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92
9.0
/1560849/
88
/25074/
85
/16892/
4.5
/1205464/
98
/134/
97
/22916/
95
/30/
cc age 15+

Schindler's List (1993)
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.
poster
Netflix
90
8.5
/371467/
85
/9733/
84
/6220/
4.5
/970516/
100
/50/
95
/5486/
94
/16/
8.5
/443809/
cc age 15+

Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
In the final months of World War II, 14-year-old Seita and his sister Setsuko are orphaned when their mother is killed during an air raid in Kobe, Japan. After a falling out with their aunt, they move into an abandoned bomb shelter. With no surviving relatives and their emergency rations depleted, Seita and Setsuko struggle to survive.
poster
Netflix
90
8.8
/2390207/
86
/52612/
84
/29365/
4.2
/3590090/
92
/185/
96
/62758/
95
/27/
cc age 17+

Pulp Fiction (1994)
A burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner, a drug-addled gangster's moll and a washed-up boxer converge in this sprawling, comedic crime caper. Their adventures unfurl in three stories that ingeniously trip back and forth in time.
poster
fuboTV
89
8.6
/1608983/
85
/31641/
82
/16695/
4.2
/1252408/
94
/148/
95
/41372/
91
/38/
cc age 16+

Saving Private Ryan (1998)
As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fourth trapped behind enemy lines. Ranger captain John Miller and seven men are tasked with penetrating German-held territory and bringing the boy home.
poster
89
8.5
/13631/
84
/640/
82
/296/
4.4
/26863/
98
/102/
92
/48/
89
/19/
cc age 15+

For Sama (2019)
A love letter from a young mother to her daughter, the film tells the story of Waad al-Kateab’s life through five years of the uprising in Aleppo, Syria as she falls in love, gets married and gives birth to Sama, all while cataclysmic conflict rises around her. Her camera captures incredible stories of loss, laughter and survival as Waad wrestles with an impossible choice– whether or not to flee the city to protect her daughter’s life, when leaving means abandoning the struggle for freedom for which she has already sacrificed so much.
poster
Kanopy
89
8.3
/118563/
82
/2877/
82
/1707/
4.6
/397885/
90
/60/
95
/928/
cc age 16+

Come and See (1985)
The invasion of a village in Belarus by German forces sends young Florya into the forest to join the weary Resistance fighters, against his family's wishes. There he meets a girl, Glasha, who accompanies him back to his village. On returning home, Florya finds his family and fellow peasants massacred. His continued survival amidst the brutal debris of war becomes increasingly nightmarish, a battle between despair and hope.
poster
88
8.2
/40316/
81
/2342/
78
/631/
4.1
/56887/
99
/155/
91
/440/
91
/27/
cc age 16+

They Shall Not Grow Old (2018)
A documentary about World War I with never-before-seen footage to commemorate the centennial of Armistice Day, and the end of the war.
poster
HBO Max Amazon Channel
87
8.2
/352356/
78
/5123/
79
/4234/
3.9
/227710/
90
/103/
92
/18574/
97
/19/
cc age 10+

Gone with the Wind (1939)
The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era.
poster
Kanopy
87
8.1
/36183/
82
/752/
79
/641/
4.4
/56021/
90
/52/
93
/724/
84
/28/

Farewell My Concubine (1993)
Two boys meet at an opera training school in Peking in 1924. Their resulting friendship will span nearly 70 years and endure some of the most troublesome times in China's history.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
86
8.2
/395562/
80
/7187/
78
/4121/
4.1
/145745/
90
/137/
94
/5141/
82
/35/
cc age 17+

Downfall (2004)
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 achieve victory and orders his generals and advisers to fight to the last man. When the end finally does come, and Hitler lies dead by his own hand, what is left of his military must find a way to end the killing that is the Battle of Berlin, and lay down their arms in surrender.
poster
85
7.7
/83100/
74
/1738/
74
/1285/
4.0
/166078/
97
/61/
90
/1404/
94
/20/

