List of war films and TV specials

This is a list of war films and TV specials such as documentaries, TV mini-series, and drama serials depicting aspects of historical wars.

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Films by genre

War of Ancient Egypt (3050–332 BC)

War of Ancient Israel (1600–400 BC)

Trojan War (1193–1183 BC)

Greco-Persian Wars (499–450 BC)

Wars of Ancient China (771 BC–1911 AD)

Spring and Autumn period (771-476 BC)

Warring States period (476–221 BC)

Chu–Han Contention (206–202 BC)

Han–Xiongnu War (133 BC–89 AD)
  • Mulan (1998), animated film
  • Mulan (2009)[1]
  • The Rise of King Modu (2013)
  • Mulan (2020), live-action remake of 1998 animated film


Wars of the Three Kingdoms (220–280)

Wars of Tang dynasty (618–907)

Wars of Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period (907–960)

Wars of Song dynasty (960–1279)

Qing conquest of the Ming (1618–1683)

Opium Wars: First Opium War (1839–1842) Second Opium War (1856–1860)
  • Ahen senso (1943), First Opium War
  • Eternity (1943), First Opium War
  • Huo shao yuan ming yuan (The Burning of the Imperial Palace) (1983) (TV miniseries), Second Opium War
  • The Opium War (1997), First Opium War

Taiping Rebellion (1850–1864)

First Sino-Japanese War (1894–1895)

Boxer Rebellion (1899–1901)

Xinhai Revolution (1911–1912)

Wars of Alexander the Great (338–325 BC)

Wars of the Diadochi (322–275 BC)
  • Il Colosso di Rodi (1961)

Asoka the Great's conquests (ca. 304–232 BC)

Wars of the Roman Republic/Empire

Punic Wars (264–146 BC)

Servile Wars (135–75 BC)

Roman civil wars during the Late Republic (133–31 BC)

Jewish–Roman wars (63 BC – 135 AD)

Gallic Wars (58–50 BC)

War of Roman Britain (43–410)
  • Boudica (2003), fictionalized story of Boudicca, Queen of the Iceni of Britain and the revolt against Roman occupation.
  • Centurion (2010), Roman ninth Legion in 2nd century Britain
  • The Eagle (2011), Roman centurion in 2nd century Britain
  • Britannia (2018)

Dacian Wars (86–106)

Marcomannic Wars (167–180)

Roman civil wars during the Late Empire (306–398)

War with the Huns (395–453)

Fall of the Western Roman Empire (455–476)

Gothic War (367–554)

Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain(410–600)

Wars of the Francia (481–840)

Early Muslim conquests (622–751)

Spanish Reconquest (718–1492)

War during the Viking Age (789–1130)

Norman conquest of England (1066–1076)

Crusades (1095–1272)

Northern Crusades (1147–1410)

Mongol conquests (1206–1324)

First Barons' War (1215–1217)

Ottoman wars in Europe (1299–1922)

Byzantine–Ottoman Wars (1299–1479)

Ottoman Invasion of Serbia (1371–1459)
  • Banović Strahinja (1981)
  • Battle of Kosovo (1989)
  • Put ružama posut (Rose covered road) (2013)

Ottoman–Hungarian Wars (1421–1566)
  • Gábor diák (1956)
  • The Testament of Aga Koppanyi (1967)
  • Egri Csillagok (Stars of Eger) (1968)
  • A beszélő köntös (Talking Kaftan) (1969)
  • Törökfejes kopja (The Turkish spear) (1973)
  • Vlad Tepes (1979)[2]

Skanderbeg's rebellion (1443–1468)

Ottoman invasion of Otranto (1480–1481)

Croatian–Slovene Peasant Revolt (1573)

Long Turkish War (1593–1606)

Polish-Ottoman War (1620–1699)

First Serbian Uprising (1804–1813)
  • Život i dela besmrtnog vožda Karađorđa (1911)
  • Pesma sa Kumbare (1955)
  • Roj (1966)
  • Vuk Karadžić (1987) (TV series)
  • Bitka na Čegru (2006)

Second Serbian Uprising (1815–1817)

Herzegovina uprising (1875–77)

Montenegrin–Ottoman War (1876–78)

