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Kanopy
90
7.5
/7766/
72
/206/
75
/152/
3.8
/14481/
98
/53/
91
/6/
82
/15/

There Is No Evil (2020)
Set against the backdrop of Iran's strict and oppressive legal system, this anthology film tells the stories of four men who each face a moral crisis when having to deal with death penalties.
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YouTube TV
84
7.8
/102931/
75
/2063/
76
/1537/
3.9
/127969/
87
/102/
88
/2475/
94
/15/

The Searchers (1956)
As a Civil War veteran spends years searching for a young niece captured by Indians, his motivation becomes increasingly questionable.
poster
81
7.6
/2890/
77
/86/
75
/25/
3.8
/8168/
100
/25/
80
/11/

Mr. Nobody Against Putin (2025)
As Russia launches its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, primary schools across Russia’s hinterlands are transformed into recruitment stages for the war. Facing the ethical dilemma of working in a system defined by propaganda and violence, a brave teacher goes undercover to film what’s really happening in his own school.
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Disney Plus
79
8.1
/288577/
79
/7204/
77
/3541/
4.2
/604554/
83
/78/
91
/27238/
63
/11/
cc age 6+

The Sound of Music (1965)
In the years before World War II, a tomboyish postulant at an Austrian abbey is hired as a governess in the home of a widowed naval captain with seven children and brings a new love of life and music into the home.
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Netflix
77
6.8
/32299/
67
/1464/
64
/714/
3.5
/47928/
99
/92/
70
/211/
83
/25/

Under the Shadow (2016)
After Shideh's building is hit by a missile during the Iran-Iraq War, a superstitious neighbor suggests that the missile was cursed and might be carrying malevolent Middle-Eastern spirits. She becomes convinced a supernatural force within the building is attempting to possess her daughter Dorsa, and she has no choice but to confront these forces if she is to save her daughter and herself.
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MGM Plus
76
7.5
/501081/
75
/11628/
73
/7034/
3.7
/439177/
72
/210/
81
/11176/
72
/39/
cc age 17+

Gangs of New York (2002)
In early 1860s New York, Irish immigrant Amsterdam Vallon is released from prison and returns to the Five Points, seeking revenge against his father's killer, William Cutting, a powerful anti-immigrant gang leader. He knows that revenge can only be attained by infiltrating Cutting's inner circle. Vallon's journey becomes a fight for personal survival and to find a place for the Irish people.
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FXNow
76
7.1
/165172/
70
/5851/
70
/2887/
3.7
/936358/
75
/320/
76
/313/
75
/57/
cc age 15+

The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun (2021)
The staff of an American magazine based in France puts out its last issue, with stories featuring an artist sentenced to life imprisonment, student riots, and a kidnapping resolved by a chef.
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Kanopy
76
7.3
/1216/
66
/56/
71
/20/
3.5
/546/
88
/41/
85
/12/
74
/14/

The Trials of Muhammad Ali (2013)
Brash boxer Cassius Clay burst into the American consciousness in the early 1960s, just ahead of the Civil Rights movement. His transformation into the spiritually enlightened heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali is legendary, but this religious awakening also led to a bitter legal battle with the U.S. government after he refused to serve in the Vietnam War. This film reveals the perfect storm of race, religion and politics that shaped one of the most recognizable figures in sports history.
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Amazon Prime Video
69
7.1
/2234/
71
/98/
67
/44/
3.4
/1657/
79
/33/
95
/20/
54
/7/
cc age 15+

The Road Dance (2022)
A young girl lives in the Outer Hebrides in a small village in the years just before WWI. Isolated and hard by the shore, her life takes a dramatic change when a terrible tragedy befalls her.
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Kanopy
68
5.6
/2916/
55
/200/
57
/100/
3.0
/23959/
66
/106/
87
/22/
65
/26/
cc age 15+

Oh, Canada (2024)
Famed Canadian-American leftist documentary filmmaker Leonard Fife was one of sixty thousand draft evaders and deserters who fled to Canada to avoid serving in Vietnam. Now in his late seventies, Fife is dying of cancer in Montreal and has agreed to a final interview in which he is determined to bare all his secrets at last, to demythologize his mythologized life.
poster
68
6.3
/4929/
65
/116/
62
/75/
3.2
/3365/
63
/19/
59
/142/

