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Best War on Prime Video, ranked by IMDb rating

170 war titles on Prime Video rate 6.0+ on IMDb — the top 50 are ranked below.

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Inglourious Basterds (2009)
★ 8.4 IMDb   🍅 89%   MC 69   R · 2h 33m · Drama · Thriller · War
In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Baste
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The Great Dictator (1940)
★ 8.4 IMDb   🍅 92%   G · 2h 5m · Comedy · War
Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.
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Zeitgeist: Addendum (2008)
★ 8.2 IMDb   Not Rated · 2h 3m · Documentary · History · War
Director Peter Joseph examines examples of economic subjugation and offers solutions based on alignment with nature.
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Only Old Men Are Going to Battle (1974)
★ 8.2 IMDb   1h 32m · War · Drama · Comedy · Romance
Alexey Titarenko is very talented pilot and brave leader of "Singing group". He also must look after some new cadets and fight together with them against German Luftwaffe planes. Close to Alexey always are his friends, t
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The Mountain II (2016)
★ 8.1 IMDb   2h 15m · War · Drama
In a desolate war zone where screams of the innocent echo, on the very line between disaster and valor, 7 Maroon Berets will dance with death.
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The General (1926)
★ 8.1 IMDb   🍅 92%   Passed · 1h 18m · Comedy · War · Romance
During America’s Civil War, Union spies steal engineer Johnnie Gray's beloved locomotive, 'The General'—with Johnnie's lady love aboard an attached boxcar—and he single-handedly must do all in his power to both get The G
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The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
★ 8.1 IMDb   🍅 97%   MC 93   Approved · 2h 50m · Drama · Romance · War
It's the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally return home. For three WWII veterans, the day has arrived. But for each man, the dream is about to become a nightmare.
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Tangerines (2013)
★ 8.1 IMDb   🍅 88%   MC 73   Not Rated · 1h 27m · Drama · War
War in Abkhazia, 1992. An Estonian man Ivo has stayed behind to harvest his crops of tangerines. In a bloody conflict at his door, a wounded man is left behind, and Ivo is forced to take him in.
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The Train (1964)
★ 7.8 IMDb   🍅 94%   MC 80   Approved · 2h 13m · War · Thriller
As the Allied forces approach Paris in August 1944, German Colonel Von Waldheim is desperate to take all of France's greatest paintings to Germany. He manages to secure a train to transport the valuable art works even as
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Johnny Got His Gun (1971)
★ 7.8 IMDb   🍅 67%   MC 71   PG · 1h 51m · War · Drama
A young American soldier, rendered in pseudocoma from an artillery shell from WWI, recalls his life leading up to that point.
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Breaker Morant (1980)
★ 7.8 IMDb   🍅 100%   MC 73   PG · 1h 47m · Drama · History · War
During the Boer War, three Australian lieutenants are on trial for shooting Boer prisoners. Though they acted under orders, they are being used as scapegoats by the General Staff, who hopes to distance themselves from th
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In This Corner of the World (2016)
★ 7.8 IMDb   🍅 97%   MC 73   PG-13 · 2h 9m · Animation · Drama · War · History
Japan, 1943, during World War II. Young Suzu leaves her village near Hiroshima to marry and live with her in-laws in Kure, a military harbor. Her creativity to overcome deprivation quickly makes her indispensable at home
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The Dirty Dozen (1967)
★ 7.7 IMDb   🍅 82%   MC 73   Approved · 2h 30m · Action · Adventure · War
12 American military prisoners in World War II are ordered to infiltrate a well-guarded enemy château and kill the Nazi officers vacationing there. The soldiers, most of whom are facing death sentences for a variety of v
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When the Wind Blows (1986)
★ 7.7 IMDb   🍅 88%   16+ · 1h 24m · Animation · War · Drama
With the help of government-issued pamphlets, an elderly British couple build a shelter and prepare for an impending nuclear attack, unaware that times and the nature of war have changed from their romantic memories of W
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From Here to Eternity (1953)
★ 7.6 IMDb   🍅 88%   MC 85   Approved · 1h 58m · War · Romance · Drama
In 1941 Hawaii, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his captain's wife and second in command are falling in love.
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My Way (2011)
★ 7.6 IMDb   🍅 19%   MC 30   R · 2h 17m · Drama · Action · History · War
During the invasion of Normandy the photograph of a slim Korean man in German uniform was found. It transpired that the man had served as a soldier in the Japanese, Russian and German armies. His incredible story inspire
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The French Revolution (1989)
★ 7.6 IMDb   5h 35m · Drama · War · History
A history of the French Revolution beginning from the decision of the king to convene the Etats-Generaux in 1789 in order to deal with France's debt problem. Part one spans the event until August 10, 1792 (when the King
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Guy Ritchie's The Covenant (2023)
★ 7.5 IMDb   🍅 82%   MC 63   R · 2h 3m · War · Action · Thriller
After an ambush, Afghan interpreter Ahmed goes to Herculean lengths to save US Army Sergeant John Kinley's life. When Kinley learns that Ahmed and his family were not given safe passage to America as promised, he must re
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The Flowers of War (2011)
★ 7.5 IMDb   🍅 41%   MC 46   R · 2h 26m · Drama · History · War
A Westerner finds refuge with a group of women in a church during Japan's rape of Nanking in 1937. Posing as a priest, he attempts to lead the women to safety.
