War

Adaptation of Vera Brittain's autobiography. In 1913, Brittain (Alicia Vikander) is set to take up a place reading English at Somerville College, Oxford, but with the outbreak of the Great War and the enlisting of her fiancé (Kit Harrington) and brother...

This semi-documentary, which made stars of Jack Hawkins and John Gregson, is a look at life in an RAF fighter station during the Battle of Britain. Set in the Summer of 1940, a squadron of Hurricanes are followed as they take on the massive wave of...

Tense and gritty war film from director Kathryn Bigelow, following the lives of an army bomb disposal squad in war-torn Iraq. Having to look death in the face daily, the soldiers of an elite ordnance disposal team struggle to accept their new sergeant,...

Gary Ross directs this war drama inspired by the life of southern farmer Newton Knight, played by Matthew McConaughey. During the Civil War Knight flees from the battlefield after seeing the destruction of war when his son is killed and his wife and...

Leslie Norman directs this British wartime drama which tells two sides of the Dunkirk story. British Corporal 'Tubby' Binns (John Mills) finds himself responsible for getting his men back to Britain from the Dunkirk beaches, after their commanding...

Collection of five classic war films. In 'The Cruel Sea' (1953) Lt. Commander Ericson (Jack Hawkins) has already lost one ship to an enemy attack when he is given command of the frigate Saltash Castle. A subsequent confrontation in the North Atlantic...

John Mills stars in this war story set after the fall of Tobruk in World War II. Two English army officers (John Mills and Harry Andrews) and two young nurses (Sylvia Syms and Diane Clare) are driving an ambulance through occupied North Africa to...

Saul Dibb directs this British war drama adapted from R. C. Sherriff's play. Set during WWI, the film follows Raleigh (Asa Butterfield), a new recruit to the British Army who requests to join up with his prospective brother-in-law Captain Stanhope (Sam...

A much-loved British classic, Michael Anderson's 1955 drama captures the tension and bravery of an audacious raid on the centre of Nazi Germany's industrial complex and the quintessentially English combination of inventiveness and dogged determination...

British WWII drama starring Cliff Robertson, George Chakiris and Maria Perschy. An RAF flying unit are assigned with the dangerous task of destroying an overhanging cliff in order to demolish a German bomb factory located in Norway. The squadron Wing...

British Second World War drama based on the book by M.E. Clifton-James. In an effort to distract the Nazis before the Normandy landings, the British government hires an actor (Clifton James) to play General Montgomery on a strategically planned tour of...

Herbert Wilcox directs this British war drama starring Anna Neagle in the title role. Set in 1942 at the height of the Second World War, the film follows Odette Sansom, who, after a radio appeal, sends her holiday photos of the French coast to the...

From the blood-stained beaches of Dunkirk to the terror of young aircraft pilots in the depths of war, through to a case of mistaken identity in the German POW camps. From a quiet English village on alert of the arrival of the enemy to the life of an RAF...

During World War I, a group of British miners are recruited to tunnel underneath no man's land and set bombs from below the German front in hopes of breaking the deadly stalemate of the Battle of Messines.