Every war movie streaming on MGM+ in the US right now — 30 films ranked by rating, checked against MGM+’s live catalog.
Updated July 2026 · Availability refreshed from MGM+ US
Directed by George Stevens
✦ MovieMuse AI takeUnflinching documentary evidence transforms atrocity into historical record, establishing cinema's moral obligation to witness.
Produced and presented as evidence at the Nuremberg war crimes trial of Hermann Göring and twenty other Nazi leaders, this film consists primarily of dead and surviving prisoners and of facilities used to kill and torture during the World War II.
Directed by Clyde Bruckman
✦ MovieMuse AI takeBuster Keaton's deadpan physics against locomotive chaos creates absurdist comedy that undercuts Civil War's grand mythology.
During America’s Civil War, Union spies steal engineer Johnny Gray's beloved locomotive, 'The General'—with Johnnie's lady love aboard an attached boxcar—and he single-handedly must do all in his power to both get The General back and to rescue Annabelle.
Directed by Billy Wilder
✦ MovieMuse AI takeClaustrophobic barracks intrigue exposes how suspicion and survival corrupt loyalty among imprisoned soldiers.
After two American prisoners are killed by guards in the act of escaping from a German POW camp in World War II, barracks black marketeer J.J. Sefton is suspected of being an informer.
Directed by Danis Tanović
✦ MovieMuse AI takeTrench standoff reverses combat's momentum, making stalemate philosophy more devastating than battle itself.
Two soldiers from opposite sides get stuck between the front lines in the same trench. The UN is asked to free them and both sides agree on a ceasefire, but will they stick to it?
Directed by Edward Zwick
✦ MovieMuse AI takeShaw's regiment attacks become visual testimony to Black soldiers' agency and dignity within institutional racism.
Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of both his own Union army and the Confederates.
Directed by John Frankenheimer
✦ MovieMuse AI takeResistance fighters weaponize art and railway logistics, proving moral resistance outlasts Nazi machinery.
As the Allied forces approach Paris in August 1944, German Colonel Von Waldheim is desperate to take all of France's greatest paintings to Germany. He manages to secure a train to transport the valuable art works even as the chaos of retreat descends upon them. The French resistance however wants to stop them from stealing their national treasures but have received orders from London that they are not to be destroyed. The station master, Labiche, is tasked with scheduling the train and making it all happen smoothly but he is also part of a dwindling group of resistance fighters tasked with preventing the theft. He and others stage an elaborate ruse to keep the train from ever leaving French territory.
Directed by Kenneth Branagh
✦ MovieMuse AI takeBranagh's visceral Agincourt mud-fight strips medieval warfare of romance, exposing its brutal arithmetic.
In 1415, in the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France.
Directed by Ridley Scott
✦ MovieMuse AI takeRidley Scott's painterly duels reduce Napoleonic ambition to two men's repetitive, elegant obsession.
In 1800, as Napoleon Bonaparte rises to power in France, a rivalry erupts between Armand and Gabriel, two lieutenants in the French Army, over a perceived insult. For over a decade, they engage in a series of duels amidst larger conflicts, including the failed French invasion of Russia in 1812, and shifts in the political and social systems of Europe.
Directed by Oliver Stone
✦ MovieMuse AI takeGuerrilla conflict's moral fog dissolves individual ethics, trapping journalists in impossible political geometry.
In 1980, an American journalist covering the Salvadoran Civil War becomes entangled with both the leftist guerrilla groups and the right-wing military dictatorship while trying to rescue his girlfriend and her children.
Directed by Richard Loncraine
✦ MovieMuse AI take1930s fascist staging transforms Shakespeare's throne-quest into documentary of totalitarian rise.
A murderous lust for the British throne sees Richard III descend into madness. Though the setting is transposed to the 1930s, England is torn by civil war, split between the rivaling houses of York and Lancaster. Richard aspires to a fascist dictatorship, but must first remove the obstacles to his ascension—among them his brother, his nephews and his brother's wife. When the Duke of Buckingham deserts him, Richard's plans are compromised.
Directed by Robert Wise
✦ MovieMuse AI takeSubmarine claustrophobia weaponizes obsession, turning captain's vengeance into tactical liability.
The captain of a submarine sunk by the Japanese during WWII is finally given a chance to skipper another sub after a year of working a desk job. His singleminded determination for revenge against the destroyer that sunk his previous vessel puts his new crew in unneccessary danger.
Directed by Anthony Minghella
✦ MovieMuse AI takeDesertion's intimacy contrasts war's mechanical dehumanization, centering love over historical momentum.
In this classic story of love and devotion set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, a wounded Confederate soldier named W.P. Inman deserts his unit and travels across the South, aiming to return to his young wife, Ada, who he left behind to tend their farm. As Inman makes his perilous journey home, Ada struggles to keep their home intact with the assistance of Ruby, a mysterious drifter sent to help her by a kindly neighbor.
Directed by Werner Herzog
✦ MovieMuse AI takeSurvival ordeal in Laotian jungle exposes Vietnam's hidden geography and American POW mythology.
A US Fighter pilot's epic struggle of survival after being shot down on a mission over Laos during the Vietnam War.
Directed by Peter Berg
✦ MovieMuse AI takeSports obsession masquerading as American dream—stadium fervor mirrors war's nationalistic mobilization of collective identity.