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Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
★ 7.5 IMDb   🍅 57%   MC 46   G · 2h 24m · War · History · Drama
In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. "Tora! Tora! Tora!", named after the code words used by the lead Japanese pilot to
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Bullet in the Head (1990)
★ 7.5 IMDb   🍅 90%   Not Rated · 2h 16m · Action · War · Crime
Three childhood friends from the slums of Hong Kong flee to war-time Saigon after accidentally murdering a gang leader, but their troubles only escalate.
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Hatred (2016)
★ 7.5 IMDb   2h 30m · War · Drama · History
Summer of 1939. Zosia is a young Polish girl who is deeply in love with Ukrainian Petro. Their great love will be put to the test when her father decides to marry her to a wealthy widower Skiba. Right after wedding she i
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12.12: The Day (2023)
★ 7.5 IMDb   2h 21m · Drama · Thriller · Action · War · History · Crime
After the assassination of President Park, martial law has been declared. A coup d'état bursts out by Defense Security Commander Chun Doo-gwang and a private band of officers following him. Capital Defense Commander Lee
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The Scarlet and the Black (1983)
★ 7.5 IMDb   Not Rated · 2h 23m · Drama · History · TV Movie · War
Fr. Hugh O'Flaherty is a Vatican official in 1943-45 who has been hiding downed pilots, escaped prisoners of war, and Italian resistance families. His activities become so large that the Nazis decide to assassinate him t
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Swing Kids (2018)
★ 7.5 IMDb   🍅 63%   TV-14 · 2h 13m · Drama · War
Rebellious Ki-soo from North Korea is mesmerized by tap dance in prison camps. Ki-soo joins as a team member of a dance team named 'Swing Kids'. Yet suddenly, their dreams about dancing in prison camps are put in danger.
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Cross of Iron (1977)
★ 7.4 IMDb   🍅 71%   MC 64   R · 1h 59m · Drama · Action · History · War
It is 1943, and the German army—ravaged and demoralised—is hastily retreating from the Russian front. In the midst of the madness, conflict brews between the aristocratic yet ultimately pusillanimous Captain Stransky and
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Fortress of War (2010)
★ 7.4 IMDb   Not Rated · 2h 18m · War · Drama · History · Action
The film covers the heroic defence of the Brest Fortress, which was attacked during the first strike of German invaders on June 22 1941. The story describes the events of the first days of the defence, including the thre
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Hangmen Also Die! (1943)
★ 7.4 IMDb   🍅 87%   Approved · 2h 14m · Drama · Thriller · War
During the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, surgeon Dr. Franticek Svoboda, a Czech patriot, assassinates the brutal "Hangman of Europe", Reichsprotektor Reinhard Heydrich, and is wounded in the process. In his attempt
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Attack (1956)
★ 7.4 IMDb   🍅 100%   Approved · 1h 47m · Drama · War
Battle of the Bulge, World War II, 1944. Lieutenant Costa, an infantry company officer who must establish artillery observation posts in a strategic area, has serious doubts about Captain Cooney's leadership ability.
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The Teacher (2024)
★ 7.4 IMDb   🍅 83%   1h 55m · Drama · War · Thriller
A Palestinian school teacher struggles to reconcile his life-threatening commitment to political resistance with his emotional support for one of his students and the chance of a new romantic relationship with a British
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Red Cliff (2008)
★ 7.3 IMDb   🍅 89%   MC 73   R · 2h 28m · History · War · Action
In 208 A.D., in the final days of the Han Dynasty, shrewd Prime Minster Cao convinced the fickle Emperor Han the only way to unite all of China was to declare war on the kingdoms of Xu in the west and East Wu in the sout
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Max Manus: Man of War (2008)
★ 7.3 IMDb   🍅 79%   MC 60   Not Rated · 1h 58m · History · War · Action · Crime
Max Manus is a Norwegian 2008 biographic war film based on the real events of the life of resistance fighter Max Manus (1914–96), after his contribution in the Winter War against the Soviet Union. The story follows Manus
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Little Boy (2015)
★ 7.3 IMDb   🍅 27%   MC 30   PG-13 · 1h 46m · Comedy · Drama · War
An eight-year-old boy is willing to do whatever it takes to end World War II so he can bring his father home. The story reveals the indescribable love a father has for his little boy and the love a son has for his father
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The Captain (2018)
★ 7.3 IMDb   🍅 83%   MC 67   1h 58m · War · Drama · History
Germany, 1945. Soldier Willi Herold, a deserter of the German army, stumbles into a uniform of a Nazi captain abandoned during the last and desperate weeks of the Third Reich. Newly emboldened by the allure of a suit tha
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Twice Born (2012)
★ 7.3 IMDb   🍅 9%   MC 34   R · 2h 7m · Drama · Romance · War
Full-throttle melodrama about an ill-starred romance set against the backdrop of the siege of Sarajevo. A mother brings her teenage son to Sarajevo, where his father died in the Bosnian conflict years ago.
