Movies like Redacted
If Redacted's mix of journalist, tank and iraq stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Redacted's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Casualties of War
1989 · Directed by Brian De Palma · 113 min7.2
Why you'll like itAlso directed by Brian De Palma · Shares: soldier · Also drama and war
During the Vietnam War, a soldier finds himself the outsider of his own squad when they unnecessarily kidnap a female villager.
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Green Zone
2010 · Directed by Paul Greengrass · 115 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: soldier, iraq war · Also war and drama
During the U.S.-led occupation of Baghdad in 2003, Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller and his team of Army inspectors are dispatched to find weapons of mass destruction believed to be stockpiled in the Iraqi desert.
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Apocalypse Now
1979 · Directed by Francis Ford Coppola · 147 min8.3
Why you'll like itShares: journalist · Also drama and war
At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret…
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The Thin Red Line
1998 · Directed by Terrence Malick · 171 min7.4
Why you'll like itShares: soldier · Also drama and war
The story of a group of men, an Army Rifle company called C-for-Charlie, who change, suffer, and ultimately make essential discoveries about themselves during the fierce World War II battle of Guadalcanal.
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The Outpost
2020 · Directed by Rod Lurie · 123 min6.9
Why you'll like itShares: soldier · Also war and drama
A small unit of U.S. soldiers, alone at the remote Combat Outpost Keating, located deep in the valley of three mountains in Afghanistan, battles to defend against an overwhelming force of Taliban fighters in a…
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Hamburger Hill
1987 · Directed by John Irvin · 110 min6.6
Why you'll like itShares: soldier · Also war and drama
The men of Bravo Company are facing a battle that's all uphill… up Hamburger Hill. Fourteen war-weary soldiers are battling for a mud-covered mound of earth so named because it chews up soldiers like chopped meat.
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American Sniper
2014 · Directed by Clint Eastwood · 133 min7.4
Why you'll like itShares: iraq, iraq war
U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle takes his sole mission—protect his comrades—to heart and becomes one of the most lethal snipers in American history.
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Cherry
2021 · Directed by Joe Russo · 142 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: iraq war
Cherry drifts from college dropout to army medic in Iraq—anchored only by his one true love, Emily. But after returning from the war with PTSD, his life spirals into drugs and crime as he struggles to find his place in…
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Dead Man's Shoes
2004 · Directed by Shane Meadows · 90 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: soldier · From the same decade (2000s)
A soldier returns to his small town and exacts a deadly revenge on the thugs who tormented his disabled brother while he was away.