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1. Dances with Wolves (1990)

PG-13 | 181 min | Adventure, Drama, Western

Lieutenant John Dunbar, assigned to a remote western Civil War outpost, finds himself engaging with a neighbouring Sioux settlement, causing him to question his own purpose.

Director: Kevin Costner | Stars: Kevin Costner, Mary McDonnell, Graham Greene, Rodney A. Grant

Votes: 291,245 | Gross: $184.21M

2. We Were Soldiers (2002)

R | 138 min | Action, Drama, History

The story of the first major battle of the American phase of the Vietnam War, and the soldiers on both sides that fought it, while their wives wait nervously and anxiously at home for the good news or the bad news.

Director: Randall Wallace | Stars: Mel Gibson, Madeleine Stowe, Greg Kinnear, Sam Elliott

Votes: 151,502 | Gross: $78.12M

3. Anatomy of a Murder (1959)

Not Rated | 161 min | Drama, Mystery

An upstate Michigan lawyer defends a soldier who claims he killed an innkeeper due to temporary insanity after the victim raped his wife. What is the truth, and will he win his case?

Director: Otto Preminger | Stars: James Stewart, Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara, Arthur O'Connell

Votes: 71,536 | Gross: $11.90M

4. Cross of Iron (1977)

R | 119 min | Drama, War

German commander Hauptmann Stransky places a squad in extreme danger after Sergeant Rolf Steiner refuses to lie for him.

Director: Sam Peckinpah | Stars: James Coburn, Maximilian Schell, James Mason, David Warner

Votes: 29,232

5. High Crimes (2002)

PG-13 | 115 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A successful lawyer's husband is arrested for murdering nine villagers in El Salvador in 1988 as a US soldier under a different name. She decides to defend him in military court and find out the truth about what happened.

Director: Carl Franklin | Stars: Jim Caviezel, Morgan Freeman, Ashley Judd, Adam Scott

Votes: 48,343 | Gross: $41.54M

6. Army of One (2020)

Unrated | 87 min | Action

Out hiking, Special Forces Brenner Baker stumbles onto a cartel's compound. Her husband's killed and she's left for dead. The cartel made two mistakes - killing her husband and leaving her alive. They won't live to make another.

Director: Stephen Durham | Stars: Ellen Hollman, Matt Passmore, Geraldine Singer, Stephen Dunlevy

Votes: 6,284

7. The Great Santini (1979)

PG | 115 min | Drama

As he approaches manhood, Ben Meechum struggles to win the approval of his demanding alpha male father, an aggressively competitive, but frustrated Marine pilot.

Director: Lewis John Carlino | Stars: Robert Duvall, Blythe Danner, Michael O'Keefe, Lisa Jane Persky

Votes: 6,960

8. Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983)

R | 123 min | Drama, War

During WWII, a British colonel tries to bridge the cultural divides between a British POW and the Japanese camp commander in order to avoid bloodshed.

Director: Nagisa Ôshima | Stars: David Bowie, Tom Conti, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Takeshi Kitano

Votes: 20,073 | Gross: $2.31M

9. Wing Commander (1999)

PG-13 | 100 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Blair, a fighter pilot, joins an interstellar war to fight the evil Kilrathi who are trying to destroy the universe.

Director: Chris Roberts | Stars: Freddie Prinze Jr., Matthew Lillard, Saffron Burrows, Tchéky Karyo

Votes: 17,427 | Gross: $11.58M

10. Captain Newman, M.D. (1963)

Passed | 126 min | Comedy, Drama, War

In 1944, an Army doctor is in charge of a neuropsychiatric ward at an Army Air Corps hospital in Arizona, and he must deal with a variety of tough cases.

Director: David Miller | Stars: Gregory Peck, Tony Curtis, Angie Dickinson, Eddie Albert

Votes: 2,926

11. Aimee & Jaguar (1999)

Not Rated | 125 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

In 1943 Berlin, a Nazi officer's wife meets and starts a passionate affair with a Jewish woman.

Director: Max Färberböck | Stars: Maria Schrader, Juliane Köhler, Johanna Wokalek, Heike Makatsch

Votes: 7,006 | Gross: $0.93M

12. Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom (1995 Video Game)

T | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

It is several years after mankind's war against the Kilrathi. Col. Christopher Blair is called back into duty by the Terran Confederation to help stop acts of terrorism that appear to be taking place against Confed by Border Worlds forces.

