Rock Hudson and George Peppard and directed by Arthur Hiller. The film was written by Leo Gordon and released through Universal Pictures....
  
  (1967)
• Tobruk
  Tobruk (2008 film)
  Tobruk is a 2008 film written and directed by Václav Marhoul and starring Jan Meduna and Petr Vanek. It is an adaptation of the classic American Civil War novel The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane...
  
  (2008)
• The Burmese Harp
  The Burmese Harp
  is a 1956 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Kon Ichikawa. It was based on a children's novel of the same name written by Michio Takeyama. It was Ichikawa's first film to be shown outside Japan, and is "one of the first films to portray the decimating effects of World War II from the point...
  
  (1956)
• The Tuskegee Airmen
  The Tuskegee Airmen
  The Tuskegee Airmen is a 1995 HBO television movie based on the exploits of an actual groundbreaking unit, the first African American combat pilots in the United States Army Air Force, that fought in World War II.-Plot:...
  
  (1995)
• Twelve O'Clock High
  Twelve O'Clock High
  Twelve O'Clock High is a 1949 American war film about aircrews in the United States Army's Eighth Air Force who flew daylight bombing missions against Nazi Germany and occupied France during the early days of American involvement in World War II. The film was adapted by Sy Bartlett, Henry King ...
  
  (1949)
• U-571
  U-571 (film)
  U-571 is a 2000 film directed by Jonathan Mostow, and starring Matthew McConaughey, Bill Paxton, Harvey Keitel, Thomas Kretschmann, Jon Bon Jovi, Jack Noseworthy, Will Estes, and Tom Guiry...
  
  (2000)
• Tuntematon sotilas
  The Unknown Soldier (1955 film)
  The Unknown Soldier is a Finnish film directed by Edvin Laine and premiered in December 1955. It is based on The Unknown Soldier, a novel by Väinö Linna. The story is about the Continuation War between Finland and the Soviet Union as told from the viewpoint of ordinary Finnish soldiers...
  
  (1955 and 1985)
• Ühe metsa pojad (2007)
• Valkyrie (film)
  Valkyrie (film)
  Valkyrie is a 2008 American historical thriller film set in Nazi Germany during World War II. The film depicts the 20 July plot in 1944 by German army officers to assassinate Adolf Hitler and to use the Operation Valkyrie national emergency plan to take control of the country...
  
  (2008) 20 July Plot of 1944
• Von Ryan's Express
  Von Ryan's Express
  Von Ryan's Express is a 1965 World War II adventure film starring Frank Sinatra and Trevor Howard, based on a novel by David Westheimer, and directed by Mark Robson.-Plot:...
  
  (1965)
• Võõra nime all (1984)
• Weekend at Dunkirk (1964)
• Wake Island
  Wake Island
  Wake Island is a coral atoll having a coastline of in the North Pacific Ocean, located about two-thirds of the way from Honolulu west to Guam east. It is an unorganized, unincorporated territory of the United States, administered by the Office of Insular Affairs, U.S. Department of the Interior...
  
  (1942)
• The Way Ahead
  The Way Ahead
  The Way Ahead is a British Second World War drama released in 1944. It stars David Niven and Stanley Holloway and follows a group of civilians who are conscripted into the British Army to fight in North Africa. In the U.S., an edited version was released as The Immortal Battalion.The film was...
  
  (1944)
• Went the Day Well?
  Went the Day Well?
  "Went the Day Well?" is a British war film produced by Ealing Studios in 1942 as unofficial propaganda. It tells of how an English village is taken over by German paratroopers . Made during the war, it reflects the greatest potential nightmares of many Britons of the time, although the threat of...
  
  (1942)
• What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?
  What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?
  What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? is a 1966 comedy film written by William Peter Blatty and directed by Blake Edwards. It stars James Coburn and Dick Shawn.-Plot:...
  
  (1966)
• When Trumpets Fade
  When Trumpets Fade
  When Trumpets Fade is a 1998 war film directed by John Irvin, produced by John Kemeny and written by W.W. Vought. It is based on a true story of the Battle of Hürtgen Forest in Autumn of 1944 during World War II...
  
  (1998), depiction of the Battle of Hurtgen Forest
  Battle of Hurtgen Forest
  The Battle of Hürtgen Forest is the name given to the series of fierce battles fought between U.S. and German forces during World War II in the Hürtgen Forest, which became the longest battle on German ground during World War II, and the longest single battle the U.S. Army has ever fought...
  
  
• Where Eagles Dare
  Where Eagles Dare
  Where Eagles Dare is a 1968 World War II action-adventure spy film starring Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood and Mary Ure. It was directed by Brian G. Hutton and shot on location in Upper Austria and Bavaria....
  
  (1969)
• Windtalkers
  Windtalkers
  Windtalkers is a 2002 action war film directed by John Woo. Nicolas Cage and Christian Slater star as two US Marine sergeants assigned to protect Navajo code talkers in Saipan during World War II.-Plot:World War II Sgt...
  
  (2002), depiction of the Battle of Saipan
  Battle of Saipan
  The Battle of Saipan was a battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II, fought on the island of Saipan in the Mariana Islands from 15 June-9 July 1944. The Allied invasion fleet embarking the expeditionary forces left Pearl Harbor on 5 June 1944, the day before Operation Overlord in Europe was...
  
  
• The Wings of Eagles
  The Wings of Eagles
  The Wings of Eagles is a 1957 Metrocolor film about Frank "Spig" Wead and US Naval aviation from its inception through World War II. The film is a tribute to Wead from his friend, director John Ford....
  
  (1957)
• The Wooden Horse
  The Wooden Horse
  The Wooden Horse is a 1950 British Second World War war film starring Leo Genn, Anthony Steel and David Tomlinson and directed by Jack Lee. It is based on the book of the same name by Eric Williams, who also wrote the screenplay....
  
  (1950)
• The Young Lions
  The Young Lions
  The Young Lions is a 1958 war drama film directed by Edward Dmytryk, based upon the 1949 novel of the same name by Irwin Shaw, and starring Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, and Dean Martin.-Outline:...
  
  (1958)
• The Battle of Neretva
  The Battle of Neretva
  Battle of Neretva is a 1969 Yugoslavian partisan film. The film was written by Stevan Bulajić and Veljko Bulajić, and directed by Veljko Bulajić. It is based on the true events of World War II. The Battle of the Neretva was due to a strategic plan for a combined Axis powers attack in 1943 against...
  
  (1969)
• The Star
  Zvezda (film)
  The Star is a 2002 Russian film directed by Nikolai Lebedev, a large modern project of Mosfilm. It is based on a short story of the same name by Emmanuil Kazakevich, about a group of Soviet scouts working behind enemy lines during Operation Bagration in World War II.Aleksei Kravchenko won a...
  
  (2002) ("Звезда" in Russia)
• Black Sun:The Nanking Massacre (1995)japanese occupation of the City of Nanking China

Battle of Britain

Battle of Britain

The Battle of Britain is the name given to the World War II air campaign waged by the German Air Force against the United Kingdom during the summer and autumn of 1940...

 (1940)

(Also see Battle of Britain films)

• Angels One Five
  Angels One Five
  Angels One Five is a 1952 British film directed by George More O'Ferrall, and starring Jack Hawkins, Michael Denison, Dulcie Gray, John Gregson, Cyril Raymond, Veronica Hurst and also featuring Bill Everett. Based on the book 'What Are Your Angels Now?' by Pelham Groom Angels One Five is a 1952...
  
  (1952)
• Battle of Britain
  Battle of Britain (film)
  Battle of Britain is a 1969 Technicolor film directed by Guy Hamilton, and produced by Harry Saltzman and S. Benjamin Fisz. The film broadly relates the events of the Battle of Britain...
  
  (1969)
• A Piece of Cake
  A Piece of Cake
  A Piece of Cake is a 1948 British fantasy comedy film directed by John Irwin and starring the husband and wife team of Cyril Fletcher and Betty Astell as well as Laurence Naismith and Jon Pertwee.-Plot:...
  
  TV series
• Eagles Over London
  Eagles Over London
  Eagles Over London, also known as Battle Squadron and Battle Command , is a 1969 Italian "macaroni combat" war film directed by Enzo G. Castellari.-Plot:...
  
  (1970)
• Reach for the Sky (1956)
• The One That Got Away (1957), true story of the only Luftwaffe pilot to escape captivity and return to Germany.

Battle of Iwo Jima

Battle of Iwo Jima

The Battle of Iwo Jima , or Operation Detachment, was a major battle in which the United States fought for and captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Empire of Japan. The U.S...

 (1945)

• Flags of Our Fathers
  Flags of Our Fathers (film)
  is a 2006 American war film directed, co-produced and scored by Clint Eastwood and written by William Broyles, Jr. and Paul Haggis. It is based on the book of the same name written by James Bradley and Ron Powers about the Battle of Iwo Jima, the five Marines and one Navy Corpsman who were involved...
  
  (2006)
• Letters from Iwo Jima
  Letters from Iwo Jima
  is a 2006 war film directed and co-produced by Clint Eastwood, and starring Ken Watanabe and Kazunari Ninomiya. The film portrays the Battle of Iwo Jima from the perspective of the Japanese soldiers and is a companion piece to Eastwood's Flags of Our Fathers, which depicts the same battle from the...
  
  (2006)
• The Outsider (1961), the story of Ira Hayes
  Ira Hayes
  Ira Hamilton Hayes was a Pima Native American and an American Marine who was one of the six men immortalized in the iconic photograph of the flag raising on Iwo Jima during World War II. Hayes was an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian Community in Sacaton, Arizona, and enlisted in the Marine...
  
  
• Sands of Iwo Jima
  Sands of Iwo Jima
  Sands of Iwo Jima is a 1949 war film that follows a group of United States Marines from training to the Battle of Iwo Jima during World War II. It stars John Wayne, John Agar, Adele Mara and Forrest Tucker. The movie was written by Harry Brown and James Edward Grant and directed by Allan Dwan...
  
  (1949)

Burma Campaign

Burma Campaign

The Burma Campaign in the South-East Asian Theatre of World War II was fought primarily between British Commonwealth, Chinese and United States forces against the forces of the Empire of Japan, Thailand, and the Indian National Army. British Commonwealth land forces were drawn primarily from...

 (1942–1945)

• Objective Burma (1945)
• Lalkar
  Lalkar
  Lalkar is a London-based bi-monthly political magazine. The word ‘lalkar’ means ‘challenge’ in Punjabi and the expression ‘lal kar’ means ‘red work’....
  
  (1972)
• Hum Dono
  Hum Dono (1961 film)
  Hum Dono is a 1961 Hindi film produced by Dev Anand and Navketan films. Written by Vijay Anand, the film is directed by Amarjeet. The film stars Dev Anand in a double role, and also has Nanda, Sadhana and Leela Chitnis....
  
  (1961)
• Merrill's Marauders
  Merrill's Marauders (film)
  Merrill's Marauders is a 1962 Cinemascope war film directed and co-written by Samuel Fuller based on the exploits of the jungle warfare unit of the same name in the Burma Campaign. The source is the non-fiction book The Marauders, written by Charlton Ogburn Jr., a communications officer who served...
  
  (1962)
• Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: The Forgotten Hero
  Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: The Forgotten Hero
  The music score that accompanies the film was composed by A. R. Rahman. The soundtrack features 19 pieces composed by Rahman, including 13 instrumentals and orchestral themes, in addition to 6 further songs, with lyrics by Javed Akhtar. Performers include the Western Choir Chennai and the Mumbai...
  
  (2005)

Japanese occupation of the Philippines

Japanese occupation of the Philippines

The Japanese occupation of the Philippines was the period in the history of the Philippines between 1942 and 1945, when the Empire of Japan occupied the previously American-controlled Philippines during World War II....

 (1941–1945)

• Aguila (1980)
• Aishite Imasu 1941: Mahal Kita
  Aishite Imasu 1941: Mahal Kita
  Aishite Imasu 1941 is a drama, romance, and war movie released in Philippines in 2004 and is a story of love, betrayal and honor in wartime set in the Japanese Occupation of the Philippines during World War II...
  
  (2004)
• Alab ng Lahi (2003)
• American Guerrilla in the Philippines
  American Guerrilla in the Philippines
  American Guerrilla in the Philippines is a 1950 war film starring Tyrone Power as a U.S. Navy ensign stranded by the Japanese occupation of the Philippines in World War II...
  
  (1950)
• Bataan (1943)
• Back to Bataan
  Back to Bataan
  Back to Bataan is a World War II war film produced by Robert Fellows, directed by Edward Dmytryk and starring John Wayne and Anthony Quinn. It was produced by RKO Radio Pictures. It depicts events that took place after the Battle of Bataan on the island of Luzon in the Philippines...
  
  (1945)
• Back Door to Hell
  Back Door to Hell
  Back Door to Hell is a 1964 film concerning a three-man team of United States soldiers preparing the way for Gen. MacArthur's World War II return to the Philippines by destroying a Japanese communications center. It was produced on a relatively small budget and received lukewarm reviews, and is...
  
  (1964)
• Bangkay Kaming Hahakbangan (1961)
• Batalyon Trece (1949)
• Comfort Women: A Cry for Justice (1989)
• Corregidor
  Corregidor (1943 film)
  Corregidor is an American war film directed by William Nigh and starring Otto Kruger, Elissa Landi, and Donald Woods. The film is set in December 1941 through May 1942 during the Japanese invasion of the Philippines.-Cast:...
  
