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1. The Predator (2018)
R | 107 min | Action, Adventure, Horror
When a young boy accidentally triggers the universe's most lethal hunters' return to Earth, only a ragtag crew of ex-soldiers and a disgruntled scientist can prevent the end of the human race.
Director: Shane Black | Stars: Boyd Holbrook, Trevante Rhodes, Jacob Tremblay, Keegan-Michael Key
Votes: 143,770 | Gross: $51.02M
2. The Geisha Boy (1958)
Approved | 98 min | Comedy
Gilbert Wooley is a second-rate magician who is sent to entertain the troops in the pacific. During his time in Japan he becomes attached to a little orphan boy.
Director: Frank Tashlin | Stars: Jerry Lewis, Marie McDonald, Sessue Hayakawa, Barton MacLane
Votes: 2,171
3. Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)
PG-13 | 154 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
The Autobots learn of a Cybertronian spacecraft hidden on the moon, and race against the Decepticons to reach it and to learn its secrets.
Director: Michael Bay | Stars: Shia LaBeouf, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Tyrese Gibson, Josh Duhamel
Votes: 432,776 | Gross: $352.39M
4. Dead Man's Shoes (2004)
Not Rated | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A disaffected soldier returns to his hometown to get even with the thugs who brutalized his mentally-challenged brother years ago.
Director: Shane Meadows | Stars: Paddy Considine, Gary Stretch, Toby Kebbell, Stuart Wolfenden
Votes: 58,505 | Gross: $0.01M
5. Thirteen Days (2000)
PG-13 | 145 min | Drama, History, Thriller
In October 1962, the Kennedy administration struggles to contain the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Director: Roger Donaldson | Stars: Kevin Costner, Bruce Greenwood, Shawn Driscoll, Drake Cook
Votes: 62,812 | Gross: $34.59M
6. Che: Part One (2008)
Not Rated | 134 min | Biography, Drama, History
In 1956, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara and a band of Castro-led Cuban exiles mobilize an army to topple the regime of dictator Fulgencio Batista.
Director: Steven Soderbergh | Stars: Julia Ormond, Benicio Del Toro, Oscar Isaac, Pablo Guevara
Votes: 47,998 | Gross: $1.80M
7. G.I. Joe (1985–1986)
TV-Y7 | 30 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
An elite special missions force fights against the terrorist forces of Cobra.
Stars: Jackson Beck, Christopher Collins, Michael Bell, Neil Ross
Votes: 5,652
8. Frontline (1983– )
TV-MA | 60 min | Documentary, News
FRONTLINE is investigative journalism that questions, explains and changes our world and American television's top long-form news and current affairs series since 1983
Stars: Will Lyman, Sarah Childress, Priyanka Boghani, Arun Rath
Votes: 2,303
9. The Fog of War (2003)
PG-13 | 107 min | Documentary, Biography, History
The story of America as seen through the eyes of the former Secretary of Defense under President John F. Kennedy and President Lyndon B. Johnson, Robert McNamara.
Director: Errol Morris | Stars: Robert McNamara, John F. Kennedy, Fidel Castro, Richard Nixon
Votes: 25,088 | Gross: $4.20M
10. Che: Part Two (2008)
Not Rated | 135 min | Biography, Drama, History
In 1967, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara leads a small partisan army to fight an ill-fated revolutionary guerrilla war in Bolivia, South America.
Director: Steven Soderbergh | Stars: Demián Bichir, Rodrigo Santoro, Benicio Del Toro, Catalina Sandino Moreno
Votes: 35,080
11. G.I. Joe: The Movie (1987 Video)
PG | 93 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
The heroic G.I. Joe action force must oppose the ruthless Cobra organization that has secretly allied with a subterranean reptilian people who were their founders.
Director: Don Jurwich | Stars: Charlie Adler, Shuko Akune, Jack Angel, Michael Bell
Votes: 6,014
12. World War II in Colour (2009)
TV-MA | 51 min | Documentary, History, War
Recounts the events of world War II in color.
