Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "horrors-of-war"
- Movies or TV
- Genres
- Keywords
- IMDb Rating
- Instant Watch Options
- In Theaters
- Release Year
1. Starship Troopers (1997)
R | 129 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Humans, in a fascist militaristic future, wage war with giant alien bugs.
Director: Paul Verhoeven | Stars: Casper Van Dien, Denise Richards, Dina Meyer, Jake Busey
Votes: 320,726 | Gross: $54.81M
2. Come and See (1985)
Not Rated | 142 min | Drama, Thriller, War
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.
Director: Elem Klimov | Stars: Aleksey Kravchenko, Olga Mironova, Liubomiras Laucevicius, Vladas Bagdonas
Votes: 96,931
3. The Pacific (2010)
TV-MA | 53 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
The Pacific Theatre of World War II, as seen through the eyes of several young Marines.
Stars: James Badge Dale, Joseph Mazzello, Jon Seda, Ashton Holmes
Votes: 129,740
4. Hacksaw Ridge (2016)
R | 139 min | Biography, Drama, History
World War II American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, serving during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people and becomes the first man in American history to receive the Medal of Honor without firing a shot.
Director: Mel Gibson | Stars: Andrew Garfield, Sam Worthington, Luke Bracey, Teresa Palmer
Votes: 592,975 | Gross: $67.21M
5. 1917 (2019)
R | 119 min | Action, Drama, War
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: 673,888 | Gross: $159.23M
6. Fury (2014)
R | 134 min | Action, Drama, War
A grizzled tank commander makes tough decisions as he and his crew fight their way across Germany in April, 1945.
Director: David Ayer | Stars: Brad Pitt, Shia LaBeouf, Logan Lerman, Michael Peña
Votes: 546,377 | Gross: $85.82M
7. Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
Not Rated | 89 min | Animation, Drama, War
A young boy and his little sister struggle to survive in Japan during World War II.
Director: Isao Takahata | Stars: Tsutomu Tatsumi, Ayano Shiraishi, Akemi Yamaguchi, Yoshiko Shinohara
Votes: 309,811
8. The Dirty Dozen (1967)
Approved | 150 min | Action, Adventure, War
During World War II, a rebellious U.S. Army Major is assigned a dozen convicted murderers to train and lead them into a mass assassination mission of German officers.
Director: Robert Aldrich | Stars: Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson, John Cassavetes
Votes: 79,018 | Gross: $45.30M
9. Enemy at the Gates (2001)
R | 131 min | Action, Drama, War
A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad.
Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud | Stars: Jude Law, Ed Harris, Joseph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz
Votes: 277,374 | Gross: $51.40M
10. Gallipoli (1981)
PG | 110 min | Adventure, Drama, History
Two Australian sprinters face the brutal realities of war when they are sent to fight in the Gallipoli campaign in Turkey during World War I.
Director: Peter Weir | Stars: Mel Gibson, Mark Lee, Bill Kerr, Harold Hopkins
Votes: 41,928 | Gross: $5.73M
11. Stalingrad (1993)
Not Rated | 134 min | Drama, War
The story follows a group of German soldiers, from their Italian R&R in the summer of 1942 to the frozen steppes of Soviet Russia and ending with the battle for Stalingrad.
Director: Joseph Vilsmaier | Stars: Dominique Horwitz, Thomas Kretschmann, Jochen Nickel, Sebastian Rudolph
Votes: 37,680 | Gross: $0.08M
12. A Private War (2018)
R | 110 min | Biography, Drama, War
One of the most celebrated war correspondents of our time, Marie Colvin is an utterly fearless and rebellious spirit, driven to the frontline of conflicts across the globe to give voice to the voiceless.
Director: Matthew Heineman | Stars: Rosamund Pike, Alexandra Moen, Tom Hollander, Faye Marsay
Votes: 20,983 | Gross: $1.63M
13. Breaker Morant (1980)
PG | 107 min | Drama, History, War
Three Australian lieutenants are court martialed for executing prisoners as a way of deflecting attention from war crimes committed by their superior officers.
