20 movies like Waltz With Bashir, ordered by similarity : They Shall Not Grow Old(2018), Beaufort(2007), War and Peace(1966), Hidden in Plain Sight(2003), Lakshya(2004), Breaker Morant(1980), Taxi to the Dark Side(2007), This Is Congo(2017), Restrepo(2010), The Deer Hunter(1978), Lebanon(2009), Overlord(1975) ...
Documentary, Drama, Animation, Biography, War
Israel|France|Germany|USA|Finland|Switzerland|Belgium|Australia
2008
90 Minutes
director soldier reporter psychologist creative powerful beirut, lebanon beach israel horrors of war armed conflict military lebanese civil war growing up pursuit transformation 2000s
An Israeli film director interviews fellow veterans of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon to reconstruct his own memories of his term of service in that conflict.
Documentary, War, Drama, History
UK|New Zealand
2018
99 Minutes
soldier army recruit british officer british soldier british soldiers german soldier german troops bleak emotional moving patriotic powerful sad somber war zone france belgium united kingdom trenches training camp
A documentary about World War I with never-before-seen footage to commemorate the centennial of the end of the war.
Drama, Action, War
Israel
2007
125 Minutes
Alon Moni Aboutboul Eli Altonio Daniel Brook Oshri Cohen Gal Friedman Ohad Knoller
military officer israeli soldier specialist tense somber profound lebanon mountain army camp castle war arab-israeli conflict militarism nationalism disillusionment rivalry sacrifice 2000s
The story of a group of Israeli soldiers stationed in an outpost prior to the withdrawal of forces of 2000.
Romance, War, Drama, History
1966
373 Minutes
Lyudmila Saveleva Sergei Bondarchuk Vyacheslav Tikhonov Oleg Tabakov Boris Zakhava Anatoliy Ktorov Anastasiya Vertinskaya Antonina Shuranova Viktor Stanitsyn
count countess military officer soldier wife socialite creative gripping passionate russia royal palace family home battlefield countryside war love marriage infidelity horrors of war love
Documentary
USA
2003
71 Minutes
military observer soldier cia agent christopher hitchens revolutionary noam chomsky gripping powerful dark latin america georgia military base covert operations military school military intervention american foreign policy revolution oppression mystery discovery
A feature length documentary by John H. Smihula
War, Drama
India
2004
185 Minutes
Amitabh Bachchan Hrithik Roshan Preity Zinta Om Puri Sharad S. Kapoor Raj Zutshi Sushant Singh Prashant Chainani Aditya Srivastava Abir Goswami Parmeet Sethi
young man soldier young woman patriotic passionate brooding intense melodramatic suspenseful india military academy military base military war fighting love discovery adventure metamorphosis fall
An aimless, jobless, irresponsible grown man joins the army and matures into a battlefield hero.
Drama, War, History
Australia
1980
107 Minutes
Edward Woodward Jack Thompson Bryan Brown John Waters Rod Mullinar Lewis Fitz-Gerald Charles "Bud" Tingwell Vincent Ball Frank Wilson Terence Donovan Russell Kiefel
military officer lord soldier enemy prisoner of war somber south africa court battlefield military base horrors of war war murder court battles injustice sacrifice fall 1900s
Three Australian lieutenants are court martialed for executing prisoners as a way of deflecting attention from war crimes committed by their superior officers.
Documentary, War, Crime, Drama
2007
106 Minutes
Brian Keith Allen Jack Cloonan Greg D'Agostino Carl Levin Moazzam Begg
taxi driver soldier narrator detainee chilling intense brutal powerful army base bagram air force base afghanistan guatemala torture politics civil rights government secrets war mystery discovery 2000s
Documentary, War, Drama, History
USA|Congo
2017
93 Minutes
Mamadou Ndala
merchant poor person villager government official military officer bleak brutal uneasy tense intricate disheartening congo village plains office road market political corruption political unrest military occupation
An unfiltered look in to the lives of 3 characters surviving amongst the most recent cycle of conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo, otherwise known as the M23 rebellion.
War, Drama
USA
1978
183 Minutes
Robert De Niro Christopher Walken John Savage John Cazale Meryl Streep George Dzundza Chuck Aspegren Shirley Stoler
soldier friend girlfriend wife enemy blue-collar worker bleak disturbing powerful intense emotional brutal clairton, pa. battlefield vietnam pow camp wedding town horrors of war vietnam war
An in-depth examination of the ways in which the U.S. Vietnam War impacts and disrupts the lives of people in a small industrial town in Pennsylvania.
