Military and Warfare Films

This index is for films with a heavy focus on wars, battles, and military forces. Expect the use of lots of Military and Warfare Tropes.

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• The 7th Company
• 7 Man Army
• 9.April
• 9th Company
• 12 Strong
• 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
• 36 Hours (1965)
• 49th Parallel
• 55 Days at Peking
• '71
• 71: Into The Fire
• 300
  • 300: Rise of an Empire
• The 300 Spartans
• 1917
• 1941
• Act of Valor
• Admiral
• Advance to the Rear
• Ah Boys to Men
• Air Force
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• Alexander Nevsky
• Allied
• All Quiet on the Western Front
• The Americanization of Emily
• American Renegades
• American Sniper
• Amigo
• Andersonville
• And Quiet Flows the Don
• Angel Force
• The Anonymous Heroes
• Anthropoid
• Apocalypse Now
• Army
• Army of Frankensteins
• Army of Shadows
• The Ascent
• The A-Team
• Atlantic Wall
• Baahubali
• Ballad of a Soldier
• Basic
• Bastards
• Bat*21
• Batalha dos Guararapes
• Battle Circus
• Battle Cry
• Battle For Sevastopol
• Battle: Los Angeles
• The Battle of Algiers
• Battle of Britain
• Battle of Moscow
• Battle of Okinawa
• The Battle of San Pietro
• Battle of the Bulge
• Battleground (1949)
• Battleship
• The Battleship Potemkin
• The Beast of War
• Beasts of No Nation
• Beau Geste
• Beau Travail
• The Bedford Incident
• Behind Enemy Lines
• Below
• Beneath Hill 60
• Beyond the Border
• Biggles: Adventures in Time
• The Big Parade
• The Big Red One
• Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
• Biloxi Blues
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• Birdy
• Black and White in Color
• Black Hawk Down
• Blood Diamond
• The Blue Max
• Da 5 Bloods
• Das Boot
• Border
• Born on the Fourth of July
• The Bounty
• Boxer Rebellion
• The Boys in Company C
• Brass Target
• Braveheart
• Breaker Morant
• The Bridge (1959)
• The Bridge at Remagen
• The Bridge on the River Kwai
• A Bridge Too Far
• The Bridges at Toko-Ri
• Buffalo Soldiers
• A Bullet for the General
• Bullet in the Head
• The Bunker (2001)
• Cadet Kelly
• The Caine Mutiny
• Camp X-Ray
• Captain Corelli's Mandolin
• The Captive Heart
• Captive Hearts
• Canaris
• Captain America: The First Avenger
• Carry On England
• Carry On Jack
• Carry On, Sergeant
• Carry On... Up the Khyber
• Carve Her Name with Pride

• Casualties of War
• Catch-22
• Centurion
• The Charge at Feather River
• The Charge of the Light Brigade
• City of Life and Death
• The Colditz Story
• Come and See
• Combat Shock
• Come and See
• Commando
• Commissar
• Convoy 48
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• Courage Under Fire
• The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell
• Crimson Tide
• The Crossing
• Cross of Iron
• The Cruel Sea
• Culloden
• The Dam Busters
• Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan
• The Dawn Patrol
• The Dawns Here Are Quiet
• Deathwatch (2002)
• Decision Before Dawn
• The Deer Hunter
• Defiance
• Delta Farce
• The Delta Force
  • Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection
• The Desert Fox
• The Desert Rats
• The Deserter
• Desperate Journey
• The Devil's Brigade
• The Dirty Dozen
• The Dogs of War
• Dog Soldiers
• Don't Cry, It's Only Thunder
• Doughboys
• Downfall
• Down Periscope
• Dr. Strangelove
• The Duellists
• Dunkirk
• Eastern Condors
• Edge of Tomorrow

• El Alamein: The Line of Fire
• The Elite Squad
• The Elusive Avengers
• Empire of the Sun
• Enemy at the Gates
• The Enemy Below
• Escape from Sobibór
• Escape to Athena
• Escape to Victory
• The Expendables
  • The Expendables 2
  • The Expendables 3
• Eye in the Sky
• Fail Safe
• Fantasy Mission Force
• Fate of a Man
• Fatherland
• A Few Good Men
• The Fighting Generation
• The Final Countdown
• Fire Birds
• Firefox
• Fires on the Plain
• First They Killed My Father
• Five Graves to Cairo
• Flags of Our Fathers
• Flight of the Intruder
• Flirtation Walk
• Flyboys