Director: Bruce Beresford | Stars: Edward Woodward, Jack Thompson, John Waters, Bryan Brown
Votes: 14,409 | Gross: $7.14M
14. Passchendaele (2008)
R | 114 min | Drama, History, Romance
The lives of a troubled veteran, his nurse girlfriend and a naive boy intersect first in Alberta and then in Belgium during the bloody World War I battle of Passchendaele.
Director: Paul Gross | Stars: Paul Gross, Michael Greyeyes, James Kot, Jesse Frechette
Votes: 8,797
15. Philosophy of a Knife (2008 Video)
Not Rated | 266 min | Drama, Horror
A graphic docu-drama detailing the history of Unit 731, where thousands of innocent Chinese prisoners of war were fatally experimented on.
Director: Andrey Iskanov | Stars: Tetsuro Sakagami, Tomoya Okamoto, Yukari Fujimoto, Manoush
Votes: 1,685
16. Before the Rain (1994)
Not Rated | 113 min | Drama, Romance, War
Three interconnected stories of love under the threat of civil war in Macedonia and London.
Director: Milcho Manchevski | Stars: Katrin Cartlidge, Rade Serbedzija, Grégoire Colin, Josif Josifovski
Votes: 15,847 | Gross: $0.76M
17. Attack Force Z (1981)
Not Rated | 84 min | Action, Drama, History
A group of Australian commandos launch a secret mission against Japanese forces in World War II.
Director: Tim Burstall | Stars: John Phillip Law, Mel Gibson, Sam Neill, Chris Haywood
Votes: 2,719
18. The Ascent (1977)
111 min | Drama, War
Two Soviet partisans on a mission to gather food contend with the winter cold, the occupying Germans, and their own psyches.
Director: Larisa Shepitko | Stars: Boris Plotnikov, Vladimir Gostyukhin, Sergey Yakovlev, Lyudmila Polyakova
Votes: 10,087
19. Barefoot Gen (1983)
TV-PG | 83 min | Animation, Biography, Drama
A powerful statement against war, Barefoot Gen is a disturbing story about the effect of the atomic bomb on a boy's life and the lives of the Japanese people.
Director: Mori Masaki | Stars: Issei Miyazaki, Catherine Battistone, Yoshie Shimamura, Iona Morris
Votes: 9,194
20. Blizzard of Souls (2019)
Not Rated | 123 min | Action, Drama, History
After losing his mother and his home, Arturs finds some consolation in joining the army. However, war is nothing like he imagined.
Director: Dzintars Dreibergs | Stars: Oto Brantevics, Greta Trusina, Martins Vilsons, Rezija Kalnina
Votes: 5,009
21. Fortress of War (2010)
Not Rated | 138 min | Action, Drama, History
A war drama set during the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, in which Soviet troops held on to a border stronghold for nine days.
Director: Aleksandr Kott | Stars: Aleksey Kopashov, Andrey Merzlikin, Pavel Derevyanko, Aleksandr Korshunov
Votes: 10,509
22. Micmacs (2009)
R | 105 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
A man and his friends come up with an intricate and original plan to destroy two big weapons manufacturers.
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet | Stars: Dany Boon, André Dussollier, Nicolas Marié, Yolande Moreau
Votes: 31,263 | Gross: $1.26M
23. Bunker (II) (2022)
R | 108 min | Horror, Thriller, War
Trapped in a bunker during World War I, a group of soldiers are faced with an ungodly presence that slowly turns them against each other.
Director: Adrian Langley | Stars: Eddie Ramos, Patrick Moltane, Julian Feder, Luke Baines
Votes: 2,636
24. Night Will Fall (2014)
Not Rated | 75 min | Documentary, History, War
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.
Director: André Singer | Stars: Helena Bonham Carter, Jasper Britton, Leonard Berney, George Leonard
Votes: 3,446
25. The State (2017– )
Drama, Thriller
A look at the lives of four British citizens who join ISIS in Syria.
