Movies like Wake Island

20 movies like Wake Island, ordered by similarity : The Fighting Seabees(1944), Sands of Iwo Jima(1949), The Enemy Below(1957), Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo(1944), The Cockleshell Heroes(1955), The Bridge on the River Kwai(1957), Beachhead(1954), Marine Raiders(1944), The Wooden Horse(1950), Jungle Fighters(1961), Dunkirk(2017), Letters From Iwo Jima(2006) ...

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Wake Island

December, 1941. With no hope of relief or re-supply, a small band of United States Marines tries to keep the Japanese Navy from capturing their island base.

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The Fighting Seabees

During WW2, the U.S. Navy implements a new idea of forming construction battalions that also are fighting units, in case of Japanese attack.

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Sands of Iwo Jima

Haunted by personal demons, Marine Sgt. John Stryker is hated and feared by his men, who see him as a cold-hearted sadist. But when their boots hit the beaches, they begin to understand the reason for Stryker's rigid form of discipline.

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The Enemy Below

During World War II, an American destroyer discovers a German U-boat, thus ensuing in a deadly duel between the two ships. The American Captain must draw upon all his experience to defeat the equally experienced German commander.

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Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo

Lt. Col. James Doolittle (Spencer Tracy) leads B-25s off the USS Hornet's deck on a 1942 mission to bomb Japan.

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The Cockleshell Heroes

During World War II, German ships are "safely" docked upriver at Bordeaux, but the British send a team of kayakers to attack them.

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The Bridge on the River Kwai

British POWs are forced to build a railway bridge across the river Kwai for their Japanese captors, not knowing that the allied forces are planning to destroy it.

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Beachhead

In 1943, in the wake of the Allied amphibious landing on the Japanese-held Bougainville Island, four Marines are sent to scout the location of Japanese minefields.

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Marine Raiders

A U.S. Marine major tries to keep his captain on the right track through combat on Guadalcanal, training new recruits in San Diego, and a relationship with a WAAAF while on leave in Australia.

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The Wooden Horse

True story of three British POWs and their attempt to escape from Nazi Germany.

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Jungle Fighters

In 1942, a group of British soldiers is sent on a mission in the Malaysian jungle and gets lost into the Japanese controlled zone.

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Dunkirk

Allied soldiers from Belgium, the British Empire, and France are surrounded by the German Army and evacuated during a fierce battle in World War II.

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Letters From Iwo Jima

The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of the Japanese who fought it.

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Too Late the Hero

A reluctant hero, American Lieutenant Sam Lawson, is secunded to a motley British unit tasked with destroying a Japanese radio on a Philippine island.

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Halls of Montezuma

A company of Marines races against the clock to find a Japanese rocket base.

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Bitter Victory

A British captain (Richard Burton) goes on a raid in World War II Libya with a major (Curt Jurgens) he knows his wife (Ruth Roman) has slept with.

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Flying Leathernecks

Major Kirby leads The Wildcats squadron into the historic WWII battle of Guadalcanal.

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El Alamein: The Line of Fire

War seen through the eyes of Serra, a university student from Palermo who volunteers in 1942 to fight in Africa. He is assigned to the Pavia Division on the southern line in Egypt. Rommel ... See full summary »

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Operation Pacific

During WWII, a submarine's second in command inherits the problem of torpedoes that don't explode. When on shore, he is eager to win back his ex-wife.

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Run Silent, Run Deep

A U.S. sub commander, obsessed with sinking a certain Japanese ship, butts heads with his first officer and crew.

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Attack!

In 1945, an American Infantry company sets up an artillery observation post, but tensions between Captain Cooney and Lieutenant Costa run high.

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