Ethnic conflict movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant ethnic conflict movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, sincere, tense, captivating and suspense films and TV shows about / with ethnic conflict, war, military, murder, soldier, death, society, blood, politics and explosion plots mostly in Drama, War and History genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as ethnic conflict: Camp X-Ray (2014), The Siege of Jadotville (2016), Ambush (1999), Katyn (2007), Bloody Sunday (2002), Days of Glory (2006), A Perfect Day (2015), Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002), Look Who's Back (2015), Salvador (1986).

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 6.9
 43K
Camp X-Ray (2014)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A young woman joins the military to be part of something bigger than herself and her small-town roots. Instead, she ends up as a new guard at Guantanamo Bay, where her mission is far from black and white. Surrounded by hostile jihadists and ...
Style: sincere, intense, captivating, serious, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: female soldier, american abroad, military police, female protagonist, military, friendship, bullying, prison, prison life, brutality, life philosophy, ethnic conflict ...
Time: year 2014, 2000s, 21st century
Place: iraq, middle east, afghanistan, cuba
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The Siege of Jadotville (2016)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: Ireland, South Africa
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Irish Commandant Pat Quinlan leads a stand off with troops against French and Belgian Mercenaries in the Congo during in the early 1960s.
Style: suspense, realistic, tense, factual, intense ...
Plot: civil war, conflict, military, courage, fight scenes, ethnic conflict, politics, betrayal, storytelling, propaganda, assassination, survival ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: africa, congo, ireland, south africa
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 6.7
 4K
Ambush (1999)
Genre: War, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 123 min.
Story: It is the summer of 1941 and the Finnish army has been mobilized along the border with Russia. A platoon led by Lt. Eero Perkola is waiting for orders to go on the offensive. The platoon receives orders for a recon mission through the wilderness ...
Style: realistic, suspense, intense, sincere, disturbing ...
Plot: world war two, military, ethnic conflict, courage, culture clash, justice, visceral, behind enemy lines, lone hero, battles, danger, military life ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, 90s
Place: russia, finland, eastern europe
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 7.0
 17K
Katyn (2007)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 122 min.
Story: An examination of the Soviet slaughter of thousands of Polish officers and citizens in the Katyn forest in 1940.
Style: disturbing, heartbreaking, sentimental, realistic, sad ...
Plot: world war two, war crime, nazism, polish history, survival, ethnic conflict, holocaust, massacre, murder, courage, idealism, nazi ...
Time: 1940s, year 2007, 20th century, year 1940
Place: poland, eastern europe, europe, russia, soviet union
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 7.6
 26K
Bloody Sunday (2002)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK, Ireland, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: The dramatised story of the Irish civil rights protest march on January 30 1972 which ended in a massacre by British troops.
Style: political, bleak, rough, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot: ira, rebellion, civil rights, protest, conflict, politics, terrorism, injustice, civil war, ethnic conflict, political unrest, fighting the system ...
Time: year 2002, 70s, 90s, 20th century, year 1972 ...
Place: ireland, europe, northern ireland, united kingdom
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 7.0
 15K
Days of Glory (2006)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: Algeria, France, Morocco, Belgium
Duration: 123 min.
Story: During WWII, four North African men enlist in the French army to liberate that country from Nazi oppression, and to fight French discrimination.
Style: realistic, emotional, rough, serious, political ...
Plot: war, battles, world war two, politics, justice, military, survival, muslim, brutality, racism, self esteem, ethnic conflict ...
Time: year 1945, year 1944, 50s, 20th century, 1940s ...
Place: france, africa, vichy, algeria, morocco ...
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 6.8
 23K
A Perfect Day (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Spain
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Film about a group of aid workers trying to resolve a crisis in an armed conflict zone in the Balkans.
Style: political, cynical, melancholic, witty, humorous ...
Plot: volunteer, war zone, soldier, aid worker, translator, world politics, bosnian war, ethnic conflict, war, life philosophy, landmine, un ...
