20 best movies like Hornblower: Retribution (2001)

List of the best movies like Hornblower: Retribution (2001): Age of Heroes, Kajaki, Swallows and Amazons, Dances with Wolves, Khartoum, The Silent Battle, Nurnberg, Triple Cross, The Eagle Has Landed, Hanover Street.

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Markimdb: 5.5
Genreaction, thriller, drama, adventure, military
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:30

The true story of the formation of Ian Fleming's 30 Commando unit, a precursor for the elite forces in the U.K.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrethriller, drama, adventure, military, biography
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:48

British soldiers guarding the Kajaki Dam set out to rescue a three-man team after one of them loses a leg to a landmine.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genredrama, adventure, family, military
CountryUnited Kingdom

Four children dream of escaping the tedium of a summer holiday with their mother. When finally given permission to camp on their own on an island in the middle of a vast lake, they are overjoyed. But when they get there they discover they may not be alone… The battle for ownership of a lonely island teaches them the skills of survival, the value of friendship and the importance of holding your nerve.

Markimdb: 8.1
Genredrama, adventure, western, military, history
CountryUSA, United Kingdom
Duration03:56

Wounded Civil War soldier, John Dunbar tries to commit suicide – and becomes a hero instead. As a reward, he's assigned to his dream post, a remote junction on the Western frontier, and soon makes unlikely friends with the local Sioux tribe.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genreaction, drama, adventure, military, history
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration02:08

English General Charles George Gordon is appointed military governor of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan by the Prime Minister. Ordered to evacuate Egyptians from the Sudan, Gordon stays on to protect the people of Khartoum, who are under threat of being conquered by a Muslim army.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, adventure, crime, detective, military
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:13

Secret agents try to defeat terrorists on the Orient Express.

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Genrethriller, drama, adventure, military, history
CountryRussia, Germany, Czech Republic, United Kingdom

1945 year. The International Military Tribunal begins work in Nuremberg. The trial, which will later be called the Process of the Century, attracts a huge number of people from all over the world: the city is overflowing with journalists, lawyers, translators, witnesses and many participants and employees of the process. Among those who come to Nuremberg to work at the Trial is Igor Volgin. He is young, but went through the war, has awards, speaks several foreign languages. Volgin will be a translator for the Soviet delegation led by Colonel Migachev. Once on the street of Nuremberg Volgin meets a young Russian girl Lena. Their nascent feeling will go through many trials, but love is the only thing that at all times saved the world from dehumanization.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genreaction, thriller, drama, adventure, military
CountryUnited Kingdom, France, West Germany
Duration02:06

A safecracker turns double agent during WWII.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genrethriller, drama, adventure, military
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration02:15

When the Nazi high command learns in late 1943 that Winston Churchill will be spending time at a country estate in Norfolk, it hatches an audacious scheme to kidnap the prime minister and spirit him to Germany for enforced negotiations with Hitler.

Markimdb: 6
Genreaction, melodrama, drama, adventure, military
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:49

Margaret is a nurse in England during WW2, and married to a secret agent. Things get complicated when she falls for David, an American pilot.

Markimdb: 5.2
Genredrama, adventure, military, biography, history
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration01:54

This is a movie about the life of Israel's king David.

Markimdb: 4.4
Genreaction, drama, adventure, military, history
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:31

Returning to his homeland after years of slavery, a Norman prince seeks revenge on his father's murderer – his ruthless uncle, Earl Durant. Gaining the trust of a band of exiled farmers, he leads them into battle against Durant, exploiting them in his inexorable quest for vengeance. As one by one they are slaughtered in the brutal battle, will the prince sacrifice everything an everyone to fulfil his quest for blood?

Markimdb: 7.8
Genredrama, adventure, military
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration02:03

Billy is an innocent, naive seaman in the British Navy in 1797. When the ship's sadistic master-at-arms is murdered, Billy is accused and tried.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genreaction, thriller, drama, adventure, military
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA

A band of mercenaries led by Captain Curry travel through the Congo across deadly terrain, battling rival armies, to rescue $25 million in uncut diamonds.

Markimdb: 7
Genredrama, adventure, military, biography
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:30

This 1942 fictionalized biopic chronicles the true story of how two of the most remarkable men in aviation history - visionary Spitfire designer R.J. Mitchell and his test pilot Geoffrey Crisp - designed a streamlined monoplane that led to the development of the Spitfire.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genreaction, drama, adventure, military, history
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:57

A naval adventure, based on the novels by C.S. Forester, about the heroic, 19th-century British seafarer. The story sails with his ship, the Lydia, through battles with Spain and then France won with wit rather than might.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genreaction, thriller, drama, adventure, military, history
CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA
Duration01:37

Britain, A.D. 117. Quintus Dias, the sole survivor of a Pictish raid on a Roman frontier fort, marches north with General Virilus' legendary Ninth Legion, under orders to wipe the Picts from the face of the Earth and destroy their leader, Gorlacon.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genreaction, melodrama, drama, adventure, military, biography
CountryGermany, United Kingdom
Duration01:46

Richthofen goes off to war like thousands of other men. As fighter pilots, they become cult heroes for the soldiers on the battlefields. Marked by sportsmanlike conduct, technical exactitude and knightly propriety, they have their own code of honour. Before long he begins to understand that his hero status is deceptive. His love for Kate, a nurse, opens his eyes to the brutality of war.

