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1. 1917 (2019)

R | 119 min | Action, Drama, History

April 6th, 1917. As an infantry battalion 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.

Director: Sam Mendes | Stars: Dean-Charles Chapman, George MacKay, Daniel Mays, Colin Firth

Votes: 676,064 | Gross: $159.23M

2. Wings (1927)

PG-13 | 144 min | Drama, Romance, War

Two young men, one rich, one middle class, who are in love with the same woman, become fighter pilots in World War I.

Directors: William A. Wellman, Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast | Stars: Clara Bow, Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, Richard Arlen, Jobyna Ralston

Votes: 14,542 | Gross: $6.59M

3. High Road to China (1983)

PG | 105 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

During WW1, an alcoholic American biplane pilot is hired by the spoiled daughter of an industrialist to find her father who disappeared in Asia.

Director: Brian G. Hutton | Stars: Tom Selleck, Bess Armstrong, Jack Weston, Wilford Brimley

Votes: 6,006 | Gross: $28.40M

4. Lovers of the Arctic Circle (1998)

R | 112 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

In Lapland's cold Arctic Circle, under the eternal midnight sun, unfavourable circumstances reunite two kindred spirits. And governed by circular motifs woven by faith and love, they must answer a pivotal question. Can they deny destiny?

Director: Julio Medem | Stars: Najwa Nimri, Fele Martínez, Nancho Novo, Maru Valdivielso

Votes: 20,212 | Gross: $0.50M

5. The Great Waldo Pepper (1975)

PG | 107 min | Adventure, Drama

After WW1, an ex-pilot takes up barn-storming and chance-meets a former German ace fighter pilot with whom he co-stars in Hollywood war movies depicting aerial dog-fights.

Director: George Roy Hill | Stars: Robert Redford, Bo Svenson, Bo Brundin, Susan Sarandon

Votes: 6,602 | Gross: $20.64M

6. The One That Got Away (1957)

Not Rated | 111 min | Adventure, Drama, War

A cocky German fighter pilot is shot down over England in 1940 and makes numerous attempts to escape to fight again.

Director: Roy Ward Baker | Stars: Hardy Krüger, Colin Gordon, Michael Goodliffe, Terence Alexander

Votes: 2,484

7. Down River (2018)

70 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

Four soldiers trapped behind enemy lines must confront their fears and desires while finding a way back to their battalion.

Director: Alexander Raye Pimentel | Stars: Alexander Raye Pimentel, Zachary Greene, Cody Poirot, Nicholas Winand

Votes: 589

8. The Dawn Patrol (1930)

Passed | 108 min | Action, Drama, War

World War I ace Dick Courtney derides the leadership of his superior officer, but Courtney is soon promoted to squadron commander and learns harsh lessons about sending subordinates to their deaths.

Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: Richard Barthelmess, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Neil Hamilton, Frank McHugh

Votes: 2,034

9. King of the Royal Mounted (1940)

Approved | 211 min | Adventure, Drama, Western

Canadian Tom Merritt has discovered a substance, Compound X, that will cure infantile paralysis, which he extracts from a mine at Caribou, Canada. A country at war with Canada (unnamed ... See full summary »

Directors: John English, William Witney | Stars: Allan Lane, Robert Strange, Robert Kellard, Lita Conway

Votes: 114

10. Berlin Correspondent (1942)

Approved | 70 min | Drama, Thriller, War

In 1941, a U.S. radio correspondent (Dana Andrews as Bill Roberts) in Berlin broadcasts sensitive information about the Nazis, prompting the Gestapo to investigate these leaks and how they pass the censors.

Director: Eugene Forde | Stars: Virginia Gilmore, Dana Andrews, Mona Maris, Martin Kosleck

Votes: 513

11. Ace of Aces (1933)

Passed | 76 min | Drama, War

A sculptor who doesn't want to have any part of World War I is shamed by his girlfriend into joining the army. He becomes a fighter pilot, and undergoes a complete personality change.

Director: J. Walter Ruben | Stars: Richard Dix, Elizabeth Allan, Ralph Bellamy, Theodore Newton

Votes: 472

12. Death in the Air (1936)

Approved | 69 min | Action, Adventure, Mystery

Aircraft are being shot down by a large black plane with a big "X" painted on the wing. The chief suspects are invited for the weekend to an old dark mansion.