  (1943)
• Cry of Battle
  Cry of Battle
  Cry of Battle is a 1963 coming of age story and war film based on the 1951 novel Fortress in the Rice by Benjamin Appel who was a journalist and special assistant to the U.S. Commissioner for the Philippines from 1945-46. The film stars Van Heflin, James MacArthur, Rita Moreno, Leopoldo Salcedo...
  
  (1963)
• Death March (1946)
• Diwa (2002)
• Dugo at Pag Ibig sa Kapirasiong Lupa (1975)
• Gatas... Sa dibdib ng kaaway (2001)
• Guerilyera (1946)
• Iginuhit ng Tadhana (1965)
• Intramuros (1964)
• Kalibre .45 (1980)
• Lost Battalion (1962)
• Mga Kanyon ng Corregidor (1964)
• Manila Calling (1942)
• Manila, Open City (1968)
• Mapuputing Kamay (1950)
• Markova: Comfort Gay (2000)
• Oro, Plata, Mata
  Oro, Plata, Mata
  Oro, Plata, Mata is a 1982 multi-awarded Filipino film directed by Peque Gallaga, and is considered his most significant contribution to Philippine cinema. Set in the Philippine province of Negros during World War II, it tells the story of how two haciendero families cope with the changes brought...
  
  (1982)
• Panaghoy sa Suba
  Panaghoy sa Suba
  Panaghoy sa Suba, titled "The Call of the River" in English, also referred to as "Cry of the River" is a 2004 film produced, directed and starred by Filipino actor Cesar Montano. It features Filipino actors Juliana Palermo, Jackie Woo, Phil Anthony, Caridad Sanchez, Joel Torre, Daria Ramirez,...
  
  (2004)
• Pilipinas Kong Mahal (1965)
• Pinakamagang Hayop sa Daigdig (1963)
• Pipo (1970)
• Roman Rapido (1983)
• Sierra Madre (1963)
• Sigaw ng Digmaan (1963)
• Tatlong Taong Walang Diyos
  Tatlong taong walang Diyos
  Tatlong Taong Walang Diyos is a 1976 award-winning Filipino Film by Mario O'Hara starred by Nora Aunor , Christopher De Leon and Bembol Roco .-Plot:...
  
  (1976)
• The Great Raid
  The Great Raid
  The Great Raid is a 2005 war film about the Raid at Cabanatuan, adapted from William Breuer's book of the same name. It tells the story of the January 1945 liberation of the Cabanatuan Prison Camp on the Philippine island of Luzon during World War II. It is directed by John Dahl and stars Benjamin...
  
  (2005)
• The Raiders of Leyte Gulf (1963)
• The Ravagers (1965)
• Yamashita: The Tiger's Treasure (2001)

Winter war

Winter War

The Winter War was a military conflict between the Soviet Union and Finland. It began with a Soviet offensive on 30 November 1939 – three months after the start of World War II and the Soviet invasion of Poland – and ended on 13 March 1940 with the Moscow Peace Treaty...

 (1939–1940)

• Ski Patrol (1940)
• Talvisota
  Talvisota (film)
  The Winter War is a 1989 Finnish war film directed by Pekka Parikka, based on The Winter War, a novel by Antti Tuuri. It tells the story of a Finnish infantry regiment "JR 23", which consists almost solely of men from Southern Ostrobothnia, focusing mainly on a platoon of reservists from Kauhava...
  
  (1989) (available on Youtube with subtitles)
• Framom främsta linjen (2004)

Continuation War

Continuation War

The Continuation War was the second of two wars fought between Finland and the Soviet Union during World War II.At the time of the war, the Finnish side used the name to make clear its perceived relationship to the preceding Winter War...

 (1941–1944)

• Tuntematon Sotilas
  The Unknown Soldier (1955 film)
  The Unknown Soldier is a Finnish film directed by Edvin Laine and premiered in December 1955. It is based on The Unknown Soldier, a novel by Väinö Linna. The story is about the Continuation War between Finland and the Soviet Union as told from the viewpoint of ordinary Finnish soldiers...
  
  (The Unknown Soldier) (1955)
• Sissit (1963)
• Tuntematon Sotilas
  The Unknown Soldier (1985 film)
  The Unknown Soldier is a Finnish 1985 film directed by Rauni Mollberg. It is a remake of the 1955 film of the same title, directed by Edvin Laine and based on the best selling Finnish novel by the same name written by Väinö Linna. Mollberg used young and unknown actors, many of them now famous,...
  
  (The Unknown Soldier) (1985)
• Rukajärven tie
  Rukajärven tie
  Ambush is a 1999 Finnish war film directed by Olli Saarela. Literally "The Road to Rukajärvi", the film debuted on 22 January 1999 in Finland, after which it was released internationally. The film is based on a book written by Antti Tuuri and its leads are played by Peter Franzén as Lt. Eero...
  
  (Ambush) (1999)
• Käki (The Cuckoo) (2002)
• Etulinjan Edessä (Beyond Front Line) (2004)
• Lupaus (Promise) (2005)
• Tali-Ihantala 1944
  Tali-Ihantala 1944
  Tali-Ihantala 1944 is a 2007 Finnish war film directed by Åke Lindman and Sakari Kirjavainen, based on the Battle of Tali-Ihantala. Filming began during the summer of 2006 and was screened in autumn 2007. Åke Lindman himself wanted the film to be as real as possible, and only include facts...
  
  (2007)

Indonesian National Revolution

Indonesian National Revolution

The Indonesian National Revolution or Indonesian War of Independence was an armed conflict and diplomatic struggle between Indonesia and the Dutch Empire, and an internal social revolution...

 (1945–1949)

• Darah dan Doa (1950)
• Enam Djam di Djogdja (1951)
• Kopral Djono (1954)
• Pedjuang (1960)
• Daerah Tak Bertuan (1963)
• Perawan di Sektor Selatan (1972)
• Mereka Kembali (1972)
• Bandung Lautan Api (1974)
• Janur Kuning (1979)
• Kereta Api Terakhir (1981)
• Serangan Fajar (1981)
• Pasukan Berani Mati (1982)
• Lebak Membara (1982)
• Film Dan Peristiwa (1985)
• Nagabonar
  Nagabonar
  Nagabonar is a 1987 Indonesian comedy film directed by M.T. Risyaf. It was Indonesia's submission to the 60th Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but was not accepted as a nominee. In 2007, the sequel named Nagabonar Jadi 2 released.- Synopsis :Naga Bonar is a...
  
  (1986)
• Soerabaja'45 (1990)
• Merah Putih (2009)
• Merah Putih II: Darah Garuda (2010)
• Laskar Pemimpi (2010)
• Oeroeg

Cold War

Cold War

The Cold War was the continuing state from roughly 1946 to 1991 of political conflict, military tension, proxy wars, and economic competition between the Communist World—primarily the Soviet Union and its satellite states and allies—and the powers of the Western world, primarily the United States...

 (1945–1991)

(Also see Cold War films)

• The Third Man
  The Third Man
  The Third Man is a 1949 British film noir, directed by Carol Reed and starring Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles, and Trevor Howard. Many critics rank it as a masterpiece, particularly remembered for its atmospheric cinematography, performances, and unique musical score...
  
  (1949)
• Jet Pilot
  Jet Pilot
  Jet Pilot was an American Thoroughbred racehorse. Purchased for US$41,000 at the Keeneland Yearling Sale by cosmetics queen Elizabeth Arden, he raced under her Maine Chance Farm colors. He was sired by the English champion and 1930 Epsom Derby winner, Blenheim II, and out of the mare Black Wave by...
  
  (1957)
• On the Beach
  On the Beach (1959 film)
  On the Beach is a post-apocalyptic drama film based on Nevil Shute's 1957 novel of the same name. The film features Gregory Peck , Ava Gardner , Fred Astaire and Anthony Perkins...
  
  (1959)
• The Manchurian Candidate
  The Manchurian Candidate (1962 film)
  The Manchurian Candidate is a 1962 American Cold War political thriller film starring Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh and Angela Lansbury, and featuring Henry Silva, James Gregory, Leslie Parrish and John McGiver...
  
  (1962)
• A Gathering of Eagles
  A Gathering of Eagles
  A Gathering of Eagles is a 1963 film about the U.S. Air Force during the Cold War and the pressures of command. The plot is patterned after the World War II film Twelve O'Clock High, which producer-screenwriter Sy Bartlett also wrote, with elements also mirroring Above and Beyond and Toward the...
  
  (1963)
• The Bedford Incident
  The Bedford Incident
  The Bedford Incident is a 1965 British-American Cold War film starring Richard Widmark and Sidney Poitier, and co-produced by Richard Widmark. The cast also features James MacArthur, Martin Balsam, Wally Cox and Eric Portman, as well as early appearances by Donald Sutherland and Ed Bishop...
  
  (1963)
• Seven Days in May
  Seven Days in May
  Seven Days in May is an American political thriller novel written by Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. Bailey II and published in 1962. It was made into a motion picture and released in February 1964, with a screenplay by Rod Serling, directed by John Frankenheimer, and starring Burt Lancaster, Kirk...
  
  (1964)
• Fail-Safe
  Fail-Safe (1964 film)
  Fail-Safe is a 1964 film directed by Sidney Lumet, based on the 1962 novel of the same name by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler. It tells the story of a fictional Cold War nuclear crisis...
  
  (1964)
• Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
  Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
  Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, commonly known as Dr. Strangelove, is a 1964 black comedy film which satirizes the nuclear scare. It was directed, produced, and co-written by Stanley Kubrick, starring Peter Sellers and George C. Scott, and featuring Sterling...
  
  (1964)
• The War Game
  The War Game
  The War Game is a 1965 television documentary-style drama depicting the effects of nuclear war on Britain. Written, directed, and produced by Peter Watkins for the BBC's The Wednesday Play anthology series, it caused dismay within the BBC and in government and was withdrawn from television...
  
  (1965)
• The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
  The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (film)
  The Spy Who Came in from the Cold is a 1965 film adaptation of the novel of the same name by John le Carré. It was adapted by Paul Dehn and Guy Trosper. The film stars Richard Burton as Alec Leamas, along with Claire Bloom, Oskar Werner, Peter van Eyck, Sam Wanamaker, Rupert Davies and Cyril Cusack...
  
  (1965)
• The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming
  The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming
  The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming is an American comedy film. Based on the Nathaniel Benchley novel The Off-Islanders, the film was directed by Norman Jewison and adapted for the screen by William Rose....
  
  (1966)
• Ice Station Zebra
  Ice Station Zebra
  Ice Station Zebra is a 1963 thriller novel written by Scottish author Alistair MacLean. This was the last of MacLean's classic sequence of first person narratives which began with Night Without End, and represented a return to that earlier novel's Arctic setting...
  
  (1968)
• Telefon (1977)
• Twilight's Last Gleaming
  Twilight's Last Gleaming
  Twilight's Last Gleaming is a 1977 film directed by Robert Aldrich, starring Burt Lancaster and Richard Widmark.Loosely based on a 1971 novel, Viper Three by Walter Wager, it tells the story of Lawrence Dell, a renegade USAF general, who escapes from a military prison and takes over an ICBM silo...
  
  (1977)
• Firefox
  Firefox (film)
  Firefox is a 1982 American action film produced, directed by and starring Clint Eastwood. It is based upon the 1977 novel of the same name written by Craig Thomas....
  
  (1981)
• WarGames
  WarGames
  WarGames is a 1983 American Cold War suspense/science-fiction film written by Lawrence Lasker and Walter F. Parkes and directed by John Badham. The film stars Matthew Broderick and Ally Sheedy....
  
  (1983)
• The Day After
  The Day After
  The Day After is a 1983 American television movie which aired on November 20, 1983, on the ABC television network. It was seen by more than 100 million people during its initial broadcast....
  
  (1983) (TV)
• Red Dawn
  Red Dawn
  Red Dawn is a 1984 American war film directed by John Milius and co-written by Milius and Kevin Reynolds. It stars Patrick Swayze, C. Thomas Howell, Lea Thompson, Charlie Sheen and Jennifer Grey....
  
  (1984)
• Threads
  Threads
  Threads is a British television drama produced by the BBC in 1984. Written by Barry Hines and directed by Mick Jackson, it is a documentary-style account of a nuclear war and its effects on the city of Sheffield in northern England....
  
   (1984) (TV)
• Top Gun
  Top Gun
  Top Gun may refer to:* Top Gun is a 1986 film starring Tom Cruise.**Top Gun , soundtrack to the movie**Top Gun , a number of games based on the movie...
  
  (1986)
• The Hunt for Red October
  The Hunt for Red October (film)
  The Hunt for Red October is a 1990 thriller film based on the novel of the same name by Tom Clancy. It was directed by John McTiernan and stars Sean Connery as Captain Marko Ramius and Alec Baldwin as Jack Ryan...
  
  (1989)
• By Dawn's Early Light
  By Dawn's Early Light
  By Dawn’s Early Light is an HBO Original Movie, aired in 1990 and set in 1991. It is based on the 1983 novel Trinity's Child, written by William Prochnau. The film is one of the last films to depict the events of a fictional World War III before the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the...
  
  (1990)
• Crimson Tide
  Crimson Tide (film)
  The film has uncredited additional writing by Quentin Tarantino, much of it being the pop-culture reference-laden dialogue.The U.S. Navy objected to many of the elements in the script — particularly the aspect of mutiny on board a U.S. naval vessel — and as such, the film was produced...
  