Director: Chris Roberts | Stars: Mark Hamill, Malcolm McDowell, John Rhys-Davies, Jason Bernard

Votes: 829

13. Air Force (1943)

Approved | 124 min | Action, Drama, History

The crew of an Air Force bomber arrives in Pearl Harbor in the aftermath of the Japanese attack on December 7, 1941, and is sent on to Manila to help with the defense of the Philippines.

Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: John Garfield, John Ridgely, Gig Young, Arthur Kennedy

Votes: 3,819

14. Wing Commander: Prophecy (1997 Video Game)

T | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Twelve years after the end of the Kilrathi war, the Terran Confederation must once again call upon its military to defend itself against a new and unknown alien menace.

Director: Adam Foshko | Stars: Steven Petrarca, Tom Wilson, Lauren Sinclair, Neill Barry

Votes: 433

15. S.N.U.B! (2010)

74 min | Horror, Thriller

A junior minister in the British Government discovers a terrorist plot to detonate a nuclear device in London. Putting self-preservation first, he flees with a young American political ... See full summary »

Director: Jonathan Glendening | Stars: Gary Mavers, Jonathan Moore, Harriet Thorpe, Alexandra Afryea

Votes: 247

16. Flowers of Reverie (1985)

102 min | Drama, History

In 1849 the Hungarian revolution is beaten down by the Russian Army. Ferenc Majláth, who was an officer in the army of the revolution, has to choose between imprisonment or getting enlisted... See full summary »

Director: László Lugossy | Stars: György Cserhalmi, Grazyna Szapolowska, Jirí Adamíra, Boguslaw Linda

Votes: 134

17. Der große Zapfenstreich (1952)

94 min | Action, Drama, Romance

In 1914, Klare Volkhardt lives with her father, a cavalry sergeant, at a German army post. She is engaged to Fritz Helbig, a solder away on a training exercise. She falls in love with ... See full summary »

Director: Georg Hurdalek | Stars: Johanna Matz, Jan Hendriks, Friedrich Domin, Paul Hartmann

18. Screen Snapshots Series 21, No. 7 (1942)

Approved | 10 min | Short, Comedy

Opens with Janet Blair and a squadron of Air Corps men singing "Nothing Can Stop the Army, Now." Then cuts to a burlesque court-martial scene of Charlie McCarthy, who is being defended by ... See full summary »

Director: Ralph Staub | Stars: James Stewart, Edgar Bergen, Charlie McCarthy, Mortimer Snerd

Votes: 9

19. Hellsing Ultimate (2006–2012)
Episode: Hellsing Ultimate, Vol. 4 (2008)

TV-MA | 56 min | Animation, Action, Fantasy

The Queen of England calls a meeting between Hellsing and Iscariot. As they discuss what to do about the Millennium threat, they are interrupted by a message from the Major, who declares ... See full summary »

Director: Tomokazu Tokoro | Stars: Jôji Nakata, Crispin Freeman, Fumiko Orikasa, Katie Gray

Votes: 520

20. Matt Ward (2010–2020)
Episode: How Army Officers Get Promoted: 2nd Lieutenant to General (2019)

21 min | Reality-TV

Promotions in the US Army for officers follows the progression 1st/2nd lieutenant, captain, major, lieutenant colonel, colonel and then general. Each has a time in grade requirement. Beyond... See full summary »

Star: Matt Ward

21. Transformers Prime (2010–2013)
Episode: Crossfire (2012)

TV-Y7-FV | 22 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Megatron charges Dreadwing and Breakdown with dispatching the traitorous Airachnid. However, things don't go according to plan.

Directors: Shaunt Nigoghossian, David Hartman | Stars: Peter Cullen, Frank Welker, Steve Blum, Jeffrey Combs

Votes: 148

22. Transformers Prime (2010–2013)
Episode: Triangulation (2012)

TV-Y7 | 22 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Optimus Prime travels to the Arctic to find an ancient Transformer relic, but bumps into Megatron's loyal servant Dreadwing and the treacherous buffoon Starscream.

Directors: Todd Waterman, David Hartman | Stars: Peter Cullen, Frank Welker, Steve Blum, Jeffrey Combs

Votes: 161