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Pearl Harbor(2001)

PG-13
| 3h 3min | Action, War, History, Romance / Love, Drama
3.5/5 (with 2,920 votes)

The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the two ace fighter pilots become entangled in a love triangle with beautiful Naval nurse Evelyn Johnson. But the rivalry between the friends-turned-foes is immediately put on hold when they find themselves at the center of Japan's devastating attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.

Directed by Michael Bay - With Ben Affleck, Josh Hartnett, Kate Beckinsale, Cuba Gooding Jr., Tom Sizemore, Jon Voight, ...
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The Wind Rises(2013)

PG-13
| 2h 6min | Drama, Animation, War, Romance / Love
3.9/5 (with 1,289 votes)

A lifelong love of flight inspires Japanese aviation engineer Jiro Horikoshi, whose storied career includes the creation of the A-6M World War II fighter plane.

Directed by Hayao Miyazaki

Unbroken(2014)

PG-13
| 2h 17min | Drama, War
3.7/5 (with 1,874 votes)

A chronicle of the life of Louis Zamperini, an Olympic runner who was taken prisoner by Japanese forces during World War II.

Directed by Angelina Jolie - With Alex Russell, Domhnall Gleeson, Garrett Hedlund, Jack O'Connell, Jai Courtney, Luke Treadaway, ...
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Midway(2019)

PG-13
| 2h 18min | Action, Drama, War, History, Adventure
3.6/5 (with 1,076 votes)

The story of the Battle of Midway, and the leaders and soldiers who used their instincts, fortitude and bravery to overcome massive odds.

Directed by Roland Emmerich - With Woody Harrelson, Luke Evans, Mandy Moore, Patrick Wilson, Ed Skrein, Aaron Eckhart, ...
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The Bridge on the River Kwai(1957)

PG
| 2h 41min | Drama, History, War
3.9/5 (with 945 votes)

The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence officers conspire to blow up the structure, but Col. Nicholson , the commander who supervised the bridge's construction, has acquired a sense of pride in his creation and tries to foil their plans.

Directed by David Lean - With Jack Hawkins, William Holden, Sessue Hayakawa, Alec Guinness, James Donald, Percy Herbert, ...
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The Thin Red Line(1998)

R
| 2h 51min | Drama, History, War
3.7/5 (with 1,293 votes)

The story of a group of men, an Army Rifle company called C-for-Charlie, who change, suffer, and ultimately make essential discoveries about themselves during the fierce World War II battle of Guadalcanal. It follows their journey, from the surprise of an unopposed landing, through the bloody and exhausting battles that follow, to the ultimate departure of those who survived.

Directed by Terrence Malick - With Sean Penn, Jim Caviezel, Nick Nolte, Elias Koteas, Ben Chaplin, Adrien Brody, ...
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Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence(1983)

R
| 2h 4min | Drama, History, War
3.7/5 (with 186 votes)

Island of Java, 1942, during World War II. British Major Jack Celliers arrives at a Japanese prison camp, run by the strict Captain Yonoi. Colonel John Lawrence, who has a profound knowledge of Japanese culture, and Sergeant Hara, brutal and simpleton, will witness the struggle of wills between two men from very different backgrounds who are tragically destined to clash.

Directed by Nagisa Ōshima - With David Bowie, Tom Conti, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Takeshi Kitano, Jack Thompson, Yuya Uchida, ...

Flags of Our Fathers(2006)

R
| 2h 15min | War, Drama, History
3.4/5 (with 788 votes)

There were five Marines and one Navy Corpsman photographed raising the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi by Joe Rosenthal on February 23, 1945. This is the story of three of the six surviving servicemen - John 'Doc' Bradley, Pvt. Rene Gagnon and Pvt. Ira Hayes - who fought in the battle to take Iwo Jima from the Japanese.

Directed by Clint Eastwood - With Ryan Phillippe, Jesse Bradford, Adam Beach, John Slattery, Barry Pepper, Jamie Bell, ...
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The Final Countdown(1980)

PG
| 1h 43min | War, Action, Science Fiction
3.3/5 (with 244 votes)

During routine manoeuvres near Hawaii in 1980, the aircraft-carrier USS Nimitz is caught in a strange vortex-like storm, throwing the ship back in time to 1941—mere hours before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

Directed by Don Taylor - With Kirk Douglas, Martin Sheen, Katharine Ross, James Farentino, Ron O'Neal, Charles Durning, ...
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Midway(1976)

PG
| 2h 12min | Action, Drama, History, War
3.3/5 (with 120 votes)

This war drama depicts the U.S. and Japanese forces in the naval Battle of Midway, which became a turning point for Americans during World War II.