Serbian–Ottoman War (1876–1878)
  • Sve će to narod pozlatiti (1995) (TV)

Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878)

Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising (1903)

Balkan Wars (1912–1913)
  • Balkan Wars 1912–1913 (2016), Turkish documentary available on the official Youtube channel (with English subtitles) .
  • Kumanovska bitka (2012), Serbian documentary about the Battle of Kumanovo available on Youtube (in Serbian)

Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922)

Wars of Scottish Independence (1296–1328), (1332–1357)

Hundred Years' War (1337–1453)

Hussite Wars (1419–1434)

Wars of the Roses (1455–1485)

Sengoku Period (1467–1573)

Italian Wars (1494–1559)

Battle of Mactan (1521)
  • Lapu Lapu (1955)
  • Lapu Lapu (2002)

French Wars of Religion (1562–1598)
  • La Reine Margot (1954)
  • La Reine Margot (Queen Margot) (1994)
  • Henri 4 (2010)
  • La princesse de Montpensier (2010)

Philippine Revolts Against Spain (1567–1872)
  • Dagohoy (1953)
  • Diego Silang (1951)
  • Gabriela Silang (1971)

Eighty Years' War (1568–1648)

Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604)

Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–98)

Polish–Muscovite War (1605–1618)

Thirty Years' War (1618–1648)

American Indian Wars (1622–1924)

English Civil War (1642–1651)

Ukraino-Russian Liberation War from Poland (1648–1654)

Polish Commonwealth Wars (1648–1672)
  • Ogniem i Mieczem (With Fire and Sword) (1999) civil war – Cossaks revolt 1648–1651
  • Potop (The Deluge) (1974) Second Northern War 1655–1660
  • Pan Wolodyjowski (Colonel Wolodyjowski) (1969) 1660–1672 – skirmishes with Tartars and the beginning of Turkish – Polish Commonwealth war 1672–1676

Anglo-Dutch War (1652-1674)

War of Louis XIV（1660 – 1715）

Scanian War (1675–1679)

Jacobite risings (1688–1746)

Great Northern War (1700–1721)

Rákóczi's War of Independence (1703–1711)
  • Rákóczi nótája (1943) Hungarian film
  • Rákóczi hadnagya (1954) Hungarian film
  • Kard és kocka (1959) Hungarian film
  • A Tenkes kapitánya (1963) Hungarian TV-Series
  • Csínom Palkó (1973) Hungarian film
  • A menekülő herceg (1973) Hungarian TV-Movie
  • Rákóczi fogságai (2006) Hungarian TV-Movie

Hungary during Absolutism of the Habsburgs (1711–1848)
  • Kísértet Lublón (1976) Hungarian film
  • Vivát, Benyovszky! (1975) Hungarian tv-series
  • Die unfreiwilligen Reisen des Moritz August Benjowski (1975) German-Italian tv-series
  • A császár parancsára (1957) Hungarian film
  • Szegény gazdagok (1959) Hungarian film
  • A járvány (1975) Hungarian film

War of the Austrian Succession (1740–1748)

Seven Years' War (1756–1763) and French and Indian War (1754–1763)

Pugachev's Rebellion (1773–1775)

American Revolutionary War (1775–1783)

French Revolutionary Wars (1792–1802)

First Barbary War (1801–1805)
  • Tripoli (1950), depiction of the Battle of Derne

Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815)

War of 1812

Italian unification (1815–1871)

Caucasian War (1817–1864)

Era of Hungarian Betyár (18–19th century)
  • Hajdúk (1974)
  • A trombitás (1979)
  • Rózsa Sándor (1971)
  • Talpuk alatt fütyül a szél (1976)
  • Rosszemberek (1979)
  • Sárga rózsa (1940)
  • Sobri (2002)

Texas War of Independence (1835–1836)

Mexican–American War (1846–1848)

Revolutions of 1848 (1848–1849)
  • 1848 (1949)
  • The Rising Sea (1953)
  • A kőszívű ember fiai (1965)
  • 80 Hussars (1978)
  • Flowers of Reverie (1984)
  • A komáromi fiú (1987)

Passive Resistance (Hungary) (1849–1867)

Crimean War (1853–1856)

