Curated by SceneIt · United States
Discover popular and highly rated war movies. This page focuses on useful, popular choices for viewers in the United States.
Updated 2026-08-03 · Ratings from TMDB
Eligible titles are ranked using TMDB popularity, audience rating, and vote count. Streaming availability and ratings can change over time.
2019 · TMDB 8.3/10 · 314 votes
A love letter from a young mother to her daughter, the film tells the story of Waad al-Kateab’s life through five years of the uprising in Aleppo, Syria as she falls in love, gets married and gives birth to Sama, all while cataclysmic conflict rises around her. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
1995 · TMDB 6.2/10 · 615 votes
SIRIUS 6B, Year 2078. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
2018 · TMDB 7.9/10 · 217 votes
The true story of the most decorated dog in American military history - Sgt. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
2011 · TMDB 6.7/10 · 616 votes
A chilling vision of the House of Saddam Hussein comes to life through the eyes of the man who was forced to become the double of Hussein's sadistic son. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
1971 · TMDB 7.0/10 · 504 votes
Offbeat Civil War drama in which a wounded Yankee soldier, after finding refuge in an isolated girls' school in the South towards the end of the war, becomes the object of the young women's sexual fantasies. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
1959 · TMDB 6.4/10 · 106 votes
Near death, King David has a vision that his poet son, Solomon, should succeed him, rather than hot-headed Adonijah. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
1981 · TMDB 7.3/10 · 201 votes
Resistance leader Omar Mukhtar opposes Italian colonization before World War II. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
2015 · TMDB 7.2/10 · 1,152 votes
France, 1940. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
2019 · TMDB 7.2/10 · 794 votes
Austrian farmer Franz Jägerstätter faces the threat of execution for refusing to fight for the Nazis during World War II. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
1968 · TMDB 5.7/10 · 192 votes
Col. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
2001 · TMDB 6.6/10 · 180 votes
The story of Auschwitz's twelfth Sonderkommando — one of the thirteen consecutive "Special Squads" of Jewish prisoners placed by the Nazis in the excruciating moral dilemma of assisting in the extermination of fellow Jews in exchange for a few more months of life. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
2015 · TMDB 7.1/10 · 1,182 votes
In the horror of 1944 Auschwitz, a prisoner forced to burn the corpses of his own people finds moral survival trying to save from the flames the body of a boy he takes for his son, seeking to give him a proper Jewish burial. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
1977 · TMDB 7.1/10 · 490 votes
It is 1943, and the German army—ravaged and demoralised—is hastily retreating from the Russian front. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
1966 · TMDB 6.3/10 · 127 votes
English General Charles George Gordon is appointed military governor of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan by the Prime Minister. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
1998 · TMDB 5.9/10 · 622 votes
Alain Lefevre is a boxer paid by a Marseille mobster to take a dive. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
2005 · TMDB 6.9/10 · 288 votes
Two childhood friends are recruited for a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
1979 · TMDB 6.1/10 · 117 votes
In 1879, the British suffer a great loss at the Battle of Isandlwana due to incompetent leadership. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
2004 · TMDB 6.6/10 · 564 votes
In a post-war alternative timeline, Japan is divided into the North, controlled by the Union, and the South, controlled by the United States. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
1995 · TMDB 7.7/10 · 789 votes
Black marketeers Marko and Blacky manufacture and sell weapons to the Communist resistance in WWII Belgrade, living the good life along the way. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
1991 · TMDB 5.8/10 · 147 votes
U.S. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.