Ruthlessly brutal and unsettlingly gripping and immersive, Lone Survivor is a masterpiece based on harrowing true events.
Relentlessly intense and suspenseful, Crimson Tide is an alarmingly realistic and frightening submarine movie featuring one hell of a cast.
Nazi experiments, zombies, and claustrophobia await you in Trench 11, an expertly crafted and immersive indie war horror movie.
Stylish and refreshing but also silly at times, The Wolf's Call is one of the few modern movies about submarines worth watching.
Entertaining, shocking, and funny, Three Kings is an original action movie following a botched heist after the end of the Gulf War in Iraq.
Unjustly forgotten, Joan of Arc is a stylish, emotional, and action-packed historical epic from Luc Besson and starring Milla Jovovich.
A bit generic and melodramatic, Narvik still offers an intriguing look at several aspects of WWII often forgotten in other movies.
Still relevant and one of the best historic epics, Troy is a visually impressive, compelling, and thought-provoking masterpiece.
Black Hawk Down is still the best modern movie I've ever seen, some twenty years after its initial release. A fucking masterpiece.
Guy Ritchie's The Covenant is a mildly entertaining and visually impressive action movie rooted in the harsh realities of war.
Criminally underrated, Air America is a war-themed action comedy starring Mel Gibson and Robert Downey Jr. based on actual events.
Black Crab is a visually impressive, atmospheric, and rather bleak, Swedish post-apocalyptic movie starring Noomi Rapace.
Hauntingly realistic and gripping, We Were Soldiers is a war movie showing the sheer brutality of the Vietnam war.
If you suspend your belief, the brutally violent, atmospheric, and stylish Finnish action movie Sisu will reward you greatly.
Punching way above its weight, The Lost Battalion is an action-packed WWI movie based on true events that happened in the Argonne Forest.
Spawning no less than eight sequels, Sniper, a solid psychological thriller with a Predator setting, is a different type of war movie.
Starring Travis Fimmel, Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan is an underrated, fast-paced, and masterfully crafted Australian war movie.
Beneath Hill 60 tells an extraordinary and true story of tunnel warfare during WWI and offers a unique perspective on this conflict.
Harrowing, depressing, but more importantly, sobering experience for the everyday man, All Quiet on the Western Front is a masterpiece.
Featuring an excellent cast, superb direction and intense atmosphere, Kajaki is a deeply traumatizing war movie based on real events.
Don't let the fact that Anthropoid is a war movie prevent you from watching it because this masterpiece based on true events is so much more.
The Beast of War is not only one of the best war movies, but it's also one of the best anti-war and movies about tanks, a fucking masterpiece.
If you're looking for a movie that will keep your attention, you've found it in 13 Hours. Extremely well-crafted, exciting, and respectful, it's a must-see.
Failing to establish an engaging narrative despite the potency of the source material, 12 Strong is a barely watchable war movie with silly action.
Dark, gripping, authentic, violent but not celebrating violence, and featuring almost non-stop action, Mosul is simply one of the best war movies.
Suspenseful and unpredictable, '71 follows a soldier lost and pursued in the wrong part of Belfast at the height of the Northern Ireland conflict.
Suspenseful and personal, The Siege of Jadotville tells a story of an intentionally forgotten real battle without melodrama, amplified by great acting.
With an engaging story and stunning cinematography, Blood Diamond is a well-crafted movie that will not only keep your attention but also make you think.
Based on a true story of the Battle of Kamdesh, The Outpost is an intense war movie with a foreboding atmosphere soon exploding into non-stop action.
Ghosts of War is a flawed horror with great themes (WWII and occult) and visuals that might be worth watching if you like these things.
One hell of a recruitment video for the American Army masking as a competently shot movie with real soldiers and great cinematography.
Compelling and intense, Zero Dark Thirty details the 10-year hunt for Osama bin Laden, including the infamous raid on his compound.
Triage is a different type of war movie, the one that deals with the consequences of such a tragic event....
Inglourious Basterds is an expertly crafted slowburing thriller set against the backdrop of WWII and driven by excellent performances.
Incredibly intense, suspenseful, and realistic, The Hurt Locker is a different breed of a war movie, the one that will stay with you.
Incredibly disturbing, graphic, and fucked up, Men Behind the Sun is also a harrowing account of atrocities that actually happened during WWII in China.