Wartime movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant wartime movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, dramatic, intense, captivating and sentimental films and TV shows about / with wartime, world war two, war, catastrophe, beautiful scenery, sacrifice, culture clash, courage, soldier and death plots mostly in Drama, War and Romance genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as wartime: Malena (2000), Testament of Youth (2014), Atonement (2007), Dunkirk (2017), Enigma (2001), Battle for Sevastopol (2015), Hope and Glory (1987), Sister (2019), The Way Back (2010), Pearl Harbor (2001).
Best films
List of wartime movies
105K
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
On the day in 1940 that Italy enters the war, two things happen to the 12-year-old Renato: he gets his first bike, and he gets his first look at Malèna. She is a beautiful, silent outsider who's moved to this Sicilian town to be with her ...
Style:
erotic, sexy, sexual, touching, melancholic ...
Plot:
women, hot and sexy, older woman younger man relationship, coming of age, wartime, world war two, older woman younger man, longing, small town, prostitution, jealousy, life is a bitch ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
italy, canada, europe, southern italy, sicily ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK, Denmark
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Testament of Youth is a powerful story of love, war and remembrance, based on the First World War memoir by Vera Brittain, which has become the classic testimony of that war from a woman’s point of view. A searing journey from youthful hopes and ...
Style:
touching, captivating, serious, romantic, stylized ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
world war one, war, wartime, aspiring writer, women, life is a bitch, wartime life, love and romance, love affair, death, destiny, adaptation ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century, 1920s, year 1918, 19th century ...
Place:
england, oxford university, london, flanders, europe ...
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285K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, War
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
As a 13-year-old, fledgling writer Briony Tallis irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.
Style:
touching, emotional, sad, heartbreaking, dramatic ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, adult
Plot:
world war two, wartime, redemption, injustice, love story, tragic love, unfulfilled love, war, love and romance, forbidden love, love, false accusation ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, post world war two, victorian era, 50s ...
Place:
england, dunkirk, london, europe
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673K
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: UK, Netherlands, France, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The story of the miraculous evacuation of Allied soldiers from Belgium, Britain, Canada and France, who were cut off and surrounded by the German army from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk between May 26th and June 4th 1940 during World War II.
Style:
epic, atmospheric, dramatic, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
world war two, military, survival, war, soldier, evacuation, military officer, beach, wartime, air attack, rescue mission, army ...
Time:
1940s, year 1940, middle ages, 20th century
Place:
france, england, english channel, dunkirk, los angeles ...
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21K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: UK, USA, Germany, Netherlands
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
A romantic thriller based around the World War 2 project to crack the codes behind the Enigma machine, used by the Germans to encrypt messages sent to their submarines.
Style:
clever, factual, tricky, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
world war two, nazi, code breaking, espionage, wartime, submarine, war, spy, secret service, conspiracy, idealism, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
1940s, post world war two, 20th century
Place:
poland, scotland, london, england, germany ...
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Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Ukraine, Russia
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The breakout of the war shatters the world of a young student, Lyudmila Pavlichenko, forcing her to enlist in the army in 1941. The maiden turns out to be a natural-born sniper, her impressive skill and prowess make her stand out among men and women ...
Style:
dramatic, realistic, rough, disturbing, serious ...
Plot:
sniper, world war two, female soldier, female protagonist, nazi, wartime, war, wartime life, enemy, strong female lead, battlefield, great patriotic war ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
ussr, ukraine, usa, chicago illinois, russia
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
British writer/director John Boorman (The Emerald Forest) draws us into an astonishing and exhilarating portrait of his own childhood, set against the terrors of a London torn apart by the onset of WWII. Seven-year-old Billy Rohan (Sebastian Rice ...
Style:
touching, realistic, sentimental, humorous, intense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
world war two, wartime, childhood, war, school, children in wartime, youth, wartime life, coming of age, unlikely friendships, ethnic conflict, character study ...
Time:
1940s, year 1939
Place:
england, london, europe, britain, big ben london
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399
Genre: Drama, Family, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
How many Yamil remembers himself, war has always been. He is very much waiting for it to end - after all, then the father will return, whom the boy knows only from photographs and letters. One day, Mom leaves for a distant city and brings the silent ...
Style:
sincere, captivating, touching, disturbing, sentimental
Plot:
wartime, traumatic childhood, kids in trouble, little girl, life is a bitch, family relations, struggle for survival, fascism, world war two, sister, brother, children ...
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119K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: USA, United Arab Emirates, Poland, India
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Peter Weir's follow-up to Master & Commander (2003) is the stark & brilliant The Way Back, which takes on the theme of man's struggle for freedom. At the dawn of WWII, several men escape from a Russian gulag. The film ...
Style:
realistic, rough, epic, inspirational, serious ...
Plot:
survival, escape, prison escape, freedom, war, wilderness, world war two, journey, desert, gulag, pow, human spirit ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
himalaya, russia, poland, germany, ussr ...
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338K
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 183 min.
Story:
The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the two ace fighter pilots become entangled in a love triangle with beautiful Naval nurse Evelyn Johnson. But the rivalry between the friends-turned-foes ...
