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1. Megan Leavey (2017)
PG-13 | 116 min | Action, Biography, Drama
Based on the true life story of a young Marine corporal whose unique discipline and bond with her military combat dog saved many lives during their deployment in Iraq.
Director: Gabriela Cowperthwaite | Stars: Kate Mara, Ramón Rodríguez, Tom Felton, Bradley Whitford
Votes: 27,207 | Gross: $13.41M
2. The Martian (2015)
PG-13 | 144 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
An astronaut becomes stranded on Mars after his team assume him dead, and must rely on his ingenuity to find a way to signal to Earth that he is alive and can survive until a potential rescue.
Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain, Kristen Wiig, Kate Mara
Votes: 926,060 | Gross: $228.43M
3. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
R | 169 min | Drama, War
Following the Normandy Landings, a group of U.S. soldiers go behind enemy lines to retrieve a paratrooper whose brothers have been killed in action.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Tom Hanks, Matt Damon, Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns
Votes: 1,497,217 | Gross: $216.54M
4. American Sniper (2014)
R | 133 min | Action, Biography, Drama
Navy S.E.A.L. sniper Chris Kyle's pinpoint accuracy saves countless lives on the battlefield and turns him into a legend. Back home with his family after four tours of duty, however, Chris finds that it is the war he can't leave behind.
Director: Clint Eastwood | Stars: Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller, Kyle Gallner, Cole Konis
Votes: 529,541 | Gross: $350.13M
5. Kandahar (2023)
R | 119 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
A CIA operative and his translator flee from special forces in Afghanistan after exposing a covert mission.
Director: Ric Roman Waugh | Stars: Tom Rhys Harries, Farhad Bagheri, Gerard Butler, Mitchell LaFortune
Votes: 33,843
6. Savages (I) (2012)
R | 131 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Pot growers Ben and Chon face off against the Mexican drug cartel who kidnapped their shared girlfriend.
Director: Oliver Stone | Stars: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Taylor Kitsch, Blake Lively, Benicio Del Toro
Votes: 134,548 | Gross: $47.38M
7. The Family (I) (2013)
R | 111 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller
The Manzoni family, a notorious Mafia clan, is relocated to Normandy, France, under the Witness Protection Program, where fitting in soon becomes challenging as their old habits die hard.
Director: Luc Besson | Stars: Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer, Dianna Agron, John D'Leo
Votes: 123,084 | Gross: $36.92M
8. Hyena Road (2015)
R | 120 min | Action, Drama, War
Three different men, three different worlds, three different wars - all stand at the intersection of modern warfare - a murky world of fluid morality where all is not as it seems.
Director: Paul Gross | Stars: Rossif Sutherland, Allan Hawco, David Richmond-Peck, Karl Campbell
Votes: 8,915 | Gross: $0.00M
9. The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009)
R | 94 min | Comedy, War
A reporter in Iraq might just have the story of a lifetime when he meets Lyn Cassady, a guy who claims to be a former member of the U.S. Army's New Earth Army, a unit that employs paranormal powers in their missions.
Director: Grant Heslov | Stars: Ewan McGregor, George Clooney, Kevin Spacey, Jeff Bridges
Votes: 137,625 | Gross: $32.43M
10. How to Blow Up a Pipeline (2022)
R | 104 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A crew of environmental activists plot a daring plan to disrupt an oil pipeline.
Director: Daniel Goldhaber | Stars: Ariela Barer, Kristine Froseth, Lukas Gage, Forrest Goodluck
Votes: 10,118
11. Jane Got a Gun (2015)
R | 98 min | Action, Drama, Western
A woman asks her ex-lover for help in order to save her outlaw husband from a gang out to kill him.
Director: Gavin O'Connor | Stars: Natalie Portman, Joel Edgerton, Ewan McGregor, Rodrigo Santoro
Votes: 23,850 | Gross: $1.51M
12. The Kill Team (2019)
R | 87 min | Action, Biography, Drama
A young American soldier in Afghanistan is disturbed by his commanding officer's behavior and is faced with a moral dilemma.
Director: Dan Krauss | Stars: Nat Wolff, Alexander Skarsgård, Adam Long, Jonathan Whitesell
Votes: 7,616
13. The Messenger (I) (2009)
R | 113 min | Drama, Romance, War
An American soldier struggles with an ethical dilemma when he becomes involved with a widow of a fallen officer.
Director: Oren Moverman | Stars: Ben Foster, Samantha Morton, Woody Harrelson, Jena Malone
Votes: 36,785 | Gross: $0.07M
14. Monsters: Dark Continent (2014)
R | 119 min | Action, Drama, Horror
Monsters' reign continues to spread throughout the Earth.
