War

Saving Private Ryan

They Died With Their Socks Off

Reviewed Sep 11, 2026

As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fourth trapped behind enemy lines. Ranger captain John Miller and seven men are tasked with penetrating German-held territory and bringing the boy home. Genres: Drama, History, War

Tropic Thunder

Fully Mental Jag-offs

Reviewed Jun 12, 2026

A group of self-absorbed actors set out to make the most expensive war film ever. After ballooning costs force the studio to cancel the movie, the frustrated director refuses to stop shooting, leading his cast into the jungles of Southeast Asia, where they encounter real bad guys. Genres: Action, Comedy, War

300: Rise of an Empire

My Big Fit Greek Wenham

Reviewed Nov 12, 2024

Greek general Themistocles attempts to unite all of Greece by leading the charge that will change the course of the war. Themistocles faces the massive invading Persian forces led by mortal-turned-god, Xerxes and Artemesia, the vengeful commander of the Persian navy. Genres: Action, Drama, War

300

This is Sparta?  Because it kinda looks like a place you...

Reviewed Nov 5, 2024

A story very loosely based the 480 B.C. Battle of Thermopylae, where the King of Sparta led his army against the advancing Persians. Genres: Action, Adventure, War

Gone with the Wind

12 Years A Karen 

Reviewed Dec 29, 2023

The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era. Genres: Drama, Romance, War

Full Metal Jacket

Too Lively Crew

Reviewed May 26, 2023

A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue. Genres: Drama, War

Platoon

Natural Born Killers

Reviewed May 19, 2023

As a young and naive recruit in Vietnam, Chris Taylor faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man. Genres: Action, Drama, War

Schindler’s List

Lost World

Reviewed Nov 12, 2021

The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II. Genres: Drama, History, War

Company of Heroes

Saving Private Ryan some money on special effects

Reviewed Jul 20, 2021

American soldiers lost behind enemy lines during the WWII make a horrific discovery: Hitler has a super bomb in development. Against all odds, they set out to find the scientist in charge of the program who is looking to defect. Genres: Action, Drama, War

Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse

The Rainbow Connection

Reviewed May 4, 2021

An elite Navy SEAL uncovers an international conspiracy while seeking justice for the murder of his pregnant wife. Genres: Action, Thriller, War

Born on the Fourth of July

Spend Memorial Day Weekend saluting a patriot

Reviewed May 22, 2020

Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, Ron Kovic becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought for. Genres: Drama, War

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Or How I Stopped Working And Learned to Love Old Movies

Reviewed Apr 17, 2020

After the insane General Jack D. Ripper initiates a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union, a war room full of politicians, generals and a Russian diplomat all frantically try to stop it. Genres: Comedy, War

Apocalypse Now

Our motto: Coppola Now!

Reviewed Nov 18, 2018

At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter Kurtz, who has been leading his personal army on illegal guerrilla missions into enemy territory. Genres: Drama, War

Dunkirk

What's Nolan got in store this time?

Reviewed Aug 1, 2017

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. Genres: Action, Drama, War

War for the Planet of the Apes

The feel-bad blockbuster of the summer

Reviewed Jul 14, 2017

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. Genres: Drama, Science Fiction, War

Inglourious Basterds

Oooh, that's a podcast!

Reviewed Jan 1, 2016

In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds, lead by Lt. Aldo Raine soon cross paths with a French-Jewish teenage girl who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers. Genres: Drama, Thriller, War

Screamers

Type 6 Screamers look like DVR boxes. You have been warned.

Reviewed Jan 21, 2011

SIRIUS 6B, Year 2078. On a distant mining planet ravaged by a decade of war, scientists have created the perfect weapon: a blade-wielding, self-replicating race of killing devices known as Screamers designed for one purpose only -- to hunt down and destroy all enemy life forms. Genres: Horror, Science Fiction, War

Rambo

Education or exploitation?

Reviewed Nov 26, 2010

In Thailand, ex-Green Beret John James Rambo joins a group of mercenaries to venture into war-torn neighboring Myanmar to rescue a group of Christian aid workers who have been kidnapped by a ruthless local infantry unit. Genres: Action, Thriller, War

Rambo III

Best. Tank vs helicoptor scene. Ever!

Reviewed Nov 19, 2010

Combat has taken its toll on Rambo, but he's finally begun to find inner peace in a monastery. When Rambo's friend and mentor Col. Trautman asks for his help on a top secret mission to Afghanistan, Rambo declines but must reconsider when Trautman is captured. Genres: Action, Adventure, Thriller, War

Rambo: First Blood Part II

Now that is a knife!

Reviewed Nov 12, 2010

John Rambo is released from prison by the government for a top-secret covert mission to the last place on Earth he'd want to return - the jungles of Vietnam. Genres: Action, Adventure, Thriller, War

Tropic Thunder

Get Some Reviews!

Reviewed Aug 15, 2008

A group of self-absorbed actors set out to make the most expensive war film ever. After ballooning costs force the studio to cancel the movie, the frustrated director refuses to stop shooting, leading his cast into the jungles of Southeast Asia, where they encounter real bad guys. Genres: Action, Comedy, War