Movies about war heroes

Movies about war heroes
List of the best films about war heroes according to the audience: Рядовой Чээрин, V2. Escape from Hell, Hacksaw Ridge, Last Ounce of Courage, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, Con Air, Gettysburg, Hamburger Hill, The Death of Stalin, Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero.

In the top there are new films of 2022, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

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Genreaction, drama, military, history
CountryRussia

After months of exhausting trench warfare, most of Major Belyaev's battalion was destroyed. The area is ruled by German aces snipers. Hope for replenishment collapses when the convoy, in which the Soviet snipers were traveling, falls under a German airstrike. A handful of soldiers and a young hunter from Yakutia, Yegor Cheerin, survive.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genreaction, drama, military, biography, history
CountryRussia

Mikhail Devyatayev, a captured Soviet pilot who leads an escape from a German concentration camp by hijacking an aircraft.

Markimdb: 8.1
Genredrama, military, biography, history
CountryAustralia, USA
Duration02:29

    WWII American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, who served during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people and becomes the first Conscientious Objector in American history to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor.

    Markimdb: 3.8
    Genredrama, military
    CountryUSA

    Bob Revere is a small town Mayor and combat decorated veteran. He faces a root of bitterness from his past filled with heartbreaking loss. His grandson comes back into his life after many years to ask the most important question, “What are we doing with our life to make a difference?” Bob had grown apathetic along with an entire town. Now with the help of children, a group of people all band together to inspire hope, take back the freedoms that are being lost and take a stand for truth. The cast includes Marshall Teague (Roadhouse), Jennifer O’Neill (Summer of ‘42), Fred Williamson (Black Ceasar) and Jenna Boyd (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants).

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, military, sport
    CountryUnited Kingdom, China, USA
    Duration02:11

    19-year-old Billy Lynn is brought home for a victory tour after a harrowing Iraq battle. Through flashbacks the film shows what really happened to his squad - contrasting the realities of war with America's perceptions.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genreaction, thriller, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:55

    When the government puts all its rotten criminal eggs in one airborne basket, it's asking for trouble. Before you can say, "Pass the barf bag," the crooks control the plane, led by creepy Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom. Watching his every move is the just-released Cameron Poe, who'd rather reunite with his family.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genredrama, military, biography, history
    CountryUSA
    Duration04:31

    In the summer of 1863, General Robert E. Lee leads the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia into Gettysburg, Pennsylvania with the goal of marching through to Washington, D.C. The Union Army of the Potomac, under the command of General George G. Meade, forms a defensive position to confront the rebel forces in what will prove to be the decisive battle of the American Civil War.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genreaction, drama, military
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:49

    The men of Bravo Company are facing a battle that's all uphill… up Hamburger Hill. Fourteen war-weary soldiers are battling for a mud-covered mound of earth so named because it chews up soldiers like chopped meat. They are fighting for their country, their fellow soldiers and their lives. War is hell, but this is worse. Hamburger Hill tells it the way it was, the way it really was. It's a raw, gritty and totally unrelenting dramatic depiction of one of the fiercest battles of America's bloodiest war. This happened. Hamburger Hill - war at its worst, men at their best.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrecomedy
    CountryUnited Kingdom, France, Belgium, Canada, USA
    Duration02:30

    Stalin's core team of ministers tussle for control following the Russian leader's stroke in 1953.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genreadventure, family, cartoon, military, history
    CountryRepublic of Ireland, France, USA, Canada, Belgium, United Kingdom

    The true story of the most decorated dog in American military history -- Sgt. Stubby -- and the enduring bonds he forged with his brothers-in-arms in the trenches of World War I.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genredrama, military
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:30

    World War II drama where the action centers around a single maneuver by a squad of GIs in retaliation against the force of the German Siegfried line. Reese joins a group of weary GIs unexpectedly ordered back into the line when on their way to a rest area. While most of the men withdraw from their positions facing a German pillbox at the far side of a mine-field, half a dozen men are left to protect a wide front. By various ruses, they manage to convince the Germans that a large force is still holding the position. Then Reese leads two of the men in an unauthorized and unsuccessful attack on the pillbox, in which the other two are killed; and when the main platoon returns, he is threatened with court-martial. Rather that face the disgrace, and in an attempt to show he was right, he makes a one-man attack on the pillbox.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genremelodrama, drama, military, biography, history
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:14

    Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is then called to serve his country and despite deep religious and moral objections to fighting becomes one of the most celebrated American heroes of WWI.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genredrama, military
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration02:09

    At the start of World War I, Paul Baumer is a young German patriot, eager to fight. Indoctrinated with propaganda at school, he and his friends eagerly sign up for the army soon after graduation. But when the horrors of war soon become too much to bear, and as his friends die or become gravely wounded, Paul questions the sanity of fighting over a few hundreds yards of war-torn countryside.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genremelodrama, drama, military
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:06

    Susan travels with her father to England for a vacation. Invited to a society ball, Susan meets Sir John Ashwood and marries him after a whirlwind romance. However, American Susan never quite adjusts to life as a new member of the British gentry. Upon the outbreak of World War I, Ashwood is sent to the trenches and never returns. When her son goes off to fight in World War II, Susan fears the same tragic fate may befall him too.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genredrama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:06

    Military cadets take extreme measures to ensure the future of their academy when its existence is threatened by local condo developers.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, history
    CountryFrance, Belgium
    Duration01:59

    1809, France. Captain Neuville is called to the front, leaving his future bride heartbroken. Her sister decides to write letters on his behalf to cheer her up.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genredrama, military, biography
    CountryNetherlands, Belgium
    Duration02:09

    In the occupied Netherlands during World War II, banker Walraven van Hall is asked to use his financial contacts to help the Dutch resistance. With his brother Gijs, he comes up with a risky plan to take out huge loans and use the money to finance the Resistance.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:09

