20 best movies like The Road to Guantanamo (2006)

List of the best movies like The Road to Guantanamo (2006): Little Dieter Needs to Fly, '71, Brothers, The Official Story, Shooting Dogs, Warriors, The General's Daughter, MacArthur, The Eagle Has Landed, Hell and Back Again.

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Markimdb: 8
Genredrama, documentary, military, biography
CountryGermany, United Kingdom, France
Duration01:20

In 1966, Dieter Dengler was shot down over Laos, captured, and, down to 85 pounds, escaped. Barefoot, surviving monsoons, leeches, and machete-wielding villagers, he was rescued. Now, near 60, living on Mt. Tamalpais, Dengler tells his story: a German lad surviving Allied bombings in World War II, postwar poverty, apprenticed to a smith, beaten regularly. At 18, he emigrates and peels potatoes in the U.S. Air Force. He leaves for California and college, then enlistment in the Navy to learn to fly. A quiet man of sorrows tells his story: war, capture, harrowing conditions, escape, and miraculous rescue. Where did he find the strength; how does he now live with his memories?

Markimdb: 7.2
Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, military
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:39

A young British soldier must find his way back to safety after his unit accidentally abandons him during a riot in the streets of Belfast.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genredrama, military
CountryDenmark, United Kingdom, Sweden, Norway
Duration01:57

A Danish officer, Michael (Thomsen), is sent away to the International Security Assistance Force operation in Afghanistan for three months. His first mission there is to find a young radar technician who had been separated from his squad some days earlier. While on the search, his helicopter is shot down and he is taken as a prisoner of war, but is reported dead to the family.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genredrama, military, history
CountryArgentina
Duration01:52

After the end of the Dirty War, a high school teacher sets out to find out who the mother of her adopted daughter is.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genredrama, military, history
CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany
Duration01:55

Two westerners, a priest and a teacher find themselves in the middle of the Rwandan genocide and face a moral dilemna. Do they place themselves in danger and protect the refugees, or escape the country with their lives? Based on a true story.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genredrama, adventure, military
CountrySpain
Duration01:36

A tense drama that revolves around a platoon of Spanish soldiers, following the innocent young men as they step from the training field into a hell for which nothing could have prepared them.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective, military
CountryUSA, Germany
Duration01:56

When the body of Army Capt. Elizabeth Campbell is found on a Georgia military base, two investigators, Warrant Officers Paul Brenner and Sara Sunhill, are ordered to solve her murder. What they uncover is anything but clear-cut. Unseemly details emerge about Campbell's life, leading to allegations of a possible military coverup of her death and the involvement of her father, Lt. Gen. Joseph Campbell.

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: 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: 6.4
Genreaction, documentary, military, history
CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Afghanistan
Duration01:28

What does it mean to lead men in war? What does it mean to come home? Hell and Back Again is a cinematically revolutionary film that asks and answers these questions with a power and intimacy no previous film about the conflict in Afghanistan has been able to achieve. It is a masterpiece in the cinema of war.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genredrama, military, biography
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration02:34

One of the most celebrated war correspondents of our time, Marie Colvin is an utterly fearless and rebellious spirit, driven to the frontlines of conflicts across the globe to give voice to the voiceless.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrethriller, drama, military
CountryUnited Kingdom, Canada
Duration02:20

A UK-based military officer in command of a top secret drone operation to capture terrorists in Kenya discovers the targets are planning a suicide bombing and the mission escalates from “capture” to “kill.” As American pilot Steve Watts is about to engage, a nine-year old girl enters the kill zone, triggering an international dispute reaching the highest levels of US and British government over the moral, political, and personal implications of modern warfare.

