Below is a list of all of the 44 war movies currently
available to stream on Netflix in the UK. Not much has changed since last month, indeed there are no new titles and 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi has been removed. I've added a short description on
each entry just to clarify what the film is i.e. year and running time. I've
written some reviews and ranked some of the films available already on previous
posts, check those out if you wish. But for here it's just some basic
information and a list of war films on Netflix in alphabetical order, enjoy.
6 Days
Story about the Iranian Embassy siege of 1980 and the SAS
raid to free the hostages. Starring: Jamie Bell, Abbie Cornish and Mark Strong.
Director: Toa Fraser. 2017, 15, 1h 34 m.
A Soldier's Story
Nigerian war film, an injured soldier is rescued by a woman
and taken in, although he suffers from amnesia. Starring: Tope Tedela, Linda
Ejiofor, Daniel K Daniel and Adesua Etomi. Director: Frankie Ogar. 2015, 1h
49m.
Act of Valor
Navy SEALs are tasked with rescuing an imprisoned CIA agent
in the Philippines. Starring: Roselyn Sánchez, Nestor Serrano, Emilio Rivera
and Rorke Denver. Directors: Mike McCoy and Scott Waugh. 2012, 15, 1h 49m.
Beasts of No Nation
The brutal stories of civil war in Africa and child
soldiers. Starring: Idris Elba, Abraham Attah, Kurt Egyiawan and Jude
Akuwudike. Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga. 2015, 15, 2h 17m.
Behind Enemy Lines
2 US Marines are tasked with acquiring nuclear devices from
a Vietnamese general. Ending up with one of them in prison and the other coming
to rescue him. Starring: Thomas Ian Griffith, Chris Mulkey, Mark Carlton and
Mushond Lee. Director: Mark Griffiths. 1997, Mature, 1h 26m.
(not to be confused with the 2001 film starring Owen Wilson
and Gene Hackman).
Black Hawk Down
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| Black Hawk Down Somalia |
Following a US Special Forces led raid on a rebel leader in
Mogadishu Somalia, things go awry when a US helicopter is shot down. Starring:
Josh Hartnett, Ewan McGregor, Tom Sizemore and Eric Bana. Director: Ridley
Scott. 2001, 15, 2h 24m.
Casualties of War
Covering some of the horrific treatment of civilians in war
time, this Vietnam war film covers the brutal rape of a Vietnamese civilian and
the subsequent investigation. Starring: Michael J. Fox, Sean Penn, Don Patrick
Harvey and John C. Reilly. Director: Brian De Palma. 1989, 18, 1h 53m.
Check Point
A former down on his luck US Marine, learns of plans for an
enemy invasion of the US. Starring: Kenny Johnson, William Forsythe,
Bill Goldberg and Michelle Lee. Director: Thomas J Churchill. 2017, 15, 1h 37m.
Das Boot
Classic German war film, following the exploits of a U-Boat
in World War 2 fighting in the Battle of the Atlantic. Starring: Jürgen
Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer and Klaus Wennemann. Director: Wolfgang Petersen.
1981, 12, 2h 29m.
Downfall
The story from the bunker, the last days of Adolf Hitler and
indeed World War Two in Europe pieced together from contemporary accounts.
Starring: Bruno Ganza, Alexandra Maria Lara, Corinna Harfouch and Ulrich
Matthes. Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel. 2004, 15, 2h 35m.
Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love
the Bomb
Undoubtedly the quirkest of films on this list, featuring
the same Director as Full Metal Jacket; Stanley Kubrick. It is a dark satirical
comedy set during the Cold War, a rogue US officer orders a nuclear strike on
the Soviet Union and everyone else battles to stop the inevitable armageddon.
Starring: Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden and Keenan Wynn.
Director: Stanley Kubrick. 1964, PG, 1h 34m.
The Expendables 1
A group of mercenaries are deployed to a South American
island to overthrow the dictator. Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham,
Jet Li and Dolph Lundgren. Director: Sylvester Stallone. 2010, 18, 2h 10m.
The Expendables 2
Following a plane crash in Albania the mercenaries must
retrieve a computer that contains information on the location of tonnes of
Plutonium. Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Bruce Willis
and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Director: Simon West. 2012, 15, 1h 43m.
The Expendables 3
The elite team wage war with an arms dealer. Starring: Jason
Statham, Antonio Banderas, Jet Li, Wesley Snipes. Director: Patrick Hughes.
2014, 12, 2h 6m.
The Fighting Seabees
Wartime movie about US construction battalions, known as Seabees.
Despite their civilian status the workers soon find themselves armed and facing
the Japanese enemy. Starring: John Wayne, Susan Hayward, Dennis O'Keefe as Lt.
Cmdr. Robert Yarrow and William Frawley. Director: Edward Ludwig. 1944, U, 1h
39m.
Forbidden Ground
Australian film about three British soldiers who 'go over
the top' during the Great War only to be left stranded and alone in no man's
land. Starring: Johan Earl, Tim Pocock and Martin Copping. Director: Johan
Earl and Adrian Powers. 2013, 15, 1h 34m.
