Movies like Devotion
Devotion (2022) is a war movie directed by J.D. Dillard. The list below collects the movies that people who loved it enjoyed most, best known first.
1. 300 (2007)
★ 7.2 · 15,181 votes · Action, Adventure, War
A story very loosely based the 480 B.C. Battle of Thermopylae, where the King of Sparta led his army against the advancing Persians.
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2. American Sniper (2014)
★ 7.4 · 13,945 votes · War, Action
U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle takes his sole mission—protect his comrades—to heart and becomes one of the most lethal snipers in American history. His pinpoint accuracy not only saves countless lives but also makes him a prime target of insurgents. Despite grave danger and his struggle to be a good husband and father to his family back in the States, Kyle serves four tours of duty in Iraq. However, when he finally returns home, he finds that he cannot leave the war behind.
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3. 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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4. Operation Mincemeat (2022)
★ 6.5 · 848 votes · War, History, Drama
In 1943, two British intelligence officers concoct Operation Mincemeat, wherein their plan to drop a corpse with false papers off the coast of Spain would fool Nazi spies into believing the Allied forces were planning to attack by way of Greece rather than Sicily.
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5. 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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6. The Six Triple Eight (2024)
★ 7.6 · 743 votes · Drama, War, History
During World War II, the US Army's only all-Black, all-women battalion takes on an impossible mission: sorting through a three-year backlog of 17 million pieces of mail that hadn't been delivered to American soldiers and finish within six months.
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7. Midway (2019)
★ 7.1 · 2,833 votes · War, History, Drama
The story of the Battle of Midway, and the leaders and soldiers who used their instincts, fortitude and bravery to overcome massive odds.
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8. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008)
★ 7.8 · 7,881 votes · Drama, War, History
When his family moves from their home in Berlin to a strange new house in Poland, young Bruno befriends Shmuel, a boy who lives on the other side of the fence where everyone seems to be wearing striped pajamas. Unaware of Shmuel's fate as a Jewish prisoner or the role his own Nazi father plays in his imprisonment, Bruno embarks on a dangerous journey inside the camp's walls.
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9. Red Tails (2012)
★ 6.7 · 750 votes · Drama, History, War
The story of the Tuskegee Airmen, the first African-American pilots to fly in a combat squadron during World War II.
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10. Gettysburg (1993)
★ 7.0 · 346 votes · Drama, History, War
In the summer of 1863, General Robert E. Lee leads the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia into Gettysburg, Pennsylvania with the goal of marching through to Washington, D.C. The Union Army of the Potomac, under the command of General George G. Meade, forms a defensive position to confront the rebel forces in what will prove to be the decisive battle of the American Civil War.
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