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1. The Outpost (2019)
R | 123 min | Action, Drama, History
A small team of U.S. soldiers battles against hundreds of Taliban fighters in Afghanistan.
Director: Rod Lurie | Stars: Scott Eastwood, Caleb Landry Jones, Orlando Bloom, Jack Kesy
Votes: 40,479
2. War Machine (2017)
TV-MA | 122 min | Comedy, Drama, War
An idiosyncratic general confronts opposition from enemies, allies, and bureaucrats while leading a massive rebuilding operation in Afghanistan.
Director: David Michôd | Stars: Brad Pitt, Daniel Betts, John Magaro, Emory Cohen
Votes: 50,052
3. Omar (2013)
Not Rated | 98 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A young Palestinian freedom fighter agrees to work as an informant after he's tricked into an admission of guilt by association in the wake of an Israeli soldier's killing.
Director: Hany Abu-Assad | Stars: Adam Bakri, Leem Lubany, Eyad Hourani, Samer Bisharat
Votes: 15,485 | Gross: $0.36M
4. Masked and Anonymous (2003)
PG-13 | 112 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
A singer, whose career has gone on a downward spiral, is forced to make a comeback to the performance stage for a benefit concert.
Director: Larry Charles | Stars: Bob Dylan, John Goodman, Jessica Lange, Jeff Bridges
Votes: 4,999 | Gross: $0.53M
5. Lost Command (1966)
Approved | 129 min | Action, Drama, War
French Army Colonel Raspeguy leads his paratroopers in battle against the Communist Viet Minh in Indochina and against Algerian guerrilla during the Algerian War.
Director: Mark Robson | Stars: Anthony Quinn, Alain Delon, George Segal, Michèle Morgan
Votes: 2,276
6. Chakravyuh (2012)
Not Rated | 152 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
On the request of his friend Kabir, SP Adil Sends him to the Naxal group as an informer. When Kabir finds the truth he becomes one of their gang leader.
Director: Prakash Jha | Stars: Manoj Bajpayee, Kabir Bedi, Arjun Rampal, Om Puri
Votes: 3,422
7. Hell and Back Again (2011)
Not Rated | 88 min | Documentary, Action, History
What does it mean to lead men in war? What does it mean to come home? Hell and Back Again is a cinematically revolutionary film that asks and answers these questions with a power and ... See full summary »
Director: Danfung Dennis | Stars: Nathan Harris, Ashley Harris, The Marines of Echo Company, Christian Cabaniss
Votes: 2,348 | Gross: $0.04M
8. Patrol Base Jaker (2011)
80 min | Documentary, War
A documentary film about the US Marines and the practice of counter-insurgency in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.
Directors: Kevin Kerwin, David Scantling | Stars: Gus Biggio, Brian Huysman, Michael Kuiper, William McCollough
Votes: 8
9. Operation Oman (2014)
67 min | Documentary, History, War
Between 1969 and 1976 elements of the British Army fought in a secret war in Oman. Considered to be the most successful counter insurgency operation ever undertaken, the story is largely untold: until now.
Director: Tristan Ofield | Stars: Mike Austin, Mike Ball, Craig Bevan, Ranulph Fiennes
Votes: 74
10. Theoretically, an even much more paranoid conspiratorial phone call (2021)
85 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Challenged by phone by the Pro Bono Spy Hunter and his valet, The Boss travels to the year 2121, where the USSR won the Cold War. Caught spying, The Boss undergoes a subtle questioning technique that tortures him and his interrogator.
Director: Jorge Luis Villacorta Santamato | Star: Jorge Luis Villacorta Santamato
Votes: 6
11. Human Terrain (2010)
TV-14 | 82 min | Documentary
'Human Terrain' is two stories in one. The first exposes the U.S. effort to enlist the best and the brightest of American universities in a struggle for the hearts and minds of its enemies.... See full summary »
Directors: James Der Derian, David Udris, Michael Udris
Votes: 18
12. Spook (2003)
Not Rated | 88 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
About Canada's secret involvement in the Vietnam War.
Director: Barry W. Levy | Stars: Barry W. Levy, Peter LaCroix, Rachel Cronin, Jay Brazeau
Votes: 104
13. Contact! Ambush (1966)
13 min | Short
This vintage informational film documents infantry tactics and operations by U.S. Marines against the Vietcong, including the use of the VC's own tactic - jungle ambushes - against them by American forces.
