Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "woman-in-military"

1. Top Gun: Maverick (2022)

PG-13 | 130 min | Action, Drama

After thirty years, Maverick is still pushing the envelope as a top naval aviator, but must confront ghosts of his past when he leads TOP GUN's elite graduates on a mission that demands the ultimate sacrifice from those chosen to fly it.

Director: Joseph Kosinski | Stars: Tom Cruise, Jennifer Connelly, Miles Teller, Val Kilmer

Votes: 695,477 | Gross: $718.73M

2. A Few Good Men (1992)

R | 138 min | Drama, Thriller

Military lawyer Lieutenant Daniel Kaffee defends Marines accused of murder. They contend they were acting under orders.

Director: Rob Reiner | Stars: Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, Demi Moore, Kevin Bacon

Votes: 287,142 | Gross: $141.34M

3. Courage Under Fire (1996)

R | 116 min | Action, Drama, Mystery

A U.S. Army officer, despondent about a deadly mistake he made, investigates a female chopper commander's worthiness for the Medal of Honor.

Director: Edward Zwick | Stars: Denzel Washington, Meg Ryan, Lou Diamond Phillips, Michael Moriarty

Votes: 59,516 | Gross: $59.03M

4. G.I. Jane (1997)

R | 125 min | Action, Drama, War

Lt. Jordan, a US Navy topographic analyst, joins the US Navy Special Warfare Group and struggles to prove her worth in a unit dominated by men. But a cynical woman Texan senator has sold her out.

Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Demi Moore, Viggo Mortensen, Anne Bancroft, Jason Beghe

Votes: 86,981 | Gross: $48.17M

5. The General's Daughter (1999)

R | 116 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

When the daughter of a well-known and well-respected base commander is murdered, an undercover detective is summoned to look into the matter and finds a slew of cover-ups at West Point.

Director: Simon West | Stars: John Travolta, Madeleine Stowe, James Cromwell, Timothy Hutton

Votes: 63,800 | Gross: $102.71M

6. Private Benjamin (1980)

R | 109 min | Comedy, War

A sheltered young high-society woman joins the United States Army on a whim and finds herself in a trickier situation than she ever expected.

Director: Howard Zieff | Stars: Goldie Hawn, Eileen Brennan, Armand Assante, Robert Webber

Votes: 28,672 | Gross: $69.85M

7. We Are Who We Are (2020)

TV-MA | 462 min | Drama

Two American kids who live on a U.S. military base in Italy explore friendship, first love, identity, and all the messy exhilaration and anguish of being a teenager.

Stars: Jack Dylan Grazer, Jordan Kristine Seamón, Chloë Sevigny, Alice Braga

Votes: 9,715

8. Operation Petticoat (1959)

Approved | 124 min | Comedy, Romance, War

During World War II, a commander finds himself stuck with a decrepit (and pink) submarine, a con man executive officer, and a group of army nurses.

Director: Blake Edwards | Stars: Cary Grant, Tony Curtis, Joan O'Brien, Dina Merrill

Votes: 15,865 | Gross: $23.30M

9. Cadet Kelly (2002 TV Movie)

TV-G | 101 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

A fashion-conscious youngster is horrified when she is forced to move to military school.

Director: Larry Shaw | Stars: Hilary Duff, Christy Carlson Romano, Gary Cole, Shawn Ashmore

Votes: 15,452

10. Basic Training (1985)

R | 88 min | Comedy

Melinda comes to Washington DC to visit her friend Debbie, and to find a job in government, where she hopes to do her part to make it better. She gets a lower echelon administrative ... See full summary »

Director: Andrew Sugerman | Stars: Ann Dusenberry, Rhonda Shear, Angela Aames, Will Nye

Votes: 518

11. Private Valentine: Blonde & Dangerous (2008)

PG-13 | 98 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

When fluffy, bubble gum movie star Megan Valentine suddenly finds herself broke and humiliated in the public eye, she wanders from the wreckage of a car accident and witlessly enlists in the U.S. Army hoping in vain that it will change her life.

Director: Steve Miner | Stars: Jessica Simpson, Vivica A. Fox, Steve Guttenberg, Aimee Garcia

Votes: 4,444

12. Arsenal Military Academy (2019)

TV-Y7 | Action, History, Romance

The journey of a girl who disguises herself as her brother to attend a military school, set in the backdrop of 1910s China and the geopolitical turmoil the country experiences. The protagonist finds friendship, love and courage.

Stars: Lu Bai, Kai Xu, Tu-Te-Ha-Meng, Toby Lee

Votes: 872

13. Love at First Fight (2014)

Unrated | 98 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance

Between his friends and the family business, Arnaud's summer looks set to be a peaceful one. Peaceful until he runs into Madeleine, as beautiful as she is brusque, a concrete block of tensed muscles and doomsday prophecies.

