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1. Casualties of War (1989)
R | 113 min | Action, Crime, Drama
During the Vietnam War, a soldier finds himself the outsider of his own squad when they unnecessarily kidnap a female villager.
Director: Brian De Palma | Stars: Michael J. Fox, Sean Penn, Don Harvey, John C. Reilly
Votes: 48,139 | Gross: $18.67M
2. Tigerland (2000)
R | 101 min | Drama, War
A group of recruits go through Advanced Infantry Training at Fort Polk, Louisiana's infamous Tigerland, last stop before Vietnam for tens of thousands of young men in 1971.
Director: Joel Schumacher | Stars: Colin Farrell, Matthew Davis, Clifton Collins Jr., Tom Guiry
Votes: 43,362 | Gross: $0.14M
3. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
Not Rated | 91 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
A young woman separated from her lover by war faces a life-altering decision.
Director: Jacques Demy | Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Nino Castelnuovo, Anne Vernon, Marc Michel
Votes: 31,356 | Gross: $0.03M
4. Glen or Glenda (1953)
PG | 65 min | Drama
A psychiatrist tells the stories of a transvestite (Glen or Glenda) and a pseudohermaphrodite (Alan or Anne).
Director: Edward D. Wood Jr. | Stars: Edward D. Wood Jr., Bela Lugosi, Lyle Talbot, Timothy Farrell
Votes: 9,192
5. Racing with the Moon (1984)
PG | 108 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
In 1942 California, two young men await induction into the U.S. Marines and say goodbye to their girlfriends.
Director: Richard Benjamin | Stars: Sean Penn, Elizabeth McGovern, Nicolas Cage, John Karlen
Votes: 5,248 | Gross: $6.05M
6. No Time for Sergeants (1958)
Approved | 119 min | Comedy, War
Will Stockdale is a country bumpkin drafted into the Air Force and too dumb to realize he's driving everyone around him crazy, no one more than Sergeant King.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Andy Griffith, Myron McCormick, Nick Adams, Murray Hamilton
Votes: 4,441
7. The Human Comedy (1943)
Passed | 117 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Teenager Homer Macauley stays at home in small-town Ithaca to support his family while his older brother Marcus prepares to go to war.
Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: Mickey Rooney, Frank Morgan, James Craig, Marsha Hunt
Votes: 2,452
8. 9th Company (2005)
R | 139 min | Action, Drama, History
A group of Russian army recruits complete training and take their posting in late-1980s Afghanistan, where the insurgents are slowly gaining the upper hand.
Director: Fedor Bondarchuk | Stars: Artur Smolyaninov, Aleksey Chadov, Konstantin Kryukov, Ivan Kokorin
Votes: 21,686
9. The Greatest (1977)
PG | 101 min | Biography, Drama, Sport
Muhammad Ali plays himself in a reconstruction of the events that brought him to fame.
Directors: Tom Gries, Monte Hellman | Stars: Muhammad Ali, Ernest Borgnine, John Marley, Lloyd Haynes
Votes: 1,625 | Gross: $8.28M
10. Countdown to Looking Glass (1984 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
Dramatic doomsday scenario in which the Cold War fully escalates. The story is told through a live news report that follows the apocalyptic world-ending nuclear exchange between the U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R.
Director: Fred Barzyk | Stars: Scott Glenn, Michael Murphy, Helen Shaver, Patrick Watson
Votes: 717
11. The Sad Sack (1957)
Passed | 98 min | Comedy
A bumbling hero with a photographic memory winds up in Morocco as a private in the French Foreign Legion. He still hasn't adjusted after 18 months. Among other things, he's lost a tank.
Director: George Marshall | Stars: Jerry Lewis, Phyllis Kirk, David Wayne, Peter Lorre
Votes: 766
12. You're in the Navy Now (1951)
Unrated | 93 min | Comedy, War
When a new commander is assigned to a submarine chaser with an experimental engine, he finds the entire crew has as little experience as he does.
Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: Gary Cooper, Jane Greer, Millard Mitchell, Eddie Albert
Votes: 790
13. Thousands Cheer (1943)
Passed | 125 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
Acrobat Eddie Marsh is in the army now. His first act is to become friendly with Kathryn Jones, the colonel's pretty daughter. Their romance hits a few snags, including disapproval from her... See full summary »
Director: George Sidney | Stars: Kathryn Grayson, Gene Kelly, Mary Astor, John Boles
Votes: 1,195
14. You'll Never Get Rich (1941)
Passed | 88 min | Comedy, Romance
In order to cover up his philandering ways, a married Broadway producer sets one of his dancers up on a date with a chorus girl for whom he had bought a gift, but the two dancers fall in love for real.
Director: Sidney Lanfield | Stars: Fred Astaire, Rita Hayworth, Robert Benchley, John Hubbard
Votes: 2,868
15. Private Buckaroo (1942)
Passed | 68 min | Comedy, Musical
A Universal Army enlistment promotion, produced as a musical showcase for Harry James, the Andrews Sisters, Joe E. Lewis, and Donald O'Connor and Peggy Ryan. The film's thin plot has James ... See full summary »
Director: Edward F. Cline | Stars: Harry James, Patty Andrews, Maxene Andrews, Laverne Andrews
Votes: 573
16. Caught in the Draft (1941)
Approved | 82 min | Comedy
A movie star who can't stand loud noises accidentally joins the Army.
Director: David Butler | Stars: Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Lynne Overman, Eddie Bracken
Votes: 891
17. Afghan Breakdown (1992)
140 min | War
The events of the film take place on the eve of the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan. The son of a high-ranking military man is sent to the paratrooper unit, commanded by Major Bandura.
Director: Vladimir Bortko | Stars: Michele Placido, Tatyana Dogileva, Mikhail Zhigalov, Filipp Yankovskiy
Votes: 560
18. Great Guns (1941)
Approved | 74 min | Comedy, Romance, War
Laurel and Hardy join the army. They are hardly soldiers, but they believe their employer will need them now he's drafted.
Director: Monty Banks | Stars: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Sheila Ryan, Dick Nelson
Votes: 1,596
19. Reveille with Beverly (1943)
Approved | 78 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Beverly Ross moderates a 5:30 AM radio show with swing music, dedicated to the local servicemen. Two buddies of her brother have a chance to meet her and both fall in love. One of them is a... See full summary »
Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Ann Miller, Bob Crosby Orchestra, Freddie Slack and His Orchestra, Ella Mae Morse
Votes: 482
20. Unfinished Business (1941)
Approved | 96 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Small town girl meets and falls for a playboy type on a train to New York. For him, the fling is over when they arrive, but she continues to carry a torch. She meets and marries his brother... See full summary »
Director: Gregory La Cava | Stars: Irene Dunne, Robert Montgomery, Preston Foster, Eugene Pallette
Votes: 321
21. Draftee Daffy (1945)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Daffy Duck is desperate to elude the draft board respresentative bearing his conscription order.
Director: Robert Clampett | Star: Mel Blanc
Votes: 881
22. Donald Gets Drafted (1942)
Approved | 9 min | Family, Comedy, Animation
Donald Fauntleroy Duck gets his draft notice and goes in, past all the amazingly enticing recruiting posters, to sign up. First he has to pass the physical. Despite his flat feet, he makes ... See full summary »
Director: Jack King | Stars: Billy Bletcher, The King's Men, John McLeish, Clarence Nash
Votes: 834
23. Alice in Chains: Rooster (1993 Music Video)
7 min | Music, War
Official music video for Alice in Chains' 1993 single "Rooster" based on the traumatic experiences of Jerry Fulton Cantrell, the father of the band's founder, guitarist and co-vocalist, Jerry Cantrell, in the Vietnam War.
Director: Mark Pellington | Stars: Alice in Chains, Jerry Cantrell, James Elliott, Layne Staley
Votes: 118
24. Beim Bund (1982– )
25 min | Drama
Stars: Markus Conrad, Hans Stadlbauer, Richy Müller, Tilo Prückner
25. The Undeclared War (1992)
247 min | Documentary, History, War
Documentary on the French-Algerian conflict 1954-1962 which was never officially called a "war", including interviews with some of the survivors.
