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Movies Like Uprising

If you liked Uprising (2023), a history and war movie directed by Christopher Forbes, 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. 1The Red Badge of Courage

    The Red Badge of Courage (1951)

    ★ 6.4/10Also war

    Henry Fleming is a young Union soldier in the American Civil War. During his unit's first engagement, Henry flees the battlefield in fear. When he learns that the Union actually won the battle, shame over his cowardice…

  2. 2The Last Rifleman

    The Last Rifleman (2023)

    ★ 6.6/10Also history and war

    A WWII veteran escapes his care home in Northern Ireland and embarks on an arduous but inspirational journey to France to attend the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings, finding the courage to face the ghosts of his…

  3. 3Gettysburg

    Gettysburg (1993)

    ★ 7/10Also history and war

    In the summer of 1863, General Robert E. Lee leads the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia into Gettysburg, Pennsylvania with the goal of marching through to Washington, D.C. The Union Army of the Potomac, under the…

  4. 4Cast a Giant Shadow

    Cast a Giant Shadow (1966)

    ★ 6.3/10Also war

    An American Army officer is recruited by the yet to exist Israel to help them form an army. He is disturbed by this sudden appeal to his Jewish heritage. Each of Israel's Arab neighbors has vowed to invade the poorly…

  5. 5Waiting for Anya

    Waiting for Anya (2020)

    ★ 6.3/10Also war

    During the harrows of WWII, Jo, a young shepherd along with the help of the widow Horcada, helps to smuggle Jewish children across the border from southern France into Spain.

  6. 6The Birth of a Nation

    The Birth of a Nation (1915)

    ★ 5.9/10Also history and war

    Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwine. When Confederate colonel Ben Cameron is captured in battle, nurse Elsie Stoneman petitions for his pardon. In…

  7. 7The Guns of Navarone

    The Guns of Navarone (1961)

    ★ 7.3/10Also war

    A team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers.

  8. 8What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?

    What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? (1966)

    ★ 5.9/10Also war

    A by-the-book Captain is ordered to capture a strategic village in Italy. The Italian soldiers are willing to surrender, if they can have a festival first. The lieutenant convinces the Captain this is the only way…

  9. 9Battleground

    Battleground (1949)

    ★ 6.7/10Also war

    Members of the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division are fighting for their country amidst the rugged terrain of Bastogne, Belgium, in December 1944. Holley and his American compatriots have already seen one of their…

  10. 10The Alamo

    The Alamo (1960)

    ★ 7.1/10Also war and history

    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.

  11. 11Battle of the Bulge

    Battle of the Bulge (1965)

    ★ 6.9/10Also history and war

    In the winter of 1944, the Allied Armies stand ready to invade Germany at the coming of a New Year. To prevent it, Hitler orders an all-out offensive to re-take French territory and capture the major port city of…

  12. 12The Devil's Brigade

    The Devil's Brigade (1968)

    ★ 6.3/10Also war

    At the onset of World War II, American Lt. Col. Robert Frederick is put in charge of a unit called the 1st Special Service Force, composed of elite Canadian commandos and undisciplined American soldiers. With Maj. Alan…

  13. 13Gunga Din

    Gunga Din (1939)

    ★ 6.5/10Also war and history

    British army sergeants Ballantine, Cutter and MacChesney serve in India during the 1880s, along with their native water-bearer, Gunga Din. While completing a dangerous telegraph-repair mission, they unearth evidence of…

  14. 14Andersonville

    Andersonville (1996)

    ★ 6.5/10Also war and history

    This lengthy docudrama records the harrowing conditions at the Confederacy's most notorious prisoner-of-war camp. The drama unfolds through the eyes of a company of Union soldiers captured at the Battle of Cold Harbor…

  15. 15Why We Fight: Prelude to War

    Why We Fight: Prelude to War (1942)

    ★ 6.4/10Also war

    Prelude to War was the first film of Frank Capra's Why We Fight propaganda film series, commissioned by the Pentagon and George C. Marshall. It was made to convince American troops of the necessity of combating the…

  16. 1655 Days at Peking

    55 Days at Peking (1963)

    ★ 6.9/10Also history and war

    Diplomats, soldiers and other representatives of a dozen nations fend off the siege of the International Compound in Peking during the 1900 Boxer Rebellion. The disparate interests unite for survival despite competing…

  17. 17The Bridge on the River Kwai

    The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

    ★ 7.8/10Also history and war

    The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence officers conspire to blow up the structure, but Col. Nicholson, the…

  18. 18Shoulder Arms

    Shoulder Arms (1918)

    ★ 6.8/10Also war

    An American doughboy, stationed in France during the Great War, goes on a daring mission behind enemy lines and becomes a hero.

  19. 19The Man Who Never Was

    The Man Who Never Was (1956)

    ★ 7/10Also war and history

    The true story of a British effort to trick the Germans into weakening Sicily's defenses before the 1943 attack. A dead soldier is dressed as a British officer and outfitted with faked papers showing that the Allies…

  20. 20For Whom the Bell Tolls

    For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)

    ★ 6.5/10Also war and history

    Spain in the 1930s is the place to be for a man of action like Robert Jordan. There is a civil war going on and Jordan—who has joined up on the side that appeals most to idealists of that era—has been given a high-risk…

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