Director: Tom Green | Stars: Johnny Harris, Sam Keeley, Joe Dempsie, Sofia Boutella
Votes: 11,161
15. Sharknado 2: The Second One (2014 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 95 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Fin and April are on their way to New York City, until a category seven hurricane spawns heavy rain, storm surges, and deadly Sharknadoes.
Director: Anthony C. Ferrante | Stars: Ian Ziering, Tara Reid, Vivica A. Fox, Mark McGrath
Votes: 20,539
16. Taking Chance (2009 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 77 min | Drama, War
Based on real-life events, Lt. Col. Michael Strobl, a volunteer military escort officer, accompanies the body of 19-year-old Marine Chance Phelps back to his hometown of Dubois, Wyoming.
Director: Ross Katz | Stars: Kevin Bacon, Tom Aldredge, Nicholas Art, Blanche Baker
Votes: 14,779
17. Jarhead 2: Field of Fire (2014 Video)
R | 103 min | Action, Drama, War
Without tanks or air support, a corporal and his team must muster all the courage and firepower they can to fight their way across war-torn Afghanistan and shepherd an important anti-Taliban woman to safety.
Director: Don Michael Paul | Stars: Cole Hauser, Josh Kelly, Danielle Savre, Bokeem Woodbine
Votes: 6,731
18. Good Kill (2014)
R | 102 min | Drama, Thriller, War
A family man begins to question the ethics of his job as a drone pilot.
Director: Andrew Niccol | Stars: Ethan Hawke, January Jones, Zoë Kravitz, Fatima El Bahraouy
Votes: 24,915 | Gross: $0.32M
19. Rock the Kasbah (2015)
R | 106 min | Comedy, Music, War
A down-on-his-luck music manager discovers a teenage girl with an extraordinary voice while on a music tour in Afghanistan and takes her to Kabul to compete on the popular television show, Afghan Star.
Director: Barry Levinson | Stars: Bill Murray, Leem Lubany, Zooey Deschanel, Bruce Willis
Votes: 12,752 | Gross: $2.98M
20. The Cokeville Miracle (2015)
PG-13 | 94 min | Drama, Family, History
Children who were held hostage in their elementary school tell stories of miraculous things, but many adults are skeptical that the Cokeville Miracle ever truly happened.
Director: T.C. Christensen | Stars: Jasen Wade, Sarah Kent, Kimball Stinger, Alexa Rae
Votes: 2,832 | Gross: $1.35M
21. A War (2015)
R | 115 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
During contact with the Taliban in Afghanistan a Danish commander makes a decision which saves many of his men's lives but inadvertently takes the lives of some Afghani civilians. Now he is facing criminal charges.
Director: Tobias Lindholm | Stars: Pilou Asbæk, Tuva Novotny, Søren Malling, Charlotte Munck
Votes: 11,201 | Gross: $0.12M
22. Black Friday (2004)
Not Rated | 143 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A film about the investigations following the 1993 serial Bombay bomb blasts, told through the different stories of the people involved --police, conspirators, victims, middlemen.
Director: Anurag Kashyap | Stars: Kay Kay Menon, Pawan Malhotra, Aditya Srivastav, Dibyendu Bhattacharya
Votes: 22,002 | Gross: $0.03M
23. The Marauders (1955)
Approved | 81 min | Western
An innocent squatter in Arizona Territory, Jeff Richards, builds a home in a box canyon, and then has to battle to survive as Dan Duryea and his small army of gunfighters try to evict him.
Director: Gerald Mayer | Stars: Dan Duryea, Jeff Richards, Keenan Wynn, Jarma Lewis
Votes: 240
24. The Mad Bomber (1973)
R | 91 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Los Angeles detectives Minelli and Blake must track down a serial rapist who may know the identity of a mentally disturbed bomber.
Director: Bert I. Gordon | Stars: Vince Edwards, Chuck Connors, Neville Brand, Hank Brandt
Votes: 761
25. Escort West (1959)
Passed | 75 min | Western
An ex-Confederate officer and his young daughter, traveling West, rescue two women survivors of an Indian attack.
Director: Francis D. Lyon | Stars: Victor Mature, Elaine Stewart, Faith Domergue, Reba Waters
Votes: 613
26. Ferocious Planet (2011 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 88 min | Action, Adventure, Horror
A groundbreaking device is designed to glimpse alternate universes. But when the machine malfunctions and transports a group of observers into a nightmarish dimension of alien terrors, the travelers must use ingenuity to survive.
