Military and Warfare Films

War Is Hell, no matter the era.
Clockwise from upper left: The Last Samurai, Free State of Jones, Flight of the Intruder, and Fury.

This index is for live-action films with a heavy focus on military forces, combat and warfare, or even civilian life during wartime. Expect the use of lots of Military and Warfare Tropes.

For animated films, see the respective sub-pages for Anime, Western Animation, and the main military media index (for non-Japanese/Western animated movies).

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Documentaries:

• 20 Days in Mariupol
• The Battle of San Pietro
• The Captain From Nowhere
• Czechoslovakia 1968
• Fahrenheit 9/11
• First Strike
• The Fog of War
• In the Year of the Pig
• The Invisible War
• Last Days in Vietnam
• Let There Be Light
• The Memphis Belle
• Moscow Strikes Back
• The Negro Soldier
• De Nuremberg à Nuremberg
• Siege
• The Sorrow and the Pity
• They Shall Not Grow Old
• Why We Fight
  • Prelude to War
  • The Battle of Russia

Fiction:

• 633 Squadron (1964)
• The 7th Company
• 7 Man Army
• April 9th
• 9th Company
• 12 Strong
• 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
• The 24th
• 36 Hours (1965)
• 49th Parallel
• 55 Days at Peking
• '71
• 71: Into the Fire
• 300
  • 300: Rise of an Empire
• The 300 Spartans
• 1917
• 1941 (1979)
• 1944
• Action In The North Atlantic
• Act of Valor
• Adieu Bonaparte
• Admiral
• The Admiral (2014)
• Advance to the Rear
• Adventure in Sahara
• Ah Boys to Men
  • Ah Girls Go Army
  • Ah Girls Go Army Again
• Air Force
• Alexander Nevsky
• Allied
• All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
• All Quiet on the Western Front (2022)
• The Americanization of Emily
• American Renegades
• American Sniper
• American Soldiers
• Amigo
• Andersonville
• And Quiet Flows the Don
• Angel Force
• The Anonymous Heroes
• Anthropoid
• Apocalypse Now
• Appointment with Venus
• Army
• Army of Frankensteins
• Army of Shadows
• Arrow: The Ultimate Weapon
• The Ascent (1977)
• Attack Force Z
• The A-Team
• Atentát
• Atlantic Wall
• Austerlitz
• Baahubali
• Balibo
• Ballad of a Soldier
• Basic
• Bastards
• Bat*21
• Bataan
• Batalha dos Guararapes
• Battle Circus
• Battle Cry
• Battle For Sevastopol
• Battle: Los Angeles
• The Battle of Algiers
• Battle of Britain
• Battle of Moscow
• The Battle of Neretva
• Battle of Okinawa
• Battle of the Bulge
• Battleground (1949)
• Battleship
• The Battleship Island
• The Battleship Potemkin
• The Beast of War
• Beasts of No Nation
• Beau Geste
• Beau Travail
• The Bedford Incident
• Behind Enemy Lines
• Below
• Beneath Hill 60
• Beyond the Border
• Biggles: Adventures in Time
• The Big Parade
• The Big Red One
• Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
• Biloxi Blues
• Birdy
• Black and White in Color
• Black Crab
• Black Book
• Black Hawk Down
• Blood & Gold
• Blood Diamond
• The Blue Max
• Das Boot
• Border
• Born on the Fourth of July
• The Bounty
• Boxer Rebellion
• The Boys in Company C
• Brass Target
• Braveheart
• Breaker Morant
• The Bridge (1959)
• The Bridge at Remagen
• The Bridge on the River Kwai
• A Bridge Too Far
• The Bridges at Toko-Ri
• Brothers
• Buffalo Soldiers
• A Bullet for the General
• Bullet in the Head
• The Bunker (2001)
• By Dawn's Early Light
• Cadet Kelly
• The Caine Mutiny
• The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
• Camp X-Ray
• Canaris
• The Captain
• Captain Corelli's Mandolin
• Captain Horatio Hornblower
• Captains of the Clouds
• The Captive Heart
• Captive Hearts
• Carry On England
• Carry On Jack
• Carry On, Sergeant
• Carry On Up the Khyber
• Carve Her Name with Pride
• Castle Keep
• Casualties of War
• Catch-22
• Centurion
• The Charge at Feather River
• The Charge of the Light Brigade
• City of Life and Death
• Civil War
• The Colditz Story
• Come and See
• Combat Shock
• Commando
• Kommissar
• Convoy 48
• Countdown to Looking Glass
• Counterpoint
• Courage Under Fire
