Best Modern War movies of 2000s

Actors : Yoram Hattab, Uri Klauzner, Tomer Russo, Liron Levo,
Directors : Amos Gitai,

The film takes place in 1973 during the Yom Kippur War in which Egypt and Syria launched attacks in Sinai and the Golan Heights. The story is told from the perspective of Israeli soldiers. ...

Actors : Zach Cohen, Iftach Ophir, Emmanuelle Seigner, Vincent Gallo,
Directors : Jerzy Skolimowski,

An Afghan POW attempts his escape.

Actors : Konstantin Kryukov, Artur Smolyaninov, Ivan Kokorin, Aleksey Chadov,
Directors : Fedor Bondarchuk,

Young Soviet Army recruits are stuck in the bloody war in Afghanistan, that was started by politicians.

Actors : Joe Arquette, Patrícia Mota, Telana Lynum, Maurizio Rasti,
Directors : Carl Colpaert,

A Mexican national, Jesus Feliciano, returning to California from Iraq where he had soldiered in exchange for grant of US citizenship, suffers trauma related to his battle experience and imagines his family life threatened.

Actors : Wilmer Valderrama, America Ferrera, Jason Ritter, Ryan O'Nan,
Directors : Ryan Piers Williams,

A U.S. soldier returning home from war struggles to reconcile his experiences abroad with the life and family he left in Texas.

Actors : Richard Gant, Mamoudu Turay Kamara, Mariame N'Diaye, Mamusu Kallon,
Directors : Newton I. Aduaka,

Ezra is the first film to give an African perspective on the disturbing phenomenon of abducting child soldiers into the continent's recent civil wars. Ezra is structured around the ...

Actors : Grace Fulton, Vinessa Shaw, Joe Morton, Jamie Draven,
Directors : Francesco Lucente,

An American soldier is unable to cope with the realities of daily life after he returns from his tour of duty in Iraq.

Actors : Hanif Hum Ghum, Arshad Warsi, John Abraham, Salman Shahid,
Directors : Kabir Khan,

A thrilling story spanning 48 hours of five individuals linked by hate and fear but brought together by fate to finally recognize each other.

Actors : Matt Sigloch, Dotan Baer, Nick Cannon, Justin Diedolf,
Directors : Neil Abramson,

The story of a young Marine, fresh from Camp Pendleton, who is forced to confront the complexities of adulthood and a volatile home life during a four-day Thanksgiving leave.

Actors : Yuriy Matveev, Aleksandr Mosin, Aida Tumutova, Mikhail Skryabin,
Directors : Aleksey Balabanov,

The film, set in the mid 1990s outside of St. Petersburg, tells the story of an ethnic Yakut, Major Skryabin, a shell-shocked veteran of the Afghan-Soviet War, who works as a stoker.

Actors : Akbar Abdi, Arzhang Amirfazli, Sepand Amirsoleimani, Abdolreza Akbari,
Directors : Masoud Dehnamaki,

The movie is the story of a gang of men who decide to participate in Iran-Iraq war, also known as First Gulf War, which lasted from September 1980 to August 1988. the main character, Suzuki...

Actors : Shakara Ledard, Thomas Lockyer, Dolph Lundgren, Jerry Springer,
Directors : Dolph Lundgren,

Today - the global war on terror rages on. The United States will not give an inch against terrorists, especially Mohamed Jamar, considered to be the worst of them all. Jamar has been ...

Actors : Elliot Cowan, Gerard Kearns, Matthew McNulty, Naomi Bentley,
Directors : Marc Munden,

Uses detailed research and explosive new testimonies by soldiers who have served in Iraq to tell an emotional fictional story of two young men very much out of their depth.

Actors : Michael Matthias, Nancy Young, Armand Assante, Vinnie Jones,
Directors : Charlie Picerni,

Surrounded by carnage, slaughter, brutal crashes and total mayhem, Shawn Black is in a race to save the world from pure evil.

Actors : Colin Lawrence, Steven Cree Molison, Steve Bacic, Michael Madsen,
Directors : Allan Harmon,

Haunted by the fact that he left a man behind in Afghanistan, a soldier (Bacic) pulls together a special task force to save his comrade.

Actors : Oleg Taktarov, Mario Cimarro, Vitali Baganov, Nicholas Gonzalez,

Trane is a decorated war hero just shipped home to the States from Afghanistan after the brutal murder of his wife and child back in Rockaway, Queens. Upon his return, Trane encounters his ...

Actors : Casper Kunzewkwguta, Tawaka Kunzewkwguta, Louise Engelbrecht, Cindy Gold,
Directors : Pauly Shore,

For hundreds of years, Africa has existed in a state of despair. Famine, civil wars and rampant disease have left the continent without hope, but for the efforts of Western do-gooders. At ...

Actors : Mel Raido, Joanne Froggatt, Chloe Jayne Wilkinson, Andrew Knott,
Directors : Brian Welsh,

Suzy's a British soldier, born and bred, but fitting back into civilian life after fighting in Iraq isn't easy. Haunted by the responsibility she feels for the death of an Iraqi child, she ...

Actors : Brendan Fletcher, Sean McCann, Sarah Polley, Diane Ladd,
Directors : John Greyson,

Story of the same couple, first in their teenage years and then in their twilight years, paradoxically set in the same time during the backdrop of the Gulf War in the Middle East.

Actors : Youssra, Hanan Turk, Hani Salama, Mohamed Nagati,
Directors : Khaled Youssef,

This drama from Egyptian filmmaker Khaled Youssef offers Western audiences an unusual perspective on the Gulf War, as a family is torn apart by conflicting personal and political ...