Top Rated War Movies on Amazon Video - Page 23

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

2007

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

2007
6.5
Beginning just after the bloody Sioux victory over General Custer at Little Big Horn, the story is told through two unique perspectives: Charles Eastman, a young, white-educated Sioux doctor held up as living proof of the alleged success of assimilation, and Sitting Bull the proud Lakota chief whose tribe won the American Indians’ last major victory at Little Big Horn.
Best Defense

1984

Best Defense

1984
4.2
An engineer fails to get the bugs out of a tank before an Army officer has to use it in Kuwait.
Cavalcade

1933

Cavalcade

1933
5.5
A cavalcade of English life from New Year's Eve 1899 until 1933 is seen through the eyes of well-to-do Londoners Jane and Robert Marryot. Amongst events touching their family are the Boer War, the death of Queen Victoria, the sinking of the Titanic, and the Great War.
Ethel & Ernest

2016

Ethel & Ernest

2016
7.4
This hand drawn animated film, based on the award winning graphic novel by Raymond Briggs, is an intimate and affectionate depiction of the life and times of his parents, two ordinary Londoners living through extraordinary events.
The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler

2009

The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler

2009
7.2
Irena Sendler is a Catholic social worker who has sympathized with the Jews since her childhood, when her physician father died of typhus contracted while treating poor Jewish patients. When she initially proposes saving Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto, her idea is met with skepticism by fellow workers, her parish priest, and even her own mother Janina.
Henry V

1944

Henry V

1944
6.6
In the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.
Man Hunt

1941

Man Hunt

1941
7
Shortly before the start of WW2, renowned British big-game hunter Alan Thorndike, vacationing in Bavaria, has Hitler in his gun sight. He is captured, beaten, left for dead, and escapes back to London where he is hounded by Nazi agents and aided by a young woman.
They Were Expendable

1945

They Were Expendable

1945
6.6
After a demonstration of new PT boats, navy brass are still unconvinced of their viability in combat, leaving Lt. "Rusty" Ryan frustrated. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, however, Ryan and his buddy Lt. Brickley are told they can finally take their squadron into battle. The PT boats quickly prove their worth, successfully shooting down Japanese planes, relaying messages between islands, and picking off a multitude of enemy ships.
A Canterbury Tale

1944

A Canterbury Tale

1944
6.9
Three modern day pilgrims investigate a bizarre crime in a small town on the way to Canterbury.
303 Squadron

2018

303 Squadron

2018
5.9
After the fall of the September Campaign of 1939, two Polish pilots are forced to fight for their nation in foreign battlefronts.
Guernica

2016

Guernica

2016
5.7
The fates of Henry - an American correspondent - and Teresa, one of the Republic's censors during the Spanish Civil War.
War Pigs

2015

War Pigs

2015
4.9
A rag tag unit of misfits known as the War Pigs must go behind enemy lines to exterminate Nazis by any means necessary.
Only Old Men Are Going to Battle

1973

Only Old Men Are Going to Battle

1973
8
Alexey Titarenko is very talented pilot and brave leader of "Singing group". He also must look after some new cadets and fight together with them against German Luftwaffe planes. Close to Alexey always are his friends, they are all from different parts of the country, but they all became real brothers.
The Invisible War

2012

The Invisible War

2012
7.2
An investigative and powerfully emotional documentary about the epidemic of rape of soldiers within the US military, the institutions that perpetuate and cover up its existence, and its profound personal and social consequences.
Khartoum

1966

Khartoum

1966
6.3
English General Charles George Gordon is appointed military governor of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan by the Prime Minister. Ordered to evacuate Egyptians from the Sudan, Gordon stays on to protect the people of Khartoum, who are under threat of being conquered by a Muslim army.
Welcome to Sarajevo

1997

Welcome to Sarajevo

1997
6.4
Follow a group of international journalists into the heart of the once cosmopolitan city of Sarajevo—now a danger zone of sniper and mortar attacks where residents still live. While reporting on an American aid worker who’s trying to get children out of the country, a British correspondent decides to take an orphaned girl home to London.
The Big Parade

1925

The Big Parade

1925
7.6
The story of an idle rich boy who joins the US Army's Rainbow Division and is sent to France to fight in World War I, becomes friends with two working class men, experiences the horrors of trench warfare, and finds love with a French girl.
Drums Along the Mohawk

1939

Drums Along the Mohawk

1939
6.5
Albany, New York, 1776. After marrying, Gil and Lana travel north to settle on a small farm in the Mohawk River Valley, but soon their growing prosperity and happiness are threatened by the sinister sound of drums that announce dark times of revolution and war.
Escape to Athena

1979

Escape to Athena

1979
5.7
During the World War II, the prisoners of a German camp in a Greek island are trying to escape. They not only want their freedom, but also seek an ineffable treasure hidden in a monastery at the summit of the island's mountain.
Gardens of Stone

1987

Gardens of Stone

1987
6.3
A sergeant; stationed in Arlington, Virginia in the late 1960s; must deal with his desires to save the lives of young soldiers being sent to Vietnam. Continuously denied the chance to teach the soldiers about his experiences, he settles for trying to help the son of an old army buddy.