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10 Best Movies Like Northwest Passage

If you loved Northwest Passage, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
The Guns of Navarone

The Guns of Navarone

1961★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Northwest Passage for fans of Adventure & War & Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

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...

#2
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

2007★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Northwest Passage for fans of History & War & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Beginning just after the bloody Sioux victory over General Custer at Little Big Horn, the story is told through two unique perspectives: Charles Eastman, a young, white-educated Si...

#3
The Way West

The Way West

1967★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Northwest Passage for fans of Adventure & Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

In the mid-19th century, Senator William J. Tadlock leads a group of settlers overland in a quest to start a new settlement in the Western US. Tadlock is a highly principled and de...

#4
The Last of the Mohicans

The Last of the Mohicans

1920★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Northwest Passage for fans of Adventure & History & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

As Alice and Cora Munro attempt to find their father, a British officer in the French and Indian War, they are set upon by French soldiers and their cohorts, Huron tribesmen led by...

#5
Dark of the Sun

Dark of the Sun

1968★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Northwest Passage for fans of Adventure & War & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A band of mercenaries led by Captain Curry travel through war-torn Congo across deadly terrain, battling rival armies, to steal $50 million in uncut diamonds. But infighting, sadis...

#6
War Horse

War Horse

2011★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Northwest Passage for fans of Adventure & History & War & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

On the brink of the First World War, Albert's beloved horse Joey is sold to the Cavalry by his father. Against the backdrop of the Great War, Joey begins an odyssey full of danger,...

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