Alice's Restaurant (1969)
After getting kicked out of college, Arlo decides to visit his friend Alice for Thanksgiving dinner. After dinner is over, Arlo volunteers to take the trash to the dump but finds it closed for the holiday, so he dumps the trash in the bottom of a ravine. This act of littering gets him arrested and sends him on a bizarre journey.
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69
68
7.0
/22398/
70
/380/
66
/297/
3.3
/3920/
69
/16/
75
/414/

9th Company (2005)
Russian army recruits complete training and take their posting in late 1980s Afghanistan, where the insurgents are slowly gaining the upper hand.
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Kanopy
67
6.8
/4751/
68
/219/
66
/92/
3.6
/7718/
91
/97/
73
/12/
69
/12/
cc age 17+

Moffie (2020)
A young man in 1981 South Africa must complete his brutal and racist two years of compulsory military service while desperately maintaining the secrecy of his homosexuality.
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Kanopy
67
6.5
/15896/
66
/506/
66
/434/
3.4
/14317/
76
/34/
64
/320/
70
/14/

The Last Circus (2010)
A trapeze artist must decide between her lust for Sergio, the Happy Clown, or her affection for Javier, the Sad Clown, both of whom are deeply disturbed.
poster
65
6.4
/1841/
69
/83/
63
/13/
3.0
/8461/
67
/94/
79
/22/
60
/23/
cc age 13+

The Choral (2025)
As World War I rages on, Dr. Henry Guthrie takes over a British choral society that's lost most of its men to the army. The community soon discovers that the best response to the chaos of war is to make beautiful music together.
poster
81
65
7.6
/3591/
71
/74/
76
/113/
4.0
/9181/
100
/5/
88
/21/

Dust in the Wind (1986)
A-yuan and A-yun are both from the small mining town of Jio-fen. They move to Taipei, where A-yuan is an apprentice by day and goes to night school, and A-yun works as a helper at a tailors. Everyone thinks they are meant for each other, and so do they. They fail to see time and fate are beyond their control.
poster
64
6.2
/1998/
55
/74/
61
/70/
3.0
/1469/
76
/89/
47
/28/
68
/28/
cc age 16+

Queen & Country (2015)
In this sequel to Hope and Glory (1987), Bill Rohan has grown up and is drafted into the army, where he and his eccentric best mate, Percy, battle their snooty superiors on the base and look for love in town.
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Disney Plus
63
5.8
/167074/
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.
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Amazon Prime Video
59
6.6
/250858/
69
/15756/
74
/3954/
2.7
/208057/
51
/208/
76
/2918/
45
/35/
cc age 14+

The Tomorrow War (2021)
The world is stunned when a group of time travelers arrive from the year 2051 to deliver an urgent message: Thirty years in the future, mankind is losing a global war against a deadly alien species. The only hope for survival is for soldiers and civilians from the present to be transported to the future and join the fight. Among those recruited is high school teacher and family man Dan Forester. Determined to save the world for his young daughter, Dan teams up with a brilliant scientist and his estranged father in a desperate quest to rewrite the fate of the planet.
poster
74
48
7.7
/3904/
77
/51/
75
/32/
3.5
/1125/

Loafing and Camouflage (1984)
A group of Greek soldiers are assigned to run the Cinematographic Unit of the army in the midst of political unrest.
poster
62
43
6.5
/4437/
63
/81/
57
/46/
3.3
/994/

The Call-up (1979)
It's time for Jonsson to return to his old regiment to rehearse what he learned during conscription a few years ago. He meets his old friends, platoon leader Larsson and the music loving captain 'Beethoven'. Jonsson and his comrades doesn't take it very serious - but they have a jolly good time. A female journalist follows the exercise to write an article, and gets interested in him.
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Amazon Prime Video
70
41
6.9
/1779/
70
/46/
67
/64/
3.5
/549/
75
/41/

Black Belt (2007)
Set in 1932, amid the rise of militarism after the establishment of the Manchukuo colony in Northeast China, the story centers on a trio of karateka. Studying under their aging master in a small dojo in the woods of central Kyushu, Choei, Taikan and Giryu face a company of kempeitai military police come to requisition their dojo for use as a military base.
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JustWatch TV
74
41
7.2
/1028/
70
/17/
71
/23/
3.8
/1369/
83
/166/