Eureka Rebellion (1854)

Indian Rebellion of 1857 and subsequent colonial conflicts in India (1857)

American Civil War (1861–1865)

(Also see American Civil War films, Cinema and television about the American Civil War)

Franco-Mexican War (1861–1867)

Paraguayan War (1864–1870)

Second Schleswig War (1864)

Boshin War (1868–1869)

Franco-Prussian War (1870–1871)

Satsuma Rebellion (1877)

Scramble for Africa (1879–1914)

Anglo-Zulu War (1879)

First Boer War (1880–1881)
  • Majuba (a.k.a. Hill of Doves) (1968)

Colonial conflicts in Northern Africa (1880s–1931)

Mahdist Sudanese War (1881–1899)

First Matabele War (1893–1894)

First Italo-Ethiopian War (1895–1896)
  • Abuna Messias (1939)
  • Adwa (1999)

Second Boer War (1899–1902)

Timok Rebellion (1883)
  • Timočka buna (1983)

Serbo-Bulgarian War (1885)

Philippine Revolution (1896–1898)

Spanish–American War (1898) – Cuban War of Independence (1895–1898)

Philippine–American War (1899–1902/1913)

Russo-Japanese War (1904–1905)
  • Port Arthur (1936)
  • Jack London (1943)
  • Kreiser Varyag (1946)
  • Nichiro sensô shôri no hishi: Tekichû ôdan sanbyaku-ri (1957)
  • Meiji tennô to nichiro daisenso (1958)
  • Nihonkai daikaisen (1969)
  • The Battle of Tsushima (1975) [documentary], depiction of the naval Battle of Tsushima
  • 203 kochi (1980), depiction of the Battle of Port Arthur
  • Nihonkai daikaisen: Umi yukaba (1983)
  • Lime-iro Senkitan (2003)
  • Bogatstvo (2004)
  • Saka no Ue no Kumo (2009) Japanese TV series

Taiwanese rebellions against Japanese rule (1907–1930)
  • Seediq Bale (2011)

Mexican Revolution (1910–1920) and Cristero War (1926–1929)

Xinhai Revolution (1911–1912)

US Intervention in Nicaragua / Nicaraguan Civil War (1912–1933)

World War I (1914–1918)

(See also: List of World War I films and World War I films)

Western Front (1914–1918)

Eastern Front (1914–1918)

Italian Front (1915–1918)

Middle Eastern theatre of World War I (1914–1918)

African theatre of World War I (1914–1918)

Serbian Campaign of World War I (1914–1918)
  • Sa verom u Boga (1932), Serbian silent film
  • Ultimatum (1938), the backdrop of the July Crisis, between the assassination of Archduke and the beginning of the First World War
  • March on the Drina (1964), Serbian victory over Austria-Hungary in the Battle of Cer in August 1914
  • Kolubarska bitka (1990), TV film about the Serbian victory against Austria-Hungary in the Battle of Kolubara in November 1914
  • Toplički ustanak (1991), TV documentary about the Serb rebellion in 1917 carried out by Serbian guerrillas against the Bulgarian occupation force in the eastern part of Serbia
  • Capitaine Conan (1996), French soldiers in Salonika and Bulgaria
  • Where the Yellow Lemon Blooms (2006), Serbia's exodus after a joint offensive by Germany, Austria-Hungary and Bulgaria in the winter of 1915/16
  • St. George Shoots the Dragon (2009)
  • Milunka Savić – heroina Velikog rata (2013), docu-drama about Milunka Savić, the most decorated female soldier of the Great War, veteran of three wars
  • Heroj 1914 (2014), docu-drama about the successful Serbian defense against Austria-Hungary in 1914
  • The Man Who Defended Gavrilo Princip (2014), true story of Rudolf Cestler, who defended members of the 'Young Bosnia' in court
  • Zaspanka za vojnika (2018)
  • King Peter I (2018)

Aviation in World War I (1915–1918)

Spy fiction in World War I

Russian Civil War (1917–1922)

Russian Revolution (1917)

Finnish Civil War (1918)
  • 1918 (1957)
  • Under the North Star (1968)
  • Lunastus (1997)
  • Raja 1918 (2007)
  • Tears of April (2008)
  • Under the North Star (2009)