Director: Billy O'Brien | Stars: Joe Flanigan, Sam O'Mahony, John Rhys-Davies, Catherine Walker
Votes: 2,164
27. Gunner Palace (2004)
PG-13 | 85 min | Documentary, War
American soldiers of the 2/3 Field Artillery, a group known as the "Gunners," tell of their experiences in Baghdad during the Iraq War. Holed up in a bombed out pleasure palace built by Sadaam Hussein, the soldiers endured hostile situations some four months after President George W. Bush declared the end of major combat operations in the country.
Directors: Petra Epperlein, Michael Tucker | Stars: Bryant Davis, Devon Dixon, Javorn Drummond, Elliot Lovett
Votes: 1,953 | Gross: $0.61M
28. The Surge: The Whole Story (2009)
Not Rated | 80 min | Documentary
In 2007, the situation in Iraq was desperate and required a new strategy...the Surge. THE SURGE: THE WHOLE STORY is a definitive account from those who were there, including interviews with... See full summary »
Director: Bruce Van Dusen | Stars: Nasier Abadi, Kenneth Adgie, Lloyd Austin, Jeffrey Bannister
Votes: 36
29. Where Soldiers Come From (2011)
Not Rated | 92 min | Documentary
A documentary that chronicles four years in the lives of childhood friends as they enter a faraway war.
Director: Heather Courtney
Votes: 234 | Gross: $0.04M
30. Special Forces Bomb Disposal Expert Rates 10 Bomb Disposal Scenes in Movies (2020 Video)
22 min | Documentary, Short, Action
Bomb disposal expert Lloyd Davies rates the realism of bomb-disposal scenes in popular movies and TV shows. Davies addresses land mines in the TV show "SEAL Team" (2018) and other ... See full summary »
Star: Lloyd Davies
31. War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State (2013)
Not Rated | 67 min | Documentary
War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State highlights four cases where whistleblowers noticed government wrong-doing and took to the media to expose the fraud and abuse.
Director: Robert Greenwald | Stars: Daniel Ellsberg, Franz Gayl, Seymour Hersh, David Carr
Votes: 216
32. Remote Control War (2011 TV Movie)
42 min | Documentary
Billions of dollars are driving an unnoticed shift to Robots in the military that has revolutionized how war is fought, the rules of war, and creating new technologies that will soon change our world.
Director: Leif Kaldor
Votes: 25
33.
Over There (2005)
Episode:
Mission Accomplished
(2005)
TV-MA | 45 min | Action, Drama, War
The soldiers are assigned to guard an Iraqi prison; Mrs. B returns stateside after her son is diagnosed with autism.
Director: D.J. Caruso | Stars: Josh Henderson, Luke Macfarlane, Erik Palladino, Keith D. Robinson
Votes: 74
34.
Inside the Bomb Squad (2020)
Episode:
Episode #1.2
(2020)
24 min | Documentary
In Liverpool, Sergeant David 'Podders' Podmore is called out to investigate when a shooting leads to a police raid that finds a potential improvised explosive device. In Aylesbury, Sam Jones and Corporal Matt Coogan assess a mortar bomb.
Directors: Tom Cunningham, Anna Keel | Star: Jack McMullen
35.
Tank Overhaul (2006– )
Episode:
The BMP
(2009)
TV-G | 49 min | Documentary
The Soviet BMP was the world's first infantry fighting vehicle for the nuclear battlefield. Now, Greg Taylor, one of the most experienced tank restorers, will rebuild a Cold War vehicle ... See full summary »
Director: P.J. Naworynski | Stars: Rick Coster, Yuri Desyatnik, Gilroy Hamilton, Andrew Pifko
36.
Frontline (1983– )
Episode:
The Wounded Platoon
(2010)
TV-14 | 86 min | Documentary, News
Frontline investigates the violence, depression, and stress exhibited by a platoon of Iraq War veterans whose members who have committed murder, assault, and suicide.
Director: Daniel Edge | Stars: Robert Alvarez, Jose Barco, Bruce Bastien, George Brandt
Votes: 41
37.
Midsomer Murders (1997– )
Episode:
Dark Secrets
(2011)
TV-14 | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The reclusive lives of an eccentric elderly couple come under police scrutiny when a social services investigator is murdered.
Director: Simon Langton | Stars: Neil Dudgeon, Jason Hughes, Barry Jackson, Fiona Dolman
Votes: 869
38.
Combat Hospital (2011)
Episode:
Triage
(2011)
TV-14 | 44 min | Drama, War
A deserted Russian bunker - Col. Marks and Structural Engineer Captain Fitzharold (Fitz) survey the site for a potential new clinic. But the clinic is not as safe as originally thought and ... See full summary »
Director: Paul Unwin | Stars: Michelle Borth, Luke Mably, Terry Chen, Arnold Pinnock
Votes: 40
39.