Full Metal Jacket
Stanley Kubrick's powerful take on not only the Vietnam war
but the bootcamp that young US Marines faced before deployment. One of the
greatest war films ever made. Starring: Matthew Modine, Adam Baldwin, Vincent
D'Onofrio and R.Lee Ermey. Director: Stanley Kubrick. 1987, 18, 1h 54m.
Fury
Follows the exploits of an American tank crew and their M4
Sherman named Fury in the last year of World War Two. Starring: David Ayer,
Brad Pitt, Logan Lerman and Shia LaBeouf. Director: David Ayer. 2014, 15, 2h
14m.
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| Hacksaw Ridge Okinawa |
Hacksaw Ridge
A US medic and pacifist is the unlikely hero, patching up
his comrades to win the Medal of Honor in
the battle of Okinawa. Starring:
Andrew Garfield, Sam Worthington, Luke Bracey and Teresa Palmer. Director: Mel
Gibson. 2016, 15, 2h 19m.
Inglourious Basterds
Tarantino's take on WW2, a group of Jewish American soldiers
are tasked with taking out Nazi Germany's leadership. Starring: Brad Pitt,
Christoph Waltz, Michael Fassbender and Eli Roth. Director: Quentin Tarantino.
2009, 18, 2h 33m.
Invasion 1897
Set during the 1897 invasion of the Kingdom of Benin by the
British Empire. The colonialists come for the rubber trees and take on the
powerful kingdom. Starring: Paul Obazele, Segun Arinze, Chucky Venn, Rudolph
Walker. Director: Lancelot Oduwa Imasuen. 2014, 2h 1m.
Jarhead
Named after the nickname for US Marines the story follows
Swofford through basic training, sniper school. The Marines are then deployed
to the Gulf after Iraq invades Kuwait. Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Peter
Sarsgaard, Chris Cooper and Jamie Foxx. Director: Sam Mendes. 2005, 15, 2h
3m.
Lone Survivor
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| Lone Survivor Afghanistan |
The film follows a small US Navy SEAL team in Afghanistan
tasked with the assassination of a high
value Taliban leader. However the
mission goes pear shaped when the SEALs are discovered by goat herders.
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Taylor Kitsch, Emile Hirsch and Ben Foster. Director:
Peter Berg. 2013, 15, 2h 1m.
Madras Cafe
An Indian film, set during the Sri Lankan civil war a Indian
Army officer is tasked with disrupting the rebels. Starring: John Abraham,
Nargis Fakhri, Rashi Khanna and Siddharth Basu. Director: Shoojit Sircar. 2013,
15, 2h 8m.
Missing in Action 2: The Beginning
Captured in Vietnam and tortured, US POWs are forced to grow
opium, until they are pushed too far and escape. Starring: Chuck Norris,
Soon-Tek Oh, Steven Williams and Bennett Ohta. Director: Lance Hool. 1985, 18,
1h 35m.
Operation Mekong
Chinese film based around real events, Chinese vessels are
intercepted by drug cartels. Starring: Eddie Peng, Zhang Hanyu, Wenjuan Feng
and Carl Ng. Director: Dante Lam. 2016, 15, 2h 3m.
The Patriot
A rare modern war movie set during the times of the American
War of Independence, a former soldier is dragged into the conflict by brutal
British actions. Starring: Mel Gibson, Heath Ledger, Joely Richardson and Jason
Isaacs. Director: Roland Emmerich. 2000, 15, 2h 34m.
Pimpernel Smith
Posing as an Archaeologist, the protagonist secretly gets
people out of wartime Nazi Germany. Starring: Leslie Howard, Francis L.
Sullivan and Mary Morris. Director Leslie Howard. 1941, U, 2h 1m.
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| Platoon Vietnam |
Platoon
Based on Oliver Stone's combat experience in Vietnam, this
modern classic was film follows a new
recruit on his first tour of duty.
Starring: Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, Charlie Sheen and Johnny Depp. Director:
Oliver Stone. 1986, 15, 2h 0m.
Railroad Tigers
Chinese action comedy set during the Japanese occupation of World
War Two. Railway workers join together to resist against the occupiers..
Starring: Jackie Chan, Huang Zi, Tao Jaycee Chan and Wang Kai. Director: Ding
Sheng 2016, 2h 4m.
Rangoon
Female daredevil entertainer, goes from entertaining troops
to involved in the action in this Indian production. Starring: Saif Ali Khan,
Shahid Kapoor and Kangana Ranaut. Director: Vishal Bhardwaj. 2017, Guidance, 2h
32m.
Sand Castle
US army soldiers following the 2003 invasion of Iraq are
tasked with ensuring a water supply to a remote village in the face of enemy
action. Starring: Nicholas Hoult, Logan Marshall-Green, Henry Cavill and Glen
Powell. Director: Fernando Coimbra. 2017, 15, 1h 53m.
