War Movies

Set during the Pacific War against the Japanese, this WW2 drama discerns between achieving one's mission at any cost versus preserving the lives under one's command and enforcing discipline through fear as opposed to mutual respect.

A submarine commander is forced to blow up a Japanese ship with prisoners.

The Inn of the Sixth Happiness is a movie starring Ingrid Bergman, Robert Donat, and Curd Jürgens. A tenacious British woman becomes a missionary and runs an inn for travelling merchants in China during the Japanese invasion and the...

In 1943, an Italian-administered P.O.W. camp for captured Allies goes through a series of failed escapes only to culminate in a daring plan for a dramatic mass escape.

The Diary of Anne Frank is a movie starring Millie Perkins, Shelley Winters, and Joseph Schildkraut. During World War II, a teenage Jewish girl named Anne Frank and her family are forced into hiding in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands.

A young American serviceman, stationed in Germany after the fall of the Third Reich, jeopardises his position with the Marshall Plan relief effort by breaking the non-fraternisatiom rule and falling in love with a young German woman.

In 1863, a Union outfit is sent behind Confederate lines in Mississippi to destroy enemy railroads but a captive southern belle and the unit's doctor cause frictions within ranks.

Bardone, a petty con man, is arrested by the Gestapo and coerced into impersonating a partisan leader in order to expose another resistance organizer.

In 1945, Germany is being overrun, and nobody is left to fight but teenagers.

Nobi is a movie starring Eiji Funakoshi, Mantarô Ushio, and Yoshihiro Hamaguchi. In the closing days of WWII remnants of the Japanese army in Leyte are abandoned by their command and face certain starvation.

Estate violenta is a movie starring Eleonora Rossi Drago, Jean-Louis Trintignant, and Lilla Brignone. Summer, 1943: wealthy youth in the Riccione district of Rimini play while the war gets closer. Carlo Caremoli, a young man who...

As a conscript in war-time Japan's military, a pacifist struggles to maintain his determination to keep his ideals.

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.

Solomon and Sheba is a movie starring Yul Brynner, Gina Lollobrigida, and George Sanders. After becoming king of ancient Israel, Solomon faces threats coming from his jealous dispossessed brother Adonijah, the Egyptian Pharaoh and...

Sink the Bismarck! is a movie starring Kenneth More, Dana Wynter, and Carl Möhner. The World War II story of the Royal Navy's effort to defeat Nazi Germany's most powerful warship.

Hawai Middowei daikaikûsen: Taiheiyô no arashi is a movie starring Yôsuke Natsuki, Toshirô Mifune, and Kôji Tsuruta. Lt. Koji Kitami is a navigator-bombardier in Japan's Naval Air Force. He participates in the Japanese raid on the...

When his adoptive Japanese-American family is sent to Manzanar after Pearl Harbor, a young Chicano enlists in the marines to become a hero in the Battle of Saipan.

La ciociara is a movie starring Sophia Loren, Jean-Paul Belmondo, and Raf Vallone. In the Italy of WWII, a widow and her lonely daughter seek for distance between them and the horrors of war.

In 1942, a group of British soldiers is sent on a mission in the Malaysian jungle and gets lost into the Japanese controlled zone.

Léon Morin, prêtre is a movie starring Jean-Paul Belmondo, Emmanuelle Riva, and Irène Tunc. Set during occupied France, a faithless woman finds herself falling in love with a young priest.

Swiadectwo urodzenia is a movie starring Henryk Hryniewicz, Beata Barszczewska, and Andrzej Banaszewski. Three episodes dealing with the harsh situation of children at the time of war. They stay at orphanages, wait for their parents...

Judgment at Nuremberg is a movie starring Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, and Richard Widmark. In 1948, an American court in occupied Germany tries four Nazis judged for war crimes.

During WW2, a 3000-strong American unit, known as Merrill's Marauders, battles the Japanese forces in Burma.

Ivanovo detstvo is a movie starring Nikolay Burlyaev, Valentin Zubkov, and Evgeniy Zharikov. During WWII, Soviet orphan Ivan Bondarev strikes up a friendship with three sympathetic Soviet officers while working as a scout behind the...

