Movies about military bases

Movies about military bases
List of the best films about military bases according to the audience: The Outpost, A Few Good Men, Full Metal Jacket, Zero Motivation, Sputnik, The Titan, Jarhead 3: The Siege, Fort Bliss, Manhattan, Operation Christmas Drop.

In the top there are new films of 2020, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

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Country
Markimdb: 6.8
Genreaction, drama, military, history
CountryUSA, Bulgaria

A small unit of U.S. soldiers, alone at the remote Combat Outpost Keating, located deep in the valley of three mountains in Afghanistan, battles to defend against an overwhelming force of Taliban fighters in a coordinated attack. The Battle of Kamdesh, as it was known, was the bloodiest American engagement of the Afghan War in 2009 and Bravo Troop 3-61 CAV became one of the most decorated units of the 19-year conflict.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genrethriller, drama
CountryUSA
Duration02:18

When cocky military lawyer Lt. Daniel Kaffee and his co-counsel, Lt. Cmdr. JoAnne Galloway, are assigned to a murder case, they uncover a hazing ritual that could implicate high-ranking officials such as shady Col. Nathan Jessep.

Markimdb: 8.3
Genredrama, military
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration01:56

A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryIsrael
Duration01:37

Filmmaker Talya Lavie steps into the spotlight with a dark comedy about everyday life for a unit of young female Israeli soldiers. The human resources office at a remote desert base serves as the setting for this cast of characters, who bide their time pushing paper, battling for the top score in Minesweeper, and counting down the minutes until they can return to civilian life. Amidst their boredom and clashing personalities, issues of commitment—from friendship to love and country—are handled with humor and sharp-edged wit.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama
CountryRussia

At the height of the Cold War, a Soviet spacecraft crash lands after a mission gone awry, leaving the commander as its only survivor. After a renowned Russian psychologist is brought in to evaluate the commander’s mental state, it becomes clear that something dangerous may have come back to Earth with him…

Markimdb: 4.8
Genrefantastic, thriller, melodrama, drama, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom, Spain, USA, Germany
Duration02:22

On a bleak future Earth, a soldier endures a radical genetic transformation to save humanity. But his wife fears he's becoming more creature than man.

Markimdb: 5.1
Genreaction, drama, military, biography
CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Germany
Duration00:31

Corporal Evan Albright joined the elite Marine Corps Security Guards to save the world and see some action-not necessarily in that order. But his first assignment, protecting a U. S. Embassy in a seemingly safe Middle Eastern capitol, relegates his unit to wrangling "gate groupies" protesting outside the compound and honing their marksmanship by playing video games. So Albright and his team are caught off guard when well-armed and well-trained militants launch a surprise attack aimed at killing an informant in the embassy. Heavily out-gunned, they will have to muster all the courage and fire power they can as their once routine assignment spirals into all-out war.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genredrama, military
CountryUSA, Turkey
Duration01:56

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.

Markimdb: 7.8
Genredrama, military, history
CountryUSA

Set against the backdrop of the greatest clandestine race against time in the history of science with the mission to build the world's first atomic bomb in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Flawed scientists and their families attempt to co-exist in a world where secrets and lies infiltrate every aspect of their lives.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genrecomedy, melodrama, family
CountryUSA

While gathering evidence to support closing a tropical U.S. Air Force base, a congressional aide warms to its generous captain.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genreaction, documentary, military, history
CountryAfghanistan, USA

Armed only with their cameras, Peabody and Emmy Award-winning conflict Journalist Mike Boettcher, and his son, Carlos, provide unprecedented access into the longest war in U.S. history.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, adventure
CountryUSA
Duration01:54

High School student David Lightman has a talent for hacking. But while trying to hack into a computer system to play unreleased video games, he unwittingly taps into the Defense Department's war computer and initiates a confrontation of global proportions. Together with his girlfriend and a wizardly computer genius, David must race against time to outwit his opponent and prevent a nuclear Armageddon.

Markimdb: 5.4
Genrecomedy, drama, family
CountryUSA, Canada
Duration01:41

Hyperactive teenager Kelly is enrolled into a military school when her new stepfather becomes the Commandant. At first she has problems fitting in and taking orders until she tries out for the drill team.

Markimdb: 5.4
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration02:33

A celebrated military contractor returns to the site of his greatest career triumphs and re-connects with a long-ago love while unexpectedly falling for the hard-charging Air Force watchdog assigned to him.

Markimdb: 6
Genreaction, drama, military
CountryUSA, United Kingdom
Duration02:05

A female Senator succeeds in enrolling a woman into Combined Reconnaissance Team training where everyone expects her to fail.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genrefantastic, action
CountryUSA
Duration01:51

    The Earth is attacked by unknown forces. As people everywhere watch the world's great cities fall, Los Angeles becomes the last stand for mankind in a battle no one expected. It's up to a Marine staff sergeant and his new platoon to draw a line in the sand as they take on an enemy unlike any they've ever encountered before.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genredrama, military
    CountryUSA, Germany
    Duration01:41

    A group of recruits go through Advanced Infantry Training at Fort Polk, Louisiana's infamous Tigerland, last stop before Vietnam for tens of thousands of young men in 1971.

