Bombing movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant bombing movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, suspense, suspenseful, touching, serious and tense films and TV shows about / with bombing, war, military, world war two, soldier, explosion, death, world war, survival and airplane plots mostly in Drama, War and History genres shot in USA, UK, Germany and other countries.
bombing movies
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TOP 10 movies tagged as bombing: The Shadow in My Eye (2021), The Rotterdam Bombing (2012), Dresden (2006), Midway (2019), Atonement (2007), Barefoot Gen (1983), I Am Hope (2023), With My Own Eyes (2023), Band of Brothers (2001), Dunkirk (2017).

List of bombing movies

The Shadow in My Eye (2021)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Denmark, Belgium
Duration: 107 min.
Story: On March 21st, 1945, the British Royal Air Force set out on a mission to bomb Gestapo's headquarters in Copenhagen. The raid had fatal consequences as some of the bombers accidentally targeted a school and more than 120 people were killed, 86 ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, intense, bleak, period drama
Plot: world war two, nazi, air raid, nazism, gestapo, royal air force, eye, bombing, nordic, military, murder, killing ...
Time: year 1945, 1940s
Place: copenhagen
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The Rotterdam Bombing (2012)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A thrilling love story between the young boxer Vincent and the German Eva, who soon has to marry with the middle-aged Dirk to save her family. While the war starts in the Netherlands their impossible love inflames. May 14, 1940, the day that the ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, emotional, touching ...
Plot: world war two, bombing, wartime life, wedding planning, social differences, society, german occupation, unfulfillment, forbidden love, brother sister relationship, impossible love, nazi germany ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: holland, europe, rotterdam netherlands
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 6.6
 3K
Dresden (2006)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 176 min.
Story: At a Dresden hospital in 1945, nurse Anna Mauth (Felicitas Woll) cares for badly injured British pilot Robert Newman (John Light), whom Anna believes to be a German deserter. As Allied forces close in, Anna grows close to Robert despite her ...
Style: tense, captivating, serious, touching, period piece ...
Plot: world war two, bombing, war, survival, military, moral dilemma, love affair, wartime life, behind enemy lines, fall in love, danger, military life ...
Time: 1940s
Place: germany, europe
Is relevant?
 6.7
 104K
Midway (2019)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: USA, Canada, China, Hong Kong
Duration: 138 min.
Story: The story of the soldiers and aviators who helped turn the tide of the Second World War during the iconic Battle of Midway in June 1942.
Style: historical drama, bleak, exciting, scary, suspense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: naval battle, war, world war two, warship, aerial combat, sea battle, air battle, fighter plane, aircraft carrier, fighter pilot, navy, u.s. military ...
Time: 1940s, year 1942, year 2019, 1930s, year 1941 ...
Place: pearl harbor, pacific ocean, tokyo, washington d.c., honolulu hawaii ...
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 7.8
 325K
Atonement (2007)
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, period piece, heartbreaking, sad ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, teens, adult
Plot: world war two, wartime, redemption, tragic love, injustice, love story, unfulfilled love, sex scene, forbidden love, love and romance, false accusation, innocence ...
Time: 1930s, victorian era, 1940s, year 2007, 2000s ...
Place: england, london, dunkirk, britain, europe ...
Is relevant?
 8.0
 10K
Barefoot Gen (1983)
Genre: Animation, Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A powerful statement against war, Barefoot Gen is a story about the effect of the atomic bomb on a boy's life and the lives of the Japanese people. Based on the acclaimed manga by Nakazawa Keiji, the author of Barefoot Gen, who was 6 years old ...
Style: anime, adult animation, political, heartbreaking, rough ...
Audience: kids
Plot: world war two, nuclear holocaust, anti war, bombing, disaster, atomic bomb, radioactivity, radiation sickness, nuclear, burned alive, atrocity, demolished city ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: japan, asia, hiroshima japan
Is relevant?
 7.1
 118
I Am Hope (2023)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Ukraine
Duration: 40 min.
