Unfortunately, world history provides filmmakers with new ideas for war movies. The Great Patriotic and World War, Afghanistan, Pearl Harbor, punitive actions of fascists, coups in the countries of the third world – the list can be continued for a long time. The best war movies will tell you about the events where you had fortune NOT TO BE.
List of best Army movies 2017
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Dunkirk
The action of the movie takes place in France in 1940 during the Dunkirk operation, also known as Operation Dynamo. At the beginning of the Second World War, about 300,000 British, Belgian and French soldiers trapped between the sea and the enemy, were saved. The soldiers tried to fight the onslaught of the enemy.
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The Zookeeper’s Wife
The film unfolds in the 1930s during the occupation of Poland by Germany at the Warsaw Zoo. After the outbreak of the Second World War, the quiet life of the main characters in the film – Jan Zabinsky and his wife Antonina ended abruptly. Instead of caring for animals and pleasing visitors, the couple become members of the Polish underground and hide hundreds of Jews in cages of dead animals and a dozen more at their home.
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Leavey
The plot of the film is based on a real story about the young woman-corporal Megan Leavey who managed to save the lives of many people during the war in Iraq due to her unique discipline and devoted war comrade-dog named Rex. Over the years, Megan and Rex have performed more than 100 missions until one day they were seriously injured from the explosion of a self-made device that put their future at great risk.
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Mine
The American soldier, after a failed mission, is alone in the middle of the Afghan desert. With one foot standing on a mine, he cannot move, but continues to fight for life against the harsh nature, wandering enemies, his own despair and fear. It also included the TOP 15 best recent Army movies. You can watch movie now. It is available.
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Bitter Harvest
A historical and romantic drama about the young Cossack Yuri, who dreamed of becoming a father’s pride and to win the princess’s heart. But the life of the hero, his loved ones and the entire Ukrainian people, collapses under the wheels of Stalin’s terror, hunger and oppression.
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War Machine
A satirical view on the US war in Afghanistan from the point of view of the people who lead this campaign.
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Check Point
A tramp accidentally discovers a disguised terrorist cell in a small town where everyone knows each other (or thinks they know). Since there is nowhere to wait for assistance with the threat of a full-scale terrorist invasion, the team of “random heroes” must unite to fight and defend their country from the enemy.
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Darkest Hour
The main hero of the film is Winston Churchill. The movie will tell us about his actions in the first months of World War II.
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King Arthur: Legend of the Sword
The protagonist of the film is a young Arthur who wanders around the neighborhood of London, not knowing his true origin. He trades with small robbery, fights, until he finds the magic sword Excalibur. Learning about his origins, Arthur decides to change his life. Meeting a strange and mysterious woman named Guinevere and gathering like-minded people, Arthur begins to prepare for a fight with the tyrant Vortigern who once killed his entire family and illegally seized the throne.
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Railroad Tigers
The film takes place in the province of East China, at the very beginning of the First World War. At that time, the main mode of transport for the Japanese army was the railway. It was it what helped to deliver soldiers and weapons. The entire length of the railway, which led to the destination, was guarded by soldiers from Japan. Meanwhile, while the trains were crossing this iron branch and supplying provisions to the soldiers, the train at the front along the way passed through Chinese settlements where people were dying of hunger. And one fine day it was decided to create a special detachment that would steal from the trains, weapons in order to somehow earn their living. It was necessary to perform this very carefully, the operation is very responsible, therefore a special detachment was created, which did this job. Local residents began to consider this group of real heroes, because they were able to obtain provisions and at least a little but to feed the local residents. But even in this situation there was a man who violated their plans and threatened the whole operation.
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Sand Castle
The fifth place in the TOP 15 best Army movies of 2017 to watch ranks Sand Castle.
During a military campaign in Iraq in 2003, a squad of Special Forces should perform an ordinary task – to cover technical specialists who will repair a damaged water pipe in one of the villages. While in Baghdad, residents were loyal enough to meet American soldiers, in the Sunni provinces the situation was very tense. Therefore, when the population decides that the detachment arrived not for solving the technical problem, and turns to the local insurgents for help, it becomes clear that the cover-up mission is starting to turn into the most military one.
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The Wall
During the war in Iraq, two US military are spotted by an enemy sniper. However, one of the soldiers manages to catch the radio frequency of an Iraqi. Between the opponents is only a half-ruined concrete wall, so the outcome of the battle depends not so much on physical strength but on resourcefulness and willpower of the enemy sides.
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The Yellow Birds
Two young people serving in the armed forces – Bartle and Murphy plunged into the horrors of the war in Iraq, under the command of the experienced Sergeant Sterling. After some time, Bartle faces the harsh necessity to fulfill his promise to Murphy’s mother, which she gave before the trip to Iraq.
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The Shape of the Water
It is a phantasmagoric love story of an amphibian man imprisoned in a laboratory in the midst of the Cold War, and mute cleaner Eliza, who arranges his escape. However, a clash with the outside world instead of the desired salvation presents a new and unforeseen threat.
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Radegund
Here is the first place of our TOP 15 best new Army movies 2017
The picture tells the story of Franz Jägerstetter, an Austrian soldier, who in 1943 refused to take the oath and serve in the fascist army. For this Franz at 36 years old was sentenced to death.
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