A mentally unstable American general orders a hydrogen bomb attack on the Soviet Union, triggering a path to global nuclear holocaust that a war room full of politicians and generals frantically tries to stop.
Jargen Prochnow, Herbert Graanemeyer, Klaus Wennemann
Plot
A German U-boat stalks the frigid waters of the North Atlantic as its young crew experience the sheer terror and claustrophobic life of a submariner in World War II.
During WWI, two French soldiers are captured and imprisoned in a German P.O.W. camp. Several escape attempts follow until they are eventually sent to a seemingly inescapable fortress.
Movie | Drama, War | USA, UK | English, Vietnamese
Director
Oliver Stone
Writer
Oliver Stone
Cast
Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe
Plot
Chris Taylor, a neophyte recruit in Vietnam, finds himself caught in a battle of wills between two sergeants, one good and the other evil. A shrewd examination of the brutality of war and the duality of man in conflict.
Movie | Drama, War | UK, USA | English, Vietnamese
Director
Stanley Kubrick
Writer
Stanley Kubrick, Michael Herr, Gustav Hasford
Cast
Matthew Modine, R. Lee Ermey, Vincent D'Onofrio
Plot
A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.
Movie | Drama, War | France, Germany | French, German
Director
Louis Malle
Writer
Louis Malle
Cast
Gaspard Manesse, Raphael Fejtaa, Francine Racette
Plot
A French boarding school run by priests seems to be a haven from World War II until a new student arrives. Occupying the next bed in the dormitory to the top student in his class, the two young boys begin to form a bond.
Fictionalized depiction of the 1947 Judges' Trial, the third of 12 trials of Nazi war criminals conducted by the American occupying forces in Nuremberg, Germany, in which former judges of Nazi Germany were tried for their actions.
Vladimir Bogomolov, Mikhail Papava, Andrei Tarkovsky
Cast
Nikolay Burlyaev, Valentin Zubkov, Evgeniy Zharikov
Plot
During WWII, Soviet orphan Ivan Bondarev strikes up a friendship with three sympathetic Soviet officers while working as a scout behind the German lines.
Movie | Documentary, War | Ukraine, USA | Russian, Ukrainian
Director
Mstyslav Chernov
Writer
Mstyslav Chernov
Cast
Liudmyla Amelkina, Mstyslav Chernov, Roman Golovanov
Plot
As the Russian invasion begins, a team of Ukrainian journalists trapped in the besieged city of Mariupol struggle to continue their work documenting the war's atrocities.
American military personnel interact warily with a variety of Italian locals over a year and a half in the push north during the Italian Campaign of WWII as German forces make their retreat.
A 10-year-old girl and her family come face-to-face with the horrors of the Holocaust when they are sent to a concentration camp in Croatia. She must summon the courage to protect herself and her infant brother while trying to esc...
Movie | Drama, War | Estonia, Georgia | Estonian, Russian
Director
Zaza Urushadze
Writer
Tatjana Malbeier, Zaza Urushadze, Artur Veeber
Cast
Lembit Ulfsak, Elmo Naganen, Giorgi Nakashidze
Plot
In 1992, war rages in Abkhazia, a breakaway region of Georgia. An Estonian man, Ivo, has decided to stay behind and harvest his crops of tangerines. In a bloody conflict at his door, a wounded man is left behind, and Ivo takes him...
A young French girl orphaned in a German air attack is befriended by the son of a poor farmer, and together they try to come to terms with the realities of death.
Several survivors of a torpedoed merchant ship in World War II find themselves in the same lifeboat with one of the crew members of the U-boat that sank their ship.
Teresa Izewska, Tadeusz Janczar, Wienczyslaw Glinski
Plot
In 1944, during the Warsaw uprising against the Nazis, Polish Lieutenant Zadra and his resistance fighters use Warsaw's sewer system to escape the German encirclement.
When a U.S. Naval captain shows signs of mental instability that jeopardises the ship, the first officer is urged to consider relieving him of command.
In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of stairs and stops growing. In 1939, World War II breaks out.
In the USSR in 1936, shadows of Stalin's repressions fall on a famous, revolutionary hero. The accusations of him being a foreign spy are nonsense, and everyone knows that. However, a slow process of his downfall has already started.
In Budapest in 1944, a watchmaker, a book seller and a carpenter are drinking in a bar with the owner, when they are joined by a stranger. The watchmaker asks a hypothetical question that will change their lives.
Terje Vigen, a sailor, suffers the loss of his family through the cruelty of another man. Years later, when his enemy's family finds itself dependent on Terje's beneficence, Terje must decide whether to avenge himself.
Dominique Horwitz, Thomas Kretschmann, Jochen Nickel
Plot
The story follows a group of German soldiers, from their Italian R&R in the summer of 1942 to the frozen steppes of Soviet Russia and ending with the battle for Stalingrad.
Movie | Drama, War | Germany, USA | English, German
Director
Brian Percival
Writer
Markus Zusak, Michael Petroni
Cast
Sophie Nelisse, Geoffrey Rush, Emily Watson
Plot
While subjected to the horrors of World War II Germany, young Liesel finds solace by stealing books and sharing them with others. In the basement of her home, a Jewish refugee is being protected by her adoptive parents.
Sergo Zakariadze, Vladimir Privaltsev, Aleksandr Nazarov
Plot
An old man goes to visit his wounded son in a hospital, but it turns out that he's already been released and is back on the front lines. Reluctant to return home empty-handed, he tries to follow and find him.
A Rolling Stone reporter, embedded with The 1st Recon Marines chronicles his experiences during the first wave of the American-led assault on Baghdad in 2003.