Time: year 2015, 90s, 20th century, year 1995
Place: bosnia herzegovina, former yugoslavia, balkan
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Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min.
Story: In 1931, three aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their homes to be trained as domestic staff and set off on a trek across the Outback.
Style: touching, emotional, poignant, factual, heartbreaking ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: child abuse, aborigine, australian outback, racism, kidnapping, children, australian aboriginal, culture clash, survival, indigenous people, women, colonialism ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, year 2002, year 1931
Place: australia, oceania
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Look Who's Back (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Germany
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Adolf Hitler wakes up in a vacant lot in Berlin, with no knowledge of anything that happened after 1945. Homeless and destitute. Although everyone recognizes him, nobody believes that he is Hitler; instead, they think he is either a comedian, or a ...
Style: political, realistic, stylized, psychological, controversial ...
Plot: hitler, time traveler, time travel, twists and turns, nazi, politics, humanity, manipulation, fascism, culture clash, ethnic conflict, propaganda ...
Time: 2010s, year 2015, 20th century, 21st century
Place: germany, berlin germany
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 7.4
 23K
Salvador (1986)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA, Mexico, UK
Duration: 122 min.
Story: A second rated journalist from the US tries his luck in El Salvador during the military dictatorship in the 1980s.
Style: suspense, political, tense, factual, harsh ...
Plot: civil war, photojournalist, journalism, revolution, dictator, politics, war correspondent, war, reporter, cold war, dictatorship, military ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1986, 70s
Place: latin america, central america, san francisco
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 6.7
 69K
Gold (2016)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Kenny Wells, a modern-day prospector, hustler, and dreamer, is desperate for a lucky break. Left with few options, Wells teams up with an equally luckless geologist to execute a grandiose, last-ditch effort: to find gold deep in the uncharted jungle ...
Style: inspirational, suspense, intellectual, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: jungle, business, treasure hunt, greed, mining, gold, money, ethnic conflict, life philosophy, brutality, justice, finance ...
Time: year 2016, 90s, 80s, year 1988
Place: southeast asia, indonesia, new york, reno nevada
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 6.3
 55K
Hart's War (2002)
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: realistic, tense, harsh, factual, suspense ...
Plot: world war two, war, nazi, prison, racism, soldier, prison escape, ethnic conflict, pow, propaganda, torture, prisoner of war camp ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 2002
Place: germany, europe, belgium
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Hatfields & McCoys (2012)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 290 min.
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Story: Anse Hatfield and Randall McCoy, close friends and comrades until near the end of the Civil War, return to their neighboring homes to increasing tensions, misunderstandings and resentments.
Style: tense, suspenseful, suspense, psychological, intense ...
Plot: civil war, american civil war, old west, gunfight, feud, revenge, violence spree, violence, murder, rivalry, ethnic conflict, vengeance ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1800s, 1870s, 1890s ...
Place: kentucky, west virginia, usa
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Bo Burnham: Make Happy (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
Story: Combining his trademark wit and self-deprecating humor with original music, Bo Burnham offers up his unique twist on life in this stand-up special about life, death, sexuality, hypocrisy, mental illness and Pringles cans.
Style: witty, touching, psychological, talky, melancholic ...
Plot: suprisingly clever, stand up comedy, obsession, bittersweet, existentialism, unlikely friendships, life & death, honest, mental illness, dialogue, ethnic conflict, art ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new jersey, usa
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 7.3
 15K
All the Way (2016)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story: Lyndon B. Johnson's amazing 11-month journey from taking office after JFK's assassination, through the fight to pass the 1964 Civil Rights Act and his own presidential campaign, culminating on the night LBJ is actually elected to the ...
Style: factual, tense, realistic, talky, intense ...
Plot: politics, racism, civil rights, president, u.s. president, african american, biopic, civil rights movement, election, usa president, propaganda, ethnic conflict ...
