20+ Best War Movies or Tv Shows to watch online (December 2024)
2019-04-17 | FlixCatalog Staff
So what are some of the best movies or tvshows you can watch online? We compiled a list of all the movies or tvshows you can watch on some of your favourite OTT platforms like Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Hotstar. There are a total of 200 movies or tvshows in this list and to make your life easier we have a filter and sort option for you to navigate through the list.
In 2007, Annie Connerton called John Lombardo in a frantic state to come visit her immediately and to bring a box of war letters dating back to the 1940's that were in John's possession. ...
9.4/10\N min
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The story of Easy Company of the U.S. Army 101st Airborne Division, and their mission in World War II Europe, from Operation Overlord, through V-J Day.
9.4/10594 min
Available in 10 platform(s).
9.4/1080 min
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A groundbreaking 26-part documentary series narrated by the actor Laurence Olivier about the deadliest conflict in history, World War II.
9.2/1052 min
Available in 3 platform(s).
A comprehensive history of the United States' involvement in the bitterly divisive armed conflict in Southeast Asia.
9.1/10990 min
Available in 7 platform(s).
In the most dangerous country in the world for journalists, Newsweek Middle East editor, Janine di Giovanni, risks it all to bear witness, ensuring that the world knows about the suffering of the Syrian people.
9.1/1075 min
Available in 9 platform(s).
A comprehensive survey of the American Civil War.
9.1/10680 min
Available in 6 platform(s).
A compelling cultural documentary, set in the mystic country of Nepal. Guided by child's rights activist, Visma Raj Paudel, as he struggles to bring justice to Nepal's forgotten children.
9/1048 min
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Apocalypse: The Second World War(2009) is a six-part French documentary about the Second World War. The documentary is composed exclusively of actual footage of the war as filmed by war ...
9/10312 min
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A seven-part series focusing on the many ways in which the Second World War impacted the lives of American families.
9/10124 min
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Colorized historical footage in ascending order of World War 1. Not only the relatively known Flanders and France battles, but also the generally unknown Italian-Austrian, ...
8.9/10260 min
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A major hit in Japanese theaters since its release in June, 'Okinawa: The Afterburn' is the first documentary film to provide a comprehensive picture of the 1945 Battle of Okinawa and the ...
8.8/10148 min
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Lieutenant Kelly is serving for the UN during the Bosnia War. After a ferocious battle with war criminals, Kelly is court-martialed and goes back to civilian life haunted by the horrific memories.
8.7/1082 min
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A series of colorized archive footage of important events during World War II.
8.7/1050 min
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In 1994 Sarajevo began a descent into chaos.Amongst the madness, 2 UN personnel: decided it would be fun to persuade a rock star (Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden) to come and play a gig to ...
8.7/1095 min
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To commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Korean War, actor/filmmaker Conor Timmis sets out on a year long journey to honor his late grandfather and the heroes of America's forgotten war. Narrated by Mark Hamill.
8.7/1054 min
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"A VERY SHORT WAR" is a deeply personal story, exploring the ramifications of loss. It follows the short life of early Australian aviator, Cliff Carpenter, using his narrative as a template...
8.7/1055 min
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Follow the lives of soldiers who lived World War II, through previously unseen color footage.
8.7/1060 min
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Recounts the events of world War II in color.
8.7/10663 min
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Major battles of World War II are recounted in depth.
8.7/10\N min
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Claude Lanzmann's epic documentary recounts the story of the Holocaust through interviews with witnesses - perpetrators as well as survivors.
8.7/10566 min
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Narrated by Tom Selleck: Sunday, December 7, 1941 was a beautiful morning on the Hawaiian island of Oahu. A few sailors and soldiers were already up and playing a game of football near ...
8.6/1081 min
Available in 6 platform(s).
A reunion 40 years in the making. After decades of wondering what became of their combat interpreter, a group of U.S. Navy SEALs attempts to find Nguyen Hoang Minh, left behind in the ...