    Markimdb: 4.3
    Genreaction, drama, adventure
    CountryUSA

    US Army Investigator John Murphy (now a Lieutenant, although he was a Major in the previous Base movie) has been sent to look into a series of suspicious deaths that have been going on under the watch of Colonel Strauss. After going undercover and infiltrating Strauss's unit, Murphy discovers that Strauss and his men are leading a vigilante gang to dispense 'justice' to those they feel have been wrongly acquitted of various crimes.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genredrama
    CountryUSA

    Friends and family of Cory, a young man who has died of an overdose, gather at a Baltimore-area karaoke bar for his wake and compare stories about him. Gradually, as it becomes clear that there are many holes in their recollections about Cory, they fill in the blanks by talking about things that reveal aspects of their own lives. Among those mourning him and searching for meaning are his cousin Jenny, his sister Zoe and his brother James.

    Markimdb: 3.4
    Genreaction, drama, military, history
    CountryUSA

    Untold and lost history. A true story of the American Pathfinders, the volunteer paratroopers whose deadly mission was to land 30 minutes before the Normandy invasion, locate and mark strategic "drop zones" and set up the top-secret navigation equipment needed to guide the main airborne assault on D-Day.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genreaction, drama, military, history
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:00

    The story of the Tuskegee Airmen, the first African-American pilots to fly in a combat squadron during World War II.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrefantastic, action, fantasy, adventure
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:54

    Based on the classic novel by Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game is the story of the Earth's most gifted children training to defend their homeplanet in the space wars of the future.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrecomedy
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:46

    During the Second World War, Eugene enlists in the US Army during the last year of the War and is sent to basic training in Biloxi Mississippi. There he must live with a variety of fellow soldiers while enduring the whims of a mentally unstable drill sergeant.

    Markimdb: 3.6
    Genrehorror, thriller
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:22

    As their big day approaches Cate and Cody should be celebrating, they've got their family with them, they've rented an island for the big day, but unbeknownst to them their wedding falls on the day when a 100 year old curse comes to fruition. Instead of celebrating they find themselves fighting for their lives as a coven of witches rise for revenge.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genrehorror, fantastic
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:27

    When Environmental Protection Agency inspector Steve Malone travels to a remote military base in order to check for toxic materials, he brings his family along for the ride. After arriving at the base, his teenage daughter Marti befriends Jean Platt, daughter of the base's commander, General Platt. When people at the base begin acting strangely, Marti becomes convinced that they are slowly being replaced by plant-like aliens.

    Markimdb: 3
    Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, comedy, adventure
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:21

    A scientist enlists the help of the US army to investigate the mysterious disappearance of her father, deep in the Belizean jungle. Caught in the crossfire between a brutal guerrilla army controlled by a mystical warlord, they are also confronted by an even bigger terror giant mutated wasps that are, for some reason, thirsty for blood.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genrehorror, action, thriller, crime, detective
    CountryUSA, Canada, France, Turkey
    Duration01:41

      The only U.S. Marshal assigned to Antarctica, Carrie Stetko will soon leave the harsh environment behind for good – in three days, the sun will set and the Amundsen-Scott Research Station will shut down for the long winter. When a body is discovered out on the open ice, Carrie's investigation into the continent's first homicide plunges her deep into a mystery that may cost her her own life.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genreaction, comedy, melodrama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:24

      Recruited to join a top-secret mission for the Air Force, a renegade pilot finds himself coping with an incompetent admiral and a carefully selected squadron of flyers who are either inept or half-blind.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, musical
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:28

      A Broadway choreographer gets drafted and coincidentally ends up in the same army base as his object of affection’s boyfriend.

      Markimdb: 7.7
      Genreaction, adventure, military
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom
      Duration02:30

      12 American military prisoners in World War II are ordered to infiltrate a well-guarded enemy château and kill the Nazi officers vacationing there. The soldiers, most of whom are facing death sentences for a variety of violent crimes, agree to the mission and the possible commuting of their sentences.

      Markimdb: 3.3
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, adventure, western, military
      CountryUSA

      A dire warning of a wake up call of what might be our future when a globalist terrorist organization aligned with the United Nations disables the United States power grid and institutes Martial Law. It will take a dedicated family of patriots armed with strong survival skills and the remains of the Second Amendment to save America and reclaim its freedom.

      Markimdb: 7.8
      Genremelodrama, drama, crime, biography
      CountryUSA, Canada
      Duration01:52

      The true story of Soldier’s Girl, which takes place in Fort Campbell, KY, tells the heart-wrenching story of the life and tragic death of soldier Barry Winchell. His love for Calpernia Addams, a beautiful transgendered nightclub performer was misunderstood by fellow soldiers and eventually leads to his brutal death.

      Markimdb: 5.9
      Genreaction, thriller, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:35

      Jay Austin is now a civilian police detective. Colonel Caldwell was his commanding officer years before when he left the military police over a disagreement over the handling of a drunk driver. Now a series of murders that cross jurisdictions force them to work together again. That Austin is now dating Caldwell's daughter is not helping their relationship.

