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Devotion

Devotion

Movies and TV
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.
Cast & Crew
  • Jonathan Majors
  • Christina Jackson
Tags
  • War
  • History
  • Drama
Father & Soldier

Father & Soldier

Movies and TV
1917. Bakary Diallo enlists in the French army to join his 17-year-old son, Thierno, who has been forcibly recruited. Sent to the front, they will have to face the war together. While Thierno learns to become a man, Bakary will do everything to bring him back safely.
Cast & Crew
  • Omar Sy
Tags
  • Drama
  • War
Amina

Amina

Movies and TV
In 16th-century Zazzau, now Zaria, Nigeria, Amina must utilize her military skills and tactics to defend her family's kingdom. Based on a true story.
Cast & Crew
  • Ali Nuhu
  • Lucy Ameh
Tags
  • Drama
  • War
  • History
The Tragedy of Macbeth

The Tragedy of Macbeth

Movies and TV
Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself.
Cast & Crew
  • Denzel Washington
  • Corey Hawkins
  • Moses Ingram
  • Sean Patrick Thomas
  • James Udom
Tags
  • Drama
  • Thriller
  • War
  • Fantasy
Outside the Wire

Outside the Wire

Movies and TV
In the near future, a drone pilot is sent into a deadly militarized zone and must work with an android officer to locate a doomsday device.
Cast & Crew
  • Anthony Mackie
  • Damson Idris
Tags
  • Science Fiction
  • Action
  • Thriller
  • War
  • Cyborg
  • Futuristic
The 24th

The 24th

Movies and TV
The incredibly powerful and timely true story of the all-black Twenty-Fourth United States Infantry Regiment, and the Houston Riot of 1917. The Houston Riot was a mutiny by 156 African American soldiers in response to the brutal violence and abuse at the hands of Houston police officers.
Cast & Crew
  • Trai Byers
  • Bashir Salahuddin
  • Aja Naomi King
  • Mo McRae
  • Tosin Morohunfola
  • Mykelti Williamson
  • Kevin Willmott
Tags
  • Drama
  • History
  • War
How to Fake a War

How to Fake a War

Movies and TV
When an unexpected outbreak of peace leads to a ceasefire between Russian forces and Georgian rebels, arrogant rock star Harry Hope fears for the success of his heavily hyped Piece of Peace global charity concert. Desperate, he dispatches his PR consultant, Kate, and her naïve intern, Peggy, to create a fake war story – until the concert, at least.
Cast & Crew
  • Jay Pharoah
Tags
  • Comedy
  • War
The Book Of Negroes

The Book Of Negroes

Movies and TV
Kidnapped in Africa and subsequently enslaved in South Carolina, Aminata must navigate a revolution in New York, isolation in Nova Scotia and treacherous jungles of Sierra Leone, in an attempt to secure her freedom in the 19th century.
Cast & Crew
  • Aunjanue Ellis
  • Lyriq Bent
  • Louis Gossett Jr.
  • Cuba Gooding Jr.
  • Clement Virgo
  • Mouna Traoré
Tags
  • Drama
  • History
  • War
  • Slavery
  • Revolution
Da 5 Bloods

Da 5 Bloods

Movies and TV
Four African American vets battle the forces of man and nature when they return to Vietnam seeking the remains of their fallen Squad Leader and the gold fortune he helped them hide.
Cast & Crew
  • Spike Lee
  • Chadwick Boseman
  • Delroy Lindo
  • Jonathan Majors
  • Giancarlo Esposito
  • Clarke Peters
  • Isiah Whitlock Jr.
  • Kevin Willmott
Tags
  • War
  • Drama
Shaka Zulu

Shaka Zulu

Movies and TV
South Africa, 1823. The Zulu Empire, headed by King Shaka, a brilliant but ruthless military strategist, begin to encroach on the British colony of Cape Town. A volunteer cadre of explorers, mercenaries and professional soldiers are sent to Zululand to try to make contact with Shaka and assess the real threat of his army.
Tags
  • Action
  • Adventure
  • Drama
  • War
Carter's Army

Carter's Army

Movies and TV
The officer (Stephen Boyd) is put in charge of a squad of all black troops charged with the mission of blowing up an important hydro dam in Nazi Germany. Their failure would delay the Allies advance into Germany, thus prolonging the war. These African-Americans a have little military training, but Captain Beau Carter has no choice. He leads the rag-tag and they turn out to be heroic.
Cast & Crew
  • Billy Dee Williams
  • Glynn Turman
  • Moses Gunn
  • Richard Pryor
  • Robert Hooks
Tags
  • War
Courage Under Fire

