Gunpowder movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant gunpowder movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, realistic, exciting, epic, captivating and period drama films and TV shows about / with gunpowder, battles, heroes, violence, soldier, war, sword fight, military, cannon and escapades plots mostly in Drama, War and Action genres shot in USA, UK, Italy and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as gunpowder: Taboo (2017), The Admiral: Roaring Currents (2014), Zulu (1964), Waterloo (1970), Zulu Dawn (1979), Revolution (1985), Glory (1989), The Last of the Mohicans (1992), Gettysburg (1993), Sharpe's Eagle (1993).

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 8.3
 148K
Taboo (2017)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 59 min.
TV show
Story: Adventurer James Keziah Delaney returns to London from Africa in 1814 along with fourteen stolen diamonds to seek vengeance after the death of his father.
Style: serious, suspenseful, disturbing, stylized, rough ...
Plot: murder, british empire, family business, dark secret, incest overtones, brother sister incest, witchcraft, greed, investigation, conspiracy, homecoming, obsession ...
Time: 19th century, 1810s, georgian era, victorian era, regency period
Place: england, britain, syria, united kingdom, london ...
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The Admiral: Roaring Currents (2014)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: South Korea
Duration: 128 min.
Story: The film mainly follows the famous 1597 Battle of Myeongryang during the Japanese invasion of Korea (1592-1598), where the iconic Joseon admiral Yi Sun-sin managed to destroy a total of 133 Japanese warships with only 13 ships remaining in his ...
Style: epic, tense, exciting, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot: korean history, military, ship, samurai, battleship, battles, medieval, heroic mission, against the odds, human spirit, one man army, warrior ...
Time: 16th century, medieval times
Place: korea, south korea
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 7.7
 42K
Zulu (1964)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 138 min.
Story: In 1879, during the Zulu wars, man of the people Lt. John Chard (Stanley Baker) and snooty Lt Gonville Bromhead (Michael Caine) were in charge of defending the isolated Natal outpost of Rorke's Drift from tribal hordes, holding out during an ...
Style: realistic, epic, factual, suspense, psychological ...
Plot: military, war, british empire, siege, british colonialism, british army, colonialism, human spirit, battles, zulu, soldier, historical event ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1800s, ancient times, 1870s
Place: africa, south africa, britain, united kingdom
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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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 7.3
 12K
Waterloo (1970)
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Italy, Soviet Union
Duration: 134 min.
Story: After defeating France and imprisoning Napoleon on Elba, ending two decades of war, Europe is shocked to find Napoleon has escaped and has caused the French Army to defect from the King back to him. The best of the British generals, the Duke of ...
Style: epic, serious, exciting, emotional, stylized ...
Plot: napoleonic wars, napoleon bonaparte, battles, british army, military, war, state affairs, politics, military life, medieval, betrayal, tragic hero ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1800s, regency period, 18th century ...
Place: europe, belgium, britain, soviet union, france ...
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 6.6
 8K
Zulu Dawn (1979)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: Netherlands, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: In 1879, the British suffer a great loss at the Battle of Isandlwana due to incompetent leadership. Cy Endfield co-wrote the epic prequel Zulu Dawn 15 years after his enormously popular Zulu. Set in 1879, this film depicts the catastrophic Battle of ...
Style: action adventure, historical drama, cult classic, realistic, serious ...
Plot: imperialism, battles, british empire, war, colonialism, zulu, medieval, revolution, death, victory, army life, european history ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, year 1979, 1870s
Place: africa, south africa
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 5.3
 8K
Revolution (1985)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: UK, Norway
Duration: 126 min.
Story: New York trapper Tom Dobb becomes an unwilling participant in the American Revolution after his son Ned is drafted into the Army by the villainous Sergeant Major Peasy. Tom attempts to find his son, and eventually becomes convinced that he must take ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspense, historical drama, dramatic ...
Plot: revolution, politics, battles, soldier, parents and children, political unrest, war, danger, fall in love, rivalry, human spirit, life is a bitch ...
Time: 18th century, 1770s
Place: usa, america, new york
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 7.8
 144K
Glory (1989)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of both his own Union army and the Confederates.
Style: epic, inspirational, suspense, realistic, rough ...
Plot: american civil war, civil war, battles, slavery, freedom, military, racism, prejudice, war, black history, army, human spirit ...
Time: 19th century, 1800s, 20th century, year 1989, victorian era ...
Place: massachusetts, america, south carolina, georgia, africa ...
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The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: As the English and French soldiers battle for control of the American colonies in the 18th century, the settlers and native Americans are forced to take sides. Cora and her sister Alice unwittingly walk into trouble but are reluctantly saved by ...
Style: epic, exciting, period piece, costume drama, historical drama ...
