🎬 Genre: war — Page 1
Discover all war movies, TV shows, and documentaries released so far across all major platforms.
📅 Week of Jun 29, 2025
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Red Dawn
HBO MaxMovie | Jul 1, 2025
Parachutes fall over Colorado and a high-school football squad turns guerrilla overnight. They yell 'Wolverines' and try to stay alive.
🎬 Action, Drama, War | 📍 United States | 🗣️ English
🎥 Directed by: John Milius
🎭 Cast: Patrick Swayze, C. Thomas Howell, Lea Thompson, Charlie SheenOur Take
★★★☆☆ 3/5It’s dated, sure, but the premise still sparks my survival-fantasy daydreams.
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A Bridge Too Far
Prime VideoMovie | Jul 1, 2025
Paratroopers drop, radios fail, and one Dutch bridge proves a mile too many for Allied plans. Heroism meets hard math.
🎬 War, History, Drama | 📍 United Kingdom | 🗣️ English
🎥 Directed by: Richard Attenborough
🎭 Cast: Sean Connery, Ryan O'Neal, Michael Caine, Dirk Bogarde, James Caan, Robert RedfordOur Take
★★★★☆ 4.5/5Three-hour runtime flies by for me. The sheer logistical chaos feels almost documentary.
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Duck Soup
Prime VideoMovie | Jul 1, 2025
Freedonia elects Rufus T. Firefly, chaos incarnate. Silly spies, mirror gags, and a war fought with fruit.
🎬 Comedy, Musical, War | 📍 United States | 🗣️ English
🎥 Directed by: Leo McCarey
🎭 Cast: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Zeppo Marx, Margaret DumontOur Take
★★★★☆ 4.9/5Ninety-one years old and still sharper than most new comedies. I grin the whole runtime.
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Hart's War
Prime VideoMovie | Jul 1, 2025
POW camp intrigue mixing a show-trial with a breakout scheme. Brass politics, cramped bunks, and a young lawyer in over his head.
🎬 Drama, War | 📍 United States | 🗣️ English
🎥 Directed by: Gregory Hoblit
🎭 Cast: Bruce Willis, Colin Farrell, Terrence Howard, Marcel IuresOur Take
★★★☆☆ 3/5The movie keeps juggling genres and occasionally drops a ball, yet I stayed hooked—mostly thanks to Farrell getting under Willis’s stone mask.
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Paths Of Glory
Prime VideoMovie | Jul 1, 2025
Trenches drown men, marble halls condemn them. Court-martial as firing squad pageant.
🎬 Drama, War | 📍 United States | 🗣️ English
🎥 Directed by: Stanley Kubrick
🎭 Cast: Kirk Douglas, Ralph Meeker, Adolphe Menjou, George MacreadyOur Take
★★★★★ 5/5Short, brutal, flawless. I felt my stomach knot even on the tenth viewing.
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Saving Private Ryan
Prime VideoMovie | Jul 1, 2025
Beaches run red, a small squad trudges inland to bring one brother home—a needle in war’s haystack.
🎬 War, Drama, Action, History | 📍 United States | 🗣️ English
🎥 Directed by: Steven Spielberg
🎭 Cast: Tom Hanks, Matt Damon, Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns, Barry PepperOur Take
★★★★★ 5/5First 20 minutes left me shaking the popcorn out of my lap. Still unmatched.
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The Horse Soldiers
Prime VideoMovie | Jul 1, 2025
Union cavalry ride deep behind Confederate lines to wreck a railroad—and clash over duty versus humanity.
🎬 Adventure, History, War, Western | 📍 United States | 🗣️ English
🎥 Directed by: John Ford
🎭 Cast: John Wayne, William Holden, Constance TowersOur Take
★★★☆☆ 3.5/5Ford panoramas, Wayne granite, Holden moral fire. Classic studio war adventure.
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Windtalkers
Prime VideoMovie | Jul 1, 2025
Marine ordered to guard—maybe kill—Navajo code talker during hellish Saipan assault.
🎬 Action, Drama, War | 📍 United States | 🗣️ English
🎥 Directed by: John Woo
🎭 Cast: Nicolas Cage, Adam Beach, Christian SlaterOur Take
★★★☆☆ 3/5Woo’s slo-mo explosions meet a sobering true story; action outweighs nuance but still resonates.
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Born on the Fourth of July
NetflixMovie | Jul 1, 2025
Patriotic Marine returns from Vietnam paralyzed, becomes fiery anti-war voice.
