Top Rated War Movies on Pantaflix - Page 165

Zoya

1944

Zoya

1944
4
The true story of one of Russia's most beloved national heroines. During the Nazi siege of Moscow, a fearless 18-year-old girl named Zoya risked her life as a partisan fighter. Captured by the Germans, Zoya endured unspeakable tortures at the hands of the Gestapo but still refused to betray her comrades. Even on the gallows, Zoya defiantly spoke out against the Nazis and everything they stood for. In a series of flashbacks, this film re-creates not merely Zoya's death, but also her life.
The Outsider

1961

The Outsider

1961
6.2
Ira Hayes, a young Pima Indian, enlists in the Marine Corps. At boot camp, he is shunned and mocked by everyone, aside from a Marine named Sorenson, who he befriends. They happen to be two of the six marines captured in the famous photograph of Marines raising the U.S. flag on Suribachi during the battle of Iwo Jima, but Sorenson is killed soon after. Although he is hailed as a hero, Ira's life begins to spiral out of control after the war.
Behind the Rising Sun

1943

Behind the Rising Sun

1943
5.7
A Japanese publisher urges his American-educated son to side with the Axis.
The False Faces

1919

The False Faces

1919
5
During World War I, a professional thief known as The Lone Wolf is assigned to steal a cylinder with important information from behind the German lines and bring it to Allied intelligence headquarters. However, German agents set out to stop him, headed by the man who was responsible for the death of the thief's sister.
Cajus Julius Caesar

1914

Cajus Julius Caesar

1914
4.7
A colossal epic film like this that tries to depict the life and glory of Julius Caesar, must have a variety of scenery appropriate to the film's hero. This includes the Senate and its conspirators..or .. strange places beyond Rome full of barbarians that must fall under the Rome yoke. Let's not forget the sequences depicting the masses mentioned before.. or.. the human side of Caesar and his troublesome relationship with his son Brutus.
Junoon

1978

Junoon

1978
5.3
Set during the 1857 War of Independence, an obsessed Indian Nawab desires to wed a young Anglo-Indian woman, but the girl's obstinate mother stands between them.
Target Zero

1955

Target Zero

1955
5.3
International soldiers fight to ignore their differences while holding a hill during the Korean War.
The Safecracker

1958

The Safecracker

1958
5.8
Safe cracker, Colley Dawson, is recruited to steal a list of Nazi agents from a safe in a Nazi occupied chateau in Belgium.
The Pigeon That Took Rome

1962

The Pigeon That Took Rome

1962
5.3
An American Infantry officer assigned to a cloak-and-dagger role in Rome uses homing pigeons for outside contact, with humorous results.
Jubilation Street

1944

Jubilation Street

1944
6.3
The few residents left on the streets in Tokyo share their individual stories and come to understand the melancholy of saying goodbye.
Coward

2012

Coward

2012
6.9
Coward is a 28 minute film set during World War 1 that brings to light some of the brutal treatment soldiers received for suffering what would now be known as shell-shock. It follows two cousins, Andrew and James, from their home in Northern Ireland who join the British Army to fight for their Country and make their families proud. Through their eyes we see the reality of life on the front lines.
Battle of Norway - Campaign 1940

1940

Battle of Norway - Campaign 1940

1940
6.2
Kampf um Norwegen – Feldzug 1940 is a 1940 Nazi propaganda film directed by Martin Rikli and Dr. Werner Buhre under orders of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht. The documentary film follows the Invasion of Denmark and Norway in the spring of 1940
Weekend in Hell

1987

Weekend in Hell

1987
5
Two POWs - Russian and Lithuanian - are trying to escape a German Camp during WWII.
Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast

1986

Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast

1986
6.7
During the fervently nationalist months leading up to World War II, a rebellious teenager is transferred to a new primary school in a small Inland Sea town. He vies with the school’s reigning bully, who takes a romantic interest in his older stepsister. When they learn she’s going to be sold to a brothel to pay off her father’s debts, they form an uneasy alliance to free her.
Ascendancy

1983

Ascendancy

1983
5
Ascendancy is a 1983 British film. It tells the story of a woman who is a member of the British landowning 'Ascendancy' in Ireland during World War I. Gradually, she learns about the Irish independence movement, and becomes involved with it.
Stronghold

1951

Stronghold

1951
5.7
In 1850s Mexico, the beautiful owner of a silver mine is kidnapped by a bandit leader, who needs money to finance his revolt against the Emperor Maximilian.
The Horsemen

1950

The Horsemen

1950
4.8
A boy breeds horses on the plains between Belarus and the Caucasus. When the German invasion comes he joins the partisans as a horseman.
Admiral Nakhimov

1947

Admiral Nakhimov

1947
4.2
A biography of a famous Russian Admiral Pavel Stepanovich Nakhimov.
Outcry

1946

Outcry

1946
6.2
A neorealist tribute to the Italian resistance fighters of World War II.
Welcome in Vienna

1986

Welcome in Vienna

1986
6.4
Freddy, a Viennese Jew who emigrated to New York after Hitler's invasion, and Adler, a left-wing intellectual originally from Berlin, return to Austria in 1944 as soldiers in the U.S. Army. Freddy falls in love with the daughter of a Nazi, and Adler attempts to go over to the Communist Zone. But with the advent of the Cold War and continuing anti-semitism, the idealism of both characters is shattered as they find themselves surrounded by cynicism, opportunism, and universal self-deception.