Baran(2001)

Combined Rating:
62
Combined Critics Rating: 68

In a building site in present-day Tehran, Lateef, a 17-year-old Turkish worker is irresistibly drawn to Rahmat, a young Afghan worker. The revelation of Rahmat's secret changes both their lives.



12 Strong(2018)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 68

12 Strong tells the story of the first Special Forces team deployed to Afghanistan after 9/11; under the leadership of a new captain, the team must work with an Afghan warlord to take down the Taliban.



Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk(2016)

Combined Rating:
67
Combined Critics Rating: 67

19-year-old Billy Lynn is brought home for a victory tour after a harrowing Iraq battle. Through flashbacks the film shows what really happened to his squad - contrasting the realities of war with America's perceptions.



Profile(2018)

Combined Rating:
46
Combined Critics Rating: 67

An undercover British journalist infiltrates the online propaganda channels of the so-called Islamic State, only to be sucked in by her recruiter.



The Wall(2017)

Combined Rating:
67
Combined Critics Rating: 66

Two American Soldiers are trapped by a lethal sniper, with only an unsteady wall between them.



Courage Under Fire(1996)

Combined Rating:
72
Combined Critics Rating: 65

A U.S. Army officer, despondent about a deadly mistake he made, investigates a female chopper commander's worthiness for the Medal of Honor.



Grace Is Gone(2007)

Combined Rating:
61
Combined Critics Rating: 63

Upon hearing his wife was killed in the Iraq war, a father takes his two daughters on a road trip.



Redacted(2007)

Combined Rating:
61
Combined Critics Rating: 62

The devastating reconstruction of the rape and murder of a 15-year-old Iraqi girl by American soldiers in Samarra in 2006.



C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America(2004)

Combined Rating:
53
Combined Critics Rating: 60

Through the eyes of a British "documentary", this film takes a satirically humorous, and sometimes frightening, look at the history of an America where the South won the Civil War.



Machine Gun Preacher(2011)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 58

Sam Childers is a former drug-dealing biker tough guy who found God and became a crusader for hundreds of Sudanese children who've been forced to become soldiers.



The Man Who Sold His Skin(2020)

Combined Rating:
48
Combined Critics Rating: 57

His own body turned into a living work of art and promptly exhibited in a museum, Sam, a Syrian refugee, will soon realize to have sold away more than just his skin.



The Kill Team(2019)

Combined Rating:
45
Combined Critics Rating: 55

A young American soldier in Afghanistan is disturbed by his commanding officer's behavior and is faced with a moral dilemma.



Michael Collins(1996)

Combined Rating:
63
Combined Critics Rating: 55

Neil Jordan's historical biopic of Irish revolutionary Michael Collins, the man who led a guerrilla war against the UK, helped negotiate the creation of the Irish Free State, and led the National Army during the Irish Civil War.



Escape from Mogadishu(2021)

Combined Rating:
47
Combined Critics Rating: 55

In 1991 war-torn Somalia the personnel and the families of both the South Korean and the North Korean embassies have the same goal: to escape from Mogadishu.



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. ...



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.



Home of the Brave(2006)

Combined Rating:
52
Combined Critics Rating: 49

Three soldiers struggle to readjust to life at home after returning home from a lengthy tour in Iraq.



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.



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.



The Marine(2006)

Combined Rating:
58
Combined Critics Rating: 47

A group of diamond thieves on the run kidnap the wife of a recently discharged marine who goes on a chase through the South Carolinian wilderness to retrieve her.




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