Genre: War

Find the best movies, series, and documentaries in the War genre. Discover the most popular titles among fans and critics.


Apocalypse: The Second World War (TV Miniseries)

2009 · Documentary · 320 min. · France

Direction Daniel Costelle · Isabelle Clarke

Cast Mathieu Kassovitz

Synopsis "Apocalypse: The Second World War" is a six-part French documentary about the Second World War. The documentary is comprised exclusively of actual footage of the war as filmed by war correspondents, soldiers, resistance fighters and private citizens. The series is...

8.6

14K votes

8.6

14K votes

Band of Brothers (TV Miniseries)

2001 · Series · 705 min. · United States

Direction Stephen Ambrose · David Frankel · Tom Hanks · David Leland

Cast Damian Lewis · Ron Livingston · Rick Gomez · Scott Grimes

Synopsis TV Miniseries (2001). 10 Episodes. This is the story of Easy Company, 506th Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division from their initial training starting to the end of World War II. They parachuted behind enemy lines in the early hours...

8.5

57K votes

8.5

57K votes

Apocalypse: The First World War (TV Miniseries)

2014 · Documentary · 295 min. · France

Direction Daniel Costelle · Isabelle Clarke

Cast Mathieu Kassovitz

Synopsis Culled from more than 500 hours of archival material, unfolding in five 52-minute installments, 'Apocalypse WWI' takes us to the battlefields, inside the minds of those who govern, and to the heart of the everyday life of civilians behind the...

8.4

3K votes

8.4

3K votes

Paths of Glory

1957 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction Stanley Kubrick

Cast Kirk Douglas · George Macready · Adolphe Menjou · Ralph Meeker

Synopsis Colonel Dax (Kirk Douglas) is the commander of the battle-decimated 701st Infantry Regiment of the French Army, dug in along the Western Front in a stalemated WWI. It is 1916 and the Allies have been struggling to overcome an equally...

8.4

54K votes

8.4

54K votes

The World at War (TV Series)

1974 · Documentary · 52 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Jeremy Isaacs · Hugh Raggett · John Pett · David Elstein

Synopsis "The World at War" is a 26-episode television documentary series on World War II, including the events leading up to it and following in its wake. The series interviewed leading members of the Allied and Axis campaigns, including eyewitness accounts...

8.4

5K votes

8.4

5K votes

The War (TV Miniseries)

2007 · Documentary · 124 min. · United States

Direction Ken Burns · Lynn Novick

Synopsis A seven-part series focusing on the many ways in which the Second World War impacted the lives of American families.

8.3

53 votes

8.3

53 votes

The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer

1961 · Movie · 190 min. · Japan

Direction Masaki Kobayashi

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Michiyo Aratama · Yusuke Kawazu · Tamao Nakamura

Synopsis The protagonist is the pacifistic Kaji. Strong-armed into the Japanese military during World War II, Kaji has reluctantly learned to kill on the battlefields. Upon his country's surrender, Kaji and some comrades embark on an epic journey on foot southward...

8.3

2K votes

8.3

2K votes

Apocalypse Now

1979 · Movie · 153 min. · United States

Direction Francis Ford Coppola

Cast Martin Sheen · Marlon Brando · Robert Duvall · Frederic Forrest

Synopsis During the Vietnam War, the young American Captain Willard is given the assignment to hunt down and kill one of his own: Colonel Kurtz who has apparently gone insane, murdered hundreds of innocent people, and constructed a strange kingdom for...

8.2

105K votes

8.2

105K votes

Rome, Open City

1945 · Movie · 100 min. · Italy

Direction Roberto Rossellini

Cast Aldo Fabrizi · Anna Magnani · Marcello Pagliero · Maria Michi

Synopsis Based on real events, it tells the story of several Italian Resistance fighters battling fascism in Nazi-occupied Rome. When Gestapo agents raid an apartment where Manfredi (Marcello Pagliero), a prominent member of the underground, is hiding, they arrest the young...

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8.2

16K votes

8.2

16K votes

Full Metal Jacket

1987 · Movie · 120 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Stanley Kubrick

Cast Matthew Modine · Vincent D'Onofrio · R. Lee Ermey · Adam Baldwin

Synopsis A group of recruits trains in Parris Island. Sergeant Hartman, relentless and brutal, has the mission to train them until they become tough enough to fight the enemy. But not all of them are really prepared for that.