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Run Silent, Run Deep (1958)
★ 7.3 IMDb   🍅 100%   MC 62   Approved · 1h 33m · Drama · War
The captain of a submarine sunk by the Japanese during WWII is finally given a chance to skipper another sub after a year of working a desk job. His singleminded determination for revenge against the destroyer that sunk
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Heneral Luna (2015)
★ 7.3 IMDb   🍅 78%   MC 58   R · 1h 58m · Action · Drama · History · War
Set during the Philippine-American War, a short-tempered Philippine Revolutionary Army general faces an enemy more formidable than the American army: his own treacherous countrymen.
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Three Came Home (1950)
★ 7.3 IMDb   🍅 100%   Approved · 1h 46m · War · Drama
Borneo, 1941, during World War II. When the Japanese occupy the island, American writer Agnes Newton Keith is separated from her husband and imprisoned with her son in a prison camp run by the enigmatic Colonel Suga.
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Rescue Dawn (2007)
★ 7.2 IMDb   🍅 90%   MC 77   PG-13 · 2h 5m · Adventure · Drama · War
A US Fighter pilot's epic struggle of survival after being shot down on a mission over Laos during the Vietnam War.
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Birdy (1984)
★ 7.2 IMDb   🍅 84%   MC 71   R · 2h · Drama · War
Two young men are seriously affected by the Vietnam War. One of them has always been obsessed with birds - but now believes he really is a bird, and has been sent to a mental hospital. Can his friend help him pull throug
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El Cid (1961)
★ 7.2 IMDb   🍅 93%   MC 79   Approved · 3h 2m · Action · Drama · History · Romance · War
Epic film of the legendary Spanish hero, Rodrigo Diaz ("El Cid" to his followers), who, without compromising his strict sense of honour, still succeeds in taking the initiative and driving the Moors from Spain.
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Savior (1998)
★ 7.2 IMDb   🍅 60%   R · 1h 43m · History · Drama · War
A hardened mercenary in the Foreign Legion begins to find his own humanity when confronted with atrocities during the fighting in Bosnia.
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Sye Raa Narasimha Reddy (2019)
★ 7.2 IMDb   🍅 57%   Not Rated · 2h 47m · Drama · History · War
Gwalior Fort, during the Indian Rebellion of 1857. In a moment of despair, Lakshmibai, Rani of Jhansi, encourages her men by telling them the heroic story of Uyyalawada Narasimha Reddy, a brave Telugu chieftain who took
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Naked Among Wolves (2015)
★ 7.2 IMDb   Not Rated · 1h 45m · History · Drama · War
Taking place at the Concentration camp Buchenwald at the end of March 1945, prisoner Hans Pippig discovers in a carrying case of an incoming prisoner a Jewish child. If reported the three-year-old is sure to die. On the
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A Town Like Alice (1956)
★ 7.2 IMDb   Not Rated · 1h 57m · War · Drama · Romance
In 1941 Malaysia, the advancing Japanese army captures a lot of British territory very quickly. The men are sent off to labor camps, but they have no plan on what to do with the women and children of the British.
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Brothers (2009)
★ 7.1 IMDb   🍅 63%   MC 58   R · 1h 45m · Drama · Thriller · War
When his helicopter goes down during his fourth tour of duty in Afghanistan, Marine Sam Cahill is presumed dead. Back home, brother Tommy steps in to look over Sam’s wife, Grace, and two children. Sam’s surprise homecomi
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Into the White (2012)
★ 7.1 IMDb   🍅 45%   R · 1h 44m · War · Drama · History
During World War II, enemy fighter pilots find themselves face to face after shooting down one another's planes over a desolate landscape. In order to survive, they must set aside the rules of war.
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Lore (2012)
★ 7.1 IMDb   🍅 94%   MC 76   Not Rated · 1h 49m · Drama · War · Thriller
After being abandoned by their Nazi parents at the end of World War II, five German siblings embark on a harrowing journey across their war-torn country. Led by the eldest, 14 year-old Lore, the children are forced to co
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Captain Miller (2024)
★ 7.1 IMDb   🍅 89%   Not Rated · 2h 37m · Action · War
In the 1930s, during the British Raj, Analeesan "Eesa", a former soldier of the British Indian Army called Captain Miller, is on a mission to protect the people from the British after witnessing an atrocity.
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All Quiet on the Western Front (1979)
★ 7.1 IMDb   🍅 100%   PG · 2h 30m · War · Drama · TV Movie
At the start of World War I, Paul Baumer is a young German patriot, eager to fight. Indoctrinated with propaganda at school, he and his friends eagerly sign up for the army soon after graduation. But when the horrors of

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