• The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell
• The Covenant (2023)
• Crimson Tide
• Cromwell
• The Crossing
• Cross of Iron
• The Cruel Sea
• Culloden
• Da 5 Bloods
• Dad's Army (1971)
• Dad's Army (2016)
• The Dam Busters
• Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan
• Dark Blue World
• Dark Prince: The True Story of Dracula
• The Dawn Patrol
• The Dawns Here Are Quiet
• Days of Glory (2006)
• DC Extended Universe
  • Man of Steel
  • Suicide Squad (2016)
  • Wonder Woman (2017)
  • Aquaman (2018)
  • The Suicide Squad
• Deathwatch (2002)
• Decision Before Dawn
• The Deer Hunter
• Defiance
• 'De Gaulle
• Delta Farce
• The Delta Force
  • Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection
• Les Derniers Hommes
• The Desert Fox
• The Desert Rats
• The Deserter
• Desperate Journey
• Destination Tokyo
• The Devil All the Time
• The Devil's Brigade
• Devotion (2022)
• Diplomacy (2014)
• The Dirty Dozen
• Dive Bomber
• The Dogs of War
• Dog Soldiers
• Don't Cry, It's Only Thunder
• Doughboys
• Downfall (2004)
• Down Periscope
• Dr. Strangelove
• The Duellists
• Dunkirk
• Dunkirk (1958)
• Eastern Condors
• Edge of Tomorrow
• The Eight Hundred
• Eight Hundred Heroes
• El Alamein: The Line of Fire
• The Elite Squad
• The Elusive Avengers
• Empire of the Sun
• Enemy at the Gates
• The Enemy Below
• Escape from Sobibór
• Escape to Athena
• Escape to Victory
• The Exception
• The Expendables
  • The Expendables 2
  • The Expendables 3
  • Expend4bles
• Extraction
  • Extraction 2
• Eye in the Sky
• Eye of the Needle
• Fail Safe
• Fantasy Mission Force
• Fate of a Man
• Father & Soldier
• Father Goose
• Father of a Soldier
• A Few Good Men
• The Fighting Generation
• The Fighting Seabees
• The Final Countdown
• Fire Birds
• Firefox
• Fires on the Plain
• First They Killed My Father
• Five Branded Women
• Five Graves to Cairo
• Flags of Our Fathers
• Flame & Citron
• Flavia the Heretic
• Flight of the Intruder
• Flirtation Walk
• Flyboys
• Follow That Camel
• The Forgotten Battle
• Fort Apache
• Fort Massacre
• Fortress
• Fortress of War
• The Four Days of Naples
• The Four Feathers
• The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
• Francis the Talking Mule
  • Francis
  • Francis Goes to West Point
  • Francis Join the WACS
  • Francis in the Navy
• Frankenstein's Army
• From Here to Eternity
• The Front Line
• Full Metal Jacket
• Fury
• Gallipoli
• A Gathering Of Eagles
• The Gatling Gun
• General Della Rovere
• The General's Daughter
• The German
• Gettysburg
• Ghosts of War
• G.I. Jane
• G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
  • G.I. Joe: Retaliation
• Gladiator
• The Gladiators
• Glory
• Gods and Generals
• Golden Queens Commando
• Good Morning, Vietnam
• Go Tell the Spartans
• Goyo: Ang Batang Heneral
• The Grand Illusion
• La Grande Vadrouille
• Gray Lady Down
• The Great Escape
• The Great Escaper
• The Great Locomotive Chase
• The Great King
• The Great Raid
• The Great War
• The Great Warrior Skanderbeg
• The Green Berets
• The Green Devils of Monte Cassino
• The Green Elephant
• Green Zone
• Greyhound
• The Guardian (2006)
• Gun Brothers
• Gunga Din
• The Guns of Navarone
  • Force 10 from Navarone
• A Guy Named Joe
• Hacksaw Ridge
• Hamburger Hill
• Hangman's Knot
• Hart's War
• The Hasty Heart
• Heartbreak Ridge
• Heaven & Earth
• Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
• Hell in the Pacific
• Hell Is for Heroes
• Hell of the Living Dead
• Hell's Angels
• Heneral Luna
• Heroes of the Underground
• High and Tight
• Hill 24 Doesn't Answer
• Hitler, Dead or Alive
• Hitler's Madman
• H.M.S. Defiant
• Homecoming
• Home of the Brave
• A Home Too Far - the first Taiwanese war movie made with a mainstream audience in mind
• Hornets' Nest
• Horrors of War
• The Horse Soldiers
• Hot Shots!
  • Hot Shots! Part Deux
• Hotel Rwanda
• How I Unleashed World War II
• Hulk
• The Human Condition
• Hummingbird
• The Hunt for Red October
• The Hurt Locker
• Hussar Ballad
