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'71 (film)
'71 (2014) is a British thriller, Yann Demange's debut feature, written by Gregory Burke, starring Jack O'Connell as a British soldier abandoned by his unit during a 1971 Belfast riot; Berlinale competition premiere, 96% Rotten Tomatoes, nine BIFA nominations.
12.12: The Day (서울의 봄)
12.12: The Day (서울의 봄, Spring of Seoul) is Kim Sung-su's 2023 Korean drama dramatizing Chun Doo-hwan's December 12, 1979 coup, starring Hwang Jung-min and Jung Woo-sung; it drew over 13.1 million admissions and won the Baeksang Grand Prize.
Allied (film)
Allied (2016) is a Paramount WWII romantic thriller directed by Robert Zemeckis, written by Steven Knight, starring Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard as spies in 1942 Casablanca and London; inspired by an unverifiable SOE story, grossing $39.8M in the US.
Anthropoid (film)
Anthropoid (2016 war film) by Sean Ellis; Cillian Murphy and Jamie Dornan play Gabčík and Kubiš in the WWII Heydrich assassination drama; 121 minutes, Metascore 59, RT 67%.
Apollo 13 (film)
Apollo 13 (1995) is Ron Howard's historical drama starring Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, and Bill Paxton, based on Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger's book Lost Moon; it earned over $350 million, ranked third for 1995, and joined the National Film Registry in 2023.
Back to Buenos Aires
Back to Buenos Aires, or Ritorno a Buenos Aires, is a 2026 Italian-Brazil drama directed by Marco Bechis. It depicts a doctor testifying against military officers from Argentina's dictatorship.
Bat*21
Bat*21 is a 1988 American war drama directed by Peter Markle, starring Gene Hackman and Danny Glover, dramatizing the 1972 rescue of downed Air Force colonel Iceal Hambleton in Vietnam.
Black Book (film)
Black Book (Dutch: Zwartboek) is a 2006 World War II thriller directed by Paul Verhoeven, starring Carice van Houten as a Jewish singer who joins the Dutch Resistance.
Breaker Morant (film)
Breaker Morant, 1980 Bruce Beresford Australian courtroom drama based on Kenneth Ross's play, starring Edward Woodward, Bryan Brown, Jack Thompson; Oscar-nominated screenplay, ten AFI awards, Boer War court-martial of three Australian lieutenants.
Bridge of Spies (film)
Bridge of Spies: 2015 Steven Spielberg Cold War drama with Tom Hanks as lawyer James Donovan and Mark Rylance as spy Rudolf Abel, based on the 1962 Glienicke Bridge prisoner exchange for U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers; six Oscar nominations, Rylance won.
Brothers (2009 film)
Brothers is a 2009 American psychological drama directed by Jim Sheridan, a remake of the 2004 Danish film Brødre, starring Tobey Maguire, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Natalie Portman.
Conspiracy (2001 film)
Conspiracy (2001) is an HBO/BBC docudrama, directed by Frank Pierson from Loring Mandel's script, dramatizing the 1942 Wannsee Conference; starring Kenneth Branagh and Stanley Tucci, Emmy and BAFTA winning.
Courage Under Fire
Courage Under Fire (戦火の勇気 in Japan) is Edward Zwick's 1996 Gulf War drama starring Denzel Washington and Meg Ryan, the first Hollywood film about the Gulf War, using a Rashomon-style investigation of a Medal of Honor candidacy.
Dunkirk (2017 film)
Dunkirk (2017) is Christopher Nolan's 106-minute war film on Operation Dynamo, told across three timelines (one week, one day, one hour), shot largely on IMAX 65mm, with 92% on Rotten Tomatoes and eight Oscar nominations.
Europa Europa
Europa Europa (Hitlerjunge Salomon) is Agnieszka Holland's 1990 French-German film adapted from Salomon Perel's autobiography about a German Jew surviving the Holocaust in the Hitler Youth; it won the 1992 Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film.
Eye of the Needle (film)
Eye of the Needle (1981) is a WWII spy thriller directed by Richard Marquand, adapted from Ken Follett's 1978 novel, starring Donald Sutherland as German agent Henry Faber and Kate Nelligan as Lucy on Storm Island, released July 24, 1981 by United Artists.
