20 best movies like Sand Castle (2017)

List of the best movies like Sand Castle (2017): The Outpost, The Enemy Below, Wake Island, American Sniper, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, 12 Strong, Lone Survivor, The Lost Battalion, Battleground, Miracle at St. Anna.

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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: 7.4
Genreaction, thriller, drama, adventure, military
CountryUSA
Duration01:38

The American destroyer escort, the USS Haynes commanded by Robert Mitchum, detects a German U-Boat, commanded by Curt Jürgens, resulting in a prolonged, deadly battle of wits.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genreaction, drama, military
CountryUSA
Duration01:27

In November 1941, Major Caton takes command of the small Marine garrison on Wake Island. His tendency toward spit and polish upsets the men's tropical lassitude, but Pearl Harbor changes everything. Soon the island is attacked and the Marines pull together day by day; but how long can they hold out?

Markimdb: 7.3
Genreaction, drama, military, biography
CountryUSA
Duration02:12

    U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle takes his sole mission—protect his comrades—to heart and becomes one of the most lethal snipers in American history. His pinpoint accuracy not only saves countless lives but also makes him a prime target of insurgents. Despite grave danger and his struggle to be a good husband and father to his family back in the States, Kyle serves four tours of duty in Iraq. However, when he finally returns home, he finds that he cannot leave the war behind.

    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: 6.5
    Genreaction, drama, military, history
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:34

    A team of CIA agents and special forces head into Afghanistan in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks in an attempt to dismantle the Taliban.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genreaction, drama, military
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom
    Duration01:56

      Four Navy SEALs on a covert mission to neutralize a high-level al-Qaeda operative must make an impossible moral decision in the mountains of Afghanistan that leads them into an enemy ambush. As they confront unthinkable odds, the SEALs must find reserves of strength and resilience to fight to the finish.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genreaction, drama, military
      CountryUSA, Luxembourg

      Fact-based war drama about an American battalion of over 500 men which gets trapped behind enemy lines in the Argonne Forest in October 1918 France during the closing weeks of World War I.

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genreaction, drama, military, history
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:58

      The film concentrates on the camaraderie and the divisions between the troops as they ready for the big offensive. Told in a taut narrative, the men of the 101st, led by Van Johnson, wait out the winter in the Ardennes forest to confront the German army in what would be the last major offensive of World War II. The men are demoralized and trapped, with no hope of support from the Allies.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genreaction, drama, military
      CountryItaly, USA

      Miracle at St. Anna chronicles the story of four American soldiers who are members of the all-black 92nd "Buffalo Soldier" Division stationed in Tuscany, Italy during World War II.

      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: 6.6
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, detective, military
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:57

      A US Army officer had made a "friendly fire" mistake that was covered up and he was reassigned to a desk job. Later he was tasked to investigate a female chopper commander's worthiness to be awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously. At first all seemed in order then he begins to notice inconsistencies between the testimonies of the witnesses....

      Markimdb: 5.7
      Genreaction, drama, military, biography, history, sport
      CountryUSA

      Zamperini returns to California where he wound up marrying Cynthia Applewhite while wrestling with untreated PTSD, suffering constant nightmares, angry, bitter and deeply depressed, his wife convinces Zamperini to attend the 1949 Billy Graham Crusade.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genrecomedy, drama, military, biography
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:37

      In 2002, cable news producer Kim Barker decides to shake up her routine by taking a daring new assignment in Kabul, Afghanistan. Dislodged from her comfortable American lifestyle, Barker finds herself in the middle of an out-of-control war zone. Luckily, she meets Tanya Vanderpoel, a fellow journalist who takes the shell-shocked reporter under her wing. Amid the militants, warlords and nighttime partying, Barker discovers the key to becoming a successful correspondent.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genreaction, drama, military
      CountryUSA

      Korean War, April 1953. Lieutenant Clemons, leader of the King company of the United States Infantry, is ordered to recapture Pork Chop Hill, occupied by a powerful Chinese Army force, while, just seventy miles away, at nearby the village of Panmunjom, a tense cease-fire conference is celebrated.

      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: 5.4
      Genrethriller, drama, military
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:42

      An American soldier deployed at Abu Ghraib finds himself behind the walls of the infamous Hard Site, where he develops a secret friendship with an Iraqi detainee.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, military
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:45

      A group of Vietnam War veterans re-unite to rescue one of their own left behind and taken prisoner by the Vietnamese...

      Markimdb: 5.3
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, military, history
      CountryUSA
      Duration03:44

      The harrowing true story of the crew of the USS Indianapolis, who were stranded in the Philippine Sea for five days after delivering the atomic weapons that would eventually end WWII. As they awaited rescue, they endured extreme thirst, hunger, and relentless shark attacks.

