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89
8.3
/336296/
80
/5272/
79
/3271/
4.4
/300541/
93
/132/
93
/5601/
100
/8/
cc age 13+

Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
During World War I, English officer Thomas Edward 'T.E.' Lawrence sets out to unite and lead the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes to fight the Turks.
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
87
8.1
/246175/
78
/3921/
78
/2264/
4.2
/107284/
96
/103/
93
/2261/
88
/16/
cc age 11+

The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence officers conspire to blow up the structure, but Col. Nicholson, the commander who supervised the bridge's construction, has acquired a sense of pride in his creation and tries to foil their plans.
poster
The Roku Channel
87
8.0
/17904/
77
/364/
74
/261/
4.2
/24878/
97
/37/
90
/298/
93
/20/
cc age 10+

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
General Candy, who's overseeing an English squad in 1943, is a veteran leader who doesn't have the respect of the men he's training and is considered out-of-touch with what's needed to win the war. But it wasn't always this way. Flashing back to his early career in the Boer War and World War I, we see a dashing young officer whose life has been shaped by three different women, and by a lasting friendship with a German soldier.
poster
84
8.1
/200214/
80
/3059/
78
/1870/
4.2
/99643/
94
/50/
95
/1869/
84
/16/
cc age 16+

In the Name of the Father (1993)
A small-time Belfast thief, Gerry Conlon, is wrongly convicted of an IRA bombing in London, along with his father and friends, and spends 15 years in prison fighting to prove his innocence.
poster
83
8.1
/199724/
78
/3491/
79
/3048/
4.4
/351110/
77
/151/
92
/2592/
89
/21/
cc age 12+

Barry Lyndon (1975)
An Irish rogue uses his cunning and wit to work his way up the social classes of 18th century England, transforming himself from the humble Redmond Barry into the noble Barry Lyndon.
poster
82
7.6
/26549/
74
/536/
72
/330/
3.9
/10996/
92
/105/
90
/532/
90
/31/
cc age 17+

Bloody Sunday (2002)
The dramatised story of the Irish civil rights protest march on January 30 1972 which ended in a massacre by British troops.
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
82
7.8
/792130/
75
/34640/
74
/17142/
3.8
/1659832/
92
/469/
81
/5373/
94
/53/
cc age 14+

Dunkirk (2017)
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.
poster
81
7.9
/791605/
79
/44575/
76
/14599/
3.8
/729893/
91
/338/
90
/8682/
71
/43/
cc age 14+

Edge of Tomorrow (2014)
Major Bill Cage is an officer who has never seen a day of combat when he is unceremoniously demoted and dropped into combat. Cage is killed within minutes, managing to take an alpha alien down with him. He awakens back at the beginning of the same day and is forced to fight and die again... and again - as physical contact with the alien has thrown him into a time loop.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
80
7.7
/45442/
75
/976/
74
/547/
3.8
/25193/
97
/29/
91
/1435/
77
/9/
cc age 12+

Zulu (1964)
In 1879, during the Anglo-Zulu War, man-of-the-people Lt. Chard and snooty Lt. Bromhead are in charge of defending the isolated and vastly outnumbered Natal outpost of Rorke's Drift from tribal hordes.
poster
Netflix
80
8.2
/752160/
81
/29297/
79
/13115/
4.1
/1697626/
88
/475/
88
/6014/
78
/57/
cc age 16+

1917 (2019)
At the height of the First World War, two young British soldiers must cross enemy territory and deliver a message that will stop a deadly attack on hundreds of soldiers.
poster
MGM Plus
80
7.4
/211449/
71
/3271/
71
/2308/
3.6
/101532/
86
/93/
83
/4501/
86
/31/
cc age 16+

The English Patient (1996)
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 love, betrayal, and politics.
poster
79
7.7
/62098/
78
/1606/
76
/988/
3.8
/22953/
83
/24/
90
/1410/
75
/7/
cc age 12+

The Longest Day (1962)
The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day"
poster
Criterion Channel
79
7.1
/3676/
72
/136/
67
/86/
3.6
/3832/
90
/20/
73
/96/
88
/8/

