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Films by genre

This list of war films and TV specials that are films and television series such as Documentaries, TV mini series and drama serials depicting aspects of historical wars.

American Civil War (1861–1865)

(Also see American Civil War films, Cinema and television about the American Civil War)

American Indian Wars (1622–1898)

American Revolutionary War (1775–1783)

Anglo-Saxon invasion of England

Anglo-Zulu War (1879)

Battle of the Ice (1242)

Battle of Mactan (1521)

Bosnian War (1992–1995)

Boxer Rebellion (1899–1901)

Cambodian Civil War (1967–1975)

Campaigns of Muhammad (622–632)

Chinese Revolution / Chinese Civil War (1911–1949)

Cold War (1945–1991)

(Also see Cold War films)

Colonial conflicts in Northern Africa (1880s–1931)

Communist Insurgency of the Philippines (1969–Present)

Continuation War (1941–1944)

Crimean War (1853–1856)

Croatian War of Independence (1991–1995)

Crusades (1095–1272)

Cuban Revolution (1953–1959)

Eighty Years' War

English Civil War (1642–1651)

Estonian War of Independence (1918–1920)

Falklands War (1982)

First Arab-Israeli War (1948–1949)

Finnish Civil War (1918)

First Boer War (1880–1881)

First Chechen War (1994–1996)

First Indochina War (1946–1954)

Franco-Mexican War (1861–1867)

Franco-Prussian War (1870–1871)

  • Champ d'honneur (Field of Honor) (1987)

French and Indian War (1754-1763)

French Revolutionary Wars (1792–1802)

  • Hornblower (1998–2003 TV series), first four episodes (The Duel, The Fire Ships, The Duchess and the Devil, The Wrong War)
  • Napoleon (2002) (TV mini-series), early half of first episode showing Napoleon's first Italian campaign and the Battle of Arcole
  • Napoleon and Josephine: A Love Story (1987) (TV mini-series), early segment of miniseries showing Napoleon's Egyptian campaign

Greco-Persian Wars (499 BC – 450 BC)

Great Northern War (1700–1721)

  • Sluga Gosudarev (The Sovereign's Servant) (2007) (СЛУГА ГОСУДАРЕВ in Russia)

Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922)

Gulf War (1990–1991)

(Also see Gulf War films)

Hukbalahap Insurgency (1946-1954)

Hundred Years' War (1337–1453)

Hussite Wars (1419–1434)

Indian Rebellion of 1857 and subsequent colonial conflicts in India (1857)

  • Gunga Din (1939), suppression of the Thugees and local rebellions
  • Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935), about suppressing rebellious Indians towards the end of the 19th century
  • Mangal Pandey: The Rising, about the 1857 mutiny
  • Wee Willie Winkie (1936), features British forces suppressing Indian rebels, but the focus on child star Shirley Temple may cause many to exclude this film from a 'war film' category)

Indonesian National Revolution (1945–1949)

Indo-Pakistani wars and conflicts (1947–present)

Iran–Iraq War (1980–1988)

Irish War of Independence (1919–1921) and Irish Civil War (1922–1923)

Invasion of Grenada (1983)

Islamic Insurgency of the Philippines (1970–present)

Burmese insurgency

Khmelnytsky Uprising (1648–1654)

Korean War (1950–1953)

(Also see Korean War films)

Kosovo War (1998–1999)

Latvian War of Independence (1918–1920)

Lebanese Civil War (1975–1990)

Lebanon War (1982)

Mahdist Sudanese War (1881–1899)

Mau Mau Uprising (1952–1960)

Mercenaries in the Third World

See also Mercenaries in popular culture: Films

Mexican–American War (1846–1848)

Mexican Revolution (1910–1920)

Mongol conquests (1206–1324)

Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815)

Nicaraguan Civil War (1979 - 1992)

Operation Entebbe (1976)

Opium Wars (1839–1842, 1856–1860)

Partisan War in Lithuania (1944–1953)

Philippine–American War (1899 – 1902/1913)

Philippine Revolts Against Spain (1567–1872)

Philippine Revolution (1896–1898)

Rhodesian Bush War (1964–1979)

Russian Revolution (1917) and Russian Civil War (1917–1921)

Russo-Japanese War (1904–1905)

Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878)

Rwandan Civil War (1990–1993)

Salvadoran Civil War (1980–1992)

Satsuma Rebellion (1877)

Scanian War

Second Boer War (1899–1902)

Second Liberian Civil War (1999–2003)

Polish Commonwealth Wars (1648–1672)

  • Ogniem i Mieczem (With Fire and Sword) (1999) civil war - Cossaks revolt 1648-1651
  • Potop (The Deluge) (1974) Second Northern War 1655-1660
  • Pan Wolodyjowski (Colonel Wolodyjowski) (1969) 1660-1672 - skirmishs with Tartars and the beginning of Turkish - Polish Commonwealth war 1672-1676

Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945)

Sengoku Period (1467–1573)

Seven Years' War (1756–1763) and French and Indian War (1754–1763)

Sierra Leone Civil War (1991–2002)

Sino-Indian War (1962)

Sino-Vietnamese War (1979)

Sino-Xiongnu War (133 BC–AD 89)

  • Mulan (1998), animated film

Somali Civil War (1988–present)

Soviet war in Afghanistan (1979–1989)

Spanish-American War (1898) - Cuban War of Independence (1895–1898)

Spanish Reconquest

St. Bartholomew's Day massacre (1572)

Texas War of Independence (1835–1836)

Taiping Rebellion (1850–1864)

Thirty Years' War (1618–1648)

Trojan War (1194BC–1184 BC)

Turkish Invasion of Hungary (1532)

Vietnam War (1959–1975)

(Also see Vietnam War films)

War of 1812

Wars of Alexander the Great (338 BC – 325 BC)

Warring States Period (476 BC – 221 BC)

Wars of the Roman Republic/Empire

Wars of Scottish Independence (1296–1328), (1332–1357)

Wars of the Three Kingdoms (220–280)

World War I (1914–1918)

(See also: World War I films)

Spanish Civil War (1936–1939)

World War II (1939–1945)

Because World War II was a major war, it is also recommended to see List of World War II films for a more detailed list of films. (Also see World War II films)

Battle of Britain (1940)

Battle of Iwo Jima (1945)

Burma Campaign (1942–1945)

Japanese occupation of the Philippines (1941–1945)

Winter war (1939–1940)

War on Terrorism (2001-present)

Covert special operations in Afghanistan, Iraq, etc.

Insurgency in Saudi Arabia (2003–present)

Insurgency in the Maghreb (2002–present)

Joint Chiefs of Staff operations

  • E-Ring (2005–2006) (TV series)

Operation Enduring Freedom - Philippines (2002–present)

September 11 attacks (2001)

Terrorist Sleeper cells

War on Terror in Pakistan

War in Afghanistan (2001–present)

Iraq War (2003-present)

See also

References

  1. ^ Philippino War Dance (1903), imdb.com. ( [sic]—The correct term is "Filipino")
  2. ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0398093/
  3. ^ http://www.mrqe.com/movies/m100008276?s=1
  4. ^ http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=D6144D28E123CE6D&search_query=the+hamburg+cell+movie
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