If You Liked The War Below, Watch These Next
Finished The War Below (2021) and want more of the same? These 19 movies are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like The War Below, most of them are war, drama, history.
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19 titles · updated 3rd October 2026
1.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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2.The Monuments Men(2014)
6.1WarDramaHistoryAlso war and drama
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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3.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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4.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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5.The Boy in the Woods(2023)
6.9DramaWarHistoryAlso drama and war
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.One of Our Aircraft Is Missing(1942)
6.6WarDramaAlso war and drama
During a raid on Germany, a British bomber crew is forced to bail out after their plane is damaged. They land in Holland, where they're aided by Dutch civilians.
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7.The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell(1955)
6.8DramaWarAlso drama and war
A dramatization of the American general and his court martial for publically complaining about High Command's dismissal and neglect of the aerial fighting forces.
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9.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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10.Cast a Giant Shadow(1966)
6.3WarDramaAlso war and drama
An American Army officer is recruited by the yet to exist Israel to help them form an army. He is disturbed by this sudden appeal to his Jewish heritage. Each of Israel's Arab neighbors has vowed to invade the poorly prepared country as soon as partition is granted. He is made commander of the Israeli forces just…
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11.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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12.Paths of Glory(1957)
8.3WarDramaAlso war and drama
A commanding officer defends three scapegoats on trial for a failed offensive that occurred within the French Army in 1916.
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13.The Longest Day(1962)
7.6WarDramaHistoryAlso war and drama
The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the…
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14.Operation Mincemeat(2022)
6.5WarHistoryDramaAlso war and history
In 1943, two British intelligence officers concoct Operation Mincemeat, wherein their plan to drop a corpse with false papers off the coast of Spain would fool Nazi spies into believing the Allied forces were planning to attack by way of Greece rather than Sicily.
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15.Radium Girls(2020)
6.6DramaHistoryAlso drama and history
Young women toiling in a factory are exposed to hazardous material which takes a disastrous toll on their health.
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16.All Quiet on the Western Front(1930)
7.8DramaWarAlso drama and war
When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during the Great War, they are assigned to the Western Front, where their patriotism is destroyed by the harsh realities of combat.
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17.Hitler: The Last Ten Days(1973)
6.2DramaWarHistoryAlso drama and war
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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18.The Birth of a Nation(1915)
5.9DramaHistoryWarAlso drama and history
Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwine. When Confederate colonel Ben Cameron is captured in battle, nurse Elsie Stoneman petitions for his pardon. In Reconstruction-era South Carolina, Cameron founds the Ku Klux Klan, battling Elsie's congressman father…
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19.The Man Who Never Was(1956)
7.0ThrillerWarDramaAlso war and drama
The true story of a British effort to trick the Germans into weakening Sicily's defenses before the 1943 attack. A dead soldier is dressed as a British officer and outfitted with faked papers showing that the Allies were intending to invade occupied Greece. His body is put into the sea where it will ultimately drift…
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