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1. Red Dawn (1984)
PG-13 | 114 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
It is the dawn of World War III. In the west mountains of America, a group of teenagers band together to defend their town, and their country, from invading Soviet forces.
Director: John Milius | Stars: Patrick Swayze, C. Thomas Howell, Lea Thompson, Charlie Sheen
Votes: 63,213 | Gross: $38.38M
2. 20 Days in Mariupol (2023)
TV-PG | 95 min | Documentary, War
As the Russian invasion begins, a team of Ukrainian journalists trapped in the besieged city of Mariupol struggle to continue their work documenting the war's atrocities.
Director: Mstyslav Chernov | Stars: Mstyslav Chernov, Evgeniy Maloletka, Liudmyla Amelkina, Roman Golovanov
Votes: 20,534
3. Genghis Khan (1965)
Approved | 120 min | Adventure, Drama, History
During the thirteenth century, the shy Mongol boy Temujin becomes the fearless leader Genghis Khan, who unites all Mongol tribes and conquers most of Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.
Director: Henry Levin | Stars: Stephen Boyd, Omar Sharif, James Mason, Eli Wallach
Votes: 2,548 | Gross: $0.00M
4. The Iron Lady (2011)
PG-13 | 105 min | Biography, Drama
An elderly Margaret Thatcher talks to the imagined presence of her recently deceased husband as she struggles to come to terms with his death while scenes from her past life, from girlhood to British prime minister, intervene.
Director: Phyllida Lloyd | Stars: Meryl Streep, Jim Broadbent, Richard E. Grant, Susan Brown
Votes: 113,675 | Gross: $30.02M
5. Invasion (2024)
91 min | Action, Thriller
When neighboring country Veragua suddenly attacks Curaçao and Aruba, the Dutch government is taken completely by surprise. The conflict escalates rapidly. Three young Dutch Corps recruits must figure out what is the right thing to do.
Director: Bobby Boermans | Stars: Nyncke Beekhuyzen, Dian Biemans, Gijs Blom, Carine Crutzen
Votes: 170
6. Rose Island (2020)
TV-14 | 117 min | Adventure, Biography, Comedy
An idealistic engineer builds his own island off the Italian coast and declares it a nation, drawing the world's attention. Values are tested when the Italian Government declares him an enemy, but to change the world risks must be taken.
Director: Sydney Sibilia | Stars: Elio Germano, Leonardo Lidi, Matilda De Angelis, Tom Wlaschiha
Votes: 24,909
7. Intolerance (1916)
Passed | 163 min | Drama, History
The story of a poor young woman separated by prejudice from her husband and baby is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Lillian Gish, Robert Harron, Mae Marsh, F.A. Turner
Votes: 16,742 | Gross: $2.18M
8. A Walk in the Sun (1945)
Approved | 117 min | Drama, War
During WWII, a platoon of American soldiers trudge through the Italian countryside in search of a bridge they have been ordered to blow up, encountering danger and destruction along the way.
Director: Lewis Milestone | Stars: Dana Andrews, Richard Conte, George Tyne, John Ireland
Votes: 4,084
9. Putin vs the West (2023–2024)
60 min | Documentary
From the 2014 seizure of Crimea to the invasion of Ukraine, this is the inside story of a decade of clashes - as told by the Western leaders who traded blows with Putin's Russia.
Stars: Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Andrey Kelin, Jens Stoltenberg, Caroline Catz
Votes: 468
10. The Occupation of the American Mind (2016 Video)
82 min | Documentary
Israel's ongoing military occupation of Palestinian territory and repeated invasions of the Gaza strip have triggered a fierce backlash against Israeli policies virtually everywhere in the ... See full summary »
Directors: Loretta Alper, Jeremy Earp | Stars: Phyllis Bennis, Max Blumenthal, Noam Chomsky, Norman Finkelstein
Votes: 261
11. Whoops Apocalypse (1986)
R | 93 min | Comedy
A British satire on the beginning of WWIII.
Director: Tom Bussmann | Stars: Stuart Saunders, Graeme Garden, Marc Smith, Loretta Swit
Votes: 1,021
12. Berlin 1945 (2020)
52 min | Documentary, History, War
Life in Berlin in 1945 before, during and after the battle of Berlin seen through the eyes of those who were there at the time from common Berliners to Allied troops.
Stars: Simon Brauer, Konstantin Achmed Bürger, Yvette Coetzee, Lucie David
Votes: 320
13. Italiani brava gente (1964)
137 min | Drama, History, War
Chronicle of the unheralded and unsuccessful invasion of the Soviet Union by the Italian army during World War II.
