War movies streaming in the UK

Top 20: War movies streaming in the UK

Updated 9 October 2026 · Ranked by TMDB popularity, which reflects what people are watching and searching for this week · Subscription titles only

1. The Imitation Game (2014) · ★ 8.0/10 · History, Drama, Thriller
   Based on the real life story of legendary cryptanalyst Alan Turing, the film portrays the nail-biting race against time by Turing and his brilliant team of code-breakers…
2. Kingdom of Heaven (2005) · ★ 7.1/10 · Drama, Action, Adventure
   After his wife dies, a blacksmith named Balian is thrust into royalty, political intrigue and bloody holy wars during the Crusades.
3. Schindler's List (1993) · ★ 8.6/10 · Drama, History, War
   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.
4. Inglourious Basterds (2009) · ★ 8.2/10 · Drama, Thriller, War
   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…
5. Fury (2014) · ★ 7.5/10 · War, Drama, Action
   April, 1945. As the Allies make their final push in the European Theater, a battle-hardened army sergeant commands a Sherman tank with a five-man crew on a deadly…
6. Saving Private Ryan (1998) · ★ 8.2/10 · War, Drama, History
   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…
7. Black Hawk Down (2001) · ★ 7.4/10 · Action, War, History
   When U.S. Rangers and an elite Delta Force team attempt to kidnap two underlings of a Somali warlord, their Black Hawk helicopters are shot down, and the Americans…
8. 1917 (2019) · ★ 8.0/10 · War, Drama, History
   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.
9. Braveheart (1995) · ★ 7.9/10 · Drama, History, War
   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…
10. The Pianist (2002) · ★ 8.4/10 · Drama, War
    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…
11. Civil War (2024) · ★ 6.8/10 · War, Action, Drama
    In the near future, a group of war journalists attempt to survive while reporting the truth as the United States stands on the brink of civil war.
12. Pan's Labyrinth (2006) · ★ 7.8/10 · Fantasy, Drama, War
    In post–civil war Spain, 10-year-old Ofelia moves with her pregnant mother to live under the control of her cruel stepfather. Drawn into a mysterious labyrinth, she…
13. Apocalypse Now (1979) · ★ 8.3/10 · Drama, War
    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…
14. The Last Samurai (2003) · ★ 7.6/10 · Drama, Action, War
    Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, which finds him learning to respect the samurai and the honorable…
15. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008) · ★ 7.8/10 · Drama, War, History
    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…
16. Full Metal Jacket (1987) · ★ 8.1/10 · Drama, War
    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…
17. Guy Ritchie's The Covenant (2023) · ★ 7.7/10 · War, Action, Thriller
    After an ambush, Afghan interpreter Ahmed goes to Herculean lengths to save US Army Sergeant John Kinley's life. When Kinley learns that Ahmed and his family were not…
18. Gone with the Wind (1939) · ★ 7.9/10 · Drama, War, Romance
    The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era.
19. All Quiet on the Western Front (2022) · ★ 7.7/10 · War, Drama
    Paul Baumer and his friends Albert and Muller, egged on by romantic dreams of heroism, voluntarily enlist in the German army. Full of excitement and patriotic fervour,…
20. Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985) · ★ 6.7/10 · Action, Adventure, Thriller
    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.

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