Latvian War of Independence (1918–1920)
  • Rigas Sargi (Defenders of Riga) (2007)

Estonian War of Independence (1918–1920)
  • Noored Kotkad (The Young Eagles) (1927)
  • Nimed marmortahvlil (Names in Marble) (2002)

Hungarian–Romanian War (1919)
  • Csillagosok, katonák (1967)
  • Magyar rapszódia (1979)

Polish–Soviet War (1919–1921)

Irish War of Independence (1919–1921) and Irish Civil War (1922–1923)

Chinese Civil War (1927–1949)

Communist insurgency (1927–1937)

Chinese Communist Revolution (1945–1949)

Chaco War (1932–1935)

Second Italo-Ethiopian War (1935–1939)

Spanish Civil War (1936–1939)

Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945)

Soviet–Japanese border conflicts (1939)

World War II (1939–1945)

Because World War II is the most documented war on film and TV, it is also recommended to see List of World War II films for a more detailed list of films. (also see World War II films)

Invasion of Poland (1939)

Norwegian Campaign (1940)

Battle of France (1940)

Western Front (1944–1945)

Axis occupation of Greece (1940–1944)

North African Campaign (1940–1943)

Pacific War (1941–1945)

Philippines campaign (1941–1942) and Philippines campaign (1944–1945)

Burma Campaign (1942–1945)

Italian Campaign (1943–1945)


Prisoner of war

Italian resistance movement (1943–1945)

French Resistance (1940–1944)

Dutch resistance (1940–1945)

Belgian resistance (1940–1944)

Polish resistance movement in World War II (1939–1945)

Denmark in World War II (1940–1945)

Spy fiction in ww2

Air warfare in Europe (1939–1945)

Battle of the Atlantic (1939–1945)

The Jews in WW2

Finnish war (1939–1944)

Eastern Front (World War II) (1941–1945)

