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Best War Movies on Kanopy

Top 20 war movies available to stream on Kanopy right now, ranked by ratings.

1

Saving Private Ryan(1998)

8.6 IMDb94% RT91 Meta

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

2

The Pianist(2002)

8.5 IMDb95% RT85 Meta

The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café;

3

The Great Dictator(1940)

8.4 IMDb92% RT

Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.

4

Paths of Glory(1957)

8.4 IMDb96% RT90 Meta

A commanding officer defends three scapegoats on trial for a failed offensive that occurred within the French Army in 1916.

5

The Great Escape(1963)

8.2 IMDb94% RT86 Meta

The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocate them to a high-security 'escape-proof' camp to sit out the remainder

6

Downfall(2004)

8.2 IMDb90% RT82 Meta

In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the east and the Allied Expeditionary Force attacking from the west. In Berlin, capital of the Third Reich

7

Platoon(1986)

8.1 IMDb89% RT92 Meta

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.

8

Grand Illusion(1937)

8.1 IMDb97% RT

A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieutenant Maréchal, grapple with their own class differences after being captured and held in a World War

9

The General(1926)

8.1 IMDb92% RT

During America’s Civil War, Union spies steal engineer Johnny Gray's beloved locomotive, 'The General'—with Johnnie's lady love aboard an attached boxcar—and he single-handedly must do all in his powe

10

Hotel Rwanda(2004)

8.1 IMDb91% RT79 Meta

Inspired by true events, this film takes place in Rwanda in the 1990s when more than a million Tutsis were killed in a genocide that went mostly unnoticed by the rest of the world. Hotel owner Paul Ru

11

Tangerines(2013)

8.1 IMDb88% RT73 Meta

War in Abkhazia, 1992. An Estonian man Ivo has stayed behind to harvest his crops of tangerines. In a bloody conflict at his door, a wounded man is left behind, and Ivo is forced to take him in.

12

Underground(1995)

8 IMDb86% RT79 Meta

A group of Serbian socialists prepares for the war in a surreal underground filled by parties, tragedies, love and hate.

13

Ivan's Childhood(1962)

8 IMDb100% RT

In WW2, twelve year old Soviet orphan Ivan Bondarev works for the Soviet army as a scout behind the German lines and strikes a friendship with three sympathetic Soviet officers.

14

Barefoot Gen(1983)

8 IMDb71% RT

A story about the effect of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on a boy's life and the lives of the Japanese people.

15

Threads(1985)

7.9 IMDb100% RT92 Meta

Documentary style account of a nuclear holocaust and its effect on the working class city of Sheffield, England; and the eventual long run effects of nuclear war on civilization.

16

Stalag 17(1953)

7.9 IMDb91% RT84 Meta

After two American prisoners are killed by guards in the act of escaping from a German POW camp in World War II, barracks black marketeer J.J. Sefton is suspected of being an informer.

17

In This Corner of the World(2016)

7.8 IMDb97% RT73 Meta

Japan, 1943, during World War II. Young Suzu leaves her village near Hiroshima to marry and live with her in-laws in Kure, a military harbor. Her creativity to overcome deprivation quickly makes her i

18

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas(2008)

7.7 IMDb65% RT55 Meta

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 stripe

19

My Way(2011)

7.6 IMDb19% RT30 Meta

During the invasion of Normandy the photograph of a slim Korean man in German uniform was found. It transpired that the man had served as a soldier in the Japanese, Russian and German armies. His incr

20

Sniper: The White Raven(2022)

6.4 IMDb72% RT54 Meta

Mykola is an eccentric pacifist who wants to be useful to humanity. When the war begins in Donbas, Mykola’s naive world is collapsing as the militants kill his pregnant wife and burn his home to the g

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