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1. Band of Brothers (2001)
TV-MA | 59 min | Drama, History, War
The story of Easy Company of the U.S. Army 101st Airborne Division and their mission in World War II Europe, from Operation Overlord to V-J Day.
Stars: Scott Grimes, Damian Lewis, Ron Livingston, Shane Taylor
Votes: 526,913
2. Red Dawn (1984)
PG-13 | 114 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
It is the dawn of World War III. In the west mountains of America, a group of teenagers band together to defend their town, and their country, from invading Soviet forces.
Director: John Milius | Stars: Patrick Swayze, C. Thomas Howell, Lea Thompson, Charlie Sheen
Votes: 63,042 | Gross: $38.38M
3. A Bridge Too Far (1977)
PG | 175 min | Drama, History, War
Operation Market Garden, September 1944: The Allies attempt to capture several strategically important bridges in the Netherlands in the hope of breaking the German lines.
Director: Richard Attenborough | Stars: Sean Connery, Ryan O'Neal, Michael Caine, Laurence Olivier
Votes: 61,512 | Gross: $50.80M
4. Battleground (1949)
Approved | 118 min | Action, Drama, History
True tale about a squad of the 101st Airborne Division coping with being trapped by the Germans in the besieged city of Bastogne, Belgium during the Battle of the Bulge in December of 1944.
Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Van Johnson, John Hodiak, Ricardo Montalban, George Murphy
Votes: 7,861 | Gross: $10.29M
5. Bloody Sunday (2002)
R | 111 min | Drama, History, War
A dramatization of the Irish civil rights protest march and subsequent massacre by British troops on January 30, 1972.
Director: Paul Greengrass | Stars: James Nesbitt, Tim Pigott-Smith, Nicholas Farrell, Allan Gildea
Votes: 25,753 | Gross: $0.77M
6. Streamers (1983)
R | 118 min | Crime, Drama, War
Four young soldiers waiting to be shipped to Viet Nam deal with racial tension and their own intolerance when one soldier reveals he's gay.
Director: Robert Altman | Stars: Matthew Modine, Michael Wright, Mitchell Lichtenstein, David Alan Grier
Votes: 2,123
7. Diên Biên Phú (1992)
140 min | Drama, War
An American reporter finds himself in the middle of the 57-day battle of Dien Bien Phu in Vietnam between the French army and the Vietminh, which finally resulted in the defeat and ... See full summary »
Director: Pierre Schoendoerffer | Stars: Donald Pleasence, Patrick Catalifo, Jean-François Balmer, Ludmila Mikaël
Votes: 1,069
8. Paratrooper (1953)
Approved | 88 min | Drama, War
In 1940, an American claiming to be Canadian volunteers for the British Army's paratroop school.
Director: Terence Young | Stars: Alan Ladd, Leo Genn, Susan Stephen, Harry Andrews
Votes: 802 | Gross: $5.19M
9. Copak je to za vojáka... (1988)
85 min | Comedy
Director: Petr Tucek | Stars: Jirí Langmajer, Karel Roden, Pavel Hejlík, Tomás Valík
Votes: 373
10. Theirs Is the Glory (1946)
Approved | 82 min | Documentary, War
A re-enactment of the Battle of Arnhem during the Second World War which was later lavishly remade as A Bridge Too Far (1977).
Director: Brian Desmond Hurst | Stars: Stanley Maxted, Thomas Scullion, Allan Wood, Hugh Ashmore
Votes: 404
11. Operation Leopard (1980)
96 min | Adventure, Drama, War
In 1978, a group of heavily armed rebels from Katanga attacked the mining town of Kolwezi in Zaire and started killing the civilians among whom many Europeans. France sent the legion to evacuate the civilian population.
Director: Raoul Coutard | Stars: Bruno Cremer, Jacques Perrin, Laurent Malet, Pierre Vaneck
Votes: 397
12. Battle for the Bulge (1969)
48 min | Documentary, History, War
This WWII documentary uses current location filming and authentic historic film clips to document the Battle of the Bulge, the last big German offensive in World War II, which was launched ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Batty | Stars: Hasso von Manteuffel, Robert Hasbrouck, John Mace, David Belchem
Votes: 16
13. The Battle of Normandy: 85 Days in Hell (2019 TV Movie)
44 min | Documentary, History, War
An unprecedented look at the vicious three-month Battle of Normandy that took place after the D-Day invasion.
Director: Guilain Depardieu | Stars: John McManus, Anthony Beevor, Tim Cook, Geoffrey Bateman
Votes: 53
14. Jump Into Hell (1955)
Not Rated | 93 min | Drama, War
Four young French Army officers volunteer to join the Foreign Legion to fight in Dien Bien Phu (Vietnam) in 1954.
