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THE BEST MILITARY MOVIES AND SHOWS STREAMING RIGHT NOW ON AMAZON PRIME VIDEO



Military movies don't have to be serious all the time. (Universal Pictures)
Military.com | By James Barber and Blake Stilwell
Updated January 03, 2024 at 10:00 am | Published November 01, 2023

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If you're looking for the best war movies on Amazon's Prime Video service, we're
here to help you beat the recommendation algorithm and get right to the movies
you want to see. Prime Video has the most widely varied catalog of movies and
shows, and sometimes it's hard to find what you want to watch. Our list can help
you cut through the chaff and get to the action you crave.




The movies on our list are focused on wars from one era of human history or
another, but we also list TV shows streaming on Prime Video that include a few
spy stories.

There's enough military viewing here on Prime Video to justify that yearly
subscription to Amazon Prime. You can also watch the latest war movies by trying
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THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES



"The Best Years of Our Lives" was a surprisingly hard-nosed story about the
struggles of veterans returning from World War II. WWII Army veteran Harold
Russell, who lost both hands in a training accident, was awarded a Best
Supporting Actor Oscar for his portrayal of a Navy veteran who lost both arms in
combat. The movie also won Best Picture, Best Director for WWII Army Air Corps
veteran William Wyler ("Ben-Hur") and Best Screenplay for Robert E. Sherwood,
the director of the overseas Office of War Information during WWII.

Three veterans return home to the small Midwestern town of Boone City: one Army
sergeant, one Navy petty officer and one Army Air Forces bombardier captain.
None of the men makes an easy transition back to civilian life, and "The Best
Years of Our Lives" follows them as they experience varying degrees of success
in sorting out their futures.


BRITANNIA



Set during the Roman invasion of Britain in the year 43 A.D., "Britannia"
portrays the brutal combat and even more brutal scheming between tribes as the
native cultures try to survive and drive out the enemy.

If you think Kelly Reilly is scary as Beth Dutton on "Yellowstone," wait until
you see her with a sword in her hand as Queen Kerra in "Britannia." Seasons 1 &
2 are currently available on Prime Video.


CAPTAIN PHILLIPS



Tom Hanks stars as the titular Capt. Richard Phillips, a merchant mariner and
skipper of the Maersk Alabama when it was taken over by Somali pirates. The
seizure of the Alabama was the first time an American-flagged ship had been
captured by pirates since the Second Barbary War of 1815, and the U.S. Navy
tends to frown on that sort of thing. 

The Alabama was bound for Kenya when four teenage Somalis boarded the vessel and
took control of the crew. Phillips tried to get the pirates off his vessel by
showing them a lifeboat, but they ended up taking him hostage. The Navy tried to
negotiate his release, but when that fell through, three pirates were (*spoiler
alert*) killed by Navy SEALs. The fourth had surrendered. 


CITY OF GHOSTS



As the Islamic State captured large swathes of territory in Syria and Iraq in
2014, a secret group of citizen journalists called Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered
Silently documented ISIL's war crimes and atrocities for the world to see.

"City of Ghosts" is a documentary about the then-anonymous efforts of the
reporters and how they uncovered ISIL crimes while living under the tyranny of
the terrorist state or in exile. It was widely considered the best documentary
of 2017 and became the "definitive documentary about the tragedy of Syria."


THE COURIER



"The Courier" is the true Cold War-era story of how the CIA and MI6 used a
civilian salesman with no intelligence experience as a go-between for Western
intelligence agencies and a Soviet agent from the Russian GRU.

After deciding they can't use one of their own officers, the CIA and MI6 enlist
British salesman Greville Wynne (Benedict Cumberbatch, "Doctor Strange") to
visit Moscow and collect information from GRU member Oleg Penkovsky. Wynne
uncovers information that leads to the Cuban Missile Crisis while trying to keep
his family together and avoid capture by the KGB.


THE DEVIL'S BRIGADE



"The Devil's Brigade" is a silver-screen adaptation of historian Robert H.
Adleman's book that depicts the creation of the 1st Special Service Force, a
joint unit of Canadian and American commandos formed during World War II.
Trained in Montana, the joint force would fight in Italy, southern France and
the Aleutian Islands. It was one of the foundational units for today's special
operations forces. 

