10 Best Movies Like They Were the First
If you loved They Were the First, 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 They Were the First for fans of War & Drama. 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...
Before Dawn
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to They Were the First for fans of War & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
After leaving his family's sheep farm in the Australian outback, a young man joins his countrymen on the western front of World War I with hopes of helping expedite an end to the b...
Father & Soldier
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to They Were the First for fans of War & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
1917. Bakary Diallo enlists in the French army to join his 17-year-old son, Thierno, who has been forcibly recruited. Sent to the front, they will have to face the war together. Wh...
Infiltration
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to They Were the First for fans of War & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Ivan sets off on a dangerous mission into Syria to save his ex-commander Grey after his capture by ISIS. With the help of U.S. military patrols, he succeeds in freeing Grey and att...
The Last Frontier
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to They Were the First for fans of War & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
The story of the Podolsk cadets’ heroic stand outside Moscow in October 1941. Cadets were sent to the Ilyinsky line, fighting alongside units from the Soviet 43rd Army to hold back...
Chaco
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to They Were the First for fans of War & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
In 1934, Bolivia is at war with Paraguay. Liborio and Ticona and other Bolivian indigenous soldiers are lost in the hell of the Chaco, under the commandment of German Captain Kundt...