Movies Like Into the Storm

If you liked Into the Storm (2009), a drama and history movie directed by Thaddeus O'Sullivan, 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
Ike: Countdown to D-Day (2004)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and history
The story of the senior-level preparations for the D-Day invasion on June 6, 1944 from the time of Dwight D. Eisenhower's appointment as the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, to the establishment of the beachhead in…
2
Walking with the Enemy (2014)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and history
Regent Horthy is the leader of Hungary and a German ally, but his favorable standing with Hitler changes as the war comes to an end. Forced to cede Hungary’s power or else witness the execution of his son, Regent…
3
Sometimes in April (2005)
★ 7.1/10Also drama and history
Two brothers are divided by marriage and fate during the 100 horrifying days of the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
4
Escape from Sobibor (1987)
★ 7.2/10Also drama and tv movie
The true story of WWII's notorious Sobibor Nazi death camp, where a courageous inmate orchestrates and leads the escape of over 300 prisoners.
5
Fanny Lye Deliver'd (2019)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and history
On an isolated English farm in 1657, Fanny lives a quiet life with her oppressive husband John and their young son. One day their life is rocked with the arrival of young couple Thomas and Rebecca who claim to have…
6
Ivanhoe (1982)
★ 6.4/10Also history and tv movie
Ivanhoe, a worthy and noble knight, the champion of justice returns to England after the holy wars, and finds England under the reign of Prince John and his henchmen and finds himself being involved in the…
7
Casualties of War (1989)
★ 7.2/10Also drama and history
During the Vietnam War, a soldier finds himself the outsider of his own squad when they unnecessarily kidnap a female villager.
8
Shooting Dogs (2006)
★ 7.5/10Also drama and history
Two westerners, a priest and a teacher find themselves in the middle of the Rwandan genocide and face a moral dilemna. Do they place themselves in danger and protect the refugees, or escape the country with their…
9
Mountains of the Moon (1990)
★ 6.6/10Also drama and history
The story of Captain Richard Francis Burton's and Lt. John Hanning Speke's expedition to find the source of the Nile river in the name of Queen Victoria's British Empire.
10
Stuart: A Life Backwards (2007)
★ 7.4/10Also drama and tv movie
Story about the remarkable friendship between a reclusive writer and illustrator and a chaotic homeless man, whom he gets to know during a campaign to release two charity workers from prison.
11
A Midnight Clear (1992)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and history
In 1944 France, an American Intelligence Squad locates a German Platoon wishing to surrender rather than die in Germany's final war offensive. The two groups of men, isolated from the war at present, put aside their…
12
Gangs of New York (2002)
★ 7.3/10Also drama and history
In early 1860s New York, Irish immigrant Amsterdam Vallon is released from prison and returns to the Five Points, seeking revenge against his father's killer, William Cutting, a powerful anti-immigrant gang leader. He…
13
The Stanford Prison Experiment (2015)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and history
In 1971, Stanford's Professor Philip Zimbardo conducts a controversial psychology experiment in which college students pretend to be either prisoners or guards, but the proceedings soon get out of hand. Based on a true…
14
Deadwood: The Movie (2019)
★ 6.7/10Also drama and tv movie
Follow the 10-year reunion of the Deadwood camp to celebrate South Dakota's statehood. Former rivalries are reignited, alliances are tested and old wounds are reopened, as all are left to navigate the inevitable…
15
Cleveland Abduction (2015)
★ 7.3/10Also tv movie and drama
A single mother becomes Ariel Castro's first kidnapping victim, and finds herself trapped in his home with two other women for 11 years.
16
Nightwatching (2007)
★ 6.2/10Also drama and history
An extravagant, exotic and moving look at Rembrandt's romantic and professional life, and the controversy he created by the identification of a murderer in the painting The Night Watch.
17
Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America (2006)
★ 5.9/10Also drama and tv movie
An outbreak of avian flu mutates into a virus that becomes transmittable from human to human.
18
Gotti (1996)
★ 6.6/10Also drama and tv movie
John Gotti, the head of a small New York mafia crew breaks a few of the old family rules. He rises to become the head of the Gambino family and the most well-known mafia boss in America. Life is good, but suspicion…
19
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974 (2009)
★ 6.6/10Also drama and tv movie
Yorkshire, 1974. Fear, mistrust and institutionalised police corruption are running riot. Rookie journalist Eddie Dunford is determined to search for the truth in an increasingly complex maze of lies and deceit…
20
The Gabby Douglas Story (2014)
★ 7.4/10Also tv movie and drama
The true story of Gabby Douglas who becomes the first African American to be named Individual All-Around Champion in artistic gymnastics at the Olympic Games.