Director: Bertrand Tavernier | Stars: Patrick Rotman, Bertrand Tavernier
Votes: 118
26. '68 (1988)
R | 99 min | Drama
'68 covers exactly one year (January 1st through December 31st) in the lives of Zoltan Szabo and his family, Hungarian immigrants, working hard to make a life in San Francisco in 1968. The ... See full summary »
Director: Steven Kovacs | Stars: Eric Larson, Robert Locke, Neil Young, Sándor Técsy
Votes: 95
27. Champ d'honneur (1987)
PG | 87 min | Drama, History, War
The Dordogne, 1869. Pierre Naboulet, a poor tenant farmer, has drawn a lucky number in the French Army draft lottery. He will be exempt from a five-year period of military service. But he ... See full summary »
Director: Jean-Pierre Denis | Stars: Cris Campion, Pascale Rocard, Eric Wapler, Frédéric Mayer
Votes: 81
28. Forward March Hare (1953)
7 min | Family, Animation, Short
Bugs mistakenly gets his neighbor's draft notice and causes a stir when he shows up as ordered.
Director: Chuck Jones | Stars: Mel Blanc, John T. Smith
Votes: 763
29. Tanks a Million (1941)
Passed | 50 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance
An Army draftee with a good memory makes sergeant and saves the day.
Director: Fred Guiol | Stars: William Tracy, James Gleason, Noah Beery Jr., Joe Sawyer
Votes: 303
30. The Navy Way (1944)
Approved | 74 min | Drama, War
The experiences of a disparate group of young men as they make their way through Navy boot camp.
Director: William Berke | Stars: Robert Lowery, Jean Parker, William Henry, Roscoe Karns
Votes: 160
31. Okhotniki za karavanami (2010 TV Movie)
180 min | Drama, War
1986, Afghanistan. The Mujahideen announce the launch of a new air-defense system called Stinger, which could potentially end Soviet supremacy in the air. Commander of Intelligence, Major ... See full summary »
Director: Sergey Chekalov | Stars: Aleksey Serebryakov, Vsevolod Khovanskiy-Pomerantsev, Boris Galkin, Igor Mirkurbanov
Votes: 73
32. Jerky Turkey (1945)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
A Pilgrim ventures out to procure a turkey for the first Thanksgiving.
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Tex Avery, Frank Graham, Leone Le Doux, Wally Maher
Votes: 642
33. You're a Lucky Fellow, Mr. Smith (1943)
Approved | 64 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
A young woman marries a soldier to fulfill the conditions of a will. However, when she gets ready to divorce him, she realizes that she actually loves him, and determines to find a way to stay married to him.
Director: Felix E. Feist | Stars: Allan Jones, Evelyn Ankers, Billie Burke, David Bruce
Votes: 30
34. The Rookie Bear (1941)
Approved | 8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
In a humorous report, "Strife" magazine follows a bear who gets drafted and goes through the rigors of Army basic training.
Director: Rudolf Ising | Stars: Frank Bingman, Pinto Colvig, Rudolf Ising, Kent Rogers
Votes: 255
35. Delay - raz! (1990)
85 min | Drama
Recruit Alexei Gavrilov ends up in a unit where hazing reigns. He resists as much as he can to the three "grandfathers" who, on the eve of demobilization, decide to recoup as much as ... See full summary »
Director: Andrey Malyukov | Stars: Evgeniy Mironov, Vladimir Mashkov, Aleksandr Domogarov, Sergei Shentalinsky
Votes: 237
36. The Racket Man (1944)
Approved | 65 min | Crime, Drama
A gangster is drafted into the Army. He soon realizes how wrong his previous life was, and decides to help break up a black market ring he has discovered.
