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Movies Like Unbroken

If you liked Unbroken (2014), a drama and war movie directed by Angelina Jolie, 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. 1USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage

    USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage (2016)

    ★ 5.9/10Also war

    The harrowing true story of the crew of the USS Indianapolis, who were stranded in the Philippine Sea for five days after delivering the atomic weapons that would eventually end WWII. As they awaited rescue, they…

  2. 2Letters from Iwo Jima

    Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)

    ★ 7.5/10Also drama and war

    The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of the Japanese who fought it.

  3. 3Flags of Our Fathers

    Flags of Our Fathers (2006)

    ★ 6.9/10Also war and drama

    There were five Marines and one Navy Corpsman photographed raising the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi by Joe Rosenthal on February 23, 1945. This is the story of three of the six surviving servicemen - John 'Doc' Bradley…

  4. 4Twelve O'Clock High

    Twelve O'Clock High (1949)

    ★ 7.2/10Also war and drama

    In the early days of daylight bombing raids over Germany, General Frank Savage must take command of a 'hard luck' bomber group. Much of the story deals with his struggle to whip his group into a disciplined fighting…

  5. 5Lone Survivor

    Lone Survivor (2013)

    ★ 7.4/10Also war and drama

    Four Navy SEALs on a covert mission to neutralize a high-level Taliban operative must make an impossible moral decision in the mountains of Afghanistan that leads them into an enemy ambush. As they confront unthinkable…

  6. 6Slaughterhouse-Five

    Slaughterhouse-Five (1972)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama and war

    Billy Pilgrim, a veteran of the Second World War, finds himself mysteriously detached from time, so that he is able to travel, without being able to help it, from the days of his childhood to those of his peculiar life…

  7. 7Decision Before Dawn

    Decision Before Dawn (1951)

    ★ 6.8/10Also war

    WWII is entering its last phase: Germany is in ruins, but does not yield. The US army lacks crucial knowledge about the German units operating on the opposite side of the Rhine, and decides to send two German prisoners…

  8. 8The Thin Red Line

    The Thin Red Line (1998)

    ★ 7.4/10Also drama and war

    The story of a group of men, an Army Rifle company called C-for-Charlie, who change, suffer, and ultimately make essential discoveries about themselves during the fierce World War II battle of Guadalcanal. It follows…

  9. 9Flyboys

    Flyboys (2006)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama and war

    The adventures of the Lafayette Escadrille, young Americans who volunteered for the French military before the U.S. entered World War I, and became the country's first fighter pilots.

  10. 10Hacksaw Ridge

    Hacksaw Ridge (2016)

    ★ 8.2/10Also drama and war

    WWII American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, who served during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people and becomes the first Conscientious Objector in American history to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor.

  11. 11The Good German

    The Good German (2006)

    ★ 5.8/10Also drama

    An American journalist arrives in Berlin just after the end of World War Two. He becomes involved in a murder mystery surrounding a dead GI who washes up at a lakeside mansion during the Potsdam negotiations between…

  12. 12Tom Clancy's Without Remorse

    Tom Clancy's Without Remorse (2021)

    ★ 6.9/10Also war

    An elite Navy SEAL uncovers an international conspiracy while seeking justice for the murder of his pregnant wife.

  13. 13Nuremberg

    Nuremberg (2025)

    ★ 7.6/10Also drama

    In postwar Germany, an American psychiatrist must determine whether Nazi prisoners are fit to go on trial for war crimes, and finds himself in a complex battle of intellect and ethics with Hermann Göring, Hitler's…

  14. 14Bruised

    Bruised (2021)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama

    Jackie Justice is a mixed martial arts fighter who leaves the sport in disgrace. Down on her luck and simmering with rage and regret years after the fight, she's coaxed into a brutal underground fight by her manager…

  15. 15Tora! Tora! Tora!

    Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)

    ★ 7.2/10Also war and 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…

  16. 16Triumph of the Spirit

    Triumph of the Spirit (1989)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama and war

    During World War II, Salamo Arouch, a passionate boxer, is arrested and sent to a concentration camp. Soon, he is forced to box against his fellow prisoners for the sake of entertainment.

  17. 17The Railway Man

    The Railway Man (2013)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama

    A victim from World War II's "Death Railway" sets out to find those responsible for his torture. A true story.

  18. 18Shanghai

    Shanghai (2010)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama

    An American man returns to a corrupt, Japanese-occupied Shanghai four months before Pearl Harbor and discovers his friend has been killed. While he unravels the mysteries of the death, he falls in love and discovers a…

  19. 19The Great Raid

    The Great Raid (2005)

    ★ 6.6/10Also war

    As World War II rages, the elite Sixth Ranger Battalion is given a mission of heroic proportions: push 30 miles behind enemy lines and liberate over 500 American prisoners of war.

  20. 20Hell Hath No Fury

    Hell Hath No Fury (2021)

    ★ 6.4/10Also war

    Branded a traitor by her countrymen, French national Marie DuJardin is rescued by American soldiers on one condition: to survive, she must lead them to a cache of gold - before the Nazis return to claim it for…

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