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American action war films

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Inglourious Basterds

Inglourious Basterds is a 2009 black comedy war film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. It stars an ensemble cast including Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Michael Fassbender, Eli Roth, Diane Kruger, Daniel Brühl, Til Schweiger, and Mélanie Laurent. The film tells an alternate history story of two converging plots to assassinate Nazi Germany's leadership at a Paris cinema—one through a British operation largely carried out by a team of Jewish American soldiers led by First Lieutenant Aldo Raine (Pitt), and another by French Jewish cinema proprietor Shosanna Dreyfus (Laurent) who seeks to avenge her murdered family. Both are pitted against Hans Landa (Waltz), an SS colonel with a fearsome reputation.

2014 film directed by David Ayer

The Expendables 2

2012 film directed by Simon West

Black Hawk Down

2001 film by Ridley Scott

300: Rise of an Empire

2014 film directed by Noam Murro

We Were Soldiers

2002 film directed by Randall Wallace

A Bridge Too Far

1977 film by Richard Attenborough

Behind Enemy Lines

2001 film by John Moore

2000 war film directed by Jonathan Mostow

Tears of the Sun

2003 film by Antoine Fuqua

Missing in Action

1984 film by Joseph Zito

1999 film by David O. Russell

2018 film by Nicolai Fuglsig

2012 war film directed by Dan Bradley

1988 film by Joseph Zito

Braddock: Missing in Action III

1988 film directed by Aaron Norris

2012 film directed by Mike McCoy and Scott Waugh

Missing in Action 2: The Beginning

1985 film directed by Lance Hool

1998 film by Peter MacDonald

2011 film directed by Renny Harlin

1985 film by Wolfgang Petersen

The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare

2024 film directed by Guy Ritchie

2011 film directed by Jonathan English

2018 film directed by Julius Avery

1990 film by David Green

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.

The Devil's Brigade

1968 film by Andrew V. McLaglen

1983 film by Ted Kotcheff

1990 film by Lewis Teague

Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil

2006 film by James Dodson

Behind Enemy Lines: Colombia

2009 film by Tim Matheson

2020 film directed by Matthew Michael Carnahan

2017 film directed by Fernando Coimbra

Sniper Special Ops

2016 film directed by Fred Olen Ray

2003 film by Isaac Florentine

1991 film directed by James Glickenhaus

SEAL Team 8: Behind Enemy Lines

2014 film by Roel Reiné

1970 film directed by Jack Starrett

2023 film directed by Mark Earl Burman

The Hunt for Eagle One

2006 film by Brian Clyde

The Hunt for Eagle One: Crash Point

When Eagles Strike

2003 film directed by Cirio H. Santiago

1995 film directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith

P-51 Dragon Fighter

Behind Enemy Lines