Movies Like The Tank and the Olive Tree, Another History of Palestine
If you liked The Tank and the Olive Tree, Another History of Palestine (2019), a documentary and war movie directed by Roland Nurier, 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.
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Louis Theroux: The Ultra Zionists (2011)
★ 6.6/10Also documentaryLouis Theroux spends time with a small and very committed subculture of ultra-nationalist Jewish settlers. He discovers a group of people who consider it their religious and political obligation to populate some of the…
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Louis Theroux: The Settlers (2025)
★ 8.4/10Also documentaryFourteen years after his first visit, Louis Theroux meets some of the growing community of religious-nationalist Israelis who have settled in the occupied West Bank.
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The Soviet Story (2008)
★ 7.3/10Also documentary and war“The Soviet Story” is a story of an Allied power, which helped the Nazis to fight Jews and which slaughtered its own people on an industrial scale. Assisted by the West, this power triumphed on May 9th, 1945. Its…
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The Battle of San Pietro (1945)
★ 6.1/10Also war and documentaryThis documentary movie is about the battle of San Pietro, a small village in Italy. Over 1,100 US soldiers were killed while trying to take this location, that blocked the way for the Allied forces from the Germans…
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The Age of Stupid (2009)
★ 6.6/10Also war and documentaryPete Postlethwaite stars as a man living alone in the devastated future world of 2055, looking at old footage from 2008 and asking: why didn’t we stop climate change when we had the chance?
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2000 Meters to Andriivka (2025)
★ 8.1/10Also documentary and warAmid 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…
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NAZA (2026)
★ 8.1/10Also documentary and warFilmed at night from Tel Aviv rooftops, this investigative documentary examines the civilian casualties of Israel's military operations in Gaza and the systems behind targeted killings of Palestinians.
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JLG/JLG: Self-Portrait in December (1995)
★ 6.4/10Also documentaryDirector Jean-Luc Godard reflects in this movie about his place in film history, the interaction of film industry and film as art, as well as the act of creating art.
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For Sama (2019)
★ 8.2/10Also documentary and warA love letter from a young mother to her daughter, the film tells the story of Waad al-Kateab’s life through five years of the uprising in Aleppo, Syria as she falls in love, gets married and gives birth to Sama, all…
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Five Broken Cameras (2011)
★ 7.5/10Also war and documentaryFive broken cameras – and each one has a powerful tale to tell. Embedded in the bullet-ridden remains of digital technology is the story of Emad Burnat, a farmer from the Palestinian village of Bil’in, which famously…
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Shoah (1985)
★ 8.2/10Also documentaryDirector Claude Lanzmann spent 11 years on this sprawling documentary about the Holocaust, conducting his own interviews and refusing to use a single frame of archival footage. Dividing Holocaust witnesses into three…
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Father Soldier Son (2020)
★ 6.5/10Also documentary and warWhen Sgt. First Class Brian Eisch is critically wounded in Afghanistan, it sets him and his sons on a journey of love, loss, redemption and legacy.
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In the Realms of the Unreal (2004)
★ 7.2/10Also documentaryIn the Realms of the Unreal is a documentary about the reclusive Chicago-based artist Henry Darger. Henry Darger was so reclusive that when he died his neighbors were surprised to find a 15,145-page manuscript along…
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Avatar: The Deep Dive - A Special Edition of 20/20 (2022)
★ 7.2/10Also documentaryAn inside look at one of the most anticipated movie sequels ever with James Cameron and cast.
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Virunga (2014)
★ 7.9/10Also documentary and warVirunga in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is Africa's oldest national park, a UNESCO world heritage site, and a contested ground among insurgencies seeking to topple the government that see untold profits in the…
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Korengal (2014)
★ 6.6/10Also documentary and warKorengal picks up where Restrepo left off; the same men, the same valley, the same commanders, but a very different look at the experience of war.
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Daguerréotypes (1978)
★ 7.3/10Also documentaryAn intimate portrait of the small shops and shopkeepers of the Rue Daguerre in Paris, a picturesque street that has been the filmmaker’s home for more than 50 years.
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Woman (2020)
★ 7.7/10Also documentaryThe film is based on interviews with 2,000 women from 50 countries, and covers the status of women all over the world. The topics covered include forced marriages, sexual assault, female genital mutilation, acid…
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Last Days in Vietnam (2014)
★ 7.3/10Also war and documentaryDuring the chaotic final weeks of the Vietnam War, the North Vietnamese Army closes in on Saigon as the panicked South Vietnamese people desperately attempt to escape. On the ground, American soldiers and diplomats…
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Let There Be Light (1946)
★ 7.3/10Also documentary and warThe final entry in a trilogy of films produced for the U.S. government by John Huston. Some returning combat veterans suffer scars that are more psychological than physical. This film follows patients and staff during…