Task & Purpose (2014– )
Episode:
Inside the Army's New Armored Vehicle w/ 50mm Cannon
(2021)
11 min | Documentary, News
Chris thinks the United States Army is finally serious about replacing the M-2 Bradly infantry fighting vehicle in response to a 2016 announcement that Russia is developing a remote ... See full summary »
Star: Chris Cappy
40.
Strike Back (2010–2020)
Episode:
Project Dawn #1
(2011)
TV-MA | 46 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
British sergeant Michael Stonebridge recruits help from Ex-Delta Force operative Damien Scott when Section 20 agent John Porter is kidnapped by a Pakistani terrorist. The two then uncover ... See full summary »
Director: Daniel Percival | Stars: Philip Winchester, Sullivan Stapleton, Amanda Mealing, Eva Birthistle
Votes: 780
41.
Strike Back (2010–2020)
Episode:
Project Dawn: Part 2
(2011)
TV-MA | 45 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
Scott and Stonebridge discover that the terrorists in the hotel are searching for Mahmood. Grant learns that Latif's real goal is to capture a Pakistani chemical scientist who worked with the weapons inspection team in Iraq in 2003.
Director: Daniel Percival | Stars: Philip Winchester, Sullivan Stapleton, Amanda Mealing, Eva Birthistle
Votes: 637
42.
GI Factory (2006– )
Episode:
Episode #1.1
Documentary
Kelly visits the factories where three essentials of the modern United States infantry are made; Kevlar helmets, M-16 assault rifles and up-armored hummers.
Star: Kelly Perdew
43.
Family Guy (1999– )
Episode:
Thanksgiving
(2011)
TV-14 | 22 min | Animation, Comedy
Joe's son, who was reported missing in Iraq, suddenly and unexpectedly appears during Thanksgiving dinner, but the story of his disappearance doesn't add up.
Directors: Jerry Langford, James Purdum, Peter Shin | Stars: Seth MacFarlane, Alex Borstein, Seth Green, Mila Kunis
Votes: 1,645
44.
Military History Visualized (2016– )
Episode:
What "killed" the most tanks in World War 2?
(2017)
6 min | Documentary
In World War Two tanks were attacked by a multitude of weapons. In response to a viewer question Bernhard researches what weapons are responsible for the most kills.
Star: Bernhard Kast
45.
Task & Purpose (2014– )
Episode:
Why America is Gladly Giving Away their $50 Billion Truck
(2022)
16 min | Documentary, News
America's M1224 Maxxpro MRAP is a fast, well armored squad vehicle design to protect troops from improvised explosive devices. The United States bought about 20,000 of them for Iraq war and... See full summary »
Star: Chris Cappy
46.
Frontline (1983– )
Episode:
America and the Taliban (1)
(2023)
TV-PG | 53 min | Documentary, News
How America's 20-year investment in Afghanistan culminated in the Taliban victory. Drawing on decades of on-the-ground reporting and interviews with Taliban and US officials.
Directors: Marcela Gaviria, Martin Smith | Stars: Martin Smith, Jason Dempsey, Abdul Salam Zaeef, Marc Grossman
Votes: 53
47.
Frontline (1983– )
Episode:
America and the Taliban (2)
(2023)
TV-PG | 53 min | Documentary, News
An investigation into how America's 20-year investment in Afghanistan culminated in Taliban victory, with a focus on missteps and consequences.
Directors: Marcela Gaviria, Martin Smith | Stars: Martin Smith, Douglas Lute, David Petraeus, Joey Keller
Votes: 43
48.
The Buzz (2019– )
Episode:
8 Upcoming US Tanks and Military Vehicles
(2022)
8 min | Documentary, Animation
New armored vehicle the United States Army expect to have in production in 2023 or shortly thereafter.
49.
Burn Notice (2007–2013)
Episode:
Nature of the Beast
(2013)
TV-PG | 44 min | Action, Crime, Drama
While Michael is tasked by the organization he infiltrated to take down a drug smuggler, Fiona, Jesse, and Strong find out more about its leader, James.
Director: Tawnia McKiernan | Stars: Jeffrey Donovan, Gabrielle Anwar, Coby Bell, Bruce Campbell
Votes: 348
50.
Republic of Doyle (2010–2014)
Episode:
Hook, Line and Sinker
(2013)
TV-14 | 43 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Jake takes a fishing trip with Mal and Des and uncovers a murder mystery in the woods; Rose runs into a notorious frenemy with plans for Sloan; Des keeps a secret from the Doyles.
Director: Stefan Scaini | Stars: Allan Hawco, Sean McGinley, Krystin Pellerin, Lynda Boyd
Votes: 65