Stars: Robert Powell, Swaylee Loughnane
Votes: 7,494
13. The War (2007)
TV-14 | 124 min | Documentary, History, War
A seven-part series focusing on the many ways in which the Second World War impacted the lives of American families.
Stars: Keith David, Katharine Phillips, Tom Hanks, Paul Fussell
Votes: 5,685
14. Cold War (1998)
47 min | Documentary, History
A 24-part series which deals with the relations between the United States, the Soviet Union and their respective allies between the end of World War II to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Stars: Kenneth Branagh, Anatoli Dobrynin, Robert McNamara, Vladimir Yerofeyev
Votes: 1,039
15. Truman (1995 TV Movie)
PG | 135 min | Biography, Drama
Though considered unqualified, Harry S. Truman becomes the 33rd president following the April 1945 death of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Director: Frank Pierson | Stars: Gary Sinise, Diana Scarwid, Richard Dysart, Colm Feore
Votes: 2,498
16. The Missiles of October (1974 TV Movie)
150 min | Drama, History, Thriller
In October 1962, the Kennedy administration struggles to contain the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Director: Anthony Page | Stars: William Devane, Ralph Bellamy, Howard Da Silva, James Hong
Votes: 1,127
17. The Power of Nightmares (2004)
60 min | Documentary, History
A series of three documentaries about the use of fear for political gain.
Stars: Gilles Kepel, William Kristol, Melvin Goodman, Richard Perle
Votes: 4,552
18. Night Will Fall (2014)
Not Rated | 75 min | Documentary, History, War
Researchers discover film footage from World War II that turns out to be a lost documentary shot by Alfred Hitchcock and Sidney Bernstein in 1945 about German concentration camps.
Director: André Singer | Stars: Helena Bonham Carter, Jasper Britton, Leonard Berney, George Leonard
Votes: 3,454
19. Battlefield (1995–2004)
Documentary, History, War
Major battles of World War II are recounted in depth.
Stars: Tim Pigott-Smith, Jonathan Booth
Votes: 535
20. G.I. Joe: Renegades (2010–2011)
TV-Y7-FV | Animation, Action, Adventure
This animated series shows the Joes on the run from the Government, trying to clear their names and stop their evil nemesis, Cobra.
Stars: Jason Marsden, Matthew Yang King, Kevin Michael Richardson, Natalia Cigliuti
Votes: 1,185
21. Why We Fight (2005)
PG-13 | 98 min | Documentary, History, War
Is American foreign policy dominated by the idea of military supremacy? Has the military become too important in American life? Jarecki's shrewd and intelligent polemic would seem to give an affirmative answer to each of these questions.
Director: Eugene Jarecki | Stars: Gore Vidal, John McCain, Ken Adelman, John Ashcroft
Votes: 10,239 | Gross: $1.44M
22. No End in Sight (2007)
Not Rated | 102 min | Documentary, War
A comprehensive look at the Bush Administration's conduct of the Iraq war and its occupation of the country.
Director: Charles Ferguson | Stars: Campbell Scott, Gerald Burke, Ali Fadhil, Omar Fekeiki
Votes: 8,637 | Gross: $1.43M
23. Secrets of War (1998– )
TV-14 | 53 min | Documentary, History, War
Based on information derived from formerly classified documents and messages, coupled with interviews with experts, authors and eyewitnesses from all over the world, SECRET OF WAR is the ... See full summary »
Stars: Charlton Heston, Thomas B. Allen, Norman Polmar, Mark Seaman
Votes: 231
24. The Shipment (II) (2021)
R | 93 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A man will become a criminal to save his family.
Director: Shawn Welling | Stars: Tom Vera, Robert LaSardo, Tom Sizemore, Jen Barbeito
Votes: 6,177
25. The American President (2000– )
Documentary, History
We take a look at how the Presidents of the United States changed the nature of the country.