A small, turbulent town in Texas obsesses over their high school football team to an unhealthy degree. When the star tailback, Boobie Miles, is seriously injured during the first game of the season, all hope is lost, and the town's dormant social problems begin to flare up. It is left to the inspiring abilities of new coach Gary Gaines to instill in the other team members -- and, by proxy, the town itself -- a sense of self-respect and honor.
Directed by Stanley Kramer
During World War II, Italian villagers hide their wine from the German army.
Directed by Ben Stiller
✦ MovieMuse AI takeMeta-satire weaponizes movie-making itself, exposing how Hollywood sanitizes war through spectacle and star power.
A group of self-absorbed actors set out to make the most expensive war film ever. After ballooning costs force the studio to cancel the movie, the frustrated director refuses to stop shooting, leading his cast into the jungles of Southeast Asia, where they encounter real bad guys.
Directed by Bryan Singer
✦ MovieMuse AI takeValkyrie focuses on assassination as bureaucratic problem, making German resistance a matter of paperwork and protocol failure.
Wounded in Africa during World War II, Nazi Col. Claus von Stauffenberg returns to his native Germany and joins the Resistance in a daring plan to create a shadow government and assassinate Adolf Hitler. When events unfold so that he becomes a central player, he finds himself tasked with both leading the coup and personally killing the Führer.
Directed by Brian De Palma
✦ MovieMuse AI takeSquad violence against villager reveals how war's dehumanization spreads through peer pressure, not orders.
During the Vietnam War, a soldier finds himself the outsider of his own squad when they unnecessarily kidnap a female villager.
Directed by Roger Donaldson
An idyllic voyage to Tahiti in 1789 turns a crew aboard the H.M.S. Bounty against its captain when they find a tropical paradise.
Directed by John Ford
A Union Cavalry outfit is sent behind confederate lines in strength to destroy a rail supply center. Along with them is sent a doctor who causes instant antipathy between him and the commander. The secret plan for the mission is overheard by a southern belle who must be taken along to assure her silence.
Directed by Gillo Pontecorvo
The professional mercenary Sir William Walker instigates a slave revolt on the Caribbean island of Queimada in order to help improve the British sugar trade. Years later he is sent again to deal with the same rebels that he built up because they have seized too much power that now threatens British sugar interests.
Directed by Guy Hamilton
✦ MovieMuse AI takeAerial dogfights choreograph technological warfare's beauty while documenting Britain's desperate gamble.
In 1940, the Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle against the might of the Luftwaffe for control of the skies over Britain, thus preventing an attempted Nazi invasion.
Directed by Roger Spottiswoode
✦ MovieMuse AI takeJournalist proximity to revolution destroys professional distance, implicating observation in political violence.
Three U.S. journalists get too close to one another and their work in 1979 Nicaragua.
Directed by Norman Jewison
When a Soviet submarine gets stuck on a sandbar off the coast of a New England island, its commander orders his second-in-command, Lieutenant Rozanov, to get them moving again before there is an international incident. Rozanov seeks assistance from the island locals, including the police chief and a vacationing television writer, while trying to allay their fears of a Communist invasion by claiming he and his crew are Norwegian sailors.
Directed by Frank Capra
✦ MovieMuse AI takeCapra's montage propaganda weaponizes documentary footage to manufacture moral certainty about total war.
Prelude to War was the first film of Frank Capra's Why We Fight propaganda film series, commissioned by the Pentagon and George C. Marshall. It was made to convince American troops of the necessity of combating the Axis Powers during World War II. This film examines the differences between democratic and fascist states.
Directed by Basil Dearden
✦ MovieMuse AI takeColonial general's martyrdom interrogates empire's heroic self-image through personal conviction versus historical futility.
English General Charles George Gordon is appointed military governor of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan by the Prime Minister. Ordered to evacuate Egyptians from the Sudan, Gordon stays on to protect the people of Khartoum, who are under threat of being conquered by a Muslim army.
Directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith
✦ MovieMuse AI takeFirebase siege condenses Tet Offensive's chaos into one position's microcosm of American vulnerability.
A Marine patrol stops at Firebase Gloria at the start of the Tet Offensive during the Vietnam war. With the firebase attacked, the patrol remains to help defend it.
Directed by Robert M. Young
✦ MovieMuse AI takeConcentration camp boxing forces prisoners into spectacle, making survival itself a form of degradation.
During World War II, Salamo Arouch, a passionate boxer, is arrested and sent to a concentration camp. Soon, he is forced to box against his fellow prisoners for the sake of entertainment.
Directed by A. Edward Sutherland
Ollie falls in love with a woman. When he discovers she's already married, he unsuccessfully attempts suicide but he and Stan then decide to join the Foreign Legion to get away from their troubles. When they’re arrested for soon trying to desert the Legion—they escape a firing squad by stealing an aircraft.
Directed by Andrew V. McLaglen
✦ MovieMuse AI takeElite commandos' unconventional warfare challenges military hierarchy more than enemy tactics.
At the onset of World War II, American Lt. Col. Robert Frederick is put in charge of a unit called the 1st Special Service Force, composed of elite Canadian commandos and undisciplined American soldiers. With Maj. Alan Crown leading the Canadians and Maj. Cliff Bricker the acting head of the American contingent, there is initial tension -- but the team comes together when given a daunting mission that few would dare to attempt.
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