| The African Queen (1951)
In Africa during WW1, a gin-swilling riverboat owner/captain is persuaded by a strait-laced missionary to use his boat to attack an enemy warship. tt0043265
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| The Alamo (1960)
In 1836 General Santa Anna and the Mexican army is sweeping across Texas. To be able to stop him, General Sam Houston needs time to get his main force into shape. To buy that time he orders...tt0053580
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| Alexander (2004)
Alexander, the King of Macedonia and one of the greatest military leaders in the history of warfare, conquers much of the known world.tt0346491+
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| Australia (2008)
Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch reluctantly pacts with a stock-man in order to protect her new property from a takeover plot. As the pair drive 2,000 head of cattle over unforgiving landscape, they experience the bombing of Darwin, Australia, by Japanese forces firsthand.tt0455824
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| Barry Lyndon (1975)
An Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband's position in 18th Century aristocracy. tt0072684
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| The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
After settling his differences with a Japanese PoW camp commander, a British colonel co-operates to oversee his men's construction of a railway bridge for their captors - while oblivious to a plan by the Allies to destroy it. tt0050212+
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| Cabiria (1914)
Three centuries before Christus. Young Cabiria is kidnapped by some pirates during one eruption of the Etna...tt0003740
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| Cloak and Dagger (1946)
Toward the end of World War II, the allied secret service receives a partial message indicating that the Germans are researching nuclear energy to build atomic bombs. In Midwestern ...tt0038417
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| Das Boot (1981)
The claustrophobic world of a WWII German U-boat; boredom, filth, and sheer terror. tt0082096
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| El Cid (1961)
Epic film of the legendary Spanish hero, Rodrigo Diaz (''El Cid'' to his followers), who, without compromising his strict sense of honour...tt0054847
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| Fail-Safe (1964)
American planes are sent to deliver a nuclear attack on Moscow, but it's a mistake due to an electrical malfunction. Can all-out war be averted?tt0058083
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| Fanfan la Tulipe (1952)
Fanfan is a young handsome peasant. He joins the army to escape marriage and because a gipsy girl predicted he will get glory and the king's daughter as a wife...tt0044602
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| Father Goose (1964)
During WW2, a man persuaded to live on an isolated island and spot aircraft finds himself responsible for a teacher and several students, all female.tt0058092
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| For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)
During the Spanish Civil War, an American allied with the Republicans finds romance during a desperate mission to blow up a strategically important bridge.tt0035896
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| The Four Feathers (1939)
A British army officer who resigns his commission on the eve of his unit's embarkation to a mission against Egyptian rebels seeks to redeem his cowardice by secretly aiding his former ...tt0031334
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| Gallipoli (1981)
Two Australian sprinters face the brutal realities of war when they are sent to fight in the Gallipoli campaign in Turkey during World War I.tt0082432
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| The General (1926)
When Union spies steal an engineer's beloved locomotive, he pursues it single handedly and straight through enemy lines. tt0017925
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| The Great Escape (1963)
Several hundred Allied POWs plan a mass escape from a German POW camp. tt0057115
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| Gunga Din (1939)
In 19th century India, three British soldiers and a native waterbearer must stop a secret mass revival of the murderous Thuggee cult before it can rampage across the land.tt0031398
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| The Guns of Navarone (1961)
A British team is sent to cross occupied Greek territory and destroy the massive German gun emplacement that commands a key sea channel.tt0054953
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| The Hunting Party (2007)
A young journalist, a seasoned cameraman and a discredited war correspondent embark on an unauthorized mission to find the no... tt0455782
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| Inglourious Basterds (2009)
In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as ''The Basterds'' are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds soon cross paths with a French-Jewish teenage girl who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers. tt0361748
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| Kelly's Heroes (1970)
A group of U.S. soldiers sneaks across enemy lines to get their hands on a secret stash of Nazi treasure. tt0065938
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| King Arthur (2004)
A demystified take on the tale of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table.tt0349683
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| Kingdom of Heaven (2005)
Balian of Ibelin travels to Jerusalem during the crusades of the 12th century, and there he finds himself as the defender of the city and its people.tt0320661+
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| The Last Legion (2007)
As the Roman empire crumbles, young Romulus Augustus flees the city and embarks on a perilous voyage to Britain to track down a legion of supporters. tt0462396
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| The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
Three trappers protect a British Colonel's daughters in the midst of the French and Indian War.tt0104691
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| Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Epic rumination on a flamboyant and controversial British military figure and his conflicted loyalties during wartime service. tt0056172
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| Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)
During the Napoleonic Wars, a brash British captain pushes his ship and crew to their limits in pursuit of a formidable French war vessel around South America.tt0311113
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| The Pacific (2010)
A 10-part mini-series from the creators of ''Band of Brothers'' telling the intertwined stories of three Marines during America's battle with the Japanese in the Pacific during World War II.tt0374463
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| Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985)
John Rambo is removed from prison by his former superior, Colonel Samuel Troutman, for a top-secret operation to bring back POW's still held in Vietnam...tt0089880
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| Red Tails (2012)
A crew of African American pilots in the Tuskegee training program, having faced segregation while kept mostly on the ground during World War II, are called into duty under the guidance of Col. A.J. Bullard.tt0485985
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| Rescue Dawn (2006)
A US Fighter pilot's epic struggle of survival after being shot down on a mission over Laos during the Vietnam War. tt0462504
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| Seven Years in Tibet (1997)
True story of Heinrich Harrer, an Austrian mountain climber who became friends with the Dalai Lama at the time of China's takeover of Tibet.tt0120102
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| Three Kings (1999)
In the aftermath of the Persian Gulf War, 4 soldiers set out to steal gold that was stolen from Kuwait, but they discover people who desperately need their help. tt0120188
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| To Have and Have Not (1944)
Harry Morgan and his alcoholic sidekick, Eddie, are based on the island of Martinique and crew a boat available for hire...tt0037382
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| Walker (1987)
An unconventional retelling of the life of William Walker, a 19th century American mercenary leader who became the president of Nicaragua.tt0096409
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| Where Eagles Dare (1968)
Allied agents stage a daring raid on a castle where the Nazis are holding an American General prisoner... but that's not all that's really going on.tt0065207
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