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1. Downfall (2004)
R | 156 min | Biography, Drama, History
Traudl Junge, the final secretary for Adolf Hitler, tells of the Nazi dictator's final days in his Berlin bunker at the end of WWII.
Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel | Stars: Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Maria Lara, Ulrich Matthes, Juliane Köhler
Votes: 375,463 | Gross: $5.51M
2. War Horse (2011)
PG-13 | 146 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A young farm boy enlists to serve in World War I after his beloved horse is sold to the cavalry. His hopeful journey takes him out of England and onto the front lines as the war rages on.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Jeremy Irvine, Emily Watson, David Thewlis, Benedict Cumberbatch
Votes: 165,695 | Gross: $79.88M
3. Journey's End (I) (2017)
R | 107 min | Drama, War
Set in a dugout in Aisne in 1918, it is the story of a group of British officers, led by mentally-disintegrating young Officer Stanhope, as they await their fate.
Director: Saul Dibb | Stars: Paul Bettany, Sam Claflin, Stephen Graham, Tom Sturridge
Votes: 11,355 | Gross: $0.16M
4. The World at War (1973–1974)
TV-PG | 50 min | Documentary, History, War
A groundbreaking 26-part documentary series narrated by the actor Laurence Olivier about the deadliest conflict in history, World War II.
Stars: Laurence Olivier, Averell Harriman, Anthony Eden, Albert Speer
Votes: 29,603
5. Joyeux Noel (2005)
PG-13 | 116 min | Drama, History, Music
In December 1914, an unofficial Christmas truce on the Western Front allows soldiers from opposing sides of the First World War to gain insight into each other's way of life.
Director: Christian Carion | Stars: Diane Kruger, Benno Fürmann, Guillaume Canet, Natalie Dessay
Votes: 32,004 | Gross: $1.05M
6. A Very Long Engagement (2004)
R | 133 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
Tells the story of a young woman's relentless search for her fiancé, who has disappeared from the trenches of the Somme during World War One.
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet | Stars: Audrey Tautou, Gaspard Ulliel, Jodie Foster, Dominique Pinon
Votes: 75,972 | Gross: $6.17M
7. Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War (2004)
R | 140 min | Action, Drama, War
When two brothers are forced to fight in the Korean War, the elder decides to take the riskiest missions if it will help shield the younger from battle.
Director: Kang Je-kyu | Stars: Jang Dong-Gun, Won Bin, Eun-ju Lee, Kong Hyeong-jin
Votes: 41,083 | Gross: $1.11M
8. Kalashnikov (2020)
110 min | Biography, Drama, War
Wounded as a tank driver in 1941 during World War II, Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov sees the latest Soviet machine gun fail. As he's also an inventor, he starts making improvements and in 1947 ends up creating the AK-47 assault rifle.
Director: Konstantin Buslov | Stars: Yura Borisov, Olga Lerman, Artur Smolyaninov, Sergey Gazarov
Votes: 4,827
9. When Trumpets Fade (1998 TV Movie)
R | 95 min | Action, Drama, War
A private in the latter days of WWII on the German front struggles between his will to survive and what his superiors perceive as a battlefield instinct.
Director: John Irvin | Stars: Ron Eldard, Zak Orth, Frank Whaley, Dylan Bruno
Votes: 8,246
10. Superpower (2023)
115 min | Documentary
Follows the events happening in Ukraine and the truth about Russia's invasion of the country.
Directors: Aaron Kaufman, Sean Penn | Stars: Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Andrii Yermak, Steven Pifer, Christopher Miller
Votes: 1,617
11. Hell Is for Heroes (1962)
Approved | 90 min | Drama, War
Small squad must hold off German attack.
Director: Don Siegel | Stars: Steve McQueen, Bobby Darin, Fess Parker, Harry Guardino
Votes: 7,463 | Gross: $2.42M
12. A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958)
Approved | 132 min | Drama, Romance, War
On the Russian front in 1944, German private Ernst Graeber receives a leave and visits his family in Germany but Germany isn't the same country he left behind.
Director: Douglas Sirk | Stars: John Gavin, Liselotte Pulver, Jock Mahoney, Don DeFore
Votes: 3,719
13. The Red Angel (1966)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama, Romance, War
During the Sino-Japanese War, a young army nurse gives sympathy to her patients and falls in love with an impotent doctor who's addicted to morphine.
