The Horse Soldiers (1959), Forces of Nature (2004), Waco: The Rules of Engagement (1997), Uri: The Surgical Strike (2019), Bat 21 (1988), Waar (2013), Captain Phillips (2013), The Longest Day (1962) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Military Operation movies.
Storyline: A pacifist doctor (William Holden) joins a Union colonel's (John Wayne) cavalry raid in Confederate territory.
Plot Keywords: war, american civil war, military operation, historical drama, action, adventure, strategy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Examining three common natural disasters and the scientists who study them, this documentary begins on the Caribbean island of Montserrat during a 1995 volcano explosion, where scientist Dr. Marie Edmonds explains her research on how to predict future eruptions. A deadly 1999 Turkish earthquake that killed more than 17,000 people is also discussed by a geophysicist, and finally a team of tornado chasers is followed as they endanger their lives in the name of research.
Plot Keywords: adventure, action, war, history, drama, military, german film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: This documentary about the 1993 showdown between the FBI and the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas, presents an alternate theory about the tragedy. The government has long contended that this fringe Christian group was a danger, and that the siege on its compound, which resulted in the death of 70 people, was necessary. Director William Gazecki, using footage from the siege and the Congressional hearings that followed it, asserts that American forces may have attacked a peaceful religious group.
Plot Keywords: documentary, true story, fbi, law enforcement, controversy, investigation, tragedy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Divided over five chapters, the film chronicles the events of the surgical strike conducted by the Indian military against suspected militants in Pakistan occupied Kashmir. It tells the story of the 11 tumultuous events over which the operation was carried out. Indian army special forces carry out a covert operation to avenge the killing of fellow army men at their base by a terrorist group.—Santhosh
Plot Keywords: war, military, action, india, patriotic, based on true events, counter-terrorism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A U.S. pilot (Danny Glover) races an air-strike deadline to find an air-strike expert (Gene Hackman) downed in Vietnam.
Plot Keywords: war, vietnam war, military, rescue, based on true story, american film, 1980s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The film is based on stylized depiction of actual life events surrounding the war on terror in Pakistan including the attack on a Police Academy at Lahore in 2009. Major Mujtaba is a former army officer, who took an early retirement from the service. The plot involves a counter-terrorism operation being conducted in the Northwestern tribal region of Pakistan, led by Ehtesham and coordinated by an intelligence officer played by Ayesha. Ehtesham and the intelligence officer come to know of a major terrorist attack that can only be countered with the help of Major Mujtaba.
Plot Keywords: action, military, counter-terrorism, pakistan, political, war, espionage ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Captain Phillips is a multi-layered examination of the 2009 hijacking of the U.S. container ship Maersk Alabama by a crew of Somali pirates. It is - through director Paul Greengrass's distinctive lens - simultaneously a pulse-pounding thriller, and a complex portrait of the myriad effects of globalization. The film focuses on the relationship between the Alabama's commanding officer, Captain Richard Phillips (two time Academy Award®-winner Tom Hanks), and the Somali pirate captain, Muse (Barkhad Abdi), who takes him hostage. Phillips and Muse are set on an unstoppable collision course when Muse and his crew target Phillips' unarmed ship; in the ensuing standoff, 145 miles off the Somali coast, both men will find themselves at the mercy of forces beyond their control.
Plot Keywords: action, adventure, biography, crime, drama, thriller, based on true events ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In 1944, the U.S. Army and Allied forces plan a huge invasion landing in Normandy, France. Despite bad weather, General Dwight D. Eisenhower gives the okay and the Allies land at Normandy. General Norma Cota travels with his men onto Omaha Beach. With much effort, and lost life, they get off the beach, traveling deep into French territory. The German military, due to arrogance, ignorance and a sleeping Adolf Hitler, delay their response to the Allied landing, with crippling results.
Plot Keywords: war, history, world war ii, military, epic, american film, black and white ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Using a wealth of different sources, Robert Greenwald investigates the motives and pretexts of the administration of former President George W. Bush for going to war in Iraq after 9/11. Greenwald's film dissects the different catalysts leading to the war, from the media's treatment of the issue to the practice of "data mining." A panel of experts lend their voices to this examination, including CIA analysts, a former CIA director, previous ambassadors and a weapons inspector.
Plot Keywords: documentary, war, politics, investigation, truth, u.s. government, media ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A loose remake of 12 Angry Men (1957), set in a Russian school. 12 jurors are struggling to decide the fate of a Chechen teenager who allegedly killed his Russian stepfather who took the teenager to live with him in Moscow during the Chechen War in which teenager lost his parents. The jurors: a racist taxi-driver, a suspicious doctor, a vacillating TV producer, a Holocaust survivor, a flamboyant musician, a cemetery manager, and others represent the fragmented society of modern day Russia. A stray bird (a touch of New Age cinema) is flying above the jurors' heads, alluding to tolerance.
Plot Keywords: war, history, world war ii, soviet union, military, germany, nazi ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: At a prison in the high desert foothills of the Colorado Rocky Mountains, hard-core criminals are given 90 days to tame wild mustang horses. Most of the inmates who volunteer for the program have never trained a horse before, or even ridden one.—SXSW
Plot Keywords: war, military, action, adventure, drama, thriller, crime ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An intense portrayal of elite soldiers who have one of the most dangerous jobs in the world: disarming bombs in the heat of combat. When a new sergeant, James, takes over a highly trained bomb disposal team amidst violent conflict, he surprises his two subordinates, Sanborn and Eldridge, by recklessly plunging them into a deadly game of urban combat, behaving as if he's indifferent to death. As the men struggle to control their wild new leader, the city explodes into chaos, and James' true character reveals itself in a way that will change each man forever.
Plot Keywords: war, iraq war, military, tension, suspense, action, psychological stress ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: This dramatic retelling of the Pearl Harbor attack details everything in the days that led up to that tragic moment in American history. As United States and Japanese relations strain over the U.S. embargo of raw materials, Air Staff Officer Minoru Genda (Tatsuya Mihashi) plans the preemptive strike against the United States. Although American intelligence agencies intercept Japanese communications hinting at the attack, they are unwilling to believe such a strike could ever occur on U.S. soil.
Plot Keywords: war, history, pearl harbor, world war ii, japan, military, true story ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The British are desperate to shorten the length of World War II and propose a daring raid to smash Germany's industrial heart. At first, the objective looks impossible until a British scientist invents an ingenious weapon capable of destroying the planned target.—Dave Jenkins <david.jenkins@smallworld.co.uk>
Plot Keywords: war, history, world war ii, british, true story, military operation, bombing ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Military investigator Colonel William Edwards is assigned a case involving Major Harry Cargill, a Korean War prisoner of war who is accused of aiding the enemy. Although Cargill admits his guilt and Edwards' superiors are impatiently pushing him to move this case to court-martial, Edwards doubts eventually convinces him of Cargill's innocence.—Marty McKee <mmckee@wkio.com>
Plot Keywords: war, korean war, interrogation, betrayal, suspense, psychological warfare, moral dilemma ...
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