100 best military movies

A list of the best military films, selected by visitors to our site: 300, Pan's Labyrinth, King Arthur, Black Hawk Down, Kingdom of Heaven, Dear John, Atonement, Pearl Harbor, Centurion, The Pianist, Inglourious Basterds, Alexander, The Hurt Locker, American Sniper, The Book Thief, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, Fury, Zero Dark Thirty, The Hills Have Eyes, Ironclad
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Markimdb: 7.1
Genreadventure, military, history
CountryUSA
Duration02:15

During World War II, Captain Cassidy and his crew of submariners are ordered into Tokyo Bay on a secret mission. They are to gather information in advance of the planned bombing of Tokyo. Along the way, the crew learn about each other as they face the enemy and some of them lose their lives.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, adventure, detective, military
CountryUSA
Duration01:55

A radio correspondent tries to rescue a burlesque queen from her marriage to a Nazi official.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genredrama, military, history
CountryUSA
Duration01:56

Beautiful young Virginian Jane steps down from her proper aristocratic upbringing when she marries down-to-earth surveyor Matt Howard. Matt joins the Colonial forces in their fight for freedom against England. Matt will meet Jane's father in the battlefield.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrecomedy, adventure, military
CountryUSA
Duration01:57

British army sergeants Ballantine, Cutter and MacChesney serve in India during the 1880s, along with their native water-bearer, Gunga Din. While completing a dangerous telegraph-repair mission, they unearth evidence of the suppressed Thuggee cult. When Gunga Din tells the sergeants about a secret temple made of gold, the fortune-hunting Cutter is captured by the Thuggees, and it's up to his friends to rescue him.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genredrama, military, biography
CountryUSA
Duration01:50

The story of Frank W. "Spig" Wead - a Navy-flyer turned screenwriter.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genremelodrama, adventure, western, military
CountryUSA
Duration01:40

John Breen (John Wayne), a Kentucky militiaman falls in love with French exile Fleurette De Marchand (Vera Ralston). He discovers a plot to steal the land that Fleurette's exiles plan to settle on and aims to foil it.

Markimdb: 7
Genremelodrama, drama, western, military, history
CountryUSA
Duration01:44

Albany, New York, 1776. After marrying, Gil and Lana travel north to settle on a small farm in the Mohawk River Valley, but soon their growing prosperity and happiness are threatened by the sinister sound of drums that announce dark times of revolution and war.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genreaction, melodrama, drama, military
CountryUSA

Toward the end of World War II, two American soldiers fighting in Southern France become romantically involved with a young, American woman. Her background will reveal more about them than her.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genremelodrama, drama, military
CountryUSA
Duration01:46

Sgt. Chuch Brennan always disliked playboy and hotshot, Col. Jim Herlihy. Now Chuck has even more reason to, Jim is dating his daughter, Lois.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genremelodrama, drama, military
CountryUSA
Duration01:44

In 1918, Elizabeth MacDonald learns that her husband, John Andrew, has been killed in the war. Elizabeth bears John's son and eventually marries her kindly boss. Unknown to her, John has survived but is horribly disfigured and remains in Europe. Years later, on the eve of World War II, Elizabeth refuses to agree to her son's request to enlist and is stunned when an eerily familiar stranger named Kessler arrives from abroad and becomes involved.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genreaction, melodrama, adventure, western, military
CountryUSA
Duration01:59

After the Civil War, ex-Union Colonel John Henry Thomas and ex-Confederate Colonel James Langdon are leading two disparate groups of people through strife-torn Mexico. John Henry and company are bringing horses to the unpopular Mexican government for $35 a head while Langdon is leading a contingent of displaced southerners, who are looking for a new life in Mexico after losing their property to carpetbaggers. The two men are eventually forced to mend their differences in order to fight off both bandits and revolutionaries, as they try to lead their friends and kin to safety.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genreaction, melodrama, drama, adventure, military
CountryUSA
Duration02:01

The adventures of oil well fire specialist Chance Buckman (based on real-life Red Adair), who extinguishes massive fires in oil fields around the world.

