Movies Like The War Game

If you liked The War Game (1966), a war and tv movie movie directed by Peter Watkins, 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 Day After (1983)
★ 6.8/10Also tv movie
In the mid-1980s, the U.S. is poised on the brink of nuclear war. This shadow looms over the residents of a small town in Kansas as they continue their daily lives. Dr. Russell Oakes maintains his busy schedule at the…
2
Fail Safe (2000)
★ 6.9/10Also tv movie
Cold War tensions climb to a fever pitch when a U.S. bomber is accidentally ordered to drop a nuclear warhead on Moscow.
3
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
★ 8.1/10Also war
After the insane General Jack D. Ripper initiates a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union, a war room full of politicians, generals and a Russian diplomat all frantically try to stop it.
4
On the Beach (2000)
★ 6.2/10Also tv movie
The world has finally managed to blow itself up and only Australia has been spared from nuclear destruction and a gigantic wave of radiation is floating in on the breezes. One American sub located in the Pacific has…
5
Uprising (2001)
★ 6.6/10Also war and tv movie
In the Warsaw ghetto in 1943, Jews rise against the Nazis.
6
The Monuments Men (2014)
★ 6.1/10Also war
Based on the true story of the greatest treasure hunt in history, The Monuments Men is an action drama focusing on seven over-the-hill, out-of-shape museum directors, artists, architects, curators, and art historians…
7
Their Finest (2017)
★ 6.6/10Also war
During the Blitz of World War II, a female screenwriter works on a film celebrating England's resilience as a way to buoy a weary populace's spirits. Her efforts to dramatise the true story of two sisters who undertook…
8
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008)
★ 7.8/10Also war
When his family moves from their home in Berlin to a strange new house in Poland, young Bruno befriends Shmuel, a boy who lives on the other side of the fence where everyone seems to be wearing striped pajamas. Unaware…
9
Fat Man and Little Boy (1989)
★ 6.2/10Also war
Assigned to oversee the development of the atomic bomb, Gen. Leslie Groves is a stern military man determined to have the project go according to plan. He selects J. Robert Oppenheimer as the key scientist on the…
10
The Island on Bird Street (1997)
★ 7.3/10Also war
Alex is an 11-year old boy who, during WWII, hides in the Jewish ghetto from Nazis after all his relatives have been sent to the concentration camp. The movie portrays the ghetto through his eyes.
11
Empire of the Sun (1987)
★ 7.5/10Also war
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…
12
The Boy in the Woods (2023)
★ 7/10Also war
The remarkable true-life survival story of a Jewish boy hiding and being hunted in the forests of Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe, based on Maxwell Smart's memoir.
13
2000 Meters to Andriivka (2025)
★ 8.1/10Also war
Amid the failing counteroffensive, a journalist follows a Ukrainian platoon on their mission to traverse one mile of heavily fortified forest and liberate a strategic village from Russian occupation. But the farther…
14
Shepherd: The Story of a Jewish Dog (2020)
★ 6.8/10Also war
Follow the perilous journey to freedom when a young boy and his dog attempt to escape a concentration camp during World War II. Based on true events.
15
Little Boy (2015)
★ 7.3/10Also 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…
16
Dunkirk (2017)
★ 7.5/10Also war
The story of the miraculous evacuation of Allied soldiers from Belgium, Britain, Canada and France, who were cut off and surrounded by the German army from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk between May 26th and June…
17
Devotion (2022)
★ 7/10Also war
The harrowing true story of two elite US Navy fighter pilots during the Korean War. Their heroic sacrifices would ultimately make them the Navy's most celebrated wingmen.
18
The Great Escape (1963)
★ 7.9/10Also war
The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocate them to a high-security 'escape-proof' camp to sit out the remainder of the war…
19
The Scarlet and the Black (1983)
★ 7.1/10Also tv movie and 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…
20
Exodus (1960)
★ 6.7/10Also war
Ari Ben Canaan, a passionate member of the Jewish paramilitary group Haganah, attempts to transport 600 Jewish refugees on a dangerous voyage from Cyprus to Palestine on a ship named the Exodus. He faces obstruction…