Starring William Holden ("Stalag 17"), Cliff Robertson ("Spider-Man") and Vince
Edwards ("The Killing"), the movie recounts the training and formation of the
unit. It culminates in the 1st Special Service Force's attack on Monte la
Difensa, a German-held and supposedly impregnable fortress, taken during the
Italian Campaign.


FORREST GUMP



When you rewatch "Forrest Gump," you might be surprised to realize how little of
its 2½-hour running time is devoted to Gump's service in Vietnam and his
friendship with Lt. Dan Taylor. 

Yet Gary Sinise's performance as Lt. Dan sticks with viewers three decades
later, even though the actor didn't win the Oscar he deserved. Tom Hanks won
Best Actor, and the film garnered Best Picture and four more awards.

The greatest legacy of "Forrest Gump" may be that the experience of making it
introduced Sinise to veterans issues, and he's gone on to become one of the
greatest advocates the military community has ever seen.


THE FINAL COUNTDOWN



Before "Top Gun" was the catalyst for people to run to their Navy recruiter's
office to join ROTC programs, the go-to movie for inspiring the future ranks of
naval aviators was "The Final Countdown."

The USS Nimitz, an aircraft carrier with 5,000 crewmembers and jet aircraft,
mysteriously disappears in the Pacific Ocean, before it's discovered that it has
traveled back in time to Dec. 6, 1941, off the coast of Hawaii. Knowing every
detail of what's about to happen to the U.S., the ship's men ask themselves if
they should change the course of history.

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GENERATION WAR



"Generation War" is German television's attempt to make its own "Band of
Brothers." Of course, that's a more complicated endeavor when your military was
defeated in World War II and a racist ideology fueled your leader's rise to
power and eagerness to start a conflict.

The show has been praised for its depiction of the unrelenting combat on the
Eastern Front, but it's a bit too light depicting the ideologies of the Third
Reich. Though its portrayal of the war is flawed, it's fascinating to see German
filmmakers attempt to tell the story of the war for a mainstream audience.


GUY RITCHIE’S THE COVENANT 



While deployed to Afghanistan with U.S. Army Special Forces, Master Sgt. John
Kinley (Jake Gyllenhaal) gets a new interpreter, Ahmed (Dar Salim, “A War”).
When his unit is ambushed and everyone but Kinley and Ahmed are killed, Ahmed
carries the wounded soldier 100 kilometers back to Bagram Air Base while evading
Taliban patrols. 

Kinley goes home but can’t forget what Ahmed did to save his life. He resolves
to return to Afghanistan on his own to take Ahmed and his family out of the
country. Kinley is in a race against time to rescue all of them before the
Taliban can find and kill them --  all without the support of U.S. forces.  


THE HORSE SOLDIERS



John Wayne and William Holden star in this 1959 adaptation of Harold Sinclair's
1956 novel of the same name. In 1863, Union cavalry made a daring, diversionary
raid into Confederate-held Vicksburg, Mississippi, before Gen. Ulysses S.
Grant’s main attack on the city. It was director John Ford’s last feature of the
1950s and though it was a commercial success, it was panned by critics -- but a
lot of classics were panned by critics. 

Honestly, the only historically accurate thing about “The Horse Soldiers” is the
background of the story. The film itself is heavily fictionalized, but its
battle scenes are some of the best Civil War fights ever put on screen at the
time. Stuntman Fred Kennedy even died during one of them. “The Horse Soldiers”
is also the last credited role for rodeo star, World War I veteran and
silent-era screen legend Hoot Gibson.


HUNTERS



"Hunters" follows a team on Nazi hunters in early 1970s America. It's just as
weird as "The Man in the High Castle," and Al Pacino ("The Godfather") leads the
crew as Meyer Offerman, philanthropist and concentration camp survivor who's
writing the checks for their missions. Logan Lerman ("Fury") stars as Jonah
Heidelbaum, a young man who becomes Offerman's protegé.

The alternate history in "Hunters" is just as outrageous as what we saw in "The
Man in the High Castle," and the show might have been too off-the-beaten path
for the Prime Video action audience. The show has ended after two full seasons,
so it's not a huge commitment if you want to find out whether it works for you.


JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG



Hailed as a faithful retelling of one of the Nuremberg Trials’ most important
trials, “Judgment at Nuremberg” is a star-studded piece of motion picture art.
The Judges’ of 1947 put Nazi Germany’s courts and jurists on trial for war
crimes and crimes against humanity, placing blame for the Holocaust at the feet
of the German people while questioning their acceptance of racial purity laws.

