War and Anti-War Films
"War and Anti-War Films" often acknowledge the horror and heartbreak of war, letting the actual combat fighting or conflict (against nations or humankind) provide the primary plot or background for the action of the film. Typical elements in the action-oriented war plots include POW camp experiences and escapes, submarine warfare, espionage, personal heroism, "war is hell" brutalities, air dogfights, tough trench/infantry experiences, or male-bonding buddy adventures during wartime. Themes explored in war films include combat, survivor and escape stories, tales of gallant sacrifice and struggle, studies of the futility and inhumanity of battle, the effects of war on society, and intelligent and profound explorations of the moral and human issues.
Listed below are all the very best of this genre. Scroll yer heart out....
Sundown (1941)
5.8/10
Director: Henry Hathaway
Starring: Gene Tierney, Bruce Cabot, George Sanders
Englishmen fighting Nazis in Africa discover an exotic mystery woman living among the natives and enlist her aid in overcoming the Germans. Read more
Rock the Kasbah (2015)
5.5/10
Director: Barry Levinson
Starring: Bill Murray, Kate Hudson, Bruce Willis
A down-on-his-luck music manager discovers a teenage girl with an extraordinary voice while on a music tour in Afghanistan and takes her to Kabul to c... Read more
Presidents At War (2019)
6.9/10
This landmark series tells the story of World War II through the experiences of eight remarkable men. Men who, like sixteen million other Americans, b... Read more
Phantom (2013)
5.9/10
Director: Todd Robinson
Starring: Ed Harris, David Duchovny
The haunted Captain of a Soviet submarine holds the fate of the world in his hands. Forced to leave his family behind, he is charged with leading a co... Read more
King Of The Royal Mounted (1940)
7.4/10
Director: William Witney, John English
Canadian Tom Merritt has discovered a substance, Compound X, that will cure infantile paralysis, which he extracts from a mine at Caribou, Canada. A c... Read more
Play Dirty (Blu-ray) (1968)
6.7/10
Director: Andre De Toth
Starring: Michael Caine, Nigel Davenport, Nigel Green, Harry Andrews
Assigned to lead a mission to destroy German fuel reserves in the African desert during World War II, inexperienced British Army captain Michael Caine... Read more
Crimson Romance (1934)
5.7/10
Starring: Ben Lyon, Erich Von Stroheim
After Fred von Bergen, a German immigrant in America, is forced from his job by anti-German hysteria before the Great War, he and his friend Bob Wilso... Read more
The Outsider (1961)
7.2/10
Director: Delbert Mann
Starring: Tony Curtis, James Franciscus, Gregory Walcott, Bruce Bennett
Tony Curtis plays an Indian (Nicknamed "Chief" by other soldiers) who fights in WWII and helps to raise the flag at Iwo Jima. Read more
Best Defence (1984)
Director: Willard Huyck
Starring: Dudley Moore, Eddie Murphy, Kate Capshaw
A military weapons engineer struggles to do his job responsibly, while a hapless tank commander has to live with the consequences in combat years late... Read more
Flying the Secret Sky: The Story of the RAF Ferry Command (2008)
6.3/10
In 1940 Nazi air strikes had Britain on her knees. The RAF was desperate for aircraft - losing hundreds of planes in air battles over Europe. Their es... Read more