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Movies that feel likeWhere Eagles Dare (1968)

World War II is raging, and an American general has been captured and is being held hostage in the Schloss Adler, a Bavarian castle that's nearly impossible to breach. It's up to a group of skilled Allied soldiers to liberate the general before it's too late.

If you loved Where Eagles Dare, the closest films we have are The Guns of Navarone (1961), The Longest Day (1962) and Patton (1970). All three share Where Eagles Dare's epic and bleak feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Stalingrad (1993).

🍅 84% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.6 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Brian G. Huttonepicbleak
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The Guns of Navarone
1961 · dir. J. Lee Thompson
🍅 92%★ 7.5adventure · drama · warNetflix

Both keep coming back to the same thing: world war ii

The difference: Sits closer to drama than Where Eagles Dare does

A team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers.

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The Longest Day
1962 · dir. Ken Annakin
🍅 83%★ 7.7war · drama · history

One thread runs through both: world war ii

The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day"

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Patton
1970 · dir. Franklin J. Schaffner
🍅 92%★ 7.9war · drama · history

Both land scale and bleakness at once

"Patton" tells the tale of General George S. Patton, famous tank commander of World War II. The film begins with Patton's career in North Africa and progresses through the invasion of Germany and the fall of the Third Reich. Side plots also speak of Patton's numerous faults such his temper and habit towards insubordination.

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The Battle of Algiers
1966 · dir. Gillo Pontecorvo
🍅 99%★ 8.1drama · war · historyMax

War built on scale, twice over

Former petty criminal Ali la Pointe becomes a commander of the Algerian Front de Liberation Nationale, directing a guerilla insurgency against the colonial French occupation. Paratrooper commander Colonel Phillippe Mathieu, a veteran of World War II and the First Indochina War, is sent to Algeria to reinforce efforts to squelch the uprisings.

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Lawrence of Arabia
1962 · dir. David Lean
🍅 93%★ 8.3adventure · history · warNetflix

Bleak adventure in both cases

During World War I, English officer Thomas Edward 'T.E.' Lawrence sets out to unite and lead the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes to fight the Turks.

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The Great Escape
1963 · dir. John Sturges
🍅 94%★ 8.2adventure · drama · warPrime Video

Common ground: nazi

The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocate them to a high-security 'escape-proof' camp to sit out the remainder of the war. Undaunted, the prisoners plan one of the most ambitious escape attempts of World War II. Based on a true story.

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The Dirty Dozen
1967 · dir. Robert Aldrich
🍅 82%★ 7.7action · adventure · war

Common ground in both: secret mission and castle

12 American military prisoners in World War II are ordered to infiltrate a well-guarded enemy château and kill the Nazi officers vacationing there. The soldiers, most of whom are facing death sentences for a variety of violent crimes, agree to the mission and the possible commuting of their sentences.

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Stalingrad
1993 · dir. Joseph Vilsmaier
★ 7.5drama · history · war

Epic war, and it commits to that

The difference: 25 years apart, and the 1990s show

A German Platoon is explored through the brutal fighting of the Battle of Stalingrad. After half of their number is wiped out and they're placed under the command of a sadistic captain, the platoon lieutenant leads his men to desert. The platoon members attempt escape from the city, now surrounded by the Soviet Army.

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Kalashnikov AK-47
2020 · dir. Konstantin Buslov
★ 6.6war · history · dramaPrime Video

Both lean on bleakness more than on adventure

A Russian military propaganda film about the tank commander Kalashnikov, severely injured in battle in 1941. The accident leaves him incapacitated and unable to return to the front line. While recovering in the hospital, he begins creating the initial sketches of what will become one of the world’s most legendary weapons. A self-taught inventor is only 29 when he develops the now iconic assault riffle — the AK-47. Shot in occupied Crimea.

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The Bridge on the River Kwai
1957 · dir. David Lean
🍅 96%★ 8.1drama · history · war

Both working the same war territory

The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence officers conspire to blow up the structure, but Col. Nicholson, the commander who supervised the bridge's construction, has acquired a sense of pride in his creation and tries to foil their plans.

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T-34
2018 · dir. Alexey Sidorov
★ 6.8drama · history · warPrime Video

Both are built on the same subject: nazi

In 1944, a courageous group of Russian soldiers managed to escape from German captivity in a half-destroyed legendary T-34 tank. Those were the times of unforgettable bravery, fierce fighting, unbreakable love, and legendary miracles.

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Grand Illusion
1937 · dir. Jean Renoir
🍅 97%★ 8drama · history · war

The same preoccupation in both: germany

A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieutenant Maréchal, grapple with their own class differences after being captured and held in a World War I German prison camp. When the men are transferred to a high-security fortress, they must concoct a plan to escape beneath the watchful eye of aristocratic German officer von Rauffenstein, who has formed an unexpected bond with de Boeldieu.

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