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1. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
PG | 95 min | Comedy, War
An unhinged American general orders a bombing attack on the Soviet Union, triggering a path to nuclear holocaust that a war room full of politicians and generals frantically tries to stop.
Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn
Votes: 517,987 | Gross: $0.28M
2. Darkest Hour (2017)
PG-13 | 125 min | Drama, War
In May 1940, the fate of World War II hangs on Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotiate with Adolf Hitler, or fight on knowing that it could mean the end of the British Empire.
Director: Joe Wright | Stars: Gary Oldman, Lily James, Kristin Scott Thomas, Ben Mendelsohn
Votes: 220,638 | Gross: $56.47M
3. Battle of Britain (1969)
G | 132 min | Action, Drama, History
In 1940, the British Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle to prevent the Luftwaffe from gaining air superiority over the English Channel as a prelude to a possible Axis invasion of the U.K.
Director: Guy Hamilton | Stars: Michael Caine, Trevor Howard, Harry Andrews, Curd Jürgens
Votes: 24,501 | Gross: $4.36M
4. Fail Safe (1964)
Approved | 112 min | Drama, Thriller
A technical malfunction sends American planes to Moscow to deliver a nuclear attack. Can all-out war be averted?
Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: Henry Fonda, Walter Matthau, Fritz Weaver, Dan O'Herlihy
Votes: 24,400
5. Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At! (1966)
G | 132 min | Adventure, Comedy, War
Several ordinary Frenchmen go on an epic voyage through the occupied country to the free zone as they help British pilots avoid German captivity.
Director: Gérard Oury | Stars: Bourvil, Louis de Funès, Claudio Brook, Andréa Parisy
Votes: 20,202
6. By Dawn's Early Light (1990 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 100 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
A non-NATO nuclear missile is fired from Turkey at USSR, where it detonates. Soviet response is automatic as it's seen as a NATO missile. Can continued escalation be avoided? We follow the US president and a bomber crew.
Director: Jack Sholder | Stars: Powers Boothe, Rebecca De Mornay, James Earl Jones, Martin Landau
Votes: 4,091
7. The Deadly Mantis (1957)
Approved | 79 min | Family, Horror, Sci-Fi
A giant prehistoric praying mantis, recently freed from the Arctic ice, voraciously preys on American military at the DEW Line and works its way south.
Director: Nathan Juran | Stars: Craig Stevens, William Hopper, Alix Talton, Donald Randolph
Votes: 4,101
8. Star Fox 64 (1997 Video Game)
K-A | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Mad scientist Andross arises as the emperor of Venom and declares war on the entire Lylat System, starting with Corneria. General Pepper sends in the Star Fox team to protect the key planets of the Lylat System and stop Dr. Andross.
Director: Takao Shimizu | Stars: Daisuke Gôri, Kyôko Tongû, Tomohisa Asô, Hisao Egawa
Votes: 1,798
9. Target for Tonight (1941)
Approved | 48 min | Documentary, Drama, War
The planning and implementation of an RAF night raid on Germany in World War II, concentrating on a low level mission by a Wellington bomber on an oil storage facility by the Rhine.
Director: Harry Watt | Stars: John Cobb, Richard Peirse, Percy Charles Pickard, Robert Saundby
Votes: 405
10. Angels One Five (1952)
TV-G | 98 min | Drama, War
The story of an RAF fighter squadron at the height of the Battle of Britain.
Director: George More O'Ferrall | Stars: Jack Hawkins, Michael Denison, Andrew Osborn, Cyril Raymond
Votes: 1,274
11. Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident (1976 TV Movie)
120 min | Biography, Drama, History
The story of Francis Gary Powers, a U-2 pilot for the C.I.A., who was shot down in his spy plane over Russia, captured, and imprisoned.
Director: Delbert Mann | Stars: Lee Majors, Noah Beery Jr., Nehemiah Persoff, Brooke Bundy
Votes: 135
12. Die Abenteuer des Werner Holt (1965)
164 min | Drama, Romance, War
Two 17-year-olds, Werner Holt and Gilbert Wolzow, are pulled out of school and into Hitler's army. Gilbert becomes a fanatical soldier, but at the front Werner begins to understand the ... See full summary »
Director: Joachim Kunert | Stars: Klaus-Peter Thiele, Manfred Karge, Arno Wyzniewski, Günter Junghans
Votes: 373
13. Secret Flight (1946)
72 min | Drama, War
During World War II, on the eve of the Battle of Britain, British scientists develop the first radar systems to be employed against the German Luftwaffe.
