Army movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant army movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, epic, realistic, exciting, suspense and intense films and TV shows about / with army, soldier, military, death, storytelling, violence, dialogue, war, battles and catastrophe plots mostly in Drama, Action and War genres shot in USA, UK, Canada and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as army: The Hurt Locker (2008), Troy (2004), Black Hawk Down (2001), Attack on Titan (2013), Immortals (2011), Dunkirk (2017), Apocalypse Now (1979), Les Misérables (2012), Descendants of the Sun (2016), The General's Daughter (1999).

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 7.5
 489K
The Hurt Locker (2008)
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA, Luxembourg, Canada
Duration: 131 min.
Story: Forced to play a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse in the chaos of war, an elite Army bomb squad unit must come together in a city where everyone is a potential enemy and every object could be a deadly bomb.
Style: tense, realistic, emotional, serious, rough ...
Audience: boys' night, manly, adult
Plot: iraq war, military, terrorism, sniper, soldier, war, army, bomb squad, violence, shootout, marines, gulf war ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, year 2004, 21st century
Place: middle east, iraq, baghdad iraq, america, afghanistan ...
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 7.3
 602K
Troy (2004)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA, Bulgaria, UK, Malta
Duration: 163 min.
Story: In year 1250 B.C. during the late Bronze age, two emerging nations begin to clash. Paris, the Trojan prince, convinces Helen, Queen of Sparta, to leave her husband Menelaus, and sail with him back to Troy. After Menelaus finds out that his wife was ...
Style: epic, exciting, heroic, period piece, sexy ...
Audience: boys' night, date night, manly, teens, girls' night ...
Plot: sword fight, mythology, ancient, ancient history, vengeance, battlefield, greek mythology, warrior, courage, war, ancient world, army ...
Time: ancient times, year 2004, middle ages, 2000s
Place: greece, ancient greece, britain, hellas, europe ...
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 7.7
 446K
Black Hawk Down (2001)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 144 min.
Story: When U.S. Rangers and an elite Delta Force team attempt to kidnap two underlings of a Somali warlord, their Black Hawk helicopters are shot down, and the Americans suffer heavy casualties, facing intense fighting from the militia on the ground.
Style: realistic, epic, rough, disturbing, intense ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: war, combat, military, gunfight, courage, battles, sniper, chaos, army, shooting, survival, american soldier ...
Time: year 2001, 90s, 20th century, year 2002, year 1993 ...
Place: africa, somalia, america, middle east, south africa ...
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 9.1
 649K
Attack on Titan (2013)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Several hundred years ago, humans were nearly exterminated by Titans. Titans are typically several stories tall, seem to have no intelligence, devour human beings and, worst of all, seem to do it for the pleasure rather than as a food source. A ...
Style: anime, mysterious, disturbing, serious, tense ...
Audience: kids
Plot: tragedy, giant, giant monster, life turned upside down, friendship, threat, transformation, eaten alive, danger, titan, chaos and mayhem, army ...
Time: future
Place: japan, asia
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 6.0
 181K
Immortals (2011)
Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Theseus is a mortal man chosen by Zeus to lead the fight against the ruthless King Hyperion, who is on a rampage across Greece to obtain a weapon that can destroy humanity.
Style: dark fantasy, exciting, stylized, costume drama, visually stunning ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mythology, sword fight, greek mythology, ancient, greek, legends and myths, immortality, ancient history, god, good versus evil, medieval, heroes ...
Time: year 2011, ancient times, 2010s, future
Place: ancient greece, greece, hellas, europe, athens greece
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 7.8
 786K
Dunkirk (2017)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: UK, Netherlands, France, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: 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 4th 1940 during World War II.
Style: epic, atmospheric, dramatic, visually stunning, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: world war two, military, war, survival, wartime, soldier, evacuation, military officer, beach, combat, shell shock, air attack ...
Time: 1940s, year 1940, 2010s, 20th century, 90s ...
Place: france, england, english channel, dover england, dunkirk ...
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 8.4
 753K
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, War
Country: USA
Duration: 147 min.
Story: At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter ...