8.6/10105 min
Available in 14 platform(s).
The Internationally Multi-Award Winning Feaure In the Shadow of the Palms is the Only documentary filmed in Iraq prior to, during, and after the fall of Saddam Hussein. It documents the ...
8.6/1090 min
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A comprehensive survey of the history of World War I.
8.6/10500 min
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Following the Normandy Landings, a group of U.S. soldiers go behind enemy lines to retrieve a paratrooper whose brothers have been killed in action.
8.6/10169 min
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During World War II, a Belgian resistance movement called Lifeline, based in Brussels, organises the return of Allied airmen who have been shot down by the Luftwaffe to the United Kingdom.
8.6/1050 min
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FOR SAMA is both an intimate and epic journey into the female experience of war.
8.5/10100 min
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The Last Ring Home is a made-for-TV documentary that recounts the story of how a WWII hero's last wish was lost, found, finally fulfilled and then lost again. The discovery of the story by ...
8.5/1027 min
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An intimate portrayal of life on the edge in the war-torn city of Sderot. Once known for its prolific rock scene that revolutionized Israeli music, for thirteen years the town has been the ...
8.5/1087 min
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Oliver Stone 's re-examination of under-reported events in American history.
8.5/1058 min
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Sergeant R. Lee Ermey tells of the historical value and origin of the worlds most prevelant guns and other military weaponry!
8.5/1060 min
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A Rolling Stone reporter, embedded with The 1st Recon Marines chronicles his experiences during the first wave of the American-led assault on Baghdad in 2003.
8.5/1070 min
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The story of how Australia's 'ANZAC myth' was born and the role of General John Monash in this process as soldier and statesman both during and after WW1.
8.5/1055 min
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A young boy and his little sister struggle to survive in Japan during World War II.
8.5/1089 min
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A U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god.
8.5/10147 min
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The Pacific War in Color immerses viewers in a graphic and dramatic look through an unfiltered lens.
8.4/10\N min
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This is a story of a new Ukrainian army and new Ukrainian society being born. After Maidan revolution Ukrainian volunteer warriors defend Donetsk Airport from pro-Russian separatists and Russian militaries.
8.4/1085 min
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The drama tells the story of air force pilots and their families from 1945 to 1971. As the husbands embarked on patriotic missions to fight against the enemies, their families must content ...
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The film is about the consequences of war; an incomplete childhood, the regret for the shattering of life and the beauty of rediscovered values.
8.4/1081 min
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Honor Flight chronicles a community coming together to honor World War II veterans. The film follows a team of Midwest volunteers as they race against the clock to send every local WWII veterans to see the memorials built in their honor.
8.4/1082 min
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Every time 22-year-old Heba Afify heads out to cover the historical events shaping her country's future, her mother is compelled to remind her, 'I know you are a journalist, but you're ...
8.4/1070 min
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After 60 years of silence, the survivors of the Chosin Reservoir Campaign of the Korean War take us on an emotional and heart-pounding journey through one of the most savage battles in American history.
8.4/1086 min
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A little girl is told by her parents that she is adopted. Determined to find her real mother, she begs to be taken to Sri Lanka, where her mother works with a militant group of activists.
8.4/10136 min
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Stephen Ives' "The West" is a PBS 4-Video Series co-produced by Ken Burns: - "Death Runs Riot" 85 min. - "Fight No More Forever" 85 min. - "Ghost Dance" 58 min. - "The People" 82 min.
8.4/10537 min
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After finding an old rifle, a young boy joins the Soviet resistance movement against ruthless German forces and experiences the horrors of World War II.
8.4/10142 min
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In France during World War II, Rene Artois runs a small café where Resistance fighters, Gestapo men, German Army officers and escaped Allied POWs interact daily, ignorant of one another's true identity or presence, exasperating Rene.
8.4/1045 min
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The claustrophobic world of a WWII German U-boat; boredom, filth and sheer terror.
8.4/10149 min
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The staff of an Army hospital in the Korean War find that laughter is the best way to deal with their situation.