  (1995)
• Thirteen Days
  Thirteen Days (film)
  Thirteen Days is a 2000 docudrama directed by Roger Donaldson about the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, seen from the perspective of the US political leadership. Kevin Costner stars, with Bruce Greenwood featured as John F. Kennedy....
  
  (2000)
• Buffalo Soldiers
  Buffalo Soldiers (2001 film)
  Buffalo Soldiers is a 2001 film, based on the 1993 novel by Robert O'Connor, which follows the rogue activities of a group of US soldiers based in West Germany during 1989 when the fall of the Berlin Wall is imminent...
  
  (2001)
• K-19: The Widowmaker
  K-19: The Widowmaker
  K-19: The Widowmaker is a movie released on July 19, 2002, about the first of many disasters that befell the Soviet submarine of the same name. The film was directed by Kathryn Bigelow...
  
  (2002)
• Silmido
  Silmido (film)
  Silmido is a 2003 South Korean film, directed by Kang Woo-suk. It is loosely based on a military uprising from the island of Silmido in the 1970s. At the end of its run, the film was the most watched film ever in South Korea, and the first film to attract an audience of 10 million viewers in the...
  
  (2003)

Hukbalahap Insurgency

Hukbalahap Rebellion

The Hukbalahap Rebellion was a Communist insurgency that began after World War II and fought against the Roxas Administration. When it became evident that Manuel Roxas, whom the Huks accused of having been a collaborator, would run for the presidency the Huks allied themselves with the Democratic...

 (1946-1954)

• Huk sa Bagong Pamumuhay (1953)
• Huk! (1956)
• Patayin Si Sec. Magsaysay (1957)

First Indochina War

First Indochina War

The First Indochina War was fought in French Indochina from December 19, 1946, until August 1, 1954, between the French Union's French Far East...

 (1946–1954)

• Rogue's Regiment (1948)
• Jump into Hell
  Jump Into Hell
  Jump into Hill is a 1955 film directed by David Butler. It stars Jacques Sernas and Kurt Kasznar.-Cast:*Jacques Sernas as Captain Guy Bertrand*Kurt Kasznar as Captain Jean Calluox*Arnold Moss as General Christian De Castries...
  
  (1954)
• China Gate
  China Gate (1957 film)
  China Gate is a 1957 Hollywood Cinemascope war film written, produced and directed by Samuel Fuller and released through 20th Century Fox.-Plot:...
  
  (1957)
• Five Gates to Hell (1959)
• La 317éme section (1965)
• Indochine
  Indochine (film)
  Indochine is a 1992 French film set in colonial French Indochina during the 1930s. It is the story of Éliane Devries, a French plantation owner, and of her adopted Vietnamese daughter, Camille, with the rising Vietnamese nationalist movement set as a backdrop...
  
  (1992)
• Dien Bien Phu
  Dien Bien Phu (film)
  Diên Biên Phu is a 1992 film written and directed by French veteran Pierre Schoendoerffer. With its huge budget, all-star cast, and realistic war scenes produced with the cooperation of the French and Vietnamese armies, Dîen Bîen Phu is regarded by many as one of the more important war movies...
  
  (1992)
• The Quiet American
  The Quiet American (2002 film)
  The Quiet American is a 2002 film adaptation of Graham Greene's bestselling novel of the same name. It was directed by Phillip Noyce and starred Michael Caine, George Henry Hsu, Brendan Fraser, and Do Thi Hai Yen....
  
  (2002)
• The Indian (2011)

Indo-Pakistani wars and conflicts (1947–present)

• Prem Pujari
  Prem Pujari
  Prem Pujari is a 1970 Bollywood film produced, directed and written by Dev Anand for Navketan films. The movie stars himself, Waheeda Rehman, Shatrughan Sinha, Prem Chopra, Madan Puri, Amrish Puri. The film's very popular music is by S. D. Burman....
  
  1965 war (1965)
• Upkaar 1965 war (1967)
• Hindustan Ki Kasam
  Hindustan Ki Kasam
  Hindustan Ki Kasam is a 1973 war movie based on the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 directed by Chetan Anand.-Cast:*Chetan Anand*Vijay Anand*Raaj Kumar*Priya Rajvansh*Balraj Sahni*Padma Khanna*Amjad Khan*Amrish Puri*Parikshat Sahni*Bharat Kapoor...
  
  1971 war (1973)
• Aakraman
  Aakraman
  Aakraman is a 1975 Hindi war film. Produced by Jagdish Kumar and directed by J. Om Prakash. The war film stars Ashok Kumar, Sanjeev Kumar, Rekha, Rakesh Roshan, Farida Jalal, Sujit Kumar, Asrani, Keshto Mukherjee, Mumtaz Shanti and Rajesh Khanna...
  
  1971 war (1975)
• Vijeta
  Vijeta
  Vijeta is a 1982 Hindi film produced by Shashi Kapoor and directed by Govind Nihalani. It stars Shashi Kapoor, Rekha, Kunal Kapoor and Amrish Puri.-Plot:Vijeta is the coming of age story of Angad...
  
  1971 war (1982)
• Border 1971 war (1997)
• Mission Kashmir
  Mission Kashmir
  Mission Kashmir is a 2000 Bollywood film directed and produced by Vidhu Vinod Chopra and starring Sanjay Dutt, Hrithik Roshan, Preity Zinta and Jackie Shroff as the main characters. Mission Kashmir follows the life and tragedy of a young boy named Altaaf after his entire family gets killed by...
  
  Kashmir struggle (2000)
• LOC Kargil
  LOC Kargil
  LOC Kargil is a 2003 Bollywood war film based on the Kargil War, directed and written by J. P. Dutta. The film stars a large number of Bollywood stars.- Plot :The film is an attempt to dramatize a synopsis of the 1999 Kargil War ....
  
  Kargil war (2003)
• Lakshya
  Lakshya (film)
  Lakshya is a 2004 Bollywood film directed by Farhan Akhtar, with stars Hrithik Roshan, Preity Zinta, Amitabh Bachchan, Om Puri and Boman Irani. Roshan plays the role of Lieutenant Karan Shergill, who leads his team to victory over the Pakistani troops...
  
  Kargil war (2004)
• Ab Tumhare Hawale Watan Saathiyo (2004)
• Tango Charlie
  Tango Charlie
  Tango Charlie is a 2005 Indian film directed by Mani Shankar. It got mixed reviews and did not perform well commercially. The movie aims to portray aspects of war and grief and does not glorify these acts.-Plot:...
  
  (2005)
• Gadar: Ek Prem Katha
  Gadar: Ek Prem Katha
  The music is composed by Uttam Singh. The song listing is as follows:- Awards :Winner:*Filmfare Best Action Award - Tinnu Verma*Filmfare Special Performance Award - Amisha Patel*Sansui Best Actress Award - Amisha Patel...
  
  India& Pakistan partition of 1947 (2001)
• Border Hindustan Ka (2003)
• Param Vir Chakra
  Param Vir Chakra
  The Param Vir Chakra is India's highest military decoration awarded for the highest degree of valour or self-sacrifice in the presence of the enemy. It can be, and often has been, awarded posthumously....
  
  (1990) DD Special Episodes on Indian war heroes and Martyrs.
• Nishan-e-Haider
  Nishan-e-Haider
  Nishan-e-Haider or Nishan-e-Hyder is the highest military decoration given by Pakistan . It was established in 1957 after Pakistan became a Republic, however, it was instituted retrospectively from Independence in 1947...
  
  Series PTV
  Pakistan Television Corporation
  The Pakistan Television Corporation is Pakistan's national television broadcaster. The first live transmission of PTV began on November 26, 1964, in Lahore...
  
   Special Plays.

First Arab-Israeli War (1948–1949)

• Cast a Giant Shadow
  Cast a Giant Shadow
  Cast a Giant Shadow is a 1966 big budget, action movie based on the life of Colonel Mickey Marcus starring Kirk Douglas and Senta Berger. Yul Brynner, John Wayne, Frank Sinatra, and Angie Dickinson also appear in supporting roles...
  
  (1966)
• O Jerusalem (film)
  O Jerusalem (film)
  O Jerusalem is a 2006 drama film directed by Elie Chouraqui. It is based on the history book of the same name, written by Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins....
  
  (2006)

Korean War

Korean War

The Korean War was a conventional war between South Korea, supported by the United Nations, and North Korea, supported by the People's Republic of China , with military material aid from the Soviet Union...

 (1950–present)

(Also see Korean War films)

• Air Strike (1955)
• The Bamboo Prison (1954)
• Batalyon Pilipino sa Korea (1953)
• Battle Flame (1959)
• Battle Hymn
  Battle Hymn (film)
  Battle Hymn is a Universal Studios feature film starring Rock Hudson as Colonel Dean E. Hess, a real-life United States Air Force fighter pilot in the Korean War. Hess's autobiography of the same name was published concurrently with the release of the film. He donated his profits from the film and...
  
  (1957)
• Battle Taxi (1955)
• Battle Zone (1952)
• Battle on Shangganling Mountain
  Battle on Shangganling Mountain
  Battle on Shangganling Mountain is a 1956 Chinese war film. It is also known as Shangganling Battle.The film depicts the Battle of Triangle Hill during the Korean War which American soldiers recall the battle as especially hard fought...
  
  (1956)
• The Bridges at Toko-Ri
  The Bridges at Toko-Ri
  The Bridges at Toko-Ri is a 1954 film based on a novel by James Michener about a naval aviator assigned to bomb a group of heavily defended bridges during the Korean War. It was made into a motion picture by Paramount Pictures and won the Special Effects Oscar at the 28th Academy Awards...
  
  (1954)
• Cease Fire (1953) (3-D)
• Combat Squad (1953)
• Dragonfly Squadron
  Dragonfly Squadron
  Dragonfly Squadron is an American war film by Lesley Selander from 1954. It is set in the period shortly before and during the invasion of South Korea by North Korean troops.-Plot:...
  
  (1954)
• Flight Nurse (1953)
• Fixed Bayonets (1951)
• Hell's Horizon
  Hell's Horizon
  Hell's Horizon is a 1955 drama film directed by Tom Gries. It stars John Ireland and Marla English.-Cast:*John Ireland as Capt. John Merrill*Marla English as Sami*Bill Williams as Paul Jenkins*Hugh Beaumont as Sgt. Al Trask...
  
  (1955)
• A Hill in Korea
  A Hill in Korea
  A Hill in Korea is a 1956 British war film based on Max Catto's 1953 novel of the same name. The original name was Hell in Korea, but was changed for distribution reasons, except in the U.S. It was directed by Julian Amyes and the producer was Anthony Squire...
  
  (1956)
• Hold Back the Night
  Hold Back the Night
  Hold Back the Night is a 1956 Korean War war film based on the 1951 novel by Pat Frank, who had been a war correspondent in Korea. The film was directed by Allan Dwan; his third film with John Payne.-Plot:...
  
  (1956)
• The Hook (1963)
• The Hunters (1958)
• I Want You
  I Want You (1951 film)
  I Want You is a 1951 film directed by Mark Robson taking place in America during the Korean War. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Sound .-Plot:...
  
  (1951)
• Inchon
  Inchon (film)
  Inchon is a 1982 war film about the Battle of Inchon, considered to be the turning point of the Korean War. The film was directed by Terence Young and financed by Unification Church founder Sun Myung Moon. It stars Laurence Olivier as General Douglas MacArthur, who led the United States surprise...
  
  (1982)
• The Iron Angel (1964)
• Jet Attack (1955)
• Korea (1952)
• Korea Patrol (1951)
• MacArthur
  MacArthur (film)
  MacArthur is a 1977 American biographical war film directed by Joseph Sargent and starring Gregory Peck in the eponymous role as American General Douglas MacArthur.-Plot:...
  
  (1977)
• Marines, Let's Go
  Marines, Let's Go
  Marines, Let's Go is a 1961 CinemaScope colour Korean War film about three Marine buddies on shore leave in Japan and at war in Korea. It was produced and directed by Raoul Walsh who also wrote the story. Walsh had previously had successes with films about the U.S...
  
  (1960)
• The Marines Who Never Returned
  The Marines Who Never Returned
  The Marines Who Never Returned , aka Marines Are Gone, is a 1963 South Korean film directed by Lee Man-hee. It was released in the U.S. in 1966 as Marine Battleground. For this film, Lee was given the Best Director award at the third Grand Bell Awards ceremony in 1964...
  
  (1963)
• MASH
  MASH (film)
  MASH is a 1970 American satirical dark comedy film directed by Robert Altman and written by Ring Lardner, Jr., based on Richard Hooker's novel MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors. It is the only feature film in the M*A*S*H franchise...
  
  (1970)
• Men in War
  Men in War
  Men in War is a war film about the Korean War directed by Anthony Mann. It stars Robert Ryan and Aldo Ray as the leaders of a small detachment of American soldiers cut off and desperately trying to rejoin their division. The events of the film take place on one day; 6 September 1950...
  
  (1957)
• Men of the Fighting Lady
  Men of the Fighting Lady
  Men of the Fighting Lady is a 1954 Korean War drama film starring Van Johnson, Walter Pidgeon, Keenan Wynn, and directed by Andrew Marton. The screenplay was written by Harry A. Burns. The original music score was composed by Miklós Rózsa.-Synopsis:...
  
  (1954)
• Mr Walkie Talkie (1952)
• No Man's Land (1964)
• The Nun and the Sergeant
  The Nun and the Sergeant
  The Nun and the Sergeant is a 1962 Korean War war film starring Anna Sten and Robert Webber in the title roles. It was produced by Sten's husband Eugene Frenke who had produced Heaven Knows, Mr Allison that was also a pairing of a Catholic nun and a U.S. Marine...
  