Time: 60s, year 2016, year 1963
Place: texas, america, vietnam, usa, dallas texas
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 7.2
 20K
Flame & Citron (2008)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: Denmark, Germany, Norway, France, Sweden, Finland, Czech Republic
Duration: 130 min.
Story: During Nazi occupation, red-headed Bent Faurschou-Hviid ("Flame") and Jørgen Haagen Schmith ("Citron"), assassins in the Danish resistance, take orders from Winther, who's in direct contact with Allied leaders. One shoots, ...
Style: realistic, sincere, period piece, atmospheric, factual ...
Audience: date night
Plot: world war two, gestapo, wartime, betrayal, spy, nazi, nazism, world war, double agent, resistance, war, organized crime ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 1940, year 1944
Place: denmark, germany, copenhagen, scandinavia, europe ...
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 7.4
 15K
Taking Chance (2009)
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: realistic, touching, sincere, sentimental, sad ...
Plot: war, military, iraq war, soldier, marines, self discovery, ritual, military life, ethnic conflict, unlikely friendships, father son relationship, patriotism ...
Time: 20th century, year 2004, 21st century
Place: iraq, wyoming, afghanistan, baghdad iraq, usa ...
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 7.3
 48K
Red Cliff (2008)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: China, Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, USA
Duration: 145 min.
Story: In 208 A.D., in the final days of the Han Dynasty, shrewd Prime Minster Cao convinced the fickle Emperor Han the only way to unite all of China was to declare war on the kingdoms of Xu in the west and East Wu in the south. Thus began a military ...
Style: epic, realistic, breathtaking, brutal, visual ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: war, martial arts, battles, strategy, kung fu, historical event, chinese emperor, ancient history, horse, medieval, visceral, revenge ...
Time: year 2008, medieval times, ancient times
Place: china, ancient china, greece, rome italy, tibet ...
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The Band's Visit (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Israel, USA, France
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Once-not long ago-a small Egyptian police band arrived in Israel. Not many remember this... It wasn't that important. A band comprised of members of the Egyptian police force head to Israel to play at the inaugural ceremony of an Arab arts ...
Style: emotional, atmospheric, humorous, sincere, feel good ...
Plot: culture clash, musician, israeli, small town, orchestra, ethnic conflict, fish out of water, society, disorder, music, melancholy, loneliness ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: israel, middle east, egypt, palestine, maghreb ...
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 6.7
 11K
Catch a Fire (2006)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France, UK, South Africa, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: The true story of anti-apartheid activists in South Africa, and particularly the life of Patrick Chamusso, a timid foreman at Secunda CTL, the largest synthetic fuel plant in the world. Patrick is wrongly accused, imprisoned and tortured for an ...
Style: tense, political, factual, emotional, harsh ...
Plot: terrorism, racism, politics, rebellion, fighting the system, apartheid, police brutality, civil rights, visceral, ethnic conflict, political unrest, danger ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 2006, year 1980, year 1991 ...
Place: south africa, africa, angola
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 6.7
 21K
Midway (1976)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story: This war drama depicts the U.S. and Japanese forces in the naval Battle of Midway, which became a turning point for Americans during World War II.
Style: realistic, tense, factual, intense, suspense ...
Plot: world war two, military, sea battle, pacific war, naval battle, aviation, navy, u.s. navy, world war, wartime, ethnic conflict, fascism ...
Time: year 1976, year 1942, 20th century, 1940s
Place: america, pacific ocean
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 7.3
 15K
Hope and Glory (1987)
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, humorous, sentimental, intense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: world war two, wartime, childhood, children in wartime, war, boy, youth, wartime life, coming of age, character study, unlikely friendships, ethnic conflict ...
Time: 1940s, year 1939, year 1987
Place: england, london, europe, britain, big ben london
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Viceroy's House (2017)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, India, Sweden
Duration: 106 min.