World War II in Yugoslavia (1941–1945)
  • Chetniks! The Fighting Guerrillas (1943)
  • Undercover (1943), Yugoslav guerrilla movement in German-occupied Yugoslavia loosely based on the Chetnik resistance movement
  • In the mountains of Yugoslavia (1946), first post-war film to be filmed in Yugoslavia, a Soviet-Yugoslav coproduction
  • Daleko je sunce (1953), Yugoslav Partisans
  • Šolaja (1955), Serb rebellion against the genocide committed by the Croatian Ustaše
  • Campo mamula (1959), German POW camp in Montenegro
  • Vetar je stao pred zoru (1959), Partisan saboteurs in German-occupied Belgrade
  • X-25 javlja (1960), Partisan spy infiltrates a German HQ
  • The Ninth Circle (1960), depiction of Croatian Ustaše death camp based on the Jasenovac concentration camp
  • Kapetan Leši (1960), Yugoslav Partisans in German-occupied areas of Kosovo
  • Kozara (1962), Yugoslav Partisans in battle for Kozara mountain
  • Prozvan je i V-3 (1962), Wehrmacht troops massacre civilians, including school children, in Kragujevac, Serbia
  • Desant na Drvar (1963), Yugoslav Partisans in charge of protecting Josip Broz Tito face a full-scale airborne assault by Otto Skorzeny's SS troops
  • Nikoletina Bursać (1964), partisan machine-gunner, a tough guy with a gentle heart
  • The Secret Invasion (1964), British intelligence sends five convicted criminals into Yugoslavia to rescue an Italian General and convince him to turn his troops against the occupying Nazi forces
  • The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964), last part of the movie is set during the Nazi invasion of Yugoslavia and stars Omar Sharif as a Yugoslav Partisan
  • Čovek iz hrastove šume (1965), a Chetnik executioner finds his human side after falling in love with a partisan girl, however she betrays him
  • Provereno nema mina (1965), a Soviet-Yugoslav co-production set just after the liberation of Belgrade
  • Three (1965)
  • Pogled u zjenicu sunca (1966), a gritty story of a small group of partisans left behind in the mountains, who face cold, starvation, typhus and, ultimately, hallucinations, and a young partisan who volunteered to retrieve them
  • Bomb at 10:10 (1967)
  • Koraci kroz magle (1967), while wounded partisans retreat through foggy marshlands, Germans quietly start a manhunt while anticipating their physical and mental exhaustion
  • Praznik (1967), Chetniks rescue downed US pilots, and soon face a demand by collaborationist authorities to hand them over
  • Adriatic Sea of Fire (1968), inspired by a true story of two naval officers of the defeated Royal Yugoslav Army, Milan Spasić and Sergej Mašera, who sacrificed themselves and their vessel to stop the German-Italian advance
  • Lelejska gora (1968), Partisans in Montenegro
  • Vuk sa Prokletija (1968), ethnic Albanians in Italian-occupied areas of Kosovo
  • The Battle of Neretva (1969), Academy Award-nominated movie about the Yugoslav Partisans's epic battle by the Neretva river
  • The Fifth Day of Peace (1969)
  • Krvava bajka (1969), Wehrmacht troops massacre civilians, including school children, in Kragujevac, Serbia
  • Kuda idu divlje svinje (1971 TV series), two groups of smugglers clash in Croatia during the Ustaše regime
  • Walter Defends Sarajevo (1972), somewhat fictionalized story of a Yugoslav war hero Vladimir Perić Valter
  • Istrel (1972), Yugoslav Partisans fight against Bulgarian occupation in Macedonia
  • The Battle of Sutjeska (1973), Yugoslav Partisans and their battle against Germans by the Sutjeska river
  • Otpisani (1974 TV series), Partisan saboteurs in German-occupied Belgrade
  • The Republic of Užice (1974), Partisans establish a liberated territory in and around a small Serbian town of Užice, in autumn of 1941
  • Salaš u Malom Ritu (1975 TV series), children face Nazi atrocities in a small village in Serbia
  • Vrhovi Zelengore (1976), Yugoslav Partisans and their battle against Germans by the Sutjeska river
  • Battle for the Railway (1978), a duel between Partisans on one side, and the joint force of German Wehrmacht and Bulgarian troops on the other – over the railway in southern Serbia and Macedonia
  • Force Ten from Navarone (1978), OSS mission in Yugoslavia
  • Occupation in 26 Pictures (1978), depiction of Croatian Ustaše atrocities in Dalmatia
  • Boško Buha (1979), a young Yugoslav Partisan who turned to be one of the greatest icons of World War II in the former Yugoslavia
  • Partizanska eskadrila (1979), heavily fictionalized story of the first Yugoslav Partisan air force unit
  • Pakleni otok (1979), Germans attempt to take control over Dalmatia after Italians surrender; they immediately clash with partisans on a small island
  • See You in the Next War (1980), German-occupied Slovenia
  • The Fall of Italy (1981), Partisans in Dalmatia face chaos in the aftermath of Italian surrender
  • Nepokoreni grad (1981 TV series), depiction of Croatian Ustaše terror campaign, including the Kerestinec prison
  • 13. jul (1982), Yugoslav Partisans in Montenegro
  • Balkan Express (1983), petty criminals try to make some money under the disguise of musical band in Nazi-occupied Serbia
  • Great Transport (1983), thousand of Partisans march to comrades' aid
  • Igmanski marš (1983), Partisans face a devastating march across Igman mountain
  • The End of the War (1984), at the end of World War II, a Serbian man takes his son to search for and kill five members of the Croatian Ustaše militia who tortured and killed his wife
  • A Youth Orchestra (1985)
  • Odlazak ratnika, povratak maršala (1986), TV series
  • Lager Niš (1987), Nazi death camp in Niš, Serbia
  • Braća po materi (1988), depiction of Croatian Ustaše atrocities, told through the story of two half-brothers, a Croat and a Serb
  • Silent Gunpowder (1990), story of a Serbian village in the mountains of Bosnia and its villagers who found themselves divided along two opposing ideological lines
  • Underground (1995), epic story spanning from Nazi invasion of Yugoslavia to Yugoslav wars of the 1990s
  • The Border (1996), Italian occupation of Dalmatia
  • The Dagger (1999), story of hatred and violence in Bosnia, spanning from World War Two to the Bosnian War
  • Long Dark Night (2004), story of two friends, one Partisan and the other one Ustaša, in Ustaše-controlled Croatia
  • Badnje veče 1943 (2007 TV), story of two brothers in rival resistance groups, one Partisan, other a Chetnik, who come together for a family meeting
  • How I Was Stolen by the Germans (2011)
  • Ravna Gora (2013 TV series), story of Serbian Chetnik resistance fighters
  • The Liberation of Skopje (2016), German-Bulgarian occupation of Macedonia
  • The Diary of Diana B. (2019), Austrian-born humanitarian Diana Budisavljević risks her life by saving Serbian children from Ustaše-controlled Stara Gradiška concentration camp.

