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1960s War Drama Movies

Public list by WPS with 101 movies or TV shows/series

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The Great Escape(1963)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 53min | Adventure, Drama, History, Thriller, War
4.0/5 (with 1,090 votes)

The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocate them to a high-security 'escape-proof' camp to sit out the remainder of the war. Undaunted, the prisoners plan one of the most ambitious escape attempts of World War II. Based on a true story.

Lawrence of Arabia(1962)

FSK: 12+ years
| 3h 47min | Adventure, Drama, History, War
4.0/5 (with 1,261 votes)

The story of British officer T.E. Lawrence's mission to aid the Arab tribes in their revolt against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. Lawrence becomes a flamboyant, messianic figure in the cause of Arab unity but his psychological instability threatens to undermine his achievements.

The Battle of Algiers(1966)

FSK: 16+ years
| 2h 1min | Drama, War, History
4.0/5 (with 299 votes)

Tracing the struggle of the Algerian Front de Liberation Nationale to gain freedom from French colonial rule as seen through the eyes of Ali from his start as a petty thief to his rise to prominence in the organisation and capture by the French in 1957. The film traces the rebels' struggle and the increasingly extreme measures taken by the French government to quell the revolt.

Directed by Gillo Pontecorvo - With Jean Martin, Saadi Yacef, Brahim Hadjadj, Larbi Zekkal, Fusia El Kader, Mohamed Ben Kassen, ...

Doctor Zhivago(1965)

FSK: 16+ years
| 3h 20min | Drama, Romance / Love, War
3.8/5 (with 473 votes)

The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.

The Fall of the Roman Empire(1964)

FSK: 12+ years
| 3h 8min | Drama, History, War
3.3/5 (with 76 votes)

In the year 180 A.D. Germanic tribes are about to invade the Roman empire from the north. In the midst of this crisis ailing emperor Marcus Aurelius has to make a decission about his successor between his son Commodus, who is obsessed by power, and the loyal general Gaius Livius.

Exodus(1960)

3h 28min | War, Drama
3.3/5 (with 90 votes)

Ari Ben Canaan, a passionate member of the Jewish paramilitary group Haganah, attempts to transport 600 Jewish refugees on a dangerous voyage from Cyprus to Palestine on a ship named the Exodus. He faces obstruction from British forces, who will not grant the ship passage to its destination.

The Cranes Are Flying(1957)

1h 37min | Drama, Romance / Love, War
4.0/5 (with 161 votes)

Veronika and Boris come together in Moscow shortly before World War II. Walking along the river, they watch cranes fly overhead, and promise to rendezvous before Boris leaves to fight. Boris misses the meeting and is off to the front lines, while Veronika waits patiently, sending letters faithfully. After her house is bombed, Veronika moves in with Boris' family, into the company of a cousin with his own intentions.

Army of Shadows(1969)

FSK: 16+ years
| 2h 25min | War, Drama, Thriller
4.0/5 (with 260 votes)

Betrayed by an informant, Philippe Gerbier finds himself trapped in a torturous Nazi prison camp. Though Gerbier escapes to rejoin the Resistance in occupied Marseilles, France, and exacts his revenge on the informant, he must continue a quiet, seemingly endless battle against the Nazis in an atmosphere of tension, paranoia and distrust.

Ivan's Childhood(1962)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 35min | Drama, War
3.9/5 (with 290 votes)

In WW2, twelve year old Soviet orphan Ivan Bondarev works for the Soviet army as a scout behind the German lines and strikes a friendship with three sympathetic Soviet officers.

Khartoum(1966)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 14min | History, War, Adventure
3.2/5 (with 41 votes)

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.

The Sand Pebbles(1966)

FSK: 12+ years
| 3h 2min | Adventure, War
3.6/5 (with 97 votes)

Engineer Jake Holman arrives aboard the gunboat USS San Pablo, assigned to patrol a tributary of the Yangtze in the middle of exploited and revolution-torn 1926 China. His iconoclasm and cynical nature soon clash with the 'rice-bowl' system which runs the ship and the uneasy symbiosis between Chinese and foreigner on the river. Hostility towards the gunboat's presence reaches a climax when the boat must crash through a river-boom and rescue missionaries upriver at China Light Mission.

Two Women(1960)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 40min | Drama, War
3.9/5 (with 238 votes)

Widowed shopkeeper Cesira and her 13-year-old daughter Rosetta flee from the allied bombs in Rome during the second World War; they travel to the remote village where Cesira was born. During their journey and in the village and onward, the mother does everything she can to protect Rosetta. Meanwhile, a sensitive young intellectual, Michele, falls in love with Cesira.

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Weekend at Dunkirk(1964)

1h 59min | Drama, War
3.5/5 (with 56 votes)

In June 1940, during the Dunkirk evacuation of Allied troops to England, French sergeant Julien Maillat and his men debate whether to evacuate to Britain or stay and fight the German troops that are closing-in from all directions.

Guns at Batasi(1964)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 43min | Action, Drama, War
3.6/5 (with 10 votes)

An anachronistic martinet RSM on a remote Colonial African army caught in a local coup d'etat must use his experience to defend those in his care.

War and Peace(1966)

3.9/5 (with 44 votes)

A seven-hour epic adaptation of the novel by Leo Tolstoy. The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Great Patriotic War of 1812 against Napoleon's invading army.