Director: Giuseppe De Santis | Stars: Arthur Kennedy, Zhanna Prokhorenko, Raffaele Pisu, Tatyana Samoylova
Votes: 409
14. The War You Don't See (2010)
97 min | Documentary, War
Thought-provoking documentary on war propaganda: how governments manipulate the facts and how most media let them get away with it.
Directors: Alan Lowery, John Pilger | Stars: John Pilger, Stuart Ewen, Melvin Goodman, Dan Rather
Votes: 1,527
15. Killing Gaza (2018)
97 min | Documentary, War
In Killing Gaza, independent journalists Max Blumenthal and Dan Cohen documented Israel's 2014 war on Gaza. Yet this film is much more than a documentary about Palestinian resilience and suffering. It is a chilling visual document of war crimes committed by the Israeli military, featuring direct testimony and evidence from the survivors.
Director: Max Blumenthal | Stars: John Kerry, Benjamin Netanyahu, Abu Obaida
Votes: 232
16. 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
17. Occupation: Dreamland (2005)
Unrated | 78 min | Documentary, War
In January, 2004, in Al-Falluja, Iraq, a documentary film crew follows an infantry squad of the 82nd Airborne, US Army. Cameras accompany the squad of seven on day and night patrols, as ... See full summary »
Directors: Ian Olds, Garrett Scott | Stars: Matthew Bacik, Chris Corcione, Eric Forbes, Patrick Napoli
Votes: 449
18. The Battle of Normandy: 85 Days in Hell (2019 TV Movie)
44 min | Documentary, History, War
An unprecedented look at the vicious three-month Battle of Normandy that took place after the D-Day invasion.
Director: Guilain Depardieu | Stars: John McManus, Anthony Beevor, Tim Cook, Geoffrey Bateman
Votes: 54
19. Battle of Okinawa in Color (2017)
Documentary, History, War
From white-knuckle, high-speed dogfights to brutal land combat, witness the Battle of Okinawa in vivid color.
Stars: Jeff Wilburn, Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr., Chester W. Nimitz, Mitsuru Ushijima
Votes: 20
20. The Prime Minister (1941)
Approved | 94 min | Biography, Drama, History
A biopic of the legendary Benjamin Disraeli, his rise from a foppish young novelist to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and confidante of Queen Victoria.
Director: Thorold Dickinson | Stars: John Gielgud, Diana Wynyard, Will Fyffe, Owen Nares
Votes: 303
21. 68 (2008 TV Movie)
110 min | Documentary, History, War
From Washington to Saigon, Rome to Mexico, Paris to London, a wave of demonstrations shakes the world. 68 travels back in time to war torn Vietnam, freed and occupied Prague, Paris demonstrating, revolution in the Americas.
Director: Patrick Rotman | Stars: Edouard Balladur, The Beatles, Claude Berri, Leonid Brezhnev
Votes: 66
22. 14-18: The Noise and the Fury (2008 TV Movie)
148 min | Documentary, History
A documentary of World War I, exploring how soldiers accepted their conditions in the trenches when no clear reason had been given for the fight.
Director: Jean-François Delassus | Star: Alexandre Astier
Votes: 129
23. Afghanistan 1979 (2014)
Not Rated | 52 min | Documentary, War
'Afghanistan 1979: the war that changed the world', is a French documentary about the Sovjet invasion in Afghanistan in 1979. It was one of the most crucial events of the 20th century, and ... See full summary »
Director: Gulya Mirzoeva | Stars: Hafizullah Amin, Yuri Andropov, Ruslan Aushev, Abdullah Yusuf Azzam
Votes: 84
24. The Kaiser, the Beast of Berlin (1918)
70 min | Drama, History, War
A propagandistic view of the First World War, showing the political greed of the German Kaiser Wilhelm, the resistance of some of his own soldiers, and fanciful prediction of the nature of the war's end.
Director: Rupert Julian | Stars: Rupert Julian, Elmo Lincoln, Nigel De Brulier, Lon Chaney
Votes: 42
25. Battle of Crete (2009 Video)
45 min | Documentary, History, War
A gripping World War Two documentary recounting the German airborne invasion of the Greek island of Crete in May 1941.