Markimdb: 5.6
Genredrama, military
CountryUSA

Col. Mike Kirby picks two teams of crack Green Berets for two missions in South Vietnam. The first is to strengthen a camp that is trying to be taken by the enemy. The second is to kidnap a North Vietnamese General.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genredrama, adventure, military, history
CountryUSA
Duration02:18

An American Army officer is recruited by the yet to exist Israel to help them form an army. He is disturbed by this sudden appeal to his jewish roots. Each of Israel's Arab neighbors has vowed to invade the poorly prepared country as soon as partition is granted. He is made commander of the Israeli forces just before the war begins.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genredrama, military
CountryUSA
Duration02:45

A naval officer reprimanded after Pearl Harbor is later promoted to rear admiral and gets a second chance to prove himself against the Japanese.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genreaction, drama, military, history
CountryUSA, United Kingdom, France
Duration02:58

The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day"

Markimdb: 6.8
Genredrama, adventure, western, military, history
CountryUSA
Duration02:20

The legendary true story of a small band of soldiers who sacrificed their lives in hopeless combat against a massive army in order to prevent a tyrant from smashing the new Republic of Texas.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genremelodrama, adventure, western, military
CountryUSA
Duration01:59

A Union Cavalry outfit is sent behind confederate lines in strength to destroy a rail supply center. Along with them is sent a doctor who causes instant antipathy between him and the commander. The secret plan for the mission is overheard by a southern belle who must be taken along to assure her silence.

Markimdb: 5.6
Genreaction, thriller, melodrama, drama, military
CountryUSA
Duration01:52

John Wayne stars as U.S. Air Force aviator Jim Shannon, who's tasked with escorting a Soviet pilot (Janet Leigh) claiming -- at the height of the Cold War -- that she wants to defect. After falling in love with and wedding the fetching flyer, Shannon learns from his superiors that she's a spy on a mission to extract military secrets. To save his new wife from prison and deportation, Shannon devises a risky plan in this 1957 drama.

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: 6.5
Genreaction, drama, military
CountryUSA
Duration01:57

As the Second World War breaks out, German freighter captain Karl Ehrlich is about to leave Sydney, Australia with his vessel, the Ergenstrasse. Ehrlich, an anti-Nazi but proud German, hopes to outrun or out-maneuver the British warship pursuing him. Aboard his vessel is Elsa Keller, a woman Ehrlich has been ordered to return to Germany safely along with whatever secrets she carries. When Ehrlich's fiercely Nazi chief officer Kirchner commits an atrocity, the British pursuit becomes deadly.

Markimdb: 7
Genremelodrama, drama, western, military, history
CountryUSA
Duration01:23

Army despatch rider Hondo Lane discovers a woman and her son living in the midst of warring Apaches, and he becomes their protector.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genredrama, military
CountryUSA
Duration02:15

Shortly after Pearl Harbor, a squadron of PT-boat crews in the Philippines must battle the Navy brass between skirmishes with the Japanese. The title says it all about the Navy's attitude towards the PT-boats and their crews.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genredrama, military
CountryUSA
Duration01:35

An Army colonel leads a guerrilla campaign against the Japanese in the Philippines.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genremelodrama, drama, military
CountryUSA
Duration01:40

Construction workers in World War II in the Pacific are needed to build military sites, but the work is dangerous and they doubt the ability of the Navy to protect them. After a series of attacks by the Japanese, something new is tried, Construction Battalions (CBs=Seabees). The new CBs have to both build and be ready to fight.

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: 6.9
Genredrama, military
CountryUSA
Duration01:45

The crew of the merchant ship Glencairn hope to survive a transatlantic crossing during World War II. Adapted from four Eugene O'Neill one-act plays.

Markimdb: 5.4
Genredrama, crime, military
CountryUSA
Duration01:22

In order to use the publicity to get re-elected, a judge sentences a notorious gangster to fight in the war.

Markimdb: 6
Genremelodrama, drama, military
CountryUSA
Duration01:39

American pilot Cliff Brandon, fighting the Japanese in China, finds himself the unintentional "owner" of a Chinese housekeeper, Shu-Jen. The unlikely couple falls in love and marries, but not without tragedy brought on by the war.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genredrama, military
CountryUSA
Duration02:07

In this aerial spectacle, brothers Roy and Monte Rutledge, each attending Oxford university, enlist with the Royal Flying Corps when World War I breaks out.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genreaction, comedy, drama, military
CountryYugoslavia, Italy
Duration01:35

In WWII, a commando was sent in a secret mission in Sicily. They had a reluctant Italian prisoner of war to help them.