• Follow That Camel!
• Fort Apache
• Fort Massacre
• Fortress
• The Four Days of Naples
• The Four Feathers
• The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
• Francis the Talking Mule
  • Francis
  • Francis Goes to West Point
  • Francis Join the WACS
  • Francis in the Navy
• Frankenstein's Army
• From Here to Eternity
• The Front Line
• Full Metal Jacket
• Fury
• Gallipoli
• A Gathering of Eagles
• The Gatling Gun
• The General's Daughter
• The German
• Gettysburg
• G.I. Jane
• G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
  • G.I. Joe: Retaliation
• Gladiator
• The Gladiators
• Glory
• Gods and Generals
• Golden Queens Commando
• Good Morning, Vietnam
• Go Tell the Spartans
• Goyo: Ang Batang Heneral
• The Grand Illusion
• Gray Lady Down
• The Great Escape
• The Great Raid
• The Great War
• The Great Warrior Skanderbeg
• The Green Berets
• The Green Devils of Monte Cassino
• Green Zone
• Greyhound
• The Guardian (2006)
• Gun Brothers
• Gunga Din
• The Guns of Navarone
  • Force 10 from Navarone
• A Guy Named Joe
• Hacksaw Ridge
• Hamburger Hill
• Hangman's Knot
• Hart's War
• The Hasty Heart
• Heartbreak Ridge
• Heaven & Earth
• Hell in the Pacific
• Hell Is for Heroes
• Hell of the Living Dead
• Hell's Angels
• Heneral Luna
• Heroes of the Underground
• Hitler, Dead or Alive
• Hitler's Madman
• H.M.S. Defiant
• Homecoming
• Home of the Brave
• A Home Too Far - the first Taiwanese war movie made with a mainstream audience in mind
• Horatio Hornblower
• Hornets' Nest
• Horrors of War
• Hot Shots!
  • Hot Shots! Part Deux
• Hotel Rwanda
• How I Unleashed World War II
• Hulk
• The Human Condition
• The Hunt for Red October
• The Hurt Locker
• Hussar Ballad
• Ice Cold in Alex
• Ice Station Zebra
• Ilang: The Wolf Brigade
• Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS
• Inchon
• The Incredible Mr. Limpet
• Inglourious Basterds
• In Harm's Way
• In the Valley of Elah
• Into The White
• In Which We Serve
• Iron Eagle
• Is Paris Burning?
• It Happened Here
• I Wanted Wings
• Jarhead
• Joint Security Area
• Joyeux Noël
• K-19: The Widowmaker

• Kanał
• Kelly's Heroes
• Film/Kesari
• Khartoum
• The Kill Team
• Kingdom of Heaven
• Knight Without Armour
• Kokoda
• Kolberg
• La Revolución es un Sueño Eterno
• The Last Castle
• The Last Detail
• The Last Drop
• The Last Legion
• The Last Samurai
• The Last Valley
• Lawrence of Arabia
• Lebanon
• Leningrad
• Letters from Iwo Jima
• Life Is Beautiful
• The Lighthorsemen
• The Line
• The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
• Lone Survivor
• The Longest Day
• Lord of War
• The Lords of Discipline
• The Losers (1970)
• The Lost Battalion
• The Lost Patrol
• Lust, Caution
• Magadheera
• Major Dundee
• Major Payne
• Man of Steel
• The Man Who Never Was
• The Man with the Iron Heart
• M*A*S*H
• Master and Commander
• Memorial Day
• Memphis Belle
• Men Behind the Sun
• Mercenaries from Hong Kong
• Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
• The Messenger
• Michael Collins
• Michiel de Ruyter
• Midway (1976)
• Midway (2019)
• A Midnight Clear
• The Military Policeman and the Dismembered Beauty
• Main Hoon Na
• Mission to Moscow
• Mister Roberts
• MonsterVerse
  • Godzilla (2014)
  • Kong: Skull Island
  • Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019)
• Mission of Justice
• The Monuments Men
• Morning Departure
• Morituri
• Mulan
  • Mulan (2020)
• Mulan: Rise of a Warrior
• My Way
• Nam Angels
• Napoléon
• The Naval Commandos
• Navy SEALs
• Nazi Overlord

