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1. Casino Royale (1967)
Approved | 131 min | Comedy
In an early spy spoof, aging Sir James Bond comes out of retirement to take on SMERSH.
Directors: Val Guest, Ken Hughes, John Huston, Joseph McGrath, Robert Parrish, Richard Talmadge | Stars: David Niven, Peter Sellers, Ursula Andress, Orson Welles
Votes: 32,581
2. The Inglorious Bastards (1978)
R | 99 min | Action, Adventure, War
In 1944 France, a group of escaped American military prisoners en route to Switzerland volunteers to steal a German V2 rocket warhead for the Allies.
Director: Enzo G. Castellari | Stars: Bo Svenson, Peter Hooten, Fred Williamson, Michael Pergolani
Votes: 10,414
3. Never So Few (1959)
Approved | 125 min | Drama, War
During WW2, the American OSS mounts covert operations with the native Kachin against the Japanese army in the jungles of Burma.
Director: John Sturges | Stars: Frank Sinatra, Gina Lollobrigida, Peter Lawford, Steve McQueen
Votes: 3,429
4. Iron Eagle II (1988)
PG | 105 min | Action, Drama, Romance
A joint U.S.- Soviet strike force is assembled to wipe out a nuclear base in an outlaw nation that plans to take the world hostage.
Director: Sidney J. Furie | Stars: Louis Gossett Jr., Mark Humphrey, Stuart Margolin, Alan Scarfe
Votes: 5,466 | Gross: $10.50M
5. Russkies (1987)
PG | 99 min | Drama
A group of American boys and a shipwrecked Russian sailor become friends during the Cold War.
Director: Rick Rosenthal | Stars: Whip Hubley, Joaquin Phoenix, Peter Billingsley, Stefan DeSalle
Votes: 1,637 | Gross: $2.19M
6. Shoulder Arms (1918)
36 min | Short, Comedy, War
Charlie is a boot camp private who has a dream of being a hero who goes on a daring mission behind enemy lines.
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Syd Chaplin, Loyal Underwood
Votes: 7,448
7. Missile to the Moon (1958)
Approved | 78 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
Escaped cons stowaway on a flight to the moon and discover alien women ruled by a sadistic queen.
Director: Richard E. Cunha | Stars: Richard Travis, Cathy Downs, K.T. Stevens, Tommy Cook
Votes: 1,503
8. One Man's Hero (1999)
R | 121 min | Action, Drama, History
John Riley, an Irish immigrant soldier recruited in the American army during the Mexican-American War faces anti-immigrant and anti-Catholic bigotry from his fellow servicemen and defects to the Mexican army.
Director: Lance Hool | Stars: Tom Berenger, Joaquim de Almeida, Daniela Romo, Mark Moses
Votes: 1,347 | Gross: $0.23M
9. Man on a Tightrope (1953)
Approved | 105 min | Drama, Thriller
A Czech circus owner/clown and his entire troupe employ a daring stratagem in order to escape en masse from behind the iron curtain.
Director: Elia Kazan | Stars: Fredric March, Terry Moore, Gloria Grahame, Cameron Mitchell
Votes: 1,848
10. Lafayette (1962)
Not Rated | 158 min | Biography, Drama, History
During the American War of Independence, French officer and nobleman La Fayette comes to America's aid with men, money and weapons and becomes a Major-General under George Washington's command.
Director: Jean Dréville | Stars: Pascale Audret, Jack Hawkins, Michel Le Royer, Folco Lulli
Votes: 188
11. Hotel Sahara (1951)
Not Rated | 96 min | Comedy, Romance, War
In World War II, desert hotel proprietors Emad and Yasmin are caught between the warring armies and have to constantly shift their political allegiance to whichever army happens to control the area.
Director: Ken Annakin | Stars: Yvonne De Carlo, Peter Ustinov, David Tomlinson, Roland Culver
Votes: 377
12. 7 Women from Hell (1961)
Approved | 88 min | Drama, War
Seven women from different backgrounds, nationality, age, class, and marital status find themselves in New Guinea, February 1942 - when the Japanese army takes over unexpectedly, and sends them into a war camp in the jungle.
