War Movie Synopses
Explore 258 detailed plot summaries for war films
Schindler's List
1993 • Steven Spielberg
Love and Fury
1978 • Ravil Batyrov
Space Runaway Ideon: Be Invoked
1982 • Yoshiyuki Tomino
The Pianist
2002 • Roman Polanski
Admiral Yamamoto
1968 • Seiji Maruyama
Apocalypse Now
1979 • Francis Ford Coppola
The Great Dictator
1940 • Charlie Chaplin
The Retreat from Kiska
1965 • Seiji Maruyama
Hacksaw Ridge
2016 • Mel Gibson
Inglourious Basterds
2009 • Quentin Tarantino
Saving Private Ryan
1998 • Steven Spielberg
Das Boot
1981 • Wolfgang Petersen
Full Metal Jacket
1987 • Stanley Kubrick
Incendies
2010 • Denis Villeneuve
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
1959 • Masaki Kobayashi
To Live
1994 • Zhang Yimou
1917
2019 • Sam Mendes
Barry Lyndon
1975 • Stanley Kubrick
Dead to Rights
2025 • Shen Ao
Jojo Rabbit
2019 • Taika Waititi
Palestine 36
2025 • Annemarie Jacir
Rome, Open City
1945 • Roberto Rossellini
Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War
2004 • Kang Je-kyu
The Deer Hunter
1978 • Michael Cimino
The Imitation Game
2014 • Morten Tyldum
Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!
1966 • Gérard Oury
Downfall
2004 • Oliver Hirschbiegel
Gone with the Wind
1939 • Victor Fleming
In This Corner of the World
2016 • Sunao Katabuchi
My Way
2011 • Kang Je-kyu
The General
1926 • Clyde Bruckman
The Great Escape
1963 • John Sturges
Emancipation
2022 • Antoine Fuqua
Ivan's Childhood
1962 • Andrei Tarkovsky
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
2008 • Mark Herman
The Breadwinner
2017 • Nora Twomey
To Be or Not to Be
1942 • Ernst Lubitsch
Two Women
1960 • Vittorio De Sica
All Quiet on the Western Front
1930 • Lewis Milestone
All Quiet on the Western Front
2022 • Edward Berger
Guy Ritchie's The Covenant
2023 • Guy Ritchie
Platoon
1986 • Oliver Stone
The Swedish Connection
2026 • Thérèse Ahlbeck
Underground
1995 • Emir Kusturica
Barefoot Gen
1983 • Mori Masaki
Battleship Potemkin
1925 • Sergei Eisenstein
Bullet in the Head
1990 • John Woo
Shimamori Tower
2022 • Shō Igarashi
Sniper: The White Raven
2022 • Marian Bushan
The Dirty Dozen
1967 • Robert Aldrich
The Longest Day
1962 • Ken Annakin
The Train
1964 • John Frankenheimer
12.12: The Day
2023 • Kim Sung-soo
71: Into the Fire
2010 • John H. Lee
Au Revoir les Enfants
1987 • Louis Malle
Doctor Zhivago
1965 • David Lean
Empire of the Sun
1987 • Steven Spielberg
First Blood
1982 • Ted Kotcheff
Glory
1989 • Edward Zwick
Kingdom III: The Flame of Destiny
2023 • Shinsuke Sato
Letters from Iwo Jima
2006 • Clint Eastwood
Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins
2012 • Keishi Otomo
Spartacus
1960 • Stanley Kubrick
The Greatest Beer Run Ever
2022 • Peter Farrelly
The Six Triple Eight
2024 • Tyler Perry
The World Will Tremble
2025 • Lior Geller
Where Eagles Dare
1968 • Brian G. Hutton
Amaran
2024 • Rajkumar Periasamy
American Sniper
2014 • Clint Eastwood
Black Hawk Down
2001 • Ridley Scott
Greyhound
2020 • Aaron Schneider
Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport
2000 • Mark Jonathan Harris
Kalashnikov AK-47
2020 • Konstantin Buslov
Kelly's Heroes
1970 • Brian G. Hutton
Legends of the Fall
1994 • Edward Zwick
Lone Survivor
2013 • Peter Berg
Operation Red Sea
2018 • Dante Lam Chiu-Yin
Sisu
2022 • Jalmari Helander
The Last of the Mohicans
1992 • Michael Mann
The Thin Red Line
1998 • Terrence Malick
Zulu
1964 • Cy Endfield
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
2016 • Michael Bay
Brothers
2009 • Jim Sheridan
Conspiracy
2001 • Frank Pierson
Good Morning, Vietnam
1987 • Barry Levinson
Kingdom
2019 • Shinsuke Sato
Land of Bad
2024 • William Eubank
Lion of the Desert
1981 • Moustapha Akkad
Macross: Do You Remember Love?
