Best Military Movies On Netflix Right Now

12 Strong is the true story of the U.S. Army Special Forces who were sent to Afghanistan right after the September 11 attacks. This military movie is based on the non-fiction book, Horse Soldiers, written by Doug Stanton.

The movie stars Chris Hemsworth as Captain Mitch Nelson, a soldier who leads the Operational Detachment Alpha (ODA) right into the heart of Afghanistan, where they battle the Taliban.

The terrain in which they fight is so rough that jeeps and Humvees could not be used, so they took the battle to the Taliban on horseback in what was the very first calvary attack in the 21^st Century.

Watch 12 Strong on Netflix.

Black Hawk Down is the true military story of soldiers who were dropped into Mogadishu in 1993 in order to capture two top lieutenants of warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid.

As the soldiers were being flown in for the drop, one of the Black Hawk helicopters took fire and dropped to the ground. The film then focuses on soldiers being dispatched to rescue the surviving soldiers. The tense film is filled with graphic battle sequences.

The ensemble cast includes Eric Bana, Josh Hartnett, Ewan McGregor, Tom Sizemore, and Sam Shepard.

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There is definitely a lot of conflict in Jarhead, but it is much more a psychological study on the state of mind of a Marine sniper during the Gulf War.

Jake Gyllenhaal stars in this military movie as Marine Anthony Swofford, a sniper who finds himself battling boredom just as much as he is fighting the enemy. After a camp incident, Swofford finds himself demoted and suffering a mental breakdown.

Sam Mendes directed Jarhead from a script by William Broyles Jr. Jarhead is based on the true-life story of Swofford from a book he wrote of the same title.

Watch Jarhead on Netflix.

Director Antoine Fuqua brings this fictional military movie about a group of U. S. Navy SEALS who are sent to rescue a US citizen before the rebel forces reach the jungle hospital.

Bruce Willis stars as Lieutenant A. K. Waters, the commander of the SEAL team who is in a race against the rebels. Their goal is to rescue Dr. Lena Kendricks (Monica Bellucci), whose doctor husband was killed by rebel soldiers in Sierra Leone.

Once the SEAL team gets Kendricks, they are also to rescue the hospital’s priest and nuns, should they be willing to leave. Kendricks makes the rescue attempt much more difficult as she refuses to leave her patients behind.

Watch Tears of the Sun on Netflix.

Jamie Foxx, Jennifer Garner, Jason Bateman, and Chris Cooper star in The Kingdom, a military movie that is based on real-life terrorist attacks in Saudi Arabia that killed both American and Saudi citizens.

Foxx is Special Agent Ronald Fleury, who is in charge of putting a task force team together to track down the terrorists responsible for the mass killings.

Watch The Kingdom on Netflix.

All Quiet on the Western Front is a remake of both the 1930 and 1978 films and is based on the 1929 novel of the same name. This military movie is brilliant in every sense of the word as it tells the story of Paul Bäumer, a young man who joins the German Army so he can fight on the battlefields during World War I.

What starts out as excitement to join and fight alongside his friends and fellow soldiers, quickly turns into the nightmare that was the trenches of a brutal war.

The film was nominated for nine Academy Awards, taking home four for Best International Feature, Best Original Score, Best Production Design, and Best Cinematography.

Watch All Quiet on the Western Front on Netflix.