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144 films tagged war, showing 50
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2025 · Thriller
An unidentified missile is tracked heading for Chicago, twenty minutes out, and the film stays with the American officials who have to decide what to do. Rooms, screens and phone calls, close to real time.
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2025 · Drama
After Shivaji dies, his son Sambhaji takes command of the Maratha resistance and strikes at the Mughal empire, while his own court plots to replace him. A long war epic, battle after battle.
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2025 · Drama
A man walks into a remote forest to bring his brother a letter from home, asking him to come back and talk to the boy he left behind. Mostly two men in a hut, talking and not talking.
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2025 · Comedy
A 94-year-old moves to New York after her closest friend dies, wanders into a support group for Holocaust survivors, and starts telling her friend's story as her own. A young student takes an interest.
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2025 · Action
In seventh-century Arabia, a princess refuses to become the emperor's concubine and joins a famous bandit to stand against him. Big desert country, feuding tribes, and it builds towards a battle.
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2025 · Drama
During the occupation of Nanjing, a postman saves his life by claiming he can develop film, and ends up printing the army's photographs in a studio where a family is hiding. Grim, and nearly all of it in one building.
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2025 · Animation
A young Aztec whose father was killed by Spanish conquistadors grows up to be a priest in Moctezuma's court, and fights the invaders behind a bat mask. Animated, and pitched at adults rather than children.
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2025 · Drama
In the last weeks of the war, a twelve-year-old on a German island scavenges and barters to feed his family, and to find his mother the white bread and honey she craves. Quiet, small, told at his height.
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2025 · Drama
A Palestinian family is followed across three generations, from losing their home in Jaffa in 1948 to life under occupation in the 2020s. It runs long and moves in chapters, staying with the one family.
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2007 · Romance
On a hot day in 1935 at an English country house, a thirteen-year-old girl tells a lie about her older sister. It then follows the people that lie touched, across years and into the war.
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2025 · Drama
An aspiring actress works at a military role-play site that stands in for a made-up country called Atropia, where soldiers rehearse a war. It is a satire, and it all happens inside the fake war.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2025 · Documentary
The reporter Seymour Hersh walks through fifty years of his own work: the My Lai massacre, the secret bombing of Cambodia, Watergate, the CIA spying at home, Abu Ghraib. Interviews and archive throughout.
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2009 · Science fiction
A paralysed marine ships out to a moon on the far side of the galaxy, where a lab-grown body lets him walk among the people whose forest sits on what his employers want. Long, and built to be looked at.
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2025 · Action
In 1242 the Mongol army is poised to sweep into Europe, and what stands in its way is the Hungarian castle of Esztergom and its priest. A siege story told with a large ensemble cast.
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2025 · Thriller
As the Taliban take Kabul in 2021, hundreds of Afghans gather at the gates of the French embassy, and the officer inside argues for letting them all in. Mostly tense negotiation, from a true account.
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2025 · Documentary
A documentary written as a letter to David Cunio, an Israeli actor taken hostage on 7 October 2023. The director had once cast him in a film about a kidnapping, and builds this out of that old footage.
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2015 · Action
A young man raised in a village under a huge waterfall climbs it and finds a kingdom that has been waiting a long time for someone like him. Enormous: armies, cliffs, and fights that ignore what a body can actually do.
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2025 · Fantasy
The second film of a Chinese fantasy trilogy: the city of Xiqi braces for a siege by the emperor's army, with immortals and demons taking sides. Big armies, big creatures, and a lot of mythology to keep up with.
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2025 · War
In 1942 a Japanese ship carrying British prisoners of war is torpedoed off the Chinese coast, and fishermen on a nearby occupied island start pulling survivors out of the sea. Taken from the real Lisbon Maru sinking, with the Japanese garrison right there.
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2025 · Drama
In 1943, a customs officer in a village on the Spanish-French border goes against his superiors to help Jews escape Vichy France. A neighbour and a French smuggler take the risk with him.
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2025 · Documentary
Four young people in Gaza film their daily life during the war: a boy in a tent, a girl making a cooking show, a boy helping paramedics, a woman with a newborn. An hour, spent close to them.
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2025 · War
Refugees from the fall of Nanjing settle in a small mountain town, and when Japanese soldiers stumble into it the townspeople have to defend it themselves. Labourers and shopkeepers, not soldiers.
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2025 · Drama
An Asháninka boy is taken from his village by Shining Path guerrillas and turned into one of their fighters. Peruvian, based on a true story, and told from the boy's side.
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2025 · Drama
An American army psychiatrist is sent to assess Hermann Goering and the other Nazi leaders held for trial at Nuremberg. Long and talky, built around the conversations between the two men.
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2025 · Drama
Red Crescent volunteers take an emergency call from a little girl trapped in a car under fire in Gaza, and try to keep her talking while they get an ambulance to her. Almost all of it is one room and a phone line.
