War Documentary Movies

The story of the last months of the 20-year war in Afghanistan through the intimate relationship between American Green Berets and the Afghan...

An examination of the United States’ involvement in war, focusing on its impact on political decisions, national identity, and the lives of its...

In the year following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, young journalist Claude Baechtold finds himself in the war zone of Afghanistan. Not entirely...

After the impressive Gulistan, Land of Roses (VdR 2016), the Kurdish filmmaker Zaynê Akyol returns with these conversations with imprisoned...

Korengal picks up where Restrepo left off; the same men, the same valley, the same commanders, but a very different look at the experience of war.

In 1937 the Nazi regime held two exhibitions in Munich: one to stigmatize “Degenerate Art” (which they systematically looted and...

In this documentary, experts dissect the Battle of Britain, which took place on Sept. 15, 1940 — a day that determined the fate of the nation.

Using exclusively archival footage, Erwin Leiser traces the rise and collapse of the Third Reich, from Adolf Hitler’s early years to the...

A retrospective on Hollywood's role in the war effort in World War II, narrated by Johnny Carson.

A film made of archives mostly unknown, on the last day of the Second World War in Europe and on the events which preceded it. This film also shows...

Between June 1940 and March 1943, the 1,200 kilometer long demarcation line broke France in two. For almost three years she controlled the daily...

Archival footage, animation and music are used to look back at the eight anti-war protesters who were put on trial following the 1968 Democratic...

BBC exposes the horror unfolding on the Russian side of the war in Ukraine. Soldiers being tortured and even executed at the hands of their brothers...

The mass murder of Jewish people by the Nazi regime is chronicled, with a warning that anti-Semitism is on the rise and the events of the Holocaust...

During the worst days of World War II, the British government asks the mathematician Alan Turing to unravel the mysteries of the German Enigma...

Clive Myrie travels across Ukraine to meet musicians who are preparing to leave their families in their war-torn country in order to create an...

In 1944, two prisoners miraculously escaped from Auschwitz. They told the world of the horror of the Holocaust and raised one of the greatest moral...