Ghazi (film)
The Ghazi Attack (ఘాజీ) is a 2017 Indian war film by debutant director Sankalp Reddy on the 1971 sinking of Pakistani submarine PNS Ghazi; India's first war-at-sea film, starring Rana Daggubati, Kay Kay Menon, and Taapsee Pannu, and a National Film Award winner for Best Feature Film in Telugu.
Hangmen Also Die!
Hangmen Also Die! is Fritz Lang's 1943 United Artists war film, written by John Wexley from a Bertolt Brecht and Lang story, dramatizing the Czech resistance assassination of Reinhard Heydrich and the Nazi hostage reprisals, with Brian Donlevy and a Hanns Eisler score.
Hotel Mumbai
Hotel Mumbai (2018) is Anthony Maras's debut thriller about the 2008 Taj Mahal Palace Hotel siege, starring Dev Patel and Armie Hammer, inspired by the documentary Surviving Mumbai, premiered at TIFF 2018.
K-19: The Widowmaker
K-19: The Widowmaker is Kathryn Bigelow's 2002 drama starring Harrison Ford and Liam Neeson about the 1961 reactor accident aboard the Soviet submarine K-19, a $135 million production that earned $65.7 million.
Kristallnacht (film)
Kristallnacht (aka Enemy Within) is an in-production U.S.-Austrian historical thriller directed by Oscar-winner Stefan Ruzowitzky, starring Clive Owen as Berlin police lieutenant Wilhelm Krützfeld during the November 1938 pogrom; announced at AFM November 2024, shooting early 2025.
Lions for Lambs
Lions for Lambs (2007) is Robert Redford's political drama, the first film of the relaunched United Artists, starring Redford, Meryl Streep, and Tom Cruise in three interwoven War on Terror stories; it earned 28% on Rotten Tomatoes and about $15 million.
Man Down (film)
Man Down (2015) is a Dito Montiel psychological drama starring Shia LaBeouf as Marine Gabriel Drummer searching a post-apocalyptic America for his family; premiered at Venice 2015, released December 2016, Metascore 28.
Men Behind the Sun (黑太阳731)
Men Behind the Sun (黑太阳731, Hei Tai Yang 731), also Man Behind the Sun or Squadron 731, is Mou Tun-fei's 1988 Hong Kong Category III war-horror film depicting Unit 731's human experiments, its censorship history, and legacy.
Mine (2016 film)
Mine (2016) is a psychological war thriller, the debut feature of Italian directors Fabio Guaglione and Fabio Resinaro, starring Armie Hammer as a Marine sniper stranded for 52 hours on a landmine in a desert.
Munich (2005 film)
Munich (2005), Steven Spielberg historical thriller, also known as München, dramatizes the Mossad retaliation squad hunting those behind the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre; based on George Jonas's Vengeance, five Oscar nominations, $47.4M US gross.
Nuremberg (Нюрнберг») (2023 film)
Nuremberg (Нюрнберг) is a 2023 Russian historical drama by Nikolai Lebedev about the 1945 Nuremberg tribunal, following Soviet interpreter Igor Volgin; released 2 March 2023, distinct from the 2025 American film of the same name.
Operation Chromite (인천상륙작전) (film)
Operation Chromite (인천상륙작전) is a 2016 South Korean war drama directed by John H. Lee, starring Lee Jung-jae, Lee Beom-su, and Liam Neeson as MacArthur, dramatizing the covert X-ray spy mission before the 1950 Incheon landing; it sold about 7.05 million admissions.
Operation Mincemeat (film)
Operation Mincemeat (2022 film), also known simply as Operation Mincemeat, is a John Madden war drama starring Colin Firth and Matthew Macfadyen, adapted from Ben Macintyre's 2010 book about the WWII corpse deception; released on Netflix May 11, 2022.
Patriots Day (film)
Patriots Day (2016) is Peter Berg's docudrama of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing and manhunt, starring Mark Wahlberg as fictional composite officer Tommy Saunders; released January 13, 2017, grossing $31.8 million in the US.