  (1962)
• One Minute to Zero (1952)
• Operation Dames (1959)
• Pork Chop Hill
  Pork Chop Hill
  Pork Chop Hill , directed by Lewis Milestone, is a Korean War war film based upon the eponymous book by military historian S. L. A. Marshall, depicting the bitterly fierce first Battle of Pork Chop Hill between the U.S. Army's 7th Infantry Division, and Chinese and Korean Communist forces at the...
  
  (1959)
• Prisoner of War
  Prisoner of war
  A prisoner of war or enemy prisoner of war is a person, whether civilian or combatant, who is held in custody by an enemy power during or immediately after an armed conflict...
  
  (1954)
• The Rack
  The Rack (film)
  The Rack is a 1956 American war drama film, based on a play written by Rod Serling for television. It was directed by Arnold Laven and starred Paul Newman, Wendell Corey, Lee Marvin and Walter Pidgeon. After two years in a North Korean prison camp, an American officer returns home, only to be...
  
  (1956)
• The Reluctant Heroes (1971)
• Retreat, Hell!
  Retreat, Hell!
  Retreat, Hell! is a 1952 American film about the 1st Marine Division in the Korean War directed by Joseph H. Lewis.-Plot:The film is the story of the putting together of a Marine Battalion sent to Korea who are gathered from various sources...
  
  (1952)
• Sabre Jet (1953)
• Sergeant Ryker
  Sergeant Ryker
  Sergeant Ryker is a film directed by Buzz Kulik. It stars Lee Marvin and Bradford Dillman. The film was originally broadcast as a two part episode The Case Against Paul Ryker of 1963's Kraft Suspense Theatre. It was released as a feature film in 1968 to captialise on Marvin's popularity from The...
  
  (1963)
• Sky Commando (1953)
• Sniper's Ridge
  Sniper's Ridge
  Sniper's Ridge is a 1961 Korean War drama film directed by John A. Bushelman, starring Jack Ging and Stanley Clements.-Cast:* Jack Ging as Cpl. Sharack* Stanley Clements as Cpl. Pumphrey* John Goddard as Capt. Tombolo...
  
  (1961)
• The Steel Helmet
  The Steel Helmet
  The Steel Helmet is a war film directed by Samuel Fuller and produced by Lippert Studios during the Korean War. It was the first film about the war, and the first of several war films by producer-director-writer Fuller.-Plot:...
  
  (1951)
• Submarine Command
  Submarine command
  Submarine Command is a 1951 film starring William Holden, Don Taylor, Nancy Olson, William Bendix, and Darryl Hickman, directed by John Farrow...
  
  (1951)
• Take the High Ground (1953)
• Tank Battalion
  Tank Battalion (film)
  Tank Battalion is a 1958 War film directed by Sherman A. Rose, starring Don Kelly, Leslie Parrish and Edward G. Robinson Jr. Four men in their tank, during the Korean War in 1951, find themselves behind enemy lines.-Cast:* Don Kelly as Sgt. Brad Dunne...
  
  (1959)
• Target Zero (1955)
• This is Korea! (1951)
• Time Limit
  Time limit
  A time limit or deadline is a narrow field of time, or particular point in time, by which an objective or task must be accomplished.In project management, deadlines are most often associated with milestone goals....
  
  (1957)
• Torpedo Alley (1953)
• War Hunt
  War Hunt
  War Hunt is a 1962 war film starring John Saxon, Charles Aidman, and Robert Redford. The film was directed by Denis Sanders, produced by his brother, Terry Sanders for T-D Enterprises, and released by United Artists....
  
  (1962)
• A Yank in Korea (1951)
• The Young and The Brave
  The Young and The Brave
  The Young and The Brave is a classic feature film released in 1963 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film has been recognized by Turner Classic Movies as an historical representation of the war film genre and in 2006, the network executives selected the film for preservation in their archives...
  
  (1963)
• Big Fish
  Big Fish
  Big Fish is a 2003 American fantasy adventure film based on the 1998 novel of the same name by Daniel Wallace. The film was directed by Tim Burton and stars Albert Finney, Ewan McGregor, Billy Crudup, Jessica Lange and Marion Cotillard. Finney plays Edward Bloom, a former traveling salesman from...
  
  (2003)
• Taegukgi
  Taegukgi (film)
  Taegukgi Hwinallimyo is a 2004 South Korean war film directed by Kang Je-gyu. It tells the story about the effect of the Korean War on two brothers. The film's title is the name of the pre-war Flag of Korea as well as the postwar Flag of South Korea...
  
  (2004)
• 71: Into the Fire (2010)
• Legend of the Patriots
  Legend of the Patriots
  Legend of the Patriots is a remake of the 1975 South Korean drama Comrades. Its production was spawned to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Korean War The story centers around the lives of eleven Korean soldiers fighting in the Korean War...
  
  (2010) (TV Series), remake of Comrades
• Road No. 1
  Road No. 1
  Road No. 1 is a 2010 MBC television series about two South Korean soldiers Lee Jang Woo and Shin Tae Ho who loved with Kim Soo Yeon who was Jang-woo's childhood sweetheart and Tae-ho's fiancee.-Cast:*So Ji-sub as Lee Jang Woo...
  
  (2010) (TV Series)
• The Frontline (2011)

Mau Mau Uprising

Mau Mau Uprising

The Mau Mau Uprising was a military conflict that took place in Kenya between 1952 and 1960...

 (1952–1960)

• Guns at Batasi
  Guns at Batasi
  Guns at Batasi is a 1964 drama film starring Richard Attenborough, Jack Hawkins, Flora Robson, John Leyton and Mia Farrow. It is set in an overseas colonial military outpost during the last days of the British Empire in East Africa....
  
  (1964) depicts an unnamed uprising in a nameless African country but obviously based on Mau Maus
• The Kitchen Toto
  The Kitchen Toto
  The Kitchen Toto is a 1987 British drama film directed by Harry Hook and starring Edwin Mahinda, Bob Peck and Phyllis Logan. In Kenya 1950, a British policeman takes a murdered black priest's son to live with him at his home as a houseboy.-Cast:...
  
  (1987)
• Mau-Mau (1955)
• Safari (1956)
• Simba
  Simba (film)
  Simba is a 1955 British drama film directed by Brian Desmond Hurst and starring Dirk Bogarde, Donald Sinden, Virginia McKenna and Basil Sydney...
  
  (1955)
• Something of Value (1957)

Cuban Revolution

Cuban Revolution

The Cuban Revolution was an armed revolt by Fidel Castro's 26th of July Movement against the regime of Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista between 1953 and 1959. Batista was finally ousted on 1 January 1959, and was replaced by a revolutionary government led by Castro...

 (1953–1959)

• Cuba
  Cuba (film)
  Cuba is a 1979 drama film directed by Richard Lester and starring Sean Connery, set during the build-up to the 1959 Cuban Revolution.Connery stars as a British mercenary who travels to Cuba, which is on the brink of revolution with the authority of dictator Fulgencio Batista collapsing every day...
  
  (1979)
• Havana
  Havana (film)
  Havana is a drama film starring Robert Redford, Lena Olin and Raúl Juliá, directed by Sydney Pollack with music by Dave Grusin, and released in 1990. In the film, an American professional gambler named Jack Weil decides to visit Havana, Cuba to gamble. On the boat to Havana, he meets Roberta Duran...
  
  (1990)
• Che: Part 1 (2008)

Vietnam War

Vietnam War

The Vietnam War was a Cold War-era military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. This war followed the First Indochina War and was fought between North Vietnam, supported by its communist allies, and the government of...

 (1959–1975)

(Also see Vietnam War films)

• A Yank in Viet-Nam
  A Yank in Viet-Nam
  A Yank in Viet-Nam is a 1964 war drama film. It was filmed entirely in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War.The film follows a U.S. Marine Corps pilot who is shot down over the Vietnamese jungle...
  
  (1964)
• Operation C.I.A.
  Operation C.I.A.
  Operation C.I.A. is a 1965 black-and-white spy thriller set in Saigon but filmed in Bangkok. It is Burt Reynolds' first lead role. The screenplay is by author Bill S. Ballinger who was writing a series of spy thrillers at the time...
  
  (1965)
• To the Shores of Hell
  To the Shores of Hell
  To the Shores of Hell is a 1966 Vietnam war film directed by Will Zens and starring Marshall Thompson, Richard Arlen, Dick O'Neill and Robert Dornan that was distributed by Crown International Pictures. Dornan may possibly have co-written the film as his Mother's maiden name was "McFadden".-Plot...
  
  (1966)
• The Anderson Platoon
  The Anderson Platoon
  The Anderson Platoon is a documentary feature by Pierre Schoendoerffer about the Vietnam War. Two decades later, a sequel was released as Reminiscence.-Background:...
  
  (1967)
• Philcag in Vietnam (1967)
• The Green Berets
  The Green Berets (film)
  The Green Berets is a 1968 war film featuring John Wayne, George Takei, David Janssen, Jim Hutton and Aldo Ray, nominally based on the eponymous 1965 book by Robin Moore, though the screenplay has little relation to the book....
  
  (1968)
• The Ballad of Andy Crocker
  The Ballad of Andy Crocker
  The Ballad of Andy Crocker is the title of a 1969 American made-for-television film which was first broadcast by ABC.The film tells the story of a young man's struggle to reclaim his life after fighting in the Vietnam War. It approaches a surreal, allegorical tale, similar to The Swimmer, starring...
  
  (1969)
• The Losers (1970) – see Nam's Angels
  Nam's Angels
  Nam's Angels is a 1970 action film, that was filmed in the Philippines. This film was directed by Jack Starrett. This film was originally released with the title, The Losers.-Plot:...
  
  
• Free The Army tour
  Free The Army tour
  The FTA Tour , a play on the troop expression "Fuck The Army", which in turn was a play on the army slogan "Fun, Travel and Adventure") was an anti-Vietnam War road show designed as a response to Bob Hope's USO tour....
  
  (1972)
• Rolling Thunder
  Rolling Thunder (1977 film)
  Rolling Thunder is a 1977 film starring William Devane and Tommy Lee Jones. The film was directed by John Flynn. The screenplay was by Paul Schrader and Heywood Gould.-Plot:...
  
  (1977)
• The Deer Hunter
  The Deer Hunter
  The Deer Hunter is a 1978 drama film co-written and directed by Michael Cimino about a trio of Russian American steel worker friends and their infantry service in the Vietnam War. The film stars Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, Meryl Streep, John Savage, John Cazale, and George Dzundza...
  
  (1978)
• Go Tell the Spartans
  Go Tell the Spartans
  Go Tell the Spartans is a 1978 American war film based on Daniel Ford's 1967 novel Incident at Muc Wa, about U.S. Army military advisors during the early part of the Vietnam War in 1964, a time when Ford was a correspondent in Vietnam for The Nation.The film's title is from Simonides's epitaph to...
  
  (1978)
• The Boys in Company C (1978)
• Coming Home (1978)
• Apocalypse Now
  Apocalypse Now
  Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American war film set during the Vietnam War, produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The central character is US Army special operations officer Captain Benjamin L. Willard , of MACV-SOG, an assassin sent to kill the renegade and presumed insane Special Forces...
  
  (1979)
• The Odd Angry Shot
  The Odd Angry Shot
  Based on the novel of the same name by William L. Nagle, The Odd Angry Shot is a film following the experience of Australian soldiers during the Vietnam War...
  
  (1979)
• A Rumor of War
  A Rumor of War
  A Rumor of War is a 1977 autobiography/ war memoir by Philip Caputo about his service in the United States Marine Corps in the early years of American involvement in the Vietnam War.-Summary:...
  
  (1980) (TV)
• The Last Hunter
  The Last Hunter
  The Last Hunter is a 1980 Italian "macaroni combat" war film directed by Antonio Margheriti and starring David Warbeck.-Plot:Following the suicide of his best friend, Captain Harry Morris accepts a final deadly mission to go behind enemy lines to destroy a radio tower that is broadcasting...
  
  (1980)
• How Sleep the Brave
  How Sleep the Brave
  How Sleep the Brave, Hallo Nele, is a 1981 Vietnam war film shot in England. It stars Lawrence Day, Luis Manuel, Thomas M. Polland and Christopher Muncke, and is produced by Lindsay Shonteff and Elizabeth Laurie, written by Bobby Bauer and Jeremy Lee Francis, and directed by Lindsay...
  
  (1981)
• Some Kind of Hero
  Some Kind of Hero
  Some Kind of Hero is a 1982 film starring Richard Pryor as a returning Vietnam War veteran having trouble adjusting to civilian life. Soon he is involved in an organized crime heist. It was directed by Michael Pressman....
  
  (1982)
• The Uncounted Enemy
  The Uncounted Enemy
  The Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Deception was a controversial television documentary aired as part of the CBS Reports series on January 23, 1982...
  
  (1982)
• Don't Cry, It's Only Thunder
  Don't Cry, It's Only Thunder
  Don't Cry, It's Only Thunder is a 1982 film directed by Peter Werner and written by Paul G...
  
  (1982)
• Streamers (film)
  Streamers (film)
  Streamers is a 1983 film adapted by David Rabe from his play of the same title. The film was directed by Robert Altman and produced by Robert Michael Geisler and John Roberdeau...
  
    (1983)
• Uncommon Valor
  Uncommon Valor
  Uncommon Valor is a 1983 action/war film written by Joe Gayton and directed by Ted Kotcheff, about a Marine officer who puts together a team to try to rescue his son, who he believes is among those still held in Laos after the Vietnam War...
  
