Action films based on actual events

Raja Shivaji is an upcoming Indian historical action drama film co-written and directed by Riteish Deshmukh, based on the life of Shivaji, the founder of the Maratha Empire. The film is produced by Genelia Deshmukh and Jyoti Deshpande. It features an ensemble cast led by Riteish Deshmukh in the title role, alongside Sanjay Dutt, Abhishek Bachchan, Mahesh Manjrekar, Sachin Khedekar, Bhagyashree, Fardeen Khan, Jitendra Joshi, Amole Gupte, and Genelia Deshmukh.

1998 film directed by Steven Spielberg

2013 film directed by Paul Greengrass

1971 film by William Friedkin

1985 film by Akira Kurosawa

1979 film directed by Don Siegel

2008 Hong Kong film directed by Wilson Yip

1993 film by George P. Cosmatos

2013 film directed by Michael Bay

2008 film directed by Edward Zwick

2019 film directed by Roland Emmerich

2012 film directed by John Hillcoat

2013 film directed by Peter Berg

2016 film by Peter Berg

2004 film by Joe Johnston

2016 film by Gary Ross

2022 film directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood

2010 film by Paul Greengrass

1988 film by Christopher Cain

2024 film directed by Guy Ritchie

2019 film directed by Tom Harper

2023 film directed by Atlee

Warfare is a 2025 war film written and directed by Ray Mendoza and Alex Garland. Based on Mendoza's experiences during the Iraq War as a U.S. Navy SEAL, the film depicts an encounter on 19 November 2006 after the Battle of Ramadi. The script is drawn from the testimonies of the platoon members and is presented in real time. It stars an ensemble cast including D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai as Mendoza, alongside Will Poulter, Cosmo Jarvis, Kit Connor, Finn Bennett, Joseph Quinn, and Charles Melton. The film is dedicated to platoon member Elliott Miller, who lost his leg and ability to speak in the incident.

2019 film directed by Andrei Volgin

Tanhaji: The Unsung Warrior is a 2020 Indian Hindi-language epic historical action film directed by Om Raut and produced by Bhushan Kumar, Krishan Kumar and Ajay Devgn under T-Series Films and Ajay Devgn FFilms. Tracing the life of Maratha warrior Tanaji Malusare, it stars Ajay Devgn as the eponymous lead, Kajol and Saif Ali Khan. It also features Neha Sharma, Sharad Kelkar and Luke Kenny in supporting roles. Set in the 17th century, it revolves around Tanaji's attempts to recapture the Kondhana fortress once it passed on to Mughal emperor Aurangzeb who transfers its control to his trusted gua

1989 film by John Frankenheimer

1995 film directed by Simon Wincer

1926 film by Lev Kuleshov

1993 Hong Kong action film

2014 South Korean war film directed by Kim Han-min

Dhurandhar is a 2025 Indian Hindi-language spy action thriller film written and directed by Aditya Dhar. It was produced by Jyoti Deshpande, Aditya Dhar, and Lokesh Dhar, under Jio Studios and B62 Studios. The film features an ensemble cast consisting of Ranveer Singh, Akshaye Khanna, Sanjay Dutt, Arjun Rampal, R. Madhavan, Sara Arjun, Rakesh Bedi, Gaurav Gera, and Danish Pandor alongside several supporting actors. The first instalment of a duology, it centres on a high-stakes covert counter-terrorism operation. The film follows an undercover Indian intelligence agent who infiltrates Karachi's

2021 film directed by Sukumar

2013 film by Sanjay Gupta

2008 film by Daniel Lee

2007 film by Apoorva Lakhia

1980 film directed by Buzz Kulik

2023 South Korean film

hindi film

2020 film directed by Matthew Michael Carnahan

2011 film directed by Gerardo Naranjo

2022 film directed by Kim Han-min

2010 film by Tigmanshu Dhulia

2019 film directed by Kwak Kyung-taek

Khadaan (; ) is a 2024 Indian Bengali-language action thriller film written and directed by Soojit Rino Dutta. Produced by Nispal Singh and Dev under the banners of Surinder Films and Dev Entertainment Ventures respectively, the film stars Dev in dual roles, alongside Jisshu Sengupta in the lead, with an ensemble cast of Anirban Chakrabarti, Barkha Bisht, Idhika Paul, John Bhattacharya, Partha Sarathi Chakraborty, Sneha Bose, Sujan Neel Mukherjee, Sumit Ganguly and Raja Dutta. In the film, an ordinary fair organizer from a coal mine near the Damodar Valley, is recruited by his dead father's li

2017 film by Sankalp Reddy

2019 Indian film directed by Anurag Singh

2021 film directed by Roy Chow

2005 film

Dhurandhar: The Revenge, also referred as Dhurandhar 2, is a 2026 Indian Hindi-language spy action-thriller film written and directed by Aditya Dhar. It is produced by Dhar, Lokesh Dhar, and Jyoti Deshpande under Jio Studios and B62 Studios. It is a sequel to the 2025 film Dhurandhar and the final installment of a duology. The film stars Ranveer Singh, Arjun Rampal, Sanjay Dutt, R. Madhavan, Sara Arjun, Rakesh Bedi, Gaurav Gera, Danish Pandor, and Manav Gohil, with several actors reprising their roles from the first film. It follows an undercover Indian intelligence agent who continues to infiltrate Karachi's criminal syndicates and Pakistani politics while avenging the 26/11 attacks and confronting larger threats.

2015 film directed by Kabir Khan

2021 film directed by Priyadarshan

2024 South Korean film

1983 film by Ferdinand Fairfax

2017 film by Serdar Akar

1997 film by John Singleton

Controversial 2025 Indian film

2019 film directed by Won Sin-yeon

2017 Tamil film directed by H. Vinoth

1993 film by Igor Gostev

2016 film by Ram Gopal Varma