Stars: Ony Uhiara, Sam Otto, Jessica Gunning, Hiam Abbass
Votes: 1,601
26. Joy Division (2006)
105 min | Drama, War
A teen orphan fights against the Red Army and in the aftermath of World War II is "adopted" by a Soviet commissar. Years later, during the Cold War, he is a KGB agent and is sent to London, where he ends up questioning his life.
Director: Reg Traviss | Stars: Ed Stoppard, Tom Schilling, Bernadette Heerwagen, Bernard Hill
Votes: 998
27. The Eagle and the Hawk (1933)
TV-PG | 73 min | Action, Drama, War
The pilots of a Royal Air Force squadron in World War I face not only physical but mental dangers in their struggle to survive while fighting the enemy.
Directors: Stuart Walker, Mitchell Leisen | Stars: Fredric March, Cary Grant, Jack Oakie, Carole Lombard
Votes: 1,353
28. 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, Brennen Reece, Nicholas Winand
Votes: 588
29. Wing Commander Academy (1996)
TV-Y7 | 22 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
The dramatic adventures of a group of space cadets on the Terran carrier Tiger's Claw in total war against a hostile, alien, lion-looking warrior race, the Kilrathi.
Stars: Mark Hamill, Tom Wilson, Malcolm McDowell, Dana Delany
Votes: 184
30. Doomsday and the Arrival of Dajjal
Action, Drama, Horror | Announced
Doomsday and The Arrival of Dajjal There will be three hard years before the Dajjal (appears). During them, people will be stricken by a great famine. In the first year, . People will stop offering the prayers .
Director: Omer Sarikaya
31. The Great Darkened Days (2018)
95 min | Drama, History
While a world war rages, Philippe, a draft-dodger from Quebec, takes refuge in the American West, surviving by competing in Charlie Chaplin impersonation contests. As Philippe makes his ... See full summary »
Director: Maxime Giroux | Stars: Martin Dubreuil, Romain Duris, Reda Kateb, Sarah Gadon
Votes: 515
32. The Crimean War (1997)
150 min | Documentary, History, War
The devastating details of a long ago war are eloquently presented in this documentary. "The Crimean War" is a well-researched look into the conflict that shook Europe during the years 1853... See full summary »
Stars: Billie Whitelaw, Dominic Lieven, Andrew Lambert, Alain Gouttman
Votes: 72
33. Aylan Baby (2022)
Action, Crime, Drama
Alan Kurdi (Kurdish: Alan Kurdî ), initially reported as Aylan Kurdi, was a three-year-old Syrian - The bodies of Kurdi and another child were discovered by two locals at around 6:30 am. The two men moved the bodies from the water,
Director: Omer Sarikaya | Stars: Wilma Elles, Mike Mitchell, Toktam Aboozary, Aydan Çakir
Votes: 8
34. The Undeclared War (1992)
247 min | Documentary, History, War
Documentary on the French-Algerian conflict 1954-1962 which was never officially called a "war", including interviews with some of the survivors.
Director: Bertrand Tavernier | Stars: Patrick Rotman, Bertrand Tavernier
Votes: 118
35. Aftermath: The Remnants of War (2001)
74 min | Documentary, War
This overview of the horrors of 20th century war reminds us that war does not end when peace treaties are signed and the soldiers have gone home.
Director: Daniel Sekulich | Star: John Jarvis
Votes: 67
36. Taif Al-Madina (2000)
105 min | Drama, Romance, War
12-year-old Rami moves from South Lebanon to Beirut with his family to escape the Israeli bombings. In the city he befriends a few local children and falls in love with his neighbor Yasmine... See full summary »
Director: Jean Khalil Chamoun | Stars: Majdi Machmouchi, Christine Choueiri, Ammar Shalak, Ahmed Azzein
Votes: 52
37. Enemies of Women (1923)
105 min | Drama, Romance
A Russian prince has to flee his country after fighting a duel. He falls in love with a duchess, but becomes jealous when he finds out she has a lover.