Directed by Jack Smight - With Charlton Heston, Henry Fonda, James Coburn, Glenn Ford, Hal Holbrook, Toshirō Mifune, ...
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Letters from Iwo Jima(2006)

R
| 2h 21min | Action, Drama, War
3.7/5 (with 872 votes)

The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of the Japanese who fought it.

Directed by Clint Eastwood - With Ken Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya, Yuki Matsuzaki, Luke Eberl, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Ryō Kase, ...
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Windtalkers(2002)

R
| 2h 14min | War, Drama, Action, History
3.1/5 (with 536 votes)

Joe Enders is a gung-ho Marine assigned to protect a "windtalker" - one of several Navajo Indians who were used to relay messages during World War II because their spoken language was indecipherable to Japanese code breakers.

Directed by John Woo - With Nicolas Cage, Adam Beach, Mark Ruffalo, Peter Stormare, Noah Emmerich, Christian Slater, ...
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Tora! Tora! Tora!(1970)

G
| 2h 24min | Drama, History, War
3.6/5 (with 230 votes)

In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. "Tora! Tora! Tora!", named after the code words use by the lead Japanese pilot to indicate they had surprised the Americans, covers the days leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor, which plunged America into the Second World War.

Directed by Richard Fleischer, Kinji Fukasaku, Toshio Masuda - With Joseph Cotten, Jason Robards, Martin Balsam, James Whitmore, E. G. Marshall, Keith Andes, ...
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The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity(1959)

2h 58min | War, Drama, History
4.1/5 (with 76 votes)

Kaji is sent to the Japanese army labeled Red and is mistreated by the vets. Along his assignment, Kaji witnesses cruelties in the army and revolts against the abusive treatment against the recruit Obara. He also sees his friend Shinjô Ittôhei defecting to the Russian border, and he ends in the front to fight a lost battle against the Russian tanks division.

Directed by Masaki Kobayashi - With Tatsuya Nakadai, Michirō Minami, Keiji Sada, Michiyo Aratama

The Burmese Harp(1956)

1h 56min | Drama, Music, War
3.9/5 (with 60 votes)

In the War's closing days, when a conscience-driven Japanese soldier fails to get his countrymen to surrender to overwhelming force, he adopts the lifestyle of a Buddhist monk.

Directed by Kon Ichikawa - With Jun Hamamura, Rentarō Mikuni, Shōji Yasui, Taketoshi Naito, Kō Nishimura

Men Behind the Sun(1988)

1h 45min | War, History, Horror, Drama
3.1/5 (with 81 votes)

The film is a graphic depiction of the war atrocities committed by the Japanese at Unit 731, the secret biological weapons experimentation unit of the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. The film details the various cruel medical experiments Unit 731 inflicted upon the Chinese and Soviet prisoners at the tail-end of the war.

Directed by Mou Tun-fei

Yamato(2005)

2h 23min | War, History
2.7/5 (with 15 votes)

Directed by Junya Sato and based on a book by Jun Henmi, "Yamato" has a framing story set in the present day and uses flashbacks to tell the story of the crew of the World War II Japanese battleship Yamato. The film was never released in the United States, where reviewers who have seen it have compared the military epic to "Titanic" and "Saving Private Ryan.".

Directed by Junya Satō - With Takashi Sorimachi, Nakamura Shidō II, Yu Aoi, Kenichi Matsuyama, Jun'ichi Haruta, Kyōka Suzuki, ...

MacArthur(1977)

PG
| 2h 10min | Drama, History, War
3.1/5 (with 34 votes)

The film portrays MacArthur's (Gregory Peck) life from 1942, before the Battle of Bataan, to 1952, the time after he had been removed from his Korean War command by President Truman (Ed Flanders) for insubordination, and is recounted in flashback as he visits West Point.

Directed by Joseph Sargent - With Gregory Peck, Ed Flanders, Dan O'Herlihy, Marj Dusay, Ward Costello, Addison Powell, ...
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Wife of a Spy(2020)

NR
| 1h 54min | Drama, History, War, Thriller
3.3/5 (with 34 votes)

It’s 1940, and the population of Japan is divided over its entry into World War II. Satoko, the wife of a fabric merchant, is devoted to her husband but is beginning to suspect he’s up to something. Soon she allows herself to be drawn into a game in which she enigmatically conceals her intentions.

Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa - With Yu Aoi, Issey Takahashi, Masahiro Higashide, Ryōta Bandō, Yuri Tsunematsu, Takashi Sasano, ...

Fires on the Plain(1959)

1h 48min | Drama, War
3.8/5 (with 41 votes)

In the closing days of WWII remnants of the Japanese army in Leyte are abandoned by their command and face certain starvation.

