War depictions in film and television include documentaries, TV mini-series, and drama serials depicting aspects of historical wars, the films included here are films set in the period from 1775 or at the beginning of the Age of Revolution and until various Empires hit roadblock in 1914, after lengthy arms race for several years.

American Revolutionary War (1775–1783)

(Also see American Revolutionary War films, List of films about the American Revolution)

French Revolutionary Wars (1792–1802)

(also see List of films set during the French Revolution and French Revolutionary Wars)

First Barbary War (1801–1805)

• Old Ironsides (1926), about the USS Constitution
• Tripoli (1950), depiction of the Battle of Derne

Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815)

(also see List of Napoleonic Wars films)

War of 1812

Arikara War (1823)

• The Revenant (2015)

Decembrist revolt (1825)

• Union of Salvation (2019)

Opium Wars: First Opium War (1839–1842) Second Opium War (1856–1860)

• Ahen senso (1943), First Opium War
• Eternity (1943), First Opium War
• Huo shao yuan ming yuan (The Burning of the Imperial Palace) (1983) (TV miniseries), Second Opium War
• The Opium War (1997), First Opium War

Taiping Rebellion (1850–1864)

• Noroshi wa Shanghai ni agaru (1944)
• The Warlords (2007)

First Sino-Japanese War (1894–1895)

Boxer Rebellion (1899–1901)

Ottoman wars in Europe (1815-1922 )

Second Serbian Uprising (1815–1817)

• Vuk Karadžić (1987) (TV series)

Herzegovina uprising (1875–77)

• Thundering Mountains (1963)

Montenegrin–Ottoman War (1876–78)

• Marko Miljanov (2000) (TV)

Serbian–Ottoman War (1876–1878)

• Sve će to narod pozlatiti (1995) (TV)

Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878)

• Admiral Nakhimov (1947)
• Heroes of Shipka (1955)
• The Turkish Gambit (2005)

Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising (1903)

• To the Hilt (2014)

Balkan Wars (1912–1913)

• Balkan Wars 1912–1913 (2016), Turkish documentary available on the official Youtube channel (with English subtitles) [1].
• Kumanovska bitka (2012), Serbian documentary about the Battle of Kumanovo available on Youtube (in Serbian) [2]

Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922)

Italian unification (1815–1871)

Caucasian War (1817–1864)

• The White Devil (1930)
• The White Warrior (1959)

Era of Hungarian Betyár (18–19th century)

Texas War of Independence (1835–1836)

Mexican–American War (1846–1848)

• The Cemetery of the Eagles (1939) The battles of Churubusco and Chapultepec were recreated.
• North and South (TV miniseries, 1985–1986), depiction of the Battle of Churubusco
• One Man's Hero (1999), starring Tom Berenger and focusing on the Batallón de San Patricio (Saint Patrick's Battalion) during the American invasion of Mexico
• Ravenous (1999), fictional horror film set against the backdrop of the Mexican–American War.
• The Mexican American War (2006), Description and/or Narration of all Battles Of the Mexican–American War.

Revolutions of 1848 (1848–1849)

• 1848 (1949)
• The Sea Has Risen (1953)
• A kőszívű ember fiai (1965)
• 80 Hussars (1978)
• Flowers of Reverie (1984)
• A komáromi fiú (1987)

Passive Resistance (Hungary) (1849–1867)

• The Round-Up (1966)
• Élve vagy halva (1980)
• Mathias Sandorf (1963) French film

Crimean War (1853–1856)

• The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936), American version directed by Michael Curtiz, depiction of the Battle of Balaclava
• Admiral Nakhimov (1946)
• The Lady with a Lamp (1951)
• Charge of the Lancers (1954)
• The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968), British version directed by Tony Richardson, depiction of the Battle of Balaclava

Eureka Rebellion (1854)

• Eureka Stockade (1907)
• Eureka Stockade (1949)
• Eureka Stockade (1984), TV miniseries

Indian Rebellion of 1857 and subsequent colonial conflicts in India (1857)

American Civil War (1861–1865)

Franco-Mexican War (1861–1867)

(also see List of Second French intervention in Mexico)

January Uprising (1863–1864)

• Szwadron (1992)

Paraguayan War (1864–1870)

• Argentino hasta la muerte (1971)
• Cerro Cora (1978)
• Netto perde sua alma (2001)

Second Schleswig War (1864)

• Bismarck (1940)
• 1864 (2014), TV series

Boshin War (1868–1869)

(also see List of Boshin War and Satsuma Rebellion films)

• Goryōkaku (1988) Battle of Hakodate
• When the Last Sword Is Drawn (2002) Shinsengumi
• Shinsengumi! (2004) TV series
• Byakkotai (2007) TV drama Battle of Toba–Fushimi, Battle of Aizu

Franco-Prussian War (1870–1871)

(also see List of Franco-Prussian War films)

• Bismarck (1940)
• Mademoiselle Fifi (1944)
• A Day Will Come (1950)
• Die Gans von Sedan (1959)
• Field of Honor (1987) In French: Champ d'honneur

Satsuma Rebellion (1877)

(also see List of Boshin War and Satsuma Rebellion films)

• The Last Samurai (2003)

Scramble for Africa (1879–1914)

Anglo-Zulu War (1879)

• Zulu (1964), depiction of the Battle of Rorke's Drift
• Zulu Dawn (1979), depiction of the Battle of Isandlwana
• Shaka Zulu (1986)

First Boer War (1880–1881)

• Majuba (a.k.a. Hill of Doves) (1968)

Colonial conflicts in Northern Africa (1880s–1931)

Mahdist Sudanese War (1881–1899)

First Matabele War (1893–1894)

• Major Wilson's Last Stand (1899)
• Shangani Patrol (1970)

First Italo-Ethiopian War (1895–1896)

• Abuna Messias (1939)
• Adwa (1999)

Second Boer War (1899–1902)

Herero and Namaqua genocide (1904–1908)

• Measures of Men (2023)

Timok Rebellion (1883)

• Timočka buna (1983)

Serbo-Bulgarian War (1885)

• Arms and the Man (1958)

Cuban War of Independence (1895–1898)

• Santiago (1956)

Philippine Revolution (1896–1898)

Spanish–American War (1898)

Philippine–American War (1899–1902/1913)

Russo-Japanese War (1904–1905)

Xinhai Revolution (1911–1912)

• The Battle for the Republic of China (1981)
• 1911 (2011)
• The Founding of a Party (2011) Depicts Chinese revolutionary violence and political intrigue leading to the founding of the Chinese Communist Party in 1921

See also

• List of war films and TV specials

References

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