Director: Alan Crosland | Stars: Lionel Barrymore, Alma Rubens, Pedro de Cordoba, Gareth Hughes
Votes: 47 | Gross: $0.48M
38. Ingrid Pitt: Beyond the Forest (2011)
TV-G | 6 min | Animation, Short
This acclaimed animation short depicts the miraculous escape of Jewish girl Ingrid Pitt at age 8 from a concentration camp, in a cross-generational collaboration between Oscar-nominee Bill Plympton & 10-yr-old 1st-time animator Perry Chen.
Director: Kevin Sean Michaels | Star: Ingrid Pitt
Votes: 18
39. Wszystko, co najwazniejsze... (1992)
98 min | Biography, Drama, War
When the war breaks out, renowned Polish-Jewish poet Aleksander Wat leaves German-occupied Warsaw with his wife Ola and their son. In Lviv, however, they are arrested by the Soviets and separated. Ola and her son are sent to Siberia.
Director: Robert Glinski | Stars: Ewa Skibinska, Krzysztof Globisz, Adam Siemion, Grazyna Barszczewska
Votes: 82
40. Crónicas de una generación trágica (1993– )
60 min | Action, Biography, Drama
From the point of view of a tailor, the story of a generation of national heroes is told. Their lives, risks and hardships to achieve the independence of the New Kingdom of Granada (today ... See full summary »
Stars: Juan Ángel, Gerardo Calero, Edgardo Román, Luis Fernando Montoya
Votes: 33
41. Gary Lineker: My Grandad's War (2019 TV Movie)
58 min | Documentary
Presenter and former England football captain Gary Lineker follows in the footsteps of his grandfather, Stanley Abbs, to explore a brutal but often overlooked chapter of World War Two.
Director: Sue Hills | Star: Gary Lineker
42. The Language of Shadows: Murnau - The Early Years and Nosferatu (2007 Video)
53 min | Documentary, Biography
A look at the early life and career of German silent filmmaker F.W. Murnau, with special emphasis on the production of Nosferatu (1922), examining its occult influences and revisiting its filming locations.
Director: Luciano Berriatúa | Stars: Thomas Lang, Eva Diekmann, David Sandberg, Helene Luckow
Votes: 95
43. Art of War (2007 TV Movie)
50 min | Documentary, War
How World War I influenced artists.
Director: Richard Pawelko | Star: John Morgan
44. Tsushima Maru: Sayônara Okinawa (1982)
70 min | Animation, Drama, Family
Director: Osamu Kobayashi
45. Verdun : Ils ne passeront pas (2015 TV Movie)
82 min | Documentary, History
Director: Serge de Sampigny | Stars: Aristide Briand, Georges Clemenceau, Crown Prince Hohenzollern, Charles de Gaulle
Votes: 14
46. Witness to Hiroshima (2008 Video)
16 min | Short
In WITNESS TO HIROSHIMA, Japanese citizen Keiji Tsuchiya, using 12 watercolors he painted in 2001, recounts his experiences in Hiroshima as a 17-year-old soldier, hours after the Atom Bomb ... See full summary »
Director: Kathy Sloane
47. The Horrors of War 2 (1994)
Unrated | 60 min | Documentary
The Horrors of War 2 is the next film in the series Horrors of War produced and distributed by Paul Kiener Productions. Never before has a motion picture revealed the true horror and ... See full summary »
Director: Paul Kiener
48. Marathon (II) (2020)
14 min | Short, War
A woman struggles to survive and escape from the horrors of war in Mosul city in Iraq .
Director: Jamal J. Lutfi | Stars: Safaa Nagim, Ahad Alaa, Fagir Alaa, Ibraheem Ramadadn Mali
49. Jimmy Somerville: Where Have All the Flowers Gone? (2009 Music Video)
Music
Star: Jimmy Somerville
50.
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993–1999)
Episode:
Nor the Battle to the Strong
(1996)
TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Jake, reporting from the front lines, sees what war truly is.
Director: Kim Friedman | Stars: Avery Brooks, Rene Auberjonois, Michael Dorn, Terry Farrell
Votes: 2,091