The movie stars Spencer Tracy (“Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner”), Burt Lancaster
(“From Here to Eternity”), Richard Widmark (“The Alamo”), Maximilian Schell
(“Deep Impact”), Marlene Dietrich (“Touch of Evil”), Judy Garland (”The Wizard
of Oz”), Montgomery Clift (“A Place in the Sun”)  and a young William Shatner.


KESARI



If you don't love Bollywood war movies, it's either because you hate subtitles
or you just haven't seen one yet. Kesari is one of the most epic, visually
stunning war movies ever to come from India. There's no better backdrop for the
over-the-top action that Indian films bring to the screen than the 1897 Battle
of Saragarhi.

At Saragarhi, 21 Sikh soldiers of the British Army defended an outpost as it was
attacked by about 24,000 Afghan tribesmen. As the battle raged, the Sikhs
transmitted details of the fight as they happened, all of which are beautifully
recreated in "Kesari."


LAST FLAG FLYING



Steve Carrell ("The Office") plays "Doc" Shepard, a Marine Corps veteran of
Vietnam who tracks down two of his old buddies, Sal (Bryan Cranston, "Breaking
Bad") and Richard (Laurence Fishburne, "The Matrix"), for an impromptu reunion.
Doc soon reveals that he brought them together hoping they would come with him
to take the body of his son, who recently died in Iraq, to his burial.

The movie was adapted from the book of the same name, written by Darryl
Ponicsan, who served in the Navy between 1962 and 1965. As one might imagine,
the fun and jokes among old friends who chewed the same dirt in Vietnam provides
some much-needed relief from the drama of what the movie is actually about.


THE LOST BATTALION



In 1918, just after an American attack in the Argonne Forest, more than 550 men
of the 77th Division were cut off from the rest of their Allied forces for
nearly a week. Low on food, water and ammunition and under fire from their own
artillery, hundreds were killed, wounded or taken prisoner. These nine companies
became known as "The Lost Battalion."

This A&E movie stars Rick Schroder ("Silver Spoons") as Maj. Charles White
Whittlesey, a real officer who received the Medal of Honor for leading the Lost
Battalion through the Meuse-Argonne offensive, and eventually, back to friendly
lines.


MAJOR PAYNE



“Major Payne” deals with something everyone who joins the military has to deal
with at some point: getting out of the military. Maj. Benson Winifred Payne
(Damon Wayans, “The Last Boy Scout”) is shuffled out of his beloved Marine Corps
and finds a job training Junior ROTC cadets at a posh preparatory school in
Virginia. The problem is that his cadets are a bunch of misfits and outcasts who
never succeed at the annual Virginia Military Games. 

Maj. Payne sets out to change all that with proper discipline, Marine Corps
instruction and a series of fun and funny life lessons. The best part about
“Major Payne” (for some older veterans, anyway) is probably the memories brought
back by drill instructors who used Maj. Payne’s insults during their basic
training.


THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE



Prime Video gave a big-budget order to "The Man in the High Castle," an
alternate history tale of the resistance in North America after Japan and
Germany won World War II. Based on the classic 1962 novel by sci-fi novelist
Philip K. Dick, the show expands the book's plot and resolves its ambiguous
ending over the course of 40 episodes and four seasons.

The show is both ambitious and incredibly weird. The period details are
outstanding, and the show's writers and directors never dumb down their
ambitions to make the twisted story easier to follow. As the streaming universe
looks for less-expensive stories to tell, we're not getting many more strange
tales like this one.


NAVY SEALS



OK, so “Navy Seals” isn’t an accurate depiction of real-life Navy SEALs, but you
get Charlie Sheen (“Platoon”) at his 1980s finest, along with his “Major League”
costar Dennis Haysbert (“24”) and Bill Paxton (“Aliens”). At least the plot is
based on something Navy SEALs would actually be assigned to do: rescue a crew in
the middle of the Mediterranean Sea. 

Whether you like “Navy Seals” (or not) or find it accurate (or not), it’s a
pretty decent movie as far as 1980s action movies go. At a time when military
movies seemed to be obsessed with finding left behind prisoners of war from
Vietnam, it’s good to see other branches of the military represented.


PATRIOT



For the two seasons that it was on Amazon, “Patriot” was, low key, the best spy
show on television. Sadly Amazon has not renewed it for a third season. It’s
about John Tavner (Michael Dorman, “For All Mankind”), a wannabe folk singer
whose father is a CIA officer and former congressman. 

