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This list of war film and TV specials that are films and television series such as Documentaries, TV mini series and drama serials depicting aspects of historical wars.

Contents

American Civil War (1861–1865)

(Also see American Civil War films, Cinema and television about the American Civil War)

American Indian Wars (1622–1898)

American Revolutionary War (1775–1783)

Anglo-Saxon invasion of England

Anglo-Zulu War (1879)

Battle of the Ice (1242)

Battle of Mactan (1521)

  • Lapu Lapu (1955)
  • Lapu Lapu (2002)

Bosnian War (1992–1995)

Boxer Rebellion (1899–1901)

  • The Marked Woman (D: O.A.C. Lund, USA 1914)
  • Foreign Devils ( D: W.S. Van Dyke, USA 1928)
  • 55 Days at Peking (1963)
  • Boxer Rebellion (1976)
  • Boxer Rebellion (D: Celia Cotelo, 1994) (Doku)
  • The Boxer Rebellion (Gefangen in Peking - Aufstand der Boxer, R: Tilman Remme, DEU 2009) (Doku)

Cambodian Civil War (1967–1975)

Campaigns of Muhammad (622–632)

Chinese Civil War (1927–1950)

Cold War (1945–1991)

(Also see Cold War films)

Colonial conflicts in Northern Africa (1880s–1914)

Communist Insurgency of the Philippines (1969–Present)

  • Ama Namin (1998)

Continuation War (1941–1944)

Crimean War (1853–1856)

Croatian War of Independence (1991–1995)

Crusades (1095–1272)

English Civil War (1642–1651)

Estonian War of Independence (1918–1920)

  • Noored Kotkad (The Young Eagles) (1927)
  • Nimed Marmortahvlil (Names in Marble) (2002)

Falklands War (1982)

First Arab-Israeli War (1948–1949)

First Boer War (1880–1881)

First Chechen War (1994–1996)

First Indochina War (1946–1954)

Franco-Mexican War (1861–1867)

Franco-Prussian War (1870–1871)

  • Champ d'honneur (Field of Honor) (1987)

French Revolutionary Wars (1792–1802)

  • Hornblower (1998–2003 TV series), first four episodes (The Duel, The Fire Ships, The Duchess and the Devil, The Wrong War)
  • Napoleon (2002) (TV mini-series), early half of first episode showing Napoleon's first Italian campaign and the Battle of Arcole
  • Napoleon and Josephine: A Love Story (1987) (TV mini-series), early segment of miniseries showing Napoleon's Egyptian campaign

Greco-Persian Wars (499 BC – 450 BC)

Great Northern War (1700–1721)

  • Sluga Gosudarev (The Sovereign's Servant) (2007) (СЛУГА ГОСУДАРЕВ in Russia)

Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922)

Gulf War (1990–1991)

(Also see Gulf War films)

Hukbalahap Insurgency (19461954)

  • Huk sa Bagong Pamumuhay (1953)
  • Patayin Si Sec. Magsaysay (1957)

Hundred Years' War (1337–1453)

Hussite Wars (1419–1434)

  • Jan Hus (1954)
  • Jan Žižka (1955)
  • Proti všem (Against All) (1957)

Indian Rebellion of 1857 and subsequent colonial conflicts in India (1857)

  • Gunga Din (1939), suppression of the Thugees and local rebellions
  • Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935), about suppressing rebellious Indians towards the end of the 19th century
  • Mangal Pandey: The Rising, about the 1857 mutiny
  • Wee Willie Winkie (1936), features British forces suppressing Indian rebels, but the focus on child star Shirley Temple may cause many to exclude this film from a 'war film' category)

Indo-Pakistani wars and conflicts (1947–present)

Iran–Iraq War (1980–1988)

Irish War of Independence (1919–1921) and Irish Civil War (1922–1923)

Invasion of Grenada (1983)

Islamic Insurgency of the Philippines (1970–present)

Burmese insurgency

Khmelnytsky Uprising (1648–1654)

Korean War (1950–1953)

(Also see Korean War films)

Kosovo War (1998–1999)

Latvian War of Independence (1918–1920)

Lebanese Civil War (1975–1990)

Lebanon War (1982)

Mahdist Sudanese War (1881–1899)

Mau Mau Uprising (1952–1960)

  • Guns at Batasi (1964) depicts an unnamed uprising in a nameless African country but obviously based on Mau Maus
  • The Kitchen Toto (1987)
  • Mau-Mau (1955)
  • Safari (1956)
  • Simba (1955)
  • Something of Value (1957)

Mercenaries in the Third World

See also Mercenaries in popular culture: Films
  • Africa Addio (Africa - Blood and Guts) (1966)
  • Cerný prapor (The Black Battalion/Das schwarze Bataillon/Bataillon des Teufels) (1958)
  • Code Name: Wild Geese (1984)
  • Commando Leopard (1985)
  • Dark of the Sun/The Mercenaries (1968)
  • The Dogs of War (1981)
  • Der Fall Bernd K. (The Case of Bernd K.) (1967)
  • Geschwader Fledermaus (Bat Squadron) (1957)
  • High Velocity (1976)
  • Immer wenn der Steiner kam (Every Time Steiner Came) (1976), not released
  • Kommando 52 (Commando 52) (1965)
  • Der lachende Mann - Bekenntnisse eines Mörders (The Laughing Man - Confessions of a Killer) (1966)
  • The Last Grenade (1970)
  • The Last Mercenary (1968)
  • Madeleine und der Legionär (Madeleine and the Legionary) (1958)
  • Men of War (1994)
  • PS zum lachenden Mann (PS to the Laughing Man) (1967)
  • Scorticateli Vivi (Wild Geese Attack/Skin 'Em Alive) (1978)
  • Seduto alla sua destra (Black Jesus) (1968)
  • Sette Baschi Rossi (The Red Berets) (1969)
  • The Wild Geese (1978)