Badlands (1974)
An impressionable teenage girl from a dead-end town and her older greaser boyfriend embark on a killing spree in the South Dakota badlands.
poster
Peacock Premium
85
8.1
/1023271/
82
/40600/
81
/21477/
4.0
/1797593/
96
/333/
89
/19674/
85
/41/
cc age 12+

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011)
Harry, Ron and Hermione continue their quest to vanquish the evil Voldemort once and for all. Just as things begin to look hopeless for the young wizards, Harry discovers a trio of magical objects that endow him with powers to rival Voldemort's formidable skills.
poster
84
7.8
/175660/
76
/3457/
74
/2182/
3.9
/64088/
91
/201/
86
/10115/
89
/37/
cc age 16+

Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)
The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of the Japanese who fought it.
poster
Disney Plus
82
7.3
/894994/
75
/52276/
73
/22988/
3.7
/2466625/
96
/526/
79
/9118/
88
/55/
cc age 12+

Black Panther (2018)
King T'Challa returns home to the reclusive, technologically advanced African nation of Wakanda to serve as his country's new leader. However, T'Challa soon finds that he is challenged for the throne by factions within his own country as well as without. Using powers reserved to Wakandan kings, T'Challa assumes the Black Panther mantle to join with ex-girlfriend Nakia, the queen-mother, his princess-kid sister, members of the Dora Milaje (the Wakandan 'special forces') and an American secret agent, to prevent Wakanda from being dragged into a world war.
poster
82
7.6
/4226/
75
/253/
73
/93/
3.8
/2499/
95
/58/
84
/61/

Last Days in Vietnam (2014)
During the chaotic final weeks of the Vietnam War, the North Vietnamese Army closes in on Saigon as the panicked South Vietnamese people desperately attempt to escape. On the ground, American soldiers and diplomats confront a moral quandary: whether to obey White House orders to evacuate only U.S. citizens.
poster
Kanopy
82
7.5
/58048/
74
/1190/
73
/861/
4.0
/69529/
90
/116/
87
/2768/
82
/30/
cc age 16+

The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006)
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 the Irish Republican Army, but political events are soon set in motion that tear the brothers apart.
poster
Criterion Channel
82
8.0
/136710/
79
/2686/
78
/1777/
4.0
/97501/
94
/68/
95
/4494/
75
/19/

Infernal Affairs (2002)
Chan Wing Yan, a young police officer, has been sent undercover as a mole in the local mafia. Lau Kin Ming, a young mafia member, infiltrates the police force. Years later, their older counterparts, Chen Wing Yan and Inspector Lau Kin Ming, respectively, race against time to expose the mole within their midst.
poster
Peacock Premium
81
7.6
/347711/
75
/7654/
72
/3858/
3.8
/176971/
89
/225/
86
/32471/
76
/37/
cc age 15+

3:10 to Yuma (2007)
In Arizona in the late 1800s, infamous outlaw Ben Wade and his vicious gang of thieves and murderers have plagued the Southern Railroad. When Wade is captured, Civil War veteran Dan Evans, struggling to survive on his drought-plagued ranch, volunteers to deliver him alive to the "3:10 to Yuma", a train that will take the killer to trial.
poster
Netflix
81
7.4
/96660/
75
/4238/
73
/1636/
4.0
/319719/
96
/358/
95
/178/
84
/49/
cc age 15+

Judas and the Black Messiah (2021)
Bill O'Neal infiltrates the Black Panthers on the orders of FBI Agent Mitchell and J. Edgar Hoover. As Black Panther Chairman Fred Hampton ascends—falling for a fellow revolutionary en route—a battle wages for O’Neal’s soul.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
81
7.5
/25244/
73
/582/
71
/480/
4.0
/54507/
88
/43/
86
/541/

Santa Sangre (1989)
A former circus artist escapes from a mental hospital to rejoin his armless, cult leader mother, and is forced to enact brutal murders in her name.
poster
81
8.1
/125723/
75
/910/
71
/478/
3.8
/19850/
90
/10/
94
/972/