🎬 Biography, Drama, War | 📍 United States | 🗣️ English
🎥 Directed by: Oliver Stone
🎭 Cast: Tom Cruise, Kyra Sedgwick, Willem Dafoe, Raymond J. BarryOur Take
★★★★☆ 4.5/5Cruise’s rawest performance; Stone’s indictment sears and inspires in equal measure.
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The Deer Hunter
NetflixMovie | Jul 1, 2025
Steel-town buddies shipped to Vietnam; Russian-roulette trauma follows them home.
🎬 War, Drama | 📍 United States | 🗣️ English, Russian, Vietnamese, French
🎥 Directed by: Michael Cimino
🎭 Cast: Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, John Savage, Meryl StreepOur Take
★★★★☆ 4.5/5Three acts: wedding, war, wound. Brutal, haunting, unforgettable.
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King Arthur
HuluMovie | Jul 1, 2025
A gritty, Roman-era spin on Arthur and his Sarmatian knights’ last mission.
🎬 Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War | 📍 United States | 🗣️ English
🎥 Directed by: Antoine Fuqua
🎭 Cast: Clive Owen, Keira Knightley, Ioan Gruffudd, Stellan Skarsgård, Stephen Dillane, Ray Winstone, Hugh Dancy, Mads MikkelsenOur Take
★★★☆☆ 3.5/5Less myth, more mud—solid battles and a bow-wielding Knightley make it watchable.
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Kingdom Of Heaven
HuluMovie | Jul 1, 2025
A blacksmith becomes Jerusalem’s reluctant defender on the eve of Saladin’s siege.
🎬 Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War | 📍 United States | 🗣️ English
🎥 Directed by: Ridley Scott
🎭 Cast: Orlando Bloom, Eva Green, Jeremy Irons, David Thewlis, Brendan Gleeson, Liam NeesonOur Take
★★★★☆ 4/5Watch the director’s cut—Scott’s Crusades epic gains depth and political nuance.
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A Soldier's Story
Paramount+Movie | Jul 1, 2025
1944 Louisiana: a Black officer digs into a sergeant’s death on a segregated base and hits a wall of secrets.
🎬 Drama, Mystery, War | 📍 United States | 🗣️ English
🎥 Directed by: Norman Jewison
🎭 Cast: Howard E. Rollins Jr., Adolph Caesar, Art Evans, David Alan Grier, David Harris, Dennis Lipscomb, Larry Riley, Robert Townsend, Denzel WashingtonOur Take
★★★★☆ 4.5/5The interrogation scenes crackle. A sharp look at how racism thrives even in uniform.
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Defiance
Paramount+Movie | Jul 1, 2025
Three Jewish brothers carve a hidden forest camp to shelter refugees and fight Nazis.
🎬 Action, Drama, History, War | 📍 United States | 🗣️ English
🎥 Directed by: Edward Zwick
🎭 Cast: Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber, Jamie Bell, Alexa DavalosOur Take
★★★★☆ 4/5Craig and Schreiber make the snow feel twice as cold. Inspiring without syrup.
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Full Metal Jacket
Paramount+Movie | Jul 1, 2025
Boot camp breaks recruits down; Vietnam tries finishing the job.
🎬 Drama, War | 📍 United States | 🗣️ English
🎥 Directed by: Stanley Kubrick
🎭 Cast: Matthew Modine, Adam Baldwin, Vincent D'Onofrio, R. Lee Ermey, Dorian HarewoodOur Take
★★★★★ 5/5I thought I was tough until Hartman’s first rant. Chilling, unforgettable.
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G.I. Jane
Paramount+Movie | Jul 1, 2025
Lieutenant O’Neil drags through SEAL hell week—sand, sweat, and sneers—to prove women belong in the unit.
🎬 Action, Drama, War | 📍 United States | 🗣️ English
🎥 Directed by: Ridley Scott
🎭 Cast: Demi Moore, Viggo Mortensen, Anne Bancroft, Jason BegheOur Take
★★★☆☆ 3.5/5Moore doing pull-ups in the rain sticks with me. Movie yells its point a bit, but the grit feels honest.
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Glory
Paramount+Movie | Jul 1, 2025
Story of the 54th Massachusetts: free Black soldiers fighting Confederates and their own army’s prejudice all the way to Fort Wagner.
🎬 Biography, Drama, History, War | 📍 United States | 🗣️ English
🎥 Directed by: Edward Zwick
🎭 Cast: Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Cary Elwes, Morgan FreemanOur Take
★★★★★ 5/5Washington’s tear during the flogging wrecks me every time. Absolute gut punch.
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Hamburger Hill
Paramount+Movie | Jul 1, 2025
Ten muddy days, one Vietnamese ridge, endless charges for a hill nobody can hold.
