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War Movie Summaries & Endings Explained
1,495 war movies, each with a full plot summary, timeline, character guide and the ending explained. Combine filters to narrow it down.
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Birth Certificate
1961 · War
Ensign Pulver
1964 · War
The Dawn Patrol
1930 · War
The Naked and the Dead
1958 · War
Emergency Landing
1941 · Romance
Sea Wife
1957 · War
A Prize of Gold
1955 · Drama
The Camp Followers
1965 · War
Captured!
1933 · War
The Girl from Leningrad
1941 · War
Destination Tokyo
1943 · War
One of Our Aircraft Is Missing
1942 · Drama
Advance to the Rear
1964 · Comedy
Bell-Bottom George
1944 · Comedy
Women in War
1940 · War
Light Up the Sky!
1960 · War
Springfield Rifle
1952 · Western
Two Thousand Women
1944 · Comedy
Violent Summer
1959 · War
Men of the Fighting Lady
1954 · Drama
Two Women
1960 · War
Everybody Go Home!
1960 · Comedy
Two Half-Times in Hell
1961 · War
The Guns of Fort Petticoat
1957 · Western
Odette
1950 · Drama
Red Scarf
1964 · War
Verboten!
1959 · War
The Square Peg
1958 · War
Appointment in London
1953 · War
Operation Amsterdam
1959 · War
The Sea Chase
1955 · War
The Ambush
1969 · War
Until They Sail
1957 · Romance
Veerapandiya Kattabomman
1959 · Drama
Edge of Darkness
1943 · Drama
Nurse Edith Cavell
1939 · Drama
A Southern Yankee
1948 · History
Morituri
1965 · War
Five Graves to Cairo
1943 · Thriller
Air Cadet
1951 · War
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