• Ice Cold in Alex
• Ice Station Zebra
• Ilang: The Wolf Brigade
• Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS
• Inchon
• The Incredible Mr. Limpet
• Inglourious Basterds
• In Harm's Way
• In The Army Now
• In the Valley of Elah
• Independence Day
  • Independence Day: Resurgence
• Into The White
• In Which We Serve
• Iron Eagle
• Is Paris Burning?
• It Happened Here
• I Wanted Wings
• Jarhead
• Joint Security Area
• Joyeux Noël
• K-19: The Widowmaker
• Kana
• Kanał
• Katyń
• Kelly's Heroes
• Kenau
• Kesari
• Khartoum
• The Kill Team
• The Killing Fields
• Kingdom of Heaven
• The King's Choice
• The King's Man
• Knight Without Armour
• Kokoda
• Kolberg
• Kukushka
• Land of Mine
• The Last Castle
• The Last Detail
• The Last Drop
• The Last Legion
• The Last Samurai
• The Last Valley
• Lawrence of Arabia
• Lebanon
• Leningrad
• Letters from Iwo Jima
• Life Is Beautiful
• The Lighthorsemen
• The Line
• The Lion Has Wings
• The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
• Local Skirmish
• Lone Survivor
• The Longest Day
• Lord of War
• The Lords of Discipline
• The Losers (1970)
• The Lost Battalion
• The Lost Patrol
• Lust, Caution
• Magadheera
• Main Hoon Na
• Major Dundee
• Major Payne
• The Man Who Never Was
• The Man with the Iron Heart
• The Marine and its sequels.
• Marvel Cinematic Universe
  • Iron Man
  • The Incredible Hulk (2008)
  • Captain America: The First Avenger
  • Iron Man 2
  • Iron Man 3
  • Captain America: The Winter Soldier
  • Black Panther (2018)
  • Captain Marvel (2019)
  • Black Widow (2021)
  • Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
• M*A*S*H
• Master and Commander
• The McKenzie Break
• Mediterraneo
• Megan Leavey
• Memorial Day
• Memphis Belle
• Men Behind the Sun
• Men of Honor
• Men Without Wings
• Mercenaries
• Mercenaries from Hong Kong
• Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
• The Messenger (2009)
• Michael Collins
• Michiel de Ruyter
• Midway (1976)
• Midway (2019)
• A Midnight Clear
• The Military Policeman and the Dismembered Beauty
• The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
• Miracle at Midnight
• Missing in Action
• Mission of Justice
• Mission to Moscow
• Mister Roberts
• Mohawk
• Monster Hunter (2020)
• MonsterVerse
  • Godzilla (2014)
  • Kong: Skull Island
  • Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019)
• The Monuments Men
• Morning Departure
• Morituri
• Mosul (2020)
• Mulan (2020)
• Mulan: Rise of a Warrior
• Murphy's War
• My Way
• The Myth
• Nam Angels
• Napoléon (1927)
• Napoléon (1955)
• Napoleon (2023)
• The Naval Commandos
• Navy Seals (1990)
• Nazi Overlord
• Never So Few
• The New Spirit
• The Night of the Generals
• Night Witches of the Sky
• The Ninth Configuration
• No Dead Heroes
• None Shall Escape
• No Retreat, No Surrender 2
• North Sea Hijack
• The North Star
• North West Frontier
• Objective, Burma!
• The Odd Angry Shot
• Official Secrets
• An Officer and a Gentleman
• An Officer and a Spy
• Oh! What a Lovely War
• One of Our Aircraft Is Missing
• One Shot
• Only Old Men Are Going to Battle
• On the Road to Berlin
• Operation Chromite
• Operation Crossbow
• Operation Daybreak
• Operation Delta Force
• Operation: Dumbo Drop
• Operation Mincemeat
• Operation Petticoat
• Operation Red Sea
• Operation Valkyrie
• Order No. 027
• Outcast
• Outlaw King
• Outpost
• The Outpost
• Outpost 37
• Overlord (1975)
• Overlord (2018)
• P-51 Dragon Fighter
• Panfilov's 28 Men
• Passage to Marseille
• Passchendaele
• Paths of Glory
• The Patriot (2000)
• Patton
• Pearl Harbor
• The Pentagon Wars
• Phantom Soldiers
• "Pimpernel" Smith
• Pink Force Commando
• Platoon
• Play Dirty
• Pork Chop Hill
• Port Arthur
• Praybeyt Benjamin
• The Prince and the Pagoda Boy
• Prisoner of the Mountains
• Private Benjamin
• Pukar
• Purple Sunset
• The Raid (1954)
• Rambo
  • Rambo: First Blood Part II
  • Rambo III
  • Rambo IV
  • Rambo: Last Blood
• Reach for the Sky
• A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die!
