Many conflicts have been fought throughout history, from ancient times to the present. However, we are constantly bombarded with accounts of such confrontations in the form of facts or figures. The human side of the stories is shown to us by some of the best filmmakers. Films that make us feel the suffering our men felt during D-Day, such as Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). It doesn’t matter if you’re from India, America, Pakistan, Iraq, Afghanistan, or Vietnam; it’s all the same here.

All of the troops’ combat deeds remind us of the history lectures we didn’t take. The top Hollywood war movies based on genuine stories and events are listed here. These aren’t simply films about World War I or World War II, but also films concerning the military and army.

1. Dunkirk (2017)

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Director- Christopher Nolan

In late May of 1940, Adolf Hitler’s powerful army smashes into Belgium eight months into World War II, followed by France. As a result of the outnumbered Allied Forces collapsing under the sheer volume of the invader. 400,000 troops find themselves stranded on the sandy beaches of the French coastal town of Dunkirk. Along with their backs to the frigid North Sea. With the German Luftwaffe pounding the shoreline and the distance between England and continental Europe only 33.3 kilometres across the Dover Strait. The major evacuation operation code-named Operation Dynamo, comprising hundreds of naval and civilian vessels, gets underway. While three Royal Air Force Spitfires attempt to fend off Nazi attacks and buy time, a grizzled civilian captain, Mr Dawson, his son, Peter, and a friend, George, struggle to save as many soldiers as they can in a desperate operation that will become known as the “Miracle of Dunkirk.”

The characters represent the real men who fought, waited, escaped, and died on that fateful day. Which some regard as World War II’s greatest failure, while others regard as a complete miracle.

2. Schindler’s List (1993)

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Director- Steven Speilberg

In 1939, businessman Oskar Schindler arrives in Krakow, eager to profit from World War II, which had just begun. He joins the Nazi party primarily for political reasons, and he employs Jewish workers in his factory for similar reasons. When the SS begins exterminating Jews in the Krakow ghetto, Schindler arranges for the safety of his workers. In order to keep his factory running. But he soon discovers that he is also sparing the lives of innocent people.

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This Holocaust movie honours the heroism of Oskar Schindler, a businessman who saved 1,200 Jews from extermination camps. Schindler used his status as a wealthy German manufacturer to hire hundreds of Jews to work in his companies.

3. Pianist (2002)

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Director- Roman Polanski

In the 1930s, Wladyslaw Szpilman was regarded as Poland’s most proficient pianist. However, as the Second World War breaks out, Szpilman finds himself vulnerable to the conquering Germans’ anti-Jewish legislation. Szpilman’s world has changed dramatically at the start of the 1940s, from piano concert halls to the Warsaw Jewish Ghetto. Then the horror of his family’s deportation to German concentration camps. While Szpilman is drafted into a forced German Labor Compound. Szpilman finally decides to flee and hides as a Jewish refugee, witnessing the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (April 19, 1943 – May 16, 1943) and the Warsaw Uprising (1 August to 2 October 1944).

In this touching biography of Polish musician Wadysaw Szpilman, Adrien Brody makes us cry. The Pianist is based on Szpilman’s autobiography and follows him as he hides in various locations throughout Warsaw (or what’s left of Warsaw).

4. A Bridge Too Far (1977)

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Director- Richard Attenborough

In September 1944, the Allies attempted to speed the end of World War II by driving through Belgium and Holland into Germany as part of Operation Market Garden. The plan was for American airborne divisions to seize Eindhoven and Nijmegen. While a British airborne division, backed up by a Polish airborne brigade, would take Arnhem. They would be reinforced by the British XXX Corps, which was land-based and driving up from the British lines in the south, in due course. The bridges were crucial to the operation because if the Germans held or blew them, the paratroopers would be trapped. Arnhem would be a bridge too far because to faulty intelligence, Allied high command hubris, and tenacious German resistance.

A Bridge Too Far, based on Cornelius Ryan’s 1974 book, delves into the wins and tactical blunders of the Battle of Arnhem in 1944.

5. American Sniper (2014)

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Director- Clint Eastwood

Chris Kyle was just a regular guy from Texas who wanted to be a cowboy, but in his thirties he realised that his life required a change, something that would allow him to show his true potential while also aiding America in its fight against terrorism. So he enlisted in the S.E.A.L.s to train as a sniper. Kyle and the rest of the unit are called for their first tour of Iraq after marrying Taya. Kyle’s difficulty isn’t with his missions, but with his relationship with the realities of war and, once home, how he balances it with his urban life, his wife, and his children.

