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Windtalkers (2002)

3.05 Stars

Action, Drama, War

Two U.S. Marines in World War II are assigned to protect Navajo Marines, who use their native language as an unbreakable radio cypher.

Japanese Army, Japanese Soldier, Navajo Indian, U.s. Soldier, Year 1944, Military, Saipan

Similar to Windtalkers (2002)

Saints and Soldiers (2005)

3.35 Stars

Action, Drama, War

Four American soldiers and one Brit fighting in Europe during World War II struggle to return to Allied territory after being separated from U.S. forces during the historic Malmedy Massacre.

Similarity: 13.48 (Very Similar)

1940s, American Soldier, Ardennes Forest, Behind Enemy Lines, Year 1944, 20th Century, American Abroad, Medic, Army Medic, U.s. Army, U.s. Soldier

Similar to Windtalkers (2002)

The Last Rescue (2015)

2.35 Stars

Action, Drama, War

World War II: Shortly after D-Day, three American soldiers and two Army Corps nurses are stranded behind enemy lines. They take a high-ranking German officer as their prisoner and try to orchestrate an escape.

Similarity: 12.41 (Very Similar)

1940s, Man, Military, Woman, Year 1944

Similar to Windtalkers (2002)

Sand Castle (2017)

3.15 Stars

Action, Drama, War

The story follows a young soldier, and his introduction into the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Based on true events, it bears witness to the destruction, and horrors of war.

Similarity: 10.91 (Very Similar)

Based On True Story, Military, Shower, Soldier, Taking A Shower, 2003 Invasion Of Iraq, U.s. Military, U.s. Soldier

Similar to Windtalkers (2002)

Flags of Our Fathers (2006)

3.55 Stars

Action, Adventure, Drama

The life stories of the six men who raised the flag at the Battle of Iwo Jima, a turning point in World War II.

Similarity: 8.96 (Very Similar)

Japan, Japanese Army, Japanese Soldier, Pima Indian, Reference To Arizona, Imperial Japan

Similar to Windtalkers (2002)

Catch-22 (1970)

3.55 Stars

Comedy, Drama, War

A man is trying desperately to be certified insane during World War II, so he can stop flying missions.

Similarity: 8.93 (Very Similar)

Based On Novel, Bomber, U.s. Military, World War Two, Year 1944, U.s. Army Air Force, U.s. Soldier

Similar to Windtalkers (2002)

Taiheiyou no kiseki: Fokkusu to yobareta otoko (2011)

3.25 Stars

Drama, War

During the end of World War 2, a group of Japanese soldiers fight on after US forces capture most of the island. They refuse to surrender and continue to resist after the Emperor surrenders.

Similarity: 8.34 (Very Similar)

1940s, Japanese Soldier, World War Two, Year 1944, Year 1945

Similar to Windtalkers (2002)

Battleground (1950)

3.70 Stars

Action, Drama, History

True tale about a squad of the 101st Airborne Division coping with being trapped by the Germans in the besieged city of Bastogne, Belgium during the Battle of the Bulge in December of 1944.

Similarity: 7.22 (Similar)

American Abroad, Cold Weather, U.s. Soldier, World War Two In Belgium, Year 1944

Similar to Windtalkers (2002)

D-Day the Sixth of June (1956)

3.00 Stars

Drama, Romance, War

En route to Normandy, an American and a British officer reminisce in flashback about their romances with the same woman.

Similarity: 7.19 (Similar)

1940s, Military, Soldier, United Kingdom, Year 1944

Similar to Windtalkers (2002)

Mai wei (2011)

3.85 Stars

Action, Drama, War

In World War II-era Korea, rival runners, one Korean (Jang Dong-gun) and one Japanese (Joe Odagiri), go to war together against the Soviets.

Similarity: 7.14 (Similar)

1940s, Dead Soldier, Korea, Russia, Year 1944, France, Imperial Japan, Imperial Japanese Army, World War Two

Similar to Windtalkers (2002)

Megan Leavey (2017)

3.55 Stars

Action, Biography, Drama

Based on the true life story of a young Marine corporal whose unique discipline and bond with her military combat dog saved many lives during their deployment in Iraq.

