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poster
Criterion Channel
89
8.6
/23244/
84
/589/
82
/540/
4.6
/55018/
100
/26/
95
/414/
cc age 15+

Night and Fog (1956)
Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.
poster
Criterion Channel
85
8.0
/45373/
79
/841/
79
/671/
4.1
/64048/
96
/52/
92
/830/
89
/16/

The Hidden Fortress (1958)
In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a defeated army, stumble upon a mysterious man who guides them to a fortress hidden in the mountains.
poster
Kanopy
84
7.9
/16361/
79
/487/
78
/334/
4.4
/103049/
79
/72/
90
/267/
84
/15/

Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985)
A fictional account of the life of Japanese author Yukio Mishima, combining dramatizations of three of his novels and a depiction of the events of November 25th, 1970.
poster
The Roku Channel
83
81
7.8
/14744/
76
/322/
77
/331/
4.1
/23352/
100
/25/
85
/171/

Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)
A pianist about to flee from a duel receives a letter from a woman he cannot remember. As she tells the story of her lifelong love for him, he is forced to reinterpret his own past.
poster
74
7.2
/172114/
72
/4551/
72
/3583/
3.4
/137061/
74
/241/
74
/5349/
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
The Roku Channel
71
66
6.7
/9456/
70
/199/
66
/170/
3.4
/5428/
97
/37/
67
/111/
62
/12/

Major Dundee (1965)
During the last winter of the Civil War, cavalry officer Amos Dundee leads a contentious troop of Army regulars, Confederate prisoners and scouts on an expedition into Mexico to destroy a band of Apaches who have been raiding U.S. bases in Texas.
poster
fuboTV
65
7.0
/90372/
73
/2522/
71
/1380/
3.3
/29714/
52
/117/
74
/1358/
43
/32/
cc age 15+

The Last Castle (2001)
A court-martialed general rallies together 1200 inmates to rise against the system that put him away.
poster
Disney Plus
63
5.8
/167053/
65
/12610/
68
/6958/
2.3
/303989/
72
/327/
46
/4084/
66
/52/
cc age 11+

Mulan (2020)
When the Emperor of China issues a decree that one man per family must serve in the Imperial Chinese Army to defend the country from Huns, Hua Mulan, the eldest daughter of an honored warrior, steps in to take the place of her ailing father. She is spirited, determined and quick on her feet. Disguised as a man by the name of Hua Jun, she is tested every step of the way and must harness her innermost strength and embrace her true potential.
poster
Criterion Channel
64
63
6.5
/8097/
67
/327/
69
/252/
3.4
/20927/
56
/9/
64
/239/

Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah (1991)
The Futurians, time-travelers from the 23rd century, arrive in Japan to warn them of the nation's destruction under Godzilla. They offer to help erase Godzilla from history by preventing his creation. With Godzilla seemingly gone, a new monster emerges as the Futurians' true intentions are revealed.
poster
Kanopy
67
57
6.2
/3404/
63
/100/
65
/79/
3.5
/7898/
86
/7/
56
/39/

Sebastiane (1976)
Rome, AD 303. Emperor Diocletian demotes his favourite, Sebastian, from captain of the palace guard to the rank of common soldier and banishes him to a remote coastal outpost where his fellow soldiers, weakened by their desires, turn to homosexual activities to satisfy their needs. Sebastian becomes the target of lust for the officer Severus, but repeatedly rejects the man's advances. Castigated for his Christian faith, he is tortured, humiliated and ultimately killed.
poster
Kanopy
62
55
6.2
/6403/
63
/123/
66
/179/
3.3
/5991/
50
/10/
65
/281/

R-Point (2004)
On 07 January 1972, the South Korean base in Nha-Trang, Vietnam, receives a radio transmission from a missing platoon presumed dead.
poster
Kanopy
73
51
7.4
/3596/
67
/37/
69
/50/
3.7
/1476/
85
/23/

Colonel Redl (1985)
Set during the fading glory of the Austro-Hungarian empire, the film tells of the rise and fall of Alfred Redl, an ambitious young officer who proceeds up the ladder to become head of the Secret Police only to become ensnared in political deception.
poster
74
50
7.5
/2934/
70
/55/
68
/88/
3.9
/3225/
82
/15/

