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10 Best Movies Like When We Go To War

If you loved When We Go To War, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
The Piano

The Piano

1993★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When We Go To War for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited daughter to the wilderness of nineteenth-century New Zealand, she finds herself locked in a battle of wills with both her cont...

#2
Since You Went Away

Since You Went Away

1944★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When We Go To War for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In 1943, several people enter, re-enter, and exit the difficult life of a Midwestern family whose patriarch has been called up to war, leaving behind his wife and two teen daughter...

#3
Private Peaceful

Private Peaceful

2012★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When We Go To War for fans of Drama. 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...

#4
Shout at the Devil

Shout at the Devil

1976★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When We Go To War for fans of Adventure. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

During World War One an English adventurer, an American elephant poacher and the latter's attractive young daughter, set out to destroy a German battle-cruiser which is awaiting re...

#5
My Boy Jack

My Boy Jack

2007★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When We Go To War for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Author Rudyard Kipling and his wife search for their 17-year-old son after he goes missing during WWI....

#6
Doctor Zhivago

Doctor Zhivago

1965★ 7.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When We Go To War for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the O...

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