Dynamic Watchlist Hub: May 09, 2026

10 Best Movies Like The Trench

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

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#1
The Lost Battalion

The Lost Battalion

2001★ 6.8

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

Fact-based war drama about an American battalion of over 500 men which gets trapped behind enemy lines in the Argonne Forest in October 1918 France during the closing weeks of Worl...

#2
Journey's End

Journey's End

2017★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Trench for fans of War. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Set in a dugout in Aisne in 1918, a group of British officers, led by the mentally disintegrating young officer Stanhope, variously await their fate....

#3
The Birth of a Nation

The Birth of a Nation

1915★ 6.0

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

Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwine. When Confederate colonel Ben Cameron is captured in battle, nurse Elsie Stone...

#4
The Longest Day

The Longest Day

1962★ 7.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Trench for fans of War. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

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 p...

#5
Suite Française

Suite Française

2015★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Trench for fans of War. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

France, 1940. In the first days of occupation, beautiful Lucile Angellier is trapped in a stifled existence with her controlling mother-in-law as they both await news of her husban...

#6
Private Peaceful

Private Peaceful

2012★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Trench for fans of War. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Set in the fields of Devon and the WW1 battlefields of Flanders, two brothers fall for the same girl while contending with the pressures of their feudal family life, the war, and t...

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