Director: David Butler | Stars: Jacques Sernas, Kurt Kasznar, Arnold Moss, Peter van Eyck
Votes: 181
15. Battle for Cassino (1969 Video)
51 min | Documentary, History, War
In this World War II documentary, we examine several of the controversial bombings of the war. Included is Allies bombing of the Benedictine Monastery on Monte Cassino.
Director: Peter Batty | Stars: Bernard Archard, Allan Francis Harding, Dan Davin, Achim Oster
Votes: 13
16. Otvetnyy khod (1981)
84 min | Drama, Action, Adventure
Sequel of "In the Zone of Special Attention" about military training of Soviet paratroopers and marines.
Director: Mikhail Tumanishvili | Stars: Boris Galkin, Vadim Spiridonov, Valentina Berezutskaya, Anatoliy Kuznetsov
Votes: 226
17. V zone osobogo vnimaniya (1978)
98 min | Action
Action film about military training of Soviet paratroopers.
Director: Andrey Malyukov | Stars: Boris Galkin, Mihai Volontir, Sergei Volkosh, Igor Ivanov
Votes: 410
18. Takoy soldat nepobedim (Ucheniya 'Zapad-81') (1981)
46 min | Documentary
In the exercises of troops and forces of the fleet "West-81", held from 04 to 12 September 1981 in the Belarusian, Kiev and Baltic military districts, in the Baltic Sea, on the territory of... See full summary »
Directors: Ilya Gutman, Alexander Voronstov | Stars: Leonid Brezhnev, Mikhail Gluzskiy, Adolf Hitler, Evgeniy Ivanovskiy
19. Czerwone berety (1963)
93 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
While being on his way to the army depot, the drunk soldier Grzegorz causes a road accident. Soon he is blackmailed by his mate in the army.
Director: Pawel Komorowski | Stars: Marta Lipinska, Marian Kociniak, Andrzej Szajewski, Tadeusz Kalinowski
Votes: 41
20. Tochka otschyota (1979)
98 min
A bully, a middle class boy, a country boy called up for military service and being trained in the landing force.
Director: Viktor Turov | Stars: Nikolay Kochegarov, Valeri Poletayev, Vasili Petrenko, Yuriy Demich
Votes: 48
21. Postaraysya ostatsya zhivym (1986)
68 min | War
The group of paratroopers is thrown in the back of Germans on the territory of Lithuania. They are faced by a task: to take and keep the bridge before arrival of active armed forces.
Director: Gennadiy Ivanov | Stars: Evgeniy Menshov, Ilona Balsyte, Pyotr Glebov, Yuriy Gorobets
Votes: 21
22. Russkaya zhertva (2009)
95 min | War
It's the story of battle for height 776 on 29 February - 1 March 2000. A company of paratroopers of the 76th Airborne Division from Pskov was attacked by superior forces of Chechen ... See full summary »
Directors: Mikhail Dobrynin, Elena Lyapicheva, Irina Meletina | Stars: Evgeniy Berezovskiy, Viktor Falaleev, Konstantin Isaev, Aristarkh Livanov
Votes: 12
24. Na Plechakh Nebo. O Boyevikh Ucheniyakh VDV (1975)
31 min | Documentary, Short
Shows the physical preparation, parachuting and combat training of VDV, the airborne troops branch of Soviet Army.
25. Invasion - Nazi Version (1944)
16 min | Documentary, Short, War
Created by the U.S. Navy's Industrial Incentive Division and the Office of Strategic Service (OSS) during WWII, this "Nazi version" of the Normandy invasion is a translated, authentic ... See full summary »
26. Battle of Crete (2009 Video)
45 min | Documentary, History, War
A gripping World War Two documentary recounting the German airborne invasion of the Greek island of Crete in May 1941.
Director: Robert Garofalo | Stars: Roy Ward, Bernard Freyberg, Kurt Student
27.
Dangerous Missions (1999–2002)
Episode:
Suicide Missions of D-Day
(2001)
Documentary, War
The specialized forces operating on D-Day are recalled. Included: Navy demolition units, the British 9th Parachute Battalion and the Airborne Pathfinders.
Stars: Gary Archer, Nigel Page
28.
Battlefield (1995–2004)
Episode:
Campaign in the Balkans
(2004)
105 min | Documentary, History, War
We examine the course of savage fighting in the Balkans in the latter half of the conflict in World War 2 where after the uprising by the Romanians, the Soviet Army moved swiftly to capture Bucharest.
Stars: Jonathan Booth, Ion Antonescu, Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, Ernst Busch
Votes: 11
29.