The Hill(1965)

2h 3min | Drama, War
3.8/5 (with 86 votes)

North Africa, World War II. British soldiers on the brink of collapse push beyond endurance to struggle up a brutal incline. It's not a military objective. It's The Hill, a manmade instrument of torture, a tower of sand seared by a white-hot sun. And the troops' tormentors are not the enemy, but their own comrades-at-arms.

The Shop on Main Street(1965)

2h 8min | Drama, War
4.0/5 (with 47 votes)

In a small town in Nazi-occupied Slovakia during World War II, decent but timid carpenter Tono is named "Aryan comptroller" of a button store owned by an old Jewish widow, Rozalie. Since the post comes with a salary and standing in the town's corrupt hierarchy, Tono wrestles with greed and guilt as he and Rozalie gradually befriend each other. When the authorities order all Jews in town to be rounded up, Tono faces a moral dilemma unlike any he's known before.

Burn!(1969)

FSK: 16+ years
| 2h 9min | Drama, War
3.4/5 (with 51 votes)

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.

Hell in the Pacific(1968)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 43min | Drama, War
3.5/5 (with 71 votes)

During World War II, a shot-down American pilot and a marooned Japanese navy captain find themselves stranded on the same small uninhabited island in the Pacific Ocean.

The Round-Up(1966)

1h 27min | Drama, History, War
3.7/5 (with 25 votes)

After the failure of the Kossuth's revolution of 1848, people suspected of supporting the revolution are sent to prison camps. Years later, partisans led by outlaw Sándor Rózsa still run rampant. Although the authorities do not know the identities of the partisans, they round up suspects and try to root them out by any means necessary.

The Counterfeit Traitor(1962)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 20min | War, Thriller, Drama
3.4/5 (with 12 votes)

Blacklisted in modern day WW2, a Swedish oil trader opts to assist British Allies, by means of infiltrating and surveying Nazi Germany.

The Camp Followers(1965)

1h 54min | Drama, War
3.5/5 (with 10 votes)

In WWII, Lieut. Martino and his men are assigned to lead a group of prostitutes through the mountainous ways to serve in brothels for Italian soldiers in Albania.

Saladin the Victorious(1963)

3h 6min | Drama, War, History
3.6/5 (with 11 votes)

The first Sultan of Egypt and Syria leads the Muslim military campaign against the invading Christians from Europe during the Third Crusade.

Directed by Youssef Chahine - With Ahmad Mazhar, Salah Zulfikar, Nadia Lutfi, Leila Fawzi, Omar El-Hariri

Behold a Pale Horse(1964)

1h 58min | Drama, War
3.0/5 (with 16 votes)

Manuel Artiguez, a famous bandit during the Spanish civil war, has lived in French exile for 20 years. When his mother is dying he considers visiting her secretly in his Spanish home town. But his biggest enemy, the Spanish police officer Vinolas, prepared a trap at the hospital as a chance to finally catch Artiguez.

The 25th Hour(1967)

2h 1min | Drama, War
3.9/5 (with 16 votes)

A Romanian peasant fights to get back to his family after he's imprisoned by the Nazis.The picture is based on real events. It includes Hungary's government in collaboration with the Nazis, the encroachment of Romania by Stalin's troopers, and other happenings.

The Red and the White(1967)

1h 30min | War, Drama
3.6/5 (with 33 votes)

In 1919, Hungarian Communists aid the Bolsheviks' defeat of Czarists, the Whites. Near the Volga, a monastery and a field hospital are held by one side and then the other.

Story of a Prostitute(1965)

FSK: 18+ years
| 1h 36min | Drama, Romance / Love, War
3.4/5 (with 14 votes)

Volunteering as a "comfort woman" on the Manchurian front, where she is expected to service hundreds of soldiers, Harumi is commandeered by the brutal Lieutenant Narita but falls for the sensitive Mikami, Narita's direct subordinate. Seijun Suzuki's Story of a Prostitute is a tragic love story as well as a rule-bending take on a popular Taijiro Tamura novel, challenging military and fraternal codes of honor, as seen through Harumi's eyes.

Directed by Seijun Suzuki - With Yumiko Nogawa, Isao Tamagawa, Shoichi Ozawa

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse(1962)

FSK: 16+ years
| 2h 33min | Drama
3.0/5 (with 19 votes)

Karl from Germany and Marcelo from France emigrated to Argentina and became brothers-in-law. Karl soon returned to Germany to serve in the army. Marcelo and his children Julio and Chichi became Argentinean citizens but later returned to Paris. Karl became a general with a son (Heinrich) in the SS and in WWII he got a high job within the occupation administration in France.

Diamonds of the Night(1964)

1h 7min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 27 votes)

A tense, brutal story of two Jewish boys who escape from a train transporting them from one concentration camp to another. Ultimately, they are hunted down by a group of old, armed home-guardists. The film goes beyond the themes of war and anti-Nazism and concerns itself with man's struggle to preserve human dignity.

Directed by Jan Němec - With Vladimír Pucholt

The Commissar(1967)

1h 50min | Drama, War
3.5/5 (with 15 votes)

Klavdia Vavilova, a Red Army cavalry commissar, is waylaid by an unexpected pregnancy. She stays with a Jewish family to give birth and is softened somewhat by the experience of family life.

Directed by Aleksandr Askoldov - With Nonna Mordyukova, Vasily Shukshin, Rolan Bykov, Rayisa Nedashkivska
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