Similarity: 7.05 (Similar)

American Abroad, Dog Handler, Female Soldier, U.s. Military, U.s. Soldier, Dog, F Rated, Iraq, K9 Unit, Military

Similar to Windtalkers (2002)

Kokoda (2006)

3.05 Stars

Action, Drama, War

A bitter battle is fought between Australian and Japanese soldiers along the Kokoda trail in New Guinea during World War II.

Similarity: 7.01 (Similar)

20th Century, Australian Soldier, Downpour, Japanese Soldier, Jungle Warfare

Similar to Windtalkers (2002)

Hell Is for Heroes (1962)

3.45 Stars

Drama, War

Small squad must hold off German attack.

Similarity: 6.91 (Similar)

Automatic Gunfire, Infantryman, Man Shot To Death, Nco, Year 1944, U.s. Military, U.s. Soldier, World War Two In France

Similar to Windtalkers (2002)

Back to Bataan (1945)

3.35 Stars

Drama, War

In 1942, after the fall of the Philippines to the Japanese, U.S. Army Col. Joseph Madden stays behind to organize the local resistance against the Japanese invaders.

Similarity: 6.91 (Similar)

American Colony, Heroic Military, Japanese Soldier, Military Uniform, U.s. Soldier

Similar to Windtalkers (2002)

The Great Raid (2005)

3.30 Stars

Action, Drama, War

Taking place towards the end of WWII, 500 American Soldiers have been entrapped in a camp for 3 years. Beginning to give up hope they will ever be rescued, a group of Rangers goes on a dangerous mission to try and save them.

Similarity: 6.84 (Similar)

Based On True Story, Japanese Army, Prisoner Of War Camp, Rescue Mission, U.s. Army, Philippines

Similar to Windtalkers (2002)

Pork Chop Hill (1959)

3.55 Stars

Action, Drama, War

During the Korean War peace talks, U.S. troops fight to retake a hill from the Communist Chinese forces.

Similarity: 6.51 (Similar)

American Abroad, Based On True Story, Korean War, U.s. Soldier, Year 1953

Similar to Windtalkers (2002)

Keerthi Chakra (2006)

3.65 Stars

Action, Drama, War

Based on a real life incident that happened during the Kargil War.

Similarity: 6.25 (Similar)

Human Rights Activist, Military, Mosque, Rape, Shootout

Similar to Windtalkers (2002)

Attack (1956)

3.70 Stars

Action, Drama, War

In 1945, an American Infantry company sets up an artillery observation post, but tensions between Captain Cooney and Lieutenant Costa run high.

Similarity: 6.23 (Similar)

American Soldier, Cold Weather, Nazi Soldier, Questioning Authority, Year 1944, 1940s, Drunkenness, Shooting A Dead Body, Tank

Similar to Windtalkers (2002)

Uri: The Surgical Strike (2019)

4.20 Stars

Action, Drama, War, History

Indian army special forces execute a covert operation, avenging the killing of fellow army men at their base by a terrorist group.

Similarity: 6.19 (Similar)

Indian Army, Indian Soldier, Military, Soldier, Year 2016

Similar to Windtalkers (2002)

Code Name: Emerald (1985)

2.95 Stars

Action, Drama, War

Emerald is an agent the Germans "have" inside allied intelligence 1944/WWII. With "help" from Emerald, the Germans catch Wheeler, believed to know the when and where of D-Day. Emerald is sent to be Wheeler's cell mate. Let the game b

Similarity: 6.16 (Similar)

1940s, Military Operation, Nazi Uniform, Ss, Year 1944

Similar to Windtalkers (2002)

When Trumpets Fade (1998)

3.55 Stars

Action, Drama, War

A private in the latter days of WWII on the German front struggles between his will to survive and what his superiors perceive as a battlefield instinct.

