Genre: War
Find the best movies, series, and documentaries in the War genre. Discover the most popular titles among fans and critics.
Titles found: 5K
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...
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
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
The Human Condition II: The Road to Eternity
1959 · Movie · 181 min. · Japan
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
Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2 (TV Series)
2008 · Series · 24 min. · Japan
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
Das Boot (TV Miniseries)
1985 · Series · 293 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
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),...
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...
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