Iraq war movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant iraq war movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, suspenseful, realistic, tense, suspense and captivating films and TV shows about / with iraq war, military, soldier, war, war on terror, terrorism, american soldier, danger, battles and survival plots mostly in Drama, War and Action genres shot in USA, UK, Canada and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as iraq war: The Long Road Home (2017), Warfare (2025), Generation Kill (2008), The Hurt Locker (2008), American Sniper (2014), Over There (2005), American Soldiers (2005), Thank You for Your Service (2017), Battle for Haditha (2007), The Yellow Birds (2017).
Best films
New films
| The Wall (2017) | 6.2 | |
| Curveball (2020) | 6.9 | |
| The Long Road Home (2017) | 7.3 | |
| Georgetown (2019) | 6.2 | |
| The Report (2019) | 7.2 |
List of iraq war movies
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Relive a heroic fight for survival during the Iraq War, when the 1st Cavalry Division from Fort Hood was ferociously ambushed on April 4, 2004, in Sadr City, Baghdad — a day that came to be known in military annals as “Black Sunday.”
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, exciting, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
iraq war, military, war, soldier, last stand, danger, courage, wartime life, friendship, chaos, death, military life ...
Place:
afghanistan, iraq
Is relevant?
104K
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A platoon of Navy SEALs embarks on a dangerous mission in Ramadi, Iraq, with the chaos and brotherhood of war retold through their memories of the event.
Style:
tension, independent film, suspense, period piece, epic war ...
Plot:
iraq war, survival, based on real people, sniper, chaos, war zone, blood, war violence, brutality, realism, military, soldier ...
Time:
2000s, year 2006, 21st century
Place:
iraq
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Marines prepare to invade Iraq at the beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom; while the soldiers wait to receive their orders, they learn a Rolling Stone columnist will be embedded with them
Style:
tense, political, disturbing, rough, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
military, iraq war, marines, soldier, violence, war, anti war, military life, courage, desert, life & death, character study ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
iraq, middle east, afghanistan
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA, Luxembourg, Canada
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
Forced to play a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse in the chaos of war, an elite Army bomb squad unit must come together in a city where everyone is a potential enemy and every object could be a deadly bomb.
Style:
tense, realistic, emotional, serious, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly, adult
Plot:
iraq war, terrorism, military, sniper, soldier, war, bomb squad, violence, army, shootout, marines, bomb ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, year 2004, 21st century
Place:
middle east, iraq, baghdad iraq, america, afghanistan ...
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Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, War
Country: USA, Morocco
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle takes his sole mission—protect his comrades—to heart and becomes one of the most lethal snipers in American history. His pinpoint accuracy not only saves countless lives but also makes him a prime target of insurgents. ...
Style:
factual, suspenseful, clever, inspirational, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly
Plot:
war, iraq war, sniper, military, soldier, navy seal, assassin, american soldier, violence, battles, war zone, special forces ...
Time:
year 2014, 2010s, 2000s, 90s, september 11 2001 ...
Place:
iraq, middle east, california, usa, kurdistan ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Gritty, intense, evocative and emotional, "Over There" takes you to the front lines of battle and explores the effects of war on a U.S. Army unit sent to Iraq on their first tour of duty, as well as the equally powerful effects felt at ...
Style:
intellectual, disturbing, suspenseful, realistic, sincere ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
iraq war, military, soldier, combat, friendship, army life, sergeant, adultery, guerilla warfare, u.s. army, self sacrifice, right and wrong ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
iraq, middle east
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Iraq, 2004: during a routine sortie a US patrol is ambushed and the young soldiers are forced to put their training and skills into action fast. A determined foe with superior local knowledge, the Fedayeen insurgents soon draw them into close ...
Style:
realistic, serious, independent film
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
iraq war, military, terrorism, war, american soldier, battles, danger, confined, state affairs, heroes, soldier, escapades ...
Place:
iraq, middle east
Is relevant?
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: USA, India
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A group of U.S. soldiers returning from Iraq struggle to integrate back into family and civilian life, while living with the memory of a war that threatens to destroy them long after they've left the battlefield.
Style:
tense, suspense, captivating, suspenseful, sad ...
Plot:
military, post traumatic stress disorder, iraq war, sex scene, soldier, profanity, ptsd, haunted by the past, rage, homecoming, war zone, jihad ...
Time:
year 2017
Place:
afghanistan, middle east, iraq
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
An investigation of the massacre of 24 men, women and children in Haditha, Iraq allegedly shot by 4 U.S. Marines in retaliation for the death of a U.S. Marine killed by a roadside bomb. The movie follows the story of the Marines of Kilo Company, an ...
Style:
disturbing, tense, sexy, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
soldier, iraq war, military, marine, war, culture clash, desert, military life, marines, society, vengeance, occupation ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
iraq, middle east, united kingdom
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Two young soldiers, Bartle and Murph, navigate the terrors of the Iraq war under the command of the older, troubled Sergeant Sterling. All the while, Bartle is tortured by a promise he made to Murph's mother before their deployment.