Star: Richard Nicklin
Votes: 8
15. Chungui Horror sin Lágrimas... Una Historia Peruana (2010)
63 min | Documentary
Peruvian anthropologist and painter Ediberto Jiménez visits the villages of the Chungui people of the Peruvian highlands. During the 1980s these people suffered tremendously at the hands of... See full summary »
Director: Felipe Degregori
16. Complot internacional antilatinoamericano 2K (2021)
96 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
The Narrator shares with us how, by phone, a Latin American Sociologist explained a military-funded study on the feasibility of a coup d'état to the Intelligence Officer, visited by a Special Operations Officer after that.
Director: Jorge Luis Villacorta Santamato | Star: Jorge Luis Villacorta Santamato
Votes: 5
17. The Full Blade (1965)
14 min | Short
This vintage informational film documents Operation Golden Fleece, a 1965 U.S. Marine Corps operation to defend a South Vietnamese village from Vietcong forces plotting to loot its annual rice harvest.
19. On the Line (2007)
Not Rated | 55 min | Documentary
An act of civil disobedience at America's largest ongoing protest brings graduate student Brian DeRouen face-to-face with the pressing constitutional issues of today. His non-violent action... See full summary »
Directors: Peter Glenn, Jason A. Schmidt | Stars: Roy Bourgeois, Brian DeRouen, John Perkins, Helen Prejean
Votes: 35
20. Armed Ambassadors (2008)
22 min | Documentary, Short, War
In the last few years, U.S. Marines have begun training en mass to learn Arabic language and culture in preparation for deployment to Iraq. Armed Ambassadors follows the 2nd Batallion, 24th... See full summary »
Director: Brian Pollack
24.
The Great War (2014– )
Episode:
Outbreak of the Irish War of Independence - Black and Tans vs. IRA Guerrillas
(2020)
28 min | Documentary, History, War
The movement for more Irish self-determination had turned into a full out revolutionary movement by 1919. The British Empire was losing control over Ireland and by early 1920 was in a full ... See full summary »
Directors: Toni Steller, Florian Wittig | Star: Jesse Alexander
25.
The Great War (2014– )
Episode:
Irish War of Independence - WW1 Veterans in a New Battle
(2020)
30 min | Documentary, History, War
The conflict between the Irish independence movement and the UK government had been heating up since 1919. The summer of 1920 brought a new level of escalation with the arrival of the the ... See full summary »
Directors: Toni Steller, Florian Wittig | Star: Jesse Alexander
26.
The Great War (2014– )
Episode:
Bloody Climax of the Anglo-Irish War - And a Truce
(2021)
25 min | Documentary, History, War
In early 1921 the Anglo-Irish War aka the Irish War of Independence reached its bloody climax. Multiple IRA ambushes led to British soldiers being killed, at the same time the IRA walked on... See full summary »
Directors: Toni Steller, Florian Wittig | Star: Jesse Alexander
27.
Task & Purpose (2014– )
Episode:
Why America is Gladly Giving Away their $50 Billion Truck
(2022)
16 min | Documentary, News
America's M1224 Maxxpro MRAP is a fast, well armored squad vehicle design to protect troops from improvised explosive devices. The United States bought about 20,000 of them for Iraq war and... See full summary »
Star: Chris Cappy
28.
Against the Odds (2014– )
Episode:
A Chance in Hell: The Battle for Ramadi
(2014)
TV-PG | 45 min | Documentary, History, War
When Col. MacFarland arrived in Iraq's deadliest city, the odds could not have been worse. Al-Qaeda has arrogantly declared Ramadi, capital of a new caliphate. The boys of MacFarland's ... See full summary »
Stars: Mike McCusker, Perfecto Sanchez, Ian Blackstone, Mike Bajema
Votes: 12
29.
Days of Revolt (2015–2016)
Episode:
State Violence and Counter Violence
(2015)
News, Talk-Show
Stars: Eddie Conway, Chris Hedges, Ojore Lutalo
30.
The Vietnam War (2017)
Episode:
Riding the Tiger (1961-1963)
(2017)
TV-MA | 82 min | Documentary, History, War
President John F. Kennedy and his advisors consider how deeply the U.S. should get involved in South Vietnam as a communist insurgency and Buddhist protests intensify.
Directors: Ken Burns, Lynn Novick | Stars: Peter Coyote, John Musgrave, Jack Todd, Bao Ninh
Votes: 885
31.
On Contact (2016– )
Episode:
Israel's Secret Weapons
(2016)
Documentary, News, Talk-Show
Stars: Chris Hedges, Rania Khalek, Anya Parampil
32.
The Lobby - USA (2018)
Episode:
The Covert War
(2018)
48 min | Documentary
Stars: Ali Abunimah, Jacob Baime, Sagi Balasha, Omar Barghouti
Votes: 5