Courage Under Fire

Movies and TV
A US Army officer had made a "friendly fire" mistake that was covered up and he was reassigned to a desk job. Later he was tasked to investigate a female chopper commander's worthiness to be awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously. At first all seemed in order. But then he begins to notice inconsistencies between the testimonies of the witnesses....
Cast & Crew
  • Denzel Washington
  • Michole Briana White
  • Seth Gilliam
Tags
  • Drama
  • Mystery
  • Thriller
  • War
Pacific Inferno

Pacific Inferno

Movies and TV
After the fall of the Philippines in World War II, the Japanese discover that Gen. MacArthur ordered millions of dollars in silver dumped in Manila Bay in order that it not fall into enemy hands. Among the prisoners the Japanese have taken are two American U.S. Navy deep-sea divers, whom they then force to dive in search of the sunken treasure.
Cast & Crew
  • Jim Brown
  • Timothy Brown
Tags
  • War
A Soldier's Story

A Soldier's Story

Movies and TV
In a rural town in Louisiana, a black Master Sergeant is found shot to death just outside the local Army Base. A military lawyer, also a black man, is sent from Washington to conduct an investigation. Facing an uncooperative chain of command and fearful black troops, Captain Davenport must battle with deceit and prejudice in order to find out exactly who really did kill Sergeant Waters.
Cast & Crew
  • Adolph Caesar
  • Art Evans
  • David Alan Grier
  • David Harris
  • Denzel Washington
  • Howard Rollins
  • Patti LaBelle
Tags
  • Crime
  • Drama
  • Mystery
  • War
Sometimes in April

Sometimes in April

Movies and TV
Debra Winger, Oris Erhuero and Idris Elba star in this drama framed by the Rwandan genocide.
Cast & Crew
  • Abby Mukiibi Nkaaga
  • Fraser James
  • Idris Elba
  • Oris Erhuero
  • Raoul Peck
Tags
  • Drama
  • War
  • History
Hotel Rwanda

Hotel Rwanda

Movies and TV
Inspired by true events, this film takes place in Rwanda in the 1990s when more than a million Tutsis were killed in a genocide that went mostly unnoticed by the rest of the world. Hotel owner Paul Rusesabagina houses over a thousand refuges in his hotel in attempt to save their lives.
Cast & Crew
  • Desmond Dube
  • Don Cheadle
  • Fana Mokoena
  • Hakeem Kae-Kazim
  • Ofentse Modiselle
  • Sophie Okonedo
  • Mduduzi Mabaso
Tags
  • Drama
  • History
  • War
  • Based on True Story
Red Tails

Red Tails

Movies and TV
The story of the Tuskegee Airmen, the first African-American pilots to fly in a combat squadron during World War II.
Cast & Crew
  • Andre Royo
  • Cuba Gooding Jr.
  • David Oyelowo
  • Michael B. Jordan
  • Terrence Howard
  • Anthony Hemingway
Tags
  • Action
  • Adventure
  • Drama
  • History
  • War
Glory

Glory

Movies and TV
Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of both his own Union army and the Confederates.
Cast & Crew
  • Andre Braugher
  • Denzel Washington
  • Jihmi Kennedy
  • Morgan Freeman
Tags
  • History
  • War
Beasts of No Nation

Beasts of No Nation

Movies and TV
A drama based on the experiences of Agu, a child fighting in the civil war of an unnamed, fictional West African country. Follows the journey of Agu as he's forced to join a group of soldiers. While Agu fears his commander and many of the men around him, his fledgling childhood has been brutally shattered by the war raging through his country, and he is at first torn between conflicting revulsion and fascination. Depicts the mechanics of war and does not shy away from explicit, visceral detai...
Cast & Crew
  • Abraham Attah
  • Ama K. Abebrese
  • Emmanuel Affadzi
  • Idris Elba
  • Jude Akuwudike
  • Kobina Amissah-Sam
  • Kurt Egyiawan
  • Opeyemi Fagbohungbe
  • Richard Pepple
Tags
  • Drama
  • War
Where Hands Touch

Where Hands Touch

Movies and TV
Germany, 1944. Leyna, the 15-year old daughter of a white German mother and a black African father, meets Lutz, a compassionate member of the Hitler Youth whose father is a prominent Nazi soldier, and they form an unlikely connection in this quickly changing world.
Cast & Crew
  • Amandla Stenberg
  • Amma Asante
Tags
  • Drama
  • Romance
  • War
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