Style:
tense, disturbing, captivating, thought provoking, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
soldier, iraq war, military, terrorist, war zone, sex scene, military officer, friendship, courage, brutality, danger, heroes ...
Place:
iraq, afghanistan, virginia
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: USA, Spain
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
The true story of Marine Corporal Megan Leavey, who forms a powerful bond with an aggressive combat dog, Rex. While deployed in Iraq, the two complete more than 100 missions and save countless lives, until an IED explosion puts their faithfulness to ...
Style:
touching, disturbing, suspenseful, tense, captivating ...
Audience:
family friendly, teens
Plot:
human animal relationship, female soldier, iraq war, dog, u.s. marine, military, strong female lead, american soldier, soldier, u.s. military, boot camp, dog training ...
Time:
year 2017, 90s, 2000s, year 2001, 21st century
Place:
iraq, new york, middle east, afghanistan, new york state
Is relevant?
34K
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
An American sniper and his spotter engage in a deadly cat-and-mouse game with an Iraqi sniper.
Style:
suspense, serious, tense, rough, melancholic ...
Audience:
boys' night, kids
Plot:
sniper, iraq war, american soldier, marines, ambush, soldier, trapped, desert, duel, deception, wounded soldier, taunting ...
Time:
year 2017, year 2007, 2000s
Place:
middle east, iraq
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland, Bulgaria
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
On 3 April 2004, during the holiday of Ashura, Iraqi rebels loyal to Shiite leader Muktada As-Sadr, launched an insurgency in the Polish zone. The Poles, together with Bulgarian soldiers and Iraqi police, were given the task of defending City Hall, ...
Style:
brutal, rough, disturbing, suspenseful
Plot:
iraq war, soldier, camaraderie, brutality, survival, rescue attempt, chaos and mayhem, squad, capture, courage, team, tragic event ...
Place:
iraq, poland, bulgaria
Is relevant?
223K
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Jarhead is a film about a US Marine Anthony Swofford’s experience in the Gulf War. After putting up with an arduous boot camp, Swafford and his unit are sent to the Persian Gulf where they are eager to fight, but are forced to stay back from the ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, visually stunning, brutal, factual ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
gulf war, military, iraq war, war, marines, u.s. military, desert, boot camp, american soldier, anti war, death, u.s. marine ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s, 80s, year 1989, year 1991 ...
Place:
iraq, middle east, saudi arabia, afghanistan, america ...
Is relevant?
147K
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK, France, Spain, Japan, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
During the U.S.-led occupation of Baghdad in 2003, Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller and his team of Army inspectors were dispatched to find weapons of mass destruction believed to be stockpiled in the Iraqi desert. Rocketing from one booby-trapped ...
Style:
exciting, political thriller, tense, suspense, serious ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night, adult
Plot:
spy, iraq war, cia, war, soldier, military, politics, chase, pow, deception, special forces, gulf war ...
Time:
year 2010, year 2003, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
iraq, middle east, baghdad iraq, kurdistan, israel
Is relevant?
12K
Genre: Crime, Thriller, War
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Redacted is a film written and directed by Brian De Palma that is a fictional drama loosely based on the Mahmudiyah killings in Iraq.
Style:
sexy, serious, disturbing, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot:
iraq war, soldier, war, found footage, military, military life, terrorism, journalism, media, danger, politics, state affairs ...
Time:
year 2006
Place:
iraq, middle east
Is relevant?
512
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Soldier Brian Wood, is accused of war crimes in Iraq by the human rights lawyer Phil Shiner. The two men go head to head in a legal and moral conflict that takes us from the battlefield, at so-called Checkpoint Danny Boy, to the courtroom and one of ...
Style:
tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
iraq war, war crime, american soldier, ex soldier, human rights, military, accused of murder, framed for a crime, framed for murder, military officer, soldier, war violence ...
Place:
united kingdom
Is relevant?
137K
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, United Arab Emirates, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A team of U.S. government agents is sent to investigate the bombing of an American facility in the Middle East.
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, exciting, suspense, action packed ...
Audience:
boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
terrorism, terrorist, investigation, military, fbi, islamic terrorism, al qaeda, deception, muslim, gunfight, war on terror, spy ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
middle east, saudi arabia, iraq, usa, washington d.c.
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Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: Canada
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Four high school football stars enlist in the Marines and head off to fight in the war in Iraq. When one of them is killed and another wounded, they return home only to find is extremely difficult to pick up the threads of their old lives. The ...
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, bleak
Plot:
iraq war, military, homecoming, battles, heroes, survival, soldier, battle zone, honor, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, death of friend, depression ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
iraq, middle east
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
An American soldier deployed at Abu Ghraib finds himself behind the walls of the infamous Hard Site, where he develops a secret friendship with an Iraqi detainee.
