War movies by conflicts

A series of conflicts between Persian Empire and Greek city-states. Persian Empire with their dominating position in Middle East was looking to expand their influences to the west and the Greeks were in their way. Twice Persians have invaded Greece and later Greeks have counter-attacked th...
Battle of MarathonBattle of SalamisBattle of ThermopylaeBattle of Artemisium

Alexander III of Macedon (also known as Alexander the Great) became the king of Macedonians after his father Philip II was assassinated by his bodyguard. Alexander wanted to takeover two of his father’s projects - unify the Greek city-states and use their military power to attack the Per...
Battle of the GranicusBattle of IssusBattle of Gaugamela

Second Punic War, often called the Hannibalic War, was conflict between Carthage and the Roman Republic. In 218 BC Carthaginian commander Hannibal begun his famous offensive towards the Rome, but realizing the Roman power on the seas he chose not to attack directly on the Apennine Peninsul...
Battle of Cannae

Gallic Wars was series of campaigns of Roman Republic, led by Julius Caesar, against numerous Gallic tribes. The Romans tried to invade the land towards the English Channel and expend their borders, but mainly the target for Julius Caesar was to gain the political power within the empire a...
Battle of Alesia

Internal conflict within Roman Republic between two factions: Julius Caesar and his supporters (called the Populares) and Roman Senate (the Optimates). Senators were trying to overpower the Julius Caesar and stop his aspirations to become the single ruler of the republic. The conflict star...

Period in Chinese history when three provinces have rebelled against the central power of the emperor at the end of Han dynasty. States of Wei, Shu and Wu for 60 years were simultaneously the centres of power in China. Of course this lead to brutal wars between them, that sometimes involve...
Battle of Red Cliffs

In times before Kingdom of Poland the pagan tribes of Polans were under constant attacks from the neighbours (Christian Germany and Czech) or fighting with each other. The Piast dynasty begun to merge the lands in more organized and united nation, but still as pagans they were fighting for...
Battle of Cedynia

The time-frame of consolidation of Sweden is still disputed - it is unclear at what point Swedes were forming the united country and at what point the process has ended. During the Middle Ages the area was consisted of self-governing provinces and there were local conflicts between the nob...
Battle of LenaBattle of Gestilren

In 1095 Pope Urban II started the movement that aimed regain Christians control over Jerusalem and holy places in Middle East. To do that he twisted the rules of Christianity - since that point it wasn’t a sin to kill other people, it was only sin to kill Christians. The movement was at ...
Battle of MontgisardSiege of KerakBattle of HattinSiege of Jerusalem

First Barons’ War was internal English conflict between King John I, known as King Landlack, and the English barons that tried to force him to make political reforms that would reduce the power of the ruler and gave more liberty to free people (especially the nobles themselves). After ra...
Siege of Rochester

After king Edward I of England have claimed feudal suzerainty of Scotland the leaders of Scots (like Andrew Moray and William Wallace) have revolted. The conflict was going on for over 30 years, even though the English side have significant advantage, in both numbers and technology used by...
Battle of Stirling BridgeBattle of FalkirkBattle of Bannockburn

While the County of Flanders was part of French Kingdom since Treaty of Verdun in 843, they kept a lot of independence from French crown. French king Philip IV was determined to strengthen his kingdom and one of the elements was to strip Flanders of that special status, especially since Fl...
Battle of the Golden Spurs

War between allied Kingdom of Poland and Grand Duchy of Lithuania against the Teutonic Knights. The Teutonic Knights were brought to this region in order to help local Christian towns attacked by pagan hordes from the east, but the Knights did more than that - they have built castles, stro...
Battle of Grunwald

A series of conflicts between Ottoman Empire and Holy Roman Empire lead at that time by the Habsburg dynasty. The conflicts were going on for over 200 years being inspired by religious and political reasons. Ottoman Empire, after conquering Middle East and lands around Mediterranean Sea, w...
Battle of Vienna

Also known as Dutch War of Independence, it was a revolt of Seventeen Provinces (part of Habsburg Netherlands) against the religious hegemony of Philip II of Spain, the sovereign of the Habsburg Netherlands. Due to his military superiority Philip II easily regained most of the territory, b...
Siege of Haarlem

When Russian czar Feodor died the time of "sad times" (smutnoye vremia) started, when several people tried to take over the power over Russia. False Dmitriy I, who gathered some support, asked Poland for military help to establish his position as czar. Small Polish forces made the "interve...
Battle of Moscow

English Civil War was series of conflicts between the English Parliament and King Charles I. The basis for the conflict was the way Charles I saw his role as a king - as divine given power to decide over the land and laws, while Parliament was trying to introduce the constitutional monarch...
Battle of EdgehillBattle of Naseby