Four Sons (1928)
A family saga in which three of a Bavarian widow's sons go to war for Germany and the fourth goes to America, Germany's eventual opponent. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with L'Imaginne Ritrovato and Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in 1999.
poster
70
38
7.1
/3011/
66
/37/
59
/31/
3.5
/2196/
84
/4/

Zenne Dancer (2012)
German photographer Daniel Bert, who comes to Istanbul to do photo shoots, meets Can, who is a zenne at a nightclub, and Ahmet, who comes from a conservative eastern family.
poster
76
36
7.4
/965/
65
/23/
68
/28/
3.8
/1240/
100
/17/

Draftee Daffy (1945)
Despite an initial outburst of patriotism, Daffy is terrified to learn that "the little man from the Draft Board" has a letter for him, and tries his best to hide.
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Amazon Prime Video
66
35
6.8
/1746/
67
/36/
64
/31/
3.4
/557/
62
/525/

The Square Peg (1958)
Norman Pitkin and Mr Grimsdale are council workmen mending the road outside an Army base when they come into conflict with the military. Shortly afterwards, they get drafted and fall into the clutches of the Sergeant they have just bested. They are sent to France to repair roads in front of the Allied advance but get captured. Pitkin takes advantage of a useful similarity to impersonate General Schreiber and manages to return a hero
poster
78
32
7.4
/918/
66
/23/
72
/34/
3.9
/1302/
100
/5/

My Way Home (1978)
Jamie leaves the children's home to live with his paternal grandmother. After working in a mine and in a tailor's shop, he is conscripted into the RAF, and goes to Egypt, where he is befriended by Robert, whose undemanding companionship releases Jamie from self-pity.
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Amazon Prime Video
60
28
5.3
/1186/
64
/129/
57
/47/
2.9
/559/
68
/10/

A Tale of Legendary Libido (2008)
A monk gives an impaired man the secret to a strong arousal. The man had been teased and tortured until the travelling man decides to help him out.
poster
58
26
5.4
/1558/
62
/68/
56
/48/
3.0
/594/
55
/10/

Private Popsicle (1982)
The Lemon Popsicle boys - Bobby, Benji, and Huey - have been drafted into the army, but they're not quite ready to give up the freedom they've enjoyed for so long and submit to army discipline. They spend most of their time chasing women, trying to get out of doing any work and avoiding their no-nonsense sergeant.
poster
52
21
5.9
/1473/
68
/15/
51
/25/
3.1
/692/
30
/10/
46
/8/

Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys! (1958)
Harry Bannerman, a Connecticut suburbanite, becomes involved in various shenanigans when his wife Grace leads a protest movement against a secret army plan to set up a missile base in their community.
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The Roku Channel
52
20
5.9
/1758/
70
/26/
54
/21/
3.2
/493/
20
/5/
46
/9/

The Greatest (1977)
Muhammad Ali's life story up to the late 1970s, which includes his Olympic boxing triumphs as Cassius Clay, his conversion to Islam, his refusal of the Army draft and the legal battle after being stripped of his World Title.
poster
58
15
6.5
/1099/
53
/16/
54
/23/
3.3
/328/
53
/4/

Commandos Strike at Dawn (1942)
A gentle widower, enraged at Nazi atrocities against his peaceful Norwegian fishing village, escapes to Britain and returns leading a commando force against the oppressors.
poster
55
14
7.9
/503/
5
/2/
67
/15/
3.6
/296/

The Plouffe Family (1981)
The lives of the average Quebecois Plouffe family during the final years of the depression and through World War II.
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Amazon Prime Video
63
11
6.6
/588/
63
/10/
47
/18/
79
/3/

A Dot and a Line (2004)
The story of a young Colombian recruit who, while patrolling his country's border, is befriended by a Venezuelan adversary, and the tragic consequences of their relationship.
poster
52
9
5.6
/319/
41
/12/
53
/13/
3.0
/298/

Drafty, Isn't It? (1957)
Ralph Phillips dreams about his future, only to have his dreams interrupted by Willie N. List, using an ACME Anti-Nightmare Machine, to compare military and civilian life.
poster
?
5.7
/14/

