Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "holy-war"

1. Dune: Part Two (2024)

PG-13 | 166 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Paul Atreides unites with Chani and the Fremen while seeking revenge against the conspirators who destroyed his family.

Director: Denis Villeneuve | Stars: Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson, Javier Bardem

Votes: 383,931

2. Dune (2021)

PG-13 | 155 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A noble family becomes embroiled in a war for control over the galaxy's most valuable asset while its heir becomes troubled by visions of a dark future.

Director: Denis Villeneuve | Stars: Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Zendaya, Oscar Isaac

Votes: 857,989 | Gross: $108.33M

3. Dune (1984)

PG-13 | 137 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

A Duke's son leads desert warriors against the galactic emperor and his father's evil nemesis to free their desert world from the emperor's rule.

Director: David Lynch | Stars: Kyle MacLachlan, Virginia Madsen, Francesca Annis, Leonardo Cimino

Votes: 179,696 | Gross: $30.93M

4. Kingdom of Heaven (2005)

R | 144 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Balian of Ibelin travels to Jerusalem during the Crusades of the 12th century, and there he finds himself as the defender of the city and its people.

Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Orlando Bloom, Eva Green, Liam Neeson, Martin Hancock

Votes: 315,412 | Gross: $47.40M

5. The Stand (1994)

Not Rated | 90 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

After a deadly plague kills most of the world's population, the remaining survivors split into two groups - one led by a benevolent elder and the other by a malevolent being - to face each other in a final battle between good and evil.

Stars: Gary Sinise, Molly Ringwald, Jamey Sheridan, Laura San Giacomo

Votes: 38,429

6. The Prophecy (1995)

R | 98 min | Action, Crime, Drama

At the scene of a bizarre murder, L.A. homicide detective Thomas Dagget discovers a lethal heavenly prophecy now being fulfilled on earth. In his fight to stop the forces of evil, he finds an unlikely ally in an elementary school teacher.

Director: Gregory Widen | Stars: Christopher Walken, Elias Koteas, Virginia Madsen, Eric Stoltz

Votes: 33,373 | Gross: $16.12M

7. The Message (1976)

PG | 177 min | Biography, Drama, History

This epic historical drama chronicles the life and times of Prophet Muhammad and serves as an introduction to early Islamic history.

Director: Moustapha Akkad | Stars: Anthony Quinn, Irene Papas, Michael Ansara, Johnny Sekka

Votes: 50,860

8. Luther (2003)

PG-13 | 123 min | Biography, Drama, History

During the early sixteenth century, idealistic German monk Martin Luther, disgusted by the materialism in the Catholic Church, begins the dialogue that will lead to the Protestant Reformation.

Director: Eric Till | Stars: Joseph Fiennes, Bruno Ganz, Peter Ustinov, Alfred Molina

Votes: 16,005 | Gross: $5.79M

9. Khartoum (1966)

Approved | 128 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

In the Sudan, in 1884 to 1885, Egyptian forces led by British General Charles "Chinese" Gordon (Charlton Heston) defend Khartoum against an invading Muslim Army led by a religious fanatic, Mohammed Ahmed el Mahdi (Sir Laurence Olivier).

Directors: Basil Dearden, Eliot Elisofon | Stars: Charlton Heston, Laurence Olivier, Richard Johnson, Ralph Richardson

Votes: 8,274 | Gross: $6.54M

10. Europa Europa (1990)

R | 112 min | Drama, History, War

A boy in Nazi Germany, trying to conceal that he is Jewish, joins the Hitler Youth.

Director: Agnieszka Holland | Stars: Solomon Perel, Marco Hofschneider, René Hofschneider, André Wilms

Votes: 17,484 | Gross: $5.58M

11. The Prophecy II (1998 Video)

R | 87 min | Fantasy, Horror, Thriller

When the powers of good and evil again descend to Earth in a battle over mankind, the only hope for survival is the unborn child of an innocent woman. With the help of a mysterious stranger, she races to protect her child and save mankind.

