War

Classic wartime drama directed by Michael Anderson. The film tells the story of Dr Barnes Wallis (Michael Redgrave), whose invention of the 'Bouncing Bomb' is greeted with scepticism in World War II. However, RAF Wing Commander Guy Gibson (Richard Todd)...

Sam Mendes, the Oscar-winning director of Skyfall, Spectre and American Beauty, brings his singular vision to his World War I epic, 1917. At the height of the First World War, two young British soldiers, Schofield (George MacKay) and Blake (Dean-Charles...

Humphrey Bogart (The Harder They Fall), Bruce Bennett (Undertow) and J Carrol Naish (The Lives of a Bengal Lancer) star in Sahara, a thrilling tale of World War II heroism from director Zoltán Korda (A Woman's Vengeance). Separated from his unit...

Based on real life war diaries, Before Dawn is an epic retelling of one of Australia's biggest military victories during World War I. Jim Collins (Levi Miller), a young man from the outback, leaves his family-run sheep station to join the soldiers on the...

MacArthur is a thoughtful look at the life and times of controversial American military leader General Douglas MacArthur. Directed by Joseph Sargent (The Taking of Pelham One Two Three), this celebrated biopic features a hugely authoritative central...

Recreating the famous sea battle between the American fleet and the Imperial Japanese Navy, Midway finds director Jack Smight (Airport 1975) confidently handling epic battle scenes and a stellar cast which includes Charlton Heston, Henry Fonda, James...

From the legendary filmmaking duo Powell and Pressburger (A Matter of Life and Death, The Red Shoes), The Small Back Room is the story of the troubled love affair between a tormented back-room scientist and a secretary, told against a background of...

The latest World War II action epic from the makers of Spitfire Over Berlin and Lancaster Skies. When their airfield comes under direct attack, a handful of heroic spitfire pilots fight to the last man in the skies over Britain, against overwhelming odds...

After losing his friend Scott in a previous mission, RAF squadron leader Quint Munroe is ordered on a dangerous mission to destroy the Château de Charlon in Northern France. However, the task becomes more complicated when it is discovered that Scott and...

U-571 Stars Matthew McCaughney, Bill Paxton and Jon Bon Jovi. A team of U.S. soldiers are sent on a mission to sneak aboard a disabled German U-Boat to steal an encryption device that would give the Allies the edge they need to win the war. What they...

Gregory Peck, David Niven and Anthony Quinn star in this classic war drama directed by J. Lee Thompson. In 1943 a group of mismatched Allied soldiers are sent to sabotage two powerful Nazi guns situated on a Greek island. If their mission fails, the guns...

Brad Pitt and Shia LaBeouf star in this war drama written and directed by David Ayer. Set during the last months of World War II, the story follows a U.S. Army sergeant known as Wardaddy (Pitt) as he leads his crew on a mission behind enemy lines. With...

Based on the novel by Will Heinrich, Sam Peckinpah's only war film is an intense and uncompromising affair that brilliantly reflects both the futility of conflict and the director's fascination with individuals confronted by events beyond their control...

Dirk Bogarde stars as Tim Mason, the officer of a British bomber squadron in World War Two. A large-scale operation over Germany has been planned, and Tim is shocked to discover that he is not part of the team for the mission. Higher authorities think he...

Frieda is a 1947 war drama directed by Basil Dearden and starring David Farrar, Glynis Johns, Flora Robson, Albert Lieven and Mai Zetterling. Frieda, a German girl, helps English Robert to escape from a German prisoner-of-war camp and in return he...