Director: Yasuzô Masumura | Stars: Ayako Wakao, Shinsuke Ashida, Yûsuke Kawazu, Ranko Akagi
Votes: 1,887
14. Twin Sisters (2002)
R | 137 min | Drama, Romance, War
Twin sisters Lotte and Anne grow up very differently after their parents death. Now adults, they want to reunite but World War II and their growing socioeconomic differences complicate things.
Director: Ben Sombogaart | Stars: Ellen Vogel, Gudrun Okras, Thekla Reuten, Nadja Uhl
Votes: 7,281 | Gross: $0.00M
15. What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? (1966)
Approved | 116 min | Comedy, War
In World War II, a strategic Italian village agrees to surrender to the Allies only if it's allowed to organize a celebratory festival while giving aerial reconnaissance the false impression of fierce ground fighting.
Director: Blake Edwards | Stars: James Coburn, Dick Shawn, Sergio Fantoni, Giovanna Ralli
Votes: 2,255
16. The Sorrow and the Pity (1969)
PG | 251 min | Documentary, History, War
An in-depth exploration of the various reactions by the French people to the Vichy government's acceptance of the German invasion.
Director: Marcel Ophüls | Stars: Helmut Tausend, Marcel Verdier, Alexis Grave, Louis Grave
Votes: 4,100
17. The Great War (1959)
Approved | 137 min | Comedy, Drama, War
The Italian Army fought against the Austrians during World War I.
Director: Mario Monicelli | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Vittorio Gassman, Bernard Blier, Folco Lulli
Votes: 4,610
18. Battalion (2015)
120 min | Action, Drama, History
Russia, 1917, WWI. This is the story of the 1st Russian Women's Battalion of Death, formed as part of an ill-conceived propaganda ploy by the Russian Provisional Government in late May of 1917.
Director: Dmitriy Meskhiev | Stars: Lesya Andreeva, Mariya Antonova, Mariya Aronova, Nikolay Auzin
Votes: 1,693
19. Westfront 1918 (1930)
Not Rated | 75 min | Drama, Romance, War
A group of German solders fight on the front line in France at the end of World War I.
Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst | Stars: Fritz Kampers, Gustav Diessl, Hans-Joachim Möbis, Claus Clausen
Votes: 2,423
20. What Price Glory (1952)
Approved | 111 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
The wartime romantic misadventures of Captain Flagg, commander of a company of US Marines in 1918 France.
Director: John Ford | Stars: James Cagney, Corinne Calvet, Dan Dailey, William Demarest
Votes: 1,446
21. Fortress of War (2010)
Not Rated | 138 min | Action, Drama, History
A war drama set during the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, in which Soviet troops held on to a border stronghold for nine days.
Director: Aleksandr Kott | Stars: Aleksey Kopashov, Andrey Merzlikin, Pavel Derevyanko, Aleksandr Korshunov
Votes: 10,525
22. The Front Line (2011)
Not Rated | 133 min | Action, Drama, History
A drama centered on the Korean War's final battle that will determine the border between north and south.
Director: Hun Jang | Stars: Shin Ha-kyun, Go Soo, Ryu Seung-su, Ko Chang-seok
Votes: 7,106 | Gross: $0.01M
23. Berlin 1945 (2020)
52 min | Documentary, History, War
Life in Berlin in 1945 before, during and after the battle of Berlin seen through the eyes of those who were there at the time from common Berliners to Allied troops.
Stars: Simon Brauer, Konstantin Achmed Bürger, Yvette Coetzee, Lucie David
Votes: 319
24. Many Wars Ago (1970)
Not Rated | 100 min | Drama, War
On the Italian/Austrian front during World War I, a disastrous Italian attack upon the Austrian positions leads to a mutiny among the Italian troops.
Director: Francesco Rosi | Stars: Mark Frechette, Alain Cuny, Gian Maria Volontè, Giampiero Albertini
Votes: 1,925
25. The Winter War (1989)
199 min | Drama, History, War
In 1939, two Finnish brothers are conscripted in the army to fight in the war between Finland and the Soviet Union.
Director: Pekka Parikka | Stars: Taneli Mäkelä, Vesa Vierikko, Timo Torikka, Heikki Paavilainen
Votes: 8,732
26. Silent Night (2002 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 100 min | Biography, Drama, War
In a cabin on a World War II front, a German mom with a young son mediates a truce between three German and three American soldiers so they can all celebrate Christmas Eve 1944 together.