• The Night of the Generals
• The Ninth Configuration
• North Sea Hijack
• The North Star
• North West Frontier
• Objective, Burma!
• The Odd Angry Shot
• Official Secrets
• An Officer and a Gentleman
• An Officer and a Spy
• Oh! What a Lovely War
• One of Our Aircraft Is Missing
• Only Old Men Are Going to Battle
• Operation Chromite
• Operation Daybreak
• Operation Delta Force
• Operation: Dumbo Drop
• Operation Petticoat
• Order No. 027
• Outcast
• Outlaw King
• Outpost
• The Outpost
• Outpost 37
• Overlord (1975)
• Overlord (2018)
• P-51 Dragon Fighter
• Passchendaele
• Paths of Glory
• The Patriot
• Patton
• Pearl Harbor
• The Pentagon Wars
• Phantom Soldiers
• "Pimpernel" Smith
• Pink Force Commando
• Platoon
• Play Dirty
• Pork Chop Hill
• Port Arthur
• Praybeyt Benjamin
• The Prince and the Pagoda Boy
• Prisoner of the Mountains
• Private Benjamin
• Pukar
• Purple Sunset
• Rambo
  • Rambo: First Blood Part II
  • Rambo III
  • Rambo IV
  • Rambo: Last Blood
• Reach for the Sky
• The Red Baron
• Red Dawn (1984)
  • Red Dawn (2012)
• Red Tails
• Reign of the Gargoyles
• Renaissance Man
• Restrepo
• Revolution (1985)
• Rio Lobo (the Prolonged Prologue, anyway)
• Road 47
• Rommel
• Rules of Engagement
• Run Silent, Run Deep
• The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming
• The Sad Sack
• Sahara (1943)
• Samson and Delilah
• The Sand Pebbles
• Sands Of Iwo Jima
• Saving Private Ryan
• Say a Word for Poor Hussar
• The Scarlet Coat
• The Scavengers
• Schindler's List
• Sergeant York
• Sgt Bilko
• Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero
• Shaolin
• Shadow in the Cloud
• Shenandoah
• She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
• Ships with Wings
• Shooter
• Shoulder Arms
• Shout at the Devil
• The Siege of Firebase Gloria
• The Siege of Jadotville
• Siege of the Saxons
• Sink the Bismarck!
• Sky Bandits
• Slaughterhouse-Five
• Sniper
• A Soldier's Story
• Sons of the Good Earth
• So Proudly We Hail
• South Pacific
• Spartacus
• Special Forces
• The Spy in Black
• SS Doomtrooper
• Stalag 17
• Stalag Luft
• Stalingrad (1993)
• Stalingrad (2013)
• Starship Troopers
• Star Wars:
  • A New Hope
  • The Empire Strikes Back
  • Return of the Jedi
  • The Phantom Menace
  • Attack of the Clones
  • Revenge of the Sith
  • The Force Awakens
  • Rogue One
  • The Last Jedi
  • The Rise of Skywalker
• Steel (the first quarter of the film)
• The Steel Helmet
• Storming Juno

• Street Fighter
• Strike Commando
• Stripes
• The Suicide Squad
• T-34
• Taegukgi
• Un Taxi Pour Tobrouk
• Tears of the Sun
• Tell It to the Marines
• They Died with Their Boots On
• They Shall Not Grow Old
• They Were Expendable
• The Thin Red Line
• Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
• Three Kings
• A Time Out of War
• Tigerland
• Tobruk
• To End All Wars
• Top Gun
  • Top Gun: Maverick
• Tora! Tora! Tora!
• A Town Like Alice
• Trench 11
• Troy
• Tunes of Glory
• Tunnel Rats
• The Turning Point (1945)
• The Tuskegee Airmen
• Twelve O'Clock High
• Two Arabian Knights
• U571
• Unbroken
• Uncommon Valor
• Under Siege
• Uomini Contro
• USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage
• A Very Long Engagement
• Valkyrie
• Victories
• The Victors
• Vlad Tepes
• Von Ryan's Express
• Waar
• The Wackiest Ship in the Army
• Wake Island
• A Walk in the Sun
• The Wall
• War (2002)
• The War Game
• War Goddess
• War Horse
• The War Lord
• The Warlords
• War Machine
• Warrior, partly (one of the two protagonists is an AWOL U.S. Marine, whose main goal is to win the tournament in order to give his winnings to the widow of his fallen friend and squad mate)
• War Witch
• Waterloo
• We Dive at Dawn
• Weekend at Dunkirk
• Wee Willie Winkie
• Welcome to Dongmakgol
• Went the Day Well?
• Werewolves of the Third Reich
• Westfront 1918
• We Were Soldiers
• When Trumpets Fade
• Where Eagles Dare
• White Sun of the Desert
• White Tiger
• Why We Fight
• The Wildcat
• The Wild Geese
• Windtalkers
• The Wind That Shakes the Barley
• Wings
• Wonder Woman
• Woyzeck
• Wunschkonzert
• Yamato
• Yomigaeru Sora — Rescue Wings
• Zeppelin
• Zero
• Zero Dark Thirty
• Zero Motivation
• Zombie Wars
• Zulu

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