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.



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.



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.



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.



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...



Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls(1995)

Combined Rating:
59
Combined Critics Rating: 41

Ace Ventura, Pet Detective, returns from a spiritual quest to investigate the disappearance of a rare white bat, the sacred animal of a tribe in Africa.



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.



Brødre(2004)

Combined Rating:
45
Combined Critics Rating: 38

Two brothers must negotiate changing roles and shifting family dynamics when one is sent to war in Afghanistan.



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.



Limbo(2020)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 36

90 minutes, one take: When a young compliance manager encounters a money laundering network, her paths cross with those of an aging small-time crook, an undercover agent and a Viennese gangster boss during an illegal bare knuckle fight.



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.



The Loner(2016)

Combined Rating:
21
Combined Critics Rating: 31

After being wrongly accused of stealing from his former boss, an Iranian gangster with girl problems must hunt down stolen drugs in this neon-noir fever dream set in the bizarre Persian and Russian Los Angeles underworld where obscene reigns supreme.



Jarhead(2005)

Combined Rating:
51
Combined Critics Rating: 29

A psychological study of operations desert shield and desert storm during the gulf war; through the eyes of a U.S marine sniper who struggles to cope with the possibility his girlfriend may be cheating on him back home.



Recalled(2012)

Combined Rating:
22
Combined Critics Rating: 29

After his transfer request to stay stateside is approved, a lieutenant in the National Guard faces a dilemma as one of his soldiers looks to go AWOL as their unit gears up for deployment to Iraq.



Ezra(2007)

Combined Rating:
20
Combined Critics Rating: 28

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 ...



The Cave(2019)

Combined Rating:
21
Combined Critics Rating: 28

A Thai youth football team is trapped in a cave while rescue workers scramble to save them.



Essential Killing(2010)

Combined Rating:
34
Combined Critics Rating: 26

An Afghan POW attempts his escape.



Boys of Abu Ghraib(2014)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 25

An American soldier deployed at Abu Ghraib finds himself behind the walls of the infamous Hard Site, where he develops a secret friendship with an Iraqi detainee.



God Bless the Broken Road(2018)

Combined Rating:
18
Combined Critics Rating: 25

While grieving the loss of her husband, a financially struggling widow meets a race car driver.




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