10 Best Movies Like Ascendancy
If you loved Ascendancy, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

The War Below
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Ascendancy for fans of Drama & War & History. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
During World War I, a group of British miners are recruited to tunnel underneath no man's land and set bombs from below the German front in hopes of breaking the deadly stalemate o...

Ararat
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Ascendancy for fans of Drama & War & History. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Interrogated by a customs officer, a young man recounts how his life was changed during the making of a film about the Armenian genocide....

Jacknife
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Ascendancy for fans of Drama & War. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A conflict develops between a troubled Vietnam veteran and the sister he lives with when she becomes involved romantically with the army buddy who reminds him of the tragic battle ...

The Last Rifleman
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Ascendancy for fans of Drama & War & History. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A WWII veteran escapes his care home in Northern Ireland and embarks on an arduous but inspirational journey to France to attend the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings, finding...

Waiting for Anya
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Ascendancy for fans of Drama & War. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
During the harrows of WWII, Jo, a young shepherd along with the help of the widow Horcada, helps to smuggle Jewish children across the border from southern France into Spain....

The Boy in the Woods
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Ascendancy for fans of Drama & War & History. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
The remarkable true-life survival story of a Jewish boy hiding and being hunted in the forests of Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe, based on Maxwell Smart's memoir....