This influential political docudrama re-creates the Algerian struggle for independence against the occupying French in the mid 1950s. It was shot on the streets of Algiers in a newsreel documentary style using mostly non-professional actors, some of which participated in actual original events. Its focus on the insurgency of the FLN and the brutal, counter-terrorist responses of French paratroopers make this a notable example of urban guerilla warfare dramatized on film.

Based on the Mark Bowden book, this recreates the 1993 incident of Operation Gothic Serpent Army Rangers dropped into Mogadishu, Somalia to battle local militia who had declared war on United Nations personnel.
 

Based on the Pierre Boulle novel, this David Lean adventure epic was written by uncredited, blacklisted screenwriters Carl Foreman and Michael Wilson (who were eventually given posthumous credit for the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar it won in 1958), revolves around British POWs in a Japanese prison camp who are forced to work on the construction of the Burma Railway (against Geneva conventions). While a fictional story, the real-life POWs it is based on were subjected to far harsher conditions than the movie depicts.

The first big-budget Chinese film to depict the Japanese Imperial Army's brutal invasion of the Chinese capital of Nanking that killed nearly 300,000 civilians in 1937.

This West German WWII submarine film that became an international hit in 1981 follows the deadly patrol of a U-96 boat as it challenges the British Navy during the Battle of the Atlantic.

Based on Michael Shaara's The Killer Angels, this American Civil War film follows the struggle of Union and Confederate soldiers during the decisive title Battle.

Follows a Sergeant in command of a U.S. Army Explosive Ordinance Disposal unit during the Iraq War who is seen by some as reckless in his way of accomplishing his work. Written by journalist Mark Boal who was embedded with soldiers during the conflict. See also Director Kathryn Bigelow and Boal's follow-up film, about the intelligence community hunt for Osama Bin Laden, Zero Dark Thirty.

Clint Eastwood film that depicts WWII's Battle of Iwo Jima from the perspective of its Japanese soldiers (mostly in the Japanese language). See also his companion film, from an American perspective; Flags of Our Fathers.

Epic ensemble docudrama, based on the 1959 writing of Cornelius Ryan about the D-Day landings at Normandy on June 6, 1944. Renowned for employing, and re-enacting the exploits of, many Axis and Allied military consultants that had been actual participants.
 

Dense, biographic film of General George S. Patton, specifically featuring his WWII campaigns in North Africa and Sicily. General Omar Bradley consulted on the film (a former subordinate, later superior of Patton). See also The Desert Fox; a bio-drama of Patton's contemporary, German General Erwin Rommel.

Portrays the title Battle, during the Korean War, to recapture a Communist Chinese held location despite pending cease-fire negotiations in place. The Hill becomes a political point in the negotiations and the soldiers suffer for it. Supporting actor George Shibata was the first Nisei appointed to West Point, first Asian-American graduate of the United States Military Academy, and was actually a classmate of the the man Gregory Peck's character is based on.
 

Steven Spielberg film with a particularly harrowing, extended Omaha Beach sequence of the WWII Invasion of Normandy involving up to 1,500 extras (including actual Irish Reserve Defence Forces). The screenplay was originally inspired by the Niland Brothers.