Saboteur (1942)

Rome, Open City (1945)

Summary: During the Nazi occupation of Rome in 1944, the Resistance leader, Giorgio Manfredi, is chased by the Nazis as he seeks refuge and a way to escape.

Release Date: October 08, 1945

Genres: Drama, Thriller, War

Director: Roberto Rossellini

Writers: Sergio Amidei

, Federico Fellini

, Roberto Rossellini

Runtime: 1 h 43 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Excelsa Film

Distributor: Arthur Mayer & Joseph Burstyn, Connoisseur Video Collection, Image Entertainment, The Criterion Collection, Rare Films and More, Coproduction Office, The Criterion Channel

Country: Italy

Language: Italian

Private Benjamin (1980)

Summary: A sheltered young high-society woman joins the United States Army on a whim and finds herself in a trickier situation than she ever expected.

Release Date: October 10, 1980

Genres: Comedy, War

Director: Howard Zieff

Writers: Nancy Meyers

, Charles Shyer

, Harvey Miller

Runtime: 1 h 49 min

MPAA: R

Production: Warner Bros.

Distributor: Warner Bros., Z Channel, Home Box Office (HBO), Movie Channel, ON-TV, Showtime Networks, CBS, HBO Max, Warner Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 9,500,000

Domestic: $ 69,847,348

'Allo 'Allo! (1982)

Summary: In France during World War II, René Artois runs a small café where Resistance fighters, Gestapo men, German Army officers and escaped Allied POWs interact daily, ignorant of one another's true identity or presence, exasperating René.

Release Date: December 30, 1982

Genres: Comedy, History, War

Runtime: 0 h 45 min

Production: British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

The Vietnam War (2017)

Summary: A comprehensive history of the United States' involvement in the bitterly divisive armed conflict in Southeast Asia.

Release Date: September 17, 2017

Genres: Documentary, History, War

Runtime: 1 h 30 min

MPAA: TV-MA

Production: ARTE, Florentine Films, PBS Pictures

Countries: United States, France

Language: English

Shadow in the Cloud (2020)

Summary: A female WWII pilot traveling with top secret documents on a B-17 Flying Fortress encounters an evil presence on board the flight.

Release Date: January 01, 2021

Genres: Action, Horror, War

Director: Roseanne Liang

Writers: Max Landis

, Roseanne Liang

Runtime: 1 h 23 min

MPAA: R

Production: Endeavor Content, Rhea Films (II), Hercules Film Fund, New Zealand Film Commission, Automatik Entertainment, Four Knights Film

Distributor: Redbox Entertainment, Vertical Entertainment

Countries: New Zealand, United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 156,932

International: $ 897,358

Last Flag Flying (2017)

Summary: Thirty years after they served together in Vietnam, a former Navy Corpsman Larry "Doc" Shepherd re-unites with his old buddies, former Marines Sal Nealon and Reverend Richard Mueller, to bury his son, a young Marine killed in the ...

Release Date: November 03, 2017

Genres: Comedy, Drama, War

Director: Richard Linklater

Writers: Richard Linklater

, Darryl Ponicsan

Runtime: 2 h 05 min

MPAA: R

Production: Amazon Studios, Big Indie Pictures, Cinetic Media

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 965,481

International: $ 907,469

Catch-22 (1970)

Summary: A man is trying desperately to be certified insane during World War II, so he can stop flying missions.

Release Date: June 24, 1970

Genres: Comedy, Drama, War

Director: Mike Nichols

Writers: Joseph Heller

, Buck Henry

Runtime: 2 h 02 min

MPAA: R

Production: Paramount Pictures, Filmways Productions

Distributor: American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Paramount Home Entertainment, RCA (II)

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 18,000,000

Bloody Sunday (2002)

Summary: A dramatization of the Irish civil rights protest march and subsequent massacre by British troops on January 30, 1972.

