War Documentary Movies

Using exclusively archival footage, Erwin Leiser traces the rise and collapse of the Third Reich, from Adolf Hitler’s early years to the...

An essay film exploring the thirteen United States Presidents that have led the country through war and conflict from 1950 to 2025.

An examination of the United States’ involvement in war, focusing on its impact on political decisions, national identity, and the lives of its...

In 1943, Noor Inayat Khan was recruited as a covert operative into Winston Churchill's Special Operations Executive. With an American mother and...

In June 1944, optimism reigned in the Allied camp. In the West, the Normandy landings were a success. In their advance, the troops soon threatened...

Made refugees by the war in Ukraine, Olga and her granddaughter Milana travel to a summer camp in the Austrian Alps to test the limits of their own...

In this documentary, experts dissect the Battle of Britain, which took place on Sept. 15, 1940 — a day that determined the fate of the nation.

Ireland, June 1944. The crucial decision about the right time to start Operation Overlord on D-Day comes to depend on the readings taken by Maureen...

From Gaza’s Jabaliya refugee camp, to the University of Toronto and the Supreme Court of Israel, I Shall Not Hate follows the uncharted path of...

The filmmaker, Alexandros Papathanasiou, travels to Crete to meet Lefteris Eliakis, a guerrilla fighter during the Greek Civil War and a political...

The destruction of the traditional legal system is probably one of the lesser-known yet essential goals of the Nazi state. The aim was to establish...

A montage of newscasts tracing the events of the "damned war" and the German invasion of 1940.

A retrospective on Hollywood's role in the war effort in World War II, narrated by Johnny Carson.

During the worst days of World War II, the British government asks the mathematician Alan Turing to unravel the mysteries of the German Enigma...

Shortly before Christmas 1744, Vienna, the center of power in the Habsburg Empire, is the scene of a disastrous drama with repercussions for the...

Documentary about the first German foreign deployment of German soldiers in Kosovo since the Second World War in 1995.

Korengal picks up where Restrepo left off; the same men, the same valley, the same commanders, but a very different look at the experience of war.