British army movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant british army movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, captivating, exciting, suspenseful and period drama films and TV shows about / with british army, military, soldier, war, battles, army, military life, explosion, british soldier and world war two plots mostly in Drama, War and Action genres shot in UK, USA, Ireland and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as british army: The Patrol (2013), Kajaki (2014), Our Girl (2013), Black '47 (2018), Carry On... Up the Khyber (1968), Our Girl (2013), Too Late the Hero (1970), Soldier Soldier (1991), Lancaster Skies (2019), How I Unleashed World War II (1970).

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 4.3
 1K
The Patrol (2013)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: UK, Morocco
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Afghanistan, 2006, Helmand Province becomes one of the most dangerous places on Earth as the British Army is deployed into the Taliban heartland. The Operation, Herrick, became synonymous with the struggle as British troops fought a losing battle ...
Style: tense, psychological, disturbing, realistic, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: war, military, british army, soldier, military life, isolation, desert, chaos, danger, confined, war on terror, army ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: afghanistan, morocco, middle east
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 7.1
 14K
Kajaki (2014)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: British soldiers guarding the Kajaki Dam set out to rescue a three-man team after one of them loses a leg to a landmine.
Style: bleak, exciting, tense, rough, serious ...
Audience: boys' night, girls' night
Plot: war, soldier, bravery, military, british army, war in afghanistan, minefield, desert, heroic mission, danger, tough heroes, battle zone ...
Time: 2000s, year 2006, 21st century
Place: afghanistan, middle east
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 7.6
 5K
Our Girl (2013)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Drama following the extraordinary adventures of female medics in the British Army.
Style: touching, emotional, serious, realistic, suspense ...
Plot: female soldier, british army, military, soldier, self discovery, doctor, basic training, female warrior, strong female presence, power relations, officers and cadets, military base ...
Time: 21st century
Place: middle east, afghanistan, england
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 6.8
 13K
Black '47 (2018)
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: Ireland, Luxembourg, Belgium
Duration: 100 min.
Story: It’s 1847 and Ireland is in the grip of the Great Famine that has ravaged the country for two long years. Feeney, a hardened Irish Ranger who has been fighting for the British Army abroad, abandons his post to return home and reunite with his ...
Style: suspense, bleak, suspenseful, exciting, intense ...
Plot: poverty, deserter, british colonialism, manhunt, starvation, revenge, british army, hunger, firing squad, oppression, desperation, injustice ...
Time: 19th century, 1840s, victorian era
Place: ireland, iraq, afghanistan, britain
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Carry On... Up the Khyber (1968)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Sir Sidney Ruff-Diamond looks after the British outpost near the Khybar pass. Protected by the kilted Third Foot and Mouth regiment, you would think they were safe. But the Khazi of Kalabar has other ideas. He wants all the British dead! But his ...
Style: parody, spoof, double entendre, slapstick comedy, not serious ...
Plot: carry on, british raj, british empire, satire, battles, princess, dinner, palace, photograph, soldier, british army, indian history ...
Time: 19th century, 1800s, 1890s
Place: india, scotland, afghanistan, asia
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 7.5
 2K
Our Girl (2013)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Our Girl is the story of Molly Dawes, born and raised in the London Borough of Newham. Molly is the eldest of five kids with little future, a difficult father and a mother who always wanted more for her. Leaving school with no qualifications, Molly ...
Style: realistic, emotional, serious, touching, tense
Plot: military, parents and children, british army, self discovery, family relations, military life, military base, siblings relations, basic training, hopes, soldier, female protagonist ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
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Too Late the Hero (1970)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 145 min.
Story: A WWII film set on a Pacific island. Japanese and allied forces occupy different parts of the island. When a group of British soldiers are sent on a mission behind enemy lines, things don't go exactly to plan. This film differs in that some of ...