Director: Robert D. Webb | Stars: Patricia Owens, Denise Darcel, Cesar Romero, Margia Dean
Votes: 131
13. The Tanks Are Coming (1951)
90 min | Action, Drama, War
An American tank crew fights its way into Germany in World War II.
Director: Lewis Seiler | Stars: Steve Cochran, Philip Carey, Mari Aldon, Paul Picerni
Votes: 341
14. Killer Kid (1967)
102 min | Drama, Romance, Western
The ruthless and cruel Captain Ramirez hunts down and kills revolutionaries in his search for The Saint, the righteous leader of the Mexican insurrection against the Federales.
Director: Leopoldo Savona | Stars: Anthony Steffen, Luisa Baratto, Fernando Sancho, Giovanni Cianfriglia
Votes: 225
15. Il cielo cade (2000)
102 min | Drama, Music, Romance
1943, an estate north of Firenze. The weight of the world is on the shoulders of Penny, who's about 10. An orphan, she must watch over her little sister when they go to live with her aunt ... See full summary »
Directors: Andrea Frazzi, Antonio Frazzi | Stars: Isabella Rossellini, Jeroen Krabbé, Barbara Enrichi, Gianna Giachetti
Votes: 491
16. Intramuros (1964)
Not Rated | 88 min | Drama, War
This gritty, atmospheric war movie dramatizes a chapter of World War II history in which 10,000 Japanese soldiers, fearing execution if they surrendered, disobeyed their own superiors' ... See full summary »
Directors: Gerardo de Leon, Eddie Romero | Stars: Jock Mahoney, Fernando Poe Jr., Michael Parsons, Oscar Roncal
Votes: 139
17. Blondie for Victory (1942)
Passed | 71 min | Comedy, Family, War
Blondie organizes Housewives of America to perform homefront wartime duties, including guarding the local dam. Dagwood and the other husbands don't care to be left home doing the cooking ... See full summary »
Director: Frank R. Strayer | Stars: Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake, Larry Simms, Daisy
Votes: 211
18. Burp!: Pepsi v Coke in the Ice Cold War (1984 TV Movie)
60 min | Documentary
The rise of Coca-Cola and its duel with Pepsi-Cola: how these two giants aim to conquer the World.
Director: Alan Lowery | Stars: John Pilger, Donald M. Kendall, Donald Keough, Wilbur Kurtz
Votes: 56
19. Deception at D-Day (2022)
33 min | Documentary, Short, History
Released on the seventy-eighth anniversary of the invasion, "Deception at D-Day" tells the unheralded story of how the Allies attempted to confuse German decision makers of the size, ... See full summary »
Director: Christopher Carey
20. Taiheiyô sensô to Himeyuri butai (1962)
93 min | Drama, War
The last fight put up by remaining Japanese forces and a special volunteer nursing corps on Okinawa at the end of World War II (1944-45).
Director: Kiyoshi Komori | Stars: Tôru Abe, Kanjûrô Arashi, Shinjirô Asano, Kikuko Hanaoka
Votes: 14
21. Nicaragua: A Nation's Right to Survive (1983 TV Movie)
53 min | Documentary, War
A historical account of Nicaragua in the context of US interventions in Latin America.
Director: Alan Lowery | Stars: John Pilger, Xavier Gorostiaga, Néstor Sánchez
Votes: 32
22. Dog Face (1959 TV Movie)
30 min | Action, Drama, War
Unaired pilot for a dramatic WWII series on CBS about the US invasion of Nazi-held North Africa and the troops who must suffer the most and make morally ambiguous choices to survive.
