Dynamic Watchlist Hub: May 09, 2026

10 Best Movies Like The War Below

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

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#1
The Boy in the Woods

The Boy in the Woods

2023★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The War Below for fans of War & Drama & 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....

#2
Sergeant York

Sergeant York

1941★ 7.2

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

Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is then called to serve his country and despite deep religious and moral objections to...

#3
The Lost Battalion

The Lost Battalion

2001★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The War Below for fans of War & Drama & 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...

#4
The Scarlet and the Black

The Scarlet and the Black

1983★ 7.0

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

Fr. Hugh O'Flaherty is a Vatican official in 1943-45 who has been hiding downed pilots, escaped prisoners of war, and Italian resistance families. His activities become so large th...

#5
Munich – The Edge of War

Munich – The Edge of War

2021★ 6.9

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

At the tense 1938 Munich Conference, former friends who now work for opposing governments become reluctant spies racing to expose a Nazi secret....

#6
Fort Bliss

Fort Bliss

2014★ 6.4

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

After returning home from an extended tour in Afghanistan, a decorated U.S. Army medic and single mother struggles to rebuild her relationship with her young son....

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