The younger Tavner is deeply troubled, but that doesn’t stop his father Tom
(Terry O'Quinn, “Lost”) from using him to rig an election in Iran. But before he
can do the spycraft, he needs to secure a cover, which means getting a job at an
industrial piping firm in Milwaukee.  


REACHER



Fans of Lee Child's Jack Reacher novels didn't think Tom Cruise was right for
the role, even though the 2012 movie "Jack Reacher" was one of the actor's best
films. A sequel wasn't as good, and Cruise abandoned the character.

Enter Alan Ritchson, the huge and muscled actor who took on the role for Prime
Video's 2022 series. Viewers went crazy for the new portrayal of the Army
veteran who roams the backroads of the country and gets himself and the people
he meets out of whatever trouble comes their way. "Reacher" just returned for
Season 2 in December 2023.


THE READER



Hanna Schmitz (Kate Winslet, “Titanic”), a 36-year-old tram operator, had a
brief love affair with 15-year-old Michael Berg (Ralph Fiennes, “Schindler’s
List”) while he visited Berlin in 1958. It didn’t work out, and Schmitz
disappeared. The next time he sees Hanna is while he’s a law student in 1966 --
and she’s on trial for war crimes committed at the Auschwitz Concentration
Camp. 

“The Reader” is based on Bernhard Schlink’s 1995 novel of the same name.
Although the movie wasn’t as well-received as the book, it was still nominated
for Best Picture at the 81st Academy Awards. It did not win, but Winslet took
home Best Actress that year. 


THE REPORT



I don’t know how many veterans reading this are Global War on Terror veterans,
but the debate surrounding the torture of al-Qaida detainees during the Bush
administration was a big one at my unit. Now imagine being the investigator who
had to look into the initial allegations of torture by the CIA in the first
place. 

Adam Driver (“BlacKkKlansman”) plays Daniel Jones, a real-life investigator for
the U.S. Senate who was tasked with looking into those torture allegations in
the days following the Sept. 11 attacks. His full 6,700-page report on the
matter is still classified, but “The Report” shows how Jones managed to find the
full truth. 


SEND ME



Many veterans will be familiar with Nick Palmisciano, West Point graduate and
Army infantry officer, as the founder of Ranger Up. In 2021, he and 12 veteran
friends moved to rescue an Afghan interpreter from being left behind in the wake
of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. They formed Save Our Allies, and went
to Kabul.

"Send Me" is a 2022 documentary about how the mission to save that one
interpreter ballooned into one of the largest civilian rescue operations ever,
bringing 12,000 people out of danger.


SOBIBOR



In 1941, a Soviet soldier of Jewish descent was captured by the Nazis and sent
to the Sobibor extermination camp in occupied Poland. Despite the brutal
oppression of his Nazi captors, Lt. Alexander "Sasha" Pechersky incites and
leads an uprising against the camp guards just three weeks after his arrival. 

The film was made in Lithuania by Russian director Konstantin Khabenskiy, who
also plays the part of Sasha Pechersky. It was submitted to the Academy Awards
for Best Foreign Film but did not receive a nomination. Its depiction of
Pechersky's successful uprising and mass escape of hundreds of Jews is not
entirely accurate, but it's still good viewing. 


SPIES OF WARSAW



Based on the novel by American espionage master Alan Furst, "Spies of Warsaw"
follows a spy who's posing as a military attaché at the French embassy in
Warsaw, Poland just before the outbreak of World War II. David Tennant
("Broadchurch," "Doctor Who") stars. The series, much like Furst's novels,
lingers over the intrigue and downplays the action.

We know that Hitler is going to invade Poland, but obviously none of the
characters in this series know what we know. Less-patient viewers may want to
yell at the television as the "Spies of Warsaw" characters fail to see what's
coming, but it's the slow resolution that's the point of this show.


STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND



There were a lot of Hollywood folk whose World War II military service involved
performing shows for other military personnel or sitting behind a desk. James
Stewart enlisted in the Army in February 1941 and went on to fly bombing
missions over Germany. He continued to serve in the Air Force Reserves after the
war and stayed active until 1968.

That made Stewart uniquely qualified to play the lead in the 1955 movie
"Strategic Air Command," the story of a professional baseball player and WWII
pilot recalled to active duty to fly the Convair B-36. The Cold War drama mainly
exists to celebrate the further evolution of American air power after WWII, but
there's a big question about how Stewart will sort out the conflict between his
two great loves, flying and baseball.