The Desert of the Tartars (1976)
Lieutenant Giovanni Drogo is assigned to the old Bastiani border fortress where he expects an imminent attack by nomadic fearsome Tartars.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
52
46
5.5
/4812/
54
/113/
55
/102/
3.0
/5690/
50
/6/
41
/108/

Cannibal Apocalypse (1980)
Released from captivity in Vietnam, two American Army officers return to civilian life and discover they have acquired an insatiable taste for human flesh. A city is terrorised... as they stalk the inhabitants to satisfy their primitive appetites.
poster
Kanopy
43
5.7
/13374/
61
/661/
58
/294/
2.7
/6440/
18
/80/
36
/75/
39
/18/
cc age 14+

Queen of the Desert (2015)
A chronicle of Gertrude Bell's life, a traveler, writer, archaeologist, explorer, cartographer, and political attaché for the British Empire in the Near and Middle East at the dawn of the twentieth century. Her knowledge of the tribal leaders is used by the British to establish the Kingdoms of Iraq, Jordan and Saudi Arabia.
poster
71
34
7.1
/1113/
52
/12/
65
/28/
3.5
/564/
80
/5/
88
/10/

Passion of Love (1981)
In the 1860's, Giorgio (Giraudeau), a young Italian soldier is sent to a remote post, far away from his lover, Clara (Antonelli). He is lodged in the house of the colonel (Girotti). He becames friends with the colonel and the local doctor (Trintignant). Among the inhabitants of the house, there is a strange young woman - Fosca (d'Obici) who is both unattractive and mad. However, she has a passion that Giorgio will have to cope with.
poster
70
33
7.3
/2871/
69
/32/
72
/22/
3.4
/651/

Stars of Eger (1968)
This romantic and grandiose historical film depicts the era of the constant incursions and heroic battles fought by the defenders of the castle of Eger, led by captain István Dobó, against the heavy odds of superior numbers through the lives and love of Bornemissza Gergely and Cecey Éva. Gergely is inaugurated as a fighter already at the age of 7, when he escapes the captivity of the half-eyed Turk, Jumurdzsak, with Vica and the war-booty. In thirty years' time he becomes the first assistant of captain Dobó and the brain of the castle in the defence of Eger.
poster
48
33
5.7
/3510/
72
/57/
60
/40/
2.8
/1024/
20
/10/
26
/47/

The Pride and the Passion (1957)
During the Napoleonic Wars, when the French have occupied Spain, some Spanish guerrilla soldiers are going to move a big cannon across Spain in order to help the British defeat the French. A British officer is there to accompany the Spanish and along the way, he falls in love with the leader's girl.
poster
65
31
6.7
/2673/
66
/20/
61
/24/
3.4
/854/

Uuno Turhapuro armeijan leivissä (1984)
Uuno is forced to complete his mandatory military service when it is revealed that he only spent one day in the army in his youth. As is typical of the Turhapuro series his family and friends become closely tied in with these events. His friends Härski Hartikainen and Sörsselssön return to the army for a refresher course and by chance Uuno's father-in-law, Councillor Tuura is made the Finnish Defence Minister. In one of the most memorable scenes, Uuno's wife, Elisabeth, dresses as Uuno and substitutes him for a day as Uuno has an apparently urgent meeting (at a restaurant) and while becoming lost in the woods with a malfunctioning radio, Tuura accidentally declares war on Sweden.
poster
71
31
7.8
/3073/
72
/27/
61
/20/
3.6
/496/

How the War Started on My Island (1997)
At the beginning of 1991, Yugoslav army did not acknowledge Croatian's independence, and still holding few military barracks in Croatia. Gajski travels to an island to get his son out of the army. Locals have besieged the barracks and organized a festival to try with singing and recitals to get major Aleksa and his soldiers to surrender, but Aleksa has explosives thru the barracks and wants to blow up the island.
poster
61
30
6.3
/2082/
65
/28/
63
/31/
3.2
/821/
51
/16/