Director: Elmer Clifton | Stars: Lona Andre, John Carroll, Leon Ames, Henry Hall

Votes: 196

13. Battle of Britain (2005)

Documentary, History, War

A chronological history of the Battle of Britain between July 10th and September 30th 1940, featuring interviews with eyewitnesses including surviving British and German pilots.

Stars: Bob Doe, Cyril Bamberger, Thomas Neil, Ulrich Steinhilper

Votes: 10

14. Across the Atlantic (1928)

Passed | 61 min | Drama, Romance

Brothers Hugh and Dan Clayton are both in love with Phyllis, their father's secretary. She finally chooses Hugh, and they marry before he joins the army and is sent overseas as a fighter ... See full summary »

Director: Howard Bretherton | Stars: Monte Blue, Edna Murphy, Burr McIntosh, Robert Ober

15. Blitz on London (2014 Video)

Documentary, History, War

A documentary which documents the massive bombing raids on Britain's capital city by the Luftwaffe during 1940 and 1941.

Director: Robert Garofalo | Stars: Roy Ward, Kai-Shek Chiang, Winston Churchill, Hugh Dowding

16. The Watch Tower (1956 TV Movie)

30 min | Drama, Family

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Stars: Nigel Anthony, Christine Russell, Margaret Barton, Barry Letts

17. The Blitz on the Midlands (2001 Video)

56 min | Documentary, History, War

This is a powerful account of the German bombing raids on the central towns and airfields of England, including the terrible blitz on Coventry and the smaller raids on the airfields of Lincolnshire and East Anglia.

Director: Stanley Joseph | Stars: Don Burbridge, Rudolf Hess, Adolf Hitler, King George VI

Votes: 6

18. Marple (2004–2013)
Episode: Miss Marple: Nemesis (2007)

TV-14 | 83 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Miss Marple and her nephew, novelist Raymond West, embark on a coach tour of historic English houses with an eclectic group of characters at the behest of a late friend who had knowledge of an unsolved murder.

Director: Nicolas Winding Refn | Stars: Geraldine McEwan, Laura Michelle Kelly, Dan Stevens, Graeme Garden

Votes: 1,857

19. World on Fire (2019–2023)
Episode: Wrong (2023)

TV-14 | 55 min | Drama, Romance, War

Harry has a second chance at saving Kasia from Warsaw. In Manchester, could Lois be set for happiness at last?

Director: Drew Casson | Stars: Julia Brown, Yrsa Daley-Ward, Carl Grübel, Zofia Wichlacz

Votes: 208

20. Battlefield (1995–2004)
Episode: Campaign in the Balkans (2004)

105 min | Documentary, History, War

We examine the course of savage fighting in the Balkans in the latter half of the conflict in World War 2 where after the uprising by the Romanians, the Soviet Army moved swiftly to capture Bucharest.

Stars: Jonathan Booth, Ion Antonescu, Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, Ernst Busch

Votes: 11

21. The Camomile Lawn (1992)
Episode: Episode #1.4 (1992)

53 min | Drama, Romance, War

Polly is unnaturally calm when a telegram arrives informing of Walter's death whereas Calypso breaks down. Having had sex at last with Oliver - and almost getting caught by Hector - she is ... See full summary »

Director: Peter Hall | Stars: Felicity Kendal, Nicholas Le Prevost, Rebecca Hall, James Gaddas

Votes: 41

22. World War Weird (2017– )
Episode: Episode #3.4 (2019)

Documentary, History, War

The story of Franz Stigler, a German Luftwaffe pilot in the Second World War who risked his own life to save the crew of an American B-17 bomber.

Director: Mike Ibeji | Stars: Guy Walters, Martin K.A. Morgan, Joshua Levine, Alexandra Churchill

23. Beyond the Myth: The SS Unveiled (2022– )
Episode: The Executioner: Reinhard Heydrich (2022)

Documentary, History, War

More than any other Nazi leader, Heydrich was an orchestrator of mass murder, and was terrifyingly clinical in approach.

Director: Alexander Hugh | Stars: Anna Hajkova, Robert Gerwarth, Alexandra Richie, Richard John Evans