If You Liked Darkest Hour, Watch These Next
Finished Darkest Hour (2017) and want more of the same? These 20 movies are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like Darkest Hour, most of them are drama, history.
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20 titles · updated 3rd October 2026
1.The Gathering Storm(2002)
6.7DramaHistoryAlso drama and history
A love story offering an intimate look inside the marriage of Winston and Clementine Churchill during a particularly troubled, though little-known, moment in their lives.
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3.The Last Rifleman(2023)
6.6DramaHistoryWarAlso drama and history
A WWII veteran escapes his care home in Northern Ireland and embarks on an arduous but inspirational journey to France to attend the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings, finding the courage to face the ghosts of his past.
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4.The Six Triple Eight(2024)
7.6DramaWarHistoryAlso drama and history
During World War II, the US Army's only all-Black, all-women battalion takes on an impossible mission: sorting through a three-year backlog of 17 million pieces of mail that hadn't been delivered to American soldiers and finish within six months.
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6.Six Minutes to Midnight(2020)
6.2ThrillerDramaHistoryAlso drama and history
Summer 1939. Influential families in Nazi Germany have sent their daughters to a finishing school in an English seaside town to learn the language and be ambassadors for a future looking National Socialist. A teacher there sees what is coming and is trying to raise the alarm. But the authorities believe he is the…
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7.Tobruk(1967)
6.4DramaHistoryWarAlso drama and history
In September 1942, the German Afrika Korps under Rommel have successfully pushed the Allies back into Egypt. A counter-attack is planned, for which the fuel dumps at Tobruk are a critical impediment. In order to aid the attack, a group of British commandos and German Jews make their way undercover through 800 miles…
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8.The Dam Busters(1955)
6.9DramaHistoryWarAlso drama and history
The story of the conception of a new British weapon for smashing the German dams in the Ruhr industrial complex and the execution of the raid by 617 Squadron 'The Dam Busters'.
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9.Waiting for Anya(2020)
6.3DramaWarAlso drama
During the harrows of WWII, Jo, a young shepherd along with the help of the widow Horcada, helps to smuggle Jewish children across the border from southern France into Spain.
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10.Victoria & Abdul(2017)
6.9DramaHistoryAlso drama and history
Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim.
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13.The Cruel Sea(1953)
6.9DramaHistoryWarAlso drama and history
At the start of World War II, Cmdr. Ericson is assigned to convoy escort HMS Compass Rose with inexperienced officers and men just out of training. The winter seas make life miserable enough, but the men must also harden themselves to rescuing survivors of U-Boat attacks, while seldom able to strike back. Traumatic…
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14.Dunkirk(1958)
6.9DramaWarAlso drama
A British Corporal in France finds himself responsible for the lives of his men when their officer is killed. He has to get them back to Britain somehow. Meanwhile, British civilians are being dragged into the war with Operation Dynamo, the scheme to get the French and British forces back from the Dunkirk beaches.…
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15.Night Train to Munich(1940)
7.2DramaThrillerWarAlso drama
Czechoslovakia, March 1939, on the eve of World War II. As the German invaders occupy Prague, inventor Axel Bomasch manages to flee and reach England; but those who need to put his knowledge at the service of the Nazi war machine, in order to carry out their evil plans of destruction, will stop at nothing to capture…
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16.Living(2022)
7.0DramaAlso drama
London, 1953. Mr. Williams, a veteran civil servant, is an important cog within the city's bureaucracy as it struggles to rebuild in the aftermath of World War II. Buried under paperwork at the office and lonely at home, his life has long felt empty and meaningless. Then a devastating medical diagnosis forces him to…
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17.The War Below(2021)
6.6WarDramaHistoryAlso drama and history
During World War I, a group of British miners are recruited to tunnel underneath no man's land and set bombs from below the German front in hopes of breaking the deadly stalemate of the Battle of Messines.
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18.Giant(2026)
7.0DramaHistoryAlso drama and history
Follows Prince Naseem Hamed from his humble beginnings on the tough working-class streets of Sheffield and his discovery by Ingle, himself a steel industry worker turned boxing trainer. Their unlikely partnership, Naz’s unorthodox style, cocky persona, and sheer dominance in the ring propelled them to the top of…
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19.Official Secrets(2019)
7.2ThrillerHistoryDramaAlso history and drama
The true story of British intelligence whistleblower Katharine Gun who—prior to the 2003 Iraq invasion—leaked a top-secret NSA memo exposing a joint US-UK illegal spying operation against members of the UN Security Council. The memo proposed blackmailing member states into voting for war.
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20.The Bunker(1981)
6.3WarDramaAlso drama
Dramatization depicting the events surrounding Adolf Hitler's last weeks in and around his underground bunker in Berlin before and during the battle for the city.
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