Style: suspenseful, suspense, tense, psychological, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, jungle, war, survival, military, british army, anti war, danger, soldier, rescue, rivalry, wartime ...
Time: year 1942
Place: the philippines
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Soldier Soldier (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: Soldier Soldier is a British television drama series. The title comes from a traditional song of the same name - "Soldier, soldier will you marry me, with your musket, fife and drum?" - an instrumental version of which was used as its ...
Plot: military, army, british army, sergeant, soldier, british military, uniform, military uniform
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Lancaster Skies (2019)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Douglas, a broken, solitary, Spitfire Ace, must overcome his past to lead a Lancaster bomber crew in the pivotal aerial war over Berlin, in 1944.
Style: touching, psychological, sincere, exciting, captivating ...
Plot: world war two, raf, aviation, secret, trust, killed in action, camaraderie, teamwork, world war, friendship between men, british army, royal air force ...
Time: year 1943, 1940s
Place: berlin germany, england, germany
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How I Unleashed World War II (1970)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 224 min.
Story: How I unleashed World War II is a Polish feature film made in 1969, based on Kazimierz Sławiński's novel "Przygody kanoniera Dolasa" (The adventures of Dolas the cannoneer). The film was divided into three parts: Ucieczka (The ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic
Plot: world war two, foreign legion, military, soldier, military life, war, polish, love letter, mistaken identity, coincidence, comedy of errors, hapless soldier ...
Time: 20th century
Place: poland, africa, europe, italy, england
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Ultimate Force (2002)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK
Duration: 74 min.
TV show
Story: Ultimate Force is a British television drama series that was shown on ITV, which deals with the activities of the fictional Red Troop of the SAS. The programme started on 16 September 2002 and four series were produced.
Style: exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: military, covert operation, counter terrorism, mercenary, danger, terrorism, special forces, survival, hostage, mission, spy, rescue ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: england, europe
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 8.1
 182K
Barry Lyndon (1975)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 185 min.
Story: In the Eighteenth Century, in a small village in Ireland, Redmond Barry is a young farm boy in love with his cousin Nora Brady. When Nora engages to the British Captain John Quin, Barry challenges him for a duel of pistols. He wins and escapes to ...
Style: epic, visually stunning, period piece, realistic, visual ...
Plot: nobility, rise and fall, aristocracy, opportunist, tragedy, literary, british army, gambling, funeral, sword fight, soldier, amputation ...
Time: 18th century, georgian era, 20th century, victorian era, 19th century ...
Place: ireland, prussia, england, britain, berlin germany ...
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The Mark of Cain (2007)
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, suspenseful, disturbing, rough, realistic
Plot: court martial, soldier, pow, racism, military, courtroom drama, officers and cadets, political unrest, legal, life is a bitch, courtroom, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: iraq, middle east
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SAS: Rogue Heroes (2022)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story: The dramatised account of how the world’s greatest Special Forces unit, the SAS, was formed under extraordinary circumstances in the darkest days of World War Two.
Style: captivating, tense, thrilling, satirical
Plot: world war two, military, british army, soldier, pilot, british soldier, mission, battles, wartime life, fight, special agent, fight for supremacy ...
Time: 1940s
Place: cairo egypt, north africa, libya, egypt
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Sharpe's Rifles (1993)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
TV show
Story: During the Peninsular War in Spain against the French, Sergeant Richard Sharpe saves the life of Arthur Wellesley, the future Duke of Wellington and is promoted to Lieutenant. In order to pay the troops Wellesley needs a money draft from the banker ...
Style: exciting, costume drama, realistic, serious, suspenseful
Plot: napoleonic wars, war, military, wartime life, escapades, british army, medieval, world history, revolution, napoleonic era, special forces, chivalry ...
Time: 19th century, 1800s
Place: portugal, iberian peninsula
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 7.1
 6K
My Boy Jack (2007)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK, USA, Ireland
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Author Rudyard Kipling and his wife search for their 17-year-old son after he goes missing during WWI.