Style:
romantic, sentimental, emotional, epic, factual ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, teens, date night
Plot:
world war two, war, love, love triangle, military, airplane, love and romance, fighter pilot, aviation, navy, aerial combats, warship ...
Time:
1940s, 50s, post world war two, 20th century, year 1942 ...
Place:
hawaii, pearl harbor, japan, asia, tokyo ...
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280K
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 165 min.
Story:
After proving himself on the field of battle in the French and Indian War, Benjamin Martin wants nothing more to do with such things, preferring the simple life of a farmer. But when his son Gabriel enlists in the army to defend their new nation, ...
Style:
epic, dramatic, rough, uplifting, sincere ...
Audience:
manly, girls' night, kids, boys' night
Plot:
war, american revolution, battles, military, vengeance, freedom, revolution, human spirit, rebellion, heroic mission, wartime, soldier ...
Time:
18th century, georgian era, 1770s, 1780s
Place:
south carolina, southern usa, scotland, england, virginia ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: UK, France, Canada, Belgium, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
France, 1940. In the first days of occupation, beautiful Lucile Angellier is trapped in a stifled existence with her controlling mother-in-law as they both await news of her husband: a prisoner of war. Parisian refugees start to pour into their ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, romantic, captivating, serious ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
world war two, forbidden love, nazi occupation, german soldier, german officer, war, fall in love, wartime life, love and romance, nazi officer, adultery, nazi occupied france ...
Time:
1940s, year 1940, 20th century, 18th century
Place:
france, europe, paris france, england, germany ...
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 146 min.
Story:
A Westerner finds refuge with a group of women in a church during Japan's rape of Nanking in 1937. Posing as a priest, he attempts to lead the women to safety.
Style:
touching, emotional, realistic, harsh, brutal ...
Plot:
world war two, atrocity, prostitution, war, suffering, sino japanese war, japanese occupation of china, prostitute, holocaust, wartime, survival, rape ...
Time:
year 1937, 1930s, 20th century
Place:
china, asia, germany, japan
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Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller, War
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A group of World War II American soldiers encounter a supernatural enemy as they occupy a French castle previously under Nazi control.
Style:
mystical, captivating, twist ending, exciting, scary ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
world war two, wartime, military, ghost, suspense, vengeful ghost, puzzle, mysticism, haunted house, supernatural, military life, dark secret ...
Time:
year 1944
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
Spirited New Yorker Linda Voss goes to work for international lawyer and secret Office of Strategic Services operative Ed Leland just before World War II. As they fall in love, the United States enters the fight against Hitler, and Linda volunteers ...
Style:
suspenseful, sentimental, melancholic, exciting, realistic ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
world war two, nazi germany, espionage, double agent, wartime, spy, wartime life, behind enemy lines, suspense, secret agents, working undercover, love and romance ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
germany, berlin germany, new york, europe, usa
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 195 min.
Story:
The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.
Style:
touching, emotional, thought provoking, realistic, heartbreaking ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, jewish, genocide, nazi, war, concentration camp, anti semitism, brutality, against humanity, wartime, racism ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 1930s, 90s
Place:
poland, germany, vatican, europe, israel ...
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
1943: Nine-year-old Eero whose father is killed during the war is brought to Sweden to foster parents to his protection like thousands of other Finnish children. Eero feels lost, particularly as his foster mother Signe behaves very unfriendly. She ...
Style:
emotional, touching, melancholic, bleak, realistic ...
Plot:
world war two, coming of age, children, holocaust, self discovery, secrets, wartime, loneliness, life is a bitch, human nature, family relations, wartime life ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
poland, tokyo, japan, germany, sweden ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Netherlands, Luxembourg
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
Twin Sisters is an epic love story based on the Dutch bestseller by Tessa de Loo that has been read by more than 3.5 million readers in Holland and Germany.
Style:
captivating, thought provoking, realistic, serious, touching ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
world war two, twins, wartime life, family reunited, family relations, life is a bitch, culture clash, human nature, society, orphan, reconciliation, wartime ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, 20th century, 1920s
Place:
germany, europe, holland, netherlands
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155K
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA, UK, India
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A cover-up that spanned four U.S. Presidents pushed the country's first female newspaper publisher and a hard-driving editor to join an unprecedented battle between journalist and government. Inspired by true events.
Style:
political, tense, inspirational, thought provoking, factual ...
Plot:
journalism, expose, newspaper office, newspaper, cover up, truth, lie, wartime, journalist, freedom of the press, u.s. government, new york times ...
Time:
70s, year 1965, year 1971, year 1966, year 1949 ...
Place:
washington d.c., usa, vietnam
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Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
Inspired by true events, Olympic swimmer Harry Melchior defects from East Germany in the 1960s and hatches a daring plot to help his sister and others flee East Berlin through a 145-yard underground tunnel.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, compassionate, captivating, political ...
Plot:
tunnel, berlin wall, politics, suspense, betrayal, communism, escape, political unrest, wartime, freedom, breast feeding, brutality ...