Director: Greg Spence | Stars: Christopher Walken, Russell Wong, Jennifer Beals, Brittany Murphy

Votes: 8,192

12. The Order (2001)

R | 89 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

A playboy criminal contacts his dad after stealing a Faberge egg. Later it seems his dad has gone missing in Israel so he heads there. His disappearance is linked to the religious sect: The Order. Lots of fight and chase scenes.

Director: Sheldon Lettich | Stars: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Sofia Milos, Charlton Heston, Brian Thompson

Votes: 9,363

13. North West Frontier (1959)

Not Rated | 129 min | Adventure, Drama

Set on the North West Frontier of colonial India in 1905. A British Army Officer, Captain Scott is sent to rescue a five year old Indian Prince and his American governess, Catherine Wyatt from certain death at the hands of rebel tribesman.

Director: J. Lee Thompson | Stars: Kenneth More, Lauren Bacall, Herbert Lom, Wilfrid Hyde-White

Votes: 3,053

14. Samurai Reincarnation (1981)

122 min | Action, Fantasy, Horror

Centuries ago, a samurai survives the massacre of 35,000 Christians and denounces God for ignoring the pleas of the believers. He sells his soul to the devil and receives the power to resurrect the dead to join him on a murderous rampage.

Director: Kinji Fukasaku | Stars: Shin'ichi Chiba, Kenji Sawada, Akiko Kana, Ken Ogata

Votes: 1,189

15. The Lady of Heaven (2021)

R | 141 min | Action, Drama, History

Two stories separated by 1400 years. After losing his mother in the midst of a war-torn country, an Iraqi child, learns the importance and power of patience by discovering the historical story of Lady Fatima and her suffering.

Director: Eli King | Stars: Denise Black, Gabriel Cartade, Ray Fearon, Mark Anthony Brighton

Votes: 14,697

16. The Prophecy: Forsaken (2005 Video)

R | 75 min | Fantasy, Horror, Thriller

Young Allison continues to run from Satan's evil angels while hanging onto the ancient Lexicon that foretells the identity of the Antichrist, joined by a hit man who has a change of heart and comes to her aid.

Director: Joel Soisson | Stars: Boris Petroff, Kari Wuhrer, Daria Ciobanu, John Light

Votes: 1,951

17. The Knights of the Quest (2001)

147 min | Adventure, Drama, History

In 1271, five young knights journey to Thebes in Greece to recover the Sacred Shroud and deliver it back to France and into the hands of the royal family.

Director: Pupi Avati | Stars: Edward Furlong, Raoul Bova, Thomas Kretschmann, Marco Leonardi

Votes: 578

18. The Cloth (2013)

Not Rated | 88 min | Action, Fantasy, Horror

A godless man is recruited by a secret organization who works to combat demonic possessions in order to prepare a new generation in the battle against evil forces.

Director: Tristan Price | Stars: Danny Trejo, Perla Rodríguez, Eric Roberts, Rachele Brooke Smith

Votes: 1,942

19. Islamophobia (2022)

130 min | Action, Drama

Showcasing the traumatic effects of prejudice and discrimination against Muslim, Christianity, and Judaism its Islamophobia is a story of Peace , Love, Unity, Respect, Compassionate, and ... See full summary »

Director: Omer Sarikaya | Stars: Chris Mulkey, Fahim Fazli, Wilma Elles, Essam Ferris

Votes: 19

20. 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

21. Killer Kid (1994)

90 min | Drama, War

A Lebanese kid is sent to France on a terrorist mission for "Allah's Army". An Lebanese French kid becomes involved unwittingly. A bond develops between the two, while they become alienated... See full summary »

Director: Gilles de Maistre | Stars: Tewfik Jallab, Younesse Boudache, Salah Teskouk, Fatiha Cheriguene

Votes: 238

22. The Battle of Broken Hill (1981)

60 min | Adventure, Drama, History

On January 1 1915, two Muslim men from British India went on a murderous rampage near a place called Broken Hill in New South Wales, Australia.

