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1. Thirteen Days (2000)
PG-13 | 145 min | Drama, History, Thriller
In October 1962, the Kennedy administration struggles to contain the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Director: Roger Donaldson | Stars: Kevin Costner, Bruce Greenwood, Shawn Driscoll, Drake Cook
Votes: 62,675 | Gross: $34.59M
2. A Promise (2013)
R | 98 min | Drama, Romance
A romantic drama set in Germany just before WWI and centered on a married woman who falls in love with her husband's protégé. Separated first by duties and then by the war, they pledge their devotion to one another.
Director: Patrice Leconte | Stars: Rebecca Hall, Alan Rickman, Richard Madden, Toby Murray
Votes: 4,514
3. Captain Horatio Hornblower (1951)
Not Rated | 117 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
During the Napoleonic wars, a British Navy Captain has adventures in Central American waters.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Gregory Peck, Virginia Mayo, Robert Beatty, Moultrie Kelsall
Votes: 7,508
4. The Hunley (1999 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 94 min | Action, Drama, History
During the siege of Charleston of 1864, Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley becomes the first submersible to sink an enemy warship in wartime.
Director: John Gray | Stars: Armand Assante, Donald Sutherland, Alex Jennings, Chris Bauer
Votes: 1,306
5. Ironclads (1991 TV Movie)
Unrated | 94 min | War
A naval battle between two large ships: the "Monitor" and the "Merrimack".
Director: Delbert Mann | Stars: Virginia Madsen, Alex Hyde-White, Reed Diamond, Philip Casnoff
Votes: 311
6. World War Three (1998 TV Movie)
94 min | Drama, War
This mock documentary uses archival footage, interviews and reports taken out of context and staged interviews to highlight a possible escalation into a nuclear war. In this feature, ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Stone | Stars: Boris Sichkin, Christoph Gutknecht, Boris Lyoskin, Hans Sievers
Votes: 294
7. A Man There Was (1917)
Not Rated | 65 min | Drama, War
Terje Vigen, a sailor, suffers the loss of his family through the cruelty of another man. Years later, when his enemy's family finds itself dependent on Terje's beneficence, Terje must decide whether to avenge himself.
Director: Victor Sjöström | Stars: Victor Sjöström, August Falck, Edith Erastoff, Bergliot Husberg
Votes: 2,321
8. Santiago (1956)
Not Rated | 93 min | Adventure, Romance
A gun runner, dishonorably discharged from the military, is swept deeper into a revolution in Cuba when he crosses paths with an enemy from the past and a beautiful revolutionary and her son.
Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: Alan Ladd, Rossana Podestà, Lloyd Nolan, Chill Wills
Votes: 320
9. Aisheen (Still Alive in Gaza) (2010)
86 min | Documentary, Family
Through encounters in these otherwise ordinary places (but places that, here, take on another meaning), the film portrays a different Gaza. Poetic, surreal at times. "Aisheen" is a tribute to life.
Director: Nicolas Wadimoff
Votes: 65
10. Ride a Violent Mile (1957)
Approved | 80 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Cowhand Jeff Donner meets Susan Crowley, a spy for the Union in the Civil War, and gets dragged into her espionage ring that is out to foil the South's attempts to break the blockade ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Marquis Warren | Stars: John Agar, Penny Edwards, John Pickard, Bing Russell
Votes: 41
11. Xue zhan da er dan (1982)
89 min | Adventure, War
Director: Pei-Cheng Chang | Stars: Charlie Chin, Don Wong, Tao-Liang Tan, David Wei Tang
12.
Man, Moment, Machine (2005–2007)
Episode:
JFK and the Crisis Crusader
(2007)
Biography, History
The role and effectiveness of the RF-8 Crusader reconnaissance units in the Cuban Missile Crisis and the difficult decision to deploy them are explained.
Stars: Hunter Ellis, A.J. Hunt, John White, Todd D'Amario
13.
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
14.