Director: D. Ross Lederman | Stars: Tom Neal, Hugh Beaumont, Jeanne Bates, Larry Parks
Votes: 120
37. The Adventures of a Rookie (1943)
Passed | 66 min | Comedy
Two bumbling GIs manage to get themselves invited to a dinner party at a boarding house "for women only". When the cook comes down with scarlet fever, the authorities quarantine the house ... See full summary »
Director: Leslie Goodwins | Stars: Wally Brown, Alan Carney, Richard Martin, Erford Gage
Votes: 117
38. Partis pour la gloire (1975)
102 min | Drama
In 1942 even after a formal promise from the Liberal Party of Canada in the last election: "Never the Conscription", the Canadian Government vote a Conscription Law. In Quebec where the ... See full summary »
Director: Clément Perron | Stars: Serge L'Italien, Rachel Cailhier, Jacques Thisdale, André Melançon
Votes: 130
39. Komanda 33 (1988)
84 min | Drama
A regular military call-up. Young guys, having got call-up papers and having passed a medical board checkup, enjoy themselves and spend the last days of freedom in different ways: some in ... See full synopsis »
Director: Nikolai Gusarov | Stars: Yuriy Nazarov, Aleksandr Rakhlenko, Sergey Tezov, Sergei Sozinov
Votes: 54
40. Kustens glada kavaljerer (1938)
Passed | 86 min | Comedy, Romance
The comic misadventures of two young boys and an anti-militaristic grocer who are recruited under protest for naval training.
Director: Ragnar Arvedson | Stars: Carl Barcklind, Inga-Bodil Vetterlund, Fritiof Billquist, Karin Ekelund
41. Swing It Soldier (1941)
Passed | 66 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A DJ on radio station, who's husband is in the Army, gives her job to her twin sister, without letting anybody know about this.
Director: Harold Young | Stars: Ken Murray, Frances Langford, Don Wilson, Blanche Stewart
Votes: 42
42. The Yanks Are Coming (1942)
Approved | 65 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A bandleader alienates a crooner, a songwriter/arranger, and band members, both in their music work and in his attitude about service to country during wartime.
Director: Alexis Thurn-Taxis | Stars: Henry King, Mary Healy, Jack Heller, Maxie Rosenbloom
Votes: 71
43. Here Comes Kelly (1943)
Approved | 64 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance
Because of his hot, often-flaring temper, Jimmy Kelly loses another job, much to the disappointment of his mother and the disgust of his fiancée, Margie. Margie is a secretary for lawyer L.... See full summary »
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Eddie Quillan, Joan Woodbury, Maxie Rosenbloom, Armida
Votes: 88
45.
Green Acres (1965–1971)
Episode:
Oliver Buys a Farm
(1965)
TV-G | 25 min | Comedy, Family
Oliver Wendell Douglas quits his job as a lawyer and moves from Park Avenue to Hooterville. He wants to get away from the "rat race" of the city. His beautiful wife Lisa doesn't exactly love the idea.
Director: Ralph Levy | Stars: Eddie Albert, Eva Gabor, John Daly, Eleanor Audley
Votes: 263
46.
Hogan's Heroes (1965–1971)
Episode:
The Swing Shift
(1967)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy, War
Masquerading as German workers, Hogan and the crew have made elaborate and foolproof plans to blow a German cannon factory sky-high - but their plan backfires when Newkirk winds up being drafted into the German army.
Director: Edward H. Feldman | Stars: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary
Votes: 204
47.
First Blood (2022– )
Episode:
Arthur Shawcross: The Genesee River Killer
(2022)
TV-14 | Documentary, Crime, History
Serial killer Arthur Shawcross might have been known for killing women around Rochester, New York but his first murder was years earlier and the culmination of years of dark fantasies.
Stars: Charles Siragusa, Lynde Johnston, Vanessa Tyler, Maggie Deming
Votes: 8
48.
Arena (1975– )
Episode:
Tony Bennett 's New York
(1996)
86 min | Documentary
Once dubbed the 'king of cool', a look behind the silky voice as Tony Bennett - civil rights activist, jazz enthusiast, painter and New Yorker - takes a tour around his native city.
Director: Leslie Woodhead | Stars: Tony Bennett, Reggie Nadelson, Mary Chiappa, Mario Cuomo
Votes: 11