Director: Robin Levinson | Stars: Michael Pate, David Robertson, Harold Berrett, Margaret Atkinson

23. 8: The Mormon Proposition (2010)

R | 80 min | Documentary

A scorching indictment of the Mormon Church's historic involvement in the promotion & passage of California's Proposition 8 and the Mormon religion's secretive, decades-long campaign against LGBT human rights.

Directors: Reed Cowan, Steven Greenstreet | Stars: Spencer Jones, Tyler Barrick, Dustin Lance Black, Linda Williams Stay

Votes: 1,273 | Gross: $0.10M

24. Holy Wars (2010)

84 min | Documentary

Take one Muslim advocate for global jihad and put him in a room with one conservative Christian on a mission to evangelize the world's Muslims. Which man will be left standing? Touching ... See full summary »

Director: Stephen Marshall | Stars: Khalid Kelly, Aaron D. Taylor, Sheikh Omar Bakri Muhammad Fostok, Sam Harris

Votes: 166

25. The Blood of My Brother (2005)

Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary, War

While volunteering to guard the ancient mosque in Kadhimiya, Ra'ad, an Iraqi portrait photographer, is shot and killed by an American patrol. His brother Ibrahim dreams of revenge.

Director: Andrew Berends

Votes: 120

26. Roads of Asgard (2009 Video)

TV-14 | 27 min | Short, Action, Drama

An exiled Viking seeks a new life as a mercenary in the Byzantine Varangian Guard during the time of the 1st Crusade: a world where friends may be your enemy, and your enemy may be your friend.

Director: Robert Towne | Stars: Sven Tuonela, Baron Von Goghku, Danny Fogle, Jorge Gomez

Votes: 10

27. Apocalyptica (2003 Video Game)

M | Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi

In the future, the forces of holy cyberwarriors go to war against the invading forces of Neo-Satan in this third-person gothic Sci-Fi shooter inspired by the biblical Armageddon.

Stars: Barry Clayton, Sue Green, John Kearney, Mel Nicholson

28. The Simpsons (1989– )
Episode: The Father, the Son, and the Holy Guest Star (2005)

TV-14 | 30 min | Animation, Comedy

Bart is expelled from Springfield Elementary, and Bart is therefore enrolled in St. Jerome's Catholic School.

Directors: David Silverman, Mike Frank Polcino | Stars: Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith

Votes: 1,650

29. Once Upon a Time... Man (1978–1981)
Episode: Les conquêtes de l'Islam (1978)

TV-PG | 26 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama

The conquests of Islam.

Director: Albert Barillé | Stars: Annie Balestra, Albert Barillé, Yves Barsacq, Claude Bertrand

Votes: 73

30. Star Trek: The Animated Series (1973–1975)
Episode: The Jihad (1974)

TV-PG | 23 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

A team comprising various experts (Kirk and Spock among them) must recover an artifact known as the Soul of the Skorr. The theft must be kept secret or a galactic holy war could break out.

Director: Hal Sutherland | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, George Takei

Votes: 716

31. Lost Worlds (2005–2007)
Episode: Knights Templar (2006)

TV-PG | 46 min | Documentary, History

The remains of castle fortresses help reveal the truth behind the 12th-century organization of warrior monks known as the Knights Templar.

Director: Stuart Elliott | Stars: Tim Bugby, Paul Crawford, Corey Johnson, Helen Nicholson

Votes: 27

32. Barbarians II (2007– )
Episode: Vandals (2007)

Documentary, History

Driven from the Baltics by the Huns and across Europe by Roman surrogates, a small group of refugees known as the Vandals was pushed into southern Spain. There a shrewd, ambitious and ... See full summary »

Stars: Bob Boving, Jonathan Conant, Kelly DeVries, Thomas R. Martin

Votes: 15

33. Afghanistan: The Wounded Land (2020)
Episode: Die Sowjetarmee (2020)

53 min | Documentary, History

In 1979, the Soviet army entered Afghanistan. In response, the Afghans called for Jihad against the godless invaders. The "Soviet Vietnam" began.