Ecuadorian–Peruvian War (1941–1942)
  • Open Wound ("Mono con gallinas" in Spanish) (2013)

Indonesian National Revolution (1945–1949)

Cold War (1945–1991)

(Also see Cold War films)

Greek Civil War (1946–1949)

Hukbalahap Insurgency (1946–1954)
  • Huk sa Bagong Pamumuhay (1953)
  • Huk! (1956)
  • Patayin Si Sec. Magsaysay (1957)

Indochina Wars (1946–1989)

First Indochina War (1946–1954)

Vietnam War (1955–1975)

(Also see Vietnam War in film and Vietnam War films)

Cambodian Civil War (1967–1975)

Sino-Vietnamese War (1979–1989)

Indo-Pakistani wars and conflicts (1947–present)

Indo-Pakistani War of 1947 (1947)

Bengali Language Movement (1952)

Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 (1965)
  • Prem Pujari (1965)
  • Upkaar (1967)
  • Operation Dwarka Based on naval operation commenced by the Pakistan Navy to attack the Indian coastal town of Dwarka on 7 September 1965 (1998)

East Pakistan-West Pakistan War of 1971 (1971)

Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir (1989–present)

Kargil War (1999)

Arab–Israeli conflict (1948–present)

First Arab-Israeli War (1948–1949)

Second Arab–Israeli War (1956)

Third Arab–Israeli War (1967)

Fourth Arab–Israeli War (1973)
  • The bullet is still in my pocket (1974)
  • Sadat (1983), miniseries
  • Kippur (2000)
  • Ayyam El Sadat (2001)
  • The War in October (2013), documentary

First Intifada (1987–1993)

Second Intifada (2000–2005)

2006 Lebanon War

Gaza War (2008–09)

Burmese insurgency (1948–present)

Malayan Emergency (1948–1960)

Korean War (1950–1953) and Korean DMZ Conflict (1966–present)

(Also see Korean War films)

Mau Mau Uprising (1952–1960)

Cuban Revolution (1953–1959)

Algerian War (1954–1962)

Hungarian Revolution of 1956

Cyprus Emergency (1955–1959)

Colombian conflict (1960–present)

Indian annexation of Goa (1961)

Dhofar Rebellion (1962–1976)

Sino-Indian War (1962)

Aden Emergency (1963–1967)

Modern Wars in Sub-Saharan Africa (1960–present )

Congo Crisis (1960–1966)

Eritrean War of Independence (1961–1991)

Guinea-Bissau War of Independence (1963–1974)

Rhodesian Bush War (1964–1979)

Chadian Civil War (1965–79)

Namibian War of Independence (1966–1990)

Nigerian Civil War (1967–1970)

Angolan Civil War (1975–2002)

Chadian–Libyan conflict (1978–1987)

Uganda–Tanzania War (1978–1979)

Second Sudanese Civil War (1983–2005)

Lord's Resistance Army insurgency in Uganda (1987–present)

Somali Civil War (1988–present)

First Liberian Civil War (1989–1997)

Rwandan Civil War (1990–1993)

Second Congo War (1998–2003)

Sierra Leone Civil War (1991–2002)

Second Liberian Civil War (1999–2003)

War in Darfur (2003–present)

Central African Republic Bush War (2003–2012)

Kivu conflict (2004–2013)
  • Blood Coltan (2008), documentary
  • Sniper: Reloaded (2011)
  • Kony, M23, and the Real Rebels of Congo (2012), VICE News documentary
  • War Witch (2012)

Chadian Civil War (2005–10)