1984 • Shoji Kawamori
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
1983 • Nagisa Ōshima
Port Arthur
1980 • Toshio Masuda
Red Cliff II
2009 • John Woo
Sisu: Road to Revenge
2025 • Jalmari Helander
The Battle: Roar to Victory
2019 • Won Shin-yun
The Guns of Navarone
1961 • J. Lee Thompson
The Hurt Locker
2008 • Kathryn Bigelow
The Last Command
1928 • Josef von Sternberg
The Zookeeper's Wife
2017 • Niki Caro
War Horse
2011 • Steven Spielberg
Youth
2017 • Feng Xiaogang
300
2007 • Zack Snyder
A Bridge Too Far
1977 • Richard Attenborough
A Hidden Life
2019 • Terrence Malick
Crimson Tide
1995 • Tony Scott
Japan's Longest Day
1967 • Kihachi Okamoto
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
2003 • Peter Weir
The Battleship Island
2017 • Ryoo Seung-wan
The Caine Mutiny
1954 • Edward Dmytryk
The Front Line
2011 • Jang Hoon
The King
2019 • David Michôd
Tora! Tora! Tora!
1970 • Richard Fleischer
War for the Planet of the Apes
2017 • Matt Reeves
Warhorse One
2023 • William Kaufman
Anthropoid
2016 • Sean Ellis
Cocoon: From the Girls of Summer
2025 • Yukimitsu Ina
Creation of the Gods I: Kingdom of Storms
2023 • Wuershan
Cross of Iron
1977 • Sam Peckinpah
Daredevil in the Castle
1961 • Hiroshi Inagaki
Midway
2019 • Roland Emmerich
Mrs. Miniver
1942 • William Wyler
Prisoner of War
2025 • Louis Mandylor
Red Cliff
2008 • John Woo
The English Patient
1996 • Anthony Minghella
The Forgotten Battle
2021 • Matthijs van Heijningen Jr.
Warfare
2025 • Ray Mendoza
We Were Soldiers
2002 • Randall Wallace
Betrayed
2020 • Eirik Svensson
Eye in the Sky
2015 • Gavin Hood
Kingdom of Heaven
2005 • Ridley Scott
Lee
2024 • Ellen Kuras
M*A*S*H
1970 • Robert Altman
Operation Mekong
2016 • Dante Lam Chiu-Yin
Rescue Dawn
2007 • Werner Herzog
Sekigahara
2017 • Masato Harada
The Admiral: Roaring Currents
2014 • Kim Han-min
The Aryan Papers
2026 • Danny Patrick
The Eight Hundred
2020 • Guan Hu
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
2024 • Guy Ritchie
The Tin Drum
1979 • Volker Schlöndorff
Uri: The Surgical Strike
2019 • Aditya Dhar
Valkyrie
2008 • Bryan Singer
Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.
1951 • Raoul Walsh
Civil War
2024 • Alex Garland
Cold Mountain
2003 • Anthony Minghella
Escape to Victory
1981 • John Huston
Flags of Our Fathers
2006 • Clint Eastwood
Heartbreak Ridge
1986 • Clint Eastwood
Kawashima Yoshiko
1990 • Eddie Fong Ling-Ching
Resistance
2020 • Jonathan Jakubowicz
Tears of the Sun
2003 • Antoine Fuqua
The Exception
2017 • David Leveaux
The Long Way Home
2015 • Chun Sung-il
The Outpost
2020 • Rod Lurie
Tolkien
2019 • Dome Karukoski
Tom Clancy's Without Remorse
2021 • Stefano Sollima
'71
2014 • Yann Demange
Allied
2016 • Robert Zemeckis
A Private War
2018 • Matthew Heineman
Battle of Jangsari
2019 • Kwak Kyung-taek
Che: Part One
2008 • Steven Soderbergh
Dear John
2010 • Lasse Hallström
Defiance
2008 • Edward Zwick
Dongji Rescue
2025 • Guan Hu
Kandahar
2023 • Ric Roman Waugh
Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan
2007 • Sergei Bodrov
Outlaw King
2018 • David Mackenzie
The Fortress
2017 • Hwang Dong-hyuk
Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin
2024 • Todd Komarnicki
Catch-22
1970 • Mike Nichols
Exodus
1960 • Otto Preminger
Mosul
2019 • Matthew Michael Carnahan
Rambo: First Blood Part II
1985 • George P. Cosmatos