Director: Rodney Gibbons | Stars: Linda Hamilton, Matthew Harbour, Romano Orzari, Alain Goulem
Votes: 1,882
27. In Praise of Older Women (1997)
105 min | Drama, Romance, War
In the turmoil of the Spanish Civil War, a young man comes of age sexually, through a string of relationships with a wide range of mature, older women.
Director: Manuel Lombardero | Stars: Juan Diego Botto, Miguel Ángel García, Faye Dunaway, Carme Elias
Votes: 417
28. Father of a Soldier (1964)
Not Rated | 87 min | Drama, War
An old man goes to visit his wounded son in a hospital, but it turns out that he's already been released and is back on the front lines. Reluctant to return home empty-handed, he tries to follow and find him.
Director: Rezo Chkheidze | Stars: Sergo Zakariadze, Vladimir Privaltsev, Aleksandr Nazarov, Aleksandr Lebedev
Votes: 4,570
29. The Unknown Soldier (1955)
177 min | Drama, War
The tale of a platoon of soldiers during the Continuation War. Based on Väinö Linna's book of the same name.
Director: Edvin Laine | Stars: Kosti Klemelä, Heikki Savolainen, Reino Tolvanen, Veikko Sinisalo
Votes: 7,818
30. Battle for Finland (2007)
117 min | Drama, History, War
In the summer of 1944, the Finnish Forces must defend Finland from the invading Soviet Red Army.
Directors: Ake Lindman, Åke Lindman, Sakari Kirjavainen | Stars: Rauno Ahonen, Mikkomarkus Ahtiainen, Frank Biermann, Jussi Brech
Votes: 1,975
31. War Hunt (1962)
Approved | 83 min | Drama, War
Dispatched to the front lines during the Korean War, an idealistic American soldier discovers the horrors of combat and comes at odds with a psychopathic member of his platoon.
Director: Denis Sanders | Stars: John Saxon, Charles Aidman, Sydney Pollack, Tommy Matsuda
Votes: 1,119
32. Captain Conan (1996)
129 min | Drama, War
The war exploits of French captain Conan and his men during World War I and during the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War.
Director: Bertrand Tavernier | Stars: Philippe Torreton, Samuel Le Bihan, Bernard Le Coq, Catherine Rich
Votes: 2,450
33. San Pietro (1945)
Unrated | 32 min | Documentary, Short, War
Director John Huston documents the Battle of San Pietro Infine in December 1943.
Director: John Huston | Stars: Mark W. Clark, John Huston
Votes: 2,459
34. Goryachiy sneg (1972)
99 min | Drama, War
In November, 1942, near the Volga, Stanlingrad is under siege of Commander Friederich Paulus and his 330,000 men. The Soviet high command unleashes an operation to protect the Mishkova ... See full summary »
Director: Gavriil Egiazarov | Stars: Georgi Zhzhyonov, Anatoliy Kuznetsov, Vadim Spiridonov, Boris Tokarev
Votes: 586
35. Luchshiye v adu (2022)
109 min | War
The "White" units are carrying out an assault operation to seize buildings. They are opposed by the "Yellow" units who are entrenched in these buildings and are also ready to fight to the end.
Director: Andrey Shcherbinin | Stars: Aleksey Kravchenko, Georgiy Bolonev, Sergey Garusov, Dmitriy Murashev
Votes: 776
36. Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia (1979)
50 min | Documentary, History, War
Disturbing documentary, shot on site less than a year after the Khmer Rouge downfall, depicting the shocking situation and recent history of Cambodia.
Director: David Munro | Stars: John Pilger, Henry Kissinger, Richard Nixon, Pol Pot
Votes: 315
37. Leily Is with Me (1996)
95 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
During the war with Iraq, an absurd set of events has an Iranian documentary cinematographer seemingly unable to get out of a dangerous project documenting the war.
Director: Kamal Tabrizi | Stars: Parviz Parastui, Mahmoud Azizi, Maziar Lorestani, Rahman Bagherian
Votes: 5,036
38. Die Frau vom Checkpoint Charlie (2007 TV Movie)
180 min | Drama
Based on a true story, Miguel Alexandre's two-part drama focuses on a East German woman and the fight for her children. Spring 1982: Sara Bender, living with her daughters Silvia and Sabine... See full summary »
Director: Miguel Alexandre | Stars: Veronica Ferres, Peter Kremer, Filip Peeters, Maria Ehrich
Votes: 346
39. The Girl and the General (1967)
103 min | Comedy, Drama
A young woman and a soldier team up to deliver an Austrian General to Italian forces during World War I. Their quest for the 1,000 Lire reward changes their lives unexpectedly.
