A Different War (2004)

Drama
2008
Movie

Johnny Mad Dog

6.1
2008

A cast of unknown performers are used in this drama about child soldiers fighting a war in an unnamed African country.

6.9

Drama
2023
Movie

The Boy in the Woods

6.9
2023

The remarkable true-life survival story of a Jewish boy hiding and being hunted in the forests of Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe, based on Maxwell Smart's memoir.

6.5

Drama
2009
Movie

Lebanon

6.5
2009

During the First Lebanon War in 1982, a lone tank and a paratroopers platoon are dispatched to search a hostile town.

6.3

Drama
2020
Movie

Waiting for Anya

6.3
2020

During the harrows of WWII, Jo, a young shepherd along with the help of the widow Horcada, helps to smuggle Jewish children across the border from southern France into Spain.

War
2015
Movie

Field of Lost Shoes

6.1
2015

A group of teenage cadets sheltered from war at the Virginia Military Institute must confront the horrors of an adult world when they are called upon to defend the Shenandoah Valley.

6.4

War
2019
Movie

The Kill Team

6.4
2019

When Andrew Briggman — a young soldier in the US Army during the invasion of Afghanistan — witnesses the murderous behavior of fellow soldiers, under the direction of a malevolent Sergeant, he faces a moral dilemma. His increasingly-violent platoon becomes suspicious that someone in their ranks has turned on them, and Andrew begins to fear for his safety. A fictionalized dramatization based on a true story.

Drama
2008
Movie

Stop-Loss

6.1
2008

A veteran soldier returns from his completed tour of duty in Iraq, only to find his life turned upside down when he is arbitrarily ordered to return to field duty by the Army.

6.8

Drama
1955
Movie

The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell

6.8
1955

A dramatization of the American general and his court martial for publically complaining about High Command's dismissal and neglect of the aerial fighting forces.

Drama
2002
Movie

Ararat

6.1
2002

Interrogated by a customs officer, a young man recounts how his life was changed during the making of a film about the Armenian genocide.

6.3

Drama
1989
Movie

Jacknife

6.3
1989

A conflict develops between a troubled Vietnam veteran and the sister he lives with when she becomes involved romantically with the army buddy who reminds him of the tragic battle they both survived.

7.2

Drama
1997
Movie

The Island on Bird Street

7.2
1997

Alex is an 11-year old boy who, during WWII, hides in the Jewish ghetto from Nazis after all his relatives have been sent to the concentration camp. The movie portrays the ghetto through his eyes.

Drama
1983
Movie

The Scarlet and the Black

7
1983

Fr. Hugh O'Flaherty is a Vatican official in 1943-45 who has been hiding downed pilots, escaped prisoners of war, and Italian resistance families. His activities become so large that the Nazis decide to assassinate him the next time he leaves the Vatican.

Drama
1964
Movie

Behold a Pale Horse

6
1964

Manuel Artiguez, a famous bandit during the Spanish civil war, has lived in French exile for 20 years. When his mother is dying he considers visiting her secretly in his Spanish home town. But his biggest enemy, the Spanish police officer Vinolas, prepared a trap at the hospital as a chance to finally catch Artiguez.

6.4

War
1966
Movie

Cast a Giant Shadow

6.4
1966

An American Army officer is recruited by the yet to exist Israel to help them form an army. He is disturbed by this sudden appeal to his Jewish heritage. Each of Israel's Arab neighbors has vowed to invade the poorly prepared country as soon as partition is granted. He is made commander of the Israeli forces just before the war begins.

6.4

War
2014
Movie

Fort Bliss

6.4
2014

After returning home from an extended tour in Afghanistan, a decorated U.S. Army medic and single mother struggles to rebuild her relationship with her young son.

6.8

War
1957
Movie

The One That Got Away

6.8
1957

Based on the true story of Oberleutnant Franz von Werra, the only German prisoner of war captured in Britain to escape back to Germany during the Second World War.

6.6

Drama
1944
Movie

The Way Ahead

6.6
1944

A mismatched collection of conscripted civilians find training tough under Lieutenant Jim Perry and Sergeant Ned Fletcher when they are called up to replace an infantry battalion that had suffered casualties at Dunkirk.

5.9

Drama
2017
Movie

The Beguiled

5.9
2017

During the Civil War, at a Southern girls’ boarding school, young women take in an injured enemy soldier. As they provide refuge and tend to his wounds, the house is taken over with sexual tension and dangerous rivalries, and taboos are broken in an unexpected turn of events.