If You Liked The Way Back, Watch These Next
Finished The Way Back (2010) 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 The Way Back, most of them are drama, adventure, history.
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20 titles · updated 2nd October 2026
1.The Great Escape(1963)
7.9AdventureDramaWarAlso adventure and drama
The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocate them to a high-security 'escape-proof' camp to sit out the remainder of the war. Undaunted, the prisoners plan one of the most ambitious escape attempts of World War II. Based on a true…
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2.I Am David(2003)
6.8DramaAdventureAlso drama and adventure
A 12-year-old boy manages to flee a Communist concentration camp on his own, through sheer will and determination. All he has in his possession is a loaf of bread, a letter to deliver to someone in Denmark, and a compass to help get him there.
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3.The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas(2008)
7.8DramaWarHistoryAlso drama and history
When his family moves from their home in Berlin to a strange new house in Poland, young Bruno befriends Shmuel, a boy who lives on the other side of the fence where everyone seems to be wearing striped pajamas. Unaware of Shmuel's fate as a Jewish prisoner or the role his own Nazi father plays in his imprisonment,…
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4.Richard Jewell(2019)
7.4DramaHistoryCrimeAlso drama and history
Richard Jewell thinks quick, works fast, and saves hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives after a domestic terrorist plants several pipe bombs and they explode during a concert, only to be falsely suspected of the crime by sloppy FBI work and sensational media coverage.
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5.The Boy in the Woods(2023)
6.9DramaWarHistoryAlso drama and history
The remarkable true-life survival story of a Jewish boy hiding and being hunted in the forests of Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe, based on Maxwell Smart's memoir.
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6.Seven Years in Tibet(1997)
7.2AdventureDramaHistoryAlso adventure and drama
Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer journeys to the Himalayas without his family to head an expedition in 1939. But when World War II breaks out, the arrogant Harrer falls into Allied forces' hands as a prisoner of war. He escapes with a fellow detainee and makes his way to Lhasa, Tibet, where he meets the…
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7.Rescue Dawn(2007)
7.0AdventureDramaWarAlso adventure and drama
A US Fighter pilot's epic struggle of survival after being shot down on a mission over Laos during the Vietnam War.
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8.The Monuments Men(2014)
6.1WarDramaHistoryAlso drama and history
Based on the true story of the greatest treasure hunt in history, The Monuments Men is an action drama focusing on seven over-the-hill, out-of-shape museum directors, artists, architects, curators, and art historians who went to the front lines of WWII to rescue the world’s artistic masterpieces from Nazi thieves and…
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9.Passage to Marseille(1944)
6.7AdventureDramaWarAlso adventure and drama
A freedom-loving French journalist sacrifices his happiness and security to battle Nazi tyranny.
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10.Hitler: The Last Ten Days(1973)
6.2DramaWarHistoryAlso drama and history
Hitler: The Last Ten Days takes us into the depths of der Furher’s Berlin bunker during his final days. Based on the book by Gerhard Boldt, it provides a bleak look at the goings-on within, and without.
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11.Dark of the Sun(1968)
6.5WarAdventureDramaAlso adventure and drama
A band of mercenaries led by Captain Curry travel through war-torn Congo across deadly terrain, battling rival armies, to steal $50 million in uncut diamonds. But infighting, sadistic rebels and a time lock jeopardize everything.
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12.The Best of Enemies(2019)
7.4DramaHistoryAlso drama and history
Centers on the unlikely relationship between Ann Atwater, an outspoken civil rights activist, and C.P. Ellis, a local Ku Klux Klan leader who reluctantly co-chaired a community summit, battling over the desegregation of schools in Durham, North Carolina during the racially-charged summer of 1971. The incredible…
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13.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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14.A Call to Spy(2020)
6.7HistoryCrimeDramaAlso history and drama
The story of Vera Atkins, a crafty spy recruiter, and two of the first women she selects for Churchill's "secret army": Virginia Hall, a daring American undaunted by a disability and Noor Inayat Khan, a pacifist. These civilian women form an unlikely sisterhood while entangled in dangerous missions to turn the tide…
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15.Jimmy's Hall(2014)
6.7HistoryDramaAlso history and drama
In Depression-era Ireland, Jimmy Gralton returns home after a decade's exile in America. Witnessing the levels of poverty and oppression, his inner activist reawakens and he seeks to reopen the dance hall that led to his deportation.
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16.The Defiant Ones(1958)
7.1CrimeDramaAdventureAlso drama and adventure
Two convicts—one white, one black—escape while chained to each other.
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17.The Zone of Interest(2023)
7.0DramaHistoryWarAlso drama and history
The commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his wife Hedwig, strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden next to the camp.
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18.Against the Ice(2022)
6.8DramaAdventureHistoryAlso drama and adventure
In 1909, two explorers fight to survive after they're left behind while on a Danish expedition in ice-covered Greenland.
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19.Munich - The Edge of War(2021)
6.9DramaHistoryAlso drama and history
At the tense 1938 Munich Conference, former friends who now work for opposing governments become reluctant spies racing to expose a Nazi secret.
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20.The Guns of Navarone(1961)
7.3AdventureDramaWarAlso adventure and drama
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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