Series of conflicts between England and Dutch States that derived from the merchant expansion of both countries - for centuries both sides were competing for fisheries and trade in Europe, the discovery of new parts of the world opened brand new chapter. The colonies in Americas, Far East ...
Battle of ScheveningenFour Days’ BattleHolmes’ BonfireRaid on the Medway

The first actual world war - although only European countries were involved in the conflict their influences on colonial lands made the war affect Europe, North America, Central America, the West African coast, India and the Philippines. Also the war is know under different names in differ...
Saint Francis Raid

In 1770s the relations between Great Britain and its colonies in North America were tensed on many levels. Long period of wars in Europe left British economy in difficult situation. The simple solution was to rise the taxes in the colonies, but the as can be expected Americans were not hap...
Battle of Long IslandBattle of TrentonBattle of CamdenSiege of Yorktown

A series of local wars declared against Napoleon’s French Empire by opposing coalitions (that included United Kingdom, Austria, Russia, Ottoman Empire, Prussia, Spain and others). After French Revolution Napoleon Bonaparte made use of the newly reorganized army to stop Austria from invad...

November Uprising of 1830 (also known as Polish-Russian War or the Cadet Revolution), was an armed rebellion of Polish insurgents against the Russian Empire. At that time Poland as a country didn’t formally exist since its area was annected by the three empires around - Russia, Prussia a...

After Mexican dictator Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna forced new laws that made the government more centralized it provoked secession movements in several Mexican states, including Texas. The Texians (residents of Mexican Texas) began to look forward to independence. The militia force through...
Battle of the AlamoBattle of San Jacinto

Conflict between the Russian Empire and an alliance of the French Empire, the British Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and the Kingdom of Sardinia. It was one of the wars, where the strategic or tactical wins were less important than the prestige and internal political reasons - Russian Empire ...
Battle of Balaclava

The American Civil War was a conflict between the southern and the northern states of United States of America. The conflict aroused around the legislation that abolished the slavery in the northern states. The southern states that were concentrated on agricultural production rather than i...
First Battle of Bull RunBattle of FredericksburgBattle of ChancellorsvilleBattle of Gettysburg

Second conflict between Denmark and joined forces of Prussia and Austria over the control of the duchies of Holstein and Lauenburg, due to the succession disputes over the Danish king dying without leaving an heir acceptable to the German Confederation. In 1863 Denmark has passed the Novem...

Series of conflicts between European countries, that were bringing their settlers to America, and the native Indians that were trying to stop the invasion on their land. After the North American colonies gained independence in 1776 the situation hasn’t changed much - the United States of...
Battle of the Little Bighorn

The confrontation between imperial English forces (one of the greatest armies in the world) and Zulu warriors armed mostly with wooden spears. Sounds like David versus Goliath, but actually it wasn’t. The cause of the conflict was rather simple - English wanted to take over the Zululand ...
Battle of IsandlwanaBattle of Rorke’s Drift

British colonial war against the Sudanese religious leader Muhammad Ahmad bin Abd Allah, who had proclaimed himself the Mahdi of Islam (the Guided One) and lead his followers to revolt against the British and even took over the city of Khartoum after almost a year-long siege. It took Briti...
Siege of KhartoumBattle of Omdurman

Tirah Campaign, sometimes called Tirah Expedition, was the British operation in the Tirah Valley on the border between today India and Afghanistan. Local tribes of Afridi were paid by the British to guard the famous Khyber Pass that linked the two regions, but in 1897 Afridi took over cont...
Battle of Saragarhi

Called the war that will end all the wars. Well... it didn’t. The idea was rather simple - after long list of was between European countries creating two powerful alliances would cancel out any ideas anyone could have to start a new war. Sounds logical - any local conflict could mean tha...
Christmas TruceBattle of GallipoliBattle of the SommeBattle of PasschendaeleSpring Offensive

Conflict between Poland and Soviet Union (also Ukraine) over the land of today Ukraine and Belarus. After regaining the independence Poland was trying to restore the border from past, which means that land in Western Ukraine up to towns of Lwow, Vilnius and Tarnopol should be Polish. After...
Battle of Warsaw

Since 1801 Kingdom of Ireland had joined the Kingdom of Great Britain to create a United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, which formally created the union between the two islands, but the fact that the agreements was reached partly through bribery or other arrangements by British Secr...

Second Moroccan War (also known as Rif War) was rebellion of the Rif region Berbers (led by Abd al-Karim) against the colonial power occupying the area - Spain and France. Due to the Treaty of Fez in 1912 Spain gained the control over the Northern Morocco. In 1920 Spanish commissioner, Gen...