Stars: Walter Cronkite, Morley Safer, Andrew Young, Dale Bumpers
Votes: 74
26. Countdown to Zero (2010)
PG | 91 min | Documentary
A documentary about how the likelihood of nuclear weapons (or fissile materials) usage has increased due to the rise of terrorism and lack of safeguards and verification.
Director: Lucy Walker | Stars: Graham Allison, James Baker III, Bruce Blair, Tony Blair
Votes: 2,315 | Gross: $0.27M
27. War Book (2014)
92 min | Drama
Eight UK government officials act out their potential response and decisions in a simulated war game scenario in which escalation of nuclear threat between India and Pakistan leads to nuclear war and quite likely the end of the world.
Director: Tom Harper | Stars: Adeel Akhtar, Shaun Evans, Sophie Okonedo, Phoebe Fox
Votes: 710
28. Vietnam: A Television History (1983– )
660 min | Documentary, History, War
An in-depth look at the Vietnam War.
Stars: Will Lyman, Henry Kissinger, William C. Westmoreland, Dean Rusk
Votes: 334
29. World War Three (1998 TV Movie)
94 min | Drama, War
This mock documentary uses archival footage, interviews and reports taken out of context and staged interviews to highlight a possible escalation into a nuclear war. In this feature, ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Stone | Stars: Boris Sichkin, Christoph Gutknecht, Boris Lyoskin, Hans Sievers
Votes: 295
30. War of the Century (1999– )
200 min | Documentary, History, War
Documentary examining Operation Barbarossa, Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941.
Stars: Samuel West, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Rolf Becker
Votes: 494
31. 9/11 Missing Links (2008 Video)
126 min | Documentary, History
The first 9/11 Truth film to name names of the perpetrators. 9/11 Missing Links presents a credible, well-documented case that the 9/11 atrocities were a war provocation carried out by Israeli assets: Neocons and dual nationals.
Director: Mike Delaney | Stars: Christopher Bollyn, George W. Bush, Brit Hume, John Alan Martinson
Votes: 30
32. Laboratory Greece (2019)
165 min | Documentary
A journey through Greece and Europe's past and recent history: from the Second World War to the current crisis. It is a historical documentary, a look into many stories.
Director: Jacopo Brogi | Stars: Filippo Abbate, Konrad Adenauer, Salvador Allende, Rania Antonopoulos
Votes: 32
33. The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter (1980)
65 min | Documentary, History, War
Documentary about women working in factories during WWII and resultant loss of jobs after the war. Five women tell their stories. Fascinating clips of racist, sexist propaganda of the era.
Director: Connie Field | Stars: Lola Weixel, Margaret Wright, Lyn Childs, Gladys Belcher
Votes: 340
34. We Too Together (2021)
94 min | Drama, Romance
An autistic boy and his Father who returns from war with PTSD help each other find peace with the help of martial arts and music. As a man Rob also learns to follow his heart when he finds a woman who loves him just as he is.
Director: Deborah Hadfield | Stars: Cengiz Dervis, Silvia Busuioc, Nigel Lowe, Jake Levitt
Votes: 50
35. Divide and Conquer (1943)
Not Rated | 57 min | Documentary, History, War
The World War II US Government account of the European theatre of the war from after the English and French entry to the fall of France.
Directors: Frank Capra, Anatole Litvak | Stars: General Bergeret, Karl Brandt, Winston Churchill, Warren J. Clear
Votes: 837
36. The Guns of August (1964)
100 min | Documentary, History, War
Traces the origins and actions of World War I, from the funeral of Britain's King Edward VII to the Versailles Treaty.
