
10 Best Movies Like We Were Recruits
If you loved We Were Recruits, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

2000 Meters to Andriivka
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to We Were Recruits for fans of War & Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.
Amid the failing counteroffensive, a journalist follows a Ukrainian platoon on their mission to traverse one mile of heavily fortified forest and liberate a strategic village from ...

City of Ghosts
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to We Were Recruits for fans of War & Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.
With unprecedented access, this documentary follows the extraordinary journey of “Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently”—a group of anonymous citizen journalists who banded together ...

Father Soldier Son
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to We Were Recruits for fans of War & Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.
When Sgt. First Class Brian Eisch is critically wounded in Afghanistan, it sets him and his sons on a journey of love, loss, redemption and legacy....

20 Days in Mariupol
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to We Were Recruits for fans of War & Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.
As the Russian invasion begins, a team of Ukrainian journalists trapped in the besieged city of Mariupol struggle to continue their work documenting the war's atrocities....

The War on Democracy
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to We Were Recruits for fans of War & Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.
Set both in Latin America and the United States, the film explores the historic and current relationship of Washington with countries such as Venezuela, Bolivia and Chile. Pilger s...

Why We Fight: Prelude to War
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to We Were Recruits for fans of War & Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.
Prelude to War was the first film of Frank Capra's Why We Fight propaganda film series, commissioned by the Pentagon and George C. Marshall. It was made to convince American troops...