If You Liked Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N., Watch These Next
Finished Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. (1951) and want more of the same? These 16 movies are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N., most of them are adventure, war, history.
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16 titles · updated 2nd October 2026
1.Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World(2003)
7.2AdventureDramaWarAlso adventure and war
After an abrupt and violent encounter with a French warship inflicts severe damage upon his ship, a captain of the British Royal Navy begins a chase over two oceans to capture or destroy the enemy, though he must weigh his commitment to duty and ferocious pursuit of glory against the safety of his devoted crew,…
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2.The Pride and the Passion(1957)
6.0WarHistoryRomanceAlso war and history
During the Napoleonic Wars, when the French have occupied Spain, some Spanish guerrilla soldiers are going to move a big cannon across Spain in order to help the British defeat the French. A British officer is there to accompany the Spanish and along the way, he falls in love with the leader's girl.
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4.The Guns of Navarone(1961)
7.3AdventureDramaWarAlso adventure and war
A team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers.
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6.U-571(2000)
6.6WarActionAdventureAlso war and adventure
In the midst of World War II, the battle under the sea rages and the Nazis have the upper hand as the Allies are unable to crack their war codes. However, after a wrecked U-boat sends out an SOS signal, the Allies realise this is their chance to seize the 'enigma coding machine'.
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7.Wake of the Red Witch(1948)
5.8AdventureDramaHistoryAlso adventure and history
Captain Ralls fights Dutch shipping magnate Mayrant Sidneye for the woman he loves, Angelique Desaix, and for a fortune in gold aboard the Red Witch.
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8.King Arthur(2004)
6.3AdventureWarHistoryAlso adventure and war
The story of the Arthurian legend, based on the 'Sarmatian hypothesis' which contends that the legend has a historical nucleus in the Sarmatian heavy cavalry troops stationed in Britain, and that the Roman-British military commander, Lucius Artorius Castus is the historical person behind the legend.
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9.Against the Sun(2014)
7.0WarAdventureAlso war and adventure
A WWII pilot, bombardier, and radioman find themselves adrift on a lifeboat without food or water after being forced to ditch their plane during a scouting mission.
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12.The Flame and the Arrow(1950)
6.3AdventureHistoryAlso adventure and history
Dardo, a Robin Hood-like figure, and his loyal followers use a Roman ruin in Medieval Lombardy as their headquarters as they conduct an insurgency against their Hessian conquerors.
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13.Lion of the Desert(1981)
7.3HistoryWarDramaAlso history and war
Resistance leader Omar Mukhtar opposes Italian colonization before World War II. The brutal guerrilla war against Italian General Rodolfo Graziani and the Fascist forces of Benito Mussolini highlights the struggle for Libyan independence and the harsh tactics utilised by the colonisers.
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15.The Last Valley(1971)
6.5HistoryWarDramaAlso history and war
People in a small German village in the last valley to remain untouched by the devastating Thirty Years' War try to exist in peace with a group of soldiers occupying the valley.
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16.K-19: The Widowmaker(2002)
6.6HistoryThrillerWarAlso history and war
When Russia's first nuclear submarine malfunctions on its maiden voyage, the crew must race to save the ship and prevent a nuclear disaster.
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