20 best movies like The Legend of Suriyothai (2001)

List of the best movies like The Legend of Suriyothai (2001): Khartoum, Manikarnika: The Queen of Jhansi, Waterloo, Alexander, Sye Raa Narasimha Reddy, Alexander the Great, Admiral, The Warrior, The Fall of the Roman Empire, Alatriste.

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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: 6.4
Genreaction, drama, military, biography, history
CountryIndia

Story of Rani Lakshmibai, one of the leading figures of the Indian Rebellion of 1857 and her resistance to the British Rule.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genreaction, drama, military, biography, history
CountryItaly, Soviet Union
Duration02:08

After defeating France and imprisoning Napoleon on Elba, ending two decades of war, Europe is shocked to find Napoleon has escaped and has caused the French Army to defect from the King back to him. The best of the British generals, the Duke of Wellington, beat Napolean's best generals in Spain and Portugal, but now must beat Napoleon himself with an Anglo Allied army.

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: 7.4
    Genreaction, drama, military, biography, history
    CountryIndia

    10 years before the sepoy mutiny, Syeraa Uyyalawada Narasimha Reddy, the unsung hero of Kurnool, Rayalaseema was the first Indian freedom fighter to start a rebellion against the British East India Company in the year 1846.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genredrama, military, biography, history
    CountrySpain, USA
    Duration02:21

    He was a fierce military commander who led huge armies into battle without a single defeat; a magnificent warrior who many believed was part god - this was Alexander the Great (Richard Burton), the legendary Greek hero hailed by his countrymen as "The King of Kings". Born in 356 B.C. into a turbulent world of political unrest, educated by Aristotle (Barry Jones) and chosen to lead his people in the grand tradition of his powerful father (Fredric March), this glamorous world conqueror rose above all conflict to unite the continents of Europe and Asia to become one of the most celebrated rulers of all time! Written, produced and directed by Oscar - winner Robert Rossen and featuring the extraordinary Claire Bloom and a remarkable cast of thousands, this stunning portrait of one of history's most fascinating figures is colossal entertainment and an amazing spectacle.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genreaction, drama, adventure, military, biography, history
    CountryNetherlands
    Duration02:25

    When the young republic of The Netherlands is attacked by England, France and Germany and faces its own civil war no less, only one man, Michael de Ruyter, can lead the county's strongest weapon, the Dutch fleet.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genreaction, drama, military, history
    CountrySouth Korea, China
    Duration02:13

    In 1375, China was in chaos between Yuan Dynasty and Ming Dynasty. Coryo (an ancient kingdom of Korea then) sent a delegation of many diplomats, soldiers and a silent slave to make peace with the new Chinese government. However, this delegation got charged as spies and sent in exile to a remote desert.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genredrama, military, history
    CountryUSA
    Duration03:08

    Drawn from the same events that later inspired Gladiator, the film charts the power-hungry greed and father-son betrayal that led to Rome's collapse at the bloody hands of the Barbarians.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genreaction, thriller, melodrama, drama, adventure, military, history
    CountrySpain
    Duration02:25

    In 17th century Spain Diego Alatriste, a brave and heroic soldier, is fighting in his King's army in the Flandes region. His best mate, Balboa, falls in a trap and, near to death, asks Diego to look after his son and teach him to be a soldier.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genredrama, military, biography, history
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA

    Disgusted with the policies of King Charles I, Oliver Cromwell plans to take his family to the New World. But on the eve of their departure, Cromwell is drawn into the tangled web of religion and politics that will result in the English Civil War.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genreaction, drama, military, history
    CountryChina, South Korea, Hong Kong
    Duration01:42

    The aging Zhao embarks on his final and greatest campaign, a road to adventure that will crown his name in glory for all time.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genredrama, adventure, military, history
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:54

    Essentially true story of how Spartan king Leonidas led an extremely small army of Greek Soldiers (300 of his personal body guards from Sparta) to hold off an invading Persian army now thought to have numbered 250,000.

    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, military, history
    CountryItaly, Yugoslavia, West Germany
    Duration02:24

    In January 1943 the German army, afraid of an Allied invasion of the Balkans, launched a great offensive against Yugoslav Partisans in Western Bosnia. The only way out for the Partisan forces and thousands of refugees was the bridge on the river Neretva.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genreaction, drama, military, history
    CountryRussia, Ukraine, Poland
    Duration02:11

    Set in the 16th century, this is a story about Ukraine's Cossack warriors and their campaign to defend their lands from the advancing Polish armies.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genreaction, drama, military, biography, history
    CountrySoviet Union
    Duration01:51

    When German knights invade Russia, Prince Alexander Nevsky must rally his people to resist the formidable force. After the Teutonic soldiers take over an eastern Russian city, Alexander stages his stand at Novgorod, where a major battle is fought on the ice of frozen Lake Chudskoe. While Alexander leads his outnumbered troops, two of their number, Vasili and Gavrilo, begin a contest of bravery to win the hand of a local maiden.