TV show
Story: The first war drama series the Ukrainian TV channel 2+2 which was filmed during a full-scale war in Ukraine. The lead characters are the emergency paramedics, who were rescuing people of their city under continuous shelling and bombing
Style: suspenseful, psychological, captivating, thrilling, thought provoking ...
Audience: adult
Plot: bombing, hopes, saving a life, rescue, evacuation, heroes, life is a bitch, ambulance, problem, social services, aerial bombardment, tragedy ...
Time: 2020s
Place: ukraine, eastern europe
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With My Own Eyes (2023)
Genre: Drama
Country: Lithuania
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: A large family reside in different Ukrainian cities. Mother and Father live in the Kiev suburbs, the oldest daughter in Mariupol, the second of the three in Vinnitsa, and the youngest in Chernigov. The son went on a work trip to Donetsk. Exactly in ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, thought provoking, captivating, thrilling ...
Plot: survival, bombing, war, death threat, aggression, problem, kids and family, life is a bitch, threat, family problems, isolation, desperation ...
Place: ukraine
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Band of Brothers (2001)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Drawn from interviews with survivors of Easy Company, as well as their journals and letters, Band of Brothers chronicles the experiences of these men from paratrooper training in Georgia through the end of the war. As an elite rifle company ...
Style: heroic, captivating, epic, historical drama, period piece ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: world war two, combat, military, war, battles, soldier, american soldier, paratrooper, courage, behind enemy lines, infantry, nazi germany ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, y2k, 2000s, post world war two
Place: germany, europe, belgium, netherlands, austria ...
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 7.8
 799K
Dunkirk (2017)
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: atmospheric, dramatic, epic, cerebral, visually stunning ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: world war two, military, war, survival, wartime, evacuation, soldier, beach, military officer, shell shock, air attack, combat ...
Time: 1940s, year 1940, 2010s, 20th century, 90s ...
Place: france, england, english channel, dover england, dunkirk ...
Is relevant?
 7.1
 179K
Allied (2016)
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: UK, USA, China
Duration: 124 min.
Story: In 1942, an intelligence officer in North Africa encounters a female French Resistance fighter on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. When they reunite in London, their relationship is tested by the pressures of war.
Style: sexy, suspense, period piece, tense, romantic ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: world war two, espionage, spy, nazi, female agent, love, secret mission, double agent, betrayal, prospector, female spy, undercover ...
Time: 1940s, year 2016, year 1942, future, 2010s ...
Place: london, france, england, south africa, north africa ...
Is relevant?
 7.7
 84K
Black Book (2006)
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Netherlands, Germany, UK, Belgium
Duration: 145 min.
Story: In the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II, a Jewish singer infiltrates the regional Gestapo headquarters for the Dutch resistance.
Style: erotic, psychological, tense, sexy, dramatic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: holocaust, world war two, espionage, nazi, spy, nazism, resistance, female spy, occupation, gestapo, german soldier, war ...
Time: 1940s, year 1956, 1950s, year 2006, 20th century ...
Place: netherlands, israel, holland, germany, belgium ...
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 7.9
 57K
Mirror (1975)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A dying man in his forties remembers his past. His childhood, his mother, the war, personal moments and things that tell of the recent history of all the Russian nation.
Style: cerebral, atmospheric, surreal, philosophical, art house ...
Plot: childhood, surrealism, world war two, poetry, stream of consciousness, dream, winter, memory, coming of age, mirror, levitation, female nudity ...
Time: year 1935, 1940s, 1930s, 20th century, year 1975 ...
Place: soviet union, russia, moscow russia, ussr, europe ...
Is relevant?
 8.2
 398K
Downfall (2004)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Germany, Austria, Italy
Duration: 156 min.
Story: In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the east and the Allied Expeditionary Force attacking from the west. In Berlin, capital of the Third Reich, Adolf Hitler proclaims that Germany will still ...
Style: psychological, costume drama, harsh, disturbing, epic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: world war two, hitler, nazi, war, nazism, suicide, fascism, holocaust, national socialism, dictatorship, third reich, paranoia ...
Time: 1940s, year 2004, 2000s, 20th century, year 1945 ...
Place: germany, berlin germany, prague, europe, bavaria ...