  (1983)
• Missing In Action
  Missing in Action (film)
  Missing in Action is a 1984 action B-movie directed by Joseph Zito and starring Chuck Norris. It is set in the context of the Vietnam War POW/MIA issue. Colonel Braddock, who escaped a Vietnamese prisoner of war camp 10 years earlier, returns to Vietnam to find American soldiers listed as missing...
  
  (1984)
• Purple Hearts
  Purple Hearts (film)
  Purple Hearts is a 1984 war film directed by Sidney J. Furie, starring Ken Wahl and Cheryl Ladd. A Navy surgeon and a nurse fall in love while serving in Vietnam during the war...
  
  (1984)
• Missing In Action II: The Beginning
  Missing in Action 2: The Beginning
  Missing in Action 2: The Beginning is a 1985 action/adventure film, and a prequel to Missing in Action, both of which star Chuck Norris...
  
  (1985)
• Birdy
  Birdy (film)
  Birdy is a 1984 American film directed by Alan Parker and starring Matthew Modine and Nicolas Cage. It is based on the novel of the same name by William Wharton.- Synopsis :...
  
  (1985)
• Platoon
  Platoon (film)
  Platoon is a 1986 American war film written and directed by Oliver Stone and stars Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe and Charlie Sheen. It is the first of Stone's Vietnam War trilogy, followed by 1989's Born on the Fourth of July and 1993's Heaven & Earth....
  
  (1986)
• Combat Shock
  Combat Shock
  Combat Shock is a 1986 drama film written and directed by Buddy Giovinazzo and distributed by Troma Entertainment.The plot of the film takes place in Staten Island, and follows an unemployed Vietnam veteran living in total poverty with his nagging wife, his deformed baby due to Ricky having been...
  
  (1986)
• Full Metal Jacket
  Full Metal Jacket
  Full Metal Jacket is a 1987 war film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick. It is an adaptation of the 1979 novel The Short-Timers by Gustav Hasford and stars Matthew Modine, Vincent D'Onofrio, R. Lee Ermey, Arliss Howard and Adam Baldwin. The film follows a platoon of U.S...
  
  (1987)
• Good Morning, Vietnam
  Good Morning, Vietnam
  Good Morning, Vietnam is a 1987 American comedy-drama film set in Saigon during the Vietnam War, based on the career of Adrian Cronauer, a disc jockey on Armed Forces Radio Service , who proves hugely popular with the troops serving in South Vietnam, but infuriates his superiors with what they call...
  
  (1987)
• Hamburger Hill
  Hamburger Hill
  Hamburger Hill is a 1987 American war film about the actual assault of the U.S. Army's 3rd Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment, part of the 3rd Brigade, 101st Airborne Division 'Screaming Eagles', on a well-fortified position, including trenchworks and bunkers, of the North Vietnamese Army on Ap Bia...
  
  (1987)
• Tour of Duty
  Tour of Duty (TV series)
  Tour of Duty is an American drama television series on CBS. It ran for three seasons from September 1987 to April 1990 as 58 one–hour episodes. The show was created by Steve Duncan and L. Travis Clark, and produced by Zev Braun....
  
  (TV series) (1987–1990)
• Gardens of Stone
  Gardens of Stone
  Gardens of Stone is a 1987 film by Francis Ford Coppola, based on the novel of the same title by Nicholas Proffitt.A drama, it stars James Caan, Anjelica Huston, James Earl Jones and D. B. Sweeney.-Plot:...
  
  (1987)
• Hell on the Battleground (1987)
• The Hanoi Hilton
  The Hanoi Hilton (film)
  The Hanoi Hilton is a 1987 Vietnam War film which focuses on the experiences of American prisoners of war who were held in the infamous Hoa Lo Prison in Hanoi during the 1960s and 1970s and the story is told from their perspectives...
  
  (1987)
• Thou Shalt Not Kill... Except
  Thou Shalt Not Kill... Except
  Thou Shalt Not Kill... Except, given theatrical release in Detroit as Stryker's War, is an American low budget action / horror film, originally released in 1987. The film was written by Josh Becker and Scott Spiegel, with a story by Becker, actor Bruce Campbell, and Sheldon Lettich...
  
  (1987)
• Bat 21 (1988)
• Braddock: Missing in Action III
  Braddock: Missing in Action III
  Braddock: Missing in Action III is a 1988 action/adventure film, and a sequel to Missing in Action, following the second film, Missing in Action 2: The Beginning, which was a prequel. It is the third and final film in the Missing in Action Trilogy. The film stars Chuck Norris, who co-wrote the...
  
  (1988)
• China Beach
  China Beach
  China Beach is an American dramatic television series set at an evacuation hospital during the Vietnam War. The title refers to My Khe beach in the city of Da Nang, Vietnam, which was nicknamed "China Beach" by unknown foreigners, most likely Americans...
  
  (TV series) (1988–1991)
• Off Limits (1988)
• Platoon Leader
  Platoon Leader (film)
  Platoon Leader is a 1988 Cannon Films film set in the Vietnam War and directed by Aaron Norris; it starred Michael Dudikoff and Michael DeLorenzo....
  
  (1988)
• Distant Thunder (1988)
• Born on the Fourth of July
  Born on the Fourth of July (film)
  Born on the Fourth of July is a 1989 American film adaptation of the best selling autobiography of the same name by Vietnam War veteran Ron Kovic. Tom Cruise plays Kovic, in a performance that earned him his first Academy Award nomination. Oliver Stone co-wrote the screenplay with Kovic, and also...
  
  (1989)
• Casualties of War
  Casualties of War
  Casualties of War is a 1989 war drama directed by Brian De Palma, with a screenplay by David Rabe, based on the actual events of the incident on Hill 192 in 1966 during the Vietnam War. It starred Michael J. Fox and Sean Penn....
  
  (1989)
• The Siege of Firebase Gloria
  The Siege of Firebase Gloria
  The Siege of Firebase Gloria is a 1989 film starring Wings Hauser and R. Lee Ermey that was filmed in the Philippines. According to a question and answer period in Sydney, director Brian Trenchard-Smith said that R. Lee Ermey wrote the screenplay.-Plot:...
  
  (1989)
• The Iron Triangle (1989)
• 84C MoPic
  84C MoPic
  84C MoPic is a 1988 American independent war film drama by Patrick Sheane Duncan.-Story:The film is created as a mock-up documentary of a Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol mission during the Vietnam War...
  
  (1989)
• A Better Tomorrow 3
  A Better Tomorrow 3
  A Better Tomorrow 3: Love & Death in Saigon is a 1989 Hong Kong action film co-produced and directed by Tsui Hark. It is a loosely-based prequel to John Woo's A Better Tomorrow, though it was released after A Better Tomorrow 2....
  
  (1989)
• Air America
  Air America (film)
  Air America is a 1990 American action comedy film directed by Roger Spottiswoode, starring Mel Gibson and Robert Downey Jr. as Air America pilots, during the Vietnam War, flying missions in Laos...
  
  (1990)
• Bullet in the Head
  Bullet in the Head
  Bullet in the Head is a 1990 Hong Kong action crime drama thriller film written, produced, edited and directed by John Woo , starring Tony Leung, Jacky Cheung, Waise Lee and Simon Yam.-Plot:...
  
  (1990)
• Jacob's Ladder
  Jacob's Ladder (film)
  Jacob's Ladder is a 1990 American psychological thriller/horror film directed by Adrian Lyne, based on a screenplay by Bruce Joel Rubin.-Plot:Jacob Singer is a U.S. soldier deployed in the Mekong Delta during the Vietnam War...
  
  (1990)
• Flight of the Intruder
  Flight of the Intruder
  Flight of the Intruder is a 1991 film directed by John Milius, which is based on the novel of the same name by A-6 Intruder pilot Stephen Coonts...
  
  (1991)
• The Lost Platoon (1991)
• White Badge
  White Badge
  White Badge is a 1992 South Korean war film directed by Jeong Ji-yeong based on the book White Badge: a novel of Korea by Ahn Junghyo.It depicts the experience of South Korean soldiers who fought in the Vietnam War alongside American troops...
  
  (1992)
• White Ghost (1988)
• Heaven & Earth (1993)
• Firehawk (1993)
• Forrest Gump
  Forrest Gump
  Forrest Gump is a 1994 American epic comedy-drama romance film based on the 1986 novel of the same name by Winston Groom. The film was directed by Robert Zemeckis, starring Tom Hanks, Robin Wright and Gary Sinise...
  
  (1994)
• The Foot Shooting Party
  The Foot Shooting Party
  The Foot Shooting Party is a 1994 short film about conscription for the Vietnam War. It was written by Kenneth F. Carter and directed by Annette Haywood-Carter. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, the film was made as part of a short-lived program at Touchstone Pictures that funded experimental short...
  
  (1994)
• Operation Dumbo Drop
  Operation Dumbo Drop
  Operation Dumbo Drop is a 1995 American comedy-drama film directed by Simon Wincer. The storyline was conceived from a screenplay written by Gene Quintano and Jim Kouf; based on a true story as depicted by United States Army Major Jim Morris...
  
  (1995)
• Dead Presidents
  Dead Presidents
  Dead Presidents is a 1995 American crime film written by Michael Henry Brown and also written, produced and directed by the Hughes brothers , starring Larenz Tate, Keith David, Chris Tucker, Freddy Rodriguez, N'Bushe Wright and Bokeem Woodbine...
  
  (1995)
• The Walking Dead
  The Walking Dead (1995 film)
  The Walking Dead is a 1995 war film written and directed by Preston A. Whitmore II starring Allen Payne, Joe Morton and Eddie Griffin. The film depicts the lives of five marines who are all assigned to rescue to a group of POWs during the Vietnam War in 1972. It opened to poor reviews and low box...
  
  (1995)
• The War at Home
  The War at Home (film)
  The War at Home is a 1996 motion picture starring Emilio Estevez, Kathy Bates, and Martin Sheen. Estevez also directed the film and also served as co-producer.-Plot:...
  
  (1996)
• A Bright Shining Lie
  A Bright Shining Lie
  A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam is a book by Neil Sheehan, a former New York Times reporter who covered the Vietnam War. It is about retired U.S...
  
  (1998)
• Héroes de Otra Patria
  Héroes de Otra Patria
  Héroes de Otra Patria is a 1998 Puerto Rican film, written and directed by Iván Dariel Ortíz....
  
  (Heroes Without a Cause) (1998)
• Tigerland
  Tigerland
  Tigerland is a 2000 war drama film directed by Joel Schumacher starring Colin Farrell in the role of Private Roland Bozz, and takes place in a training camp for soldiers to be sent to the Vietnam War....
  
  (2000)
• Father Xmas
  Father Xmas
  Father Xmas is a 2001 short film from director Marie Rose and the American Film Institute's Directing Workshop for Women starring Dakota Fanning as six-year-old Clairee who learns from her older brother that Santa Claus is not real and that their father is fighting in the Vietnam War.-External...
  
  (2001)
• Going Back (2001)
• We Were Soldiers
  We Were Soldiers
  We Were Soldiers is a 2002 American war film that dramatizes the Battle of Ia Drang on November 14, 1965. The film was directed by Randall Wallace and stars Mel Gibson. It is based on the book We Were Soldiers Once… And Young by Lieutenant General Hal Moore and reporter Joseph L...
  
  (2002)
• Word of Honor (2003)
• Gamma Squad
  Gamma Squad
  Expendable, re-named from Gamma Squad for its premiere on June 14, 2004, is a film by Catman Do Films that was directed by Nathaniel Barker and Eliot Lash; it is an independent film....
  
  (2004)
• R-Point
  R-Point
  R-Point is a 2004 Korean horror film written and directed by Su-chang Kong and starring Gam Wu-seong and Son Byung-ho. It is set in 1972 Vietnam, during the Vietnam War. However, most of the movie was shot in Cambodia...
  
  (2004)
• Faith of My Fathers
  Faith of My Fathers (film)
  Faith of My Fathers is a 2005 American television film, directed by Peter Markle. Based on the 1999 memoir of the same name by United States Senator and former United States Navy aviator John McCain , it aired on A&E Network on Memorial Day, May 30, 2005.Filmed in Louisiana, Faith of My...
  
  (2005)
• American Gangster (2007)
• Rescue Dawn
  Rescue Dawn
  Rescue Dawn is a 2007 war drama film directed by Werner Herzog, based on an adapted screenplay written from his acclaimed 1997 documentary, Little Dieter Needs to Fly...
  
  (2007)
• Journey from the Fall
  Journey from the Fall
  Journey from the Fall is a 2006 independent film by writer/director/editor Ham Tran, about the Vietnamese reeducation camp and boat people experience following the Fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975. This drama was released on March 23, 2007, by ImaginAsian to sold-out screenings...
  
  (2007)
• 1968 Tunnel Rats
  1968 Tunnel Rats
  1968 Tunnel Rats is a war film directed by Uwe Boll. The film is based on the factual duties of tunnel rats during the Vietnam War...
  
  (2008)
• Sunny
  Sunny (2008 film)
  Sunny is a 2008 South Korean film directed by Lee Jun-ik. The film's Korean language title literally translates as "My Love is Faraway".- Plot :...
  
  (2008)
• Long Tan (2011)

Rhodesian Bush War

Rhodesian Bush War

The Rhodesian Bush War – also known as the Second Chimurenga or the Zimbabwe War of Liberation – was a civil war which took place between July 1964 and December 1979 in the unrecognised country of Rhodesia...