      Markimdb: 4.9
      Genreaction, drama, military
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:30

      When the commander of the crew of a B-17 Flying Fortress bomber is killed in action in a raid over Sicily in 1943, his replacement, a young, naive pilot struggles to be accepted by the plane's already tight-knit Irish American crew.

      Markimdb: 6.9
      Genreaction, drama, western, military, biography, history
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:49

      In 1863, Mississippi farmer Newt Knight serves as a medic for the Confederate Army. Opposed to slavery, Knight would rather help the wounded than fight the Union. After his nephew dies in battle, Newt returns home to Jones County to safeguard his family but is soon branded an outlaw deserter. Forced to flee, he finds refuge with a group of runaway slaves hiding out in the swamps. Forging an alliance with the slaves and other farmers, Knight leads a rebellion that would forever change history.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genreaction, drama, military, history
      CountrySouth Korea
      Duration02:00

      A civil war broke out in the 1950s between North and South Korea which changed the country forever. 71: Into the Fire centers on the struggles of 71 student soldiers who fought through the Korean War. Using real people and events based on the opening moves of the Battle of P'ohang-dong, the film exposes the personal and physical conflicts that these students faced when finding themselves on the last line of defense at P'ohang-dong Girl's Middle School against the NKPA's advancement, needing to hold out until back up from other Korean troops and the Allies arrived.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genreaction, drama, military, history
      CountryBelarus, Russia
      Duration02:11

      A war drama set during the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, in which Russian troops held on to a border stronghold for nine days. The film shows the heroic defense of Brest Fortress, which has taken upon the first stroke of German fascist invaders on June 22 1941.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genreaction, drama, military
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:52

      In March of 1945, as the War in Europe is coming to a close, fighting erupts between German and American troops at the last remaining bridgehead across the Rhine.

      Markimdb: 4.1
      Genreaction, melodrama, drama, military
      CountryUSA

      Rusty Wittenburg is a Navy SEAL struggling to balance his family life and his job. He fights daily to maintain the line between reality and the nightmares his PTSD conjures up for him. Dedicated to his team and his mission, he is willing to give the ultimate sacrifice for his fellow brothers and teammates.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genredrama, military, history
      CountryJapan, USA
      Duration01:45

      As the Japanese surrender at the end of WWII, Gen. Fellers is tasked with deciding if Emperor Hirohito will be hanged as a war criminal. Influencing his ruling is his quest to find Aya, an exchange student he met years earlier in the U.S.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genreaction, drama, military, history
      CountryJapan, USA
      Duration02:24

      In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. "Tora! Tora! Tora!", named after the code words use by the lead Japanese pilot to indicate they had surprised the Americans, covers the days leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor, which plunged America into the Second World War.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genreaction, drama, adventure, military
      CountryUSA

      An American soldier who escapes the execution of his comrades by Japanese soldiers in Borneo during WWII becomes the leader of a personal empire among the headhunters in this war story told in the style of Joseph Conrad and Rudyard Kipling. The American is reluctant to rejoin the fight against the Japanese on the urging of a British commando team but conducts a war of vengeance when the Japanese attack his adopted people.

      Markimdb: 5.9
      Genreaction, drama, military, biography, history
      CountryUSA

      Spend time on both sides of World War I, partly with German flying ace Baron Manfred Von Richthofen (John Phillip Law), aka "The Red Baron," and his colorful "flying circus" of Fokker fighter planes, during the time from his arrival at the war front to his death in combat. On the other side is Roy Brown of the Royal Air Force, sometimes credited with shooting Richthofen down.

      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: 7.1
      Genreaction, comedy, drama, adventure, military
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:54

      A group of American soldiers stationed in Iraq at the end of the Gulf War find a map they believe will take them to a huge cache of stolen Kuwaiti gold hidden near their base, and they embark on a secret mission that's destined to change everything.

