Critically acclaimed Navy movies of 2010s

Actors : Mark Rylance, Barry Keoghan, Tom Hardy, Fionn Whitehead,
Directors : Christopher Nolan,

Allied soldiers from Belgium, the British Empire and France are surrounded by the German Army, and evacuated during a fierce battle in World War II.

Actors : Barkhad Abdirahman, Barkhad Abdi, Catherine Keener, Tom Hanks,
Directors : Paul Greengrass,

The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the U.S.-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.

Actors : Steve Carell, Laurence Fishburne, J. Quinton Johnson, Bryan Cranston,
Directors : Richard Linklater,

Thirty years after they served together in Vietnam, a former Navy Corpsman Larry "Doc" Shepherd re-unites with his old buddies, former Marines Sal Nealon and Reverend Richard Mueller, to bury his son, a young Marine killed in the Iraq War.

Actors : Stephen Graham, Elisabeth Shue, Tom Hanks, Matt Helm,
Directors : Aaron Schneider,

Several months after the U.S. entry into World War II, an inexperienced U.S. Navy commander must lead an Allied convoy being stalked by a German submarine wolf pack.

Actors : Domhnall Gleeson, Miyavi, Jack O'Connell, Garrett Hedlund,
Directors : Angelina Jolie,

After a near-fatal plane crash in WWII, Olympian Louis Zamperini spends a harrowing 47 days in a raft with two fellow crewmen before he's caught by the Japanese navy and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp.

Actors : Louis Negin, Clara Furey, Roy Dupuis, Udo Kier,

A never-before-seen woodsman mysteriously appears aboard a submarine that's been trapped deep under water for months with an unstable cargo. As the terrified crew make their way through the...

Actors : Jude Law, David Threlfall, Ben Mendelsohn, Scoot McNairy,
Directors : Kevin Macdonald,

In order to make good with his former employers, a submarine captain takes a job with a shadowy backer to search the depths of the Black Sea for a submarine rumored to be loaded with gold.

Actors : Chris Hemsworth, Brendan Gleeson, Ben Whishaw, Cillian Murphy,
Directors : Ron Howard,

A recounting of a New England whaling ship's sinking by a giant whale in 1820, an experience that later inspired the great novel Moby-Dick.

Actors : Sullivan Stapleton, Eva Green, Hans Matheson, Lena Headey,
Directors : Noam Murro,

Greek general Themistokles leads the charge against invading Persian forces led by mortal-turned-god Xerxes and Artemisia, vengeful commander of the Persian navy.

Actors : Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Geoffrey Rush, Javier Bardem,

Captain Jack Sparrow searches for the trident of Poseidon while being pursued by an undead sea captain and his crew.

Actors : Woody Harrelson, Luke Evans, Ed Skrein, Patrick Wilson,
Directors : Roland Emmerich,

The story of the Battle of Midway, told by the leaders and the sailors who fought it.

Actors : Liam Neeson, Alexander Skarsgård, Brooklyn Decker, Rihanna,
Directors : Peter Berg,

A fleet of ships is forced to do battle with an armada of unknown origins in order to discover and thwart their destructive goals.

Actors : Gary Oldman, Linda Cardellini, Common, Gerard Butler,
Directors : Donovan Marsh,

An untested American submarine captain teams with U.S. Navy Seals to rescue the Russian president, who has been kidnapped by a rogue general.

Actors : Matthias Schoenaerts, Léa Seydoux, Colin Firth, Michael Nyqvist,
Directors : Thomas Vinterberg,

The film follows the 2000 K-141 Kursk submarine disaster and the governmental negligence that followed. As the sailors fight for survival, their families desperately battle political obstacles and impossible odds to save them.

Actors : Ed Harris, William Fichtner, Julian Adams, David Duchovny,
Directors : Todd Robinson,

The haunted Captain of a Soviet submarine holds the fate of the world in his hands. Forced to leave his family behind, he is charged with leading a covert mission cloaked in mystery.

Actors : Prince David Oseia, David Dontoh, Ben Crowe, Rob Freeman,

An American mercenary, the sole survivor of a plane crash, has to run the gauntlet across Africa, battling with the living dead.

Actors : Amy Adams, Jesse Plemons, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Joaquin Phoenix,
Directors : Paul Thomas Anderson,

A Naval veteran arrives home from war unsettled and uncertain of his future - until he is tantalized by The Cause and its charismatic leader.

Actors : Diane Ladd, Margo Martindale, Julianne Nicholson, Takashi Yamaguchi,
Directors : Maggie Greenwald,

Autumn of 1941 in Salty Creek, a fishing village in South Carolina, two interracial lovers are swept up in the tides of history.

Actors : David Morse, Li Gong, John Cusack, Yun-Fat Chow,
Directors : Mikael Håfström,

A '40s period piece which revolves around an American expat who returns to Shanghai in the months before Pearl Harbor due to the death of his friend.

Actors : Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Matthew Goode, Miranda Richardson, Emily Watson,
Directors : Amma Asante,

The mixed race daughter of a Royal Navy Admiral is raised by her aristocratic great-uncle in 18th century England.