Movies Like Black Diggers

If you liked Black Diggers (2014), a movie directed by Wesley Enoch, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

1
The Alamo (1960)
★ 7.1/10
The legendary true story of a small band of soldiers who sacrificed their lives in hopeless combat against a massive army in order to prevent a tyrant from smashing the new Republic of Texas.
2
Endless Night (2015)
★ 6.1/10
Ellesmere Island, northern Canada, 1908. Josephine, a brave but naive woman, embarks on a dangerous journey through inhospitable regions in search of her husband, the explorer Robert Peary, who tries to find a route to…
3
True Grit (1969)
★ 7.3/10
The murder of her father sends a teenage tomboy on a mission of 'justice', which involves avenging her father's death. She recruits a tough old marshal, 'Rooster' Cogburn because he has 'true grit', and a reputation of…
4
Little Boy (2015)
★ 7.3/10
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…
5
Australia (2008)
★ 6.6/10
Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch reluctantly pacts with a stock-man in order to protect her new property from a takeover plot. As the pair drive 2,000…
6
Ride with the Devil (1999)
★ 6.3/10
Friends Jake and Jack Bull join up with Civil War guerrilla fighters, yet after the realities of war set in, they must decide what honor truly means.
7
The Young Lions (1958)
★ 6.7/10
The lives of three young men, a German and two Americans, during WWII.
8
Sarah's Oil (2025)
★ 8/10
Sarah Rector, a Black girl born in early 20th-century Oklahoma Indian Territory, believes there is oil beneath the barren land she’s allotted, and her faith proves right. As greedy oil sharks close in, Sarah turns to…
9
Empire of the Sun (1987)
★ 7.5/10
Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all foreigners into prison camps. Jamie is captured with an American sailor, who looks out for him while they are in the…
10
Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears (2020)
★ 6.1/10
After freeing a young Bedouin girl from her unjust imprisonment in Jerusalem, an Australian adventuress, together with her devoted police detective friend, begins to unravel a decade-old mystery concerning priceless…
11
The Dig (2021)
★ 6.8/10
As WWII looms, a wealthy widow hires an amateur archaeologist to excavate the burial mounds on her estate. When they make a historic discovery, the echoes of Britain's past resonate in the face of its uncertain future‎.
12
Red Tails (2012)
★ 6.7/10
The story of the Tuskegee Airmen, the first African-American pilots to fly in a combat squadron during World War II.
13
Norma Rae (1979)
★ 7.2/10
Norma Rae is a southern textile worker employed in a factory with intolerable working conditions. This concern about the situation gives her the gumption to be the key associate to a visiting labor union organizer…
14
Journey's End (2017)
★ 6.3/10
Set in a dugout in Aisne in 1918, a group of British officers, led by the mentally disintegrating young officer Stanhope, variously await their fate.
15
Love's Enduring Promise (2004)
★ 6.8/10
In the 1800s frontier, Missie Davis is a bright and beautiful schoolteacher whose love for the prairie is matched only by her passion for books. When Missie encounters Grant, a handsome New England railroad executive…
16
Private Peaceful (2012)
★ 6.6/10
Set in the fields of Devon and the WW1 battlefields of Flanders, two brothers fall for the same girl while contending with the pressures of their feudal family life, the war, and the price of courage and cowardice.
17
Against the Ice (2022)
★ 6.8/10
In 1909, two explorers fight to survive after they're left behind while on a Danish expedition in ice-covered Greenland.
18
The Undefeated (1969)
★ 6.3/10
After the Civil War, ex-Union Colonel John Henry Thomas and ex-Confederate Colonel James Langdon are leading two disparate groups of people through strife-torn Mexico. John Henry and company are bringing horses to the…
19
Rosewood (1997)
★ 6.5/10
Spurred by a white woman's lie, vigilantes destroy a black Florida town and slay inhabitants in 1923.
20
The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain (1995)
★ 6.4/10
When an English cartographer arrives in Wales to tell the residents of the Welsh village of Ffynnon Garw that their 'mountain' is only a hill, the offended community sets out to remedy the situation.