• The Red Badge of Courage
• The Red Baron
• Red Dawn (1984)
  • Red Dawn (2012)
• Red Tails
• Reign of the Gargoyles
• Renaissance Man
• Restrepo
• La Revolución es un Sueño Eterno
• Revolution (1985)
• Rio Lobo (the Prolonged Prologue, anyway)
• Road 47
• Rocky Mountain
• Rogue (2020)
• Rommel
• Rules of Engagement
• Run Silent, Run Deep
• The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming
• The Sad Sack
• Sahara (1943)
• Samson and Delilah
• The Sand Pebbles
• Sands of Iwo Jima
• Saving Leningrad
• Saving Private Ryan
• Say a Word for Poor Hussar
• Sayonara
• The Scarlet and the Black
• The Scarlet Coat
• The Scavengers
• Schindler's List
• Secretly, Greatly
• Sergeant York
• Sgt Bilko
• Shaolin
• Shadow in the Cloud
• Shenandoah
• She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
• Ships with Wings
• Shiri
• Shooter
• Shoulder Arms
• Shout at the Devil
• The Siege
• The Siege of Firebase Gloria
• The Siege of Jadotville
• Siege of the Saxons
• Le Silence de la mer (2004)
• Sink the Bismarck!
• Sisu
• Sky Bandits
• Slaughterhouse-Five
• Sniper
• Snow and Fire
• Soldier Blue
• A Soldier's Story
• Sons of the Good Earth
• So Proudly We Hail!
• South Pacific
• Spartacus
• Special Forces
• The Spy in Black
• SS Doomtrooper
• Stalag 17
• Stalag Luft
• Stalingrad (1993)
• Stalingrad (2013)
• The Star (2002)
• The Starfighters
• Starship Troopers
• Star Wars:
  • A New Hope
  • The Empire Strikes Back
  • Return of the Jedi
  • The Phantom Menace
  • Attack of the Clones
  • Revenge of the Sith
  • The Force Awakens
  • Rogue One
  • The Last Jedi
  • Solo
  • The Rise of Skywalker
• Sora e-Sukui No Tsubasa RESCUE WINGS-
• Steel (the first quarter of the film)
• The Steel Helmet
• Storming Juno
• The Story Of GI Joe
• Strange Gardens
• Strategic Air Command
• Street Fighter
• Strike Commando
• Stripes
• T-34
• Taegukgi
• Un Taxi Pour Tobrouk
• Taps
• Tears of the Sun
• Tell It to the Marines
• They Died with Their Boots On
• They Fought for Their Country
• They Were Expendable
• The Thin Red Line
• Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
• Three Kings
• The Three Musketeers (2023)
• Tigerland
• Tiger Cruise
• A Time Out of War
• Tobruk
• To End All Wars
• To Hell and Back (1955)
• Top Gun
  • Top Gun: Maverick
• Tora! Tora! Tora!
• A Town Like Alice
• Trench 11
• Tri
• Triple Frontier
• Troy
• Tunes of Glory
• Tunnel Rats
• The Turning Point (1945)
• The Tuskegee Airmen
• Twelve O'Clock High
• Two Arabian Knights
• Two Soldier
• U571
• Unbroken
• Uncommon Valor
• Under Fire
• Under Siege
• Under Ten Flags
• Universal Soldier
  • Universal Soldier (1992)
  • Universal Soldier: The Return
• Uomini Contro
• Up the Front
• USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage
• Vaincre ou Mourir
• A Very Long Engagement
• Valkyrie
• Victories
• The Victors
• Vlad Tepes
• Volhynia
• Von Ryan's Express
• Waar
• The Wackiest Ship In The Army
• Wake Island
• A Walk in the Sun
• The War Lord
• War (2002)
• War (2019)
• The War Game
• War Goddess
• War Horse
• The Wall
• The Warlords
• War Machine
• Warrior, partly (one of the two protagonists is an AWOL U.S. Marine, whose main goal is to win the tournament in order to give his winnings to the widow of his fallen friend and squad mate)
• War Witch
• Watch Your Stern
• Waterloo
• We Dive at Dawn
• Weekend at Dunkirk
• Wee Willie Winkie
• We Leave for England
• Welcome to Dongmakgol
• Went the Day Well?
• Werewolves of the Third Reich
• Westfront 1918
• We've Never Been Licked
• We Were Soldiers
• When Trumpets Fade
• Where Eagles Dare
• White Sun of the Desert
• White Tiger
• The Wildcat
• The Wild Geese
• Wild Wind
• Windtalkers
• The Wind That Shakes the Barley
• Wings (1927)
• Wolf Warrior
• Wolf Warrior 2
• World War III
• Woyzeck
• Wunschkonzert
• Yamato
• Youth (2017)
• Zeppelin
• Zero
• Zero Dark Thirty
• Zero Motivation
• Zombie Wars
• Zone 39
• Zulu

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