• Genres: Action, Drama, History, War
• Years: 2001
• Casts: Ewan McGregor, Josh Hartnett, Tom Sizemore
• Directors: Ridley Scott

123 elite U.S. soldiers drop into Somalia to capture two top lieutenants of a renegade warlord and find themselves in a desperate battle with a large force of heavily-armed Somalis.

• Genres: Action, Thriller, Drama, Adventure, History, War
• Years: 2010
• Casts: Olga Kurylenko, Michael Fassbender, Dominic West
• Directors: Neil Marshall

A splinter group of Roman soldiers fight for their lives behind enemy lines after their legion is decimated in a devastating guerrilla attack.

• Genres: Drama, War
• Years: 2007
• Casts: Robert Redford, Tom Cruise, Meryl Streep
• Directors: Robert Redford

Injuries sustained by two Army ranger behind enemy lines in Afghanistan set off a sequence of events involving a congressman, a journalist and a professor.

• Genres: Drama, Romance, War
• Years: 2010
• Casts: Channing Tatum, Amanda Seyfried, Richard Jenkins
• Directors: Lasse Hallström

A romantic drama about a soldier who falls for a conservative college student while he's home on leave.

• Genres: Action, Thriller, Drama, War
• Years: 2010
• Casts: Greg Kinnear, Matt Damon, Jason Isaacs
• Directors: Paul Greengrass

Discovering covert and faulty intelligence causes a U.S. Army officer to go rogue as he hunts for Weapons of Mass Destruction in an unstable region.

• Genres: Drama, War
• Years: 2008
• Casts: Yun-Fat Chow, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Radha Mitchell
• Directors: Roger Spottiswoode

About young British journalist, George Hogg, who with the assistance of a courageous Australian nurse, saves a group of orphaned children during the Japanese occupation of China in 1937.

• Genres: Action, Drama, Adventure, History, War
• Years: 2001
• Casts: Scott Grimes, Damian Lewis, Ron Livingston

The story of Easy Company of the US Army 101st Airborne division and their mission in WWII Europe from Operation Overlord through V-J Day.

• Genres: Action, Thriller, War
• Years: 2008
• Casts: Sylvester Stallone, Julie Benz, Matthew Marsden
• Directors: Sylvester Stallone

In Thailand, John Rambo joins a group of mercenaries to venture into war-torn Burma, and rescue a group of Christian aid workers who were kidnapped by the ruthless local infantry unit.

• Genres: Drama, Romance, War
• Years: 1939
• Casts: Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Thomas Mitchell
• Directors: Victor Fleming, and 2 more credits

American classic in which a manipulative woman and a roguish man carry on a turbulent love affair in the American south during the Civil War and Reconstruction.

• Genres: Action, Drama, Horror, War
• Years: 2009
• Casts: Shane West, Leonard Roberts, Aldis Hodge
• Directors: Alex Turner

During a mission in the Middle East, a group of US soldiers destroy a statue out of boredom only to then be visited by something the next day.

• Genres: Romance, War, Adult
• Years: 2000
• Casts: Monica Bellucci, Giuseppe Sulfaro, Luciano Federico
• Directors: Giuseppe Tornatore

On the day in 1940 that Italy enters the war, two things happen to the 12-year-old Renato: he gets his first bike, and he gets his first look at Malèna. She is a beautiful, silent outsider who's moved to this Sicilian town to be with her husband, Nico...

• Genres: Action, Fantasy, War
• Years: 2006
• Casts: Gerard Butler, Lena Headey, David Wenham
• Directors: Zack Snyder

King Leonidas and a force of 300 men fight the Persians at Thermopylae in 480 B.C.

• Genres: Action, Drama, Adventure, History, War
• Years: 2008
• Casts: Takeshi Kaneshiro, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Fengyi Zhang
• Directors: John Woo

The first chapter of a two-part story centered on a battle fought in China's Three Kingdoms period (220-280 A.D.).

• Genres: Action, Drama, History, War
• Years: 2009
• Casts: Takeshi Kaneshiro, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Fengyi Zhang
• Directors: John Woo

Sun Shangxiang has infiltrated Cao Cao's camp and she has been secretly noting details and sending them via a pigeon to Zhuge Liang. Meanwhile, Cao Cao's army is seized with a plague of typhoid fever that kills a number of his troops

• Genres: Thriller, Drama, Romance, War, Adult
• Years: 2007
• Casts: Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Wei Tang, Joan Chen
• Directors: Ang Lee

An espionage thriller set in WWII-era Shanghai, in which a young woman, Wang Jiazhi, gets swept up in a dangerous game of emotional intrigue with a powerful political figure, Mr. Yee.

• Genres: Action, Drama, History, War
• Years: 2007
• Casts: Jet Li, Andy Lau, Takeshi Kaneshiro
• Directors: Peter Chan, Wai Man Yip

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