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Movies Like World War Three

If you liked World War Three (1998), a war and drama movie directed by Robert Stone, 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. 1Waiting for Anya

    Waiting for Anya (2020)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama and 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.

  2. 2The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell

    The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (1955)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama and war

    A dramatization of the American general and his court martial for publically complaining about High Command's dismissal and neglect of the aerial fighting forces.

  3. 3Run Boy Run

    Run Boy Run (2014)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama and war

    A true story of Jurek, an eight-year-old boy, who escapes from the Warsaw ghetto, then manages to survive in the woods and working as a farmhand, disguising himself as a Polish orphan.

  4. 4The Fox

    The Fox (2023)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama and war

    At the dawn of World War II, a young motorcycle courier in the Austrian army encounters a wounded fox cub and takes it with him to occupied France. The soldier and the fox develop an unlikely bond. Based on the true…

  5. 5The Last Rifleman

    The Last Rifleman (2023)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama 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…

  6. 6Cast a Giant Shadow

    Cast a Giant Shadow (1966)

    ★ 6.3/10Also war and drama

    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…

  7. 7The Man Who Never Was

    The Man Who Never Was (1956)

    ★ 7/10Also war and drama

    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…

  8. 8One of Our Aircraft Is Missing

    One of Our Aircraft Is Missing (1942)

    ★ 6.6/10Also war and drama

    During a raid on Germany, a British bomber crew is forced to bail out after their plane is damaged. They land in Holland, where they're aided by Dutch civilians.

  9. 9The Long Voyage Home

    The Long Voyage Home (1940)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama and war

    The crew of the merchant ship Glencairn hope to survive a transatlantic crossing during World War II. Adapted from four Eugene O'Neill one-act plays.

  10. 1036 Hours

    36 Hours (1964)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama and war

    Germans kidnap an American major and try to convince him that World War II is over, so that they can get details about the Allied invasion of Europe out of him.

  11. 11The One That Got Away

    The One That Got Away (1957)

    ★ 6.8/10Also war and drama

    Based on the true story of Oberleutnant Franz von Werra, the only German prisoner of war captured in Britain to escape back to Germany during the Second World War.

  12. 12The Young Lions

    The Young Lions (1958)

    ★ 6.7/10Also war and drama

    The lives of three young men, a German and two Americans, during WWII.

  13. 13The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial

    The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (2023)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama and war

    Barney Greenwald, a skeptical lawyer, reluctantly defends an officer of the navy who took control of the Caine from its captain, Lt. Philip Francis Queeg, while caught in a violent sea storm. As the court-martial…

  14. 14The War Below

    The War Below (2021)

    ★ 6.6/10Also war and drama

    During World War I, a group of British miners are recruited to tunnel underneath no man's land and set bombs from below the German front in hopes of breaking the deadly stalemate of the Battle of Messines.

  15. 15Battle of the Bulge

    Battle of the Bulge (1965)

    ★ 6.9/10Also drama 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…

  16. 16The Guns of Navarone

    The Guns of Navarone (1961)

    ★ 7.3/10Also drama and 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.

  17. 17Andersonville

    Andersonville (1996)

    ★ 6.5/10Also war and drama

    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…

  18. 18The Devil's Brigade

    The Devil's Brigade (1968)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama and 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…

  19. 19Doctor Who: Voyage of the Damned

    Doctor Who: Voyage of the Damned (2007)

    ★ 7.6/10Also tv movie and drama

    When disaster hits the Titanic, the Doctor uncovers a threat to the whole human race. Battling alongside aliens, saboteurs, robot Angels and a new friend called Astrid, can he stop the Christmas inferno?

  20. 20When the Wind Blows

    When the Wind Blows (1986)

    ★ 7.5/10Also war and drama

    With the help of government-issued pamphlets, an elderly British couple build a shelter and prepare for an impending nuclear attack, unaware that times and the nature of war have changed from their romantic memories of…

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