Battlefield (1995–2004)
Episode:
Operation Market Garden
(2001)
Documentary, History, War
Operation Market Garden was an attempt by the allies to use airborne units to seize key bridges and short-cut the slog into northern Germany thereby shortening the war. This is a look at the plan, the leaders and the equipment involved.
Directors: Andrew Aitken, Dave Flitton, James Wignall | Stars: Jonathan Booth, Wilhelm Bittrich, Omar N. Bradley, Lewis H. Brereton
Votes: 6
30.
Battlefield (1995–2004)
Episode:
The Battle for the Mediterranean
(2002)
Documentary, History, War
We tell the story of the crucial battles for control of the Mediterranean, North Africa, and the irreplaceable oil fields in World War 2 and the story of the war in Greece.
Stars: Jonathan Booth, Harold Alexander, Claude Auchinleck, Winston Churchill
Votes: 5
31.
Battle Honours (2021– )
Episode:
Red Devils
(2021)
Documentary, History, War
From the moment British airborne was formed after Churchill noted the impressive feats of Germany's elite Falschirmjaeger paratroopers, Britain's Airborne would be an elite fighting force.
Directors: Adam Luria, Ian Bremner | Stars: Chip Chapman, Tony Hibbert, Jim Knox, Jon Trigg
32.
Battle Honours (2021– )
Episode:
Screaming Eagles
(2021)
Documentary, History, War
The 101st Airborne parachuted into their first battle on D-Day, swiftly proving their worth as one of the most accomplished combat formations ever fielded by the US army.
Directors: Adam Luria, Ian Bremner | Stars: John O'Brien, Ed Shames, Carl Beck, Jon Trigg
33.
Apocalypse: Hitler Takes on the West (2021– )
Episode:
Le piège
(2021)
Documentary, History, War
Nine months after the onset of World War II, Hitler attacks the West - Belgium, the Netherlands, France and Great Britain - with intense violence.
Directors: Isabelle Clarke, Daniel Costelle | Stars: Mathieu Kassovitz, Stephen Rashbrook, Nathan Rippy, Fernand Bignon
Votes: 38
34.
Battle Plan Under Fire (2004– )
Episode:
Assault from the Air
(2004)
Documentary, History, War
Exploring the history of military tactics - assaults from the air introduce a third dimension to a a battlefield. This programme focuses on the key requirements for air assault.
Stars: Lloyd Clark, Bruce Gudmundsson, Eric Meyers, Lewis H. Brereton
35.
Adolf Hitler's War (2020)
Episode:
Now People Rise Up!
(2020)
Documentary, History, War
The Red Army develops strength and Hitler's Spring Offensive is stopped at Stalingrad; and in the largest ghetto the inhabitants fight back in the Warsaw Uprising.
Directors: Michael Cove, Mike Kenneally | Stars: Kate Reynolds, Alex J. Kay, Vasil Pavlov, David Stahel
36.
The 100 Days: That Defined Modern History (2022–2023)
Episode:
World War II: D-Day - 1944
(2023)
Documentary, History
On June 6th 1944, the largest amphibious invasion in military history commenced targeting the coast of Normandy in France.
Directors: Edmund Duff, Mike Kenneally | Stars: David Ulbrich, Ian Gooderson, Adrian Lewis, Adrian Gilbert
37.
The 100 Days: That Defined Modern History (2022–2023)
Episode:
The Suez Crisis - 1956
(2023)
Documentary, History
In July 1956, Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalised the Suez Canal. The British and French were obliged to timidly withdraw.
Directors: Edmund Duff, Mike Kenneally | Stars: Louise Kettle, Bob Bowker, Spencer Mawby, Nigel Ashton
38.
How to Lose a War (2023)
Episode:
The Best Laid Plans
(2023)
Documentary, History, War
Explore how the seeds of Japan's defeat in 1945 were sown a decade earlier with the occupation of Manchuria in China.
Director: Tim Bosanquet | Stars: Rana Mitter, Sandra Wilson, Yuma Totani, Guy Walters
39.
How to Lose a War (2023)
Episode:
The Homefront
(2023)
Documentary, History, War
In our final episode, we examine how each Axis Power had troubles on their own home front, leading to disaster in the final days of the war.
Director: Tim Bosanquet | Stars: Alexander Henry, Giuseppe Finaldi, Russell A. Hart, Guy Walters
40.
Beyond the Myth: The SS Unveiled (2022– )
Episode:
The Waffen-SS
(2022)
Documentary, History, War
Masqueraded as military excellence, the reality was very different. Recruits were poorly trained and remorse was nonexistent, as SS troops killed mercilessly.
Director: Gabriele Rose | Stars: Richard John Evans, Jean-Luc Leleu, Bastian Hein, Jochen Böhler