Directed by Kon Ichikawa - With Osamu Takizawa, Mickey Curtis, Eiji Funakoshi

Mister Roberts(1955)

NR
| 2h 3min | Comedy, Drama, Kids & Family, War
3.6/5 (with 64 votes)

Mr. Roberts is as an officer who's yearning for battle but is stuck in the backwaters of World War II on a non-commissioned Navy ship run by the bullying Captain Morton.

Directed by John Ford, Mervyn LeRoy, Joshua Logan - With Henry Fonda, James Cagney, William Powell, Jack Lemmon, Betsy Palmer, Ward Bond, ...
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Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison(1957)

1h 48min | Adventure, Drama, War
3.5/5 (with 53 votes)

A Roman Catholic nun and a hard-bitten US Marine are stranded together on a Japanese-occupied island in the South Pacific during World War II. Under constant threat of discovery by a ruthless enemy, they hide in a cave and forage for food together. Their forced companionship and the struggle for survival forge a powerful emotional bond between them.

Directed by John Huston - With Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, Anna Sten
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Run Silent, Run Deep(1958)

1h 33min | Drama, War
3.5/5 (with 59 votes)

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 Robert Wise - With Clark Gable, Burt Lancaster, Jack Warden, Brad Dexter, Don Rickles, Nick Cravat, ...

Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet(2011)

2h 15min | History, War
3.2/5 (with 14 votes)

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto (1884-1943) was the Japanese Naval commander who was given the order to attack Pearl Harbour, an order he was duty bound to obey which went against his own personal beliefs. While this infamous attack is a low point in Japanese and US history it wouldn’t have happened if the Japanese government had listened to Yamamoto in 1939 and searched for a more peaceful way to end their war campaign, proving his many ominous presages of the outcomes of the attack to come true.

Directed by Izuru Narushima - With Kōji Yakusho, Hiroshi Abe, Hiroshi Tamaki, Toshirō Yanagiba, Mieko Harada, Asaka Seto, ...

They Were Expendable(1945)

2h 15min | Drama, War
3.3/5 (with 45 votes)

Shortly after Pearl Harbor, a squadron of PT-boat crews in the Philippines must battle the Navy brass between skirmishes with the Japanese. The title says it all about the Navy's attitude towards the PT-boats and their crews.

Directed by John Ford, Robert Montgomery - With Robert Montgomery, John Wayne, Donna Reed, Jack Holt, Ward Bond, Marshall Thompson, ...
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Paradise Road(1997)

2h 2min | War, Drama, History
3.3/5 (with 34 votes)

A group of English, American, Dutch and Australian women creates a vocal orchestra while being imprisoned in a Japanese POW camp on Sumatra during World War II.

Directed by Bruce Beresford - With Glenn Close, Frances McDormand, Pauline Collins, Johanna ter Steege, Julianna Margulies, Cate Blanchett, ...
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Merrill's Marauders(1962)

1h 38min | Action, Drama, War
3.1/5 (with 24 votes)

Brigadier General Frank D. Merrill leads the 3,000 American volunteers of his 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), aka "Merrill's Marauders", behind Japanese lines across Burma to Myitkyina, pushing beyond their limits and fighting pitched battles at every strong-point.

Directed by Samuel Fuller - With Jeff Chandler, Ty Hardin, Andrew Duggan, Claude Akins, Peter Brown, Will Hutchins, ...
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The Battle of Okinawa(1971)

2h 29min | War, History
3.8/5 (with 5 votes)

The Americans are swiftly closing on Okinawa, an island just south of the Japanese mainland. The Imperial command sends top generals and several army divisions to defend it at all costs. The mission quickly degenerates as vital resources and troops are diverted to other islands. After a civilian evacuation ends in tragedy most of non-combatants are forced to remain on the island. Many convert to soldier status. Tokyo sends mixed messages that squander time and resources, as when they order the defenders to build an airstrip for aircraft that never come. The truth soon becomes obvious: the high command decides that the island cannot be held and effectively abandons the Okinawan defenders. When the Americans land many troops are deployed in the wrong places. As the slaughter mounts, a suicidal attitude takes hold. Okinawa becomes a death trap, for civilian volunteers and non-combatants as well.

Directed by Kihachi Okamoto - With Tatsuya Nakadai, Keiju Kobayashi, Tetsurō Tamba

The Battle of Midway(1942)

NR
| 18min | Documentary, War
2.9/5 (with 32 votes)

The Japanese attack on Midway in June 1942, filmed as it happened.

Directed by John Ford - With Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell
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Hell in the Pacific(1968)

G
| 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.

Directed by John Boorman - With Lee Marvin, Toshirō Mifune
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