 (1964–1979)

• Whispering Death
  Albino (film)
  Albino is a 1976 German thriller directed by Jürgen Goslar and starring Christopher Lee, James Faulkner and Sybil Danning filmed on location during the Rhodesian bush war...
  
  (1976)
• A Game for Vultures
  A Game for Vultures
  A Game for Vultures is a 1979 British thriller film starring Richard Harris, Joan Collins and Richard Roundtree. It was directed by James Fargo and based on a novel by Michael Hartmann.-Plot:...
  
  (1979)

Cambodian Civil War

Cambodian Civil War

The Cambodian Civil War was a conflict that pitted the forces of the Communist Party of Kampuchea and their allies the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and the Viet Cong against the government forces of Cambodia , which were supported by the United States and the Republic of Vietnam The Cambodian...

 (1967–1975)

• The Killing Fields
  The Killing Fields (film)
  The Killing Fields is a 1984 British drama film about the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia, which is based on the experiences of two journalists: Cambodian Dith Pran and American Sydney Schanberg. The film, which won three Academy Awards, was directed by Roland Joffé and stars Sam Waterston as...
  
  (1984)

Communist Insurgency of the Philippines (1969–Present)

• Ama Namin (1998)
• Ultimatum Ceasefire (1987)

Islamic Insurgency of the Philippines (1970–present)

• Mistah (Mga Mandirigma) (1994)
• Bagong Buwan
  Bagong Buwan
  Bagong Buwan, also known as New Moon, is a 2001 Filipino film directed by Marilou Diaz-Abaya starring Filipino actors Cesar Montano, Amy Austria, Jericho Rosales, Caridad Sanchez, Carlo Aquino, Noni Buencamino, Jiro Manio, Ronnie Lazaro, Jhong Hilario, and Jodi Santamaria.This movie is about the...
  
  (2001)

Sino-Vietnamese War

Sino-Vietnamese War

The Sino–Vietnamese War , also known as the Third Indochina War, known in the PRC as and in Vietnam as Chiến tranh chống bành trướng Trung Hoa , was a brief but bloody border war fought in 1979 between the People's Republic of China and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam...

 (1979)

• Wreaths at the Foot of the Mountain
  Wreaths at the Foot of the Mountain
  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...
  
  (1984)
• Dove Tree
  Dove tree
  The Dove Tree is a medium-sized deciduous tree, usually placed in the tupelo family , but is sometimes included in the dogwood family , and by yet others given family status of its own, as Davidiaceae. It is also known as the Handkerchief tree or Pocket-handkerchief tree...
  
  (1985)

Nicaraguan Civil War

Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front

The Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front is, since 1992, a left-wing political party in El Salvador and formerly a coalition of five revolutionary guerrilla organizations...

 (1979 - 1992)

• Under Fire
  Under Fire (film)
  Under Fire is a 1983 political film set during the last days of the Somoza regime in 1979 Nicaragua. It stars Nick Nolte, Gene Hackman and Joanna Cassidy. The story is fictional, but was inspired by actual events, namely the murder of ABC reporter Bill Stewart by Somoza forces...
  
  (1983)
• Latino
  Latino (film)
  Latino is a 1985 American war film directed by Haskell Wexler. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1985 Cannes Film Festival.-Summary:...
  
  (1985)
• Walker
  Walker (film)
  Walker is a 1987 Acid Western film directed by Alex Cox. The film based on the life story of William Walker , the American filibuster who invaded Mexico in the 1850s and made himself President of Nicaragua shortly thereafter. It was written by Rudy Wurlitzer and scored by Joe Strummer, who also...
  
  (1987)

all the sharpe films

Lebanese Civil War

Lebanese Civil War

The Lebanese Civil War was a multifaceted civil war in Lebanon. The war lasted from 1975 to 1990 and resulted in an estimated 150,000 to 230,000 civilian fatalities. Another one million people were wounded, and today approximately 350,000 people remain displaced. There was also a mass exodus of...

 (1975–1990)

• The Delta Force
  The Delta Force (film)
  The Delta Force is a 1986 American action film starring Chuck Norris and Lee Marvin as leaders of an elite squad of Special Forces troops based on the real life U.S. Army Delta Force unit. It was directed by Menahem Golan and featured Martin Balsam, Joey Bishop, Robert Vaughn, Steve James, Robert...
  
  (1986)
• Witness in the War Zone (1987)
• Navy SEALs
  Navy SEALs (film)
  Navy SEALs is a 1990 action film, directed by Lewis Teague, written by Chuck Pfarrer and Gary Goldman, and produced by Brenda Feigen and Bernard Williams with consultant William Bradley.-Plot:...
  
  (1990)
• al-I'sar [in Arabic] (~1992)
• West Beirut (1998)
• Zozo
  Zozo
  Zozo is a 2005 Swedish-Lebanese film about a Lebanese boy during the civil war, who gets separated from his family and ends up in Sweden. It was directed by Swedish-Lebanese director Josef Fares. The story is mostly inspired by Fares' real life immigration to Sweden during the war.The film was...
  
  (2005)
• Waltz with Bashir
  Waltz with Bashir
  Waltz with Bashir is a 2008 Israeli animated documentary film written and directed by Ari Folman. It depicts Folman in search of his lost memories from the 1982 Lebanon War....
  
  (2008)

Operation Entebbe

Operation Entebbe

Operation Entebbe was a counter-terrorist hostage-rescue mission carried out by the Special Forces of the Israel Defense Forces at Entebbe Airport in Uganda on 4 July 1976. A week earlier, on 27 June, an Air France plane with 248 passengers was hijacked by Palestinian and German terrorists and...

 (1976)

• Mivtsa Yonatan
  Mivtsa Yonatan (film)
  Operation Thunderbolt, known in Israel as Mivtsa Yonatan , is an Academy Award–nominated Israeli film from 1977 based on an actual event; Operation Entebbe and the freeing of hostages at Entebbe Airport in Kampala, Uganda, on July 4, 1976...
  
  (1977)
• Raid On Entebbe
  Raid on Entebbe (film)
  Raid on Entebbe is a 1977 TV movie directed by Irvin Kershner. It is based on an actual event: Operation Entebbe and the freeing of hostages at Entebbe Airport in Entebbe, Uganda on July 4, 1976. It was the last movie to be released featuring Academy Award-winning actor Peter Finch who died just...
  
  (1977) (TV)
• Victory at Entebbe
  Victory at Entebbe
  Victory at Entebbe is a made-for-television film from 1976 based on an actual event: Operation Entebbe and the freeing of Israeli hostages at Entebbe Airport in Uganda...
  
   (1976) (TV)
• The Last King of Scotland
  The Last King of Scotland (film)
  The Last King of Scotland is a 2006 British drama film based on Giles Foden's novel of the same name, adapted by screenwriters Peter Morgan and Jeremy Brock, and directed by Kevin Macdonald...
  
  (2006)

Soviet war in Afghanistan

Soviet war in Afghanistan

The Soviet war in Afghanistan was a nine-year conflict involving the Soviet Union, supporting the Marxist-Leninist government of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan against the Afghan Mujahideen and foreign "Arab–Afghan" volunteers...

 (1979–1989)

• The Living Daylights (1987)
• Rambo III
  Rambo III
  Rambo III is an American Action film released on May 25, 1988. It is the third film in the Rambo series following First Blood and Rambo: First Blood Part II...
  
  (1988)
• The Beast of War
  The Beast of War
  The Beast is a 1988 American war film directed by Kevin Reynolds and based on a William Mastrosimone play Nanawatai. The plot concerns a Soviet T-55 tank lost during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan...
  
  (1988)
• Afghan Breakdown
  Afghan Breakdown
  Afghan Breakdown is a 1990 war drama film about the Soviet war in Afghanistan directed by Vladimir Bortko and co-produced by Italy and the Soviet Union...
  
  (1991)
• Spetsnaz
  Spetsnaz (miniseries)
  -Overview:The series is set mostly in Russia and follows the adventures of four members of the GRU spetsnaz...
  
  (2002), TV miniseries
• 9th Company
  9th Company
  The 9th Company is a 2005 Russian–Finnish–Ukrainian film directed by Fyodor Bondarchuk about the Soviet War in Afghanistan.-Plot:The film follows a band of young recruits from a farewell ceremony with friends and family back home. They train in Uzbekistan's Fergana Valley where they befriend a...
  
  (2005)
• Charlie Wilson's War
  Charlie Wilson's War
  Charlie Wilson's War is a 2007 American biographical comedy drama film recounting the true story of U.S. Congressman Charlie Wilson who partnered with "bare knuckle attitude" CIA operative Gust Avrakotos to launch Operation Cyclone, a program to organize and support the Afghan mujahideen in their...
  
  (2007)
• The Kite Runner
  The Kite Runner (film)
  The Kite Runner is a 2007 drama film directed by Marc Forster based on the novel of the same name by Khaled Hosseini. It tells the story of Amir, a well-to-do boy from the Wazir Akbar Khan district of Kabul, who is tormented by the guilt of abandoning his friend Hassan, the son of his father's...
  
  (2007)
• Peshavar Waltz (1994), Russian war film on Afghanistan

Salvadoran Civil War (1980–1992)

• Salvador
  Salvador (film)
  Salvador is a 1986 war drama film which tells the story of an American journalist in El Salvador covering the Salvadoran civil war. While trying to get footage, he becomes entangled with both leftist guerrillas and the right wing military...
  
  (1986)
• Romero (film)
  Romero (film)
  Romero is a film depicting the life of assassinated Salvadoran Archbishop Óscar Romero, played by Raúl Juliá. Richard Jordan played the role of Romero's close friend and fellow martyred priest Rutilio Grande, and actors Ana Alicia and Harold Gould also appeared in the film.Romero was the first...
  
  (1989)
• Voces inocentes
  Voces inocentes
  Voces inocentes is a 2004 Mexican film directed by Luis Mandoki. The plot is set during the Salvadoran Civil War in 1980, and is based on writer Óscar Torres's childhood. The film serves as a general commentary on the military use of children. The movie also shows injustice against innocent...
  
  (2004) (Innocent Voices)

Iran–Iraq War (1980–1988)

• Alhodood Almultahebah (The Flaming Borders) (1987)
• Kilomètre Zéro
  Kilometre Zero
  In many countries, Kilometre Zero or similar terms in other languages, is a particular location , from which distances are traditionally measured...
  
  (Kilometer Zero) (2005)
• Persepolis
  Persepolis (film)
  Persepolis is a 2007 French animated film based on Marjane Satrapi's autobiographical graphic novel of the same name. The film was written and directed by Satrapi with Vincent Paronnaud. The story follows a young girl as she comes of age against the backdrop of the Iranian Revolution. The story...
  
  (2007)
• Sea Clamor (1987)

Falklands War

Falklands War

The Falklands War , also called the Falklands Conflict or Falklands Crisis, was fought in 1982 between Argentina and the United Kingdom over the disputed Falkland Islands and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands...

 (1982)

• Los Chicos De La Guerra (1984)
• Tumbledown
  Tumbledown
  Tumbledown is a 1988 BBC Television drama film set during the Falklands War.-Synopsis:The film centres on the experiences of Robert Lawrence MC , an officer of the Scots Guards during the Falklands Campaign of 1982. While fighting at the Battle of Mount Tumbledown, Lawrence is shot in the head by...
  
  (1988) (TV)
• Resurrected
  Resurrected (film)
  Resurrected is a 1989 drama film starring David Thewlis based on the story of the British soldier Philip Williams, who is presumed dead and left behind in the Falklands but is accused of desertion when he reappears seven weeks after the Falklands War ends. The film was written by Martin Allen and...
  
  (1989)
• An Ungentlemanly Act
  An Ungentlemanly Act
  An Ungentlemanly Act is a 1992 BBC television film about the first days of the invasion of the Falkland Islands in 1982.-Production:The film was written and directed by Stuart Urban, and commissioned to mark the tenth anniversary of the Falklands War...
  
  (1992) (TV)
• Iluminados Por El Fuego
  Iluminados Por El Fuego
  Blessed by Fire is an Argentine film about the Falklands War written and directed by Tristán Bauer. The film features Gastón Pauls, Pablo Ribba, César Albarracín and Hugo Carrizo among others...
  
  (Blessed by Fire) (2005)
• 1982, Estuvimos ahí (1982, We were there) (2004)

First Lebanon War

1982 Lebanon War

The 1982 Lebanon War , , called Operation Peace for Galilee by Israel, and later known in Israel as the Lebanon War and First Lebanon War, began on 6 June 1982, when the Israel Defense Forces invaded southern Lebanon...

 (1982)

• Ricochets (Shtei Etzbaot Mi'Tzidon) (1986)
• Time for Cherries (Onat Haduvdevanim) (1991)
• Cup Final (1991)
• Beaufort
  Beaufort (film)
  Beaufort is a 2007 Israeli war film. The film was directed by Joseph Cedar and was co-written by Cedar and Ron Leshem, based on Leshem's If there's a Heaven...
  
  (2007)
• Waltz with Bashir
  Waltz with Bashir
  Waltz with Bashir is a 2008 Israeli animated documentary film written and directed by Ari Folman. It depicts Folman in search of his lost memories from the 1982 Lebanon War....
  
  (2008)
• Lebanon (2009)

Sri Lankan Civil War

Sri Lankan civil war

The Sri Lankan Civil War was a conflict fought on the island of Sri Lanka. Beginning on July 23, 1983, there was an on-and-off insurgency against the government by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam , a separatist militant organization which fought to create an independent Tamil state named Tamil...