Markimdb: 4.5
Genrethriller, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:38

Haunted by memories of his ex-girlfriend Alice, a heartbroken Billy returns home to Northern Virginia seeking solace from old friends. But what he finds there is more disconcerting: his best friend Stanley has become unstable, mysterious and withdrawn from those around him. Billy teams up with another old friend to find out what's going on and as they probe Stanley's recent activities, their friend's behaviour seems more and more bizarre and frightening.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genredrama, military
CountryIsrael, France, Germany, United Kingdom
Duration01:33

During the First Lebanon War in 1982, a lone tank and a paratroopers platoon are dispatched to search a hostile town.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genrethriller, drama, military, history
CountryUSA, United Arab Emirates
Duration02:37

    A chronicle of the decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after the September 2001 attacks, and his death at the hands of the Navy S.E.A.L. Team 6 in May, 2011.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genredrama, military, history
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Yugoslavia

    The true story of WWII's notorious Sobibor Nazi death camp, where a courageous inmate orchestrates and leads the escape of over 300 prisoners.

    Markimdb: 8.4
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    A thrilling and raw crime drama following a gang of drug dealers in Hackney, London - an honest and gripping rendition of inner-city drug and gang culture.

    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: 6.3
    Genrethriller, drama, military, history
    CountryFrance, Germany, United Kingdom, USA

    Based on true events, an American submarine collides into a Soviet sub of the coast of America and an ensuing standoff occurs that could lead to total annihilation.

    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
      Genredrama, military
      CountryAfghanistan, France, Germany, United Kingdom
      Duration01:42

      In a war ridden country a woman watches over the husband reduced to a vegetable state by a bullet in the neck, abandoned by Jihad companions and brothers. One day, the woman decides to say things to him she could never have done before.

      Markimdb: 7.8
      Genredrama, adventure, military
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration01:16

      A group of army personnel and nurses attempt a dangerous and arduous trek across the deserts of North Africa during the second world war. The leader of the team dreams of his ice cold beer when he reaches Alexandria.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genreaction, drama, military
      CountryItaly, France
      Duration02:01

      The professional mercenary Sir William Walker instigates a slave revolt on the Caribbean island of Queimada in order to help improve the British sugar trade. Years later he is sent again to deal with the same rebels that he built up because they have seized too much power that now threatens British sugar interests.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genrethriller, drama, history
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:19

      Edward Wilson, the only witness to his father's suicide and member of the Skull and Bones Society while a student at Yale, is a morally upright young man who values honor and discretion, qualities that help him to be recruited for a career in the newly founded OSS. His dedication to his work does not come without a price though, leading him to sacrifice his ideals and eventually his family.

      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
      Genredrama, military
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration02:38

      A luxury liner carries Jewish refugees from Hitler's Germany in a desperate fight for survival.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genreaction, drama, military
      CountryFrance
      Duration01:44

        Afghanistan. War correspondent Elsa Casanova is taken hostage by the Taliban. Faced with her imminent execution, a Special Forces unit is dispatched to free her. In some of the world’s most breathtaking yet hostile landscapes, a relentless pursuit begins between her kidnappers who have no intention of letting their prey escape them and a group of soldiers who risk their lives in pursuit of their single aim – to bring her home alive. This strong, independent woman and these men of duty are thrown together and forced to confront situations of great danger that inextricably bind them – emotionally, violently and intimately.

        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: 5.4
        Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective, military
        CountryUnited Kingdom
        Duration01:28

        In 1944, in the Belgian - German border, seven German soldiers survive an American attack in the front and lock themselves in a bunker to protect the position. Under siege by the enemy and with little ammunition, they decide to explore underground tunnels to seek supplies and find an escape route. While in the tunnel, weird things happen with the group.

        Markimdb: 7.1
        Genreaction, drama, crime, military
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:53

        During the Vietnam War, a soldier finds himself the outsider of his own squad when they unnecessarily kidnap a female villager. Based on the actual events of an incident on Hill 192 in November, 1966.

        Markimdb: 6.8
        Genredrama, military
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:44

        FBI agent Ed Renard investigates the pre-War espionage activities of the German-American Bund.

        Markimdb: 7.3
        Genreaction, thriller, drama, military, history
        CountryUSA, Malta, Morocco
        Duration02:20

        An American Ambassador is killed during an attack at a U.S. compound in Libya as a security team struggles to make sense out of the chaos.