Director: Samuel Fuller | Stars: Luke Anthony, Neyle Morrow, Gerald Milton, Sasha Harden
Votes: 38
23. Africa, Prelude to Victory (1942)
Passed | 22 min | Documentary, Short, War
The reason for the hard Nazi-resistance to the Allied invasion of Tunis has been revealed to officials of the MARCH of TIME,whose film "Africa- Prelude to Victory (V. 09, No. 5, December 4,... See full summary »
Director: Louis De Rochemont | Star: Westbrook Van Voorhis
Votes: 27
24. Ninety Six: Crossroads of a Revolution (2009 Video)
26 min | Documentary, Short, History
Starting as a trading post at the crossroads of several trade routes, the town of Ninety Six grew into a small, but vitally important town on South Carolina's frontier. It became the focus ... See full summary »
Directors: Sonny Hutchinson, Chris Wheeler | Stars: Trace Adkins, John Koopman, John Pagano, Ken Treese
25. Order Castles of the Third Reich (2007 Video)
60 min | Documentary, War
This film explores the mystic castles of Hitler's SS and political soldiers. The enormous neo-classic and medieval fortresses were typical of Nazi architecture in the Third Reich and today ... See full summary »
Director: R.J. Adams
26. Kilroy Returns (1949)
Approved | 18 min | Short, History, War
Making use of 'Kilroy," World War II's famous G. I. who was everywhere and left his signature to prove it, this entry in RKO's "This is America" series accompanies "Mr. and Mrs. Kilroy" as ... See full summary »
Director: Edward Montagne | Star: Dwight Weist
27. Do not kill, Brother! (2016)
45 min | Documentary
Is ISIS black messengers of the hell leading the world to the end? From 2011 when Islamic extremist started to genesis People in brutal ways to establish their own territory and ideology ,... See full synopsis »
Director: Empress Elham Madani | Stars: Keram Abbasi, Hasan Aljasu, Ali Amari, Farab Basiri
29. Curiosity Killed a Cat (1944)
14 min | Documentary, Short, War
Training film reminding G.I.s about the dangers of booby traps.
Star: Murray Alper
32. Nam-1975 (1990 Video Game)
Action, War
As a soldier, you must travel through Vietnam to stop the scientist and his world destroying laser machine. In the game, you must shoot enemy soldiers, tanks, helicopters, jeeps, and more ... See full summary »
Director: Dachipee
Votes: 21
33.
The Littlest Hobo (1979–1985)
Episode:
War Games
(1981)
Adventure, Drama, Family
During a military training exercise, a soldier is wounded trying to warn a civilian out of a mine field. Together with the Hobo, they find refuge in an old building that the civilian's father is tasked with blowing up.
Director: Allan Eastman | Stars: London, Vladimir Bondarenko, Norwich Duff, Jon Granik
Votes: 9
34.
The Simpsons (1989– )
Episode:
Lisa the Beauty Queen
(1992)
TV-14 | 30 min | Animation, Comedy
Homer enters Lisa in the Little Miss Springfield pageant to build her self-esteem.
Director: Mark Kirkland | Stars: Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith
Votes: 3,454
35.
The Simpsons (1989– )
Episode:
The Principal and the Pauper
(1997)
TV-14 | 30 min | Animation, Comedy
At his 20th anniversary celebration as school principal, Principal Skinner is discovered to be an imposter of the real Seymour Skinner.
Director: Steven Dean Moore | Stars: Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith
Votes: 3,638
36.
World in Action (1963–1998)
Episode:
The Quiet Mutiny
(1970)
22 min | Documentary
Embedded documentary, shot on site during the Vietnam War, showing how young draftees are critical about that war.
Director: Charles Denton | Star: John Pilger
Votes: 66
37.
Grantchester (2014–2025)
Episode:
Episode #6.4
(2021)
TV-14 | 52 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
An otherwise quiet nightshift is disrupted when a group of young American airmen are arrested for trespassing at the local quarry and brought to the station.
Director: Rob Evans | Stars: Robson Green, Tom Brittney, Al Weaver, Tessa Peake-Jones
Votes: 268
38.