Rang De Basanti (2006)
After a group of friends graduate from Delhi University, they listlessly haunt their old campus, until a British filmmaker casts them in a film she's making about freedom fighters under British rule. Although the group is largely apolitical, the tragic death of a friend owing to local government corruption awakens their patriotism. Inspired by the freedom fighters they represent in the film, the friends collectively decide to avenge the killing.
poster
Netflix
81
7.5
/669388/
76
/45666/
74
/16406/
3.7
/2636091/
92
/394/
86
/4153/
86
/53/
cc age 17+

Baby Driver (2017)
After being coerced into working for a crime boss, a young getaway driver finds himself taking part in a heist doomed to fail.
poster
Criterion Channel
80
7.5
/76005/
73
/1674/
72
/1168/
4.0
/79044/
90
/133/
83
/1706/
82
/25/
cc age 16+

Hunger (2008)
The story of Bobby Sands, the IRA member who led the 1981 hunger strike during The Troubles in which Irish Republican prisoners tried to win political status.
poster
HBO Max Amazon Channel
80
7.4
/322181/
74
/26707/
72
/9456/
3.8
/632561/
94
/362/
84
/2796/
82
/50/
cc age 13+

War for the Planet of the Apes (2017)
Caesar and his apes are forced into a deadly conflict with an army of humans led by a ruthless Colonel. After the apes suffer unimaginable losses, Caesar wrestles with his darker instincts and begins his own mythic quest to avenge his kind. As the journey finally brings them face to face, Caesar and the Colonel are pitted against each other in an epic battle that will determine the fate of both their species and the future of the planet.
poster
Kanopy
80
7.4
/11863/
72
/420/
72
/424/
3.8
/15961/
97
/119/
85
/53/
81
/25/

Woman at War (2018)
Halla declares a one-woman-war on the local aluminium industry. She is prepared to risk everything to protect the pristine Icelandic Highlands she loves… Until an orphan unexpectedly enters her life.
poster
80
7.3
/282260/
72
/6661/
68
/3943/
3.6
/204603/
89
/288/
80
/8654/
87
/45/
cc age 13+

Lincoln (2012)
The revealing story of the 16th US President's tumultuous final months in office. In a nation divided by war and the strong winds of change, Lincoln pursues a course of action designed to end the war, unite the country and abolish slavery. With the moral courage and fierce determination to succeed, his choices during this critical moment will change the fate of generations to come.
poster
Netflix
80
7.8
/514219/
78
/16283/
75
/7264/
3.8
/353561/
93
/279/
89
/6811/
82
/48/
cc age 14+

Captain Phillips (2013)
The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.
poster
79
7.7
/51561/
75
/1301/
75
/980/
4.1
/142686/
84
/25/
88
/1359/
76
/11/

The Holy Mountain (1973)
The Alchemist assembles together a group of people from all walks of life to represent the planets in the solar system. The occult adept's intention is to put his recruits through strange mystical rites and divest them of their worldly baggage before embarking on a trip to Lotus Island. There they ascend the Holy Mountain to displace the immortal gods who secretly rule the universe.
poster
The Roku Channel
79
7.6
/10453/
76
/302/
74
/238/
3.8
/22072/
96
/25/
91
/219/
69
/23/

Butterfly (1999)
The film centres on Moncho and his coming-of-age experience in Galicia in 1936. Moncho develops a close relationship with his teacher Don Gregorio who introduces the boy to different things in the world. While the story centres on Moncho's ordinary coming-of-age experiences, tensions related to the looming Spanish Civil War periodically interrupt Moncho's personal growth and daily life.
poster
Kanopy
81
79
7.7
/12325/
76
/309/
74
/227/
4.0
/6441/
92
/53/
86
/275/
85
/13/