Style: realistic, serious, suspense, costume drama, tense ...
Plot: world war one, battles, military, british army, family relations, writers, teenage life, officers and cadets, parents and children, missing person, great war, father son relationship ...
Time: 1910s, year 1915
Place: france, dublin ireland, england, germany
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El Alamein - The Line of Fire (2002)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 117 min.
Story: War seen through the eyes of Serra, a university student from Palermo who volunteers in 1942 to fight in Africa. He is assigned to the Pavia Division on the southern line in Egypt. Rommel and the Axis forces are bogged down; it's October, the ...
Style: serious, bleak, realistic, sincere, captivating ...
Plot: war, world war two, military, soldier, battles, friendship, danger, wartime life, military life, british army, behind enemy lines, introspection ...
Time: 1940s, year 1942, 20th century
Place: middle east, egypt, africa, alexandria egypt, palermo italy ...
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Sharpe's Waterloo (1997)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
TV show
Story: Based on the novel by Bernard Cornwell, "Sharpe's Waterloo" brings maverick British officer Lt. Col. Richard Sharpe to his last fight against the French, in June of 1815.
Style: exciting, captivating, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: napoleonic wars, medieval, napoleonic era, lone wolves, french revolution, historical event, revolutionary war, struggle, revolutionary, freedom, revolution, battles ...
Time: 19th century, 1810s
Place: belgium, europe
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Lines of Wellington (2012)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Portugal, France
Duration: 151 min.
Story: Passionate romance, brutal treachery, and selfless nobility are set against the background of Napoleon’s 1810 invasion of Portugal in Valeria Sarmiento’s intimate epic.
Style: serious, stylized, exciting, realistic, historical drama ...
Plot: napoleonic wars, troops, soldier, invasion, wartime life, battle zone, on the run, life is a bitch, military, war, napoleonic era, napoleon bonaparte ...
Time: 19th century
Place: portugal, europe, lisbon portugal
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 8.2
 667K
1917 (2019)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: UK, USA, India, Spain
Duration: 119 min.
Story: At the height of the First World War, two young British soldiers, Schofield and Blake are given a seemingly impossible mission. In a race against time, they must cross enemy territory and deliver a message that will stop a deadly attack on hundreds ...
Style: tense, period piece, entertaining, sad, visually stunning ...
Audience: boys' night, date night, teens, adult
Plot: world war one, trench warfare, race against time, british soldier, british army, death, soldier, military, battlefield, british military, survival, dangerous mission ...
Time: year 1917, 1910s, 2010s, 20th century, year 2019
Place: persia, britain, los angeles, france
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Sword of Honour (2001)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 208 min.
Story: Guy Crouchback joins the war effort during World War 2, an idealistic quest to join the forces of good in the fight against evil. But his efforts is not rewarded, he never has any chance to join any real fighting, circumstances always prevent it. ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, touching, semi autobiographical ...
Plot: world war two, military, love triangle, fighting the system, love and romance, betrayal, haunted by the past, life is a bitch, military life, soldier, basic training, society ...
Time: future, 1940s
Place: england, europe
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The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Ireland, UK, Germany, Italy, Spain, France, Switzerland
Duration: 127 min.
Story: In 1920s Ireland young doctor Damien O'Donovan prepares to depart for a new job in a London hospital. As he says his goodbyes at a friend's farm, British Black and Tans arrive, and a young man is killed. Damien joins his brother Teddy in ...
Style: political, bleak, factual, brutal, bloody ...
Audience: date night
Plot: rebellion, civil war, ira, resistance, war, politics, freedom, rebel, traitor, injustice, occupation, debate ...
Time: 1920s, year 2006, 20th century, 2000s, post world war one ...
Place: ireland, england, northern ireland, dublin ireland, europe ...
