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Black Hawk Down (film)
Black Hawk Down is a 2001 American war film directed by Ridley Scott, depicting the Battle of Mogadishu after two U.S. helicopters were shot down in Somalia in 1993.
Bodyguards and Assassins (十月围城)
Bodyguards and Assassins (十月圍城) is a 2009 Hong Kong-China historical action film directed by Teddy Chan, produced by Peter Chan, about citizens protecting Sun Yat-sen from Qing assassins in 1905 Hong Kong; it won eight Hong Kong Film Awards.
Boudica (2023 film)
Boudica, also released as Boudica: Queen of War, is Jesse V. Johnson's 2023 British action drama starring Olga Kurylenko as the Iceni queen who revolts against Rome; noted for Tacitus and Dio sources, anachronistic Saxons, and weak reception.
Boys of Abu Ghraib
Boys of Abu Ghraib is a 2014 American war drama, Luke Moran's writing-directing debut, starring Moran, Sean Astin, John Heard, Sara Paxton, and Omid Abtahi; a soldier at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison befriends a detainee, released March 28, 2014.
Bullet in the Head
Bullet in the Head (喋血街頭) is John Woo's 1990 Hong Kong action epic starring Tony Leung, Jacky Cheung, and Waise Lee as friends who flee 1967 Hong Kong for wartime Vietnam and are destroyed by gold; a box office failure later reappraised as his most personal film.
Casualties of War
Casualties of War is a 1989 American war drama directed by Brian De Palma, based on the real rape and murder of a Vietnamese woman by American soldiers.
Caterpillar (キャタピラー) (2010 film)
Caterpillar (キャタピラー) is Kôji Wakamatsu's 2010 Japanese anti-war drama adapted from Edogawa Ranpo's Imomushi, starring Shinobu Terajima, who won the 2010 Berlin Silver Bear as the wife caring for her quadruple-amputee soldier husband.
Chapaev (Чапаев)
Chapaev (Чапаев) is a 1934 Soviet Lenfilm war film by the Vasiliev 'brothers' about Civil War commander Vasily Chapaev, based on Furmanov's novel, starring Boris Babochkin, seen by about 60 million viewers and restored in 4K in 2024.
City of Life and Death (南京！南京！)
City of Life and Death (南京！南京！) is Lu Chuan's 2009 black-and-white Chinese war drama about the 1937 Nanjing Massacre, told from both Chinese and Japanese perspectives; it won the San Sebastián Golden Seashell and grossed $119.9K in the US.
Civil War (2024 film)
Civil War (2024) is Alex Garland's A24 dystopian thriller in which journalists travel to Washington, D.C. during a fictional second American civil war; it earned $127.3 million worldwide on a $50 million budget.
Come and See
Come and See (Иди и смотри) is Elem Klimov's 1985 Soviet war drama about a Byelorussian boy amid the Nazi occupation, based on Ales Adamovich's Khatyn narrative, titled from Revelation's fourth seal, with about 30 million Soviet admissions.
Cromwell (film)
Cromwell (1970) is a Ken Hughes British historical drama starring Richard Harris as Oliver Cromwell and Alec Guinness as Charles I, released by Columbia, winner of the Academy Award for Costume Design, and widely criticized for historical inaccuracy.
Cross of Iron
Cross of Iron is Sam Peckinpah's 1977 British-West German war film, based on Willi Heinrich's novel The Willing Flesh, starring James Coburn as Sergeant Steiner and Maximilian Schell as Stransky during the 1943 German retreat on the Eastern Front.
Crossing (2026 film)
Crossing (四渡) is a 2026 Chinese war epic directed by Xu Zhanxiong, executive produced by Andrew Lau, starring Liu Ye as Mao Zedong, dramatizing the Four Crossings of the Chishui River; released June 26, 2026, it earned 289 million yuan. Distinct from the American faith drama The Crossing: Shoulders of Mercy.
Da 5 Bloods
Da 5 Bloods is Spike Lee's 2020 Netflix war drama, co-written with Kevin Willmott, following four Black Vietnam veterans (Delroy Lindo, Clarke Peters, Norm Lewis, Isiah Whitlock Jr.) returning to Vietnam for their squad leader's remains and buried gold.
Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan
Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan is a 2019 Australian war film directed by Kriv Stenders, starring Travis Fimmel as Major Harry Smith, dramatizing D Company 6RAR's 18 August 1966 stand of 108 soldiers against roughly 2,000 to 2,500 Viet Cong and North Vietnamese troops.
Des Teufels General
Des Teufels General (The Devil's General) is Helmut Käutner's 1955 West German film of Carl Zuckmayer's play, starring Curd Jürgens as Luftwaffe general Harras, modeled on Ernst Udet, who dies in a sabotaged plane to shield his resistance friend Oderbruch.
Destination Tokyo
Destination Tokyo, 1943 Warner Bros. war film, Delmer Daves's directing debut, starring Cary Grant as sub captain Cassidy on a spy mission into Tokyo Bay for the Doolittle Raid, Navy training tool, Oscar-nominated story by Steve Fisher.
Devils on the Doorstep (鬼子来了)
Devils on the Doorstep (鬼子来了) is Jiang Wen's 2000 black-and-white comedy-drama about Hebei villagers keeping Japanese prisoners; it won the Cannes Grand Prix but is banned in China.
Devotion (2022 film)
Devotion is a 2022 American biographical war drama directed by JD Dillard, starring Jonathan Majors and Glen Powell as Navy pilots Jesse Brown and Tom Hudner during the Korean War.
Dongji Rescue
Dongji Rescue (东极岛, Dongji Island) is a 2025 Chinese war epic by Guan Hu and Fei Zhenxiang, starring Zhu Yilong, Wu Lei, and Ni Ni, dramatizing the 1942 Lisbon Maru sinking and fishermen's rescue of 384 British POWs; it earned 396 million yuan amid historical-accuracy controversy.
Dragon Blade (天将雄师) (film)
Dragon Blade (天將雄師) is a 2015 Chinese-Hong Kong historical action film directed by Daniel Lee, starring Jackie Chan, John Cusack, and Adrien Brody as Han and Roman forces clash on the Silk Road; $65M budget, $122.6M worldwide gross.
Dunkirk (1958 film)
Dunkirk (1958) is a British Ealing war film directed by Leslie Norman, produced by Michael Balcon, starring John Mills, Richard Attenborough, and Bernard Lee, dramatizing the 1940 Operation Dynamo evacuation; notable as Ealing's last war film and a Nolan antecedent.
Eastern Condors (东方秃鹰)
Eastern Condors (东方秃鹰, also Eastern Bald Eagles) is a 1987 Hong Kong action war film directed by and starring Sammo Hung, a Dirty Dozen-style mission to destroy a secret US missile depot in Vietnam, with Yuen Biao, Yuen Wah, and Haing S. Ngor.
El Cid (film)
El Cid (1961) is Anthony Mann's 184-minute epic starring Charlton Heston and Sophia Loren, produced by Samuel Bronston in Spain, adapted from the Poema del Mío Cid, with three Oscar nominations and a 1993 restoration.
Empire of the Sun (film)
Empire of the Sun is Steven Spielberg's 1987 war drama adapted from J.G. Ballard's semi-autobiographical novel, starring a young Christian Bale as Jim, a British boy interned in Japanese-occupied Shanghai; the first western production to film in Shanghai since World War II, it earned six Oscar nominations but underperformed at the box office.
Enemy at the Gates
Enemy at the Gates is a 2001 war film directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud, centering on a cat-and-mouse duel between Soviet sniper Vassili Zaitsev and German sharpshooter Major König.
Escape from Sobibor
Escape from Sobibor is a 1987 British TV war drama directed by Jack Gold, starring Alan Arkin, Rutger Hauer, and Joanna Pacula, dramatizing the October 1943 Jewish prisoner uprising and mass escape from the Sobibor extermination camp; it won two Golden Globes and five Emmy nominations.
Escape to Victory
Escape to Victory (US title Victory) is John Huston's 1981 sports war drama starring Stallone, Caine, and Pelé as Allied POWs playing a propaganda match against a German team in occupied Paris while planning an escape, loosely inspired by the 1942 Kyiv Death Match.
Fires on the Plain (野火)
Fires on the Plain (野火, Nobi) is Kon Ichikawa's 1959 Daiei war film, adapted by Natto Wada from Ōoka Shōhei's novel, starring Eiji Funakoshi as a tubercular private on Leyte; it won the 1961 Locarno Grand Prix.