Army investigation movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant army investigation movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, suspenseful, suspense, tense and intense films and TV shows about / with army investigation, military, murder, military life, investigation, deadly, law enforcement, heroes, conspiracy and betrayal plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Mystery genres shot in USA, UK, Canada and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as army investigation: The General's Daughter (1999), Basic (2003), Rules of Engagement (2000), A Soldier's Story (1984), In the Valley of Elah (2007), Red Cap (2003), Quicksand (2002), High Crimes (2002), Courage Under Fire (1996), A Few Good Men (1992).
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List of army investigation movies
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
When the body of Army Capt. Elizabeth Campbell is found on a Georgia military base, two investigators, Warrant Officers Paul Brenner and Sara Sunhill, are ordered to solve her murder. What they uncover is anything but clear-cut. Unseemly details ...
Style:
detective, tense, neo noir, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
army investigation, conspiracy, rape, murder, gang rape, strangulation, military, reluctant partners, corruption, rape victim, military training, betrayal ...
Time:
year 1999, 90s, 20th century
Place:
georgia, west point
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A DEA agent investigates the disappearance of a legendary Army ranger drill sergeant and several of his cadets during a training exercise gone severely awry.
Style:
surprise ending, twist ending, suspense, clever, confusing ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
twists and turns, army investigation, military, murder mystery, corruption, plot twist, investigation, conspiracy, missing person, secrets, brutality, army life ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
atlantic city, panama
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Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK, Germany, Canada, USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Part war movie, part courtroom thriller, this gripping drama finds a war hero put on trial for a rescue mission gone terribly wrong with only his doubtful friend and fellow marine to represent him.
Style:
tense, political, intense, serious, rough ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
war, army investigation, courtroom drama, vietnam war, courtroom, profanity, military, lawyer, court case, marines, politics, court ...
Time:
y2k, 90s, 20th century, 60s
Place:
middle east, usa, washington d.c., vietnam, iraq
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, War
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
In the towm of Tynen, Louisiana, a black Master Sergeant is found shot to death just outside the local Army Base. A military lawyer, also a black man, is sent from Washington to conduct an investigation. Facing an uncooperative chain of command and ...
Style:
suspense, sincere, crime drama, cult classic, depressing ...
Plot:
racism, world war two, army investigation, courtroom, lawyer, courtroom drama, revenge, court, black, african american, legal, murder mystery ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1944, 80s
Place:
louisiana, america, mississippi, arkansas, africa
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
A career officer and his wife work with a police detective to uncover the truth behind their son's disappearance following his return from a tour of duty in Iraq.
Style:
disturbing, detective, touching, suspense, tense ...
Plot:
investigation, military, guilt, army investigation, murder investigation, cover up, war crime, veteran, evidence, loss of son, war on terror, trauma ...
Time:
post world war two, year 2007, year 2004, 21st century
Place:
iraq, new mexico, afghanistan, tennessee, persia ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Red Cap is a British television drama series produced by Stormy Pictures for the BBC and broadcast on BBC One. Two series of six episodes each were produced following a feature length pilot. It featured the investigations of an Special Investigation ...
Style:
tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic, crime drama ...
Plot:
military life, military, army, army investigation, military base, sergeant, dishonesty, british army, chain of command, moral ambiguity, european, police corruption ...
Place:
germany
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, India
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Randi Stewart is a sergeant on a marine base where her father is the commanding officer. She is being treated by the new base psychiatrist, Bill Turner. Her brother, Gordon Stewart is running for political office. General Stewart is murdered and ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, realistic, psychotronic
Plot:
army investigation, murder, psychiatrist, dangerous attraction, uncover truth, military life, life is a bitch, politics, military, danger, state affairs, femme fatale ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A female attorney learns that her husband is really a marine officer awol for fifteen years and accused of murdering fifteen civilians in El Salvador. Believing her husband when he tells her that he's being framed as part of a U.S. Military ...
Style:
clever, serious, twist ending, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, adult
Plot:
twists and turns, lawyer, murder, murder mystery, false accusation, legal, conspiracy, army investigation, justice, husband wife relationship, fbi, courtroom ...
Time:
year 2002, 80s, year 1988, 21st century
Place:
san francisco, usa, los angeles, mexico, latin america
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Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A US Army officer had made a "friendly fire" mistake that was covered up and he was reassigned to a desk job. Later he was tasked to investigate a female chopper commander's worthiness to be awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously. At ...
Style:
suspense, political, realistic, suspense thriller, cult classic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
military, friendly fire, women in the military, military life, tank, bravery, medal of honor, army investigation, investigation, suicide, desert, politics ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
middle east, iraq, pentagon
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
When cocky military lawyer Lt. Daniel Kaffee and his co-counsel, Lt. Cmdr. JoAnne Galloway, are assigned to a murder case, they uncover a hazing ritual that could implicate high-ranking officials such as shady Col. Nathan Jessep.
