20 movies like The Tuskegee Airmen, ordered by similarity : Twelve O'Clock High(1949), Unbroken(2014), Island in the Sky(1953), Whisky Romeo Zulu(2004), Red Tails(2012), Decision Before Dawn(1951), Shock and Awe(2017), Their Finest(2016), Only the Brave(2006), The Divine Order(2017), Blue Sky(1994), Midway(2019) ...
Drama
1995
106 Minutes
Laurence Fishburne Allen Payne Malcolm-Jamal Warner Courtney B. Vance Andre Braugher Christopher McDonald John Lithgow Cuba Gooding Jr. Mekhi Phifer Daniel Hugh Kelly Rosemary Murphy
pilot lieutenant senator major eleanor roosevelt confident engaging inspiring patriotic alabama air force base airplane world war ii race relations tuskegee airmen military underdog quest rise 1940s
Grueling training and racist officers challenge black recruits in the Army Air Corps during World War II.
War, Drama
USA
1949
132 Minutes
Gregory Peck Dean Jagger Gary Merrill Hugh Marlowe Millard Mitchell Bob Arthur Paul Stewart John Kellogg Robert Patten Lee MacGregor
pilot military officer soldier patriotic thrilling emotional england military base airplane horrors of war world war ii air raids aviation quest sacrifice 1940s
A hard-as-nails general takes over a bomber unit suffering from low morale and whips them into fighting shape.
Drama, War, History, Biography
USA
2014
137 Minutes
Jack O'Connell Domhnall Gleeson Garrett Hedlund Miyavi Finn Wittrock Jai Courtney Maddalena Ischiale Vincenzo Amato John Magaro Luke Treadaway Louis McIntosh
athlete olympic athlete crew member air force pilot prisoner of war prison guard uplifting patriotic inspiring japan pacific ocean air force base prison camp berlin world war ii prisoners of war olympic games survival air force airplane crash
After a near-fatal plane crash in WWII, Olympian Louis Zamperini spends a harrowing 47 days in a raft with two fellow crewmen before he's caught by the Japanese navy and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp.
Drama
USA
1953
109 Minutes
John Wayne Lloyd Nolan Walter Abel James Arness Andy Devine Allyn Joslyn Jimmy Lydon Harry Carey Jr. Hal Baylor Sean McClory Wally Cassell
pilot captain colonel airman soldier bleak tense canada lake airplane military base wilderness stranded survival world war ii search military airplane crash rescue quest
A C-47 transport plane, named the Corsair, makes a forced landing in the frozen wastes of Quebec, and the plane's pilot, Captain Dooley, must keep his men alive in deadly conditions while waiting for rescue.
Drama
Argentina
2004
105 Minutes
Enrique Pineyro Mercedes Morán Adolfo Yanelli Carlos Portaluppi Martín Slipak Sergio Boris
pilot boss businessman co-pilot passenger love interest passionate gutsy airport airplane hangar office courtroom airplane runway airplane crash airline corruption safety whistleblowing underdog
The film tells the story prior to the accident LAPA Boeing 737 on 31 August 1999 after hitting an embankment in central Buenos Aires, killing 67 people. Directed and performed by a former ... See full summary »
War, Drama, History
USA
2012
125 Minutes
Cuba Gooding Jr. Terrence Howard Nate Parker David Oyelowo Ne-Yo Elijah Kelley Bryan Cranston Tristan Wilds Kevin Phillips Lee Tergesen Andre Royo
cadet fighter pilot commanding officer african-american fiery heartwarming patriotic alabama tuskegee institute europe fighter plane world war ii tuskegee airmen racism heroism underdog quest 1940s
A crew of African American pilots in the Tuskegee training program, having faced segregation while kept mostly on the ground during World War II, are called into duty under the guidance of Col. A.J. Bullard.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama, War
USA|West Germany
1951
119 Minutes
Richard Basehart Gary Merrill Oskar Werner Hildegarde Neff Dominique Blanchar O.E. Hasse Hans Christian Blech Helene Thimig Robert Freitag George Tyne
lieutenant colonel prisoner of war spy soldier brash thrilling tense germany prison camp bavaria espionage gestapo world war ii military intelligence cooperation betrayal sacrifice adventure rise
As the US Army approaches Nazi Germany, they recruit German prisoners to spy behind German lines.