Style: bleak, psychological, cult classic, visually stunning, epic ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: vietnam war, jungle, insanity, anti war, military, army, mission, violence, secret mission, soldier, violent, war ...
Time: 20th century, year 1979, 60s, year 1969
Place: vietnam, cambodia, southeast asia, asia, the philippines ...
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 7.5
 357K
Les Misérables (2012)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 158 min.
Story: An adaptation of the successful stage musical based on Victor Hugo's classic novel set in 19th-century France, in which a paroled prisoner named Jean Valjean seeks redemption.
Style: historical drama, inspirational, emotional, period piece, epic ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, teens, adult
Plot: redemption, rebellion, arrest, army, parole, historical character, revolution, broadway, historical event, orphan, father daughter relationship, dying man ...
Time: 19th century, year 2012, 2010s, 1800s, regency period ...
Place: france, paris france, seattle, europe, london
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Descendants of the Sun (2016)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A drama about the love of people who get closer as they learn to be considerate of each other in desperate times and sacrifices made by people who throw themselves into natural disasters.
Style: romantic, scenic, light, humorous, dorama ...
Plot: medical, army, soldier, friendship, love, love affair, doctor, military, military officer, danger, playing footsie, love and romance ...
Place: korea, thailand, afghanistan
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The General's Daughter (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: When the body of Army Capt. Elizabeth Campbell is found on a Georgia military base, two investigators, Warrant Officers Paul Brenner and Sara Sunhill, are ordered to solve her murder. What they uncover is anything but clear-cut. Unseemly details ...
Style: detective, tense, suspenseful, neo noir, suspense ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: army investigation, conspiracy, rape, murder, military, gang rape, army, strangulation, reluctant partners, corruption, betrayal, military training ...
Time: year 1999, 90s, 20th century
Place: georgia, west point
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We Were Soldiers (2002)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: UK, France, Germany, USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story: The story of the first major battle of the American phase of the Vietnam War and the soldiers on both sides that fought it.
Style: factual, realistic, heroic, intense, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: military, vietnam war, war, soldier, battles, battlefield, ambush, army, military life, heroic mission, infantry, wartime ...
Time: 20th century, year 2002, 60s, 2000s
Place: vietnam, america, asia, usa, iraq ...
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Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 169 min.
Story: As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fourth trapped behind enemy lines. Ranger captain John Miller and seven men are tasked with penetrating German-held territory and bringing the boy home.
Style: epic, breathtaking, realistic, captivating, tense ...
Audience: manly, date night, kids, chick flick, adult
Plot: war, world war two, military, courage, battles, self sacrifice, sniper, nazi, friendship, combat, army, heroic mission ...
Time: 1940s, year 1944, year 1998, 90s, 20th century ...
Place: normandy, france, germany, poland, europe ...
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 6.0
 91K
G.I. Jane (1997)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 125 min.
Story: A female Senator succeeds in enrolling a woman into Combined Reconnaissance Team training where everyone expects her to fail.
Style: suspense, political, rough, bleak, suspenseful ...
Audience: girls' night, boys' night, teens, chick flick
Plot: strong female lead, strong female character, military, female soldier, army, soldier, feminism, basic training, female protagonist, fighting the system, female leader, officers and cadets ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: libya, middle east, usa, israel
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Terminator Salvation (2009)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: All grown up in post-apocalyptic 2018, John Connor must lead the resistance of humans against the increasingly dominating militaristic robots. But when Marcus Wright appears, his existence confuses the mission as Connor tries to determine whether ...
Style: futuristic, apocalyptic, intense, serious, action packed ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cyborgs, apocalypse, robot, cyberpunk, future war, androids and robots, post apocalypse, man versus machine, time travel, dystopian future, army, dystopia ...
Time: future, year 2009, near future, 2010s, year 2003 ...
Place: los angeles, california, san francisco
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 5.9
 157K
The Great Wall (2016)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: China, Japan, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: European mercenaries searching for black powder become embroiled in the defense of the Great Wall of China against a horde of monstrous creatures.
Style: exciting, dark fantasy, entertaining, mystical, colorful ...
Plot: monster, mythology, creature, great wall of china, archer, warrior, invasion, friendship, siege, good versus evil, battlefield, trust ...