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It’s a biographical play in the broadest sense, with some facts altered for dramatic effect. Nonetheless, the basis of the storey is accurate and provides insight into current combat.

6. Unbroken (2014)

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Director- Angelina Jolie

Louis grew up as a rough-hew youngster on the approach of becoming a full-fledged delinquent, that is, until his brother begins teaching him to be a track star. Louis succeeds at the sport and goes on to represent the United States at the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics. He learns to be resilient and disciplined during his training, and his brother’s words of encouragement, “If you can take it, you can make it,” inspire him to conquer any obstacles. After his plane is shot down after another bombing mission, he must prove that adage in the most dire of circumstances. He is abandoned at sea for over a month, only to be discovered by the Japanese and subjected to severe physical treatment at the hands of cruel prison-camp guard Mutsuhiro Watanabe, who is determined to break Louis’ unbreakable spirit.

7. The Imitation Game (2014)

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Director- Mortem Tyldum

In the real world, someone who is impelled to create is thought to be abnormal. The non-conformist has it tough in society. A creator can use his brain to solve unfathomable puzzles or compose symphonies; he transforms nothing into something. If someone succeeds in his attempt, the masses of society may collectively refer to him as “genius.” But beware: this means they won’t be able to comprehend the accomplishment or seek to match the mind that created it. With one hand, the people will happily embrace his gifts, while with the other, they will shove him into a snake pit. Alan Mathison Turing, master of the problem and founder of the modern computer, has a warning tale to tell.

Turing and his team of English mathematicians only had 24 hours to crack the code because the Nazi encryption equipment (known as the Enigma Machine) had settings that changed every day. This cypher, which the German military used to send secret messages, became the key to defeating Hitler—and only Turing was able to unlock the door.

8. Hackshaw Ridge (2016)

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Director- Mel Gibson

Desmond Doss and his brother Hal are reared in Lynchburg by a dysfunctional family, as their father Tom Doss is an alcoholic World War I veteran who beats up on their mother Bertha. Desmond almost murders Hal one day, and the Commandment “Thou shalt not kill” has an impact on his life. Years later, he meets Dorothy Schutte, a nurse, with whom he falls in love. Desmond, a Seventh-day Adventist Christian and conscientious objector, decides to join the army in World War II to serve his nation; however, he refuses to carry or use any weapon and instead requests to serve as a combat medic in order to save lives. Despite a number of setbacks during his preparation, he is able to go to battle and participate.

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Doss was initially chastised and mocked for refusing to bear arms, but he gained enormous respect for saving 75 soldiers in the Battle of Okinawa without firing a single shot.

9. We Were Soldiers (2002)

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Director- Randall Wallace

Lieutenant is aColonel Harold Moore, a dedicated commander and seasoned paratrooper. He prepares to lead the young men of the First Battalion of the Seventh Air Cavalry into the war’s first major ground fight in 1965. As America prepares to send its forces into South Vietnam’s verdant Central Highlands. Moore’s soldiers will fight in Ia Drang Valley, or the Valley of Death, for three days. While being hopelessly outmanned—four hundred soldiers against a North Vietnamese infantry division of two thousand men. We Were Soldiers depicts the bravery and dignity of a few brave men on the ferocious battlefield. As well as the agony and suffering of all others who were left alive but injured.

It’s based on the best-selling book We Were Soldiers Once…and Young, co-written by Moore and journalist Joseph L. Galloway and published in 1992. Moore’s story—and the atrocities he faced during battle—are honoured in Wallace’s harsh but gripping dramatisation.

10. Valkyrie (2008)

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Director- Bryan Singer

Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, a disabled combat hero of the Wehrmacht, is disillusioned by the Third Reich and Adolf Hitler’s totalitarian dictatorship. It determines that now that the Allies are closing in on Berlin, it is his moral duty to save as many human lives as possible. An influential cabal of high-ranking officials and politicians usher von Stauffenberg into their inner circle, to set in motion a modified emergency plan that ensures the nation’s civil order: the risky Operation Valkyrie. Now, in need of an audacious scheme to overthrow the Führer and save Germany. An influential cabal of high-ranking officials and politicians usher von Stauffenberg into their inner circle. To set in motion a modified emergency plan that ensures the nation’s civil order. As a result, two hidden bombs in a leather briefcase are more than enough to eliminate the terrible commander from the fatherland.

The group of high-ranking individuals feared for Germany’s future in Hitler’s unsteady hands, and planned to seize power through a national emergency. Valkyrie is a political thriller that is likely to entertain while also being historically accurate.