Central African Republic conflict (2012–present)
  • The Devil Tried to Divide Us (2014), VICE News documentary

Tuareg rebellion (2012)

South Sudanese Civil War (2013–2015)
  • Saving South Sudan (2014), VICE News documentary

Indonesian killings of 1965–66

Naxalite–Maoist insurgency in India (1967–present)

Communist Insurgency of the Philippines (1969–present)
  • Ama Namin (1998)
  • Huk! (1956)
  • Ex-Army
  • Ultimatum Ceasefire (1987)

The Troubles in Northern Ireland (1969–2005)

Islamic Insurgency of the Philippines (1970–present)

Yugoslav counter-insurgency against Bugojno group (1972)
  • Brisani prostor (1985), TV series
  • Balkanska pravila (1997)

Turkish invasion of Cyprus (1974)

Indonesian invasion of East Timor (1975–1976)

Lebanese Civil War (1975–1990)
  • Die Fälschung (1981)
  • The Delta Force (1986)
  • Witness in the War Zone (1987)
  • Navy SEALs (1990)
  • al-I'sar [in Arabic] (~1992)
  • West Beirut (1998)
  • Zozo (2005)

First Lebanon War (1982)

War of the Camps (1985–1988)

Operation Entebbe (1976)

Nicaraguan Civil War (1979–1992)

Soviet–Afghan War (1979–1989) and Afghan Civil War (1992–1996)

Internal conflict in Peru (1980–present)

Iran–Iraq War (1980–1988)

Salvadoran Civil War (1980–1992)

Falklands War (1982)
  • Los Chicos De La Guerra (1984)
  • Tumbledown (1988) (TV)
  • Resurrected (1989)
  • An Ungentlemanly Act (1992) (TV)
  • Pozo de zorro (Fox hole) (1999)
  • Iluminados Por El Fuego (Blessed by Fire) (2005)
  • 1982, Estuvimos ahí (1982, We were there) (2004)
  • This Is England (2007)
  • The Iron Lady (2011)
  • Combatientes (Combatans) (2013) (TV)
  • Soldado Argentino Solo Conocido por Dios (Soldiers Only Know by God) (2017)

Sri Lankan Civil War (1983–2009)

US Invasion of Grenada (1983)

Al-Anfal Campaign (1986–1989)

South Yemen Civil War (1986)

Nagorno-Karabakh War (1988–1994)

United States invasion of Panama (1989–1990)

Gulf War (1990–1991)

(Also see Gulf War films)

Algerian Civil War (1991–2002)

Yugoslav Wars (1991–1999)

Ten-Day War in Slovenia (1991)
  • Sivi kamion crvene boje (Red Coloured Grey Truck) (2004)

Croatian War of Independence (1991–1995)

Bosnian War (1992–1995)

Kosovo War (1998–1999)

NATO bombing of Yugoslavia (1999)

Civil war in Tajikistan (1992–1997)
  • Mama (1998)
  • Nikto, krome nas... (2008)
  • Silent Border Post («Тихая застава» in Russian) (2011)
  • The Death of Innocents ("Марги бегунох" in Tajik) (2013)

War in Abkhazia (1992–93)

First Chechen War (1994–1996)
  • Prisoner of the Mountains (1996)
  • Damned and Forgotten (1997), documentary («Прокляты и забыты» in Russian)
  • Purgatory (1997) («Чистилище» in Russian)
  • Checkpoint (1998) («Блокпост» in Russian)
  • Proof of Life (1998)
  • Man's work (2001 TV series) («Мужская работа» in Russian)
  • House of Fools (2002)
  • The Storm Gate (2006 TV miniseries) («Грозовые ворота» in Russian)
  • 12 (2007)

East Timorese crisis (1999)

Second Chechen War (1999–2000)
  • War (2002)
  • It is an honor («Честь имею» in Russian), miniseries (2004)
  • Breakthrough («Прорыв» in Russian) (2006)
  • Alexandra (2007)
  • Captive (2008)
  • Russian sacrifice («Русская жертва» in Russian) (2008)
  • The Search (2014)

Insurgency in the Republic of Macedonia (2001)
  • How I Killed a Saint (Како убив светец) (2004)
  • Bal-Can-Can (2005)

War on Terrorism (2001–present)

September 11 attacks (2001)

War in Afghanistan (2001–present)

Iraq War (2003–2011)

Covert special operations in Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia etc.