City of Life and Death (2009)
In 1937, during the height of the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Imperial Japanese Army has just captured Nanjing, then-capital of the Republic of China. What followed was known as the Nanking Massacre, or the Rape of Nanking, a six week period wherein tens of thousands of Chinese soldiers and civilians were killed.
poster
YouTube
79
7.8
/85316/
77
/2313/
74
/1229/
3.9
/58093/
91
/46/
91
/1782/
69
/9/

The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
After avenging his family's brutal murder, Wales is pursued by a pack of soldiers. He prefers to travel alone, but ragtag outcasts are drawn to him - and Wales can't bring himself to leave them unprotected.
poster
Netflix
79
8.0
/241277/
81
/8087/
77
/3972/
4.0
/113743/
86
/29/
93
/2841/
59
/9/
cc age 13+

Ip Man (2008)
A semi-biographical account of Yip Man, the first martial arts master to teach the Chinese martial art of Wing Chun. The film focuses on events surrounding Ip that took place in the city of Foshan between the 1930s to 1940s during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Directed by Wilson Yip, the film stars Donnie Yen in the lead role, and features fight choreography by Sammo Hung.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
81
78
7.8
/15237/
74
/285/
71
/155/
4.0
/8666/
100
/23/
91
/272/
73
/11/

Breaker Morant (1980)
During the Boer War, three Australian lieutenants are on trial for shooting Boer prisoners. Though they acted under orders, they are being used as scapegoats by the General Staff, who hopes to distance themselves from the irregular practices of the war. The trial does not progress as smoothly as expected by the General Staff, as the defence puts up a strong fight in the courtroom.
poster
78
7.6
/77516/
74
/1263/
73
/1276/
3.7
/31446/
79
/146/
85
/3689/
76
/39/
cc age 17+

A Very Long Engagement (2004)
Young Frenchwoman Mathilde searches for the truth about her missing fiancé, lost during World War I, and learns many unexpected things along the way. The love of her life is gone. But she refuses to believe he's gone forever — and she needs to know for sure.
poster
78
7.1
/11889/
69
/292/
69
/201/
3.7
/11685/
88
/51/
80
/440/
76
/15/

Shotgun Stories (2007)
Shotgun Stories tracks a feud that erupts between two sets of half brothers following the death of their father. Set against the cotton fields and back roads of Southeast Arkansas, these brothers discover the lengths to which each will go to protect their family.
poster
Fandor
78
7.4
/3850/
73
/117/
67
/47/
3.6
/2411/
92
/59/
87
/211/
77
/23/

The Weather Underground (2002)
The remarkable story of The Weather Underground, radical activists of the 1970s, and of radical politics at its best and most disastrous.
poster
84
78
8.2
/9232/
84
/188/
82
/178/
4.3
/5486/
91
/11/
95
/95/
70
/7/

Devils on the Doorstep (2001)
During the Japanese occupation of China, two prisoners are dumped in a peasant's home in a small town. The owner is bullied into keeping the prisoners until the next New Year, at which time they will be collected. The village leaders convene to interrogate the prisoners. The townspeople then struggle to accommodate the prisoners. One is a bellicose Japanese nationalist, the other a nervous translator. Will the townspeople manage to keep the prisoners until the New Year?
poster
78
7.6
/202869/
76
/5405/
73
/3288/
3.7
/165005/
88
/126/
88
/7341/
76
/18/
cc age 17+

The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
In war-torn colonial America, in the midst of a bloody battle between British, the French and Native American allies, the aristocratic daughter of a British Colonel and her party are captured by a group of Huron warriors. Fortunately, a group of three Mohican trappers comes to their rescue.
poster
77
7.6
/210097/
73
/4854/
74
/3177/
4.1
/186707/
80
/106/
80
/5228/
78
/32/
cc age 15+

The Thin Red Line (1998)
The story of a group of men, an Army Rifle company called C-for-Charlie, who change, suffer, and ultimately make essential discoveries about themselves during the fierce World War II battle of Guadalcanal. It follows their journey, from the surprise of an unopposed landing, through the bloody and exhausting battles that follow, to the ultimate departure of those who survived.
poster
Kanopy
76
7.5
/5744/
66
/79/
66
/59/
3.7
/2585/
96
/28/
83
/91/

