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.
2017 · TMDB 6.6/10 · 456 votes
During the Blitz of World War II, a female screenwriter works on a film celebrating England's resilience as a way to buoy a weary populace's spirits. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
1990 · TMDB 4.5/10 · 465 votes
During World War II, a brave, patriotic American Soldier undergoes experiments to become a new supersoldier, "Captain America". This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
2013 · TMDB 7.7/10 · 609 votes
War in Abkhazia, 1992. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
2016 · TMDB 6.8/10 · 181 votes
USSR, November, 1941. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
1967 · TMDB 6.8/10 · 184 votes
A German intelligence officer investigates a prostitute's killing in Warsaw during World War II. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
1993 · TMDB 6.6/10 · 288 votes
In a small Vietnamese village torn apart by war, a young woman faces unimaginable horrors before deciding to escape to the city. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
1979 · TMDB 6.7/10 · 231 votes
At the start of World War I, Paul Baumer is a young German patriot, eager to fight. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
2014 · TMDB 6.6/10 · 217 votes
Yang Zirong disguises himself as a bandit to infiltrate and destroy a bandit group. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
1958 · TMDB 6.2/10 · 118 votes
Can a girl from Little Rock find happiness with a mature French planter she got to know one enchanted evening away from the military hospital where she is a nurse? This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
2020 · TMDB 6.9/10 · 479 votes
The story of mime Marcel Marceau as he works with a group of Jewish boy scouts and the French Resistance to save the lives of ten thousand orphans during World War II. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
2008 · TMDB 7.7/10 · 1,067 votes
An Israeli film director interviews fellow veterans of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon to reconstruct his own memories of his term of service in that conflict. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
1927 · TMDB 7.2/10 · 337 votes
Two young men, one rich, one middle class, both in love with the same woman, become US Air Corps fighter pilots and, eventually, heroic flying aces during World War I. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
1969 · TMDB 6.8/10 · 355 votes
In 1940, the Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle against the might of the Luftwaffe for control of the skies over Britain, thus preventing an attempted Nazi invasion. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
2010 · TMDB 7.2/10 · 368 votes
Directors Hetherington and Junger spend a year with the 2nd Battalion of the United States Army located in one of Afghanistan's most dangerous valleys. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
2015 · TMDB 6.4/10 · 1,536 votes
Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
1962 · TMDB 7.8/10 · 842 votes
In WW2, twelve year old Soviet orphan Ivan Bondarev works for the Soviet army as a scout behind the German lines and strikes a friendship with three sympathetic Soviet officers. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
1966 · TMDB 7.2/10 · 285 votes
Engineer Jake Holman arrives aboard the gunboat USS San Pablo, assigned to patrol a tributary of the Yangtze in the middle of exploited and revolution-torn 1926 China. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
1964 · TMDB 7.6/10 · 384 votes
As the Allied forces approach Paris in August 1944, German Colonel Von Waldheim is desperate to take all of France's greatest paintings to Germany. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
1981 · TMDB 6.9/10 · 363 votes
A squad of National Guards on an isolated weekend exercise in the Louisiana swamp must fight for their lives when they anger local Cajuns by stealing their canoes. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
1983 · TMDB 6.3/10 · 226 votes
A group of Vietnam War veterans re-unite to rescue one of their own left behind and taken prisoner by the Vietnamese. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.