Director: Thomas Cailley | Stars: Adèle Haenel, Kévin Azaïs, Antoine Laurent, Brigitte Roüan

Votes: 6,257 | Gross: $0.02M

14. Private Benjamin (1981–1983)

30 min | Comedy

The misadventures of a spoiled young woman who joins the army and her friends.

Stars: Lorna Patterson, Hal Williams, Eileen Brennan, Lisa Raggio

Votes: 371

15. Opposing Force (1986)

R | 100 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

A group of soldiers, including a female for the first time, enroll in the ultimate training mission. They parachute onto an island in the Philippines, only to find that the commandant will stop at nothing to try and break his trainees.

Director: Eric Karson | Stars: Tom Skerritt, Lisa Eichhorn, Anthony Zerbe, Richard Roundtree

Votes: 952

16. The Most Dangerous Woman Alive (1988)

R | 96 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

A promising young army cadet is raped by her commanding officer, She gets her revenge by luring him and the men who acquitted him to a remote island.

Director: Christian Marnham | Stars: Merete Van Kamp, Robert Lipton, Shannon Tweed, James Luisi

Votes: 197

17. Return (2011)

Not Rated | 97 min | Drama

A soldier returns to her family, friends, and old job after a tour of duty, though she finds herself struggling to find her place in her everyday life.

Director: Liza Johnson | Stars: Linda Cardellini, Michael Shannon, John Slattery, Talia Balsam

Votes: 1,055 | Gross: $0.01M

18. The Lieutenant Wore Skirts (1956)

Approved | 99 min | Comedy

In this hilarious romp starring Tom Ewell, Sheree North and Rita Moreno, a middle-aged ex-serviceman who plans to re-enlist (Ewell) is shocked to learn that not only did he fail his medical... See full summary »

Director: Frank Tashlin | Stars: Tom Ewell, Sheree North, Rita Moreno, Rick Jason

Votes: 292

19. Raising Colors (2018)

TV-MA | 101 min | Drama

Laure, 23 years old, suddenly decides to join the French Navy.

Director: Hélène Fillières | Stars: Lambert Wilson, Diane Rouxel, Alex Descas, Corentin Fila

Votes: 457

20. Keep Your Powder Dry (1945)

Passed | 93 min | Drama, War

A disparate group of women try to adjust to their new lives after enlisting in the Women's Army Corps.

Director: Edward Buzzell | Stars: Lana Turner, Laraine Day, Susan Peters, Agnes Moorehead

Votes: 604

21. Sergeant Dead Head (1965)

Not Rated | 90 min | Comedy, Musical

An astronaut goes into space with a chimpanzee. When they return to Earth after their orbit, it is discovered that the chimp has the brains of the astronaut, and the astronaut has the brains of the chimp. Complications ensue.

Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Frankie Avalon, Deborah Walley, Cesar Romero, Fred Clark

Votes: 278

22. Buck Rogers (1977)

Not Rated | 90 min | Family, Romance, Sci-Fi

A 20th Century pilot named Buck Rogers and his young friend Buddy Wade awake from 500 years in suspended animation to find that the world has been taken over by the outlaw army of Killer Kane.

Directors: Ford Beebe, Saul A. Goodkind | Stars: Buster Crabbe, Constance Moore, Jackie Moran, Jack Mulhall

Votes: 278

23. The Weakly Reporter (1944)

7 min | Animation, Family, Short

A newsreel spoof with WWII homefront gags, including rationing, air raid drills and women filling in men's jobs.

Director: Chuck Jones | Stars: Mel Blanc, Bea Benaderet, Frank Graham

Votes: 289

24. A Family Affair (I) (2016)

17 min | Short, Drama

For 15 years, Iris Grant has carried a burning hatred in her heart from having had to bury her mother at a tender age. Now a Navy Veteran, she's fresh out of the military ready to seek out the justice she feels she was richly denied.

Director: Michael Cook | Stars: Keyon Bowman, T.K. Richardson, Lauren Wilkins, India Howard

25. Longines Chronoscope (1951–1955)
Episode: Episode dated 12 November 1951 (1951)

15 min | News, Talk-Show

Huie and James H.R. Cromwell, former U.S. Ambassador to Canada, interview Helen Hayes, an actress who serves on the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Armed Services. Ms. Hayes is ... See full summary »

Stars: James H.R. Cromwell, Helen Hayes, William Bradford Huie

26. Makers: Women Who Make America (2013– )
Episode: Women in War (2014)

TV-14 | 54 min | Documentary

From PBS - Look at American women's increasing participation in war--from Vietnam to the present--as nurses, soldiers, journalists, diplomats and spies.

Directors: Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady | Star: Christiane Amanpour