    Years after his squad was ambushed during the Gulf War, Major Ben Marco finds himself having terrible nightmares. He begins to doubt that his fellow squad-mate Sergeant Raymond Shaw, now a vice-presidential candidate, is the hero he remembers him being. As Marco's doubts deepen, Shaw's political power grows, and, when Marco finds a mysterious implant embedded in his back, the memory of what really happened begins to return.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:33

    Set in 1951, a blacklisted Hollywood writer gets into a car accident, loses his memory and settles down in a small town where he is mistaken for a long-lost son.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genremelodrama, adventure, western, military
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:59

    A Union Cavalry outfit is sent behind confederate lines in strength to destroy a rail supply center. Along with them is sent a doctor who causes instant antipathy between him and the commander. The secret plan for the mission is overheard by a southern belle who must be taken along to assure her silence.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:44

    A repressed poetess and an embittered war hero help each other cope with their problems.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genredrama, military, biography, history
    CountryWest Germany, Spain

    Biographic Movie of the German fighter ace, who was killed in a plane crash after over 150 kills in North Africa.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genrefantastic, drama
    CountrySoviet Union
    Duration02:19

    Two not quite similar men, our contemporaries, Sergey Pshenichny and Andrew Nemchinov, are walking in the street in their native mining town and found themselves in 1949. It's a common knowledge that real miracles happen without technical devices: time comes miracle happens. They spend in 1949 only one day the next morning they found that it is the same day that was yesterday. All several months, they spent in the past, they spent in one and the same day: the 8th of May, Sunday, the day of heightened coal production. In the morning to the coal mine, in an hour an accident in a coalface, at 10 o'clock wire from the Ministry, after work reunion concerning the Stalins anniversary; robbing of pay desk, death of policeman Ryabenko, in the evening - volunteer Sunday work… and in the morning the same, and so for ever and ever Philosophic fiction, accompanied by music of group Nautilus Pompillius. After a novel of S.Rybasa of the same name.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genreaction, adventure, military, history
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:42

    During the Peninsular War in Spain against the French, Sergeant Richard Sharpe saves the life of Arthur Wellesley, the future Duke of Wellington and is promoted to Lieutenant. In order to pay the troops Wellesley needs a money draft from the banker Rothschild, but fears he has been captured by the French and sends Sharpe behind enemy lines to find him. Sharpe is given command of a platoon of crack riflemen, led by the surly Irishman Harper and including Hagman and Harris, who resent Sharpe as not being a 'proper officer'.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genreaction, drama, military, biography, history
    CountryRussia, Ukraine
    Duration02:17

    The breakout of the war shatters the world of a young student, Lyudmila Pavlichenko, forcing her to enlist in the army in 1941. The maiden turns out to be a natural-born sniper, her impressive skill and prowess make her stand out among men and women alike. Seeing Pavlichenko as a tangible threat, the German High Command gives orders to eliminate the girl whatever the cost. In the meanwhile, Lyudmila meets a man and falls in love. War fades into the background... Soon, however, another misfortune befalls Lyudmila leaving the man she loves on the brink of death and herself seriously wounded. The girl is pulled out of combat and later goes to the United States with a publicity visit. Eleanor Roosevelt welcomes Lyudmila in the White House and the two women soon become close. It won't be long before Pavlichenko stands before an audience in Chicago pressing for a second front. Will her words have the capacity to change the course of war?

    Markimdb: 8.1
    Genredrama, military
    CountryUSA
    Duration03:03

    A group of working-class friends decides to enlist in the Army during the Vietnam War and finds it to be hellish chaos -- not the noble venture they imagined. Before they left, Steven married his pregnant girlfriend -- and Michael and Nick were in love with the same woman. But all three are different men upon their return.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genremilitary
    CountryRussia
    Duration01:44

    Great Patriotic War, early 1940s. After barely surviving a battle with a mysterious, ghostly-white Tiger tank, Red Army Sergeant Ivan Naydenov becomes obsessed with its destruction.

    Markimdb: 9
    Genredrama, military, biography, history
    CountryUSA
    Duration03:15

    The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genredrama, military, history
    CountryRussia, Germany
    Duration02:10

    The historical drama set during the Second World War centres on three people whose paths cross: a Russian aristocratic emigrant and member of the French resistance, a French collaborator and a high-ranking German SS officer.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrefantastic, action, adventure, military, history
    CountryRussia
    Duration01:55

    Four 21st century treasure seekers are transported back into the middle of a WWII battles in Soviet Union...

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genredrama, military
    CountryRussia
    Duration01:10

    Events take us to the beginning of World War II in the small town of Stavrovo. Its unique location, a passing railway and a fork in several roads, proximity to the front line, made it attractive to German troops. They placed a rather large garrison in the city. In the city and in its outskirts, an underground was organized. Most of which were recent graduates of the school. This is a story about two fates, two former schoolchildren - Alexei and Dmitry. The first went underground and tried in every possible way to prevent the invaders, giving his life for his homeland. The second sided with the enemy and became an executioner for his own compatriots.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genredrama, military
    CountryRussia, Belarus
    Duration02:04

    A sad story of love between German soldier Franz and Russian girl Polina.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genrethriller, drama, military
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:06

    Forced to play a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse in the chaos of war, an elite Army bomb squad unit must come together in a city where everyone is a potential enemy and every object could be a deadly bomb.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genredrama, military, history
    CountryRussia
    Duration01:31

    A story about two young men during the last days of WWII.

    Markimdb: 8.6
    Genredrama, military
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:49

    As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fourth trapped behind enemy lines. Ranger captain John Miller and seven men are tasked with penetrating German-held territory and bringing the boy home.




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