Movies like The Wind That Shakes the Barley
The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006) is a war movie directed by Ken Loach. The list below collects the movies that people who loved it enjoyed most, best known first.
1. Michael Collins (1996)
★ 6.9 · 542 votes · War, Drama, Thriller
Michael Collins plays a crucial role in the establishment of the Irish Free State in the 1920s, but becomes vilified by those hoping to create a completely independent Irish republic.
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2. War for the Planet of the Apes (2017)
★ 7.2 · 10,031 votes · Drama, Sci-Fi, War
Caesar and his apes are forced into a deadly conflict with an army of humans led by a ruthless Colonel. After the apes suffer unimaginable losses, Caesar wrestles with his darker instincts and begins his own mythic quest to avenge his kind. As the journey finally brings them face to face, Caesar and the Colonel are pitted against each other in an epic battle that will determine the fate of both their species and the future of the planet.
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3. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
★ 8.0 · 3,626 votes · Adventure, History, War
During World War I, English officer Thomas Edward 'T.E.' Lawrence sets out to unite and lead the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes to fight the Turks.
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4. The Four Feathers (2002)
★ 6.7 · 619 votes · Action, Adventure, Drama
A young British officer resigns his post when he learns of his regiment's plan to ship out to the Sudan for the conflict with the Mahdi. His friends and fiancée send him four white feathers as symbols of what they view as his cowardice. To redeem his honor, he disguises himself as an Arab and secretly saves their lives.
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5. Zulu (1964)
★ 7.4 · 590 votes · Drama, History, War
In 1879, during the Anglo-Zulu War, man-of-the-people Lt. Chard and snooty Lt. Bromhead are in charge of defending the isolated and vastly outnumbered Natal outpost of Rorke's Drift from tribal hordes.
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6. Beasts of No Nation (2015)
★ 7.6 · 1,943 votes · Drama, War
Based on the experiences of Agu, a child fighting in the civil war of a West African country. Follows Agu's journey as he's forced to join a group of soldiers. While he fears his commander and many of the men around him, his fledgling childhood has been brutally shattered by the war raging through his country, and he is at first torn between conflicting revulsion and fascination.
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7. Dunkirk (2017)
★ 7.4 · 18,097 votes · War, Action, Drama
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.
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8. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
★ 7.8 · 984 votes · Drama, War
When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during the Great War, they are assigned to the Western Front, where their patriotism is destroyed by the harsh realities of combat.
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9. The Guns of Navarone (1961)
★ 7.3 · 916 votes · Adventure, Drama, 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.
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10. Paths of Glory (1957)
★ 8.3 · 3,406 votes · War, Drama
A commanding officer defends three scapegoats on trial for a failed offensive that occurred within the French Army in 1916.
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11. The Duellists (1977)
★ 7.3 · 663 votes · Drama, War
In 1800, as Napoleon Bonaparte rises to power in France, a rivalry erupts between Armand and Gabriel, two lieutenants in the French Army, over a perceived insult. For over a decade, they engage in a series of duels amidst larger conflicts, including the failed French invasion of Russia in 1812, and shifts in the political and social systems of Europe.
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