The Spanish Main (1945)
Laurent van Horn is the leader of a band of Dutch refugees on a ship seeking freedom in the Carolinas, when the ship is wrecked on the coast of Cartagene, governed by Don Juan Alvardo, a Spanish ruler. Alvarado has Laurent thrown in prison, but the latter escapes, and five-years later is a pirate leader. He poses as the navigator on a ship in which Contessa Francesca, daughter of a Mexican noble, is traveling on her way to marry Alvarado, whom she has never seen. Laurent's pirates capture the ship and Francesca, in order to save another ship, gives her hand-in-marriage to Laurent, who sails her to the pirate hideout. This irks his jealous pirate comrades Anne Bonney and Captain Benjamin Black. They overpower Laurent and send Francesca to Alvarado, and then Mario du Billar, a trusted right-hand man, makes a deal to deliver Laurent to Alvarado.
poster
54
23
6.0
/783/
51
/14/
64
/18/
44
/101/

They Rode West (1954)
A young cavalry doctor treats very sick Indians against orders, whom are forced to stay on unhealthy land, which could lead to a war.
poster
74
21
7.4
/689/
70
/11/
66
/72/
3.6
/464/
88
/1/

In the Name of the Pope King (1977)
In 1867, with Garibaldi's forces close to bringing Rome into the Italian kingdom, Monsignor Colombo da Priverno, a world-weary judge on the papal court, wants to resign, disgusted by the violence to which the papacy resorts to hold secular power.
poster
53
18
4.5
/1953/
59
/37/
56
/17/
2.7
/415/

Hadik (2023)
During the Seven Years War, Austrian Queen Maria Theresa sends her best general, András Hadik and his Hussars to raid Berlin and humiliate the Prussian King, Frederick the Great.
poster
65
18
6.6
/631/
60
/14/
71
/19/
3.3
/412/

The Tolstoy Defence (2018)
The shrill and tragic story about an event that involved Count Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy. In an infantry regiment of the military based in the Tula region an offence occurs. In this regiment, the capital’s lieutenant Grigory Kolokoltsev — inspired by progressive ideas — does his service. A military tribunal and execution await the soldier charged with the offence. Kolokoltsev asks Count Tolstoy for help — and he decides to protect the innocent man. The pointed history about the complexity of choice and fidelity to one’s ideals is based on real events.
poster
55
12
5.8
/641/
61
/15/
55
/7/
50
/17/

Seven Cities of Gold (1955)
In 1769, a Spanish expedition to California seeks to conquer the land and discover its famed gold treasures while missionaries aim to gain new converts and establish a network of Catholic missions.
poster
66
10
6.7
/175/
62
/4/
66
/7/
3.5
/578/

The Last of the Line (1914)
Sioux leader Chief Gray Otter sends his son Tiah to the white man's school so that he can become a great leader. The son returns home drunk, disappointing his father. Things get worse when the son joins a group of renegades and robs a payroll wagon. The father, observing the clash from a distance, takes a side.
poster
37
4
3.6
/297/
53
/8/
37
/3/
24
/15/

Garrison (2008)
 
poster
?
6.1
/101/
15
/2/

Pantaleón y las visitadoras (1975)
Pantaleón and the visitors is a peruvian film made in 1975 and based on the book of the same name by Mario Vargas Llosa. Directed by the novelist himself along with José María Gutiérrez Santos, it was released in Puerto Rico. Among its protagonists, José Sacristán, the Mexican Katy Jurado and Rosa Carmina and the Peruvian Camucha Negrete.
poster
?
5.4
/8/
10
/1/
10
/1/

Kuoleman hellä kosketus (1982)
A young man finds himself in conflict with military order and purpose.
poster
?
6.2
/31/
10
/1/

Attack (1986)
Young lieutenant arrives to tank regiment stationed in the Central Asia. He uses unusual for Soviet Army methods to train his soldiers. It predictably leads to tensions with superiors and subordinates. However later it pays back during live exercises.
poster
?
5.7
/27/
10
/1/
30
/2/