Director: Pasquale Festa Campanile | Stars: Rod Steiger, Virna Lisi, Umberto Orsini, Tony Gaggia
Votes: 230
40. To the Zero Line (2023)
146 min | Documentary, History, War
In war, the mind gets focused on the essence of life. Family, friends, food, heritage, what you'll fight for, what you might die to keep. The choices one makes each morning when the sun ... See full summary »
Director: Benjamin I. Goldhagen | Star: Andriy Sadovyi
Votes: 27
41. An die Grenze (2007 TV Movie)
106 min | Drama, Romance
1974. The world is divided into two rigid power blocs. A highly guarded and deadly armed border cuts across Germany. ALEXANDER KAROW, 19, son of a chemistry professor, chooses to serve in ... See full summary »
Director: Urs Egger | Stars: Jacob Matschenz, Bernadette Heerwagen, Max Riemelt, Florian Panzner
Votes: 264
42. Zhivye i myortvye (1964)
201 min | Drama, War
Journalist Ivan Sintsov news of the treacherous attack by Nazi Germany during the catches of southern vacation. As a war correspondent, he becomes a witness to the difficult events of the first months of the war - many departures in 1941.
Director: Aleksandr Stolper | Stars: Kirill Lavrov, Anatoliy Papanov, Aleksey Glazyrin, Oleg Efremov
Votes: 422
43. Adama (2015)
G | 82 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama
When his brother runs away to join the army during WWI, a young African boy stows away on a ship and travels to Europe in an effort to locate him.
Director: Simon Rouby | Stars: Azize Diabaté Abdoulaye, Pascal N'Zonzi, Oxmo Puccino, Jack Mba
Votes: 352
44. Ukraine: The People's Fight (2023)
53 min | Documentary
Filmmaker Olly Lambert spends two months on Ukraine's southern frontline with volunteer special forces as they begin the push to capture Kherson. How are they winning the fight?
Director: Olly Lambert
Votes: 191
45. Doomsday: World War I (2013– )
135 min | Documentary, History, War
The First World War - carnage on a scale never-before seen. But how did it all start? And how did some key figures of WWII fare in the earlier war?
Stars: Tim Pigott-Smith, Sönke Neitzel, Ian Kershaw, Hew Strachan
Votes: 94
46. Blokada: Luzhskiy rubezh, Pulkovskiy meredian (1974)
185 min | Action, Drama, History
In June 1941, the Emergency Headquarters of the Defense of Leningrad, under the leadership of Zhdanov and Voroshilov, decided to build the Luga defensive line. Heavy fighting west of Pskov ... See full summary »
Director: Mikhail Yershov | Stars: Yuriy Solomin, Evgeniy Lebedev, Irina Akulova, Lev Zolotukhin
Votes: 142
47. The Girl from Leningrad (1941)
92 min | Drama, War
During the Finnish war, a group of Soviet girls voluntarily go to the front. They help doctors save the lives of wounded soldiers, and also fight with the enemy.
Director: Viktor Eysymont | Stars: Zoya Fyodorova, Mariya Kapustina, Olga Fyodorina, Tamara Alyoshina
Votes: 44
48. Wohin und zurück - Teil 3: Welcome in Vienna (1986)
127 min | Drama
In the conclusion of Axel Corti's trilogy - Freddy, a Viennese Jew who emigrated to New York after Hitler's invasion, and Adler, a left-wing intellectual originally from Berlin, return to Austria in 1944 as soldiers in the U. S. Army.
Director: Axel Corti | Stars: Gabriel Barylli, Nicolas Brieger, Claudia Messner, Karlheinz Hackl
Votes: 186
49. Ukanaskneli maskaradi (1934)
100 min | Drama, Romance, War
Director: Mikheil Chiaureli | Stars: Aleksandre Jaliashvili, Dudukhana Tserodze, Olgha Lejava, G. Quchishvili
Votes: 16
50. The Battle (1911)
Not Rated | 17 min | Short, Action, Drama
Union soldiers march off to battle amid cheering crowds. After the battle turns against the Union Army, one soldier runs away, hiding in his girlfriend's house. Ashamed of his cowardice, he... See full summary »
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Charles West, Blanche Sweet, Charles Hill Mailes, Spottiswoode Aitken
Votes: 375