If You Liked K-19: The Widowmaker, Watch These Next
Finished K-19: The Widowmaker (2002) and want more of the same? These 18 movies are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like K-19: The Widowmaker, most of them are history, thriller, war.
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18 titles · updated 2nd October 2026
1.The Bedford Incident(1965)
7.0ActionDramaThrillerAlso thriller and war
During a routine patrol, a reporter is given permission to interview a hardened cold-war warrior and captain of the American destroyer USS Bedford. The reporter gets more than he bargained for when the Bedford discovers a Soviet sub and the captain begins a relentless pursuit, pushing his crew to breaking point.
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2.Crimson Tide(1995)
7.2ThrillerActionDramaAlso thriller and war
After the Cold War, a breakaway Russian republic with nuclear warheads becomes a possible worldwide threat. U.S. submarine Capt. Frank Ramsey signs on a relatively green but highly recommended Lt. Cmdr. Ron Hunter to the USS Alabama, which may be the only ship able to stop a possible Armageddon. When Ramsey insists…
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3.Morituri(1965)
6.7ActionDramaThrillerAlso thriller and war
A German living in India during World War II is blackmailed by the English to impersonate an SS officer on board a cargo ship leaving Japan for Germany carrying a large supply of rubber for tyres. His mission is to disable the scuttling charges so the captain cannot sink the ship if they are stopped by English…
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5.The Finest Hours(2016)
6.6ActionDramaHistoryAlso history and thriller
The Coast Guard makes a daring rescue attempt off the coast of Cape Cod after a pair of oil tankers are destroyed during a blizzard in 1952.
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8.Emperor(2012)
6.2DramaHistoryWarAlso history and war
As the Japanese surrender at the end of WWII, Gen. Fellers is tasked with deciding if Emperor Hirohito will be hanged as a war criminal. Influencing his ruling is his quest to find Aya, an exchange student he met years earlier in the U.S.
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9.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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10.Thirteen Days(2000)
7.0HistoryThrillerAlso history and thriller
The story of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962—the nuclear standoff with the USSR sparked by the discovery by the Americans of missile bases established on the Soviet-allied island of Cuba.
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11.The Monuments Men(2014)
6.1WarDramaHistoryAlso war 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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12.The Courier(2020)
7.0ThrillerHistoryDramaAlso thriller and history
Cold War spy Greville Wynne and his Russian source try to put an end to the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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13.Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.(1951)
7.0AdventureWarHistoryAlso war and history
Captain Horatio Hornblower leads his ship HMS Lydia on a perilous transatlantic voyage, during which his faithful crew battle both a Spanish warship and a ragged band of Central American rebels.
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14.Pressure(2026)
7.7ThrillerHistoryWarAlso thriller and history
In the tense 72 hours before D-Day, and the fate of the free world hanging in the balance, General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Captain James Stagg face an impossible choice—launch the largest and most dangerous seaborne invasion in history or risk losing the war altogether.
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16.Fat Man and Little Boy(1989)
6.2DramaHistoryWarAlso history and war
Assigned to oversee the development of the atomic bomb, Gen. Leslie Groves is a stern military man determined to have the project go according to plan. He selects J. Robert Oppenheimer as the key scientist on the top-secret operation, but the two men clash fiercely on a number of issues. Despite their frequent…
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17.Hitler: The Last Ten Days(1973)
6.2DramaWarHistoryAlso war 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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18.Empire of the Sun(1987)
7.5DramaHistoryWarAlso history and war
Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all foreigners into prison camps. Jamie is captured with an American sailor, who looks out for him while they are in the camp together. Even though he is separated from his parents and in a hostile environment, Jamie…
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