Battlefield (1995–2004)
Episode:
The Battles for Tunisia
(2001)
Documentary, History, War
The campaign in Tunisia in World War Two saw the battles that finally ended the brutal war in the desert. We look at the weapons used and tactics and tell the story of the battle itself.
Stars: Jonathan Booth, Harold Alexander, Kenneth Anderson, Claude Auchinleck
Votes: 6
15.
Battlefield (1995–2004)
Episode:
The War Against the U-Boats
(2002)
Documentary, History, War
An in depth look at the World War II Battle of the Atlantic, the people who commanded the fighting, the national leaders, and the equipment used.
Stars: Jonathan Booth, Neville Chamberlain, Winston Churchill, Martin Dunbar-Nasmith
Votes: 6
16.
OverSimplified (2016– )
Episode:
WW1: Part 2
(2016)
TV-14 | 7 min | Documentary, Animation, Comedy
Oversimplified explains World War 1, in two parts.
Director: Stuart Webster | Star: Stuart Webster
Votes: 39
17.
OverSimplified (2016– )
Episode:
The Cold War: Part 2
(2019)
TV-14 | 17 min | Documentary, Animation, Comedy
Oversimplified explains The Cold War, in two parts.
Director: Stuart Webster | Star: Stuart Webster
Votes: 35
18.
OverSimplified (2016– )
Episode:
The American Civil War: Part 1
(2020)
TV-14 | 29 min | Documentary, Animation, Comedy
Oversimplified explains The American Civil War, in two parts.
Director: Stuart Webster | Star: Stuart Webster
Votes: 39
19.
The American Civil War: A Pictorial History Through the Photographs of Mathew B. Brady (1959)
Episode:
The Blockaders: Story of the Ghost Ships
(1959)
Documentary, History, War
Star: Allyn Edwards
20.
Kennedy (2023)
Episode:
Crisis (January 1962 - October 1962)
(2023)
Documentary, Biography, History
After Nuclear weapons are placed 90 miles from the Florida coast in Cuba, Kennedy faces his ultimate trial, the most dangerous moment in human history.
Director: Ashton Gleckman | Stars: Peter Coyote, Andrew Cohen, Richard Lipsey, J. Randy Taraborrelli
Votes: 28
21.
World War Weird (2017– )
Episode:
Episode #2.3
(2018)
Documentary, History, War
Crossword puzzles in a national newspaper begin to attract the attention of MI5, the answers are code words for the upcoming D-Day operation. Is this the work of a spy?
Director: Mike Ibeji | Stars: Andrew Robertshaw, Martin Morgan, Guy Walters, Joshua Levine
22.
TopTenz (2010– )
Episode:
10 Uncomfortable Truths About the American Revolution
(2018)
15 min | Documentary
The American Revolution is rich in myth and legend, quite a bit of it of questionable validity. But the big one is the omission of the extent France was involved in the war thanks to the ... See full summary »
Star: Simon Whistler
23.
Secrets of War (1998– )
Episode:
Cold War: Eisenhower's Operatives
(1998)
TV-PG | 49 min | Documentary, History, War
The Supreme Allied Commander of World War Two relied on the covert arm of the CIA to an unprecedented scale during his presidency. From his education on clandestine warfare from Winston ... See full summary »
Stars: Charlton Heston, Evan Thomas, Andrew Goodpaster, Fred I. Greenstein
24.
Battle Plan Under Fire (2004– )
Episode:
Blockade
(2004)
Documentary, History, War
We explore how blockades have the ability to destroy or at least damage a country's ability to wage war.
Stars: Bruce Gudmundsson, Lloyd Clark, Eric Meyers, Karl Dönitz
25.
Secrets of War (1998– )
Episode:
WWI: Germany's Secret Gambles
TV-PG | 52 min | Documentary, History, War
As the armies of World War One struggled under an onslaught of terrifying weapons, the German government broke the stalemate and issued in a new era of warfare by turning to covert operations.
Stars: Charlton Heston, Jean-Jacques Becker, Jules Witcover, Mark Seaman
26.