Director: Peter Ustinov | Stars: Ralph Richardson, Raymond Huntley, John Laurie, Ernest Jay
Votes: 246
14. London Can Take It! (1940)
Approved | 9 min | Documentary, War, Short
A tribute to the courage and resiliency of Britons during the darkest days of the London Blitz.
Directors: Humphrey Jennings, Harry Watt | Stars: Quentin Reynolds, King George VI, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother
Votes: 710
15. Blitz on Britain (1960)
71 min | Documentary, History, War
Archive footage from both British and German sources to tell the story of the defense of Britain during World II.
Director: Harry Booth | Stars: Alistair Cooke, Henning Skaarup, Hermann Göring
Votes: 167
16. Home Defense (1943)
Approved | 7 min | Family, Animation, Short
Donald is manning a listening post and falls asleep; he blows trumpet calls in his sleep and wakes his nephews. For their revenge, they send up a model airplane filled with gingerbread men ... See full summary »
Director: Jack King | Star: Clarence Nash
Votes: 557
17. Till Lindemann: Beloved Town (2021 Music Video)
3 min | Music
Directors: Timur Bekmambetov, Sergey Trofimov | Star: Till Lindemann
Votes: 42
18. Tailspin: Behind the Korean Airliner Tragedy (1989 TV Movie)
82 min | Thriller
Chronicle of the shooting down of a Korean passenger plane by Soviet air force on 1st September 1983. Over 280 people died in this incident.
Director: David Darlow | Stars: Michael Murphy, Michael Moriarty, Chris Sarandon, Harris Yulin
Votes: 140
19. The 9/11 Conspiracies: Fact or Fiction (2006 TV Movie)
Documentary
Documentary examining the growing number of conspiracy theories surrounding the destruction of the World Trade Center that have been circulating online.
Stars: Jon Rand, Lester Holt, Charles B. Strozier, Chip Berlet
Votes: 32
20. 24 Hour Alert (1955)
Approved | 31 min | Short, Drama
When a U.S. Air Force base commander receives civilian complaints about noise, he gets help from old friend Jack Webb in educating the town leaders and residents about the importance of their work and learning to accept their presence.
Director: Robert M. Leeds | Stars: Jack Webb, Art Balinger, Walter Sande, Ralph Moody
Votes: 160
21. Churchill's Island (1941)
TV-PG | 21 min | Documentary, War, Short
The people of Britain resist the German air force and navy with help from North America.
Director: Stuart Legg | Stars: Lorne Greene, Gérard Arthur, Winston Churchill, Adolf Hitler
Votes: 233
22. Meidän poikamme ilmassa - me maassa (1934)
121 min | Drama
A documentary or rather a bulletin style movie about Finnish Air Forces in the 1930s.
Director: Erkki Karu | Stars: Joel Rinne, Kaarlo Angerkoski, Fritz-Hugo Backman, Martta Kontula
Votes: 45
23. Power of Decision (1958)
55 min | Documentary
This documentary shows the early ideas about how nuclear war between the USA and the USSR could look like. It is made purely from the US side and takes place mostly in the US military ... See full summary »
Votes: 13
24. Banshees Over Canada (1943)
19 min | Documentary, Short
A look at Britain's and Canada's defensive preparations against an air attack.
Director: James Beveridge
25. Luftwaffenhelfer (1980 TV Movie)
89 min | Drama, War
Director: Volker Vogeler | Stars: Till Topf, René Schell, Christoph Eichhorn, Marco Kröger
Votes: 18
26. One Plane, One Bomb (1953)
Approved | 22 min | Short, Drama, War
This short,produced by the United States Civil Defense Department, while shot in the style of Edward R. Murrow's CBS "See it Now" series and with Murrow as the commentator, was produced for... See full summary »
Director: Don Hewitt | Star: Edward R. Murrow
27. Vizhu tsel (1978 TV Movie)
129 min | Drama, War
Director: Suren Shakhbazyan | Stars: Nikolay Olyalin, Yuri Kritenko, Givi Tokhadze, Sergey Kolesnikov
Votes: 7
28. On the Brink: Doomsday (1997 TV Movie)
120 min | Documentary, War
The A-Bomb, the H-Bomb, Cold War, Kennedy, Khrushchev, Yeltsin, Reagan...Who said that the world was a safe place?