Schindler's List
German businessman sets up business operations in Nazi-occupied
Poland and employs a Jewish workforce. He later goes on to save Jews from the
concentration camps. Starring; Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes and
Caroline Goodall. Director: Steven Spielberg. 1993, 15, 3h 15m.
The Siege of Firebase Gloria
Australian made Vietnam war film, at the start of the Tet
Offensive a US Marine patrol arrives at the remote base Gloria and become
besieged. Starring: Wings Hauser, R. Lee Ermey, Robert Arevalo and Mark Neely.
Director: Brian Trenchard-Smith. 1989, 18, 1h 39m.
The Siege of Jadotville
A small Irish Army detachment on a UN mission in the Congo
are besieged by thousands of Katangese troops. Starring: Jamie Dornan, Mark
Strong, Mikael Persbrandt and Jason O'Mara. Director: Richie Smyth. 2016, 15,
1h 48m.
Soldiers of Fortune
A retired special forces operative leads a group of tourist
billionaires to fight a war. Starring: Christian Slater, Dominic Monaghan, Sean
Bean and James Cromwell. Director: Maksim Korostyshevsky. 2012, 15, 1h 33m.
Stalingrad
During the epic World War 2 battle for Stalingrad a group of
Red Army soldiers holes up in a house. Starring: Pyotr Fyodorov,
Dmitriy Lysenkov, Alexey Barabash and Andrey Smolyakov. Director: Fedor
Bondarchuk. 2013, 15, 2h 10m.
(not to be confused with the 1993 film of the same name.)
Steel Rain
South Korean movie, a member of the South Korean security
services joins up with a counterpart from North Korea to stop the pennisula
descending into nuclear war. Starring: Jung Woo-sung,Kwak Do-won, Kim
Kap-soo and Kim Eui-sung. Director: Yang Woo-suk. 2017, 15, 2h, 19m.
Stratton
A British Special Boat Service operative hunts down
terrorist intent on using bio-chemical weapons. Starring: Dominic Cooper, Gemma
Chan, Austin Stowell and Tyler Hoechlin. Director: Simon West. 2017, 15, 1h
34m.
Tears of the Sun
During a civil war in Nigeria a US Navy Seal Team is sent to
rescue a US citizen Dr. Lena Hendricks, but end up rescuing hundreds of
refugees too. Starring: Bruce Willis, Monica Bellucci, Cole Hauser and Eamonn
Walker. Director: Antoine Fuqua. 2003, 15, 2h.
Tomorrow When the War Began
Australian film, a group of teenagers go away to the woods
only to return and see their native land invaded by a foreign army, they soon
form their own resistance. Starring: Caitlin Stasey, Rachel Hurd-Wood, Lincoln
Lewis and Deniz Akdeniz . Director: Stuart Beattie. 2010, 12, 1h 43m.
Universal Soldier: Regeneration
Another instalment in the Universal Soldier franchise. With
a nuclear war imminent it falls upon our hero to save the day. Starring:
Jean-Claude Van Damme, Dolph Lundgren, Andrei "The Pit Bull" Arlovski
and Mike Pyle. Director: John Hyams. 2009, 18, 1h 37m.
Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning
Part of the Universal Soldier series of films. A story of
revenge for a family brutally murdered. Starring: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Dolph
Lundgren, Scott Adkins and Andrei Arlovski. Director: John Hyams. 2012, 18, 1h
54m.
War Machine
Satirical comedy towards the end of US military action in
Afghanistan. Starring: Brad Pitt, Emory Cohen, RJ Cyler and Topher Grace.
Director: David Michôd. 2017, 15, 2h 2m.
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
US comedy/ biography following the exploits of a female war
reporter sent to Afghanistan to cover the conflict. Starring: Tina Fey, Margot
Robbie, Martin Freeman and Alfred Molina. Directors: Glenn Ficarra and John
Requa. 2016, 15, 1h 52m.
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| Windtalkers World War Two |
Windtalkers
Following Navajo soldiers recruited into the US forces in
WW2 to use their language as a secret code
for radio transmissions on the
frontline in the Pacific theater. Starring: Nicolas Cage, Adam Beach, Peter
Stormare and Noah Emmerich. Director: John Woo. 2002, 15, 2h 15m.
Wolf Warrior
Chinese production, People's Liberation Army special forces
and a special detachment called Wolf Warriors do battle with druglords.
Starring: Wu Jing, Scott Adkins, Yu Nan and Kevin Lee. Director: Wu Jing. 2015,
15, 1h 30m.
Wolf Warrior 2
Sequel to Wolf Warrior follows the story of the elite
Chinese troops and their battle with a land developer intent on destroying
homes and lives. Starring: Wu Jing, Celina Jade, Frank Grillo, Hans Zhang.
Director: Wu Jing. 2017, 15, 2h 3m.
Zero Dark Thirty
A dramatic reenactment of the hunt for Osama Bin Laden and
his capture and killing in Pakistan. Starring: Jessica Chastain, Jason Clarke,
Joel Edgerton and Jennifer Ehle. Director: Kathryn Bigelow. 2012, 15, 2h 37m.