Mexican–American War (1846–1848)

Mexican Revolution (1910–1928)

Mongol conquests (1206–1324)

Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815)

Nicaraguan Civil War

Operation Entebbe (1976)

Opium Wars (1839–1842, 1856–1860)

  • Huo shao yuan ming yuan (The Burning of the Imperial Palace) (1983) (TV mini-series), Second Opium War
  • The Opium War (1997), First Opium War

Partisan War in Lithuania (1944–1953)

  • Vienui Vieni (Utterly Alone) (2004)

Philippine–American War (1899 – 1902/1913)

  • Cavalry Command (1963)
  • Diwa (2002)
  • Hen. Gregorio del Pilar - Bayani sa Pasong Tirad (1949)
  • Philippino War Dance (1903)
  • The Real Glory (1939)
  • This Bloody, Blundering Business (1975)
  • Tirad Pass: The Story of Gen. Gregorio del Pilar (1997)

Philippine Revolts Against Spain (1567–1872)

  • Dagohoy (1953)
  • Diego Silang (1951)
  • Gabriela Silang (1971)

Philippine Revolution (1896–1898)

  • Aguila (1980)
  • Alyas Sakay (1961)
  • Andres Bonifacio: Ang Supremo (1963)
  • Ang Buhay at Pag Ibig ni Dr. Jose Rizal (1956)
  • Baler (2008)
  • Bayaning 3rd World (2000)
  • El Filibusterismo (1962)
  • Elias, Basilio at Sisa (1972)
  • Emilio Aguinaldo (2000)
  • Diwa (2002)
  • Dugo ng Katipunan (1949)
  • Dugo at Pag Ibig sa Kapirasong Lupa (1975)
  • Ganito Kami Noon, Paano Kayo Ngayon (1976)
  • Heneral Paua (1956)
  • Hen. Gregorio del Pilar (1949)
  • Himagsik (1956)
  • Hubad na Bayani (1977)
  • Ito Ang Pilipino (1966)
  • Jose Rizal (1998)
  • Los últimos de Filipinas (1945)
  • La Vida de Rizal (1913)
  • Lupang Kayumanggi (1955)
  • Noli Me Tangere (1961)
  • Noli Me Tangere (1992)
  • Padre Burgos (1949)
  • Rizal sa Dapitan (1997)
  • Samahang Siete (1962)
  • Sisa (1952)
  • Tandang Sora (1947)

Rhodesian Bush War (1964–1979)

Russian Revolution (1917) and Russian Civil War (1917–1921)

Russo-Japanese War (1904–1905)

Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878)

Rwandan Civil War (1990–1993)

Salvadoran Civil War (1980–1992)

Satsuma Rebellion (1877)

Scanian War

Second Boer War (1899–1902)

Second Korean War (1966–1976)

Second Liberian Civil War (1999–2003)

Second Northern War (The Deluge in Polish History) (1655–1661)

Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945)

Sengoku Period

Seven Years' War (1756–1763) and French and Indian War (1754–1763)

Sierra Leone Civil War (1991–2002)

Sino-Indian War (1962)

Sino-Vietnamese War (1979)

Sino-Xiongnu War (133 BC–AD 89)

  • Mulan (1998), animated film

Somali Civil War (1988–present)

Soviet war in Afghanistan (1979–1989)

Spanish-American War (1898)

  • Tearing Down the Spanish Flag (1898), first war movie ever made
  • The Rough Riders (1997), TV film, depiction of the Cuban Campaign and specifically the Battle of San Juan Hill
  • Mambi (1998),(Cuban war of independence 1895–1898)

Spanish Reconquest

St. Bartholomew's Day massacre (1572)

Texas War of Independence (1835–1836)

Taiping Rebellion (1850–1864)

Thirty Years' War (1618–1648)

Trojan War (1194BC–1184 BC)

Turkish Invasion of Hungary (1532)

Vietnam War (1959–1975)

(Also see Vietnam War films)

War of 1812

Wars of Alexander the Great (338 BC – 325 BC)

Warring States Period (476 BC – 221 BC)

Wars of the Roman Republic/Empire

Wars of Scottish Independence (1296–1328), (1332–1357)

Wars of the Three Kingdoms (220–280)

World War I (1914–1918)

(See also: World War I films)

Spanish Civil War (1936–1939)

World War II (1939–1945)

(Also see World War II films)

Battle of Britain (1940)

Battle of Iwo Jima (1945)

Burma Campaign (1942–1945)

Japanese occupation of the Philippines (1941–1945)

Winter war (1939–1940)

  • Ski Patrol (1940)
  • Talvisota (1989) (available on Youtube with subtitles)

War on Terror

Covert special operations in Afghanistan, Iraq, etc.

Insurgency in Saudi Arabia (2003–present)

Insurgency in the Maghreb (2002–present)

Iraq War (2003)

Joint Chiefs of Staff operations

  • E-Ring (2005–2006) (TV series)

Operation Enduring Freedom - Philippines (2002–present)

September 11 attacks (2001)

Terrorist Sleeper cells

War in Afghanistan (2001–present)

War on Terror in Pakistan

See also



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