Drama
USA
2017
90 Minutes
Woody Harrelson James Marsden Rob Reiner Milla Jovovich Jessica Biel Tommy Lee Jones Luke Tennie Richard Schiff
journalist politician citizen military official confident engaging gutsy inspiring patriotic newsroom united states washington, d.c. iraq war patriotism investigation journalism politics discovery mystery
A group of journalists of the Knight-Ridder news service covering President George W. Bush's planned invasion of Iraq in 2003 are skeptical of the President's claim that Saddam Hussein has "weapons of mass destruction."
Romance, Drama, History
UK|Sweden|France
2016
117 Minutes
Gemma Arterton Sam Claflin Bill Nighy Helen McCrory Jack Huston Richard E. Grant Rachael Stirling Henry Goodman Jeremy Irons Paul Ritter Jake Lacy
screenwriter actor bleak brutal charming cheery confident creative engaging fiery incredible inspiring raw united kingdom propaganda war filmmaking filmmaker screenwriting discovery
A former secretary, newly appointed as a scriptwriter for propaganda films, joins the cast and crew of a major production while the Blitz rages around them.
War, Drama, History
USA
2006
99 Minutes
Lane Nishikawa Jason Scott Lee Mark Dacascos Yuji Okumoto Tamlyn Tomita Jeff Fahey Noriyuki "Pat" Morita Guy Ecker Greg Watanabe Ken Narasaki Kipp Shiotani
japanese-american american soldier japanese soldier brutal creative emotional engaging fascinating fiery gutsy patriotic raw shocking pearl harbor united states italy north africa pearl harbor world war ii battalion
A searing portrait of war and prejudice, 'Only the Brave' takes you on a haunting journey into the hearts and minds of the forgotten heroes of WWII - the Japanese-American 100th/442nd. In ... See full summary »
History, Drama
Switzerland
2017
96 Minutes
Marie Leuenberger Maximilian Simonischek Rachel Braunschweig Sibylle Brunner Marta Zoffoli Bettina Stucky Therese Affolter Ella Rumpf
housewife activist mother husband father-in-law brooding confident creative engaging fiery fascinating inspiring powerful raw switzerland village voting women women's rights discovery
In 1971, a young housewife organizes the women of her town to petition for the right to vote.
Drama
USA
1994
101 Minutes
Jessica Lange Tommy Lee Jones Powers Boothe Carrie Snodgress Amy Locane Chris O'Donnell Mitchell Ryan Dale Dye Timothy Scott Annie Ross Anna Klemp
scientist colonel daughter wife commander tender gutsy patriotic military base laboratory airplane alabama adultery corruption covert operations mental illness military nuclear weapons sacrifice underdog
Jessica Lange stars in a period drama about a family moving to a military base, and she quickly becomes part of a cover-up involving nuclear bomb tests.
War, Drama, History
USA|Canada
2019
138 Minutes
Ed Skrein Patrick Wilson Luke Evans Woody Harrelson Dennis Quaid Mandy Moore Aaron Eckhart Nick Jonas Darren Criss Tadanobu Asano Geoffrey Blake
navy pilot fighter pilot japanese soldier american soldier wife naval officer brooding gripping emotional passionate patriotic spectacular naval base pacific ocean transport ship military base war zone ship world war ii battle of midway
The story of the Battle of Midway, told by the leaders and the sailors who fought it.
