If You Liked The Long and the Short and the Tall, Watch These Next
Finished The Long and the Short and the Tall (1961) 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 Long and the Short and the Tall, most of them are war, comedy, drama.
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20 titles · updated 3rd October 2026
1.Breaker Morant(1980)
7.1DramaHistoryWarAlso drama and war
During the Boer War, three Australian lieutenants are on trial for shooting Boer prisoners. Though they acted under orders, they are being used as scapegoats by the General Staff, who hopes to distance themselves from the irregular practices of the war. The trial does not progress as smoothly as expected by the…
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3.Oh! What a Lovely War(1969)
6.6ComedyMusicWarAlso comedy and war
The working-class Smiths change their initially sunny views on World War I after the five boys of the family witness the harsh reality of trench warfare.
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4.The Guns of Navarone(1961)
7.3AdventureDramaWarAlso drama 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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5.Buck Privates(1941)
6.8ComedyMusicWarAlso comedy and war
Petty con artists Slicker Smith and Herbie Brown mistakenly join the Army evading the cops. The cop chasing them winds up as their drill instructor. A rich young man and his former working class chauffeur are not only in the same unit, they're vying for a pretty girl who seems attracted to both.
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6.Taking Sides(2002)
6.3DramaWarMusicAlso drama and war
One of the most spectacular and renowned conductors of the 1930s, Wilhelm Furtwangler's reputation rivaled that of Toscanini's. After the war, he was investigated as part of the Allies' de-Nazification programme. In the bombed-out Berlin of the immediate post-war period, the Allies slowly bring law and order to bear…
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8.The Young Lions(1958)
6.7WarDramaActionAlso war and drama
The lives of three young men, a German and two Americans, during WWII.
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9.What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?(1966)
5.9ComedyWarAlso comedy and war
A by-the-book Captain is ordered to capture a strategic village in Italy. The Italian soldiers are willing to surrender, if they can have a festival first. The lieutenant convinces the Captain this is the only way. Because of aerial reconnaissance, they must look like they are fighting. To sort this out an…
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10.Story of G.I. Joe(1945)
6.5DramaWarAlso drama and war
War correspondent Ernie Pyle joins Company C, 18th Infantry as this American army unit fights its way across North Africa in World War II. He comes to know the soldiers and finds much human interest material for his readers back in the States. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film…
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11.Shoulder Arms(1918)
6.8ComedyWarAlso comedy and war
An American doughboy, stationed in France during the Great War, goes on a daring mission behind enemy lines and becomes a hero.
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12.Ice Cold in Alex(1958)
7.3WarAdventureDramaAlso war and drama
A group of army personnel and nurses attempt a dangerous and arduous trek across the deserts of North Africa during the second world war. The leader of the team dreams of his ice cold beer when he reaches Alexandria.
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13.The Last Rifleman(2023)
6.6DramaHistoryWarAlso drama and war
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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14.Gettysburg(1993)
7.0DramaHistoryWarAlso drama and war
In the summer of 1863, General Robert E. Lee leads the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia into Gettysburg, Pennsylvania with the goal of marching through to Washington, D.C. The Union Army of the Potomac, under the command of General George G. Meade, forms a defensive position to confront the rebel forces in what…
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15.The War Below(2021)
6.6WarDramaHistoryAlso war and drama
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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16.Merrill's Marauders(1962)
6.2WarDramaActionAlso war and drama
Brigadier General Frank D. Merrill leads the 3,000 American volunteers of his 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), aka "Merrill's Marauders", behind Japanese lines across Burma to Myitkyina, pushing beyond their limits and fighting pitched battles at every strong-point.
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17.The Four Feathers(1939)
7.1AdventureDramaWarAlso drama and war
A disgraced officer risks his life to help his childhood friends in battle.
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18.The Dam Busters(1955)
6.9DramaHistoryWarAlso drama and war
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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19.Waiting for Anya(2020)
6.3DramaWarAlso drama and war
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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20.The One That Got Away(1957)
6.8WarDramaAlso war and drama
Based on the true story of Oberleutnant Franz von Werra, the only German prisoner of war captured in Britain to escape back to Germany during the Second World War.
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