The Great Battle
2018 • Kim Kwang-sik
Tropic Thunder
2008 • Ben Stiller
Che: Part Two
2008 • Steven Soderbergh
Genocidal Organ
2017 • Shukou Murase
Hansan: Rising Dragon
2022 • Kim Han-min
The Eagle Has Landed
1976 • John Sturges
The Final Countdown
1980 • Don Taylor
Their Finest
2017 • Lone Scherfig
The Last Frontier
2020 • Vadim Shmelyov
The Taking of Tiger Mountain
2014 • Tsui Hark
Valiant One
2025 • Steve Barnett
Act of Valor
2012 • Mike McCoy
Border
1997 • J. P. Dutta
Border 2
2026 • Anurag Singh
Courage Under Fire
1996 • Edward Zwick
Escape from the Outland
2025 • Shen Ao
G.I. Jane
1997 • Ridley Scott
Green Zone
2010 • Paul Greengrass
K-19: The Widowmaker
2002 • Kathryn Bigelow
Primitive War
2025 • Luke Sparke
Sand Castle
2017 • Fernando Coimbra
Slaughterhouse-Five
1972 • George Roy Hill
The Great Raid
2005 • John Dahl
Wolf Warrior 2
2017 • Wu Jing
All Things Fair
1995 • Bo Widerberg
Behind Enemy Lines
2001 • John Moore
Hart's War
2002 • Gregory Hoblit
Macbeth
2015 • Justin Kurzel
The Aftermath
2019 • James Kent
The Imperial Navy
1981 • Shūe Matsubayashi
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
1999 • Luc Besson
The Wall
2017 • Doug Liman
Beast of War
2025 • Kiah Roache-Turner
Creation of the Gods II: Demon Force
2025 • Wuershan
Enigma
2001 • Michael Apted
King Arthur
2004 • Antoine Fuqua
Napoleon
2023 • Ridley Scott
Noryang: Deadly Sea
2023 • Kim Han-min
Red Dawn
1984 • John Milius
The Battle at Lake Changjin II: Water Gate Bridge
2022 • Tsui Hark
The Opium War
1997 • Xie Jin
The Volunteers: The Battle of Life and Death
2024 • Chen Kaige
Vanquish or Die
2023 • Vincent Mottez
Windtalkers
2002 • John Woo
Code Geass: Akito the Exiled 1: The Wyvern Arrives
2012 • Kazuki Akane
Kokoda
2006 • Alister Grierson
Rambo III
1988 • Peter MacDonald
Rules of Engagement
2000 • William Friedkin
The Battle at Lake Changjin
2021 • Chen Kaige
The Chow Hound
1944 • Frank Tashlin
300: Rise of an Empire
2014 • Noam Murro
Dirty Angels
2024 • Martin Campbell
Emperor
2012 • Peter Webber
Heaven and Earth
1990 • Haruki Kadokawa
Rangoon
2017 • Vishal Bhardwaj
The Match
2021 • Dominik Sedlar
The Monuments Men
2014 • George Clooney
Alexander
2004 • Oliver Stone
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
2016 • Ang Lee
Blitz
2024 • Steve McQueen
G.I. Samurai
1979 • Kōsei Saitō
Macross Delta: Passionate Walküre
2018 • Yoshimasa Hiraike
The Delta Force
1986 • Menahem Golan
USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage
2016 • Mario Van Peebles
1941
1979 • Steven Spielberg
Boudica
2023 • Jesse V. Johnson
Missing in Action
1984 • Joseph Zito
Shadow in the Cloud
2021 • Roseanne Liang
Stalingrad: Film 1
1990 • Yuri Ozerov
Strayed
2003 • André Téchiné
The Sacrifice
2020 • Frant Gwo
1911
2011 • Zhang Li
The King of Snipers
2023 • Chris Huo Suiqiang
The Last Legion
2007 • Doug Lefler
The Storm of the Pacific
1960 • Shūe Matsubayashi
War Machine
2017 • David Michôd
Long Gone Heroes
2024 • John Swab
For the Moment
1993 • Aaron Kim Johnston
The Founding of an Army
2017 • Andrew Lau Wai-Keung
Gezhi Town
2025 • Kong Sheng
Beginning of the Great Revival
2011 • Han Sanping
Ilsa, the Tigress of Siberia
1977 • Jean LaFleur
The Warring States
2011 • Jin Chen
1941 Hong Kong on Fire
1994 • Cash Chin Man-Kei
Pressure
2026 • Anthony Maras
Исчезнувшие
2009 • Vadim Ostrovsky