Small squad must hold off German attack.

Il figlio di Spartacus is a movie starring Steve Reeves, Jacques Sernas, and Gianna Maria Canale. During the power struggle between Caesar and Crassus, a Roman centurion, who is the lost son of Spartacus, is dispatched to Crassus'...

Lawrence of Arabia is a movie starring Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, and Anthony Quinn. The story of T.E. Lawrence, the English officer who successfully united and led the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes during World War I in...

Il giorno più corto is a movie starring Ciccio Ingrassia, Franco Franchi, and Gino Cervi. Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an important battle.

PT 109 is a movie starring Cliff Robertson, Robert Culp, and Ty Hardin. President John F. Kennedy kept a unique inauguration gift on his desk: a plastic-encased coconut. The tale of that coconut is the heroic story of PT 109.

The Great Escape is a movie starring Steve McQueen, James Garner, and Richard Attenborough. Allied prisoners of war plan for several hundred of their number to escape from a German camp during World War II.

A Gathering of Eagles is a movie starring Rock Hudson, Rod Taylor, and Mary Peach. During the Cold War, Air Force Colonel Jim Caldwell shapes up his Strategic Air Command B-52 wing to pass a nuclear war readiness test.

Outnumbered British soldiers do battle with Zulu warriors at Rorke's Drift.

The Incredible Mr. Limpet is a movie starring Don Knotts, Carole Cook, and Jack Weston. Meek and mild mannered bookkeeper Henry Limpet has few passions in life. It's mid-1941 and he would love to join the Navy but has been rated 4F....

An RAF squadron is assigned to knock out a German rocket fuel factory in Norway. The factory supplies fuel for the Nazi effort to launch rockets on England during D-Day.

Behold a Pale Horse is a movie starring Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn, and Omar Sharif. Famous Spanish bandit Artiguez returns to his native Spanish village after 20 years in French exile but Spanish cop Vinolas is setting a trap for...

King & Country is a movie starring Dirk Bogarde, Tom Courtenay, and Leo McKern. During World War I, Army Private Arthur James Hamp is accused of desertion during battle. The officer assigned to defend him at his court-martial,...

The Secret Invasion is a movie starring Stewart Granger, Raf Vallone, and Mickey Rooney. In 1943, a group of hardened criminals is pardoned on the condition it accepts a mission to free a captive Italian general from the clutches of...

The Train is a movie starring Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield, and Jeanne Moreau. In 1944, a German colonel loads a train with French art treasures to send to Germany. The Resistance must stop it without damaging the cargo.

A technical malfunction sends American planes to Moscow to deliver a nuclear attack. Can all-out war be averted?

Four vignettes about the lives of the Cuban people set during the pre-revolutionary era.

The Americanization of Emily is a movie starring James Garner, Julie Andrews, and Melvyn Douglas. An American Naval Officer's talent for living the good life in wartime is challenged when he falls in love and is sent on a dangerous...

Fate Is the Hunter is a movie starring Glenn Ford, Nancy Kwan, and Rod Taylor. An airline executive refuses to believe that pilot error, by his friend, caused a fatal crash and persists in looking for another reason.

36 Hours is a movie starring James Garner, Eva Marie Saint, and Rod Taylor. Germans kidnap an American major and try to convince him that World War II is over, so that they can get details about the Allied invasion of Europe out of...

Culloden is a TV movie starring Tony Cosgrove, Olivier Espitalier-Noel, and Don Fairservice. A reconstruction of the Battle of Culloden, the last battle to take place on British soil, as if modern TV cameras were present.

Jariskatsis mama is a movie starring Sergo Zakariadze, Vladimir Privaltsev, and Aleksandr Nazarov. An old man goes to visit his wounded son in a hospital, but it turns out that he's already been released and is back on the front...

During WW2, a platoon of Marines crash-lands on a tiny Pacific island occupied by a small Japanese unit.

In Vietnam, 1954, a French platoon isolated behind enemy lines tries to come back. It is led by the inexperienced, idealistic sous-lieutenant Torrens, and by adjutant Willsdorf, a WWII veteran of the Wehrmacht.

Allied agents attempt to infiltrate the Nazis' rocket research site.