Drama, War
China|Hong Kong
1993
102 Minutes
Espen Skjonberg Lars Andreas Larssen Gard Eidsvold Bjørn Sundquist Morten Faldaas Ove Christian Owe
sea captain wife lieutenant resistance fighter retiree colonel frenetic thrilling patriotic emotional norway coast family home countryside front lines telemark, norway world war ii norwegian resistance unlikely hero vigilantism
A pregnant peasant woman seeks redress from the Chinese bureaucracy after the village chief kicks her husband in the groin in this comedy of justice. As she is frustrated by each level of ... See full summary »
Comedy, Drama
USA
1987
108 Minutes
Matthew Broderick Helen Hunt William Sadler Johnny Ray McGhee Jonathan Stark Robin Gammell Stephen Lang Jean Smart Dick Miller
pilot graduate student chimpanzee scientist military officer engaging heartwarming suspenseful everglades air force base airplane animal cruelty radiation scientific experiments military secrets animal rights research discovery rescue rivalry
An Air Force pilot joins a top secret military experiment involving chimps, but begins to suspect there might be something more to the mysterious "Project X".
History, War, Documentary, Drama
USA
1943
83 Minutes
american soldier russian soldier nazi adolf hitler mussolini joseph stalin patriotic rousing inspiring thrilling stalingrad, russia battlefield military base battle of stalingrad world war ii russian history allied forces siege heroism quest
Documentary revealing the nature and process of the fight between the Soviet Union and Germany in the Second World War.
Comedy, Drama
UK|USA
1961
99 Minutes
Jack Lemmon Ricky Nelson John Lund Chips Rafferty Tom Tully Joby Baker Warren Berlinger Patricia Driscoll Mike Kellin Richard Anderson Alvy Moore
ensign lieutenant spy sailor amusing lighthearted madcap south pacific ship military mission world war ii spies underdog quest 1940s
A businessman moves to Hong Kong to pursue a career as an artist and falls in love with a prostitute he hires as a model.
Drama, War
UK
1959
99 Minutes
Richard Todd Richard Attenborough Bernard Lee Michael Wilding Dennis Price Donald Houston William Franklyn Vincent Ball Peter Arne Peter Jones Ronnie Stevens
prisoner of war prisoners military officer informant brutal engaging gripping gutsy patriotic suspenseful tense thrilling italy prison camp world war ii prisoners of war escape informing tunneling escape
In 1943, an Italian-administered P.O.W. camp for captured Allies goes through a series of failed escapes only to culminate in a daring plan for a dramatic mass escape.
Drama
USA
1944
111 Minutes
Anne Baxter Thomas Mitchell Selena Royle Ward Bond Bobby Driscoll Addison Richards Edward Ryan Trudy Marshall John Campbell James Cardwell John Alvin
brother soldier sister mother father wife emotional tense patriotic iowa household guadalcanal ship world war ii siblings death patriotism great depression u.s. navy rise
The lives of a close-knit group of brothers growing up in Iowa during the days of the Great Depression and of World War II and their eventual deaths in action in the Pacific theater are ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1950
120 Minutes
Montgomery Clift Paul Douglas Cornell Borchers Bruni Löbel O.E. Hasse Jan Hendriks Walter Gross Harold Dyrenforth
pilot air traffic controller girlfriend mysterious woman soldier melodramatic berlin military base airplane street new love military life cold war deception friendship love mystery quest 1940s
Experiences of two Air Force sergeants during the 1948 Berlin Airlift.
Drama, War
USA
1956
107 Minutes
Jack Palance Eddie Albert Lee Marvin Robert Strauss Richard Jaeckel Buddy Ebsen Jon Shepodd Peter Van Eyck Jimmy Goodwin Steven Geray Jud Taylor
soldier lieutenant german troops coward captain suspenseful gripping patriotic belgium battlefield war world war ii arrogance battle of the bulge revenge escape rivalry 1940s
In 1945, an American Infantry company sets up an artillery observation post, but tensions between Captain Cooney and Lieutenant Costa run high.