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USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage
USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage is a 2016 war drama directed by Mario Van Peebles, starring Nicolas Cage as Captain Charles McVay. It dramatizes the July 1945 sinking of USS Indianapolis by submarine I-58 and the crew's days adrift, and was poorly received (18% Tomatometer, Metascore 30).
Vámonos con Pancho Villa!
¡Vámonos con Pancho Villa! (Let's Go with Pancho Villa!) is Fernando de Fuentes's 1935 Mexican film, third of his Revolution Trilogy, about peasants who join Villa's División del Norte and are destroyed, with a censored ending restored in 1973.
Veer Murarbaji
Veer Murarbaji (वीर मुरारबाजी), also titled Veer Murarbaji: The Battle of Purandar, is an Indian historical film starring Ankit Mohan as Murarbaji, defender of Purandar Fort in 1665.
Von Ryan's Express
Von Ryan's Express is a 1965 Twentieth Century-Fox World War II film directed by Mark Robson, starring Frank Sinatra as Colonel Ryan leading Allied POWs' train escape from Italy, adapted from David Westheimer's 1964 novel.
Wake Island (1942 film)
Wake Island (1942) is a John Farrow Paramount war film with Brian Donlevy, Robert Preston, and William Bendix, dramatizing the December 1941 defense of Wake Atoll; it earned four Oscar nominations and founded the WWII combat film genre.
War and Peace (film series)
War and Peace (Война и мир) is Sergei Bondarchuk's four-part 1965–1967 Mosfilm adaptation of Tolstoy's novel, the most expensive Soviet film, Oscar winner for Best Foreign Language Film, distinct from the 1956 Vidor, 1972 BBC, and 2016 BBC versions.
War Horse (film)
War Horse is a 2011 war drama film directed by Steven Spielberg, adapted from Michael Morpurgo's novel about a horse sold to the cavalry in World War I.
War of the Arrows (최종병기 활)
War of the Arrows (최종병기 활) is a 2011 South Korean historical action film directed by Kim Han-min, set during the 1636 Manchu invasion of Joseon.
Warfare (film)
Warfare (2025) is an A24 war film co-directed by Ray Mendoza and Alex Garland, re-creating in real time Mendoza's November 2006 Navy SEAL ambush in Ramadi, Iraq, based solely on participants' memories; 92% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Warhorse One
Warhorse One (2023) is an American war action-drama, Johnny Strong's directorial debut co-directed with William Kaufman, about a Navy SEAL guiding a child to safety after the 2021 Afghanistan withdrawal; released by Well Go USA.
We Were Soldiers
We Were Soldiers (2002) is a Randall Wallace war film starring Mel Gibson as Lt. Col. Hal Moore, dramatizing the November 1965 Battle of Ia Drang, the first major U.S.–North Vietnamese clash, based on Moore and Galloway's book.
Welcome to Dongmakgol (웰컴 투 동막골)
Welcome to Dongmakgol (웰컴 투 동막골) is a 2005 South Korean comedy film directed by Park Kwang-hyun, set during the Korean War in a remote mountain village untouched by the fighting.
Welcome to Sarajevo
Welcome to Sarajevo is a 1997 war drama by Michael Winterbottom, written by Frank Cottrell Boyce from Michael Nicholson's book Natasha's Story, starring Stephen Dillane and Woody Harrelson as journalists in the 1992 siege of Sarajevo; it competed at Cannes 1997 and grossed $334,319.
Where Eagles Dare
Where Eagles Dare (1968) is a British-American WWII espionage film directed by Brian G. Hutton, written by Alistair MacLean, starring Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood as commandos rescuing a general from the Alpine Schloss Adler.
Windtalkers
Windtalkers is a 2002 American war drama directed by John Woo, starring Nicolas Cage and Adam Beach as a Marine and the Navajo code talker he guards on Saipan in 1944.
Wolf Warrior
Wolf Warrior (战狼) is a 2015 Chinese military action film directed by and starring Wu Jing, with Yu Nan and Scott Adkins. Made for about 10 million RMB, it earned 545 million RMB and launched the record-setting Wolf Warrior series.
Wreaths at the Foot of the Mountain (高山下的花环)
Wreaths at the Foot of the Mountain (高山下的花环) is Xie Jin's 1984 Shanghai Film Studio war drama adapted from Li Cunbao's novella about the 1979 Sino-Vietnamese War; it won Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers awards and drew 150 million admissions.
Yamato (男たちの大和/YAMATO)
Yamato (男たちの大和/YAMATO) is a 2005 Toei war film by Jun'ya Satō, based on Jun Henmi's nonfiction, produced by Haruki Kadokawa, about the battleship Yamato's 1945 sinking, with a 600-million-yen full-scale set.
Years of Embers
Years of Embers (وقائع سنين الجمر, also rendered Chronicle of the Years of Fire) is a 1974 Algerian film by Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina tracing the roots of the Algerian Revolution; it won the 1975 Palme d'Or.
Yesterday's Enemy
Yesterday's Enemy (昨日の敵) is a 1959 Hammer war film directed by Val Guest, starring Stanley Baker as Captain Langford, who executes hostages in Burma to extract intelligence, and was nominated for four BAFTAs.
Zulu (1964 film)
Zulu (1964) is Cy Endfield's British epic war film about the 1879 defence of Rorke's Drift, starring Stanley Baker and Michael Caine, scored by John Barry, shot in Technirama in apartheid South Africa, and a major British box office hit.
Zulu Dawn
Zulu Dawn (1979), directed by Douglas Hickox and written by Cy Endfield and Anthony Story, is a prequel to Zulu (1964) depicting the British defeat by the Zulu army at the Battle of Isandlwana on 22 January 1879, starring Burt Lancaster, Peter O'Toole, and John Mills.