Style:
captivating, realistic, serious, disturbing, tense ...
Plot:
war, military, male male relationship, soldier, friendship, moral dilemma, prison life, prison, iraq war, prisoner, unlikely friendships, american soldier ...
Time:
year 2003, 21st century
Place:
middle east, iraq
Is relevant?
21K
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A veteran soldier returns from his completed tour of duty in Iraq, only to find his life turned upside down when he is arbitrarily ordered to return to field duty by the Army.
Style:
sad, harsh, serious, realistic, suspense ...
Plot:
soldier, iraq war, u.s. military, death, redemption, friendship, war on terror, war, homecoming, small town, depression, wartime life ...
Time:
year 2008, future, 21st century
Place:
iraq, middle east, canada, afghanistan, usa ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
After a bomb kills their company commander in Iraq, British soldiers Treacle and Shane are ordered to round up suspects and use torture on the detainees. Back home, the press gets the story and the pair achieves instant infamy.
Style:
serious, disturbing, suspenseful, rough, realistic
Plot:
court martial, soldier, political unrest, bare chested male, male nudity, pow, racism, military, courtroom drama, officers and cadets, life is a bitch, legal ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
iraq, middle east
Is relevant?
276
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Unfolding over the span of 36 hours in three separate wars – The American Civil War, World War I, and Iraq – FOXHOLE follows five soldiers confined in a foxhole as they grapple with morality, futility, and an increasingly volatile combat ...
Style:
tense, suspense, suspenseful, captivating, disturbing ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
world war one, iraq war, civil war, moral ambiguity, battlefield, morality, combat, multiple storylines, war, wartime life, battles, wartime ...
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Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
When U.S. Rangers and an elite Delta Force team attempt to kidnap two underlings of a Somali warlord, their Black Hawk helicopters are shot down, and the Americans suffer heavy casualties, facing intense fighting from the militia on the ground.
Style:
realistic, rough, epic, disturbing, intense ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
war, combat, courage, gunfight, military, battles, chaos, sniper, american soldier, shooting, survival, army ...
Time:
year 2001, 20th century, 90s, year 1993, year 2002 ...
Place:
somalia, africa, south africa, america, middle east ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: UK, USA, Canada, China
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
The true story of British intelligence whistleblower Katharine Gun, who prior to the 2003 Iraq invasion leaked a top-secret NSA memo exposing a joint US-UK illegal spying operation against members of the UN Security Council. The memo proposed ...
Style:
political, psychological, romantic drama, suspenseful, surprise ending ...
Audience:
family friendly, date night, adult
Plot:
whistleblower, espionage, politics, legal, british secret service, spy, lawyer, iraq war, female agent, expose, british politics, female secret agent ...
Time:
year 2003, year 2019, 2000s, year 2004
Place:
kurdistan, united kingdom, london, washington d.c.
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Lt. Col. Michael Strobl, a volunteer military escort accompanies the body of Lance Cpl. Chance Phelps to his hometown in Wyoming.
Style:
sincere, sentimental, touching, realistic, sad ...
Plot:
iraq war, war, military, ritual, soldier, self discovery, military life, father son relationship, ethnic conflict, patriotism, marines, u.s. marine ...
Time:
year 2004, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
iraq, wyoming, baghdad iraq, afghanistan, usa ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
The first U.S.-made film drama set during the Iraq war, THE SITUATION chronicles the tragic death of an Iraqi teenager at the hands of U.S. soldiers. The incident sets off an "investigation," a cover-up, and complications involving Iraqi ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, realistic, rough, extraordinary
Plot:
iraq war, photograph, danger, assassination, racism, soldier, terrorism, media, battles, state affairs, military, life is a bitch ...
Time:
year 2006
Place:
iraq, middle east
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Morocco
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In the supernatural thriller The Objective, writer-director Daniel Myrick locates the action in a remote mountain region on Afghanistan, where a team of US Special Ops forces is dispatched with the ostensible orders of locating an influential Muslim ...
Style:
suspense, exciting, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
desert, military, mission, soldier, cia agent, survival, survival horror, danger, supernatural, terrorism, supernatural ability, taliban ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
afghanistan, middle east, morocco
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA, Jordan
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Set during the occupation of Iraq, a squad of U.S. soldiers try to protect a small village.
Style:
thought provoking, perverse, psychological, suspense, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
soldier, occupation, military, small village, jihad, war zone, military life, wartime life, military base, life is a bitch, fight for supremacy, military service ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
iraq, middle east, afghanistan
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Three ex-servicemen return to Basra, each for a different reason.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, touching, contemplative, realistic ...
Plot:
iraq war, military, military life, war veteran, danger, soldier, life is a bitch, society, selflessness, propaganda, culture clash, war on terror ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
iraq, middle east, dubai, manchester
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