Sand Castle(2017)

Combined Rating:
44
Combined Critics Rating: 35

Set during the occupation of Iraq, a squad of U.S. soldiers try to protect a small village.



Delta Farce(2007)

Combined Rating:
41
Combined Critics Rating: 33

Three bumbling Army reservists bound for Iraq are accidentally dropped at Mexican village besieged by hostile forces.



Kippur(2000)

Combined Rating:
40
Combined Critics Rating: 52

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. ...



Hyena Road(2015)

Combined Rating:
39
Combined Critics Rating: 37

Three different men, three different worlds, three different wars - all stand at the intersection of modern warfare - a murky world of fluid morality where all is not as it seems.



Tove(2020)

Combined Rating:
39
Combined Critics Rating: 52

The movie centres on the life of Tove Jansson, showing both her personal relationships, and the creation of the popular Moomin books.



Essential Killing(2010)

Combined Rating:
34
Combined Critics Rating: 26

An Afghan POW attempts his escape.



Maya(2018)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 49

The film follows a 30-year-old man named Gabriel, a French war reporter who was taken to hostage in Syria and then heads to India after months in captivity.



SAS: Red Notice(2021)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 14

A small army of well trained criminals led by Grace Lewis have hijacked a train deep beneath the English Channel.



The Yellow Birds(2017)

Combined Rating:
32
Combined Critics Rating: 48

Two young soldiers, Bartle (21) and Murph (18) navigate the terrors of the Iraq war under the command of the older, troubled Sergeant Sterling. All the while, Bartle is tortured by a promise he made to Murph's mother before their deployment.



A Journal for Jordan(2021)

Combined Rating:
32
Combined Critics Rating: 45

1st Sgt. Charles Monroe King, before he is killed in action in Baghdad, authors a journal for his son intended to tell him how to live a decent life despite growing up without a father.



The Swimmers(2022)

Combined Rating:
32
Combined Critics Rating: 47

A story of the miraculous journey made by swimming sisters Yusra and Sarah Mardini who fled as refugees from war-torn Syria all the way to the 2016 Rio Olympics.



9 rota(2005)

Combined Rating:
31
Combined Critics Rating: 11

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



Kajaki(2014)

Combined Rating:
31
Combined Critics Rating: 18

Kajaki Dam 2006. A company of young British soldiers encounter an unexpected, terrifying enemy. A dried-out river bed, and under every step the possibility of an anti-personnel mine. A mine that could cost you your leg - or your life.



Naz & Maalik(2015)

Combined Rating:
31
Combined Critics Rating: 46

Two closeted Muslim teens hawk goods across Brooklyn and struggle to come clean about their sexuality, as their secretive behavior leads them unknowingly into the cross-hairs of the War on Terror.



Seven Days in May(1964)

Combined Rating:
30
Combined Critics Rating: 15

United States military leaders plot to overthrow the President because he supports a nuclear disarmament treaty and they fear a Soviet sneak attack.



The Omega Code(1999)

Combined Rating:
30
Combined Critics Rating: 24

Ancient codes hidden within the Torah reveal the secrets of global events, past (i.e., Hitler, the Kennedy assassination, the Gulf War), present, and future. One man (York) is after the ...



Burn Country(2016)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 41

After being exiled from Afghanistan, a former war journalist settles in a small town in Northern California and takes a job with a local newspaper. But when he attempts to cover local crime...



G.I. Jesus(2006)

Combined Rating:
28
Combined Critics Rating: 41

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.



The Dry Land(2010)

Combined Rating:
28
Combined Critics Rating: 40

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



The Veteran(2011)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 14

A soldier returning from the war in Afghanistan uncovers a conspiracy involving the intelligence services and a gang of drug dealers.




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