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Kapò
Kapò (1959) is Gillo Pontecorvo's Italian Holocaust drama, also called Kapo, starring Susan Strasberg as Edith, a Jewish girl who becomes a camp kapo; famous for Rivette's 1961 tracking-shot critique.
Kingdom 3: The Flame of Destiny
Kingdom 3: The Flame of Destiny (キングダム 運命の炎, Unmei no Honō) is the 2023 third live-action film of Hara Yasuhisa's Kingdom manga, directed by Shinsuke Sato, starring Kento Yamazaki and Ryo Yoshizawa, covering the Shi Ka arc and Battle of Bayou; it earned 5.5 billion yen and was 2023's top live-action Japanese film.
Kingdom 4: Return of the Great General (キングダム 大将軍の帰還)
Kingdom 4: Return of the Great General (キングダム 大将軍の帰還) is a 2024 Japanese live-action film, fourth in the Kingdom series, directed by Shinsuke Sato, starring Kento Yamazaki; it earned 8.03 billion yen, the top live-action Japanese film of 2024.
Kingdom 5: The Clash of Souls
Kingdom 5: The Clash of Souls (キングダム 魂の決戦) is the fifth live-action film of Yasuhisa Hara's manga, directed by Shinsuke Sato, released July 17, 2026, adapting the Coalition Army arc against a 500,000-strong six-state invasion of Qin.
Kolberg (film)
Kolberg (1945) is Veit Harlan's Agfacolor propaganda epic for Joseph Goebbels, dramatizing the Prussian town's 1806-07 resistance to Napoleon. The most expensive Nazi-era film (about 8.5 million Reichsmarks), it premiered 30 January 1945 in Berlin and besieged La Rochelle and failed as propaganda.
Kon-Tiki (2012 film)
Kon-Tiki (2012) is a Norwegian historical drama directed by Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg, dramatizing Thor Heyerdahl's 1947 balsa-raft Pacific crossing; Oscar-nominated, Norway's costliest film at release, criticized for its Watzinger portrayal.
La Grande Vadrouille
La Grande Vadrouille (Don't Look Now We're Being Shot At) is a 1966 French-British comedy by Gérard Oury starring Bourvil and Louis de Funès helping downed British airmen escape occupied France; it sold 17.27 million tickets in France, a record until Titanic (1998).
La Vaquilla
La Vaquilla (The Heifer) is Luis García Berlanga's 1985 Spanish Civil War comedy, written with Rafael Azcona, about Republican soldiers stealing a bull; also restaurants and the escaped Minglanilla cow.
Lifeboat (1944 film)
Lifeboat (1944) is Alfred Hitchcock's Twentieth Century-Fox survival drama, from a John Steinbeck story, set entirely on a lifeboat with Tallulah Bankhead, Walter Slezak, and Canada Lee; three Oscar nominations, box-office failure, later reappraised.
Lion of the Desert (أسد الصحراء)
Lion of the Desert (أسد الصحراء), also released in Arabic as Omar Mukhtar, is Moustapha Akkad's 1981 Libyan-financed epic starring Anthony Quinn as resistance leader Omar Mukhtar against Italian colonial rule; it cost $35 million, earned under $1 million, and was long withheld from Italian theaters.
Lone Survivor
Lone Survivor is a 2013 American biographical war film directed by Peter Berg, starring Mark Wahlberg as SEAL Marcus Luttrell, sole survivor of Operation Red Wings.
Long Live the Republic!
Long Live the Republic! (Ať žije republika) is a 1965 Czechoslovak war drama by Karel Kachyňa and Jan Procházka, showing WWII's end in Moravia through a 12-year-old boy's eyes; pulled from distribution in 1970.
Lorelei: The Witch of the Pacific Ocean (ローレライ)
Lorelei: The Witch of the Pacific Ocean (ローレライ) is a 2005 Japanese war sci-fi film, Shinji Higuchi's directorial debut, adapted from Harutoshi Fukui's novel Shūsen no Lorelei, about submarine I-507 and the Lorelei weapon stopping a third atomic bombing.
Lucky Strike (2026 film)
Lucky Strike is a 2026 American WWII war film directed by Rod Lurie, written by Marc Frydman, starring Scott Eastwood as Captain John Castle, a wounded soldier trapped behind German lines during the Battle of the Bulge with only a Motorola SCR-300 radio; released June 26, 2026 by Roadside Attractions.