Director: Robert Garofalo | Stars: Roy Ward, Bernard Freyberg, Kurt Student
26. Afghanistan: Here's One We Invaded Earlier (2003 TV Movie)
58 min | Documentary
George W Bush and Tony Blair promised to build a free and secure Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban in 2001. They have just made similar promises to the Iraqi people following the fall of Saddam.
Director: Paul Yule | Stars: Peter Oborne, Hamid Karzai, Ismail Khan, Reg Austin
27. Cassino to Korea (1950)
Approved | 55 min | Documentary, War
This 58 (fifty-eight) minute feature was produced by the Paramount Newsreel department ("The Eyes and Ears of the World") and vaguely suggests that the Italian campaign of World War II that... See full summary »
Director: Eugene Genock | Stars: Quentin Reynolds, Jackson Beck, James W. Logan, David Ludlum
Votes: 12
28. The Cavell Case (1918)
60 min | Biography, Drama, War
The true story of Edith Cavell, a British nurse who served with the underground in Belgium during the First World War.
Director: John G. Adolfi | Stars: Julia Arthur, Creighton Hale, Thomas Brooks, George LeGuere
29. Razgrom militaristkoy Japonii (1945)
67 min | Documentary, War
Directors: Iosif Kheifits, Aleksandr Zarkhi
30. Flag of Eden (2019)
Short
It's been 5 years since Ukrainian Crimea was annexed by Russia. The film is exploring Crimean life in the post-truth era, when the voice of common people is overlaid by governmental ... See full summary »
Director: Pyotr Frontov
31. Generali da zizilebi (1963)
110 min | Drama
A ex-pilot polish immigrant falls in love with a polish girl whom he tries to save from a strip-tease career. He flies on a secret mission only to find out that the plane is going to nuke the Soviet Union.
Director: Mikheil Chiaureli | Stars: Bruno O'Ya, Veriko Anjaparidze, Sofiko Chiaureli, Andrei Abrikosov
Votes: 15
32. The Deadly Game of Nations (1983)
57 min | Documentary, War
With Israel as an example, the reality of how military force is deemed necessary to maintain national sovereignty and the price involved is examined.
Director: Paul Cowan | Stars: Gwynne Dyer, Ronald France, Éric Gaudry, Elizabeth Lesieur
Votes: 14
33.
Battlefield (1995–2004)
Episode:
Guadalcanal
(2000)
Documentary, History, War
Tim Pigott-Smith narrates the story of the battle for Guadalcanal and the capture of this strategically crucial island in World War 2 during which more than 25,000 Japanese lost their lives.
Stars: Tim Pigott-Smith, Frank Jack Fletcher, Robert L. Ghormley, Hirohito
Votes: 7
34.
Battlefield (1995–2004)
Episode:
Manchuria: The Forgotten Victory
(2000)
Documentary, History, War
Tim Pigott-Smith narrates the story of the Soviet victory over the mighty Japanese Kwangtung Army in the mountains of Manchuria, which is one of the least known of the Second World War.
Stars: Tim Pigott-Smith, Aleksei Antonov, Henry H. Arnold, Kai-Shek Chiang
Votes: 6
35.
Battlefield (1995–2004)
Episode:
Operation Market Garden
(2001)
Documentary, History, War
Operation Market Garden was an attempt by the allies to use airborne units to seize key bridges and short-cut the slog into northern Germany thereby shortening the war. This is a look at the plan, the leaders and the equipment involved.
Directors: Andrew Aitken, Dave Flitton, James Wignall | Stars: Jonathan Booth, Wilhelm Bittrich, Omar N. Bradley, Lewis H. Brereton
Votes: 7
36.
Battlefield (1995–2004)
Episode:
The Battle for the Mediterranean
(2002)
Documentary, History, War
We tell the story of the crucial battles for control of the Mediterranean, North Africa, and the irreplaceable oil fields in World War 2 and the story of the war in Greece.
Stars: Jonathan Booth, Harold Alexander, Claude Auchinleck, Winston Churchill
Votes: 6
37.
Afghanistan: The Wounded Land (2020)
Episode:
Die Sowjetarmee
(2020)
53 min | Documentary, History
In 1979, the Soviet army entered Afghanistan. In response, the Afghans called for Jihad against the godless invaders. The "Soviet Vietnam" began.
Directors: Mayte Carrasco, Marcel Mettelsiefen | Stars: Nadja Berlinghoff, Khaled Hosseini, Ruslan Aushev, Sima Samar
Votes: 42
38.
Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008–2020)
Episode:
Landing at Point Rain
(2009)
TV-PG | 22 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
Anakin, Ahsoka, Obi-Wan and Ki-Adi-Mundi lead a landing party to destroy a droid factory on Geonosis.