8.4/1025 min
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8.4/10108 min
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CRIES FROM SYRIA is a searing, comprehensive account of a brutal five-year conflict from the inside out, drawing on hundreds of hours of war footage from Syrian activists and citizen ...
8.3/10111 min
Available in 9 platform(s).
An unflinching and poetic glimpse into a forgotten war, MADINA'S DREAM tells the story of rebels and refugees fighting to survive in Sudan's Nuba Mountains. After decades of civil war, ...
8.3/1082 min
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Vintage footage from the Vietnam war is presented in High Definition video format along with narration from both war veterans and Hollywood voice talent. The documentary follows key events ...
8.3/10360 min
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Twins journey to the Middle East to discover their family history and fulfill their mother's last wishes.
8.3/10131 min
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In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a plan to assassinate Nazi leaders by a group of Jewish U.S. soldiers coincides with a theatre owner's vengeful plans for the same.
8.3/10153 min
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This series chronicle's the illustrious battle history of the U.S.S. Enterprise which played a critical role in World War Two and for a time was the only carrier defending the Pacific Theater from domination by Japan.
8.3/10\N min
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Using modern computer animation, great aerial and modern naval battles are recreated. In the process, you learn about the history of military transportation technology, the tactics created and the people using them.
8.3/10\N min
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Documentary examining Operation Barbarossa, Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941.
8.3/10200 min
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A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.
8.3/10116 min
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During World War II, a Soviet veteran pilot teaches to newcomers that war is transient, and music is eternal.
8.3/1092 min
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One moment the sky would be full of aircraft wheeling and positioning for the best shot at the enemy; a sky full of danger and menace. The next instant there would just be a clear blue ...
8.2/1049 min
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The film is set in the Nazi-occupied Croatian Ustasha regime "NDH" in former Yugoslavia during WWII. The film is told through the experiences of a little girl named Dara who is sent as a ...
8.2/10130 min
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Life in Berlin in 1945 before, during and after the battle of Berlin seen through the eyes of those who were there at the time from common Berliners to Allied troops.
8.2/10180 min
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April 6th, 1917. As a regiment assembles to wage war deep in enemy territory, two soldiers are assigned to race against time and deliver a message that will stop 1,600 men from walking straight into a deadly trap.
8.2/10119 min
Available in 12 platform(s).
From Shock to Awe asks, 'how do we heal our deepest wounds?' An intimate and raw look at the transformational journey of two combat veterans suffering from severe trauma as they abandon ...
8.2/1087 min
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A documentary about World War I with never-before-seen footage to commemorate the centennial of the end of the war.
8.2/1099 min
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A hybrid docu/live-action anthology series that portrays stories of personal sacrifice that resulted in the highest military distinction: the Medal of Honor.
8.2/1060 min
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Canine Soldiers explores the experience of going to war with a Military Working Dog, trained to find bombs before they can kill or maim soldiers, often at the expense of the dog's sanity.
8.2/1066 min
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In a desolate war zone where screams of the innocent echo, seven Maroon Berets will dance with death on the very line between disaster and valor.
8.2/10135 min
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A drama following a group of inspirational women in a rural Cheshire community during World War II.
8.2/1045 min
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On D-Day, June 6, 1944, a roughly 7,000-yard stretch of beach in Normandy, France, called "Omaha" proved to be the Allies' biggest obstacle to the success of Operation Overlord. The ...
8.2/1056 min
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A team of brave individuals risk their lives to protect the last mountain gorillas.
8.2/10100 min
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Through original diaries, letters, and memoirs, this unforgettable documentary tells how the lives of regular British men and women were transformed by the Great War. Along with historical ...
8.2/10\N min
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An investigation into how people lived in the medieval age.
8.2/10110 min
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A mini-series of adaptations of Shakespeare's history plays: Richard II, Henry IV: Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V.
8.2/10150 min
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Chronicles Hitler's life as a failed painter and far-right activist up to his election as Chancellor of Germany, leading to his relentless rise to power, culminating in the beginning of World War II.