        Markimdb: 7
        Genredrama, military, history
        CountryUnited Kingdom

        An investigation of the massacre of 24 men, women and children in Haditha, Iraq allegedly shot by 4 U.S. Marines in retaliation for the death of a U.S. Marine killed by a roadside bomb. The movie follows the story of the Marines of Kilo Company, an Iraqi family, and the insurgents who plant the roadside bomb.

        Markimdb: 5.3
        Genredrama, military
        CountryUnited Kingdom

        An unassuming young lawyer leads a fight against the Nazis near the end of the Second World War.

        Markimdb: 6.5
        Genrethriller, drama, crime, military, biography
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:15

        Nate Foster, a young, idealistic FBI agent, goes undercover to take down a radical white supremacy terrorist group. The bright up-and-coming analyst must confront the challenge of sticking to a new identity while maintaining his real principles as he navigates the dangerous underworld of white supremacy. Inspired by real events.

        Markimdb: 6.2
        Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
        CountryUnited Kingdom
        Duration01:47

        While working undercover as a bodyguard to arms dealer Harry, former-soldier-turned-secret-service-agent Ewan survives a bloody shootout with a member of an Islamic terrorist cell who steals Harry's briefcase full of Semtex explosives and escapes. Ewan's spymasters task Ewan with hunting down the cell members and retrieving the briefcase.

        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: 7.3
        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, drama, military
          CountrySweden
          Duration02:01

          December 1942. Two young soldiers leave their posts at checkpoint 83 in North Värmland, Sweden and make their way through the ice cold winter night towards the Nazi-occupied Norwegian border. Sweden stands on the brink of invasion and they want to see the enemy everybody's talking about. But the adventure ends in disaster and soon thereafter Lieutenant Aron Stenström finds out that his brother Sven is one of the missing soldiers. With the odds stacked against him he is forced to go behind enemy lines on a secret rescue mission. Deep inside the Norwegian forests Aron realizes that a completely different kind of line must be crossed if they're to come out alive.

          Markimdb: 6.6
          Genrethriller, drama, military, biography, history
          CountryUSA, United Kingdom
          Duration01:48

          Based on Mariane Pearl's account of the terrifying and unforgettable story of her husband, Wall Street Journal reporter Danny Pearl's life and death.

          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: 6.8
          Genredrama, military, biography
          CountryIran, France
          Duration01:25

          After an Afghanistan-born woman who lives in Canada receives a letter from her suicidal sister, she takes a perilous journey through Afghanistan to try to find her.

          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: 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: 7.8
          Genredrama, military, history
          CountryAustralia
          Duration01:47

          During the Boer War, three Australian lieutenants are on trial for shooting Boer prisoners. Though they acted under orders, they are being used as scapegoats by the General Staff, who hopes to distance themselves from the irregular practices of the war. The trial does not progress as smoothly as expected by the General Staff, as the defence puts up a strong fight in the courtroom.

          Markimdb: 7.1
          Genremelodrama, drama, military, biography
          CountryAustralia, United Kingdom
          Duration01:56

          A victim from World War II's "Death Railway" sets out to find those responsible for his torture. A true story.

          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: 5.9
          Genreaction, drama, military
          CountryUnited Kingdom, Poland
          Duration01:53

          The story of the Polish fliers who found themselves fighting for the freedom of their own country in foreign skies. Seen through the eyes of a Polish fighter ace and adventurer, it tells how the Poles—driven across Europe by the German war machine—finally make their last stand. Flying Hurricanes for the RAF over Britain, they became a key component in the legend of ‘The Few’. Up against the might of the Luftwaffe they hoped that, by saving Great Britain from Nazi invasion, they were keeping the dream of a free Poland alive.

          Markimdb: 8.2
          Genreaction, drama, military, history
          CountryIndia
          Duration02:24

          Following the roguish terrorist attacks at Uri Army Base camp in Kashmir, India takes the fight to the enemy, in its most successful covert operation till date with one and only one objective of avenging their fallen heroes.




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