Directors: Mayte Carrasco, Marcel Mettelsiefen | Stars: Nadja Berlinghoff, Khaled Hosseini, Ruslan Aushev, Sima Samar

Votes: 41

34. The Truth Behind (2006– )
Episode: The Devil's Bible (2008)

51 min | Documentary

Scholars discuss the legendary Codex Gigas, a sprawling medieval manuscript shrouded in mystery that was allegedly written by a doomed monk.

Director: Robert Michaels | Stars: Dominic Monaghan, Christopher de Hamel, Michael Gullick, Anna Wolodarski

Votes: 237

35. The Balkans in Flames (2021–2022)
Episode: A State Falls Apart (2021)

Documentary, History, War

We are in the fateful year of Yugoslavia's first free elections since World War II: 1990. It is the hour of the nationalists, and the collapse of the multi-ethnic state is only a matter of ... See full summary »

Stars: Vjekoslav Skrinjar, Marie-Janine Calic, Laura Silber, James Gow

36. Frontline (1983– )
Episode: America and the Taliban (1) (2023)

TV-PG | 53 min | Documentary, News

How America's 20-year investment in Afghanistan culminated in the Taliban victory. Drawing on decades of on-the-ground reporting and interviews with Taliban and US officials.

Directors: Marcela Gaviria, Martin Smith | Stars: Martin Smith, Jason Dempsey, Abdul Salam Zaeef, Marc Grossman

Votes: 53

37. Frontline (1983– )
Episode: America and the Taliban (2) (2023)

TV-PG | 53 min | Documentary, News

An investigation into how America's 20-year investment in Afghanistan culminated in Taliban victory, with a focus on missteps and consequences.

Directors: Marcela Gaviria, Martin Smith | Stars: Martin Smith, Douglas Lute, David Petraeus, Joey Keller

Votes: 43

38. Frontline (1983– )
Episode: America and the Taliban (3) (2023)

TV-MA | 53 min | Documentary, News

How America's 20-year war in Afghanistan culminated in Taliban victory. Drawing on decades of one-the-ground reporting and interviews with Taliban and US officials.

Directors: Marcela Gaviria, Martin Smith | Stars: Martin Smith, Munisa Mubariz, Roya Rahmani, Steve Coll

Votes: 41

39. Israel and the Arabs: Elusive Peace (2005– )
Episode: Arafat (2005)

58 min | Documentary, History, War

Colin Powell's attempts to make peace between Israel and the Palestinians.

Director: Daniel Edge | Stars: Shaul Mofaz, Colin Powell, Anthony Zinni, Binyamin Ben-Eliezer

40. Elizabeth I's Secret Agents (2017)
Episode: Episode #1.3 (2017)

TV-PG | 54 min | Documentary, History

King James of Scotland travels south to take the throne at the invitation of Robert Cecil. Meanwhile, John Gerard, a Catholic priest who has dedicated his life to the destruction of the ... See full summary »

Directors: Chris Durlacher, Julian Jones | Stars: Colin Tierney, Dominic Green, Alexander Courtney, Jessie Childs

Votes: 39

41. Peston on Sunday (2016– )
Episode: Episode #5.16 (2018)

47 min | News, Talk-Show

Robert speaks to Israeli Ambassador Mark Regev, Leader of the House of Lords Natalie Evans and Shadow Business Secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey. With tributes to the late Tessa Jowell.

Director: Erron Gordon | Stars: Robert Peston, Allegra Stratton, Nicky Morgan, Natalie Evans