Style:
suspense, tense, intense, tricky, realistic ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
courtroom drama, courtroom, lawyer, justice, army investigation, trial, military, suicide, u.s. navy, court martial, destiny, hotshot lawyer ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1992
Place:
washington d.c., cuba, persia, caribbean, usa
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Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Jay Austin is now a civilian police detective. Colonel Caldwell was his commanding officer years before when he left the military police over a disagreement over the handling of a drunk driver. Now a series of murders that cross jurisdictions force ...
Style:
neo noir, tense, exciting, suspense, detective ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
conspiracy, investigation, military, father daughter relationship, tough cop, father daughter conflict, police chase, funeral, murder investigation, tough guy, factory, fistfight ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
san francisco, bay area, usa, california, new jersey
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Navy Lt. Tom Farrell meets a young woman, Susan Atwell , and they share a passionate fling. Farrell then finds out that his superior, Defense Secretary David Brice, is also romantically involved with Atwell. When the young woman turns up dead, ...
Style:
neo noir, sexy, suspense, suspenseful, political thriller ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
twists and turns, espionage, murder, conspiracy, cold war, investigation, sex scene, spy, undercover, love triangle, accidental killing, political corruption ...
Time:
80s, year 1987, 20th century
Place:
washington d.c., pentagon, manila philippines, usa
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Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Rosalie Richard is found raped and dead at the foot of a cliff. This gruesome murder is the first ever in the Magdalen Islands. Her death will radically change the orderly life of Sergeant André Surprenant.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, thought provoking, realistic, rough ...
Plot:
army investigation, murder, family relations, police investigation, life is a bitch, military, law enforcement, parents and children, family problems, investigation, who done it, missing child ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada, quebec
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Prompted by a just-published book that holds ex-lieutenant Ben Tyson accountable for a hushed-up massacre committed by his platoon in a Hue hospital 18 years before, the army recalls Tyson to stand trial for murder. Tyson, confronted by an army ...
Style:
rough, suspenseful, tense, serious, bleak ...
Plot:
vietnam war, courtroom drama, army investigation, uncover truth, protagonist as suspect, society, life is a bitch, dedicated lawyer, law enforcement, rebellion, legal, dishonesty ...
Place:
asia, vietnam, indochina
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Fourth-generation Army Col. William McNamara is imprisoned in a brutal German POW camp. Still, as the senior-ranking American officer, he commands his fellow inmates, keeping a sense of honor alive in a place where honor is easy to destroy, all ...
Style:
tense, realistic, harsh, factual, suspense ...
Plot:
world war two, nazi, racism, war, prison, prisoner of war camp, court martial, pow, moral dilemma, prison escape, soldier, propaganda ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 2002, post world war two
Place:
germany, europe, belgium, poland
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A company of British soldiers in colonial India is shaken when the widow of their most honored hero is assaulted. A young officer must defend a fellow lieutenant from the charges in an unusual court-martial, while investigating the deepening mystery ...
Style:
action thriller, realistic, serious, independent film, crying ...
Plot:
military, courtroom, army investigation, courtroom drama, chess, sexuality, women, lawyer, american civil war, law, battles, power relations ...
Time:
19th century, turn of the century, year 1975, victorian era, 1870s
Place:
india, europe, asia, england
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Australia
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
During the Boer War, three Australian lieutenants are on trial for shooting Boer prisoners. Though they acted under orders, they are being used as scapegoats by the General Staff, who hopes to distance themselves from the irregular practices of the ...
Style:
tense, thought provoking, factual, witty, intense ...
Plot:
politics, lawyer, courtroom, war, military, murder, court, military life, tragedy, world politics, soldier, colonialism ...
Time:
1900s, 19th century, year 1980, edwardian era, 20th century ...
Place:
south africa, australia, africa, south australia, new zealand ...
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Genre: Comedy, War
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
From the director of “Made In America” and “The Money Pit” comes a hilarious look at one of the most expensive blunders in military history. Over 17 years and almost as many billion dollars have gone into devising the BFV (Bradley Fighting ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, disturbing, humorous, satirical ...
Plot:
soldier, danger, state affairs, undercover, military life, power relations, army investigation, government agency, workplace intrigue, infantrymen, tank, cold war ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, 90s, 70s
Place:
washington d.c., pentagon
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Terrorists capture a Soviet missile submarine and they are intent on using it to unleash a barrage of missiles onto the US West Coast. American special services are called up to intercept and stop the terrorists before they can complete their ...
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, serious, exciting
Plot:
submarine, underwater, terrorism, terrorist, military, save the day, army investigation, escapades, undercover, rivalry, danger, chases and races ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Yusuf Miroğlu and Zeynep travel to Diyarbakır in southeast Turkey to attend his best friend Cemal's wedding. While performing the traditional halay dance at the wedding, Cemal is killed by an assassin. Cemal's widowed wife Leyla pleads ...