Through the innocent eyes of Bruno, the eight-year-old son of the commandant at a German concentration camp, a forbidden friendship with a Jewish boy on the other side of the camp fence has startling and unexpected consequences.
Movie | Documentary, War | Germany, France | German, Arabic
Director
Werner Herzog
Writer
Werner Herzog
Cast
Werner Herzog
Plot
This film surveys the disaster of the Kuwaiti oil fields in flames, with little narration and scarcely any interviews. Hell on Earth is presented in such transcendent visions and music that one can only be fascinated by it.
Manuel Lozano, Fernando Ferna¡n Gamez, Uxaa Blanco
Plot
Spain, 1936. Moncho is an outcast at school but is able to form a strong bond with his outspoken teacher. When fascism arrives to Spain, his teacher is considered an enemy of the regime.
Sergey Bondarchuk, Pavel Boriskin, Zinaida Kirienko
Plot
A Soviet soldier, Andrei Sokolov, has been separated from his family by World War II. Suffering in German captivity, he dreams of meeting his darlings after the victory. But cruel fate turned out otherwise.
The Stoneman family finds its friendship with the Camerons affected by the Civil War, both fighting in opposite armies. The development of the war in their lives plays through to Lincoln's assassination and the birth of the Ku Klu...
During the 1942 North African campaign, a British straggler manages to pass himself off as a waiter at the hotel commandeered as Rommel's headquarters. He has thoughts of assassinating Rommel but his cover may have an even better ...
France, 1801. Due to a minor perceived slight, mild-mannered Lieutenant d'Hubert is forced into a duel with the hot-headed and irrational, Lieutenant Feraud; their disagreement ultimately resulting in scores of duels spanning seve...
During World War II, PFC Molnár decides his military service is over, and with a serious amount of money hidden in hand grenades, he heads to an abandoned mansion where he encounters not only the sour butler but a bunch of others ...
Without hostile intent, a Soviet submarine runs aground off New England. Men are sent for a boat, but many villagers go into a tizzy, risking bloodshed.
A highly fictionalized account of the life of George Armstrong Custer from his arrival at West Point in 1857 to his death at the battle of the Little Big Horn in 1876.
Marshall Neilan, Joseph Moncure March, Howard Estabrook
Cast
Ben Lyon, James Hall, Jean Harlow
Plot
Brothers Monte and Ray leave Oxford to join the Royal Flying Corps. Ray loves Helen; Helen enjoys an affair with Monte; before they leave on their mission over Germany they find her in still another man's arms.
Rafael F. Mua±oz, Xavier Villaurrutia, Fernando de Fuentes
Cast
Antonio R. Frausto, Domingo Soler, Manuel Tames
Plot
The Mexican Revolution is on its way when six brave peasants, known as "Los Leones de San Pablo", decide to join Pancho Villa's army and help end the suffering in their community by assisting in the struggle. After several battles...
During World War I, a patriotic young American is rendered blind, deaf, limbless, and mute by a horrific artillery shell attack. Trapped in what's left of his body, he desperately looks for a way to end his life.
Yelena Kuzmina, Mikhail Zharov, Nikolay Bogolyubov
Plot
Outskirts is an internationally renowned masterpiece of early sound cinema. In a remote Russian village during World War I, colorful and nuanced characters experience divided loyalties: family loyalty vs. personal desire, national...
Movie | Drama, War | France, Mauritania | French, Arabic
Director
Abderrahmane Sissako
Writer
Abderrahmane Sissako, Kessen Tall
Cast
Ibrahim Ahmed, Abel Jafri, Toulou Kiki
Plot
A cattle herder and his family who reside in the dunes of Timbuktu find their quiet lives -- which are typically free of the Jihadists determined to control their faith -- abruptly disturbed.
Alexander Jacobs, Eric Bercovici, Reuben Bercovitch
Cast
Lee Marvin, Toshira Mifune
Plot
During World War II, an American pilot and a marooned Japanese navy captain are deserted on a small uninhabited island in the Pacific Ocean. There, they must cease their hostility and cooperate if they want to survive, but will they?
Though it has been five years since the atomic bombings of Hiroshima, Yasuko, her uncle and aunt are forced to deal with the ordeals of the disaster, along with many others like them.
Napoleon's tumultuous relations with Russia including his disastrous 1812 invasion serve as the backdrop for the tangled personal lives of five aristocratic Russian families.
Fast-talking wheeler-dealer Corporal King is stuck in a Malaysian P.O.W. camp during World War II and uses bribery and larceny to take de-facto control of the camp.
In order to fool the Germans into thinking the Allied invasion of Sicily will take place elsewhere, British Military Intelligence comes up with a cunning ruse.
Movie | Drama, War | Algeria, France | French, Arabic
Director
Rachid Bouchareb
Writer
Rachid Bouchareb, Olivier Lorelle
Cast
Samy Naceri, Roschdy Zem, Sami Bouajila
Plot
During World War II, four North African men enlist in the French army to liberate that country from German oppression, and to fight French discrimination.
Tatiana De Rosnay, Serge Joncour, Gilles Paquet-Brenner
Cast
Kristin Scott Thomas, Melusine Mayance, Niels Arestrup
Plot
In modern-day Paris, a journalist finds her life becoming entwined with a young girl whose family was torn apart during the notorious Vel' d'Hiv Roundup in 1942.
Hard-nosed, hard-living Marine Gunnery Sergeant Tom Highway clashes with his superiors and his ex-wife as he takes command of a spoiled recon platoon with a bad attitude.