Director: Nathan Kroll | Stars: Fritz Weaver, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Winston Churchill, Georges Clemenceau
Votes: 181
37. The Algerian War, 1954-1962 (1984)
280 min | Documentary, History, War
The Algerian War was a momentous struggle for independence from France by Algerian nationalists between 1954 and 1962. This eight-year conflict caused the fall of six French Prime Ministers... See full summary »
Star: Jim Norton
Votes: 17
38. A Call to Arms (2009)
85 min | Documentary, History, War
The eyewitness story of the illegal U.S. and U.K. military anthrax vaccination programs, which is recommended by Montel Williams as the Must-See Documentary of the Year. Because of the ... See full summary »
Director: Scott Miller | Stars: Michael Douglas, Linda Hamilton, Scott Miller, Melissa Mosich Miller
Votes: 60
39. This Is Korea! (1951)
Not Rated | 50 min | Documentary, War
Director John Ford's documentary about the beginnings of the Korean War, after North Korenn troops invaded South Korea and battled U.S., South Korean and United Nations forces. Notable in ... See full summary »
Director: John Ford | Stars: Ward Bond, Edward A. Craig, Allan Dwan, John Ireland
Votes: 204
40. Women Recruits (1979)
115 min | Comedy
As both mother and daughter struggle to establish the position of women in the male-dominated armed forces, an unforeseen affair and a dangerous spy threaten everything. Can the female recruits live up to the army's expectations?
Director: Dimis Dadiras | Stars: Rena Vlahopoulou, Dinos Iliopoulos, Mary Vidali, Danos Lygizos
Votes: 283
41. Korea: The Unknown War (1988– )
360 min | Documentary, History, War
A documentary about the Korean War by Thames Television that aired in the Summer of 1988 and in the US in November 1990 through WGBH Boston. Including interviews with participants from both... See full summary »
Stars: Ho-sang An, Keyes Beech, Valentin Berezhkov, Wilfred Burchett
Votes: 33
42. Rebel Rabbit (1949)
TV-PG | 7 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
The signs indicate current bounty prices: $50 for a fox, $75 for a bear, only 2 cents for a rabbit. Bugs is insulted.
Director: Robert McKimson | Star: Mel Blanc
Votes: 756
43. Crusade in Europe (1949)
TV-PG | 30 min | Documentary, News, War
Based on the title of General Eisenhower's book, combat film from from World War II. This was the first documentary series produced for television.
Stars: Maurice Joyce, Westbrook Van Voorhis, Hugh James, Dwight D. Eisenhower
Votes: 69
44. Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers (2006)
Not Rated | 75 min | Documentary, War
Robert Greenwald looks at war profiteering in Iraq by private contracting companies Halliburton, CACI, and KBR.
Director: Robert Greenwald | Stars: Katy Helvenston-Wettengal, Scott Helvenston, Donna Zovko, Jozo Zovko
Votes: 1,667
45. WW1: The First Modern War (2014)
Documentary
Get a firsthand look at how a new breed of weapons like WMDs, submarines, armored tanks and air attacks changed modern warfare forever.
Stars: Tom Bromhead, David Silbey
Votes: 44
46. Otvetnyy khod (1981)
84 min | Drama, Action, Adventure
Sequel of "In the Zone of Special Attention" about military training of Soviet paratroopers and marines.
Director: Mikhail Tumanishvili | Stars: Boris Galkin, Vadim Spiridonov, Valentina Berezutskaya, Anatoliy Kuznetsov
Votes: 226
47. The Century of Warfare (1993– )
50 min | Documentary, History, War
Through the use of archived films and photos, major conflicts are chronicled from early WW1 (1914) through current day.
Stars: Robert Powell, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Goebbels, Joseph Stalin
Votes: 161
48. Air Power (1956–1958)
30 min | Documentary, War
Produced shortly after the fiftieth anniversary of powered flight, this documentary series, hosted by veteran news anchor Walter Cronkite, traced the development of flight from the Wright ... See full summary »
Stars: Walter Cronkite, Michael Redgrave, Art Carney, James Doolittle
Votes: 41
49. Soviet War Scare 1983 (2007 TV Movie)
120 min | Documentary, Drama, History
On November 8th 1983 World War III almost began, and with it a nuclear apocalypse. This day is now acknowledged as one of most perilous on the whole of the Cold War.
Director: Henry Chancellor | Stars: Robert Cambrinus, Olegar Fedoro, Gina McKee, Boris Isarov
Votes: 107