Director: Brian Kalin O'Connell | Stars: Matt Lanter, Brian George, Dee Bradley Baker, Ashley Eckstein
Votes: 4,046
39.
Le monde en face (2009– )
Episode:
Wagner, l'armée de l'ombre de Poutine
(2022)
80 min | Documentary
It centers on the Wagner Group, a private Russian military force which is known as Putin's shadow army.
Directors: Ksenia Bolchakova, Alexandra Jousset | Stars: Marat Gabidullin, Vladimir Putin, Ruslan Leviev, Kevin Limonier
Votes: 75
40.
Phoenix Runde (1997– )
Episode:
Putin greift an - was wird aus der Ukraine?
(2022)
44 min | Talk-Show
Stars: Anke Plättner, Agnieszka Brugger, Liana Fix, Alan Posener
41.
Panorama (1953– )
Episode:
Putin's War in Ukraine
(2022)
Documentary, News
What are the reasons behind Putin's invasion of Ukraine? Panorama investigates.
Star: Paul Kenyon
Votes: 15
42.
The Balkans in Flames (2021–2022)
Episode:
A State Falls Apart
(2021)
Documentary, History, War
We are in the fateful year of Yugoslavia's first free elections since World War II: 1990. It is the hour of the nationalists, and the collapse of the multi-ethnic state is only a matter of ... See full summary »
Stars: Vjekoslav Skrinjar, Marie-Janine Calic, Laura Silber, James Gow
43.
Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008–2020)
Episode:
A Necessary Bond
(2012)
TV-PG | 23 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
General Grievous leads an attack on Hondo Ohnaka's base, forcing the pirates to form a temporary alliance with Ahsoka and the Jedi younglings.
Director: Danny Keller | Stars: Jim Cummings, Ashley Eckstein, Olivia Hack, Jeff Fischer
Votes: 3,057
44.
Putin vs the West (2023–2024)
Episode:
My Backyard
(2023)
Documentary
Following the Euromaidan protests and fleeing of pro-Russian Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, Valdimir Putin invades the strategic region Crimea using separatist forces, and annexes ... See full summary »
Stars: Kim Darroch, José Manuel Durão Barroso, Evelyn Farkas, Dalia Grybauskaite
Votes: 60
45.
Putin vs the West (2023–2024)
Episode:
A Dangerous Path
(2023)
61 min | Documentary
As Ukraine decides to join NATO, Russia feels threatened and plans a full scale invasion of Ukraine. Western leaders tries to avoid a catastrophe with diplomatic talks.
Director: Lotte Murphy-Johnson | Stars: Caroline Catz, Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump, Petro Poroshenko
Votes: 58
46.
Line of Fire (2002– )
Episode:
Hastings
(2002)
48 min | Documentary, History, War
1066: The Battle of Hastings changed the course of British and European history.
Stars: Nicholas Brooks, Bob Carruthers, Geoff Hutchinson, Mike Leighton
47.
The 100 Days: That Defined Modern History (2022–2023)
Episode:
The Gulf War - 1990-91
(2023)
Documentary, History
In 1990, the UN passed Resolution 678, giving Iraq an ultimatum to leave Kuwait following their invasion.
Directors: Edmund Duff, Mike Kenneally | Stars: Lloyd Cox, Amin Saikal, Lawrence Freedman, Louise Kettle
48.
How to Lose a War (2023)
Episode:
The Men Who Gave the Orders
(2023)
Documentary, History, War
Explore the men in charge whose rampant egos and misguided belief in their own abilities led to their country making fatal mistakes in the war.
Director: Tim Bosanquet | Stars: Tim Benbow, Russell A. Hart, Alexander Henry, Giuseppe Finaldi
49.
How to Lose a War (2023)
Episode:
The Best Laid Plans
(2023)
Documentary, History, War
Explore how the seeds of Japan's defeat in 1945 were sown a decade earlier with the occupation of Manchuria in China.
Director: Tim Bosanquet | Stars: Rana Mitter, Sandra Wilson, Yuma Totani, Guy Walters
50.
How to Lose a War (2023)
Episode:
Conquering Heroes
(2023)
Documentary, History, War
Explore how the Axis Powers' ruthless, brutal occupation and exploitation of other countries contributed to their demise.
Director: Tim Bosanquet | Stars: Alexander Henry, Sandra Wilson, Ken Kotani, Gregg Huff