War, Drama
Israel|France|Germany|UK
2009
93 Minutes
Yoav Donat Itay Tiran Oshri Cohen Michael Moshonov Zohar Strauss Dudu Tassa Reymonde Amsellem Ashraf Barhoum
soldier prisoner of war military officer tense gritty lebanon tank war armed conflict resistance confinement dangerous assignment quest 1980s
During the First Lebanon War in 1982, a lone tank and a paratroopers platoon are dispatched to search a hostile town.
War, Drama
UK
1975
85 Minutes
Brian Stirner Davyd Harries Nicholas Ball Julie Neesam Sam Sewell John Franklyn-Robbins
private drill instructor soldier girl mother father profound powerful london boot camp barracks ship beach world war ii military draft basic training d-day premonition parent/child relationship transformation
During the Second World War a young lad is called up and, with an increasing sense of foreboding, undertakes his army training ready for D-day.
Drama
Israel
2002
67 Minutes
Yehuda Levi Ohad Knoller Assi Cohen Aya Steinovitz Hani Furstenberg Sharon Raginiano Yuval Semo Yaniv Moyal Hanan Savyon Erez Kahana
commander leader homosexual soldier colonel soldier israeli uneasy emotional intense border military base barracks lebanon military service homosexuality double life relationships secrets love forbidden love
Romance blooms between two soldiers (Knoller, Levi) stationed in an Israeli outpost on the Lebanese border.
Drama, War
West Germany
1959
93 Minutes
Joachim Hansen Wilhelm Borchert Wolfgang Preiss Carl Lange Horst Frank Peter Carsten Richard Münch Günter Pfitzmann Sonja Ziemann Gunnar Möller
german officer nationalist german soldier enemy soldier engaging suspenseful fascinating gripping melodramatic heartwarming germany stalingrad stalingrad, russia war zone war world war ii ideologies nationalism national identity
In the winter of 1943, against the background of battle scenes, a young German Lieutenant who increasingly distrusts the inhuman Nazi ideology struggles with the concept of war.
Documentary, War
USA
2009
112 Minutes
Claus Rademacher Jake Rademacher
soldier military officer marine brother emotional iraq military base war family survival collaboration journey exploration discovery 2000s
An intimate portrait of an American family during a turbulent time. Jake Rademacher sets out to understand the experience, sacrifice, and motivation of his two brothers serving in Iraq. The... See full summary »
Adventure
USA
1935
109 Minutes
Gary Cooper Franchot Tone Richard Cromwell Guy Standing C. Aubrey Smith Monte Blue Kathleen Burke Colin Tapley Douglas Dumbrille Akim Tamiroff Jameson Thomas
soldier army colonel spy british soldier father son gutsy inspiring thrilling rousing military base india fort desert armed conflict bravery islam war military life father/son relationship
Jack Kells's bandit gang, the Border Legion, is run out of a mining town and regroups in Utah. News of a gold strike in Arizona City leads the gang there, and they execute stagecoach ... See full summary »
War
UK
1955
119 Minutes
Richard Todd Michael Redgrave Ursula Jeans Stanley Van Beers Raymond Huntley Hugh Manning Patrick Barr Basil Sydney Ernest Clark Derek Farr Laurence Naismith
pilot military officer government official engineer bomber confident gripping patriotic powerful airplane workplace bar united kingdom world war ii war fighting bombing adventure pursuit quest
The story of how the British attacked German dams in World War II by using an ingenious technique to drop bombs where they would be most effective.
Drama
UK
1945
137 Minutes
Laurence Olivier Robert Newton Renee Asherson Leslie Banks Esmond Knight Leo Genn Felix Aylmer Ralph Truman Harcourt Williams Ivy St. Helier Ernest Thesiger
soldier king leader military officer queen creative intense england france war marriage military royalty empowerment fall rise rivalry 16th century
In the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.
Drama, War
2014
108 Minutes
Mark Stanley David Elliot Scott Kyle Benjamin O'Mahony Bryan Parry Liam Ainsworth Andy Gibbins John Doughty Paul Luebke Thomas Davison Grant Kilburn
soldier tense striking sultry somber raw gripping afghanistan river minefield war mission dangerous assignment overcoming the odds quest pursuit 2000s
During the war in Afghanistan, British soldiers embark on a mission to save their trapped comrades after one (Benjamin O'Mahony) loses a leg to a land mine.
War, Drama
1963
97 Minutes
Kolya Burlyayev Valentin Zubkov Ye. Zharikov Stepan Krylov Nikolay Grinko Dmitri Milyutenko
nazi russian spy boy orphan captain chilling powerful dark russia prison camp east germany military academy spying war traumatic past murder world war ii prison break transformation revenge
During World War II, a 12-year-old Russian sneaks behind enemy lines to spy on the Germans who killed his parents.