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....
Nuremberg (2025)
7.4/10
Director: James Vanderbilt
Starring: Russell Crowe, Rami Malek, Michael Shannon, Richard E Grant
As the Nuremberg trials are set to begin, a U.S. Army psychiatrist gets locked in a dramatic psychological showdown with accused Nazi war criminal Her... Read more
Sound Of Falling (In die Sonne schauen) (2025)
Starring: Susanne Wuest
A remote German farm harbors generations of secrets. Four women, separated by decades but united by trauma, uncover the truth behind its weathered wal... Read more
The Zone Of Interest (Blu-ray) (2024)
7.5/10
Director: Jonathan Glazer
Starring: Sandra Huller, Christian Friedel
In 1943, the commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his wife, Hedwig, strive to build a dream life for their family in a house right next to the co... Read more
The Zone Of Interest (2024)
7.5/10
Director: Jonathan Glazer
Starring: Sandra Huller, Christian Friedel
In 1943, the commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his wife, Hedwig, strive to build a dream life for their family in a house right next to the co... Read more
Lee (2023)
6.9/10
Starring: Kate Winslet, Andy Samberg, Alexander Skarsgard, Marion Cotillard, Andrea Risebo...
The story of photographer Elizabeth `Lee' Miller, a fashion model who became an acclaimed war correspondent for Vogue magazine during World War II. Read more
One Life (2023)
7.5/10
Director: James Hawes
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Helena Bonham Carter, Johnny Flynn, Alex Sharp, Romola Garai, L...
London broker Nicholas "Nicky" Winton helps rescue hundreds of predominantly Jewish children from Czechoslovakia in a race against time before the Naz... Read more
The Conference (2022)
7.3/10
Director: Matti Geschonneck
On January 20, 1942, leading representatives of the German Nazi regime met in a villa in Berlin-Wannsee for a meeting that went down in history as the... Read more
The Woman King (2022)
6.7/10
Director: Gina Prince-Bythewood
Starring: Viola Davis, Lashana Lynch, John Boyega
The Woman King is the remarkable story of the Agojie, the all-female unit of warriors who protected the African Kingdom of Dahomey in the 1800s with s... Read more
Operation Mincemeat (2022)
Director: John Madden
Starring: Colin Firth, Matthew Macfadyen, Kelly Macdonald, Jason Isaacs, Penelope Wilton,...
During WWII, two intelligence officers use a corpse and false papers to outwit German troops. Read more
The Match (2020)
6/10
Starring: Franco Nero, Caspar Phillipson, Armand Assante
Inspired by true events from the spring of 1944 when the Nazis organized a football match between a team of camp inmates and an elite Nazi team on Ado... Read more