Story: In 1947, Lord Mountbatten assumes the post of last Viceroy, charged with handing India back to its people, living upstairs at the house which was the home of British rulers, whilst 500 Hindu, Muslim and Sikh servants lived downstairs.
Style: disturbing, factual, sincere, captivating, touching ...
Plot: palace, british raj, servant, democracy, ethnic conflict, independence, economics, british empire, governor, politics, school, promise ...
Time: 1940s, year 1947, year 1945, year 1933
Place: delhi, pakistan, india, new delhi, london
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 7.5
 2K
Enclave (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Serbia
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Nenad, ten years Christian boy from a Serbian enclave, determined to create a proper community burial for his late grandfather, crosses enemy lines and makes friends among the Muslim majority in deeply divided, war-torn Kosovo.
Style: captivating, psychological, disturbing
Plot: boy, post war, political conflict, ethnic conflict, military, muslim, teenager, coming of age, child, community, life is a bitch, funeral ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place: kosovo, eastern europe, balkan, serbia
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 8.1
 49K
Tangerines (2013)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Estonia, Georgia
Duration: 87 min.
Story: War in Abkhazia 1990. An Estonian man Ivo has stayed behind to harvest his crops of tangerines. In a bloody conflict at his door, a wounded man is left behind, and Ivo is forced to take him in.
Style: harsh, thought provoking, tense, heartbreaking, compassionate ...
Audience: adult
Plot: anti war, humanity, wartime life, civil war, tragedy, brutality, war, life & death, character study, survival, bullet wound, life is a bitch ...
Time: 90s, year 2014, year 2013, year 1992, 20th century
Place: georgia, iraq, middle east, soviet union, europe ...
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 5.6
 2K
Black Beach (2020)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, Belgium, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Carlos is a businessman who gets a request to intercede on behalf a US engineer in the oil industry who's been kidnapped.
Style: exciting, captivating, tense, disturbing, suspense
Plot: political repression, mother son relationship, genocide, ethnic conflict, family secret, corruption, friendship, oil company, male nudity, african tribe, assassination, twists and turns ...
Place: west africa, madrid, belgium, brussels, africa ...
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 5.5
 15K
Little (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, China
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A woman receives the chance to relive the life of her younger self, at a point in her life when the pressures of adulthood become too much for her to bear.
Style: rom com, light, feel good, humorous, sincere ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, chick flick, adult
Plot: body swapping, african american, peer pressure, fashion designer, friendship, bullying, transformation, black, employer employee relationship, middle school, ethnic conflict, rivalry ...
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The Last Warrior (2018)
Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Russia
Duration: 105 min.
Story: These are times when one civilization is replacing another. A new era is about to begin in Central Eurasia. Scythians, the proud warriors, are all but gone. The few of their descendants have become ruthless mercenary assassins, the “waves of ...
Style: heroic, exciting, stylized, bloody, epic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: legend, warrior, rivalry, ancient history, danger, vengeance, violence, battles, tough heroes, culture clash, murder, rescue ...
Time: medieval times, 11th century, middle ages
Place: russia
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 6.8
 17K
Thunderheart (1992)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: An FBI man with Sioux background is sent to a reservation to help with a murder investigation, where he has to come to terms with his heritage.
Style: suspense, tense, serious, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot: native american, native american reservation, native, murder, fbi, investigation, buddy cop, ethnic conflict, indians, police investigation, conspiracy theory, special agent ...
Time: 70s
Place: washington d.c., usa, south dakota
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Winter Passing (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Actress Reese Holden has been offered a small fortune by a book editor if she can secure for publication the love letters that her father, a reclusive novelist, wrote to her mother, who has since passed away. Returning to Michigan, Reese finds that ...
Style: touching, emotional, serious, realistic, heartbreaking ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: dysfunctional family, addiction, writers, eccentricity, character study, complex characters, family relations, homecoming, unlikely friendships, family problems, couple relations, unlikely couple ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: usa, new york, michigan, manhattan new york city
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