8.2/10108 min
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A comprehensive look at the Bush Administration's conduct of the Iraq war and its occupation of the country.
8.2/10102 min
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In the Falangist Spain of 1944, the bookish young stepdaughter of a sadistic army officer escapes into an eerie but captivating fantasy world.
8.2/10118 min
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8.2/1088 min
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In Medieval Japan, an elderly warlord retires, handing over his empire to his three sons. However, he vastly underestimates how the new-found power will corrupt them and cause them to turn on each other...and him.
8.2/10162 min
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Two Soviet partisans on a mission to gather food contend with the winter cold, the occupying Germans, and their own psyches.
8.2/10111 min
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An examination of the conflicting attitudes of the opponents of the Vietnam War.
8.2/10112 min
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For three days in 1971, former US soldiers who were in Vietnam testify in Detroit about their war experiences. Nearly 30 speak, describing atrocities personally committed or witnessed, ...
8.2/1096 min
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A documentary series following a group of veteran and civilian volunteers who travel to Syria and Iraq to fight against ISIS alongside local militias.
8.1/1042 min
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A chronicle of the lives and events that led to the brave and epic last stand of the 21 soldiers of the 36th Sikh regiment of the British Indian Army against thousands of Afghani invaders in the September of 1897.
8.1/1018 min
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In an alternate history, during the time of real life Napoleonic Wars, two men of destiny, the gifted recluse Mr. Norrell and daring spellcasting novice Jonathan Strange, use magic to help England.
8.1/1060 min
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Three true stories of British soldiers fighting in World War 1. Each one takes place at a different time and place in the war, focuses on a different unit and shows a different aspect to the war.
8.1/10\N min
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A Long Island farmer bands together a group of childhood friends to form an unlikely group of spies who turn the tide in America's fight for independence.
8.1/1060 min
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In 1992, war rages in Abkhazia, a breakaway region of Georgia. An Estonian man Ivo has decided to stay behind and harvest his crops of tangerines. In a bloody conflict at his door, a wounded man is left behind, and Ivo takes him in.
8.1/1087 min
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70 years after the historic struggle, brothers Colin and Ewan McGregor take viewers through the key moments of the Battle of Britain, when 'the few' of the RAF faced the might of the Nazi Luftwaffe.
8.1/1090 min
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The Soviet Story offers an alternative history of an Allied power, which helped the Nazis to fight Jews and which slaughtered its own people on an industrial scale.
8.1/1086 min
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A docudrama covering events from 1812 to 1815, plus the recent repatriation of remains from Fort Erie to the United States.
8.1/1060 min
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Using previously unreleased archival material in addition to contemporary interviews, this academy award-winning documentary tells the story of the Frank family and presents the first ...
8.1/10117 min
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Thorough documentary of how the American Colonies rebelled against England and the personalities involved in the creation of a new nation.
8.1/1050 min
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A film about the noted American linguist/political dissident and his warning about corporate media's role in modern propaganda.
8.1/10167 min
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A documentary following Kenzo Okuzaki, a 62-year-old WW2 veteran notorious for his protests against Emperor Hirohito, as he tries to expose the needless executions of two Japanese soldiers during the war.
8.1/10122 min
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A young soldier in Vietnam faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man.
8.1/10120 min
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An in-depth examination of the ways in which the U.S. Vietnam War impacts and disrupts the lives of people in a small industrial town in Pennsylvania.
8.1/10183 min
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An Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband's aristocratic position in 18th-century England.
8.1/10185 min
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During WWII in a small village outpost, a commander has his troop replaced by an all female unit. As they finally begin to appreciate one another, German paratroopers are spotted nearby and the realities of war emerge.
8.1/10188 min
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Turkey in the spring of 2014. A time when the enemies are growing on the border, the circle of danger inside is becoming narrower. The Republic of Turkey faces the greatest threats of ...