Audience: chick flick, family friendly
Plot: native american, indians, american indian, wilderness, army, colonial america, war, colonialism, freedom, fight scenes, american history, revenge ...
Time: 18th century, middle ages, georgian era, ancient times, 20th century ...
Place: persia, usa
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 7.6
 31K
Gettysburg (1993)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 271 min.
Story: Summer 1863. The Confederacy pushes north into Pennsylvania. Union divisions converge to face them. The two great armies clash at Gettysburg, site of a theology school. For three days, through such legendary actions as Little Round Top and ...
Style: epic, factual, realistic, captivating, serious ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: american civil war, military, battles, war, civil war, slavery, civil rights, soldier, usa history, battlefield, prejudice, infantry ...
Time: 19th century, 1800s, 1860s
Place: usa, pennsylvania, maryland
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Sharpe's Eagle (1993)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
TV show
Story: Sharpe is a Captain saddled with the South Essex, a battalion run by incompetents and filled with soldiers who have never been in battle. When the South Essex loses its colours (its regimental flag), Sharpe vows to save the honor of the regiment by ...
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, exciting, factual ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: napoleonic wars, military, battles, heroes, war, soldier, state affairs, escapades, rebellion, military life, medieval, napoleonic era ...
Time: 19th century
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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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Sharpe's Company (1994)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
TV show
Story: Spain 1812 The Duke of Wellington plans to lay siege to Badajoz. A murderous figure from Sharpe's past uses a beautiful woman revenge himself on Sharpe, now the father of her child. Sharpe has reason to be happy, he holds his daughter for the ...
Style: realistic, serious, exciting, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot: napoleonic wars, napoleonic era, medieval, revolution, british soldier, revolutionary, freedom, sorcery, struggle, french revolution, special forces, revolutionary war ...
Time: 19th century, regency period, 1810s
Place: spain, europe
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Sharpe's Battle (1995)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
TV show
Story: When Sharpe is ordered to whip the King of Spain's Irish Royal Brigade into shape, he faces dissent from the men who believe the British are slaughtering their relatives in Ireland and a spy from within.
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, exciting, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: napoleonic wars, napoleonic era, medieval, revolution, chivalry, special forces, revolutionary war, spanish history, napoleon bonaparte, struggle, sorcery, freedom ...
Time: 19th century
Place: europe, spain
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Sharpe's Mission (1996)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
TV show
Story: Sharpe is teamed with a Colonel he helped promote and they are tasked to destroy a powder magazine, but an alliance with the French may threaten their success. Meanwhile, Jane is wearying of the army life and Harper and Ramona are at odds.
Style: period drama
Plot: napoleonic wars, napoleonic era, french revolution, napoleon bonaparte, spanish history, special forces, british army, british soldier, scout, traitor, disfigured face, journalist ...
Time: 19th century, 1800s
Place: france
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Sharpe's Siege (1996)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
TV show
Story: Sharpe, with his new commanding officer, is sent to capture a castle when news comes of locals who will rise against Bonaparte. However, he is somewhat distracted by thoughts of his wife whom he was forced to leave while stricken with fever.
Style: exciting, suspenseful, realistic, serious, captivating ...
Plot: napoleonic wars, battles, castle, british soldier, heroes, siege, danger, military life, war, military, woman in danger, heroic mission ...
Time: 19th century, 1800s
Place: france
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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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 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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The Crossing (2000)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A made-for-TV dramatization of George Washington's perilous gamble of crossing the Delaware River and attacking the British forces at Trenton.
Style: tense, realistic, exciting, serious, political ...
Plot: american revolution, george washington, war, battles, heroes, military life, against the odds, heroic mission, rebellion, rebelliousness, battlefield, american history ...
Time: 18th century, georgian era
Place: america, philadelphia, delaware, usa, new jersey
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 6.6
 2K
Bang Rajan (2000)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: Thailand
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Set right before the fall of Thailand's old capital, Ayuttaya, Bang Rajan draws on the legend of a village of fighters who bravely fended off the Burmese armies. With no support from the Royal army, the villagers drives the invading Burmese ...
Style: exciting, realistic, serious, rough, captivating ...
Plot: battles, battlefield, massacre, warrior, resistance, army, sword fight, leader, rebelliousness, military, rivalry, danger ...
Time: 18th century
Place: burma, massachusetts, asia, thailand
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Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story: After an abrupt and violent encounter with a French warship inflicts severe damage upon his ship, a captain of the British Royal Navy begins a chase over two oceans to capture or destroy the enemy, though he must weigh his commitment to duty and ...
Style: exciting, tense, period piece, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: ship, napoleonic wars, navy, battles, sea battle, sea, military, leadership, friendship, naval battle, heroic mission, expedition ...