      Markimdb: 7.6
      Genremelodrama, drama, military
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:58

      In 1941 Hawaii, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his captain's wife and second in command are falling in love.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, comedy, adventure, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:35

        Two doctors find their graveyard shift inundated with townspeople ravaged by sores. Among the wounded is Cherry, a dancer whose leg was ripped from her body. As the invalids quickly become enraged aggressors, Cherry and her ex-boyfriend Wray lead a team of accidental warriors into the night.

        Markimdb: 4.2
        Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:38

        Three young conspiracy theorists attempt to uncover the mysteries of Area 51, the government's secret location rumored to have hosted encounters with alien beings. What they find at this hidden facility exposes unimaginable secrets.

        Markimdb: 4.1
        Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, detective
        CountryUnited Kingdom
        Duration01:28

        The military have captured and imprisoned a supernatural entity. And now it wants to play.

        Markimdb: 7.6
        Genremelodrama, drama, military
        CountryUSA

        Army Wives is an American drama series that follows the lives of four army wives, one army husband, and their families.

        Markimdb: 5
        Genrecomedy, military
        CountryCanada, Iceland, United Kingdom, USA

        A black comedy set in 1979, about a soldier mistakenly posted to an Arctic military base.

        Markimdb: 7.8
        Genredrama, adventure, biography, history
        CountryUSA
        Duration03:13

        A chronicle of the original Mercury astronauts in the formation of America's space program: Alan Shepherd, the first American in space; Gus Grissom, the benighted astronaut for whom nothing works out as planned; John Glenn, the straight-arrow 'boy scout' of the bunch who was the first American to orbit the earth; and the remaining pilots: Deke Slayton, Scott Carpenter and Wally Schirra.

        Markimdb: 6.1
        Genrefantastic, action, thriller
        CountryRussia

        No meteorites hit Earth, no terrorists put the world in danger, no atomic war was started, but something did go wrong. Contact between most towns on Earth has been severed. A small ring-like area in Eastern Europe still has electricity, and maybe even life is being reported from the Space. What military forces find outside the Ring is shocking. There are dead corpses everywhere: in stores, in cars, on roads, in hospitals and railway stations. Who or what is destroying all life on Earth? How long will the last outpost of mankind survive?

        Markimdb: 5.4
        Genreaction, comedy, melodrama, drama, adventure
        CountryUSA, South Africa, Philippines
        Duration01:35

        Joe Armstrong, an orphaned drifter will little respect for much other than martial arts, finds himself on an American Army base in The Philippines after a judge gives him a choice of enlistment or prison. On one of his first missions driving a convoy, his platoon is attacked by a group of rebels who try to steal the weapons the platoon is transporting and kidnap the base colonel's daughter.

        Markimdb: 5.8
        Genrecomedy
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:33

        The army is known for churning out lean mean fighting machines intent on protecting our great nation. Martin is the inexplicable the incorrigible the invicible sgt. Ernie bilko leader of a ragtag group of the sorriest soldiers ever to enlist in the armed forces.

        Markimdb: 5.8
        Genreaction, adventure
        CountryUSA

        Combat has taken its toll on Rambo, but he's finally begun to find inner peace in a monastery. When Rambo's friend and mentor Col. Trautman asks for his help on a top secret mission to Afghanistan, Rambo declines but must reconsider when Trautman is captured.

        Markimdb: 6.2
        Genrecomedy, adventure, military
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom
        Duration01:30

          A reporter in Iraq might just have the story of a lifetime when he meets Lyn Cassady, a guy who claims to be a former member of the U.S. Army's New Earth Army, a unit that employs paranormal powers in their missions.

          Markimdb: 6.2
          Genrecomedy, military
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:49

          A sheltered young high society woman joins the army on a whim and finds herself in a more difficult situation than she ever expected.

          Markimdb: 4.4
          Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:26

          Day of the Dead is a horror film which is nominally a quasi-remake of George A. Romero's classic zombie film of the same name, which was the third in Romero's Dead series. The film is directed by Steve Miner (who also directed Friday the 13th Part 2 & 3 and Halloween H20: 20 Years Later) and written by Jeffrey Reddick.

          Markimdb: 4.3
          Genrehorror, thriller, detective
          CountryGermany
          Duration01:41

          While on a GPS treasure hunt in the Palatinate forest four teenagers come across an old US military radio tower station. Back in the days of the Cold War it was part of a secret military program that produced horrific side effects, but has long since abandoned. Until now, when the station is mysteriously powered up again.

          Markimdb: 8.4
          Genrefantastic, thriller, comedy
          CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
          Duration01:35

          After the insane General Jack D. Ripper initiates a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union, a war room full of politicians, generals and a Russian diplomat all frantically try to stop the nuclear strike.

          Markimdb: 3.4
          Genreaction, thriller, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:28

          A navy pilot fakes his own death and steals a stealth fighter plane from a U.S.A.F base. He then acts as a mercenary, targeting military installations around the world.




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