9 best movies like Of Fathers and Sons (2018)

List of the best movies like Of Fathers and Sons (2018): The Cave, The Land of the Enlightened, For Sama, Paragraph 175, Imminent Threat, The Unknown Known, A Sniper's War, Secrets in the Sky: The Untold Story of Skunk Works, The Millionaires' Unit.

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Markimdb: 7.5
Genredocumentary, military
CountryDenmark, Germany, France, United Kingdom, USA, Qatar, Syria

Deep beneath the surface in the Syrian province of Ghouta, a group of female doctors have established an underground field hospital. Under the supervision of paediatrician Dr. Amani and her staff of doctors and nurses, hope is restored for some of the thousands of children and civilian victims of the ruthless Syrian civil war.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genredrama, documentary, military
CountryBelgium, Republic of Ireland, Netherlands, Germany, Afghanistan
Duration02:52

A group of Kuchi children are living in a minefield around Bagram airfield, Afghanistan. They dig out anti-personal mines in order to sell the explosives to child workers mining in a Lappis Lazulli mine. The trajectory of the blue precious stones goes towards Tajikistan and China, through an area controlled by child soldiers. When they are not waging their own mini-wars in the daily madness of life in Afghanistan, the children are fleeing away in their personal fantasies and dreams, while the American soldiers are planning their retreat...

Markimdb: 8.5
Genredocumentary, military
CountryUnited Kingdom, Syria, USA

A love letter from a young mother to her daughter, the film tells the story of Waad al-Kateab’s life through five years of the uprising in Aleppo, Syria as she falls in love, gets married and gives birth to Sama, all while cataclysmic conflict rises around her. Her camera captures incredible stories of loss, laughter and survival as Waad wrestles with an impossible choice– whether or not to flee the city to protect her daughter’s life, when leaving means abandoning the struggle for freedom for which she has already sacrificed so much.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genremelodrama, documentary, military, history
CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, USA
Duration01:21

During the Nazi regime, there was widespread persecution of homosexual men, which started in 1871 with the Paragraph 175 of the German Penal Code. Thousands were murdered in concentration camps. This powerful and disturbing documentary, narrated by Rupert Everett, presents for the first time the largely untold testimonies of some of those who survived.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genredocumentary, military
CountryUSA

A look at the War on Terror and the threat it's causing to our civil liberties and political discourse. Academy Award nominee James Cromwell presents Janek Ambros' directorial debut. The feature doc tackles the War on Terror's impact on civil liberties and the strange coalition it's creating between the progressive left and libertarian right. The doc examines the NSA, drones, the war on journalism and other encroachments on civil liberties started by the Bush era and expanded by the Democratic establishment.

Markimdb: 7
Genredocumentary, military, biography, history
CountryUSA
Duration01:36

Former United States Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, discusses his career in Washington D.C. from his days as a congressman in the early 1960s to planning the invasion of Iraq in 2003

Markimdb: 4.2
Genredocumentary, military
CountryUSA, Ukraine, Russia

A Sniper’s War is a story of a sniper, whose anti-US views led him to join the pro-Russian rebels in the ongoing Ukrainian conflict—a primary source of tension between the United States and Russia. When social media becomes a communication platform to schedule sniper duels, Deki’s rival threatens to kill him. The New York-based filmmaker, Olya Schechter, obtains unprecedented access to military bases and front line battles to paint an intimate portrait of the complex and fascinating nature of a man walking the tightrope that often comes to the morality of war: is Deki a solder or a killer?

Markimdb: 7.8
Genredocumentary, military, history
CountryUSA

In 1943, in a circus tent in Burbank, CA, a bunch of revolutionary thinkers first gathered together in secrecy to build America's first jet fighter. They were rule benders, chance takers, corner cutters-people who believed that nothing was impossible. I

Markimdb: 7.4
Genreaction, documentary, military, history
CountryUSA, Belgium, France, New Zealand, United Kingdom

A documentary about the First Yale Unit, a group of Yale students who trained for World War I.




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