Films about veterans

1994 film directed by Robert Zemeckis

The Godfather is a 1972 American epic gangster film directed by Francis Ford Coppola, who co-wrote the screenplay with Mario Puzo based on Puzo's best-selling 1969 novel. The film features an ensemble cast that includes Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Richard Castellano, Robert Duvall, Sterling Hayden, John Marley, Richard Conte and Diane Keaton. It is the first installment in The Godfather trilogy, which chronicles the Corleone family under patriarch Vito Corleone (Brando) and the transformation of his youngest son, Michael Corleone (Pacino), from reluctant family outsider to ruthless mafia boss.

1976 film directed by Martin Scorsese

1982 film directed by Ted Kotcheff

1978 film directed by Michael Cimino

2009 film by Clint Eastwood

2014 film directed by Clint Eastwood

1946 American drama film directed by William Wyler

1985 film by Mark L. Lester

Sinners is a 2025 American horror film produced, written, and directed by Ryan Coogler. Set in 1932 in the Mississippi Delta, it stars Michael B. Jordan in dual roles as criminal twin brothers who return to their hometown in the Jim Crow South, where they are confronted by a supernatural evil. The film co-stars Hailee Steinfeld, Miles Caton, Jack O'Connell, Wunmi Mosaku, Jayme Lawson, Omar Benson Miller, and Delroy Lindo.

1989 film directed by Oliver Stone

2007 film directed by Antoine Fuqua

1994 film directed by Edward Zwick

1967 film directed by Stuart Rosenberg

1981 film by John Carpenter

2006 film directed by Clint Eastwood

1999 film by David Lynch

2018 film directed by Marc Forster

1971 film by Dalton Trumbo

2004 film directed by Jonathan Demme

1962 film directed by John Frankenheimer

1948 film by John Huston

2005 film by John Maybury

2012 film by Scott Hicks

1978 film by Hal Ashby

2009 film directed by Jim Sheridan

1955 Film

2022 film directed by David O. Russell

1932 film by Mervyn LeRoy

2007 film by Paul Haggis

2017 film directed by Dee Rees

2005 film by Adam Shankman

1947 film directed by Edward Dmytryk

1990 film directed by Adrian Lyne

2006 film by John Bonito

2023 film directed by Takashi Yamazaki

2025 film directed by David Ayer

2022 film directed by Michael Bay

White Christmas is a 1954 American Christmas musical film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, and Vera-Ellen. Filmed in Technicolor, it features the songs of Irving Berlin, including a new version of the title song, "White Christmas", introduced by Crosby in the 1942 film Holiday Inn.

1992 film by Ralph Bakshi

2020 film directed by Spike Lee

2014 film by Theodore Melfi

2006 film directed by William Friedkin

1995 film directed by Alfonso Arau

2013 film by Scott Cooper

2009 film directed by Oren Moverman

1973 film directed by John G. Avildsen

2021 film directed by Anthony Russo and Joe Russo

1958 film by Vincente Minnelli

1961 film by Henri Colpi

1957 film by Fred Zinnemann

2005 film directed by David Ayer

1963 film by John Ford

2019 film directed by Valentyn Vasianovych

2010 film directed by Lee Jeong-beom

2017 film by Jason Hall

Roofman is a 2025 American crime comedy film directed by Derek Cianfrance. It is based on the life of Jeffrey Manchester, played by Channing Tatum, who robbed McDonald's locations by drilling through their roofs and hid out in a toy store after escaping prison. The film also stars Kirsten Dunst, LaKeith Stanfield, Juno Temple, and Peter Dinklage, Ben Mendelsohn, Uzo Aduba, and Jimmy O. Yang appearing in supporting roles.

Targets is a 1968 American crime thriller film directed by Peter Bogdanovich in his theatrical directorial debut, and starring Tim O'Kelly, Boris Karloff, Nancy Hsueh, Bogdanovich, James Brown, Arthur Peterson and Sandy Baron. The film depicts two parallel narratives which converge during the climax: one follows Bobby Thompson, a seemingly ordinary and wholesome young man who embarks on an unprovoked killing spree; the other depicts Byron Orlok, an iconic horror film actor who, disillusioned by real-life violence, is contemplating retirement.

1956 American film directed by Nunnally Johnson

1947 film by John Cromwell