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In This Corner of the World (2016)
Genre: Animation, Drama, History, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Newlywed Suzu Urano moves to her new life in Kure City on the coast of Hiroshima Prefecture, where she perseveres through World War II with pluck and determination.
Style: anime, adult animation, thought provoking, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience: family friendly, teens
Plot: wedding, world war two, bombing, female protagonist, military, anniversary, evacuation, danger, society, couples, teenager, bomber ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s, 2010s, 20th century, year 1943 ...
Place: hiroshima japan, japan, east asia, asia
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Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
Genre: Comedy, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: After the insane General Jack D. Ripper initiates a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union, a war room full of politicians, generals and a Russian diplomat all frantically try to stop the nuclear strike.
Style: black comedy, dark comedy, cerebral, satirical, funny ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: satire, cold war, military, nuclear war, nuclear threat, nuclear explosion, u.s. air force, nuclear holocaust, nuclear bomb, doomsday, anti war, absurdism ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, year 1942, 1930s
Place: soviet union, washington d.c., persia, united kingdom, england ...
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Masters of the Air (2024)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 56 min.
TV show
Story: During World War II, airmen risk their lives with the 100th Bomb Group, a brotherhood forged by courage, loss, and triumph.
Style: captivating, suspenseful, exciting, epic war, period drama
Plot: world war two, aerial combat, bomber, male nudity, male protagonist, pilot, flying, bombing, military officer, aircraft, u.s. air force, airplane ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1943
Place: germany, england, europe
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Attack on Leningrad (2009)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Russia, UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story: When in 1941 Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union, their troops quickly besieged Leningrad. Foreign journalists are evacuated but one of them, Kate Davies, is presumed dead and misses the plane. Alone in the city she is helped by Nina Tsvetnova a ...
Style: serious, realistic, rough, bleak, gloomy
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, hunger, siege, battles, soldier, self sacrifice, female protagonist, wartime life, chess, journalist, world war, danger ...
Time: 1940s, year 1941, 20th century, post world war two
Place: russia, st. petersburg russia
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Under the Bombs (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France, Lebanon, UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: In the wake of Israel's 2006 bombardment of Lebanon, a determined woman finds her way into the country convincing a taxi driver to take a risky journey around the scarred region in search of her sister and her son.
Style: realistic, serious, touching, sincere, offbeat ...
Plot: friendship, on the road, bombing, unlikely couple, missing person, couples, family relations, danger, couple relations, wartime life, parents and children, demolished city ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: lebanon, middle east
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American Pastoral (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Set in postwar America, a man watches his seemingly perfect life fall apart as his daughter's new political affiliation threatens to destroy their family.
Style: emotional, rough, novela, suspense, thought provoking ...
Audience: teens
Plot: vietnam war, teenage girl, social criticism, terrorism, father daughter relationship, bombing, infidelity, hopelessness, rape victim, riot, female terrorist, parent child relationship ...
Time: year 2016, 70s, 60s
Place: usa, pittsburgh
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From There to Here (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Created by Peter Bowker, From There To Here is set in the aftermath of the 1996 Arndale bombing and follows Daniel Cotton, a Manchester family man who is torn between the life he wants and the life he could have. The story spans the four years that ...
Style: serious, sincere, captivating, realistic, touching ...
Audience: adult
Plot: bittersweet, streetwise, parents and children, family relations, bombing, soccer, siblings relations, city life, society, urban, ira, family drama ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1996
Place: manchester, england, northern england
Is relevant?
 7.6
 4K
The Border (2014)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 41 min.
TV show
Story: The series "Wataha" starts from the bombing, which killed one of the officers of border guard units in the Bieszczady Mountains. Only one of them will survive. SG captain Victor Rebrov (Leszek Lichota) as a result of the coup loses not ...
Style: realistic, captivating, suspense, disturbing, tense
Audience: boys' night
Plot: border patrol, border guard, investigation, bombing, traitor, soldier, adaptation, danger, revenge, friendship, courage, violence ...
Time: 2010s
Place: poland
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Awakening from the Dead (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Serbia
Duration: 134 min.