 (1983–2009)

• Kannathil Muthamittal
  Kannathil Muthamittal
  Kannathil Muthamittal is a 2002 Tamil drama film directed by Mani Ratnam. It stars P. S. Keerthana, R. Madhavan, Simran, Nandita Das, Pasupathy, J. D. Chakravarthy and Prakash Raj. The film's score and soundtrack were composed by A. R. Rahman. The film's title is a famous phrase from a poem...
  
  (2002)
• Sengadal
  Sengadal
  Sengadal is the first full length feature film of Leena Manimekalai, who also stars in the film. Several local actors form the rest of the cast. Produced by Janaki Sivakumar under the banner of Tholl Paavai Theatres, the film features cinematography by M. J. Radhakrishnan and editing by Sreekar...
  
  (2010, Not yet Released, Banned in India and Sri Lanka)

Somali Civil War

Somali Civil War

The Somali Civil War is an ongoing civil war taking place in Somalia. The conflict, which began in 1991, has caused destabilisation throughout the country, with the current phase of the conflict seeing the Somali government losing substantial control of the state to rebel forces...

 (1988–present)

• Black Hawk Down (2001)
• The Journey is the Destination (2011)

Gulf War

Gulf War

The Persian Gulf War , commonly referred to as simply the Gulf War, was a war waged by a U.N.-authorized coalition force from 34 nations led by the United States, against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion and annexation of Kuwait.The war is also known under other names, such as the First Gulf...

 (1990–1991)

(Also see Gulf War films)

• The Finest Hour (1992)
• Courage Under Fire
  Courage Under Fire
  Courage Under Fire is a 1996 film directed by Edward Zwick, and starring Denzel Washington, Meg Ryan, Lou Diamond Phillips and Matt Damon. It is one of the first films to depict the 1991 Gulf War.-Plot:...
  
  (1996)
• The One That Got Away
  The One That Got Away (1996 film)
  The One That Got Away is a 1996 ITV television film, based on the book of the same name by 'Chris Ryan' telling the "true" story of a Special Air Service patrolduring the Gulf War in 1991....
  
  (1996) (TV)
• Thanks of a Grateful Nation (1998) (TV)
• Three Kings (1999)
• Bravo Two Zero
  Bravo Two Zero (film)
  Bravo Two Zero is a 1999 two hour television miniseries , based on the book of the same name by Andy McNab. The film covers real life events - from the perspective of Andy McNab, patrol commander of Bravo Two Zero, a British SAS patrol , tasked to find Iraqi Scud missile launchers during the Gulf...
  
  (1999) (TV)
• Live From Baghdad
  Live from Baghdad (film)
  Live from Baghdad is a television movie produced in 2002 by HBO. It was directed by Mick Jackson and written by Robert Wiener . The movie was released during the prelude stage of the Iraq War....
  
  (2002) (TV)
• Jarhead
  Jarhead (film)
  Jarhead is a 2005 biographical drama war film based on U.S. Marine Anthony Swofford's 1991 Gulf War memoir of the same name, directed by Sam Mendes, starring Jake Gyllenhaal as Swofford with co-stars Jamie Foxx, Peter Sarsgaard, and Chris Cooper. The title comes from the slang term used to refer to...
  
  (2005)
• The Manchurian Candidate (2004 film)
  The Manchurian Candidate (2004 film)
  The Manchurian Candidate is a 2004 American thriller film based on the 1959 novel of the same name by Richard Condon, and a reimagining of the previous 1962 film....
  
  (2004)
• The Devil's Double
  The Devil's Double
  The Devil's Double is a 2011 drama film directed by Lee Tamahori and starring Dominic Cooper, Philip Quast, Ludivine Sagnier and Raad Rawi. It was released on January 22, 2011 at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival and was released in limited theaters on July 29, 2011 by Lionsgate and Herrick...
  
  (2011)

Rwandan Civil War

Rwandan Civil War

The Rwandan Civil War was a conflict within the Central African nation of Rwanda between the government of President Juvénal Habyarimana and the rebel Rwandan Patriotic Front...

 (1990–1993)

• Hotel Rwanda
  Hotel Rwanda
  Hotel Rwanda is a 2004 American drama film directed by Terry George. It was adapted from a screenplay written by both George and Keir Pearson. Based on real life events which took place in Rwanda during the spring of 1994, the film stars Don Cheadle as hotelier Paul Rusesabagina, who attempts to...
  
  (2004)
• Shooting Dogs
  Shooting Dogs
  Shooting Dogs, released in the United States as Beyond the Gates, is a 2005 film, directed by Michael Caton-Jones and starring John Hurt, Hugh Dancy and Claire-Hope Ashitey. It is based on the experiences of BBC news producer David Belton, who worked in Rwanda during the Rwandan Genocide...
  
  (2005)
• Sometimes in April
  Sometimes In April
  Sometimes in April is a 2005 historical drama television film about the Rwandan Genocide of 1994, written and directed by the Haitian filmmaker Raoul Peck...
  
  (2005)
• Beyond The Gates
  Shooting Dogs
  Shooting Dogs, released in the United States as Beyond the Gates, is a 2005 film, directed by Michael Caton-Jones and starring John Hurt, Hugh Dancy and Claire-Hope Ashitey. It is based on the experiences of BBC news producer David Belton, who worked in Rwanda during the Rwandan Genocide...
  
  (2005)
• A Sunday in Kigali
  A Sunday in Kigali
  A Sunday in Kigali is a 2006 Canadian feature film set during the Rwandan genocide.Directed by Robert Favreau, it relates the story of Bernard Valcourt, a documentary film maker and journalist who falls in love with a young Rwandan woman, Gentille, who works at the Hôtel Des Mille Collines...
  
  (Un dimanche à Kigali) (2006)
• Shake Hands with the Devil (2007)

Bosnian War

Bosnian War

The Bosnian War or the War in Bosnia and Herzegovina was an international armed conflict that took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina between April 1992 and December 1995. The war involved several sides...

 (1992–1995)

• Sniper Valley Film
• Before the Rain
  Before the Rain (film)
  Before the Rain is a 1994 Macedonian film starring Katrin Cartlidge, Rade Šerbedžija, Grégoire Colin, and Labina Mitevska. It was directed and written by Milčo Mančevski. The music was created by the band Anastasia.-Plot:...
  
  (1994)
• Underground (1995)
• Pretty Village, Pretty Flame
  Pretty Village, Pretty Flame
  Pretty Village, Pretty Flame is a 1996 Yugoslavian film directed by Srđan Dragojević that gave uniquely bleak yet darkly humorous account of the Bosnian War.It is considered a modern classic of Serbian cinema...
  
  (1996)
• Welcome to Sarajevo
  Welcome To Sarajevo
  Welcome to Sarajevo is a British war film from 1997. It is directed by Michael Winterbottom. The screenplay is by Frank Cottrell Boyce and is based on the book Natasha's Story by Michael Nicholson.- Synopsis :...
  
  (1997)
• The Perfect Circle (1997)
• Savior
  Savior (film)
  Savior is a 1998 war film starring Dennis Quaid, Stellan Skarsgård, Nastassja Kinski, and Nataša Ninković. It is about an American mercenary escorting a Serbian woman and her newborn child to a United Nations safe zone during the Bosnian War and Bosnian Genocide.- Plot :Joshua Rose , a State...
  
  (1998)
• Shot Through the Heart
  Shot through the heart
  Shot Through the Heart is a 1998 TV film directed by David Attwood, shown on the BBC and HBO in 1998, which covers the Siege of Sarajevo during the Bosnian War...
  
  (1998)
• Demons of War
  Demons of War
  Demons of War is a 1998 Polish war-drama by Władysław Pasikowski placed during the Bosnian War.-Plot:A detachment of the Polish IFOR forces in Bosnia is led by Major Keller , who is being investigated for insubordination during a patrol in Srebrenica...
  
  (1998)
• Warriors
  Warriors (TV series)
  Warriors is a British television drama serial, written by Leigh Jackson, produced by Nigel Stafford-Clark and directed by Peter Kosminsky. It starred Matthew Macfadyen, Damian Lewis and Ioan Gruffudd. The music was written by Debbie Wiseman...
  
  (1999)
• No Man's Land
  No Man's Land (2001 film)
  No Man's Land is a 2001 tragic war drama that is set in the midst of the Bosnian war. The film is a parable and marked the debut of Bosnian writer and director Danis Tanović...
  
  (2001)
• Behind Enemy Lines (2002)
• Grbavica
  Grbavica (film)
  Grbavica is a 2006 film by Jasmila Žbanić about the life of a single mother in contemporary Sarajevo in the aftermath of systematic rapes of Bosniak women by Serbian troops during the war...
  
  (2006)
• The Hunting Party
  The Hunting Party (2007 film)
  The Hunting Party is a 2007 American action-adventure-thriller film starring Richard Gere, Terrence Howard, Diane Kruger and Jesse Eisenberg. The working title for this film was Spring Break in Bosnia before being changed to The Hunting Party during post-production...
  
  (2007)

First Chechen War

First Chechen War

The First Chechen War, also known as the War in Chechnya, was a conflict between the Russian Federation and the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, fought from December 1994 to August 1996...

 (1994–1996)

• Prisoner of the Mountains
  Prisoner of the Mountains
  Prisoner of the Mountains , also known as Prisoner of the Caucasus, is a 1996 Russian war drama film directed by Sergei Bodrov and written by Bodrov, Arif Aliyev and Boris Giller...
  
  (1996)
• Proof of Life
  Proof of Life
  Proof of Life is a 2000 American film, directed by Taylor Hackford. The title refers to a phrase commonly used to indicate proof that a kidnap victim is still alive...
  
  (1998)
• House of Fools (2002)
• The Storm Gate (2006) (TV miniseries)
• 12
  12 (film)
  12 is a 2007 crime film by Russian director and actor Nikita Mikhalkov. The film was presented at the Venice Film Festival, where Mikhalkov was awarded the Special Lion for Overall Work...
  
  (2007)

Kosovo War

Kosovo War

The term Kosovo War or Kosovo conflict was two sequential, and at times parallel, armed conflicts in Kosovo province, then part of FR Yugoslav Republic of Serbia; from early 1998 to 1999, there was an armed conflict initiated by the ethnic Albanian "Kosovo Liberation Army" , who sought independence...

 (1998–1999)

• Guerreros
  Guerreros
  Guerreros is a 2002 Spanish film about a group of Spanish soldiers and their French allies stationed in the border between Kosovo and Serbia during the KFOR humanitarian deployment of 2001. It was nominated for two Goya Awards...
  
  (2002)
• Sniper 2
  Sniper 2
  Sniper 2 is an American film shot in Hungary in November 2002 and released in early 2003. It stars Tom Berenger, Bokeem Woodbine, Erika Marozsán and Tamás Puskás, and was directed by Craig R. Baxley....
  
  (2003)
• The Hunted (2003)
• California Dreamin' (film) (2007)

Covert special operations in Afghanistan, Iraq, etc.

Covert operation

A covert operation is a military, intelligence or law enforcement operation that is carried clandestinely and, often, outside of official channels. Covert operations aim to fulfill their mission objectives without any parties knowing who sponsored or carried out the operation...

 

• The Unit
  The Unit
  The Unit is an American action-drama television series that focuses on a top-secret military unit modeled after the real-life U.S. Army special operations unit commonly known as Delta Force...
  
  (2006–2009) (TV series)

Insurgency in Saudi Arabia (2003–present)

• Syriana
  Syriana
  Syriana is a 2005 geopolitical thriller film written and directed by Stephen Gaghan, and executive produced by George Clooney, who also stars in the film with an ensemble cast. Gaghan's screenplay is loosely adapted from Robert Baer's memoir See No Evil...
  
  (2005)
• The Kingdom
  The Kingdom (film)
  The Kingdom is a 2007 film directed by Peter Berg and starring Jamie Foxx, Chris Cooper, Jennifer Garner, Jason Bateman, Ashraf Barhom, with Kyle Chandler, Jeremy Piven and Ali Suliman....
  
  (2007)

Insurgency in the Maghreb

Insurgency in the Maghreb (2002–present)

The Maghreb has been the subject of an insurgency since 2002 waged by the neo-Khawarij Islamist militia, Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat, or, GSPC...

 (2002–present)

• Rendition
  Rendition (film)
  Rendition is a 2007 drama film directed by Gavin Hood and starring Reese Witherspoon, Meryl Streep, Peter Sarsgaard, Alan Arkin, Jake Gyllenhaal and Omar Metwally. It centers on the controversial CIA practice of extraordinary rendition, and is based on the true story of Khalid El-Masri who was...
  
  (2007)

Joint Chiefs of Staff operations

Joint Chiefs of Staff

The Joint Chiefs of Staff is a body of senior uniformed leaders in the United States Department of Defense who advise the Secretary of Defense, the Homeland Security Council, the National Security Council and the President on military matters...

 

• E-Ring
  E-Ring
  E-Ring is an American television military drama, created by Ken Robinson and David McKenna and executive produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, that premiered on NBC on September 21, 2005...
  
  (2005–2006) (TV series)

Operation Enduring Freedom - Philippines

Operation Enduring Freedom - Philippines

Operation Enduring Freedom – Philippines or Operation Freedom Eagle is part of Operation Enduring Freedom and the U.S. Global War on Terrorism. About 600 U.S. military personnel are advising and assisting the Armed Forces of the Philippines in the Southern Philippines...

