Dynamic Watchlist Hub: May 08, 2026

10 Best Movies Like While at War

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

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#1
Land and Freedom

Land and Freedom

1995★ 7.3

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

David Carr is a British Communist who is unemployed. In 1936, when the Spanish Civil War begins, he decides to fight for the Republican side, a coalition of liberals, communists an...

#2
The 13 Roses

The 13 Roses

2007★ 6.6

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

True story of thirteen totally normal young women that suffered harsh questioning and were put in prison under made up charges of helping the rebellion against Franco back in the 1...

#3
Freedomfighters

Freedomfighters

1996★ 6.3

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

At the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, the nun Maria is forced to flee her convent. She takes refuge in a brothel, until it is liberated by a woman's anarchist group. Maria join...

#4
The Scarlet and the Black

The Scarlet and the Black

1983★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to While at War for fans of Drama & History & War. 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
Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin

Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin

2024★ 6.8

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

As the world teeters on the brink of annihilation, Dietrich Bonhoeffer joins a deadly plot to assassinate Hitler, risking his faith and fate to save millions of Jews from genocide....

#6
A Hidden Life

A Hidden Life

2019★ 7.2

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

Austrian farmer Franz Jägerstätter faces the threat of execution for refusing to fight for the Nazis during World War II....

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