Similarity: 6.06 (Similar)

1940s, No Female Character, Pipe Smoking, Platoon, Year 1944

Similar to Windtalkers (2002)

The Big Red One (1980)

3.55 Stars

Drama, War

A hardened sergeant and the four core members of his infantry unit try to survive World War II as they move from battle to battle throughout Europe.

Similarity: 6.02 (Similar)

Infantry, Year 1942, Year 1943, Year 1944, Year 1945, Nazi Soldier, U.s. Army, Western Front Of World War Ii

Similar to Windtalkers (2002)

Patton (1970)

4.00 Stars

Biography, Drama, War

The World War II phase of the career of controversial American general George S. Patton.

Similarity: 5.98 (Similar)

World War Two In Italy, Year 1942, Year 1943, Year 1944, Year 1945, 1940s

Similar to Windtalkers (2002)

At War with the Army (1951)

2.85 Stars

Comedy, Musical, War

Alvin Corwin is low man on the totem pole, and goes from one mishap to another at an army training camp in World War II.

Similarity: 5.95 (Similar)

20th Century, Military, Soldier, U.s. Army, U.s. Soldier

Similar to Windtalkers (2002)

Black Hawk Down (2002)

3.85 Stars

Drama, History, War, Action

The story of 160 elite U.S. soldiers who dropped into Mogadishu in October 1993 to capture two top lieutenants of a renegade warlord, but found themselves in a desperate battle with a large force of heavily-armed Somalis.

Similarity: 5.94 (Similar)

Gunfight, Somalia, Street Shootout, U.s. Army, U.s. Soldier, Chaos, Peacekeeper

Similar to Windtalkers (2002)

Indigènes (2006)

3.50 Stars

Action, Drama, War

During WWII, four North African men enlist in the French army to liberate that country from Nazi oppression, and to fight French discrimination.

Similarity: 5.90 (Similar)

Arab, French Soldier, Muslim, Year 1943, Year 1944, Algeria, Year 1945

Similar to Windtalkers (2002)

Tunnel Rats (2008)

2.35 Stars

Action, Drama, War

During the Vietnam War [1959-1975] a special US combat unit is sent out to hunt and kill the Viet Cong soldiers in a man-to-man combat in the endless tunnels underneath the jungle of Vietnam. Suicide squads of a special kind.

Similarity: 5.77 (Similar)

American Abroad, Hole In The Ground, Tunnel Rat, U.s. Soldier, Vietnam War

Similar to Windtalkers (2002)

Spy Sorge (2003)

3.10 Stars

Action, Drama, Thriller

A foreign spy using the Sorge alias is assigned to Tokyo the capital of Japan just prior to the outbreak of World War II and in the midst of the Japanese imperial ambitions in Eastern Asia. The spy becomes acquainted with a sympathet

Similarity: 5.77 (Similar)

Foreigner In Japan, Military, Newspaper, Newspaper Columnist, Spy

Similar to Windtalkers (2002)

Bataan (1944)

3.45 Stars

Action, Drama, War

In 1942, in the Bataan peninsula of the Philippines, a ragtag American unit commanded by Sergeant Bill Dane attempts to blow-up a bridge in order to slow the Japanese advance.

Similarity: 5.76 (Similar)

American Colony, American Soldier, Heroic Military, U.s. Military, War Propaganda, Main Characters Killed Off, Sabotage, U.s. Soldier, Last Man Standing, Machete

Similar to Windtalkers (2002)

Onoda, 10 000 nuits dans la jungle (2021)

3.65 Stars

Adventure, Drama, War

When Japan surrenders at the end of World War II, soldier Hiroo Onoda retreats into the jungles of the Philippines to continue the war himself for another 10,000 days.

Similarity: 5.74 (Similar)

Audio Cassette, Based On Real Person, Philippines, Tourist, Year 1976, Based On True Story, Japanese Soldier, World War Two

Similar to Windtalkers (2002)

Flammen & Citronen (2008)

3.60 Stars

Action, Drama, History

A drama centered on two fighters in the Holger Danske World War II resistance group.