      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
      Genreaction, drama, military
      CountryUSA, Australia
      Duration02:12

      As World War II rages, the elite Sixth Ranger Battalion is given a mission of heroic proportions: push 30 miles behind enemy lines and liberate over 500 American prisoners of war.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genreaction, drama, military
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:13

      A WWII film set on a Pacific island. Japanese and allied forces occupy different parts of the island. When a group of British soldiers are sent on a mission behind enemy lines, things don't go exactly to plan. This film differs in that some of the 'heroes' are very reluctant, but they come good when they are pursued by the Japanese who are determined to prevent them returning to base.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genreaction, drama, military
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:10

      1968 American war film about the formation and first mission of the joint Canadian-American WWII special forces winter and mountain unit formally called 1st Special Service Force, but commonly known as “The Devil’s Brigade”. The film dramatises the Brigade's first mission in the Italian Campaign, the task of capturing the German mountain stronghold Monte la Difensa, in December 1943. The film is based on the 1966 book of the same name, co-written by American novelist and historian Robert H. Adleman and Col. George Walton, a member of the brigade.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genreaction, drama, adventure, military, history
      CountryUSA, Japan
      Duration02:15

      There were five Marines and one Navy Corpsman photographed raising the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi by Joe Rosenthal on February 23, 1945. This is the story of three of the six surviving servicemen – John 'Doc' Bradley, Pvt. Rene Gagnon and Pvt. Ira Hayes, who fought in the battle to take Iwo Jima from the Japanese.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genreaction, drama, military, history
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration02:05

      Set in German-occupied Norway, resistance fighter Knut Straud enlists the reluctant physicist Rolf Pedersen in an effort to destroy the German heavy water production plant in rural Telemark.

      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: 5.3
      Genreaction, drama, military
      CountryUSA

      Germany, May 1945, deep in the Harz Mountains a U.S. tank crew discovers a platoon of Germans preparing to ambush U.S. supply trucks.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genreaction, melodrama, drama, military, history
      CountryUSA
      Duration03:03

      The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the two ace fighter pilots become entangled in a love triangle with beautiful Naval nurse Evelyn Johnson. But the rivalry between the friends-turned-foes is immediately put on hold when they find themselves at the center of Japan's devastating attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.

      Markimdb: 5.5
      Genreaction, drama, military
      CountryGeorgia, USA
      Duration01:48

      An American journalist and his cameraman are caught in the combat zone during the first Russian airstrikes against Georgia. Rescuing Tatia, a young Georgian schoolteacher separated from her family during the attack, the two reporters agree to help reunite her with her family in exchange for serving as their interpreter. As the three attempt to escape to safety, they witness--and document--the devastation from the full-scale crossfire and cold-blooded murder of innocent civilians.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genreaction, drama, military
      CountryUSA

      When ISIS took their homes, families and city, one group of men fought to take it all back. Based on true events, this is the story of the Nineveh SWAT team, a renegade police unit who waged a guerrilla operation against ISIS in a desperate struggle to save their home city of Mosul.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genreaction, comedy, melodrama, drama, military
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:43

      During the Battle of the Bulge, an anachronistic count shelters a ragtag squad of Americans in his isolated castle hoping they will defend it against the advancing Germans.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genreaction, drama, military
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:47

      In the winter of 1944, the Allied Armies stand ready to invade Germany at the coming of a New Year. To prevent it, Hitler orders an all-out offensive to re-take French territory and capture the major port city of Antwerp.

      Markimdb: 6.9
      Genreaction, drama, military
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Japan, USA
      Duration01:47

      The "Memphis Belle" is a World War II bomber, piloted by a young crew on dangerous bombing raids into Europe. The crew only have to make one more bombing raid before they have finished their duty and can go home. In the briefing before their last flight, the crew discover that the target for the day is Dresden, a heavily-defended city that invariably causes many Allied casualties

      Markimdb: 7
      Genreaction, drama, military
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:35

      In WWII Western Germany, Private David Manning reluctantly leaves behind a mortally wounded fellow soldier and searches for survivors from his platoon, only to learn from commanding officer Captain Pritchett that they have all been killed in action. Despite requesting a discharge on the grounds of mental disability, Manning is promoted to sergeant and assigned to lead a new platoon of young inductees.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genreaction, melodrama, drama, adventure, military
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:38

      An American pilot impulsively joins His Majesty's Royal Air Force in Britain in an attempt to impress his ex-girlfriend.

      Markimdb: 7.7
      Genreaction, drama, military, history
      CountrySouth Korea
      Duration02:23

      Jun-shik, who works for Tatsuo’s grandfather’s farm while Korea is colonized by Japan, dreams about participating in the Tokyo Olympics as a marathon runner. Tatsuo also aims to become a marathon runner, so the two become rivals. But the war breaks out and they both are forced to enlist in the army. Tatsuo becomes the head of defense in Jun-shik’s unit and he devises a scheme but fails. Jun-shik and Tatsuo are held captive by the Soviets. They run away but soon are captured by the Germans and forced to separate. In 1944, they meet again on the shores of Normandy.

      Markimdb: 5
      Genrehorror, action, drama, military
      CountryUSA

      The movie encompasses several different elements-the perils of war, a touch of macabre, sadness and redemption.

      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.




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