Markimdb: 8.1
Genredrama, adventure, military, history
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration03:04

An Irish rogue uses his cunning and wit to work his way up the social classes of 18th century England, transforming himself from the humble Redmond Barry into the noble Barry Lyndon.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genreaction, drama, adventure, military, history
CountryNew Zealand, United Kingdom
Duration01:54

An intimate story set during the 1860s in which a young Irish woman Sarah and her family find themselves on both sides of the turbulent wars between British and Maori during the British colonization of New Zealand.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genredrama, adventure, military
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration01:45

Buzz Rickson is a dare-devil World War II bomber pilot with a death wish. Failing at everything not involving flying, Rickson lives for the most dangerous missions. His crew lives with this aspect of his personality only because they know he always brings them back alive.

Markimdb: 5.6
Genreaction, melodrama, drama, adventure, military, biography, history
CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Germany, Netherlands, France, Italy, Morocco, Thailand
Duration02:55

    Alexander, the King of Macedonia, leads his legions against the giant Persian Empire. After defeating the Persians, he leads his army across the then known world, venturing farther than any westerner had ever gone, all the way to India.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genreaction, drama, adventure, military
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration01:58

    Mallory and Miller are back. The survivors of Navarone are sent on a mission along with a unit called Force 10, which is led by Colonel Barnsby. But Force 10 has a mission of their own which the boys know nothing about.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genreaction, drama, adventure, military, history
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:57

    In the opening years of World War II the Royal Navy was fighting a desperate battle to keep the Atlantic convoy routes open and the British Isles supplied. Of great danger were the numerous surface/commerce raiders that had slipped out of German waters just before war was declared. Supplied by axis cargo ships or tankers, they primarily attacked and sank merchant shipping, and they could and did strike anywhere and everywhere. This is the story of one such ship – the 'Admiral Graf Spee' – and how 3 lightly armed Royal Navy cruisers with mere 6 and 8 inch guns boldly took on this powerful 'pocket battleship' armed with 11 inch guns.

    Markimdb: 4.5
    Genreaction, drama, adventure, military
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    Different factions in WWII-era Holland race to find a stash of Nazi gold.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genreaction, comedy, drama, adventure, crime, military
    CountryItaly, United Kingdom
    Duration01:29

    A Macedonian military deserter and his Italian blood-brother are searching for a dead grandmother wrapped up in a stolen carpet, all over the Balkan's criminal underworld.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genredrama, adventure, military, history
    CountryUnited Kingdom, West Germany, Yugoslavia, USA
    Duration02:07

    This is the story of the shy Mongol boy Temujin who,during the 13th century, becomes the fearless Mongol leader Genghis Khan that unites all Mongol tribes and conquers India,China,Persia,Korea and parts of Rusia,Europe and Middle-East.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genremelodrama, drama, adventure, military
    CountryAustralia, United Kingdom, Canada, France
    Duration01:49

    Fantastic improbabilities, happenstance and the undying bridge of love are part of this romantic fantasy about an Inuit who crosses years, oceans and the ravages of WWII to find his childhood love, a Metis girl, but finds that their cultures are the most difficult spaces to gap.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genreaction, comedy, melodrama, drama, adventure, military
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration02:30

    During World War One an English adventurer, an American elephant poacher and the latter's attractive young daughter, set out to destroy a German battle-cruiser which is awaiting repairs in an inlet just off Zanzibar. The story is based on a novel by Wilbur Smith, which in turn is very loosely based on events involving the light cruiser SMS Königsberg, which was sunk after taking refuge in Rufigi delta in 1915.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrethriller, drama, adventure, military
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Israel, France

    Beirut, 1982: a young Palestinian refugee and an Israeli fighter pilot form a tentative bond in their attempt to make their way across war-torn Lebanon back to their home.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genreaction, drama, adventure, military, history
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland
    Duration02:06

    The story of the Arthurian legend, based on the 'Sarmatian hypothesis' which contends that the legend has a historical nucleus in the Sarmatian heavy cavalry troops stationed in Britain, and that the Roman-British military commander, Lucius Artorius Castus is the historical person behind the legend.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genredrama, adventure, military
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    A British convoy is trying to elude a group of German U-Boats.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genremelodrama, drama, adventure, military, history
    CountryUSA, Italy, Romania, United Kingdom
    Duration02:28

    In this classic story of love and devotion set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, a wounded Confederate soldier named W.P. Inman deserts his unit and travels across the South, aiming to return to his young wife, Ada, who he left behind to tend their farm. As Inman makes his perilous journey home, Ada struggles to keep their home intact with the assistance of Ruby, a mysterious drifter sent to help her by a kindly neighbor.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genreaction, drama, adventure, military, history
    CountryUSA, India
    Duration02:26

      Follows a young man named Albert and his horse, Joey, and how their bond is broken when Joey is sold to the cavalry and sent to the trenches of World War One. Despite being too young to enlist, Albert heads to France to save his friend.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genredrama, adventure, military
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration02:08

      People in a small German village in the last valley to remain untouched by the devastating Thirty Years' War try to exist in peace with a group of soldiers occupying the valley.

      Markimdb: 8.2
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, adventure, military
      CountryTurkey
      Duration02:09

      In a desolate war zone where screams of the innocent echo, on the very line between disaster and valor, 7 Maroon Berets will dance with death.

      Markimdb: 5.3
      Genredrama, adventure, military, history
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Norway

      New York trapper Tom Dobb becomes an unwilling participant in the American Revolution after his son Ned is drafted into the Army by the villainous Sergeant Major Peasy. Tom attempts to find his son, and eventually becomes convinced that he must take a stand and fight for the freedom of the Colonies, alongside the aristocratic rebel Daisy McConnahay. As Tom undergoes his change of heart, the events of the war unfold in large-scale grandeur.




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