    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: 6.5
    Genreaction, drama, military, biography, history
    CountryGermany, France, Austria
    Duration02:00

    The story of the final seven months in the life of German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genredrama, military, biography, history
    CountryIndia
    Duration02:30

    The film begins in 1857, when India was ruled by the British East India Company. Mangal Pandey is a sepoy, a soldier of Indian origin, in the army of the East India Company. Pandey is fighting in the Anglo-Afghan Wars and saves the life of his British commanding officer, William Gordon. Gordon is indebted to Pandey and a strong friendship develops between them, transcending both rank and race.

    Markimdb: 8.2
    Genredrama, military, biography, history
    CountryFrance
    Duration05:13

    A massive 5 1/2 hour biopic of Napoleon, tracing his career from his schooldays (where a snowball fight is staged like a military campaign), his flight from Corsica, through the French Revolution (where a real storm is intercut with a political storm) and the Terror, culminating in his triumphant invasion of Italy in 1797 (the film stops there because it was intended to be part one of six, but director Abel Gance never raised the money to make the other five). The film's legendary reputation is due to the astonishing range of techniques that Gance uses to tell his story, culminating in the final twenty-minute triptych sequence, which alternates widescreen panoramas with complex multiple- image montages projected simultaneously on three screens.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genreaction, drama, adventure, military, biography, history
    CountryRussia, Germany, Kazakhstan
    Duration02:06

    The story recounts the early life of Genghis Khan, a slave who went on to conquer half the world in the 11th century.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genremelodrama, drama, military, biography, history
    CountryItaly, USA
    Duration02:52

    Epic film of the legendary Spanish hero, Rodrigo Diaz ("El Cid" to his followers), who, without compromising his strict sense of honour, still succeeds in taking the initiative and driving the Moors from Spain.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genreaction, drama, adventure, military, history
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:18

    After an abrupt and violent encounter with a French warship inflicts severe damage upon his ship, a captain of the British Royal Navy begins a chase over two oceans to capture or destroy the enemy, though he must weigh his commitment to duty and ferocious pursuit of glory against the safety of his devoted crew, including the ship's thoughtful surgeon, his best friend.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genreaction, drama, adventure, military, history
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:34

    Diplomats, soldiers and other representatives of a dozen nations fend off the siege of the International Compound in Peking during the 1900 Boxer Rebellion. The disparate interests unite for survival despite competing factions, overwhelming odds, delayed relief and tacit support of the Boxers by the Empress of China and her generals.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genreaction, drama, adventure, military, biography, history
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:30

    Although loudmouthed braggart Jerry Plunkett alienates his comrades and officers, Father Duffy, the regimental chaplain, has faith that he'll prove himself in the end.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genredrama, military, biography, history
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:10

    The film portrays MacArthur's (Gregory Peck) life from 1942, before the Battle of Bataan, to 1952, the time after he had been removed from his Korean War command by President Truman (Ed Flanders) for insubordination, and is recounted in flashback as he visits West Point.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genreaction, drama, adventure, military, history
    CountryRussia
    Duration01:37

    The film is based on the eponymous book by Emmanuil Kazakevich. In the summer of 1944 the Nazi Armies prepare a massive Tank Division named 'Viking" for the offensive on occupied Russian land. The Russian Army's special group of seven snipers named "Zvezda" is sent for a reconnaissance operation behind the enemy lines in the back of the Nazi Tank Division. Two previous Russian groups never came back. The seven Russians know that they are going to an almost certain Death for the sake of Victory.

    Markimdb: 8.2
    Genredrama, military, biography, history
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:53

    This movie tells the story of Omar Mukhtar, an Arab Muslim rebel who fought against the Italian conquest of Libya in WWII. It gives western viewers a glimpse into this little-known region and chapter of history, and exposes the savage means by which the conquering army attempted to subdue the natives.

    Markimdb: 8.1
    Genredrama, military, biography, history
    CountryLebanon, Kuwait, Morocco, United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia, Egypt
    Duration02:57

    Handsomely-mounted historical epic concerns the birth of the Islamic faith and the story of the prophet Mohammed.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genreaction, drama, military
    CountryChina, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong
    Duration02:13

    In 370 B.C, China was separated as seven nations and several other small tribes, one of these being the city state of Liang. The nation of Zhao is led by the terrifying Xiang Yangzhong who orders his troops to conquer the small city. Leaping to the defense of the people of Liang is 'Ge Li' from the Mo-Tsu tribe, their last hope from the terrors of Yangzhong's troops.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genredrama, adventure, biography, history
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:30