World War II in Colour (2009)
Episode:
Lightning War
(2009)
TV-MA | 51 min | Documentary, History, War
Country after European country falls before the unstoppable German blitzkrieg.
Stars: Robert Powell, Adolf Hitler, Wladyslaw Sikorski, Karl Dönitz
Votes: 344
27.
World War II in Colour (2009)
Episode:
Turning the Tide
(2009)
TV-MA | 51 min | Documentary, History, War
Allies turn the tide in the Atlantic, where initially German U-Boats harass freely convoys to supply Britain. The Kriegsmarine calls off their submarines. The route to bring American soldiers who will land on D-Day is clear.
Stars: Robert Powell, Winston Churchill, Arthur Harris, Adolf Hitler
Votes: 243
28.
Dark Seas (2021– )
Episode:
The Utter Battleship Destruction of the Japanese Homeland
(2023)
12 min | Documentary
With the airfields of the Marianas Islands, Guam and Okinawa in Allied hands and a fleet of 40 aircraft carriers, fourteen battleships and many other ships carrying heavy guns the Allies ... See full summary »
29.
Task & Purpose (2014– )
Episode:
Why Iran and Saudi Arabia are Fighting in Yemen
(2023)
22 min | Documentary, News
Yemen is in the midst of a civil war between Houthi rebels and the internationally recognized, though somewhat fragmented, established government. This plays out on Saudi Arabia's southern ... See full summary »
Star: Chris Cappy
30.
Military Masterminds (2022)
Episode:
Deception
(2022)
52 min | Documentary, History, War
Strategy and tactics can be creative. But behind every deception are the Military Masterminds planning and executing each strategy to defeat an enemy.
Director: Roberto Irwin | Stars: Christopher Catherwood, Dan Hill, James Rogers, Lucy Betteridge-Dyson
31.
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
32.
Gangster Empire: Rise of the Mob (2013– )
Episode:
Tea Parties, Revolution and Anarchy
(2013)
TV-14 | 47 min | Documentary, Action, Crime
The origin of the gangs that dominated crime and invented their own codes of conduct. A look at the roots of organized crime starting with the American Revolution to the prohibition of alcohol.
Director: Kevin R. Hershberger | Stars: Coby Batty, Matt K. Baker, Todd Barsness, James Christopher Cooke
Votes: 5
33.
Taboo (2017)
Episode:
Episode #1.5
(2017)
TV-MA | 56 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A duel at dawn takes a surprising turn, Zilpha is met with darkness, the East India Company is under investigation, and Delaney faces a race against time to keep his plot a secret.
Director: Anders Engström | Stars: Tom Hardy, Jessie Buckley, Jefferson Hall, Oliver Powell
Votes: 3,871
34.
The Cuba Libre Story (2015–2016)
Episode:
Breaking Chains
(2015)
TV-14 | 46 min | Documentary, History
Columbus' landing on Cuba in 1492 ushers in 400 years of Spanish domination. Through all their hardships, the people of Cuba continue to strive for freedom.
Directors: Emmanuel Amara, Kai Christiansen, Florian Dedio | Stars: Ken Eaken, Miguel Barnet, Fernando Martínez Heredia, Michael Zeuske
Votes: 120
35.
Days of Revolt (2015–2016)
Episode:
Israel's War on Children
(2015)
News, Talk-Show
Stars: Laila El-Haddad, Chris Hedges
36.
End of Empire (1985– )
Episode:
Palestine
(1985)
Documentary
The end of British rule in Palestine and the creation of Israel.
37.
American Dynasties: The Kennedys (2018)
Episode:
Family Secrets
(2018)
42 min | Documentary, History
As personal scandal threatens his marriage and looming nuclear war undermines his administration, President John F. Kennedy must fight to protect the presidency, the country and the world.
Director: Jonathan Jones | Stars: Martin Sheen, Sally Bedell Smith, Kate Andersen Brower, J. Randy Taraborrelli
Votes: 52