Story: The story takes place at the beginning of the bombing, both in Belgrade and in one small town in Serbia, at the end of March 1999. Forty-year-old Mickey, an unaccomplished writer, a disillusioned assistant professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts, a ...
Style: melancholic, tense, reflective, poignant, bleak ...
Audience: adult
Plot: bombing, resurrection, social commentary, frustration, crisis of conscience, existential crisis, political unrest, small town, midlife crisis, urban, humanism, post war ...
Place: belgrade, serbia
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Flight of the Intruder (1991)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: U.S. Navy pilot Lt. Jake Grafton and his bombardier buddy, Lt. Cmdr. Virgil Cole, are two soldiers embedded in the Vietnam War growing frustrated by the military's constraints on their missions. Despite the best efforts of their commanding ...
Style: suspense, realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, chick flick
Plot: vietnam war, military, fighter jet, fighter pilot, aircraft carrier, u.s. navy, bomber, war, behind enemy lines, self sacrifice, death of friend, pilot ...
Time: year 1972, year 1991, 70s
Place: vietnam, france, asia, europe, china ...
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Enemy at the Gates (2001)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: Ireland, UK, France, Germany, USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story: Enemy at the Gates is a war film from Jean-Jacques Annaud from 2001 that takes place during the battle of Stalingard in World War II between the Russians and the Germans.
Style: sexy, epic, realistic, serious, breathtaking ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: war, world war two, sniper, military, stalingrad, world war, courage, friendship, nazi, wartime, hide and seek, winter ...
Time: 20th century, year 2001, 1940s, year 1940, year 1944 ...
Place: germany, soviet union, iraq, persia, russia ...
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Bomb: A Love Story (2018)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Iran
Duration: 96 min.
Story: It’s 1988 and, at the height of the Iran-Iraq War, Tehran is bombed relentlessly. The days that pass are full of foreboding, and yet, love, affection, hope and life itself manage to sweep away the fear of death from those surrounded by it. Love ...
Style: poignant, emotional, historical drama, period piece, tension ...
Plot: bombing, hopes, love story, survival, death, fear, resilience, urban, siege, loss, intimate, realism ...
Time: year 1988, 80s
Place: tehran, persia, iran, tehran iran
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 7.5
 106K
Richard Jewell (2019)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story: Richard Jewell thinks quick, works fast, and saves hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives after a domestic terrorist plants several pipe bombs and they explode during a concert, only to be falsely suspected of the crime by sloppy FBI work and ...
Style: tense, sad, realistic, factual, suspense ...
Plot: lawyer, false accusation, wrongful arrest, scapegoat, media frenzy, terrorist, fbi, federal bureau of investigation, biopic, security guard, friendship between men, media circus ...
Time: year 1996, 90s, 2010s, year 2019, year 1986 ...
Place: atlanta georgia, georgia, usa
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Tombstone of the Fireflies (2008)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Set during World War II, the film follows a young brother and sister as they attempt to survive the aftermath of the firebombing of Kobe City.
Style: rough, psychological, touching, suspense, disturbing
Plot: world war two, struggle for survival, sibling relationship, bombing, brother sister relationship, firefly, little girl, wartime, survival, life is a bitch, wartime life, kids in trouble ...
Place: japan
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On the Milky Road (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, War
Country: Serbia, UK, USA, Argentina, Mexico
Duration: 125 min.
Story: A story that stretches across war, blossoming love, and living as a recluse.
Style: touching, humorous, visually appealing, not serious, scenic ...
Plot: love, bombing, marriage, un, love and romance, mountain, lake, fall in love, animal, love at first sight, hopes, absurdism ...
Time: year 2016
Place: bosnia
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Abandoned Houses, Empty Homes (2000)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Finland
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A war movie that takes place in Finnish Karelia in 1944.
Style: serious, touching, disturbing, realistic, suspenseful
Plot: world war two, male female relationship, family relations, refugee, soldier, baby, deserter, evacuation, military hospital, bombing, truck, flowers ...
Time: 1940s, year 1944
Place: finland
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