14 best movies like Paper Clips (2004)

List of the best movies like Paper Clips (2004): The Vietnam War, Adolf Hitler: The Greatest Story Never Told, The Tillman Story, Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story, Desert One, Homemade, The Weight of Chains, City 40, The Hornet's Nest, The Cold Blue.

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Markimdb: 9.1
Genredocumentary, military, history
CountryUSA

An immersive 360-degree narrative telling the epic story of the Vietnam War as it has never before been told on film. Featuring testimony from nearly 80 witnesses, including many Americans who fought in the war and others who opposed it, as well as Vietnamese combatants and civilians from both the winning and losing sides.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genredocumentary, military, history
CountryUSA

Since the mid-20th century, the world has only ever heard one side of an incredible story. The story of a boy from an ordinary family whose ambition it was to become an artist, but who instead became a drifter. Now, for the first time, this is the documented account of a story many believe to be… the greatest story NEVER told!

Markimdb: 7.7
Genredocumentary, detective, military, biography
CountryUSA
Duration01:34

Pat Tillman never thought of himself as a hero. His choice to leave a multimillion-dollar football contract and join the military wasn't done for any reason other than he felt it was the right thing to do. The fact that the military manipulated his tragic death in the line of duty into a propaganda tool is unfathomable and thoroughly explored in Amir Bar-Lev's riveting and enraging documentary.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genredocumentary, military, biography, history
CountryUSA

The life and career of the hailed Hollywood movie star and underappreciated genius inventor, Hedy Lamarr.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genredocumentary, military, history
CountryUSA

The true story behind one the of most daring rescues in modern US history: a secret mission to free hostages captured during the 1979 Iranian revolution.

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Genredocumentary, military
CountryUSA

Acclaimed filmmakers from around the world channel their creativity during COVID-19 isolation with this diverse, genre-spanning collection of short films.

Markimdb: 8.2
Genredocumentary, military, history, news
CountryCanada, Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia and Montenegro, USA
Duration02:05

The Weight of Chains is a Canadian documentary film that takes a critical look at the role that the US, NATO and the EU played in the tragic breakup of a once peaceful and prosperous European state - Yugoslavia. The film, bursting with rare stock footage never before seen by Western audiences, is a creative first-hand look at why the West intervened in the Yugoslav conflict, with an impressive roster of interviews with academics, diplomats, media personalities and ordinary citizens of the former Yugoslav republics. This film also presents positive stories from the Yugoslav wars - people helping each other regardless of their ethnic background, stories of bravery and self-sacrifice.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genredrama, documentary, military, history, news
CountryUSA, Russia

Behind the walls of a forbidden city, the only thing more dangerous than its secrets is the truth.

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: 7.6
Genredocumentary, military
CountryUSA

A meditation on youth, war and stunning bravery, featuring footage, taken from the National Archives, from the documentary filmed in 1943 by legendary Hollywood director William Wyler about the famous Memphis Belle flying fortress and the gripping narration from some of the last surviving B-17 pilots.

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: 7.4
Genredocumentary, military
CountryUSA
Duration02:25

With unprecedented access, this documentary follows the extraordinary journey of “Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently”—a group of anonymous citizen journalists who banded together after their homeland was overtaken by ISIS—as they risk their lives to stand up against one of the greatest evils in the world today.

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: 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.




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