Similarity: 5.62 (Similar)

Jew, Jewish, Shot Multiple Times, Year 1940, Year 1944

Similar to Windtalkers (2002)

The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel (1951)

3.45 Stars

Biography, Drama, War

The story of the final years of the respected World War II German general, Erwin Rommel.

Similarity: 5.58 (Similar)

Field Marshal, Forced Suicide, German Officer, Military Leadership, Year 1944, 1940s, Reference To Erwin Rommel, Western Front Of World War Ii

Similar to Windtalkers (2002)

G.I. Jane (1997)

3.00 Stars

Action, Drama, War

A female Senator succeeds in enrolling a woman into Combined Reconnaissance Team training where everyone expects her to fail.

Similarity: 5.57 (Similar)

Feminism, Military, Soldier, Strong Female Character, Training

Similar to Windtalkers (2002)

Red Tails (2012)

2.95 Stars

Action, Drama, History

A crew of African American pilots in the Tuskegee training program, having faced segregation while kept mostly on the ground during World War II, are called into duty under the guidance of Col. A.J. Bullard.

Similarity: 5.54 (Similar)

1940s, 20th Century, Magical Negro Stereotype, Pseudohistory, Year 1944, World War Two

Similar to Windtalkers (2002)

War Pigs (2015)

2.10 Stars

Action, Drama, War

A rag tag unit of misfits known as the War Pigs must go behind enemy lines to exterminate Nazis by any means necessary.

Similarity: 5.53 (Similar)

1940s, U.s. Army, Western Front, World War Two, Year 1944

Similar to Windtalkers (2002)

Samek

3.30 Stars

Drama, War

Dramatic story of the Sarajevo photographer Matthew Samek during World War II. Samek experiencing historical events in his characteristic way. He did not like the king, but neither the German occupiers, which coincidentally has to wo

Similarity: 5.46 (Similar)

Father, Horse, Photographer, Sarajevo, Year 1944

Similar to Windtalkers (2002)

Battle of the Bulge (1966)

3.40 Stars

Drama, History, War

A dramatization of Nazi Germany's final Western Front counterattack of World War II.

Similarity: 5.33 (Similar)

Battle Of The Bulge, Cold Weather, Wehrmacht, World War Two In Belgium, Year 1944, 1940s, 20th Century

Similar to Windtalkers (2002)

Straight Into Darkness

2.50 Stars

Action, Drama, Horror

When two young American GIs desert their platoon in the final days of World War II, they will find themselves struggling against all odds to stay alive.

Similarity: 5.26 (Similar)

Child, Child Uses A Gun, Murder Of A Child, Orphan, Soldier, U.s. Soldier, World War Two Soldier

Similar to Windtalkers (2002)

Memorial Day (2012)

3.05 Stars

Action, Drama, History

Memorial Day, 1993. When 13-year-old Kyle Vogel discovers the World War II footlocker belonging to his grandfather, Bud, everyone tells Kyle to put it back. Luckily, he ignores them. Although Bud has never talked about the war, he fi

Similarity: 5.24 (Similar)

Cemetery, Memorial Day, United States, Usa, Year 1944

Similar to Windtalkers (2002)

Gekido no showashi: Okinawa kessen (1971)

3.45 Stars

Drama, History, War

Told from the Japanese perspective, this war drama captures the events of World War II's Battle of Okinawa - a massive amphibious assault by U.S. troops that left more than 150,000 Japanese civilians dead.

Similarity: 5.20 (Similar)

Battle Of Okinawa, Japanese Military, Japanese Soldier, Military Uniform, Year 1945

Similar to Windtalkers (2002)

Két félidö a pokolban (1961)

4.00 Stars

Drama, Sport, War

On Hitler's birthday, the Germans decide to organize a soccer match between prisoners of war and Germans.

Similarity: 5.18 (Similar)

1940s, Death Penalty, Football, Prison Camp, Year 1944

Similar to Windtalkers (2002)

1944 (2015)

3.50 Stars

Drama, History, War

In 1944 Estonia, a fratricide war ensues when Estonians of the retreating German forces fight against Estonians conscripted into the advancing Soviet Red Army.