Time:
60s
Place:
east germany, germany, berlin germany, west berlin west germany, german democratic republic ...
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Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: Norway, Denmark, Germany
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Max Manus is a Norwegian 2008 biographic war film based on the real events of the life of resistance fighter Max Manus (1914–96), after his contribution in the Winter War against the Soviet Union. The story follows Manus through the outbreak of ...
Style:
intense, tense, brutal, factual, light ...
Audience:
boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
world war two, resistance, nazi, nazism, war, military, escape, gestapo, courage, manhunt, terrorism, sacrifice ...
Time:
1940s, post world war two, 20th century
Place:
norway, scotland, germany, africa, russia ...
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Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: France, Germany, USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
The story of the first major battle of the American phase of the Vietnam War and the soldiers on both sides that fought it.
Style:
serious, factual, emotional, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
military, vietnam war, war, battles, soldier, battlefield, heroic mission, military life, death, wartime, justice, anti war ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, 2000s
Place:
vietnam, asia, usa, iraq
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Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
The biography of Ron Kovic. Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, he becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought for.
Style:
disturbing, realistic, emotional, factual, intense ...
Plot:
vietnam war, anti war, politics, disability, military, fighting the system, war, wartime, handicapped, desert, vietnam veteran, u.s. military ...
Time:
70s, 60s, 50s, 80s, year 1970 ...
Place:
vietnam, the philippines, texas, iraq, new york ...
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101K
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: USA, Canada, China
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A first-time captain leads a convoy of allied ships carrying thousands of soldiers across the treacherous waters of the “Black Pit” to the front lines of WW2. With no air cover protection for 5 days, the captain and his convoy must battle the ...
Style:
serious, exciting, emotional, compassionate, motivational ...
Plot:
world war two, submarine, war, convoy, navy, u.s. navy, warship, ocean, us military, captain, battleship, naval officer ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
san francisco, atlantic ocean
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, War
Country: France, USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
In 1919, Mathilde was 19 years old. Two years earlier, her fiancé Manech left for the front at the Somme. Like millions of others he was "killed on the field of battle." It's written in black and white on the official notice. But ...
Style:
romantic, touching, atmospheric, epic, sexy ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
world war one, war, love, love and romance, love story, wartime, private detective, investigation, obsession, tragedy, sacrifice, life & death ...
Time:
1920s, 1910s, 20th century, year 1917, year 1919
Place:
france, paris france, europe, brittany, marseille ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 165 min.
Story:
A naval officer reprimanded after Pearl Harbor is later promoted to rear admiral and gets a second chance to prove himself against the Japanese.
Style:
realistic, factual, tense, exciting, suspenseful ...
Plot:
war, world war two, naval battle, military, wartime, naval officer, father son relationship, adultery, u.s. navy, military life, suicide, marital infidelity ...
Time:
year 1941, 1940s, year 1942
Place:
pearl harbor, hawaii, san francisco, polynesia, pacific ocean
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Genre: Drama, Music, Romance, War
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
When a Greek fisherman leaves to fight with the Greek army during WWII, his fiancee falls in love with the local Italian commander. The film is based on a novel about an Italian soldier's experiences during the Italian occupation of the Greek ...
Style:
sentimental, romantic, intense, melancholic, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, date night
Plot:
world war two, war, italian army, wartime, german, resistance fighter, love and romance, impossible love, wartime life, fall in love, social relations, fascism ...
Time:
1940s, post world war two, 20th century
Place:
greece, rome italy, germany, italy, europe ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Italy, UK, USA
Duration: 197 min.
Story:
Doctor Zhivago is the filmed adapation of the Russian novel by Boris Pasternak from director David Lean that was an international success and today deemed a classic. Omar Sharif and Julie Christie play two protagonists who in fact love each other ...
Style:
epic, atmospheric, emotional, romantic, sentimental ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
world war one, communism, deportation, love triangle, revolution, war, train, rape, poet, wartime, imperial russia, betrayal ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century, 1940s, 1910s, 1930s ...
Place:
russia, ussr, moscow russia
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151K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA, Italy, Romania, UK
Duration: 154 min.
Story:
In this classic story of love and devotion set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, a wounded Confederate soldier named W.P. Inman deserts his unit and travels across the South, aiming to return to his young wife, Ada, who he left behind ...
Style:
romantic, epic, sincere, serious, touching ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
american civil war, survival, love story, civil war, tragic love, war, loss of family member, wartime, getting home, slavery, loss of loved one, military ...
Time:
19th century, 1860s, victorian era, 50s
Place:
south carolina, north carolina, usa, ancient greece, atlantic ocean ...
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller, War
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Ilsa is a warden at a Nazi death camp that conducts experiments on prisoners. Ilsa's goal is to prove that woman can withstand more pain and suffering than men and should be allowed to fight on the front lines
Style:
rough, disturbing, controversial, erotic, bloody ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
world war two, female prisoner, rape, prison, sexploitation, women's prison, violence, captivity, nazi, sexual abuse, war, torture ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
germany, canada
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