Style:
tense, suspense, exciting, captivating, suspenseful
Plot:
terrorist, counter terrorism, investigation, murder investigation, victim, murderer, army investigation, death, partner, youth, testimony, partners against crime ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
turkey
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A Navy officer tries to set the record straight after the Navy blames a 1989 explosion aboard the USS Iowa on a homosexual affair between two sailors.
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, bleak
Plot:
u.s. navy, battleship, military, investigation, military life, ship, army investigation, state affairs, campaign, political conspiracy, battles, police corruption ...
Time:
80s
Place:
usa, iowa
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 179 min.
Story:
In 1947, four German judges who served on the bench during the Nazi regime face a military tribunal to answer charges of crimes against humanity. Chief Justice Haywood hears evidence and testimony not only from lead defendant Ernst Janning and his ...
Style:
black and white, political, philosophical, emotional, disturbing ...
Plot:
courtroom drama, judge, genocide, holocaust, lawyer, nazi, legal, redemption, court, trial, politics, justice ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1945, year 1961, post world war two ...
Place:
germany, europe, berlin germany, poland
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, War
Country: UK, France
Duration: 148 min.
Story:
An unusual World War II crime thriller about a Nazi investigation into the murder of a prostitute. Major Grau finds himself focusing on three suspects: the Generals Tanz, Kahlenberg and Seydlitz-Gabler – all three of whom, it seems, are also ...
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, tense, suspense, serious ...
Plot:
world war two, war, serial killer, murder, prostitute, investigation, conspiracy, nazi occupation, nazi, nazi occupied poland, homosexual subtext, male male relationship ...
Time:
1940s, year 1965, year 1942, year 1944, year 1967 ...
Place:
paris france, france, poland, hamburg germany, warsaw poland ...
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Bulgaria near the end of World War I: Conan, warrior and wolf, leads a band of 50 ruthless French fighters who love hand-to-hand combat. Their motto: "We forgot to take prisoners, Captain." At war's end, the unit goes to Bucharest, ...
Style:
rough, serious, realistic, suspense
Plot:
world war one, french army, heroism, frontline, brutality, military life, society, great war, insubordination, danger, french military, investigation ...
Time:
year 1918, 20th century, year 1996, 1910s, post world war one ...
Place:
macedonia, romania, europe, brittany, balkan ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Against formidable odds -- and an old-school diving instructor embittered by the U.S. Navy's new, less prejudicial policies -- Carl Brashear sets his sights on becoming the Navy's first African-American master diver in this uplifting true ...
Style:
inspirational, touching, motivational, sincere, sexy ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
racism, african american, courage, u.s. navy, racial discrimination, military, navy, racial segregation, human spirit, dream come true, diving, underdog ...
Time:
1950s, 20th century, year 2000, y2k, 60s ...
Place:
america, africa, usa, pacific ocean, cuba ...
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The Hornblower series is based on C.S. Forester's classic maritime adventures - the story of one young man's struggle to become a leader of men. Set against the back drop of the 18th century Anglo-French wars, the bloodiest time in British ...
Style:
serious, exciting, realistic, period piece, captivating ...
Plot:
napoleonic wars, ship, british navy, military, leadership, naval battle, navy, napoleonic era, military life, rebelliousness, uninhibited rivalry, rebel ...
Time:
19th century, 18th century, 1800s
Place:
west indies, jamaica
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Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A Gulf War veteran with PTSD (Kilmer) heads to a small town to find his friend. When he arrives his friend and his family have vanished and the townsfolk afraid to answer questions about their disappearance. He soon discovers that the town is owned ...
Style:
suspenseful, realistic, tense, exciting, serious
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
politics, military, uncover truth, missing person, military life, retiring, danger, army investigation, soldier, spy, suicide bomber, illegal immigration ...
Place:
iraq, mexico, arizona
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
A dramatization of the 1865 war-crimes trial of Henry Wirz, commandant of the notorious Confederate POW camp at Andersonville, Georgia.
Style:
contemplative, realistic, serious, thought provoking, captivating ...
Plot:
american civil war, civil war, military, lawyer, u.s. civil war, time machine, usa politics, american politics, courtroom, legal, legal action, prison ...
Time:
1800s, 19th century, year 1865, 1860s
Place:
georgia, usa
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Genre: Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A burned-out private detective in Las Vegas gets involved in blackmail and murder.
Style:
independent film, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot:
private detective, murder, blackmail, gambling, burnout, ex-cop, life is a bitch, dishonesty, army investigation, law enforcement, femme fatale, wrongfully committed ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
las vegas
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
San Francisco becomes a target for waves of destructive meteors after a rogue comet orbits around the earth... For astronomer, Michelle Young, what was meant to be a once-in-a-lifetime celestial event, soon turns into her worst nightmare as ...
Style:
serious, exciting, suspenseful, bleak, apocalyptic ...
Plot:
meteor shower, disaster, destiny, natural disaster, escapades, danger, save the world, space and aliens, mother daughter relationship, science, meteorite, brother sister relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
san francisco
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