🎬 Action, Drama, War | 📍 United States | 🗣️ English
🎥 Directed by: John Irvin
🎭 Cast: Anthony Barrile, Michael Patrick Boatman, Don Cheadle, Dylan McDermottOur Take
★★★★☆ 4/5Relentless, not flashy. Left me wiped, which feels about right.
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Jarhead
Paramount+Movie | Jul 1, 2025
Marine sniper team bakes in the Gulf desert, fighting boredom and sand more than bullets.
🎬 War, Drama, Biography | 📍 United States | 🗣️ English
🎥 Directed by: Sam Mendes
🎭 Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Jamie Foxx, Peter Sarsgaard, Lucas Black, Chris CooperOur Take
★★★★☆ 4/5Less boom, more brain melt. I dig that off-kilter vibe.
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Rules of Engagement
Paramount+Movie | Jul 1, 2025
Marine hero stands trial after embassy rescue turns bloody; courtroom becomes new battlefield.
🎬 War, Drama, Thriller | 📍 United States | 🗣️ English
🎥 Directed by: William Friedkin
🎭 Cast: Tommy Lee Jones, Samuel L. Jackson, Guy Pearce, Ben Kingsley, Anne Archer, Bruce GreenwoodOur Take
★★★☆☆ 3/5Jackson’s fury is gripping, but the politics feel lopsided. Worth one watch.
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Saving Private Ryan
Paramount+Movie | Jul 1, 2025
Squad crosses a shattered France to drag one paratrooper home after his brothers fall on D-Day.
🎬 War, Drama, Action, History | 📍 United States | 🗣️ English
🎥 Directed by: Steven Spielberg
🎭 Cast: Tom Hanks, Matt Damon, Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns, Barry Pepper, Adam Goldberg, Vin Diesel, Giovanni RibisiOur Take
★★★★★ 5/5Omaha Beach opener rattled my bones. Spielberg at full power—masterpiece.
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Stop-Loss
Paramount+Movie | Jul 1, 2025
Iraq vet gets surprise orders to redeploy, blows up his homecoming and his headspace.
🎬 War, Drama | 📍 United States | 🗣️ English
🎥 Directed by: Kimberly Peirce
🎭 Cast: Ryan Phillippe, Channing Tatum, Abbie Cornish, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ciarán HindsOur Take
★★★☆☆ 3.5/5Heavy-handed at points, but the anger feels real. Good reminder wars don’t end when the plane lands.
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The Patriot
Paramount+Movie | Jul 1, 2025
Reluctant farmer turns swamp-fox avenger after redcoats torch his family—history book optional.
🎬 Action, Drama, History, War | 📍 United States | 🗣️ English
🎥 Directed by: Roland Emmerich
🎭 Cast: Mel Gibson, Heath Ledger, Joely Richardson, Jason Isaacs, Chris Cooper, Tchéky KaryoOur Take
★★★☆☆ 3/5Cannonballs and melodrama fly in equal measure. Fun, if you ignore the footnotes.
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The Quiet American
Paramount+Movie | Jul 1, 2025
Saigon love triangle slowly reveals it’s really a fuse for bigger political bomb.
🎬 Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller, War | 📍 United States | 🗣️ English
🎥 Directed by: Phillip Noyce
🎭 Cast: Michael Caine, Brendan Fraser, Do Thi Hai YenOur Take
★★★★☆ 4/5Caine heartbreakingly good. Sweaty, smoky, morally messy—just how Greene intended.
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Zero Dark Thirty
Paramount+Movie | Jul 1, 2025
Decade-long intel slog funnels into one black-ops raid in Abbottabad, night-vision and nerves blazing.
🎬 Drama, History, Thriller, War | 📍 United States | 🗣️ English
🎥 Directed by: Kathryn Bigelow
🎭 Cast: Jessica Chastain, Jason Clarke, Joel Edgerton, Jennifer Ehle, Mark Strong, Kyle Chandler, Edgar Ramirez, Chris PrattOur Take
★★★★☆ 4.5/5Procedural so tense I forget to blink. Chastain’s final close-up says more than any flag-wave.
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761st Tank Battalion: The Original Black Panthers: Complete Season 1
HuluDocumentary | Jul 3, 2025
The series rides with the all-Black 761st as they fight Nazis abroad while catching racism at every turn back home.
🎬 Documentary, History, War | 📍 United States | 🗣️ English
🎥 Directed by: Unknown
🎭 Cast: Morgan FreemanOur Take
★★★★☆ 4.5/5Freeman’s calm narration over raw combat clips really got me. I learned stories school skipped.
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