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: 5.9
Genredrama, military, history
CountryItaly, USA
Duration01:53

Allied forces land at Anzio unopposed but instead of moving straight inland their commanding officer decides to dig in. A battle-hardened war correspondent borrows a jeep and drives to Rome and back without meeting any German forces, but his report on this absence of the enemy is discounted. By the time it is finally decided to make a move the Germans have arrived in strength and a prolonged ...

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrefantastic, action, military
CountryUSA
Duration01:43

During routine manoeuvres near Hawaii in 1980, the aircraft-carrier USS Nimitz is caught in a strange vortex-like storm, throwing the ship back in time to 1941—mere hours before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

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: 7.3
Genredrama, western, military, history
CountryUSA
Duration01:45

Charlie Anderson, a farmer in Shenandoah, Virginia, finds himself and his family in the middle of the Civil War he wants nothing to do with. When his youngest boy is taken prisoner by the North the Civil War is forced upon him.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genremelodrama, drama, adventure, military, history
CountryUSA, Italy, Romania, United Kingdom
Duration02:28

In this classic story of love and devotion set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, a wounded Confederate soldier named W.P. Inman deserts his unit and travels across the South, aiming to return to his young wife, Ada, who he left behind to tend their farm. As Inman makes his perilous journey home, Ada struggles to keep their home intact with the assistance of Ruby, a mysterious drifter sent to help her by a kindly neighbor.

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: 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: 8.1
Genredrama, adventure, western, military, history
CountryUSA, United Kingdom
Duration03:56

Wounded Civil War soldier, John Dunbar tries to commit suicide – and becomes a hero instead. As a reward, he's assigned to his dream post, a remote junction on the Western frontier, and soon makes unlikely friends with the local Sioux tribe.

Markimdb: 7
Genrecomedy, melodrama, military
CountryUSA
Duration01:23

During WWII, an executive and his secretary arrive in Washington, DC on business but, because of the housing shortage, are unable to find hotel rooms. In desperation, they pretend to be married and hire themselves out as a butler and maid in order to secure lodgings. Comedy.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrecomedy, military
CountryUSA
Duration00:45

An American doughboy, stationed in France during the Great War, goes on a daring mission behind enemy lines and becomes a hero.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrecomedy, military
CountryUSA
Duration01:57

John Winger, an indolent sad sack in his 30s, impulsively joins the U.S. Army after losing his job, his girlfriend and his apartment.

Markimdb: 5.1
Genrethriller, drama, military
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration01:40

An American intelligence agent attempts to kidnap a top Nazi general.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genrecomedy, adventure, military
CountryUSA, Yugoslavia
Duration02:24

A misfit group of World War II American soldiers goes AWOL to rob a bank behind German lines.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genreaction, drama, military
CountryUSA
Duration01:33

The captain of a submarine sunk by the Japanese during WWII is finally given a chance to skipper another sub after a year of working a desk job. His singleminded determination for revenge against the destroyer that sunk his previous vessel puts his new crew in unneccessary danger.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genreaction, drama, adventure, military, history
CountryUSA, Spain
Duration02:25

    After his wife dies, a blacksmith named Balian is thrust into royalty, political intrigue and bloody holy wars during the Crusades.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genreaction, drama, military
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom
    Duration02:05

    A female Senator succeeds in enrolling a woman into Combined Reconnaissance Team training where everyone expects her to fail.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genredrama, military, history
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:40

    In 1800, as Napoleon Bonaparte rises to power in France, a rivalry erupts between Armand and Gabriel, two lieutenants in the French Army, over a perceived insult. For over a decade, they engage in a series of duels amidst larger conflicts, including the failed French invasion of Russia in 1812, and shifts in the political and social systems of Europe.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, adventure, military
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:41

    American servicemen are still being held captive in Vietnam and it's up to one man to bring them home in this blistering, fast-paced action/adventure starring martial arts superstar Chuck Norris.Following a daring escape from a Vietnamese POW camp, Special Forces Colonel James Braddock (Norris) is on a mission to locate and save remaining MIAs.




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