Time: 18th century, 19th century, 1800s, year 2003, ancient times ...
Place: britain, england, america, brazil, europe ...
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 7.0
 10K
Admiral (2015)
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 151 min.
Story: When the young republic of The Netherlands is attacked by England, France and Germany and faces its own civil war no less, only one man, Michael de Ruyter, can lead the county's strongest weapon, the Dutch fleet.
Style: captivating, serious, realistic, exciting, slasher ...
Plot: ocean, naval battle, military, soldier, state affairs, civil war, medieval, danger, heroic mission, sea, ship, father son relationship ...
Time: 17th century
Place: holland, europe, netherlands
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The Wild Westerners (1962)
Genre: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story: Sheriff Plummer and his men are using their badges to easily rob gold shipments and kill the drivers. Marshal McDowell and his men are looking for the killers. They catch one who is murdered to keep from talking but his killer is identified as ...
Style: independent film
Plot: outlaw, wife, female fight, shootout, treachery, acquittal, battles, van, interracial relations, american indian, singing, redemption ...
Time: 1860s
Place: montana
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Raiders of the Sun (1992)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Bloodthirsty factions rule the barren earth. It's the 21st Century and a biological disaster has ruined the planet. Here, in a world where gunpowder is more valuable than gold, a few hundred survivors wage the final conflict for power and ...
Style: apocalyptic, independent film
Plot: post apocalypse, bondage, dystopia, distopia, village, martial arts, biological warfare, midget, traitor, love interest, democracy, fistfight ...
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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Five friends visiting their grandfather's house in the country are hunted and terrorized by a chain-saw wielding killer and his family of grave-robbing cannibals.
Style: slasher, scary, bloody, suspenseful, grindhouse ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, macabre, massacre, murder, chainsaw, american horror, psychopath, masked killer, cannibalism, homicidal maniac, psycho killer, danger ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1974, year 1973
Place: texas, austin texas, midwest, usa
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 5.9
 145K
The Great Wall (2016)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA, China, Hong Kong, Australia, Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story: European mercenaries searching for black powder become embroiled in the defense of the Great Wall of China against a horde of monstrous creatures.
Style: exciting, dark fantasy, entertaining, colorful, epic ...
Plot: monster, great wall of china, creature, mythology, archer, warrior, invasion, siege, battlefield, good versus evil, friendship, trust ...
Time: middle ages, year 2016, 15th century, 2010s, future ...
Place: china, tibet, ancient china
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 6.0
 2K
Swashbuckler (1976)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A pirate and a hot-tempered noblewoman join forces to protect Jamaica from a tyrant.
Style: epic, cult classic, slapstick comedy, fast, semi serious ...
Plot: pirate, swashbuckler, sword fight, sailing, sea, captain, sorcery, courage, ancient, seafaring, chivalry, sea adventure ...
Time: 18th century, year 1976, 70s
Place: caribbean, west indies, jamaica
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A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
Genre: Action, Drama, Western
Country: Italy, Spain, West Germany
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The Man With No Name enters the Mexican village of San Miguel in the midst of a power struggle among the three Rojo brothers and sheriff John Baxter. When a regiment of Mexican soldiers bearing gold intended to pay for new weapons is waylaid by the ...
Style: spaghetti western, stylized, atmospheric, epic, harsh ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: gunfight, old west, wild west, cowboy, small town, violence, greed, gang war, vengeance, tough heroes, brutality, hitman ...
Time: 19th century, 1870s
Place: mexico, latin america, arizona, new mexico, sonora
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The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: New Zealand, USA
Duration: 179 min.
Story: Frodo and Sam are trekking to Mordor to destroy the One Ring of Power while Gimli, Legolas and Aragorn search for the orc-captured Merry and Pippin. All along, nefarious wizard Saruman awaits the Fellowship members at the Orthanc Tower in Isengard.
Style: epic, atmospheric, exciting, captivating, dark fantasy ...
Audience: family outing, teens, kids, chick flick, manly ...
Plot: sword fight, wizard, magic, fantasy world, friendship, magical, monster, mission, creature, sword and sorcery, mythology, good versus evil ...
Time: 2000s, year 2002, prehistoric times, prehistory
Place: iran
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 6.8
 5K
Humanity (1999)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 141 min.
Story: When an 11-year-old girl is brutally raped and murdered in a quiet French village, a police detective who has forgotten how to feel emotions--because of the death of his own family in some kind of accident--investigates the crime, which turns out to ...
Style: contemplative, slow cinema, erotic, bleak, disturbing ...
Audience: kids
Plot: small town, masturbation, female nudity, female pubic hair, lust, voyeur, sex, orgasm, murder, dead body, strike, rape ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
Place: france, flanders, europe
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