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War movies

Browse war movies by rating, decade and country, and see which are on Netflix where you live.

7.42016MovieAction · Animation

During the One Year War of U.C. 0079, the Earth Federation and Principality of Zeon engage in a fierce battle at the "Thunderbolt Sector", a shoal zone in the former Colony Side 4 "Moore". After successfully infiltrating Zeon's sniper field, ace Federation pilot and jazz enthusiast Io Fleming is given control of the latest Gundam prototype.

5.61984MovieDrama · Romance

In 1941 America, Kay and her husband are happy enough until he enlists after Pearl Harbor. Against his wishes, she takes a job at the local aircraft plant where she meets Hazel, the singer from across the way. The two soon become firm friends and with the other girls become increasingly expert workers. As the war drags on, Kay finally dates her trumpet-playing foreman and life gets more complicated.

6.82025MovieDrama · War

The couple of Ma Xiao, a foreign correspondent, and Pan Wenjia, a volunteer doctor, accompanied engineer Miao Feng on a trip to the suburbs to repair a base station. During the trip, the local situation suddenly changed and the three were kidnapped by an extremist organisation. While in prison, they met Zhou Weijie, an overseas Chinese businessman. In order to find a chance of survival, they embarked on a journey of escape in the midst of barbaric warfare and chaos.

7.61925MovieRomance · War

The story of an idle rich boy who joins the US Army's Rainbow Division and is sent to France to fight in World War I, becomes friends with two working class men, experiences the horrors of trench warfare, and finds love with a French girl.

6.31972MovieAction · Adventure

This historical drama is an account of the early life of British politician Winston Churchill, including his childhood years, his time as a war correspondent in Africa, and culminating with his first election to Parliament.

6.51964MovieWar · Drama

In a remote jungle outpost in the Far Eastern theater of World War II, a hotheaded American soldier murders an allied British sergeant in cold blood. Stalwart American Lt. Colonel Barney Adams (Mitchum) is dispatched to defend him in the ensuing court martial. But when Lt. Adams starts encountering roadblocks in his search for evidence, and his key witnesses start disappearing one after another, he soon realizes he's merely a pawn in a mysterious conspiracy that could extend to the highest levels of military power.

7.42021MovieComedy · War

Two young stoners mistakenly believe the American Civil War is being waged over the legalization of marijuana. They join the cause and embark on an epic journey that brings them face to face with the Union, the Confederacy, the Pony Express, and eventually Abraham Lincoln himself. [Originally a series of sketches running through the final season of The Whitest Kids U' Know in 2011, The Civil War on Drugs was released as a web series on YouTube in 2013, and as a feature-length film on Prime Video in 2021.]

5.92019MovieDrama · Thriller

Northern Spain, October 1944. Several groups of guerrilla fighters, former Republican soldiers exiled in France after the end of the Spanish Civil War, infiltrate the country in order to provoke a popular uprising against General Franco's dictatorship.

6.21944MovieDrama · Action

Construction workers in World War II in the Pacific are needed to build military sites, but the work is dangerous and they doubt the ability of the Navy to protect them. After a series of attacks by the Japanese, something new is tried, Construction Battalions (CBs=Seabees). The new CBs have to both build and be ready to fight.

6.21967MovieWar · Drama

In December of 1944, Lionel Evans, an internationally renowned American conductor, is on a USO tour with his 70-piece symphony orchestra in newly-liberated Belgium. While fleeing from a German counterattack, Evans and his orchestra members are captured by a Panzer division and taken to an old chateau in Luxembourg. Despite orders to execute every prisoner, General Schiller, an avid music lover, commands Evans to give a private concert for him.

5.52006MovieAction · Thriller

Armed insurgents attempt a coup d'etat in a troubled Eastern European country, and the president flees to the U.S. embassy for protection. When the U.S. ambassador is murdered by the ruthless and gun-happy rebels, it comes down to the second-in-command of the embassy, Sam Keenan, played by Belgian kickboxer Jean-Claude Van Damme, to use his amazing martial arts technique to defend the besieged.

4.82021MovieWar · Thriller

Called to Rome to stop an imminent terrorist bombing, a soldier desperately seeks news of his imprisoned brother — a rebel with knowledge that could thwart the attack. Navigating the capital's darkened streets, he races to a series of ominous encounters to keep the Vatican from being blown to bits.

6.32002MovieDrama · Comedy

A criminal subculture operates among U.S. soldiers stationed in West Germany just before the fall of the Berlin wall.

6.91948MovieDrama · War

Set at the beginning of the Civil War, Tap Roots is all about a county in Mississippi which chooses to secede from the state rather than enter the conflict. The county is protected from the Confederacy by an abolitionist and a Native American gentleman. The abolitionist's daughter is courted by a powerful newspaper publisher when her fiance, a confederate officer, elopes with the girl's sister. The daughter at first resists the publisher's attentions, but turns to him for aid when her ex-fiance plans to capture the seceding county on behalf of the South.

6.01986MovieWar · Drama

A Protestant World War II pilot and a Jewish girl fall in love in Jerusalem, even though their diverse backgrounds threaten to pull them apart.

5.31956MovieWar · Drama

En route to Normandy, an American and a British officer reminisce in flashback about their romances with the same woman.

6.11958MovieDrama · Romance

In wartime England, circa 1941, poorly-armed tugs are sent into "U-Boat Alley" to rescue damaged Allied ships. An American named David Ross arrives to captain one of these tugs. He's given a key by a fellow tugboat-man -- a key to an apartment and its pretty female resident. Should something happen to the friend, Ross can use the key.

7.21958MovieDrama · War

A German soldier home on leave falls in love with a girl, then returns to World War II.

5.82016MovieDrama · War

The fates of Henry - an American correspondent - and Teresa, one of the Republic's censors during the Spanish Civil War.

5.82023MovieHorror · Fantasy

Stranded in the Philippines during World War II, a young girl finds that her duty to protect her dying mother is complicated by her misplaced trust in a beguiling, flesh-eating fairy.