8/1080 min
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For the first time, light is shed on the Inkotanyi politico-military movement that ended the genocide of the Rwandan Tutsi in 1994 and is led by Paul Kagame, currently President of Rwanda.
8/10126 min
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For many decades, the Caribbean island of Vieques was used for military tests and training. In Mississippi, a small-town lawyer receives a phone call, drawing his attention to increased ...
8/1078 min
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Soldiers recount their experiences in one of the worst places of Afghanistan through helmet cameras and testimony years after their tour.
8/10\N min
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A documentary series following American Soldiers in Afghanistan. Real footage captured from on the ground camera's.
8/10\N min
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A gripping and shocking documentary composed of numerous colorized archive footage. Apocalypse: Verdun takes us to the infamous and bloody battle of Verdun that occurred in February 1916, when World War I had been raging for two years.
8/1090 min
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In NOBEL, two stories carefully intertwine as a returning soldier and family man becomes a pawn in a political international game. As the stakes grow higher he is forced to discover just how far one should go in the name of peace.
8/1045 min
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Researchers discover film footage from World War II that turns out to be a lost documentary shot by Alfred Hitchcock and Sidney Bernstein in 1945 about German concentration camps.
8/1075 min
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In order to recover the body of her son lost during the war in Bosnia, a grieving, but strong-willed Muslim woman, Halima, must track down her estranged niece, who we find carries a mysterious connection to him.
8/1097 min
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A soldier, paralyzed with PTSD, encounters the now-grown child of parents he killed. (Or perhaps not.) What follows? Martyrdom. Torture. Torment. Revenge. Castigation. Catharsis. Guilt. Atonement. And maybe, ultimately, redemption.
8/10100 min
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Follows the incredible stories of three 8th Air Force airmen and Stars & Stripes reporter Andy Rooney during the bloody year leading up to D-Day against the most powerful air force in the ...
8/1088 min
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Garri Urban, survivor of Holocaust and Gulag and author of the autobiographical book of the same title, revisits the sites of his horrors and triumphs, 50 years later.
8/1085 min
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Is American foreign policy dominated by the idea of military supremacy? Has the military become too important in American life? Jarecki's shrewd and intelligent polemic would seem to give an affirmative answer to each of these questions.
8/1098 min
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Near the Iraqi-Turkish border on the eve of an American invasion, refugee children like 13-year-old Kak (Ebrahim), gauge and await their fate.
8/1098 min
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The story of Desmond Doss, a US Army medic who was the first conscientious objector to be awarded the Medal of Honor.
8/10101 min
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In the spirit of Louis Malle's "Au Revoir les Enfants" and Steven Spielberg's "Schindler's List," the Emmy® Award-winning film "The Children of Chabannes" (93 minutes), has been praised as ...
8/1093 min
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Movie about tortured and humiliated women in concentration camps in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
8/1063 min
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This film shows the disaster of the Kuwaitian oil fields in flames, with few interviews and no explanatory narration. Hell itself is presented in such beautiful sights and music that one has to be fascinated by it.
8/1054 min
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Documentary about the USO of WWII, with a reunion of Bob Hope's famous troupe, consisting, besides him, of Frances Langford, Patty Thomas and Tony Romano.
8/1090 min
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A French boarding school run by priests seems to be a haven from World War II until a new student arrives. He becomes the roommate of the top student in his class. Rivals at first, the roommates form a bond and share a secret.
8/10104 min
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A Canadian doctor interned at a Japanese POW Camp during WWII must tend to his fellow British prisoners who are being worked to death in a mine.
8/1082 min
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Aida is a translator for the UN in the small town of Srebrenica. When the Serbian army takes over the town, her family is among the thousands of citizens looking for shelter in the UN camp.
8/10101 min
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The gritty, thrilling story of local militias and uneasy allies who banded together to liberate Iraq's second-largest city of 1.3 million people from ISIS in 2017.
7.9/1086 min
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A young boy in Hitler's army finds out his mother is hiding a Jewish girl in their home.
7.9/10108 min
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