You Can't See 'round Corners (1969)
Frankie McCoy (Ken Shorter) is a born loser from the Sydney suburb of Newtown, and a gambler and a bit of an SP bookie. When he's conscripted into the army to fight in the Vietnam war, he deserts, but in pursuit of money, he falls into debt with SP bookies at the local pub.This film, shot at Kapooka camp, contains one of the only depictions in Australian cinema of soldiers training for Vietnam.
poster
?
8.2
/31/

Waiting for Invasion (2016)
Just 25 years after gaining independence from Russia, Lithuania is facing occupation again. The airspace above the Baltic States is now one of the most dangerous in the world. In the face of the biggest aggression in Europe since the Second World War, this documentary tells a story of people desperately trying to preserve peace against imaginable odds. But the film is not about the war, it is about peace and the people willing to fight to preserve it.
poster
?
7.6
/51/
70
/1/

Brothers (2008)
Two brothers separated at birth find themselves years later in Israel. Dan, who chose a life of work, lives with his family in a kibbutz in the south. Aaron, his brother, doctor in philosophy and law and the Torah, arrives from the USA to defend the rights of the students of the Torah.
poster
?
7.0
/32/
80
/1/

The Draft (2015)
Historians, veterans, politicians, and anti-war leaders discuss the history of the military draft in the United States through the Vietnam War, and examine the consequences of its replacement with an all-volunteer professional force currently comprising less than one-half of one percent of the population.
poster
?
8.4
/30/

The March of the Bonus Army (2006)
45,000 World War I veterans, impoverished by the Great Depression, who marched on Washington D.C. in the summer of 1932 seeking payment of the compensation promised them for their war service.
poster
?
8.0
/44/
10
/2/

Convictions (2016)
Four stories of young men's encounters with army recruitment commissions. Ardent pacifist Roman is sent through a series of humiliating court trials. Losha and Viktor endure long and condescending deliberations that undermine their personalities. Finally, LGBT movement veteran, Johnny is bluntly rebuked and handcuffed. All are put to test by a bureaucratic machine that doesn't sympathize with those who dispute the purposiveness of military service. The conscript enters a room packed with officials. The officials have to listen to his convictions that go in conflict with the idea of military service. It's for the officials to decide whether the conscript leaves the room as a soldier or as a civilian.
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?
5.4
/8/
10
/1/
10
/1/

Kuoleman hellä kosketus (1982)
A young man finds himself in conflict with military order and purpose.
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?
8.1
/16/

The Olive Depression (2009)
The Olive Depression documents the weeks before a teenage boy enters military service He is determined not to mentally accept what is required of him by law. He opts to prepare himself by maintaining his melancholy about something against what it means to be human. However, seeing the depression of his best friend who enters the army before him and the worry of his parents lead him to question his principles. As he strives not to succumb to the government's world view, he finds it increasingly difficult to be contented and sad at the same time.
poster
?
7.1
/15/
60
/1/
50
/1/

Anzacs: In the Face of War (2011)
Archive footage of Australia and New Zealand forces during WW1, WW2 and the Vietnam conflict. Plus home life between the wars, especially focusing on the homage we pay to those who so bravely sacrificed themselves on our behalf. This is all held together by a wonderful script narrated by John Stanton.
poster
?
6.6
/59/
23
/3/

Service (2022)
On furlough from his military service, Niko pays his estranged father a visit. Can old wounds heal?
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?
7.9
/72/
20
/1/
10
/2/

Three Friends (1996)
Three young men prepare to take their university entrance exams while each dealing with real world problems that can effect every day people in Seoul.
poster
?
5.7
/27/
10
/1/
30
/2/

Vääpeli Sadon tapaus (1985)
N/A
poster
54
?
5.7
/129/
50
/6/

Mamba (1930)
August Bolte, the richest man in a settlement in German East Africa in the period before World War I, is called "Mamba" by the locals, which is the name of a deadly snake. Despised by the locals and the European settlers alike for his greed and arrogance, Bolte forces the beautiful daughter of a destitute nobleman to marry him in exchange for saving her father from ruin. Upon her arrival in Africa, she falls in love with an officer in the local German garrison. When World War I breaks out, Bolte, unable to avoid being conscripted, foments a rebellion among the local natives.


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