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An Ungentlemanly Act (1992)
Genre: History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Based on actual accounts, this film portrays the days and hours before and during the invasion of the Falkland Islands by Argentina, which eventually lead to the Falklands War. As the Argentine forces land on the main island and make their way ...
Plot: falklands war, cold war, invasion, assault, officer, battles, soldier, prisoner, journalist, governor, british army, commando ...
Time: 80s
Place: argentina
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Military Wives (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Inspired by global phenomenon of military wives choirs, the story celebrates a band of misfit women who form a choir on a military base. As unexpected bonds of friendship flourish, music and laughter transform their lives, helping each other to ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, sincere, captivating, semi serious ...
Plot: choir, friendship, british army, rivalry, little boy, fame, mother daughter relationship, female protagonist, father daughter relationship, british soldier, father son relationship, fear ...
Time: year 2010
Place: england, london
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Jungle Fighters (1961)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Based on a play by Willis Hall. A troop of British soldiers are out in the jungle to record jungle noises and troop noises in the jungle so that the recordings can be played back by other troops to divert the enemy to their whereabouts. As they ...
Style: ironic, tension, independent film, vintage
Plot: world war two, jungle, iconoclastic, prisoner, british army, anti war, soldier, army, group, shootout, abandoned building, japanese soldier ...
Time: year 1961, year 1942
Place: burma, southeast asia
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The Forgotten Battle (2020)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 124 min.
Story: November 1944. On the flooded isle of Walcheren, Zeeland, thousands of Allied soldiers are battling the German army. Three young lives become inextricably connected. A Dutch boy fighting for the Germans, an English glider pilot and a girl from ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, captivating, tense, powerful
Plot: world war two, military, combat, war, british soldier, british military, killed in action, soldier, dam, shell shock, royal air force, british army ...
Time: 1940s, year 1944
Place: netherlands, germany, holland
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 7.2
 292K
The Patriot (2000)
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: period piece, dramatic, rough, uplifting, factual ...
Audience: manly, family friendly, kids, boys' night, adult
Plot: american revolution, war, freedom, revolution, military, battles, vengeance, rebellion, human spirit, heroic mission, wartime, combat ...
Time: 18th century, year 2000, georgian era, y2k, 1780s ...
Place: south carolina, america, southern usa, virginia, britain ...
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 7.4
 42K
Gallipoli (1981)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: Australia
Duration: 110 min.
Story: As World War I rages, brave and youthful Australians Archy and Frank, both agile runners, become friends and enlist in the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps together. They later find themselves part of the Dardanelles Campaign on the Gallipoli ...
Style: touching, atmospheric, harsh, emotional, intense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war one, military, anti war, friendship, war, idealism, human spirit, wartime, great war, social commentary, politics, british army ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century, year 1915, year 1981, 1920s
Place: australia, ottoman empire, egypt, gallipoli, turkey ...
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The English Patient (1996)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA, UK, Italy
Duration: 162 min.
Story: In the 1930s, Count Almásy is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to chart the vast expanses of the Sahara Desert along with several other prominent explorers. As World War II unfolds, Almásy enters into a world of ...
Style: romantic, sentimental, emotional, touching, heartbreaking ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: world war two, adultery, love story, tragic love, betrayal, desert, life philosophy, beautiful scenery, life & death, war, wartime, power of love ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s, year 1944, year 1942, 90s ...
Place: sahara, italy, africa, ottoman empire, cairo egypt ...
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The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 139 min.
Story: A chronicle of events that led to the British involvement in the Crimean War against Russia and which led to the siege of Sevastopol and the fierce Battle of Balaclava on October 25, 1854 which climaxed with the heroic, but near-disastrous calvary ...
Style: epic, factual, harsh, serious, exciting ...
Plot: british history, politics, british army, military, british soldier, visceral, battles, assassination, wartime, justice, anti war, tragic hero ...
Time: 19th century, 1850s, victorian era
Place: england, crimea, europe, turkey, istanbul turkey ...
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