Overlord (1975)
During World War II, a young man is called up and, with an increasing sense of foreboding, undertakes his army training ready for D-Day, June 6th, 1944.
poster
MGM Plus
79
7.2
/9703/
71
/163/
69
/224/
3.7
/13402/
93
/29/
80
/137/

The Story of Adèle H. (1975)
Halifax, 1863: Miss Lewly arrives in Halifax to search for Lt Pinson, with whom she is madly in love. Actually, she is Adèle Hugo, second daughter of the great French author of Les Misèrables and statesman. However, her feelings for Pinson are unrequited, but she is so delusional that his attempts to dissuade her are unsuccessful.
poster
Kanopy
79
7.5
/14638/
73
/198/
70
/174/
3.6
/3752/
85
/101/
88
/329/
72
/31/

Nowhere in Africa (2001)
A Jewish woman named Jettel Redlich flees Nazi Germany with her daughter Regina, to join her husband, Walter, on a farm in Kenya. At first, Jettel refuses to adjust to her new circumstances, bringing with her a set of china dishes and an evening gown. While Regina adapts readily to this new world, forming a strong bond with her father's cook, an African named Owuor.
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
Kanopy
78
7.5
/15877/
74
/426/
72
/305/
3.8
/19650/
94
/62/
79
/256/
78
/18/

Wings (1927)
Two young men, one rich, one middle class, both in love with the same woman, become US Air Corps fighter pilots and, eventually, heroic flying aces during World War I. Devoted best friends, their mutual love of the girl eventually threatens their bond. Meanwhile, a hometown girl who's the lovestruck lifelong next door neighbor of one of them pines away.
poster
78
7.5
/58819/
76
/1407/
73
/832/
3.7
/24039/
92
/25/
86
/707/
72
/8/

The Guns of Navarone (1961)
A team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers.
poster
Netflix
77
7.5
/526753/
75
/20987/
72
/7995/
3.7
/1135455/
87
/240/
85
/31800/
73
/39/
cc age 16+

28 Days Later (2002)
Twenty-eight days after a killer virus was accidentally unleashed from a British research facility, a small group of London survivors are caught in a desperate struggle to protect themselves from the infected. Carried by animals and humans, the virus turns those it infects into homicidal maniacs -- and it's absolutely impossible to contain.
poster
Criterion Channel
77
7.1
/936/
61
/15/
69
/23/
3.8
/1958/
86
/7/
82
/5/

Joan the Maid I: The Battles (1994)
Convinced that only she can lead France to victory against the invading English, Jeanne d'Arc leaves her childhood home to plead Charles, heir to the French throne, to allow her to guide his troops on the battlefield.
poster
77
7.6
/66755/
77
/1623/
75
/944/
3.8
/25236/
84
/25/
89
/1264/
63
/8/

Where Eagles Dare (1968)
World War II is raging, and an American general has been captured and is being held hostage in the Schloss Adler, a Bavarian castle that's nearly impossible to breach. It's up to a group of skilled Allied soldiers to liberate the general before it's too late.
poster
77
7.3
/9719/
69
/97/
67
/76/
3.5
/2094/
97
/36/
78
/128/
79
/28/
cc age 9+

The Winslow Boy (1999)
Early 20th century England: while toasting his daughter Catherine's engagement, Arthur Winslow learns the royal naval academy expelled his 14-year-old son, Ronnie, for stealing five shillings. Father asks son if it is true; when the lad denies it, Arthur risks fortune, health, domestic peace, and Catherine's prospects to pursue justice.
poster
Kanopy
77
7.1
/15397/
73
/827/
66
/307/
3.7
/5496/
100
/29/
82
/133/

Kajaki (2014)
British soldiers guarding the Kajaki Dam set out to rescue a three-man team after one of them loses a leg to a landmine.
poster
The CW
77
7.2
/64273/
70
/2537/
68
/1172/
3.6
/46479/
96
/137/
81
/551/
83
/34/
cc age 16+

'71 (2014)
A young British soldier must find his way back to safety after his unit accidentally abandons him during a riot in the streets of Belfast.
poster
NBC
76
7.2
/99764/
72
/3482/
71
/1613/
3.5
/230102/
86
/331/
92
/600/
75
/55/
cc age 14+