    This unhistorical account of pirate Captain Kidd revolves around treasure and treachery. In 1699, William Kidd, presenting himself as an honest shipmaster, dupes King William III into backing his mission to fight pirates, with a crew of condemned pirates and the promise of pardon.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genreaction, drama, military, history
    CountryUSA

    The crew of an Air Force bomber arrives in Pearl Harbor in the aftermath of the Japanese attack and is sent on to Manila to help with the defense of the Philippines.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genreaction, melodrama, adventure, military
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:55

    In 1853, as the British and Russian empires compete to gain and maintain their place in the dreadful Great Game of political intrigues and alliances whose greatest prize is the domination of India and the border territories, Major Geoffrey Vickers must endure several betrayals and misfortunes before he can achieve his revenge at the Balaclava Heights, on October 25, 1854, the most glorious day of the Crimean War.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genredrama, military, biography, history
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:48

    Battle Hymn was inspired by the true story of American minister Dean Hess, played here with rare sensitivity by Rock Hudson. A bomber pilot during World War II, Hess inadvertently releases a bomb which destroys a German orphanage. Tortured by guilt, Hess relocates in Korea after the war to offer his services as a missionary. Combining the best elements of Christianity and Eastern spiritualism, Hess establishes a large home for orphans. The preacher's efforts are threatened when the Korean "police action" breaks out in 1950.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genredrama, military, history
    CountryKazakhstan, Russia, USA
    Duration01:52

    The Nomad is a historical epic set in 18th-century Kazakhstan. The film is a fictionalised account of the youth and coming-of-age of Ablai Khan, as he grows and fights to defend the fortress at Hazrat-e Turkestan from Dzungar invaders.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genreaction, melodrama, drama, military
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:42

    Jim Gordon commands a unit of the famed Flying Tigers, the American Volunteer Group which fought the Japanese in China before America's entry into World War II. Gordon must send his outnumbered band of fighter pilots out against overwhelming odds while juggling the disparate personalities and problems of his fellow flyers.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genreaction, drama, history
    CountryTaiwan
    Duration04:36

    Mouna Rudo was born and raised among the Seediq people, an indigenous tribe in Taiwan, and as he grew to be a man he became a member of the Seediq Bale, a courageous band of native warriors. However, Rudo's way of life is threatened under the yoke of occupying forces from Japan, who took over the nation in 1895. As Rudo sees the traditions and honor of his people stripped away, he realizes the time has come to fight back, and in 1930 he brings together a group of former Seediq Bale soldiers, many of whom have been reduced to infighting, and molds them into a revolutionary army. Rudo and his comrades make their stand when they confront Japanese occupation troops at a youth athletic event, leading to a violent confrontation between the Seediq forces and their oppressors. Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 1: The Sun Flag is Part one of the two-part, four-hour Taiwanese edition of the film Warriors of the Rainbow.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genreaction, drama, military, history
    CountryRussia, Ukraine, Finland
    Duration02:19

    The picture opens in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, in late 1988, when military trainees Petrovsky, Ryaba, Chugun, Stas, Pinochet, Lyutev and Vorobyev are whipped into shape at a training camp by the brutal, sadistic commander, Warrant Officer Dygalo - prior to being sent off to the front lines. After several one-by-one dalliances with the local whore, Snow White, and a cautionary lecture on the history, geography and culture of Afghanistan (which most of the men sleep through), the trainees head off to battle - first to the Bagram air base, then to the Afghani province of Khost to secure supply lines. But nothing can begin to prepare them for the brutal devastation into which they are plunged, or the relentless tide of slaughter that scatters thousands of Soviet victims in its wake.

    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: 6.8
    Genredrama, military, biography, history
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:40

    The queen of Egypt barges the Nile and flirts with Mark Antony and Julius Caesar.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genreaction, melodrama, drama, military
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    A young pilot in the German air force of 1918, disliked as lower-class and unchivalrous, tries ambitiously to earn the medal offered for 20 kills.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genreaction, melodrama, drama, history
    CountryHong Kong, China

    After the death of her father, a woman is forced to take over as empress and fight to save her kingdom.

    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: 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: 7.2
    Genredrama, military, history
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:18

    In the wake of Pearl Harbor, a young lieutenant leaves his expectant wife to volunteer for a secret bombing mission which will take the war to the Japanese homeland.

    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: 3.7
    Genremelodrama, adventure, military, biography, history
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:51

    Mongol chief Temujin battles against Tartar armies and for the love of the Tartar princess Bortai. Temujin becomes the emperor Genghis Khan.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genredrama, military, biography, history
    CountryVenezuela, Spain
    Duration01:58

    Bolívar was instrumental in Latin America’s struggle for independence from the Spanish Empire, and is today considered one of the most influential politicians and emancipators in American history. Libertador is told from the viewpoint of Bolívar, portrayed by Ramírez, about his quests and epic military campaigns, which covered twice the territory Alexander the Great conquered, and his vision to unify South America.

    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.




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