Release Date: April 19, 2002

Genres: Drama, History, War

Director: Paul Greengrass

Writer: Paul Greengrass

Runtime: 1 h 51 min

MPAA: R

Production: Granada Television, Hell's Kitchen Films, January Films, Portman Entertainment Group, Bord Scannán na hÉireann / The Irish Film Board, ITV - Independent Television, ITV3, National Lottery through UK Film Council, UK Film Council's New Cinema Fund

Distributor: Warner Archive Collection, Warner Home Video, Oldies.com

Countries: United Kingdom, Ireland, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 2,000,000

Domestic: $ 773,228

International: $ 985,461

The Duellists (1977)

Summary: France, 1801. Due to a minor perceived slight, mild-mannered Lieutenant d'Hubert is forced into a duel with hot-headed irrational Lieutenant Feraud. The disagreement ultimately results in scores of duels spanning several years.

Release Date: January 13, 1978

Genres: Drama, War

Director: Ridley Scott

Writers: Gerald Vaughan-Hughes

, Joseph Conrad

Runtime: 1 h 40 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Paramount Pictures, Enigma Productions, Scott Free Enterprises, National Film Finance Consortium, National Film Finance Corporation (NFFC)

Distributor: Paramount Pictures, Paramount Home Entertainment, CBS, Shout! Factory

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 900,000

The Birth of a Nation (1915)

Summary: The Stoneman family finds its friendship with the Camerons affected by the Civil War, both fighting in opposite armies. The development of the war in their lives plays through to Lincoln's assassination and the birth of the Ku Klu...

Release Date: March 21, 1915

Genres: Drama, History, War

Director: D.W. Griffith

Writers: Thomas Dixon Jr.

, D.W. Griffith

, Frank E. Woods

Runtime: 3 h 15 min

MPAA: TV-PG

Production: David W. Griffith Corp., Epoch Producing Corporation

Distributor: Astor Pictures Corporation, Joseph Brenner Associates (JBA), Lumivision, Republic Pictures Home Video, Image Entertainment, Kino Video, Reel Media International, FilmAnnex, Alpha Video Distributors, Twilight Time, Killiam Shows

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 110,000

Sniper (1993)

Summary: A veteran US Marine sniper is partnered with a rookie sniper as his spotter to take out a politician and a rebel leader in the jungles of Panama.

Release Date: January 29, 1993

Genres: Action, Thriller, War

Director: Luis Llosa

Writers: Michael Frost Beckner

, Crash Leyland

Runtime: 1 h 38 min

MPAA: R

Production: Baltimore Pictures, Iguana Producciones, Sniper Productions

Distributor: TriStar Pictures, Columbia TriStar Home Video, Fox Network, Home Box Office (HBO)

Countries: United States, Peru

Language: English

Domestic: $ 18,994,653

Ugetsu (1953)

Summary: A tale of ambition, family, love, and war set in the midst of the Japanese Civil Wars of the sixteenth century.

Release Date: September 07, 1954

Genres: Drama, Fantasy, War

Director: Kenji Mizoguchi

Writers: Matsutarô Kawaguchi

, Hisakazu Tsuji

, Akinari Ueda

Runtime: 1 h 36 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Daiei Studios

Distributor: Janus Films, The Criterion Channel, The Criterion Collection

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Domestic: $ 11,197

International: $ 13,762

The Tin Drum (1979)

Summary: In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of stairs and stops growing. In 1939, World War II breaks out.

Release Date: April 11, 1980

Genres: Drama, War

Director: Volker Schlöndorff

Writers: Günter Grass

, Jean-Claude Carrière

, Volker Schlöndorff

Runtime: 2 h 22 min

MPAA: R

Production: Franz Seitz Filmproduktion, Bioskop Film, Artemis Film, Hallelujah Films, GGB-14, Argos Films, Jadran Film, Film Polski

Distributor: New World Pictures, The Criterion Collection

Countries: France, Poland, West Germany

Language: German

Good Kill (2014)

Summary: A family man begins to question the ethics of his job as a drone pilot.

Release Date: May 15, 2015

Genres: Drama, Thriller, War

Director: Andrew Niccol

Writer: Andrew Niccol

Runtime: 1 h 42 min

MPAA: R

Production: Voltage Pictures, Dune Films

Distributor: IFC Films

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 316,472

International: $ 1,157,999