If You Liked Rescue Dawn, Watch These Next

Finished Rescue Dawn (2007) 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 Rescue Dawn, most of them are adventure, drama, war.

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18 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.Dark of the Sun(1968)
6.5WarAdventureDramaAlso war and adventure
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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3.Cave Rescue(2019)
5.9AdventureDramaAlso adventure and drama
When a youth football team of 12 boys, aged 11-16, and their 25-year-old coach is trapped deep inside a cave in Northern Thailand, thousands of volunteers and soldiers from around the world unite in a race against time to find them.
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4.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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5.The Way Back(2010)
7.0DramaAdventureHistoryAlso drama and adventure
A small band of multicultural convicts stages a daring escape from a WWII-era Siberian gulag, and embarks on a treacherous journey across five countries in a desperate race for freedom and survival.
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6.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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7.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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8.Midway(2019)
7.1WarHistoryDramaAlso war and drama
The story of the Battle of Midway, and the leaders and soldiers who used their instincts, fortitude and bravery to overcome massive odds.
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9.Empire of the Sun(1987)
7.5DramaHistoryWarAlso drama 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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10.The Count of Monte Cristo(2002)
7.7AdventureDramaHistoryAlso adventure and drama
Young sailor Edmond Dantès is wrongfully imprisoned, escapes, finds treasure, and reinvents himself as the wealthy Count of Monte Cristo to exact revenge on those who betrayed him.
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11.Devotion(2022)
7.1WarDramaHistoryAlso war and drama
The harrowing true story of two elite US Navy fighter pilots during the Korean War. Their heroic sacrifices would ultimately make them the Navy's most celebrated wingmen.
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12.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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13.Gold(2016)
6.6AdventureDramaThrillerAlso adventure and drama
Kenny Wells, a modern-day prospector, hustler, and dreamer, is desperate for a lucky break. Left with few options, Wells teams up with an equally luckless geologist to execute a grandiose, last-ditch effort: to find gold deep in the uncharted jungle of Indonesia.
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14.Flight of the Phoenix(2004)
6.0ActionAdventureDramaAlso adventure and drama
When an oil rig in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia proves unproductive, an aircraft crew are sent to shut the operation down and fly them out. On the flight out over the desert on the way to Beijing, Capt. Frank Towns and co-pilot A.J. are unable to keep their cargo plane, a C-119 Flying Boxcar, in the air when a violent…
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15.The War(1994)
6.7DramaWarAlso drama and war
The son of a Vietnam War Veteran must deal with neighborhood bullies as well as his dad's post-traumatic stress disorder while growing up in the deep south in the 1970's.
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16.News of the World(2020)
6.9DramaWesternAdventureAlso drama and adventure
A Texan traveling across the wild West bringing the news of the world to local townspeople, agrees to help rescue a young girl who was kidnapped.
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17.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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18.Midway(1976)
6.6ActionDramaHistoryAlso drama and war
This war drama depicts the U.S. and Japanese forces in the naval Battle of Midway, which became a turning point for Americans during World War II.
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