Director: Gary Parker | Stars: Ed Green, Peter Roman, R. Cargill Hall, Vassily Reshetnikov
Votes: 23
29. The Gap (1937)
38 min | Documentary, Short
This dramatized documentary short film explains "the gap," the areas of British air-raid defense which are unattended due to shortages of manpower. Airmen and gunnery soldiers are told that... See full summary »
Director: Donald Carter | Stars: G.H. Mulcaster, Patric Curwen, Carleton Hobbs, Jack Vyvyan
30. 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
31. Flak (1944)
16 min | Documentary, Short
This documentary dives into an in-depth look at the weapons and methods of German and Japanese anti-aircraft warfare. Also highlights the evasive actions that were utilized by U.S. bomber crews.
Votes: 13
34. Shchit otechestva (2007)
81 min | Action
Director: Denis Skvortsov | Stars: Aleksey Senchilo, Anatoliy Kot, Veronika Plyashkevich, Tatyana Kalikh
35.
Kraft Suspense Theatre (1963–1965)
Episode:
The Kamchatka Incident
(1964)
TV-PG | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A military air transport plane on a 15 hour flight from Tokyo to Seattle, Washington has engine and compass problems during a hurricane and wanders into Soviet air space. An emergency ... See full summary »
Director: Ron Winston | Stars: John Forsythe, Roger Perry, Leslie Parrish, Malachi Throne
Votes: 28
36.
Heavy Metal (2000– )
Episode:
Radar
(2003)
Documentary, History, War
The development of RAdio Detection And Ranging technology and its role in World War II.
Director: Colin Barratt
37.
Longines Chronoscope (1951–1955)
Episode:
Episode dated 7 December 1953
(1953)
News, Talk-Show
LeSueur and Gil Robb Wilson, editor and publisher of Flying magazine, interview General Harold R. Harris, president of Northwest-Orient Airlines. Topics include the future of commercial ... See full summary »
Star: Larry LeSueur
38.
Longines Chronoscope (1951–1955)
Episode:
Episode dated 17 February 1954
(1954)
News, Talk-Show
Lesueur and Crawford interview Col. Bernt Balkin, arctic explorer and U.S. Air Force officer. Topics include aviation challenges at the South Pole, the importance of the North Pole region ... See full summary »
Stars: Bernt Balkin, Kenneth Crawford, Larry LeSueur
39.
CaspianReport (2010– )
Episode:
Why Israel and Palestine are fighting
(2021)
13 min | Documentary
Was the flare up in the conflict between Isreal and Hamas during Ramadan 2021 a spontaneous reaction to a pilgrimage getting out of control? More likely it was a deliberate action by Hamas ... See full summary »
Star: Shirvan Neftchi
40.
The Secret War (1977–1978)
Episode:
To See for a Hundred Miles
(1977)
50 min | Documentary, History, War
The development of radar and its role in World War II air warfare.
Stars: Don Bennett, R.V. Jones, Ruth Ornstein-Toseck, Richard Philipp
41.
Morning Wire (2021– )
Turkey Earthquake Toll & Biden Loses Support
(2023 Podcast Episode)
14 min | Talk-Show
Stars: Georgia Howe, John Bickley, Tim Pearce, Cabot Phillips
42.
Morning Wire (2021– )
SCOTUS Adoption Case & Harvard Morgue Scandal | Afternoon Update | 6.15.2
(2023 Podcast Episode)
Talk-Show
Stars: Georgia Howe, John Bickley
43.
Task & Purpose (2014– )
Episode:
3 Problems for China's New Fujian Aircraft Carrier
(2023)
22 min | Documentary, News
China is preparing to launch its Type 003 Fujian Aircraft carrier that, according to China's promotions, is a state of the art warship. That is questionable and it appears to be facing some difficult birthing issues.
Star: Chris Cappy
44.
Task & Purpose (2014– )
Episode:
Can North Korea ACTUALLY Pull Off an Invasion?
(2022)
22 min | Documentary, News
North Korea from time to time threatens to invade South Korea and seems to be preparing to do so sporting a huge army, navy and air force each with a wide variety of weapons including a nuclear arsenal. But is it really capable?
Star: Chris Cappy
45.
The Bullwinkle Show (1959–1963)
Episode:
Burgled Bullwinkle or The Moose Nappers/A Crown for Bullwinkle or Monarch Moose
(1960)
TV-G | 23 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
Rocky and Bullwinkle "Greenpernt Oogle" Part 3, Fractured Fairy Tales "The Enchanted Frog", Dudley Do-Right of the Mounties "Lure of the Footlights", Rocky and Bullwinkle "Greenpernt Oogle" Part 4.
Directors: Gerard Baldwin, Pete Burness, William T. Hurtz, Ted Parmelee, Gerald Ray, Dun Roman, George Singer, Ernest Terrazas | Stars: Edward Everett Horton, June Foray, Paul Frees, William Conrad
Votes: 28