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Movies that feel likeHacksaw Ridge (2016)

WWII American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, who served during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people and becomes the first Conscientious Objector in American history to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor.

If you loved Hacksaw Ridge, the closest films we have are The Zone of Interest (2023), 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016) and The King (2019). All three share Hacksaw Ridge's contemplative and epic feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Captain (2018).

🍅 84% Rotten Tomatoes★ 8.1 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Mel Gibsoncontemplativeepicbleak
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The Zone of Interest
2023 · dir. Jonathan Glazer
🍅 93%★ 7.3drama · history · warRent or buy

WWII's moral abyss studied up close, from the other side of it

The difference: Chilling formal restraint — evil at home, no heroism anywhere

The commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his wife Hedwig, strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden next to the camp.

13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi poster
🍅 52%★ 7.3war · history · drama

Ordinary men holding a position while everything around them collapses

The difference: Modern firefight chaos with no moral argument at its center

An American Ambassador is killed during an attack at a U.S. compound in Libya as a security team struggles to make sense out of the chaos.

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The King
2019 · dir. David Michôd
🍅 71%★ 7.3drama · history · warNetflix

A reluctant man remade by war and the burden of conviction

The difference: Medieval mud and politics — faith is barely in the frame

England, 15th century. Hal, a capricious prince who lives among the populace far from court, is forced by circumstances to reluctantly accept the throne and become Henry V.

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The Shadow in My Eye
2021 · dir. Ole Bornedal
★ 7.3war · drama · historyNetflix

The cost of war landing on the innocent, drawn from a true raid

The difference: A tragedy of error — sorrow with no uplifting center

On March 21st, 1945, the British Royal Air Force set out on a mission to bomb Gestapo's headquarters in Copenhagen. The raid had fatal consequences as some of the bombers accidentally targeted a school and more than 120 people were killed, 86 of whom were children.

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The Captain
2018 · dir. Robert Schwentke
🍅 83%★ 7.3war · drama · historyPrime Video

What men become in war when belief and authority go unquestioned

The difference: A pitch-dark inversion — a monster's story, no redemption

Germany, 1945. Soldier Willi Herold, a deserter of the German army, stumbles into a uniform of a Nazi captain abandoned during the last and desperate weeks of the Third Reich. Newly emboldened by the allure of a suit that he has stolen only to stay warm, Willi discovers that many Germans will follow the leader, whoever he is.

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T-34
2018 · dir. Alexey Sidorov
★ 6.8drama · history · warPrime Video

Courage and improbable feats pulled from the war's eastern front

The difference: Slick tank-battle heroics — spectacle over spirit

In 1944, a courageous group of Russian soldiers managed to escape from German captivity in a half-destroyed legendary T-34 tank. Those were the times of unforgettable bravery, fierce fighting, unbreakable love, and legendary miracles.

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Kalashnikov AK-47
2020 · dir. Konstantin Buslov
★ 6.6war · history · dramaPrime Video

A wounded soldier's conviction becomes his contribution to the war

The difference: Propaganda-flavored inventor tale — no battlefield crucible

A Russian military propaganda film about the tank commander Kalashnikov, severely injured in battle in 1941. The accident leaves him incapacitated and unable to return to the front line. While recovering in the hospital, he begins creating the initial sketches of what will become one of the world’s most legendary weapons. A self-taught inventor is only 29 when he develops the now iconic assault riffle — the AK-47. Shot in occupied Crimea.

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The Monuments Men
2014 · dir. George Clooney
🍅 30%★ 6.1war · drama · historyPrime Video

A war story about people whose weapon is conviction, not firepower

The difference: Light and episodic, an amiable caper rather than a trial by fire

Based on the true story of the greatest treasure hunt in history, The Monuments Men is an action drama focusing on seven over-the-hill, out-of-shape museum directors, artists, architects, curators, and art historians who went to the front lines of WWII to rescue the world’s artistic masterpieces from Nazi thieves and return them to their rightful owners. With the art hidden behind enemy lines, how could these guys hope to succeed?

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The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
2008 · dir. Mark Herman
🍅 65%★ 7.7drama · war · history

Wartime seen through innocence the war has no intention of sparing

The difference: Small, still and devastating, with no battlefield and no heroism

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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Land of Mine
2015 · dir. Martin Zandvliet
🍅 91%★ 7.8war · drama · history

The same mix in both: stillness, then scale

In the days following the surrender of Germany in May 1945, a group of young German prisoners of war is handed over to the Danish authorities and subsequently sent to the West Coast, where they are ordered to remove the more than two million mines that the Germans had placed in the sand along the coast. With their bare hands, crawling around in the sand, the boys are forced to perform the dangerous work under the leadership of a Danish sergeant.

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Braveheart
1995 · dir. Mel Gibson
🍅 74%★ 8.3drama · history · warParamount+

Gibson's other tale of belief, blood and a body pushed past its limit

The difference: Sweeping medieval revenge driven by rage rather than restraint

Enraged at the slaughter of Murron, his new bride and childhood love, Scottish warrior William Wallace slays a platoon of the local English lord's soldiers. This leads the village to revolt and, eventually, the entire country to rise up against English rule.

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1917
2019 · dir. Sam Mendes
🍅 88%★ 8.2war · drama · historyNetflix

Ground level in mud and noise, one man carrying an impossible errand

The difference: Hushed and formal, dread over carnage, with far less blood

At the height of the First World War, two young British soldiers must cross enemy territory and deliver a message that will stop a deadly attack on hundreds of soldiers.

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