Time: middle ages, 15th century, year 2016, 2010s, future ...
Place: china, tibet, asia, ancient china, egypt ...
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Edge of Tomorrow (2014)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada, India
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Major Bill Cage is an officer who has never seen a day of combat when he is unceremoniously demoted and dropped into combat. Cage is killed within minutes, managing to take an alpha alien down with him. He awakens back at the beginning of the same ...
Style: futuristic, mind bending, exciting, clever, captivating ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, chick flick, family friendly
Plot: time loop, time travel, alien invasion, alien, invasion, battles, space and aliens, soldier, military, changing the past or future, repeated event, evil alien ...
Time: future, near future, year 2014, 2020s, 2010s ...
Place: united kingdom, france, paris france, europe, big ben london ...
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The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy
Country: New Zealand, USA
Duration: 144 min.
Story: Immediately after the events of The Desolation of Smaug, Bilbo and the dwarves try to defend Erebor's mountain of treasure from others who claim it: the men of the ruined Laketown and the elves of Mirkwood. Meanwhile an army of Orcs led by Azog ...
Style: epic, exciting, entertaining, fantasy adventure, visually stunning ...
Audience: teens, family outing, kids, chick flick, adult
Plot: fantasy world, sword fight, battles, good versus evil, dragon, sword and sorcery, wizard, middle earth, elf, imaginary kingdom, wizards and magicians, adventurer ...
Time: year 2014, 2010s, future
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TURN: Washington's Spies (2014)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The story of New York farmer, Abe Woodhull, who bands together with a group of childhood friends to form The Culper Ring, an unlikely group of spies who turn the tide in America’s fight for independence.
Style: period piece, serious, captivating, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: american revolution, spy, colonial america, american history, army, espionage, political unrest, treason, rebelliousness, rebellion, ambition, rivalry ...
Time: 18th century, 1780s, 1770s, georgian era
Place: usa, new jersey, america, new york, connecticut
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The Thin Red Line (1998)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 170 min.
Story: Based on the graphic novel by James Jones, The Thin Red Line tells 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 ...
Style: philosophical, visually stunning, epic, visually appealing, visual ...
Plot: war, world war two, jungle, sergeant, infantry, soldier, army, anti war, pacific war, pacific island, existentialism, survival ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, 90s, year 1998, year 1940 ...
Place: asia, japan, america, germany, pacific ocean ...
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 6.3
 162K
Dear John (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Sergeant John Tyree is home on a 2 week leave from Germany. He meets Savannah after he dives into the ocean to retrieve Savannah's purse that had fallen off the pier. John falls in love with Savannah who is a student on spring break helping ...
Style: romantic, sentimental, sweet, emotional, teen ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens, adult
Plot: love, love story, true love, love and romance, fall in love, couples, love affair, young lovers, young love, relationships, couple relations, army ...
Time: 2010s, september 11 2001, 21st century
Place: north carolina, afghanistan, south carolina, usa, ireland
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Union of Salvation (2019)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 136 min.
Story: Russian troops occupied Paris. Russia became the first power in the world. Now everything seems possible. Young winners, guards officers, are sure that equality and freedom will come - here and now. For this they are ready to sacrifice everything - ...
Style: suspense, realistic, exciting, tense, thought provoking ...
Plot: revolt, power struggle, czar, russian empire, pledge of allegiance, army, rebellion, cold weather, riot, military officer, russian revolution, soldier ...
Time: 19th century, 1820s
Place: russia
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Band of Brothers (2001)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Drawn from interviews with survivors of Easy Company, as well as their journals and letters, Band of Brothers chronicles the experiences of these men from paratrooper training in Georgia through the end of the war. As an elite rifle company ...
Style: heroic, captivating, epic, historical drama, serious ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: world war two, military, combat, war, battles, soldier, american soldier, paratrooper, behind enemy lines, courage, infantry, nazi germany ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, y2k, 2000s, post world war two
Place: germany, europe, belgium, netherlands, paris france ...
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 6.5
 135K
The Crazies (2010)
Genre: Horror
Country: United Arab Emirates, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Four friends find themselves trapped in their small hometown after they discover their friends and neighbors going quickly and horrifically insane.