In 1919 Irish nationalists started the Irish War of Independence in order to break the union between Kingdom of Ireland and Kingdom of Great Britain, which lead to over 2-year-long conflict, in which Irish Republican Army was attacking British patrols and barracks, while British forces wer...

The civil war between the forces loyal to the government of the Republic of China and forces of the Communist Party of China. The fights started in 1927 and lasted until 1950, ceased only during the Japanese invasion in 1936 and World War 2. Just when the World War 2 has ended the united f...

Largest conflict in history of human kind and for many people the only war in history that could be justified. Two countries set to develop on a military basis - Germany and Japan - were overcrowded with limited sources of natural resources, so they both started to expand their territories...
Battle of NankingInvasion of PolandBattle of WesterplatteBattle of the AtlanticWinter WarBattle of the River Plate

The Vietnamese war for independence from French colonial influences started in 1946 with the import duty dispute between the Viet Minh government and the French. The Viet Minh tried to take over the port in Haiphong, but French forces managed to repel them with help of their naval forces. ...
Battle of Dien Bien Phu

The conflict in the Middle East that was building since the end of World War 2 - the Israelis were planning to establish their country in the Palestine claiming that this land belonged to them in history. Local Arab countries were strongly against giving away any part of their territory. T...
Battle for Jerusalem

War between the Republic of Korea (South Korea) and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) that dragged many other countries into it (United Nations on ones side, USSR and China on the other). The North Korea army attacked their neighbour and used the surprise factor to ...
Battle of Pohang-dongBattle of InchonBattle of Pork Chop Hill

Cold War wasn’t actual war, it was a tension between USA (and their allies in NATO) and Soviet Union (and their allies known as Warsaw Pact). The whole world seemed to be divided into two sides: communist side and democratic side. The mutual distrust and paranoia pushed both sided to the...
K-19 incidentCuban Missile CrisisK-129 incidentSoviet nuclear false alarm

Vietnam War followed the First Indochina War. The two sides of conflict were communist North Vietnam (supported by China) and South Vietnam (supported by France and later by the United States). Americans were self-confident that the air superiority and the equipment advantage will give the...
Battle of Ia DrangBattle of Hue

Soviet-Afghan War was a 10-year-long conflict initiated by the invasion of Soviet Army on the country. At that point Afghanistan, since the monarchy have collapsed due to coup, turned into country full of chaos with many factions fighting for power with communist party People's Democratic ...

One of several conflicts in the Middle East since forming the Isreali country in 1948. After Lebanese Civil War and the following incidents Israeli have invaded the southern Lebanon aiming to push the forces away from their borders. In tactical scale the operation was success, but in large...

Also known as Operation Desert Storm. After Iraq have invaded Kuwait in 1990 United Nations have authorized coalition force formed by 34 nations to make a military intervention against Iraq in response to Iraq’s annexation of Kuwait. The coalition, led by USA, prepared operation that pus...

Since 1884, when Berlin Conference gave Germany control over Rwanda, the colonial officials were segregating the inhabitants of the area into 3 groups: Twa, Hutu and Tutsi. While Twa were descendants of the pygmy tribes that lived there for thousands of years, Hutu and Tutsi were Bantu tri...

Still ongoing civil war in Somalia that started when a coalition of local clan-based groups ousted the nation’s long-standing military regime. The fights between different clans and later between the national army and Islamic insurgent groups still are going on despite the UN and United ...
Battle of Mogadishu

Series of conflicts triggered by the breakup of Yugoslavia in 1991. The Yugoslavia as a single country was formed in 1918, after the World War 1 ended. It was a artificial country formed out of several prior independent countries (Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia) that later expanded by annexi...
Srebrenica massacre

After first Liberian Civil War that was destroying the country between 1989 and 1997 Charles Taylor became the president of Liberia, but soon he began to implement the brutal and ruthless methods to keep the power. In 1999 the rebels supported by Liberians United for Reconciliation and Dem...

After the 9/11 attacks in America United States invaded the Afghanistan in search for the al-Qaeda leaders that were behind the attacks. At that point Afghanistan was torn by civil war that was going on for long years and there was virtually no central power that would keep the peace in th...

The armed conflict in Iraq that consisted of two phases: the invasion of Iraq by international forces led by the United States (2003) and long second phase of occupation of Iraq that was suppose to give local government time to build up their army and gain control over the area. The first ...
Battle of Nasiriyah

Also known as the Russo-Georgian War or August War, the Five-Day War was a conflict between Russia and Georgia that took place in August 2008. Russian forces have invaded the debatable areas of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, who were officially demanding Russian help to stop the local people ...
Occupation of Gori