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1. Cross of Iron (1977)
R | 119 min | Drama, War
German commander Hauptmann Stransky places a squad in extreme danger after Sergeant Rolf Steiner refuses to lie for him.
Director: Sam Peckinpah | Stars: James Coburn, Maximilian Schell, James Mason, David Warner
Votes: 29,194
2. Friendly Persuasion (1956)
Passed | 137 min | Drama, Family, Romance
The pacifist attitude of a Quaker family is tested as a result of the American Civil War.
Director: William Wyler | Stars: Gary Cooper, Dorothy McGuire, Anthony Perkins, Richard Eyer
Votes: 7,746
3. Cardboard Boxer (2016)
Not Rated | 88 min | Drama
Gentle and broken, a homeless man is coerced by two teens to fight other men on video for cash but soon finds comfort in an unlikely friend and the lost diary of a young girl.
Director: Knate Lee | Stars: Thomas Haden Church, Terrence Howard, Boyd Holbrook, Rhys Wakefield
Votes: 2,971
4. Inner Wars (2020)
68 min | Documentary, War
Since the uprising of a pro Russian insurgency in eastern Ukraine in 2014, hundreds of woman joined the army. Only a few made it to the front line. Filmmaker Masha embeds herself in the war... See full summary »
Director: Masha Kondakova
Votes: 74
5. Ukraine: The People's Fight (2023)
53 min | Documentary
Filmmaker Olly Lambert spends two months on Ukraine's southern frontline with volunteer special forces as they begin the push to capture Kherson. How are they winning the fight?
Director: Olly Lambert
Votes: 191
6. Great Guns (1927)
7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Oswald's country is at war, like many other volunters he joins the army and finds himself soon in the trenches. A short battle leaves him wounded, but at least in the field hospital where his girlfriend is working.
Director: Walt Disney
Votes: 300
7. Drafty, Isn't It? (1957)
11 min | Comedy, Animation, Short
As a young man endures nightmares of being drafted into the US Army, an Army pixie invades his dreams to explain the realities of army life and the recruitment incentives available.
Director: Chuck Jones | Star: Daws Butler
Votes: 287
8. Taiheiyô sensô to Himeyuri butai (1962)
93 min | Drama, War
The last fight put up by remaining Japanese forces and a special volunteer nursing corps on Okinawa at the end of World War II (1944-45).
Director: Kiyoshi Komori | Stars: Tôru Abe, Kanjûrô Arashi, Shinjirô Asano, Kikuko Hanaoka
Votes: 14
9. Myth (II) (2018)
63 min | Documentary, Biography
The film is the remarkable and tragic story of Wassyl Slipak; Ukrainian opera singer whose unique voice and talent brought him world recognition and death on the war.
Directors: Leonid Kanter, Ivan Yasniy | Stars: Orest Slipak, Vasyl Slipak
Votes: 159
10.
Amazing Stories (1985–1987)
Episode:
Alamo Jobe
(1985)
Not Rated | 25 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
During the Battle of the Alamo on March 6, 1836, 15-year-old messenger Jobe H. Farnum is about to be killed. He is transported forward in time to San Antonio in 1985. The 1980s prove to be too much for Jobe to handle.
Director: Michael D. Moore | Stars: Kelly Reno, William Boyett, Lurene Tuttle, Richard Young
Votes: 530
11.
Monsters (1988–1990)
Episode:
The Hole
(1990)
TV-14 | 21 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
During the Vietnam War, two US marines and their allied South Vietnamese guide end up trapped in the maze of underground Vietcong tunnels haunted by the undead restless spirits of the soldiers killed in the war.
Director: David Severeid | Stars: Ahmad Rashad, Antone Pagán, Glenn Kubota, Mitchell McCormack
Votes: 129
12.
Running Wild with Bear Grylls (2014– )
Episode:
Rob Riggle in Iceland
(2019)
TV-14 | 47 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Bear and his guest, ex 'The Daily Show with Jon Stewart' correspondent and former U.S. marine who served in Afghanistan, comedian Rob Riggle, take on Iceland's biggest glacier in midwinter. They also try pemmican and a reindeer head.
Director: Ben Simms | Stars: Bear Grylls, Rob Riggle
Votes: 57
13.
Gilligan's Planet (1982–1983)
Episode:
Gilligan's Army
(1982)
Not Rated | 22 min | Animation, Family, Comedy
Captain Quantum and Sgt. Tyrano land on the planet expecting to find army volunteers from Aridia, whom they are to train. Instead, they find the castaways and put them through basic training.
Director: Hal Sutherland | Stars: Bob Denver, Alan Hale Jr., Jim Backus, Natalie Schafer
Votes: 8
14.
Roots (2016)
Episode:
Part 4
(2016)
TV-14 | 88 min | Drama, War
Chicken George returns to the Lea farm after 20 years; Tom, nurses a grudge against his father; George and Cyrus join the Memphis Colored Battery; Tom returns home after the war to embark on a new life with his family.
Director: Bruce Beresford | Stars: Laurence Fishburne, Herman Netzhammer, Lane Garrison, Tip 'T.I.' Harris
Votes: 375
15.
The Plot Against America (2020)
Episode:
Part 3
(2020)
TV-MA | 61 min | Drama, Thriller
Lindbergh puts Bengelsdorf in charge of a program called Just Folks; Bess places her family on a waiting list to emigrate to Canada; the Levins take a trip to Washington, D.C., where they experience anti-Semitism among citizens and police.
Director: Minkie Spiro | Stars: Winona Ryder, Anthony Boyle, Zoe Kazan, Morgan Spector
Votes: 656