Belfast (2021)
Buddy is a young boy on the cusp of adolescence, whose life is filled with familial love, childhood hijinks, and a blossoming romance. Yet, with his beloved hometown caught up in increasing turmoil, his family faces a momentous choice: hope the conflict will pass or leave everything they know behind for a new life.
poster
Netflix
76
7.1
/40282/
71
/1713/
71
/737/
3.3
/28568/
100
/8/
82
/110/
cc age 16+

The Forgotten Battle (2021)
During WWII's crucial Battle of the Scheldt, the lives of a glider pilot, a Nazi soldier and a reluctant Resistance recruit tragically intersect.
poster
Netflix
76
7.6
/33553/
76
/810/
74
/899/
3.7
/17802/
74
/112/
89
/1268/
70
/26/
cc age 13+

Joyeux Noel (2005)
France, 1914, during World War I. On Christmas Eve, an extraordinary event takes place in the bloody no man's land that the French and the Scots dispute with the Germans…
poster
79
76
7.8
/16249/
75
/250/
75
/239/
4.1
/9444/
75
/8/
92
/202/
81
/7/

The Hill (1965)
North Africa, World War II. British soldiers on the brink of collapse push beyond endurance to struggle up a brutal incline. It's not a military objective. It's The Hill, a manmade instrument of torture, a tower of sand seared by a white-hot sun. And the troops' tormentors are not the enemy, but their own comrades-at-arms.
poster
Fandor
78
76
7.7
/9702/
77
/319/
79
/278/
4.0
/19267/
70
/10/
89
/256/
cc age 11+

The Plague Dogs (1982)
Two dogs, Rowf and Snitter, struggle to survive in the countryside after escaping from an animal research laboratory. They are pursued by search parties and then the military after rumors spread that they could be carrying the bubonic plague.
poster
MGM Plus
76
7.4
/43947/
74
/789/
70
/511/
3.8
/25061/
91
/45/
83
/841/
65
/6/

Gallipoli (1981)
Two Australian sprinters face the brutal realities of war when they are sent to fight in the Gallipoli campaign in the Ottoman Empire during World War I.
poster
76
7.2
/31626/
72
/999/
73
/776/
3.6
/17676/
84
/129/
78
/207/
76
/34/
cc age 14+

Testament of Youth (2015)
Testament of Youth is a powerful story of love, war and remembrance, based on the First World War memoir by Vera Brittain, which has become the classic testimony of that war from a woman’s point of view. A searing journey from youthful hopes and dreams to the edge of despair and back again, it’s a film about young love, the futility of war and how to make sense of the darkest times.
poster
76
7.7
/83174/
74
/1824/
74
/1213/
3.8
/29099/
77
/158/
87
/3452/
71
/34/
cc age 18+

Black Book (2006)
In the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II, a Jewish singer infiltrates the regional Gestapo headquarters for the Dutch resistance.
poster
Starz
76
7.2
/175741/
69
/3654/
68
/2358/
3.6
/69045/
84
/206/
70
/4525/
77
/35/
cc age 15+

The Ghost Writer (2010)
A writer stumbles upon a long-hidden secret when he agrees to help former British Prime Minister Adam Lang complete his memoirs on a remote island after the politician's assistant drowns in a mysterious accident.
poster
Kanopy
76
7.3
/95189/
74
/7698/
70
/1663/
3.5
/34742/
95
/219/
82
/1270/
73
/39/
cc age 15+

Eye in the Sky (2015)
A UK-based military officer in command of a top secret drone operation to capture terrorists in Kenya discovers the targets are planning a suicide bombing and the mission escalates from “capture” to “kill.” As American pilot Steve Watts is about to engage, a nine-year old girl enters the kill zone, triggering an international dispute reaching the highest levels of US and British government over the moral, political, and personal implications of modern warfare.
poster
75
7.5
/128932/
76
/4219/
73
/2010/
3.8
/96046/
86
/37/
83
/5711/
72
/11/
cc age 16+

Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1983)
Life's questions are 'answered' in a series of outrageous vignettes, beginning with a staid London insurance company which transforms before our eyes into a pirate ship. Then there's the National Health doctors who try to claim a healthy liver from a still-living donor. The world's most voracious glutton brings the art of vomiting to new heights before his spectacular demise.
poster
Hoopla
74
7.0
/3452/
65
/38/
67
/48/
3.6
/1724/
75
/16/
73
/58/
cc age 11+

Oh! What a Lovely War (1969)
The working-class Smiths change their initially sunny views on World War I after the five boys of the family witness the harsh reality of trench warfare.
poster
Criterion Channel
81
74
8.0
/7114/
76
/130/
79
/162/
4.1
/8490/
90
/10/
91
/154/
73
/7/

The Burmese Harp (1956)
In Burma during the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier separated from his unit disguises himself as a Buddhist monk to escape imprisonment as a POW.
poster
76
74
7.1
/15931/
72
/335/
71
/228/
3.5
/4821/
90
/21/
82
/205/

Von Ryan's Express (1965)
Von Ryan's Express stars Frank Sinatra as a POW colonel who leads a daring escape from WWII Italy by taking over a freight train, but he has to win over the British soldiers he finds himself commanding.
poster
Hulu
73
6.6
/4369/
62
/173/
61
/84/
3.5
/13864/
92
/153/
65
/6/
81
/32/
cc age 13+

Benediction (2021)
Poet Siegfried Sassoon survived the horrors of fighting in the First World War and was decorated for his bravery, but became a vocal critic of the government's continuation of the war when he returned from service. Adored by members of the aristocracy as well as stars of London's literary and stage world, he embarked on affairs with several men as he attempted to come to terms with his homosexuality.
poster
78
73
7.5
/10721/
73
/220/
72
/149/
3.6
/4585/
92
/12/
86
/138/

Sahara (1943)
In Libya, an American tank commander, along with a handful of Allied soldiers, tries to defend an isolated well with a limited supply of water from a German Afrika Korps battalion during the Western Desert Campaign of World War II.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
73
7.0
/8692/
68
/79/
62
/111/
3.5
/3116/
88
/40/
71
/110/
72
/34/

Felicia's Journey (1999)
Seventeen and pregnant, Felicia travels to England in search of her lover and is found instead by Joseph Ambrose Hilditch, a helpful catering manager whose kindness masks unsettling secret.
poster
73
7.2
/171426/
72
/4471/
72
/3544/
3.4
/132286/
74
/241/
74
/5350/
72
/40/
cc age 13+

War Horse (2011)
On the brink of the First World War, Albert's beloved horse Joey is sold to the Cavalry by his father. Against the backdrop of the Great War, Joey begins an odyssey full of danger, joy, and sorrow, and he transforms everyone he meets along the way. Meanwhile, Albert, unable to forget his equine friend, searches the battlefields of France to find Joey and bring him home.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
72
6.8
/70201/
69
/1706/
67
/945/
3.4
/57870/
82
/44/
79
/3325/
cc age 16+

Dog Soldiers (2002)
A band of soldiers is dispatched to war games deep in the woods. When they stumble across a rival team slaughtered in camp, they realize they're not alone.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
72
6.7
/12152/
67
/598/
63
/320/
3.4
/8363/
91
/101/
72
/80/
73
/28/
cc age 15+

Journey's End (2017)
Set in a dugout in Aisne in 1918, a group of British officers, led by the mentally disintegrating young officer Stanhope, variously await their fate.
poster
Kanopy
75
72
7.2
/6777/
71
/256/
68
/162/
3.7
/5104/
86
/14/
84
/113/

The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961)
British reporters suspect an international cover-up of a global disaster in progress... and they're right. Hysterical panic has engulfed the world after the United States and the Soviet Union simultaneously detonate nuclear devices and have caused the orbit of the Earth to alter, sending it hurtling towards the sun.
poster
72
7.1
/4624/
67
/80/
65
/81/
3.5
/1638/
67
/18/
77
/51/

Mountains of the Moon (1990)
The story of Captain Richard Francis Burton's and Lt. John Hanning Speke's expedition to find the source of the Nile river in the name of Queen Victoria's British Empire.


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