THE TERMINAL LIST



Former Navy SEAL Jack Carr's series of thriller novels about fictional former
Navy SEAL James Reece has spawned a new franchise. "The Terminal List" sets up
the epic tale, as Reece seeks revenge on the forces that killed his family.
Chris Pratt ("Parks and Recreation") stars as Reece, and Pratt looks to be set
up to play the role for years to come.

The Reeceverse has already locked in Season 2 of the tale, which will be based
on Carr's novel "True Believer." There's also a prequel series in the works that
will explore the complicated backstory of Reece's former SEAL teammate Ben
Edwards, played by Taylor Kitsch.


TOM CLANCY'S JACK RYAN



Prime Video has carved out a niche as the home of military-themed action shows,
and the streaming service's reimagining of Tom Clancy's beloved CIA operative,
Jack Ryan, paved the way for all the shows that came after.

John Krasinski ("13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi") plays a version of
the character that may be the closest to the one who appears in Clancy's novels,
but the contemporary plots of the series have nothing to do with the stories
that the author wrote in his books. The fourth and final season of Prime Video’s
“Jack Ryan” series started streaming in June 2023.


TOM CLANCY'S WITHOUT REMORSE



Michael B. Jordan ("Creed") stars in this military thriller that gives the
backstory for one of Tom Clancy's greatest characters, former Navy SEAL John
Clark. In the movie, we meet SEAL John Kelly, who goes to prison for taking
revenge on the Russian diplomat responsible for the murder of his wife and
unborn child. He's sprung from his cell with an opportunity to hunt down the
surviving operative who carried out the murder mission.

That's a heavily redacted version of a complicated plot, which was written for
the screen by Taylor Sheridan, the man who writes and produces the television
series "Yellowstone." "Tom Clancy's Without Remorse" was intended for a
theatrical release, but Paramount Pictures sold it to Amazon in the depths of
the pandemic, and it went straight to streaming. The good news is that Jordan
has been booked for a sequel intended for theatrical release.


TOP GUN: MAVERICK



It was the war movie sequel fans waited more than 35 years to see, delayed time
and again by the global COVID-19 pandemic. It was, apparently, worth the wait as
it became the second highest-grossing movie of 2022, the highest grossing movie
of Tom Cruise's career and was even nominated for Best Picture at the Academy
Awards.

Tom Cruise reprises his role as Pete "Maverick" Mitchell to train Top Gun
graduates for one of the most dangerous missions of their entire career.
Although the movie has a lot of throwbacks to the original "Top Gun," including
a return of Val Kilmer as Tom "Iceman" Kazansky, it is often regarded as much
better than the original, which is saying a lot.


VALKYRIE



“Valkyrie” is the dramatized but mostly true story of the July 20 Plot, a
(*spoiler alert*) failed attempt to overthrow Hitler’s Nazi regime in 1944.
Spearheaded by disaffected German Army officer Claus von Stauffenberg (a real
person, portrayed by Tom Cruise in the film), the plan to kill Hitler and take
over the government required an intricate mix of allies, an existing plan
(codenamed Valkyrie) and perfect timing. 

Stauffenberg’s plot was perfectly executed except for one critical thing: Hitler
didn’t die. Though we can’t help but know the outcome, “Valkyrie” is still a
riveting movie because viewers can still see what members of the German
resistance went through to try to end the Nazi Regime -- and what happened to
them when they failed. 


WINDTALKERS



Like so many Nicholas Cage movies, people either love “Windtalkers” or they hate
it -- and there’s not a lot of in-between. What’s so great about this movie is
that it depicts the battlefield exploits of the Navajo Code Talkers during World
War II, as well as the Marines assigned to protect them. It has fantastic action
sequences, which convey the dangers of anyone holding a radio in combat, and if
you love war movie action, director John Woo (“Face/Off”) gives you exactly what
you’re looking for.

What’s not great is that it’s not entirely accurate, which is what the Navajo
Code Talkers’ story richly deserves. “Windtalkers” doesn’t even focus on the
Navajo Marines; it is centered on the white Marines. All we’re saying is that
this movie could have been legendary, but instead it became just another popcorn
movie.


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Public Relations and Middle Eastern Affairs. Instead of using any of that, he
(eventually) became a writer. His work has appeared on Business Insider, Recoil,
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