Bandit Queen (1994)
Born a lower-caste girl in rural India's patriarchal society, "married" at 11, repeatedly raped and brutalized, Phoolan Devi finds freedom only as an avenging warrior, the eponymous Bandit Queen. Devi becomes a kind a bloody Robin Hood; this extraordinary biographical film offers both a vivid portrait of a driven woman and a savage critique of the society that made her.
poster
The Roku Channel
78
76
7.5
/19551/
71
/302/
74
/275/
3.7
/18353/
96
/48/
80
/357/
82
/10/
cc age 10+

Hamlet (1948)
Winner of four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor, Sir Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet continues to be the most compelling version of Shakespeare’s beloved tragedy. Olivier is at his most inspired—both as director and as the melancholy Dane himself—as he breathes new life into the words of one of the world’s greatest dramatists.
poster
Kanopy
76
7.7
/295968/
77
/10666/
74
/6653/
3.8
/283571/
86
/49/
86
/5567/
61
/15/
cc age 16+

First Blood (1982)
When former Green Beret John Rambo is harassed by local law enforcement and arrested for vagrancy, he is forced to flee into the mountains and wage an escalating one-man war against his pursuers.
poster
75
8.0
/618010/
78
/13669/
75
/8052/
3.7
/325436/
64
/214/
90
/35204/
64
/39/
cc age 17+

Blood Diamond (2006)
An ex-mercenary turned smuggler. A Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sierra Leone, these men join for two desperate missions: recovering a rare pink diamond of immense value and rescuing the fisherman's son, conscripted as a child soldier into the brutal rebel forces ripping a swath of torture and bloodshed countrywide.
poster
Kanopy
84
75
7.9
/5726/
77
/100/
76
/118/
4.1
/6648/
100
/19/
93
/98/

Fires on the Plain (1959)
In the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier afflicted with tuberculosis is abandoned by his company and left to wander the Philippine island of Leyte.
poster
Kanopy
77
75
7.7
/20969/
76
/338/
72
/224/
3.6
/9900/
81
/26/
87
/341/

Sergeant York (1941)
Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is then called to serve his country and despite deep religious and moral objections to fighting becomes one of the most celebrated American heroes of WWI.
poster
The Roku Channel
79
75
7.5
/12721/
77
/262/
73
/289/
3.9
/12152/
79
/14/
94
/261/

Land and Freedom (1995)
David Carr is a British Communist who is unemployed. In 1936, when the Spanish Civil War begins, he decides to fight for the Republican side, a coalition of liberals, communists and anarchists, so he joins the POUM militia and witnesses firsthand the betrayal of the Spanish revolution by Stalin's followers and Moscow's orders.
poster
Kanopy
75
7.1
/22570/
71
/539/
67
/328/
3.6
/12462/
90
/48/
78
/331/
77
/19/

The Big Red One (1980)
A veteran sergeant of World War I leads a squad in World War II, always in the company of the survivor Pvt. Griff, the writer Pvt. Zab, the Sicilian Pvt. Vinci and Pvt. Johnson, in Vichy French Africa, Sicily, D-Day at Omaha Beach, Belgium and France, and ending in a concentration camp in Czechoslovakia where they face the true horror of war.
poster
Kanopy
75
7.1
/133315/
70
/2916/
68
/1944/
3.4
/45902/
76
/239/
69
/8298/
79
/39/
cc age 16+

Flags of Our Fathers (2006)
There were five Marines and one Navy Corpsman photographed raising the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi by Joe Rosenthal on February 23, 1945. This is the story of three of the six surviving servicemen - John 'Doc' Bradley, Pvt. Rene Gagnon and Pvt. Ira Hayes - who fought in the battle to take Iwo Jima from the Japanese.


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