Style: scary, suspense, creepy, tense, splatter ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: infected, epidemic, survival, insanity, deadly virus, plague, chaos and mayhem, gory, infection, quarantine, virus, survival horror ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s
Place: iowa, usa, kansas
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 9.2
 2.5M
Game of Thrones (2011)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Seven noble families fight for control of the mythical land of Westeros. Friction between the houses leads to full-scale war. All while a very ancient evil awakens in the farthest north. Amidst the war, a neglected military order of misfits, the ...
Style: epic, captivating, atmospheric, exciting, dramatic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, boys' night, adult
Plot: dragon, medieval, intrigue, fantasy world, incest, kingdom, power struggle, conflict, political intrigue, peril, abuse of power, treason ...
Time: ancient times, middle ages, medieval times, year 2011, 2000s ...
Place: idaho, former yugoslavia, hawaii
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300: Rise of an Empire (2014)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA, Bulgaria
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Based on Frank Miller's latest graphic novel Xerxes and told in the breathtaking visual style of the blockbuster "300," this new chapter of the epic saga takes the action to a fresh battlefield--on the sea--as Greek general ...
Style: exciting, epic, entertaining, bloody, heroic ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: sword fight, ancient history, mythology, greek, survival, ancient, king, medieval, master warrior, army, good versus evil, warrior ...
Time: middle ages, ancient times, year 2014, 5th century, 2010s
Place: ancient greece, greece, middle east, europe, persia ...
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 8.4
 289K
Spartacus (2010)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Spartacus is an American television series inspired by the historical figure of Spartacus, a Thracian gladiator who from 73 to 71 BCE led a major slave uprising against the Roman Republic departing from Capua.
Style: epic, sexy, historical drama, sexual, exciting ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: ancient rome, ancient history, roman empire, gladiator, sword fight, rebellion, battles, sex, swords and armor, medieval, slavery, friendship between men ...
Time: ancient times, 1st century b.c., 2000s, 1st century
Place: ancient greece
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The Great Escape (1963)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 172 min.
Story: The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocates them to a high-security 'escape-proof' camp to sit out the remainder of the war. Undaunted, the prisoners ...
Style: epic, suspenseful, suspense, realistic, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night, family friendly, kids, manly, family outing ...
Plot: world war two, prison, prisoner, prison escape, soldier, motorcycle, pow, nazi, freedom, war, chase, capture ...
Time: 1940s, year 1963, 1900s, 20th century
Place: germany, america, europe, switzerland, alps ...
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 7.0
 253K
Rambo (2008)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: When governments fail to act on behalf of captive missionaries, ex-Green Beret John James Rambo sets aside his peaceful existence along the Salween River in a war-torn region of Thailand to take action. Although he's still haunted by violent ...
Style: cult classic, grindhouse, suspense, harsh, rough ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: one man army, rambo, violent, military, jungle, lone hero, bomb, soldier, sniper, mercenary, warrior, blood ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 80s, 21st century
Place: burma, thailand, asia, arizona, southeast asia
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Gangs of New York (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 167 min.
Story: It's 1863. America was born in the streets. Amsterdam Vallon returns to the Five Points of America to seek vengeance against the psychotic gangland kingpin, Bill the Butcher, who murdered his father years earlier. With an eager pickpocket by ...
Style: epic, tense, rough, bloody, period piece ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: revenge, gang, vengeance, gangster, organized crime, street gang, betrayal, racism, violence, courage, violent, gang war ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1800s, 1860s, edwardian era ...
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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 8.8
 2.4M
Forrest Gump (1994)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story: A man with a low IQ has accomplished great things in his life and been present during significant historic events - in each case, far exceeding what anyone imagined he could do. Yet, despite all the things he has attained, his one true love eludes ...
Style: inspirational, touching, feel good, sentimental, uplifting ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, chick flick, kids, teens ...
Plot: life philosophy, philosophy, mentally challenged, love, life, storytelling, destiny, rise to the top, vietnam war, human spirit, life & death, selflessness ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, 60s, 50s, 1950s ...
Place: china, alabama, america, vietnam, los angeles ...
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