Insurgency in Saudi Arabia (2003–present)

Insurgency in the Maghreb (2002–present)

Joint Chiefs of Staff operations
  • E-Ring (2005–2006) (TV series)

Operation Enduring Freedom – Philippines (2002–2015)

Terrorist Sleeper cells

War on Terror in Pakistan

2004 unrest in Kosovo

Mexican Drug War (2006–present)
  • Breaking Bad (TV series) (2008–2013)
  • El Sicario, Room 164 (2010), A documentary about an anonymous Ciudad Juárez Sicario known to have killed hundreds
  • Miss Bala (2011), A beauty contestant is kidnapped by a cartel and forced to do drug missions in wartorn Mexico
  • Savages (2012), Small-time pot growers search for their lover, kidnapped by a cartel they refused to work with
  • Snitch (2012), His son arrested, a concerned father makes a deal with a US attorney to infiltrate a Mexican cartel and ends up trapped in a war zone
  • End of Watch (2012), The Sinaloa Cartel declares war on 2 LAPD officers arrest who raid a safe house
  • The Last Stand (2013), A border-town Sheriff's Department takes on a powerful drug lord and his private army
  • The Mexican Mormon War (2012), Vice documentary on the Mormon vigilante militia fighting a drug cartel in Chihuahua
  • Narco Cultura (2013), A documentary film that explores the cultural glorification of modern drug traffickers
  • El Velador/The Night Watchman (2013), A documentary portraying the quieter, less obvious impact of the drug war
  • Metástasis (TV series) (2015)
  • Sicario (2015), An idealistic FBI agent is enlisted by an elected government task force to aid in the escalating war against drugs at the border area between the U.S. and Mexico
  • Sicario: Day of the Soldado (2018), A sequel to 2015's Sicario. The story relates to the drug war at the U.S.-Mexico border and an attempt by the United States government to incite increased conflict among the cartels.
  • Narcos: Mexico (2018-present), It focuses on the illegal drug trade in Mexico.
  • Rambo: Last Blood (2019 Film),

South Ossetia War (2008)

2011 Libyan Civil War
  • Benghazi Rising (2011), documentary
  • Qaddafi: Our Best Enemy (2011), documentary
  • First to Fall (2014), documentary
  • War Story (2014)
  • A Private War (2018)

Factional violence in Libya (2011–14)

Syrian Civil War (2011–present)
  • Ladder to Damascus (2013)
  • Return to Homs (2013), documentary
  • ChicagoGirl: The Social Network Takes on a Dictator (2013)
  • Ghosts of Aleppo (2014), VICE News documentary
  • Rojava: Syria's Unknown War (2014), VICE News documentary
  • Sniper: Legacy (2014)
  • Her War: Women Vs. ISIS (2015), documentary
  • Phantom (2015)
  • Dugma: The Button (2016), documentary
  • The Father (2016)
  • A Private War (2018)
  • Girls of the Sun (2018)
  • Spider in the Web (film) (2019)

Iraqi Civil War (2014–2017)
  • The Road to Mosul (2015), VICE News documentary
  • The Road to Fallujah (2016), VICE News documentary
  • Reseba (2016)

War in Donbass (2014–present)
  • War correspondent ("Военный корреспондент" in Russian) (2014)
  • The Guard (2015 TV series) ("Гвардiя" in Ukrainian) (2015), TV series
  • Cyborgs: Heroes Never Die (2017)
  • Frost (2017)
  • Donbass (2018)

Yemeni Civil War (2015–present)

Battle of Marawi (2017)

Mercenaries in the third world

(See also: Mercenaries in popular culture: Films)

See also

References
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  2. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0141966/?ref_=nv_sr_1
  3. https://www.allmovie.com/movie/army-of-frankensteins-v617751
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  11. https://www.allmovie.com/movie/werewolves-of-the-third-reich-v693308
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  13. https://www.allmovie.com/movie/p-51-dragon-fighter-v600361
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