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Unbroken
2014 film directed by Angelina Jolie
Casualties of War
1989 film directed by Brian De Palma
Coming Home
1978 film by Hal Ashby
The Lucky One
2012 film by Scott Hicks
G.I. Jane
1997 film by Ridley Scott
Tristan & Isolde
2006 film directed by Kevin Reynolds
The Caine Mutiny
1954 film directed by Edward Dmytryk
The Fall of the Roman Empire
1964 American epic film by Anthony Mann
Greyhound
2020 film directed by Aaron Schneider
The Sand Pebbles
1966 American period war film directed by Robert Wise
Beasts of No Nation
2015 film directed by Cary Fukunaga
Salvador
1986 film directed by Oliver Stone
First Knight
1995 film by Jerry Zucker
In the Valley of Elah
2007 film by Paul Haggis
The Day After
1983 film directed by Nicholas Meyer
A Farewell to Arms
1932 film directed by Frank Borzage
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
2001 film by John Madden
Hart's War
2002 American film by Gregory Hoblit
Windtalkers
Windtalkers is a 2002 American war film directed and co-produced by John Woo, starring Nicolas Cage and Adam Beach, with Peter Stormare, Noah Emmerich, Mark Ruffalo, and Christian Slater in supporting roles. It is based on the real story of code talkers from the Navajo nation during World War II.
12 Strong
2018 film by Nicolai Fuglsig
Free State of Jones
2016 film by Gary Ross
The Four Feathers
2002 film by Shekhar Kapur
Birdy
1984 film by Alan Parker
The Way Back
2010 film by Peter Weir
Coriolanus
2011 film directed by Ralph Fiennes
Rescue Dawn
2006 film by Werner Herzog
The Water Diviner
2014 film by Russell Crowe
Outlaw King
2018 film directed by David Mackenzie
Da 5 Bloods
2020 film directed by Spike Lee
Hell's Angels
1930 American film
The Long Voyage Home
1940 film by John Ford
Exodus
1960 film directed by Otto Preminger
The Promise
2016 film directed by Terry George
The Alamo
2004 film by John Lee Hancock
Guy Ritchie's The Covenant
2023 film directed by Guy Ritchie
Nuremberg (2025 film)
Nuremberg is a 2025 American psychological thriller historical drama film written, co-produced, and directed by James Vanderbilt. Based on the 2013 book The Nazi and the Psychiatrist by Jack El-Hai, the film follows U.S. Army psychiatrist Douglas Kelley seeking to carry out an assignment to investigate the personalities and monitor the mental status of Hermann Göring and other high-ranking Nazis in preparation for and during the Nuremberg trials. Leo Woodall, John Slattery, Mark O'Brien, Colin Hanks, Wrenn Schmidt, Lydia Peckham, Richard E. Grant, and Michael Shannon have supporting roles in the film.
Enemy Mine
1985 film by Wolfgang Petersen
Alexander the Great
1956 film by Robert Rossen
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
2016 film directed by Ang Lee
The Train
1964 film by Arthur Penn, John Frankenheimer, Bernard Farrel
Sands of Iwo Jima
1950 film by Allan Dwan
The Messenger
2009 film directed by Oren Moverman
Flyboys
2006 film by Tony Bill
Red Tails
2012 film directed by Anthony Hemingway
Tigerland
Tigerland is a 2000 American war drama film directed by Joel Schumacher and starring Colin Farrell. It takes place in a training camp for soldiers to be sent to the Vietnam War.
The Bridges at Toko-Ri
1954 film by Mark Robson
Five Graves to Cairo
1943 film by Billy Wilder
All Quiet on the Western Front
1979 film directed by Delbert Mann
The Pride and the Passion
1957 film by Stanley Kramer
The Big Red One
1980 film by Samuel Fuller
A Time to Love and a Time to Die
1958 film by Douglas Sirk
Midway
1976 film directed by Jack Smight
Hamburger Hill
1987 American war film directed by John Irvin
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
1957 film by John Huston
Heaven & Earth
1993 film directed by Oliver Stone
Saints and Soldiers
2003 film directed by Ryan Little
The Zookeeper's Wife
2017 film directed by Niki Caro
The Wings of Eagles
1957 film by John Ford
Lost Command
1966 film by Mark Robson
Ironclad
2011 film directed by Jonathan English