 (2002–present)

• Operation Balikatan (2003)
• The Hunt for Eagle One
  The Hunt for Eagle One
  The Hunt for Eagle One is a 2006 film. The story takes place during Operation Enduring Freedom in The Philippines. A group of U.S. Marines are sent to rescue a captured U.S. Marine Captain and a Filipino Major while stopping a group of Al-Qaeda-backed local rebels from launching biological weapons....
  
  (2006)
• The Hunt for Eagle One: Crash Point (2006)

September 11 attacks (2001)

• DC 9/11: Time of Crisis
  DC 9/11: Time of Crisis
  DC 9/11: Time of Crisis is a 2003 television movie which re-enacts the events of the September 11, 2001 attacks as seen from the point of view of the President of the United States and his staff. It was directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith and starred Timothy Bottoms as President George W...
  
  (2003) (TV)
• Fahrenheit 9/11
  Fahrenheit 9/11
  Fahrenheit 9/11 is a 2004 documentary film by American filmmaker and political commentator Michael Moore. The film takes a critical look at the presidency of George W. Bush, the War on Terror, and its coverage in the news media...
  
  (2004) (Documentary)
• FahrenHYPE 9/11
  FahrenHYPE 9/11
  FahrenHYPE 9/11 is a 2004 film that examines and challenges Michael Moore's documentary, Fahrenheit 9/11. The movie is narrated by Ron Silver...
  
  (2004) (Documentary)
• Hamburg Cell (2004) (TV)
• Tiger Cruise
  Tiger Cruise
  Tiger Cruise is the 54th Disney Channel Original Movie. It stars Hayden Panettiere, Bill Pullman and Jansen Panettiere, Hayden's real-life younger brother...
  
  (2004) (TV)
• Flight 93 (2006) (TV)
• The Path to 9/11
  The Path to 9/11
  The Path to 9/11 was a two-part miniseries that aired in the United States on ABC television from September 10 – 11, 2006, and also in other countries. The film dramatizes the 1993 World Trade Center bombing in New York City and the events leading up to the September 11, 2001 attacks.The film...
  
  (2006) (TV)
• United 93
  United 93 (film)
  United 93 is a 2006 fact-based historical drama film written, co-produced, and directed by Paul Greengrass that chronicles events aboard United Airlines Flight 93, which was hijacked during the September 11 attacks...
  
  (2006)
• World Trade Center
  World Trade Center (film)
  World Trade Center is a 2006 American disaster-drama film directed by Oliver Stone and based on the September 11 attacks at the World Trade Center. It stars Nicolas Cage, Maria Bello, Michael Peña, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Michael Shannon. The film was shot from October 19, 2005 - February 10, 2006...
  
  (2006)

Terrorist Sleeper cells

• The Siege
  The Siege
  The Siege is a 1998 American thriller film directed by Edward Zwick. The film is about a fictional situation in which terrorist cells have made several attacks on New York City...
  
  (1998)
• Sleeper Cell (TV miniseries) (2005–2006)

War in Afghanistan

War in Afghanistan (2001–present)

The War in Afghanistan began on October 7, 2001, as the armed forces of the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Australia, and the Afghan United Front launched Operation Enduring Freedom...

 (2001–present)

• Kandahar (2001)
• Osama
  Osama (film)
  Osama is a 2003 film made in Afghanistan by Siddiq Barmak. It is about a girl living in Afghanistan under the Taliban regime who disguises herself as a boy, Osama, to support her family. It was the first film to be shot entirely in Afghanistan since 1996, when the Taliban régime banned the...
  
  (2003)
• Fire Over Afghanistan
  Fire Over Afghanistan
  Fire Over Afghanistan is a 2003 film directed by Terence H. Winkless, and starring Jeff Stearns, Jordan Bayne, Fred Dryer and Mihail Meltev.- Cast :Jeff Stearns Captain Jeff WalkerJordan Bayne Kris AndrewsFred Dryer Colonel Collins...
  
  (2003)
• Lions for Lambs
  Lions for Lambs
  Lions for Lambs is a 2007 American drama film about the connection between a platoon of United States soldiers in Afghanistan, a U.S. senator, a reporter, and a California college professor. It stars Tom Cruise, Robert Redford and Meryl Streep...
  
  (2007)
• Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden?
  Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden?
  Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden? is a 2008 documentary film, conceived by Adam Dell and co-written, produced, directed by and starring Morgan Spurlock, an American independent filmmaker....
  
  (2008)
• Ironman (film) (2008)
• The Objective
  The Objective
  The Objective is a 2008 science fiction horror film, directed by Daniel Myrick who also directed The Blair Witch Project and Believers, starring Jonas Ball, Matthew R. Anderson, and Michael C. Williams...
  
  (2008)
• Red Sands
  Red Sands
  Red Sands is a 2009 horror film movie set in Afghanistan in 2002. The film is directed by Alex Turner, whose previous effort was Dead Birds, in 2004.-Plot:...
  
  (2009)
• Brothers (2009)
• Restrepo
  Restrepo (film)
  Restrepo is a 2010 documentary film about the Afghanistan war, directed by American journalist Sebastian Junger and British/American photojournalist Tim Hetherington....
  
  (2010)
• The Lone Survivor (2013) In production.
• Combat Hospital
  Combat Hospital
  Combat Hospital is a Canadian medical drama television series, filmed in Toronto, that debuted on Global on 21 June 2011. The series was known for a time by the working title The Hot Zone before reverting to its previous title, Combat Hospital....
  
  (TV Series)

Armadillo (http://akas.imdb.com/title/tt1640680/) (Danish documentary about the danish engagement in Afghanistan)

Iraq War (2003-present)

• Saving Jessica Lynch
  Saving Jessica Lynch
  Saving Jessica Lynch is a 2003 American television film that aired on NBC and featured Canadian actress Laura Regan in the title role. The film begins with the ambush of Jessica Lynch's convoy in the middle of an Iraqi city and follows a version of events that credits an Iraqi citizen, Mohammed...
  
  (2003) (TV)
• Over There
  Over There (TV series)
  Over There is an action / drama / war television series that aired on FX. It premiered in the United States on July 27, 2005 and premiered in Canada on September 6, 2005 on the History Television channel. The series was presented in 16:9 widescreen format in the U.S...
  
  (2005) (TV series)
• The Tiger and the Snow
  The Tiger and the Snow
  La tigre e la neve is a 2005 Italian movie starring and directed by Roberto Benigni.The film is a romantic comedy set in contemporary Rome and in occupied Baghdad during the Iraq War. The story, inspired by the fairy tale "Sleeping Beauty," features singer-songwriter Tom Waits as himself in...
  
  (2005)
• American Soldiers (2005)
• Valley of the Wolves Iraq
  Valley of the Wolves Iraq
  Valley of the Wolves: Iraq is a 2006 Turkish action film, directed by Serdar Akar, about a Turkish commando team which goes to Iraq to track down the US military commander responsible for the Hood event....
  
  (2006)
• My Country, My Country
  My Country, My Country
  My Country, My Country is a 2006 documentary film. Filmmaker Laura Poitras spent over eight months alone in Iraq filming this documentary. The film shows life in Iraq for average Iraqis under U.S. occupation. Poitras focuses primarily on Dr...
  
  (2006)
• Iraq in Fragments
  Iraq in Fragments
  Iraq in Fragments is a documentary feature directed by James Longley. Longley shot the film in Digital Video on a Panasonic DVX100 miniDV camcorder. The film premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival. The film is also a part of the Iraq Media Action Project film collection. It was nominated for...
  
  (2006)
• A Line in the Sand (2006) (TV)
• Home of the Brave
  Home of the Brave (2006 film)
  Home of the Brave is a 2006 drama film following the lives of four Army National Guard soldiers in Iraq and their return to the United States. The film was shot in Morocco and in Spokane, Washington.-Plot:...
  
  (2006)
• Djihad
  Djihad (TV series)
  -Plot:The lives and destinies of five French characters intersect during the Iraq War. Three young French Arabs each for a different reason joins a jihadi group to fight against the Americans. Delphine LeGuen, a 40-something French woman running an NGO in Baghdad at the outbreak of the war, gets...
  
  (2006) (TV)
• In the Valley of Elah
  In the Valley of Elah
  In the Valley of Elah is a 2007 film written and directed by Paul Haggis, starring Tommy Lee Jones, Charlize Theron, and Susan Sarandon. The film’s title refers to the Biblical valley where the battle between David and Goliath is said to have taken place....
  
  (2007)
• Body of War
  Body of War
  Body of War, directed by Ellen Spiro and Phil Donahue, is a 2007 documentary following Tomas Young, an Iraq War veteran paralyzed from a bullet to the spine, on a physical and emotional journey as he adapts to his new body and begins to question the decision to go to war in Iraq.As Tomas's journey...
  
  (2007)
• No End In Sight
  No End in Sight
  No End in Sight is a 2007 documentary film about the American occupation of Iraq. The film marks the directorial debut of Academy Award winning documentary film producer Charles H. Ferguson. The film premiered January 22, 2007 at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. The film opened in limited release...
  
  (2007), documentary
• Redacted
  Redacted (film)
  Redacted is a 2007 American war film written and directed by Brian De Palma. It is a fictional dramatization, loosely based on the 2006 Mahmudiyah killings in Mahmoudiyah, Iraq...
  
  (2007)
• Grace Is Gone
  Grace Is Gone (film)
  Grace Is Gone is a 2007 drama film starring John Cusack as a father who does not want to tell his two daughters that their mother has died while serving in Iraq...
  
  (2007)
• The Mark of Cain (2007) (TV)
• Battle For Haditha
  Battle for Haditha (film)
  Battle for Haditha is a 2007 drama film directed by British director Nick Broomfield loosely based on the Haditha killings. Dramatising real events using a documentary style, Battle for Haditha is Broomfield's follow up to Ghosts. The film was aired on Channel 4 in the UK on 17 March 2008.-Plot:The...
  
  (2007)
• The Four Horsemen (film) (2007)
• Stop Loss
  Stop-Loss (film)
  Stop-Loss is a 2008 American drama film directed by Kimberly Peirce and starring Ryan Phillippe, Channing Tatum, Abbie Cornish and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. It was distributed by Paramount Pictures and produced by MTV Films.-Plot:...
  
  (2008)
• W. (film)
  W. (film)
  W. is a 2008 American film based on the life and presidency of George W. Bush. It was produced and directed by Oliver Stone, written by Stanley Weiser, and stars Josh Brolin as Bush, with a cast that includes Ellen Burstyn, Elizabeth Banks, James Cromwell, Thandie Newton, Jeffrey Wright, Scott...
  
  (2008)
• Generation Kill
  Generation Kill (TV series)
  Generation Kill is a 2008 HBO television miniseries based on the book of the same name by Evan Wright about his experience as an embedded reporter with the 1st Reconnaissance Battalion of the United States Marine Corps during the 2003 invasion of Iraq. It was adapted for television by David Simon,...
  
  (2008) (TV series)
• Body of Lies
  Body of Lies (film)
  Body of Lies is a 2008 American spy film directed by Ridley Scott. Set in the Middle East, it follows the attempts of the CIA and Jordanian Intelligence to catch "al-Saleem", a fictional jihadist terrorist...
  
  (2008)
• Time Bomb (2008)
• The Hurt Locker
  The Hurt Locker
  The Hurt Locker is a 2009 American war film about a three-man United States Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal team during the Iraq War. The film was directed by Kathryn Bigelow and the screenplay was written by Mark Boal, a freelance writer who was embedded as a journalist in 2004 with a US bomb...
  
  (2009)
• The Messenger
  The Messenger (2009 film)
  The Messenger is a 2009 war drama film starring Ben Foster, Woody Harrelson, Steve Buscemi, Jena Malone, and Samantha Morton. It is the directorial debut of Oren Moverman, who also wrote the screenplay with Alessandro Camon....
  
  (2009)
• Taking Chance
  Taking Chance
  Taking Chance is a 2009 historical drama film based upon the experiences of Marine Lt. Col. Michael Strobl , who escorts the body of a fallen Marine, PFC Chance Phelps , back to his hometown from the Iraq War....
  
  (2009)
• Occupation (TV series) (2009)
• Baker Boys: Inside the Surge
  Baker Boys: Inside the Surge
  Baker Boys: Inside the Surge, is a 2010 four-part documentary series following the soldiers of Baker Company, Task Force 1-15 Infantry, 3d Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division , during their deployment in Operation Iraqi Freedom at Combat Outpost Carver during the troop surge of...
  
   (2010) (TV miniseries)
• Green Zone
  Green Zone (film)
  Green Zone is a 2010 American war thriller film written by Brian Helgeland and directed by Paul Greengrass. The film was inspired by the non-fiction 2006 book Imperial Life in the Emerald City by journalist Rajiv Chandrasekaran, which documented life in the Green Zone, Baghdad...
  
  (2010)
• Shadows in Paradise (2010)
• Fair Game
  Fair Game (2010 film)
  Fair Game is a 2010 biographical film drama directed by Doug Liman and starring Naomi Watts and Sean Penn. It is based on Valerie Plame's memoir, Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House which details the scandalous events that took place in mid 2003, implicating senior White...
  
  (2010)
• No True Glory: Battle for Fallujah (2011)

See also

• War film
  War film
  War films are a film genre concerned with warfare, usually about naval, air or land battles, sometimes focusing instead on prisoners of war, covert operations, military training or other related subjects. At times war films focus on daily military or civilian life in wartime without depicting battles...
  
  
• Battles in film
• List of films set in the Interwar period