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2025 · Action
In 1946 a Finnish ex-commando pulls down his old family house in Soviet Karelia, loads it on a truck and drives west, with the officer who killed his family sent after him. One long road chase, and very violent.
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2025 · Romance
Two music students meet in 1917 over a shared love of folk songs, and after the war travel rural Maine recording people singing into a wax cylinder machine. It is quiet and takes its time.
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2025 · Horror
A recon squad goes into a Vietnamese jungle valley in 1968 to find a Green Beret platoon that vanished, and the thing that killed them turns out to be dinosaurs. Soldiers, guns and monsters, played straight.
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2025 · Drama
In 1916 a Yorkshire choral society, short of men and short of a choirmaster, hires one the town distrusts and starts rehearsing Elgar. The war stays mostly offstage, and it moves at a stroll.
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2025 · War
A British pilot shot down over the Philippines in 1942 is thrown into a Japanese prison camp, where the officers make prisoners fight each other for their own entertainment. Most of it is the camp and the fights.
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2025 · Documentary
An Iranian filmmaker who cannot get into Gaza documents the war instead through video calls with a young Palestinian photojournalist living there with her family. It is almost entirely those calls, dropped connection and all.
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2025 · Documentary
Raoul Peck follows George Orwell's career and the warnings in Nineteen Eighty-Four, and sets them against today's wars and authoritarian politics. Built from archive film and photographs, with Orwell's words read over them.
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2025 · Drama
In 1942 a mid-level official in Sweden's foreign ministry starts using visas, paperwork and legal loopholes to pull Jewish refugees out of Nazi-occupied Europe. A true story told in offices and quiet arguments.
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2025 · Documentary
Five residents of Khartoum describe the coup and the fighting that drove them out of Sudan and into neighbouring countries. It is their own account, told in their own words.
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2026 · Fantasy
Twenty years after the Trojan War, Ithaca is still without its king, his wife besieged by suitors and his son gone to find out whether he is alive. It is a big film that cuts between journeys, with gods and mythical creatures in the way.
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2026 · Crime
Birmingham, 1940, under the bombs: Tommy Shelby has withdrawn from the world while his son runs the gang, and the Germans have a plan to flood Britain with counterfeit money. It carries straight on from the television series.
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2026 · Science fiction
A staff sergeant who lost his brother in Afghanistan puts himself through Ranger selection, and the final training exercise turns into a fight with an otherworldly killing machine. It is straight-ahead action, fast and loud.
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2026 · Drama
Three days before the Normandy landings, a Scottish meteorologist is handed the job of telling Eisenhower whether the weather will hold. Most of it is argument over a forecast, against a 61-hour clock.
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2026 · War
As the 1971 war with Pakistan begins, officers who trained together a decade earlier are spread across the Indian army, air force and navy. Over three hours long, and the battles are the point.
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2026 · Drama
A young George Washington, refused a commission in the British Army for being colonial, is sent into the Ohio Country to tell the French to leave, and comes back with a regiment to command. It is a big historical war film.
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2026 · War
A 21-year-old Indian tank commander goes into the Battle of Basantar during the 1971 war with Pakistan, and thirty years later his father travels to Lahore. It moves back and forth between the two.
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2026 · Drama
In the Belgian trenches in 1916, a soldier meets Francis, who is openly gay and set on putting on a stage revue with the rest of the men. Slow and tender, with more waiting than fighting.
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2024 · War
Four journalists drive from New York to Washington through a United States at war with itself, trying to reach the president before the fighting does. A road trip, with quiet stretches between loud ones.
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2026 · Drama
In 1940 a young man arrives in Vichy with a manuscript he believes will save France, and day after day makes himself useful to the regime. Two and a half hours, slow, and told from the side that collaborated.
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2026 · War
In November 1941, young sailors run iceboats out across the freezing Lake Ladoga to get orphaned children clear of besieged Leningrad. It is a wartime rescue story, and most of it happens on thin ice.
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2026 · Thriller
After the Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939, thousands of Poles are held in a former monastery and worked on until they break. It narrows to a pianist and the NKVD man assigned to him.
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2026 · War
December 1944, the Battle of the Bulge: an American captain is the only man left of his squad and has to walk back to his own lines with a field radio and a pack of cigarettes. Mostly one man, hiding.
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2026 · War
Jean Moulin is parachuted into Nazi-occupied France to pull the scattered Resistance groups into one movement under de Gaulle. A hard, serious war film that stays close to one man.
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2025 · Documentary
Louis Theroux spends time with Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank and with Palestinians living around them, asking questions and letting people answer. An hour long, mostly interviews.
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2020 · Drama
Four Black veterans go back to Vietnam for the body of their squad leader and the crate of gold buried with him. Long, cutting between now and the war, and stopping to argue about history.
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