Man of War (2026 film)
Man of War (2026), also known by the working title Nightingale, is an American action war thriller directed by William Kaufman, starring LaMonica Garrett as a former Navy SEAL rescuing a kidnapped relative in Ukraine; filmed entirely in Bulgaria and released digitally July 3, 2026.
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World is Peter Weir's 2003 Napoleonic naval film with Russell Crowe and Paul Bettany, adapted from Patrick O'Brian's first and tenth Aubrey/Maturin novels, winner of two Oscars from ten nominations.
Men in War
Men in War is a 1957 American black-and-white war film directed by Anthony Mann, starring Robert Ryan and Aldo Ray as soldiers struggling to reach Hill 465 in the Korean War.
Millions Like Us
Millions Like Us (1943) is a British wartime drama directed and written by Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat, their directorial debut, starring Patricia Roc and Gordon Jackson in a story of women recruited to aircraft factory work.
Miracle at St. Anna
Miracle at St. Anna is a 2008 war drama directed by Spike Lee, about four Black American soldiers trapped behind enemy lines in Tuscany during World War II.
Mr. Nelson, Did You Kill People?
Mr. Nelson, Did You Kill People? (ネルソンさん、あなたは人を殺しましたか？) is Shinya Tsukamoto's 2026, 116-minute war drama adapted from Vietnam veteran Allen Nelson's memoir, starring Rodney Hicks, Geoffrey Rush, and Mark Merphy; it premiered in competition at the 2026 Venice Film Festival.
Mulan (2009 film)
Mulan (花木兰) is a 2009 Chinese live-action war drama directed by Jingle Ma, starring Zhao Wei as Hua Mulan, with Chen Kun and Hu Jun; released 27 November 2009, 114 minutes, Douban 6.2.
Murphy's War
Murphy's War, also listed as Murphy's War (1971), is a Peter Yates war drama adapted from Max Catto's novel, starring Peter O'Toole as a merchant seaman seeking revenge on a German U-boat off Venezuela; produced by Michael Deeley with Sian Phillips and Philippe Noiret.
Mutiny on the Bounty (1962 film)
Mutiny on the Bounty (1962 film), MGM remake directed by Lewis Milestone starring Marlon Brando and Trevor Howard; first Ultra Panavision 70 film, $20 million cost, seven Oscar nominations, replica ship sank in Hurricane Sandy 2012.
My Way (마이 웨이) (2011 film)
My Way (마이 웨이, also romanized Mai Wei) is a 2011 South Korean war drama directed by Kang Je-kyu, following a Korean runner through three armies in World War II.
No Paradise If You Are Killed by a Woman
No Paradise If You Are Killed by a Woman (بەهەشت نابینیت ئەگەر ژن بتکوژێت) is a 2026 war film by Halkawt Mustafa about Kurdish sniper Vyan returning to Mosul to rescue her sister from ISIS; Iraq's Oscar entry, premiered at Venice.
Noryang: Deadly Sea (노량: 죽음의 바다)
Noryang: Deadly Sea (노량: 죽음의 바다) is a 2023 South Korean historical war film directed by Kim Han-min, dramatizing Admiral Yi Sun-sin's final battle of the Imjin War.
Objective, Burma!
Objective, Burma! is a 1945 Warner Bros. war film directed by Raoul Walsh, starring Errol Flynn as Captain Nelson leading paratroopers against a Japanese radar station; withdrawn from Britain in 1945 for ignoring the British role, rereleased 1952.
One and Eight
One and Eight (一个和八个, Yige he bage), 1983 Chinese war film by Zhang Junzhao, first work of the Fifth Generation, based on Guo Xiaochuan's 1957 poem, shot by Zhang Yimou, censored and released 1984.
One of Our Aircraft Is Missing
One of Our Aircraft Is Missing is a 1942 British black-and-white war film, the first made under The Archers by Powell and Pressburger, about an RAF bomber crew smuggled home from occupied Holland by the Dutch resistance.
Operation Blood Hunt
Operation Blood Hunt is a 2024 action-horror film directed by Louis Mandylor, written by Brandon Slagle, starring Quinton 'Rampage' Jackson and Jonathan Rhys Meyers; WWII soldiers on a South Pacific island find werewolves killed the missing Marines.