Similarity: 5.17 (Similar)

Dead Soldier, Retreat, Shot, Soviet Red Army, Year 1944, Eastern Front, Waffen Ss

Similar to Windtalkers (2002)

De slag om de Schelde (2021)

3.55 Stars

Drama, War

1944, the Second World War. A British glider pilot, a Dutch boy fighting on the German side and a Dutch female resistance member all end up involved in the Battle of the Schelde. Their choices differ, but their goal is the same: free

Similarity: 5.14 (Similar)

1940s, Boy, World War, World War Two, Year 1944, Based On True Story, Forgotten History, Soldier, Netherlands, Allied Forces, Canadian Army, Dutch Resistance

Similar to Windtalkers (2002)

Full Metal Jacket (1987)

4.15 Stars

Drama, War

A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.

Similarity: 5.10 (Similar)

Boot Camp, Drill Instructor, Military, U.s. Marine, Vietnam War

Similar to Windtalkers (2002)

Kanal (1957)

3.95 Stars

Drama, War

In 1944, during the Warsaw uprising against the Nazis, Polish Lieutenant Zadra and his resistance fighters use Warsaw's sewer system to escape the German encirclement.

Similarity: 5.02 (Similar)

Polish Military, Resistance, Warsaw Poland, Warsaw Uprising, Year 1944

Similar to Windtalkers (2002)

Narenjak (2008)

3.70 Stars

Drama, Short, War

Set in a war torn landscape, 'Narenjak' is the story of three innocent boys who amuse themselves with their own playground version of war. When they stumble across a live grenade, their mock battle becomes real as they argue over wha

Similarity: 4.98 (Slightly Similar)

Grenade, Military, Peace, Refugee, Return

Similar to Windtalkers (2002)

Kapisa (2009)

3.70 Stars

Drama, Short, War

Caught in the crossfire of the intensifying war in Afghanistan, members of a small team of US Army soldiers are forced to choose between promises made to one another and those assured to their loved ones back home.

Similarity: 4.98 (Slightly Similar)

Afghanistan, Military

Similar to Windtalkers (2002)

De Oost (2021)

3.45 Stars

Drama, Thriller, War

A young Dutch soldier deployed to suppress post-WWII independence efforts in the Netherlands' colony of Indonesia finds himself torn between duty and conscience when he joins an increasingly ruthless commander's elite squad.

Similarity: 4.96 (Slightly Similar)

1940s, Independence, Military, Soldier, Year 1946, Based On True Story, Indonesia

Similar to Windtalkers (2002)

Svart krabba (2022)

2.80 Stars

Action, Adventure, Thriller, Sci-fi, Drama

In a post-apocalyptic world, six soldiers on a covert mission must transport a mysterious package across a frozen archipelago. Noomi Rapace stars.

Similarity: 4.96 (Slightly Similar)

Civil War, Military, Mission, Research, Soldier, Based On Novel, Netflix Original

Similar to Windtalkers (2002)

The Deer Hunter (1979)

4.05 Stars

Drama, War

An in-depth examination of the ways in which the Vietnam War impacts and disrupts the lives of several friends in a small steel mill town in Pennsylvania.

Similarity: 4.93 (Slightly Similar)

American Imperialism, Russian Roulette, U.s. Army, U.s. Soldier, Vietnam War Veteran, Drunk, Pittsburgh Steelers, Vietnam War, Wedding Reception

Similar to Windtalkers (2002)

Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983)

3.60 Stars

Drama, War

During W.W. II, a British colonel tries to bridge the cultural divides between a British P.O.W. and the Japanese camp commander in order to avoid blood-shed.

Similarity: 4.92 (Slightly Similar)

Imperial Japan, Japanese Culture, Japanese Soldier, Prisoner, Prisoner Of War, Homoeroticism, Army Uniform, British Officer, Briton In Asia, Japanese Occupation, Japanese Officer