10 Best Movies Like Wake Island
If you loved Wake Island, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Wake Island for fans of War & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. "Tora! Tora! Tora!", named after the code w...
Halls of Montezuma
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Wake Island for fans of War & Action & Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.
Richard Widmark leads an all star cast of marine leathernecks including Jack Palance, Robert Wagner, Karl Malden, Richard Boone and Jack Webb into battle on a heavily fortified isl...
Operation Pacific
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Wake Island for fans of War & Action & Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.
During WWII, Duke E. Gifford is second in command of the USS Thunderfish, a submarine which is firing off torpedoes that either explode too early or never explode at all. It's a di...
Flying Leathernecks
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Wake Island for fans of War & Action & Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.
Major Daniel Kirby takes command of a squadron of Marine fliers just before they are about to go into combat. While the men are well meaning, he finds them undisciplined and prone ...
Merrill's Marauders
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Wake Island for fans of War & Action & Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.
Brigadier General Frank D. Merrill leads the 3,000 American volunteers of his 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), aka "Merrill's Marauders", behind Japanese lines across Burma to ...
The Fighting Seabees
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Wake Island for fans of War & Action & Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.
Construction workers in World War II in the Pacific are needed to build military sites, but the work is dangerous and they doubt the ability of the Navy to protect them. After a se...