Vääpeli Sadon tapaus (1985)
N/A
poster
?
5.2
/46/
23
/3/

Kesän maku (1975)
Liisa, a young nurse returns to a remote island where she has spent the summer leaves in her youth. She soon gets to know some of the regular residents on the island, Pekka and Paula. During the summer party the underlying tensions mount.
poster
?
5.9
/11/

Juhannushäät (1979)
The young non-commissioned officer Voitto travels with his bride Marjata to spend a wedding in his childhood home in Lapland. On the wedding night, both have to confront their past.
poster
?
6.1
/76/
10
/1/
40
/3/

Berlin kaputt (1981)
Story of three partisans whose fates are determined by different encounters with women.
poster
?
8.3
/92/
10
/1/
83
/7/

Radetzkymarsch (1965)
The story of the Trotta family during the rise and fall of the Austrian-Hungary empire. Based upon the novel by Joseph Roth.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
58
?
6.5
/120/
61
/9/
50
/1/

The Boer War: 1899-1902 (1992)
Journey back in time to a different age, when the sun never set on the British Empire and her armies were great in number. The Boer War: 1899-1902 was a turning point in British military history and would revolutionize tactics, battlefield strategy, equipment, and training. Well known participants in the Boar Wars include: Harry "Breaker" Morant, Winston Churchill and Mahatma Gandhi.
poster
?
6.9
/91/
40
/1/
65
/2/

Tykkimies Kauppalan viimeiset vaiheet (1977)
The story of a man raised in a boy's home and prison who doesn't conform to the rules and discipline of the military.
poster
40
?
4.2
/451/
35
/7/
46
/10/

Vääpeli Körmy ja kahtesti laukeava (1997)
New takeover plans and Russian art thief looking for Mannerheim's portraits keep Sergeant Körmy busy.
poster
46
?
4.6
/564/
50
/7/
44
/15/

Vääpeli Körmy ja etelän hetelmät (1992)
The Minister of Defence asks sergeant Körmy to take part in operation, where the United States and Russia are to hand over their nuclear weapons launch equipment and codes to neutral Finland.
poster
49
?
4.8
/678/
55
/7/
44
/14/

Vääpeli Körmy ja vetenalaiset vehkeet (1991)
Sergeant Friman is developing an automatic submarine detector that piques the interest of both, Swedish and Russian spies.
poster
44
?
4.7
/546/
41
/6/
46
/13/

Vääpeli Körmy – taisteluni (1994)
Relations between Sweden and Finland come to near breaking point. When further negotiations led by President Mara fail, Sergeant Körmy interferes in the course of events.
poster
?
4.9
/96/
10
/1/
37
/4/

Vääpelin kauhu (1957)
A Finnish military farce about an elderly man who is commanded back to service.
poster
?
5.9
/90/
50
/1/
58
/4/

Korkein voitto (1929)
The heavily indebted baron Henrik von Hagen, who loves women and partying, learns that his former lover, Russian ballerina Madame Vera Vasiljevna, will be visiting Finland. They are reunited and sparks fly. But Vasiljevna's new hobby casts a shadow over their romance.
poster
54
?
5.4
/741/
63
/10/
54
/14/

Vääpeli Körmy ja marsalkan sauva (1990)
The colonel's wife's tin pints need to be cleaned up, and Sergeant First Class Körmy tasks two privates to do so.
poster
?
5.2
/96/
10
/1/
43
/3/

Tyttö lähtee kasarmiin (1956)
A girl joins the army instead of her brother, who has been injured in a car accident and cannot join the army in time. She is then disguised as a male conscript to save the brother from troubles.
poster
?
6.1
/51/
10
/1/
10
/2/

Warriors and Prisoners (1990)
Patagonia, Argentina, 1880s. During the Conquest of the Desert, Marguerite, the French wife of Colonel Garay, in charge of protecting a new railway, discovers that a French woman is being held captive by the local natives.
poster
58
?
6.0
/644/
70
/9/
61
/8/
3.1
/281/
38

The Last Outpost (1935)
During WW1, the destinies of British officers Michael Andrews and John Stevenson seem intertwined on the battle front as much as on a more personal level.


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