The Hunter (1952– )
Episode:
The Case of the Counterfeit M.P.C.'s
(1954)
Drama
Adams tries to thwart a Communist plot to print counterfeit American military script.
Director: Frank McDonald | Star: Keith Larsen
39.
The Armchair Historian (2017– )
Episode:
Downfall of Germany: The Western Front
(2021)
49 min | Documentary, Animation
Director: Griffin Johnsen | Stars: Griffin Johnsen, James Cottle-Vinson, Robert Loria, Talen Weinman
40.
The Armchair Historian (2017– )
Episode:
Downfall of Italy: 1943 (1/2)
(2020)
12 min | Documentary, Animation
Italy in World War II gets a bad reputation as a nation that never accomplished anything, and was ultimately irrelevant to the outcome of the war. But when the Allies finally decided to ... See full summary »
Director: Griffin Johnsen | Star: Griffin Johnsen
41.
The Armchair Historian (2017– )
Episode:
Downfall of Italy: 1944-1945 (2/2)
(2020)
11 min | Documentary, Animation
British and American forces battled through the Winter of 1943/1944 against determined German resistance led by General Albert Kesslering, who created a succession of defensive lines across... See full summary »
Director: Griffin Johnsen | Star: Griffin Johnsen
42.
The Armchair Historian (2017– )
Episode:
US vs German Squads (Mid-1944) Who was Superior?
(2020)
17 min | Documentary, Animation
The Armchair Historian and his team pit American and German infantry squads, circa mid-1944, against one another in three different scenarios to determine who had the most effective weapons and training to win each action.
Director: Griffin Johnsen | Stars: Griffin Johnsen, Heiner, Matthias Lünig, Robert Loria
43.
The Armchair Historian (2017– )
Episode:
Downfall of Germany: The Western Front (2/2)
(2020)
24 min | Documentary, Animation
Director: Griffin Johnsen | Stars: Griffin Johnsen, James Cottle-Vinson, Robert Loria, Talen Weinman
44.
The Armchair Historian (2017– )
Episode:
Downfall of Germany: The Western Front (1/2)
(2020)
28 min | Documentary, Animation
Director: Griffin Johnsen | Stars: Griffin Johnsen, James Cottle-Vinson, Robert Loria, Talen Weinman
45.
The Armchair Historian (2017– )
Episode:
Why Didn't the U.S. Reach Berlin First in WWII?
(2019)
10 min | Documentary, Animation
Director: Griffin Johnsen | Star: Griffin Johnsen
46.
The Armchair Historian (2017– )
Episode:
The North African Campaign
(2019)
42 min | Documentary, Animation
Director: Griffin Johnsen | Star: Griffin Johnsen
47.
The Armchair Historian (2017– )
Episode:
Gulf War from Iraq's Perspective
(2019)
14 min | Documentary, Animation
The Armchair Historian traces the reasons for the Gulf War and the subsequent demolishment of the Iraqi armed forces by the United States and its allies as they recaptured Kuwait.
Director: Griffin Johnsen | Stars: Griffin Johnsen, EmperorTigerStar, Norman Cigar, Rick Atkinson
48.
The Armchair Historian (2017– )
Episode:
North African Campaign 1943
(2019)
15 min | Documentary, Animation
The Armchair Historian traces World War 2's North African campaign from Operation Torch in the western Mediterrean in 1942 to the eventual defeat of the Africa Korps in Tunisia in 1943.
Director: Griffin Johnsen | Star: Griffin Johnsen
49.
The Armchair Historian (2017– )
Episode:
D-Day from the German Perspective/I
(2019)
11 min | Documentary, Animation
Director: Griffin Johnsen | Star: Griffin Johnsen
50.
Today I Found Out (2013– )
Episode:
What's Up with Those Weird Spiky WWI German Helmets?
(2022)
17 min | Documentary
Simon Whistler discusses the origins of the German army's iconic spiked pickelhaube helmet, as well as the development of combat headgear that better protected soldiers from shell fragments and other missiles.
Star: Simon Whistler