Movies like Journey's End
Journey's End (2017) is a war movie directed by Saul Dibb. The list below collects the movies that people who loved it enjoyed most, best known first.
1. 1917 (2019)
★ 8.0 · 14,009 votes · War, Drama, History
At the height of the First World War, two young British soldiers must cross enemy territory and deliver a message that will stop a deadly attack on hundreds of soldiers.
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2. 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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3. 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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4. A Very Long Engagement (2004)
★ 7.3 · 1,377 votes · Drama, Romance, War
Young Frenchwoman Mathilde searches for the truth about her missing fiancé, lost during World War I, and learns many unexpected things along the way. The love of her life is gone. But she refuses to believe he's gone forever — and she needs to know for sure.
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5. 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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6. War Horse (2011)
★ 7.3 · 3,788 votes · War, History, Drama
On the brink of the First World War, Albert's beloved horse Joey is sold to the Cavalry by his father. Against the backdrop of the Great War, Joey begins an odyssey full of danger, joy, and sorrow, and he transforms everyone he meets along the way. Meanwhile, Albert, unable to forget his equine friend, searches the battlefields of France to find Joey and bring him home.
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7. 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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8. Wonder Woman (2017)
★ 7.2 · 21,289 votes · Action, Adventure, Fantasy
An Amazon princess comes to the world of Man in the grips of the First World War to confront the forces of evil and bring an end to human conflict.
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9. The King's Man (2021)
★ 6.7 · 5,282 votes · Action, Adventure, Thriller
As a collection of history's worst tyrants and criminal masterminds gather to plot a war to wipe out millions, one man must race against time to stop them.
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10. All Quiet on the Western Front (2022)
★ 7.7 · 4,994 votes · War, Drama
Paul Baumer and his friends Albert and Muller, egged on by romantic dreams of heroism, voluntarily enlist in the German army. Full of excitement and patriotic fervour, the boys enthusiastically march into a war they believe in. But once on the Western Front, they discover the soul-destroying horror of World War I.
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11. Legends of the Fall (1994)
★ 7.4 · 2,971 votes · Drama, Western, Romance
In early 20th-century Montana, Col. William Ludlow lives on a ranch in the wilderness with his sons, Alfred, Tristan, and Samuel. Eventually, the unconventional but close-knit family are bound by loyalty, tested by war, and torn apart by love, as told over the course of several decades in this epic saga.
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12. Doctor Zhivago (1965)
★ 7.6 · 1,326 votes · Drama, Romance, War
The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.
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13. The Nice Guys (2016)
★ 7.1 · 9,010 votes · Comedy, Crime, Action
A private eye investigates the apparent suicide of a fading porn star in 1970s Los Angeles and uncovers a conspiracy.
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14. Flyboys (2006)
★ 6.5 · 877 votes · Drama, History, War
The adventures of the Lafayette Escadrille, young Americans who volunteered for the French military before the U.S. entered World War I, and became the country's first fighter pilots.
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15. The Longest Day (1962)
★ 7.6 · 1,060 votes · War, Drama, History
The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day"
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16. Patton (1970)
★ 7.4 · 1,268 votes · War, Drama, History
"Patton" tells the tale of General George S. Patton, famous tank commander of World War II. The film begins with Patton's career in North Africa and progresses through the invasion of Germany and the fall of the Third Reich. Side plots also speak of Patton's numerous faults such his temper and habit towards insubordination.
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17. Johnny Got His Gun (1971)
★ 7.5 · 432 votes · War, Drama
A young American soldier, rendered in pseudocoma from an artillery shell from WWI, recalls his life leading up to that point.
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18. Devotion (2022)
★ 7.1 · 868 votes · War, Drama, History
The harrowing true story of two elite US Navy fighter pilots during the Korean War. Their heroic sacrifices would ultimately make them the Navy's most celebrated wingmen.
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