8.2

120K votes

8.2

120K votes

The Vietnam War (TV Series)

2017 · Documentary · 990 min. · United States

Direction Ken Burns · Lynn Novick

Synopsis An in-depth look (10 episodes) at the American military operations in Vietnam during the 1960s and '70s as well as the growing opposition against the war within the United States.

8.2

1K votes

8.2

1K votes

The Human Condition I: No Greater Love

1959 · Movie · 208 min. · Japan

Direction Masaki Kobayashi

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Michiyo Aratama · Ineko Arima · Chikage Awashima

Synopsis During the Second World War, Kaji, a japanese pacifist, tries to avoid military service by accepting a job as a supervisor in the mines of Manchuria, in occupied territory. Kaji tries to improve the conditions of the workers but he...

8.1

3K votes

8.1

3K votes

La Commune (Paris 1871)

2000 · Documentary · 345 min. · France

Direction Peter Watkins

Synopsis We are in the year 1871. A journalist for Versailles Television broadcasts a soothing and official view of events while a Commune television is set up to provide the perspectives of the Paris rebels. On a stage-like set, more than...

8.1

430 votes

8.1

430 votes

Ran

1985 · Movie · 160 min. · Japan

Direction Akira Kurosawa

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Akira Terao · Jinpachi Nezu · Pîtâ

Synopsis A reinterpretation of William Shakespeare's 'King Lear'. The Lear counterpart is an elderly 16th-century warlord (Tatsuya Nakadai), who announces that he's about to divide his kingdom equally among his three sons. In his dotage, he falls prey to the false...

8.1

27K votes

8.1

27K votes

Direction Masaki Kobayashi

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Michiyo Aratama · Kei Sato · Minoru Chiaki

Synopsis Second World War. Forced to join the japanese army, Kaji is sent to Manchuria. There, he becomes friends with a soldier who sympathizes with communism. After a visit from his wife, Kaji is sent to the battlefield, from which many...

8.1

2K votes

8.1

2K votes

Direction Goro Taniguchi

Synopsis TV Series (2008). 25 Episodes. On August 10, 2010, a.t.b. (the Imperial calendar), the Holy Empire of Britannia overpowered Japanese forces and conquered the country with their new robotic weapons, the Knightmare Frames, in less than a month. In the...

8.1

2K votes

8.1

2K votes

Direction Wolfgang Petersen

Cast Jürgen Prochnow · Herbert Grönemeyer · Klaus Wennemann · Hubertus Bengsch

Synopsis TV Miniserie (1985-1987). 3 episodes. A World War II German U-Boat crew have a terrifying patrol mission in the early days of the war.

8.0

98 votes

8.0

98 votes

Battleship Potemkin

1925 · Movie · 77 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

Direction Sergei M. Eisenstein

Cast Aleksandr Antonov · Vladimir Barsky · Grigori Aleksandrov · Mikhail Gomorov

Synopsis The Battleship Potemkin has just returned from the war with Japan, its crew near mutiny because of brutal treatment and bad rations. When they're served maggot-infested meat one morning, the sailors finally rebel. One of the sailors, Vakulinchuk (Aleksandr Antonov),...

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8.0

28K votes

8.0

28K votes

Lawrence of Arabia

1962 · Movie · 222 min. · United Kingdom

Direction David Lean

Cast Peter O'Toole · Omar Sharif · Alec Guinness · Jack Hawkins

Synopsis While working on the staff of the British Intelligence in Cairo in 1916, Lawrence (Peter O'Toole) is sent to a mission to establish contact with Prince Feisal (Alec Guinness), leader of the Arab revolt and ally of the British against...

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8.0

46K votes

8.0

46K votes

The Deer Hunter

1978 · Movie · 183 min. · United States

Direction Michael Cimino

Cast Robert De Niro · Christopher Walken · Meryl Streep · John Savage

Synopsis It follows a group of steelworker pals from a Pennsylvania blast furnace to the cool hunting grounds of the Alleghenies to the lethal cauldron of Vietnam. This war conflict will change their lives forever.

8.0

48K votes

8.0

48K votes