Best War & Politics on Prime Video, ranked by IMDb rating
36 war & politics titles on Prime Video rate 6.0+ on IMDb — the top 36 are ranked below.
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Vinland Saga (2019)
★ 8.9 IMDb
For a thousand years, the Vikings have made quite a name and reputation for themselves as the strongest families with a thirst for violence. Thorfinn, the son of one of the Vikings' greatest warriors, spends his boyhood
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World War II in Colour (2009)
★ 8.7 IMDb
World War II In Colour is a 13-episode television documentary miniseries recounting the events of World War II narrated by Robert Powell. The show covers the Western Front, Eastern Front, and the Pacific War. It is on sy
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WWII in HD (2009)
★ 8.6 IMDb
WWII in HD is a 10-part American documentary television miniseries that originally aired from November 15 to November 19, 2009 on the History Channel. The program focuses on the firsthand experiences of twelve American s
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The Sandbaggers (1978)
★ 8.6 IMDb
The Sandbaggers is a British television drama series about men and women on the front lines of the Cold War. Set contemporaneously with its original broadcast on ITV in 1978 and 1980, The Sandbaggers examines the effect
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House of Cards (1990)
★ 8.5 IMDb
Frustrated at a new moderate Conservative government and deprived of a promotion to a senior position, chief whip Francis Urquhart prepares a meticulous plot to bring down the Prime Minister then to take his place.
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Generation War (2013)
★ 8.4 IMDb 🍅 63%
Career-soldier Wilhelm, his pacifist younger brother Friedhelm, and their friends Charlotte, Viktor and Greta say farewell in the summer of 1941 in Berlin, with the promise to meet again after the war.
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'Allo 'Allo! (1984)
★ 8.4 IMDb
The misadventures of hapless cafe owner René Artois and his escapades with the Resistance in occupied France.
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A Small Light (2023)
★ 8.4 IMDb
Miep Gies didn't hesitate when her boss Otto Frank came to her and asked her to hide his family from the Nazis during World War II. For the next two years, Miep, her husband Jan, and the other helpers watched over the ei
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Grant (2020)
★ 8.4 IMDb
This documentary-series examines Grant's life story using his perspective and experiences to explore a turbulent time in history: the Civil War and Reconstruction.
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NIPPON SANGOKU: The Three Nations of the Crimson Sun (2026)
★ 8.4 IMDb
A revolution sparked by nuclear war, natural disaster, and misrule leads to the collapse of Japanese society. The country splits into three nations vying for hegemony, and the Sangoku era begins. Aoteru Misumi, a former
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Abraham Lincoln (2022)
★ 8.4 IMDb
The true story of America's iconic 16th president as told by weaving together both scripted dramatizations of important moments in his life and commentary by authoritative historians and public figures.
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Vietnam in HD (2011)
★ 8.3 IMDb
The firsthand experiences of thirteen Americans during the Vietnam War. The thirteen Americans retell their stories in Vietnam paired with found footage from the battlefield.
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Caliphate (2020)
★ 8.2 IMDb
National Security agent Fatima receives a tip that a terrorist attack against Sweden is in the planning stage. Meanwhile Sulle, a teenage girl in Stockholm, gets interested in her student assistant who opens doors to a n
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TURN: Washington's Spies (2014)
★ 8.1 IMDb
The story of New York farmer, Abe Woodhull, who bands together with a group of childhood friends to form The Culper Ring, an unlikely group of spies who turn the tide in America’s fight for independence.
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Gallipoli (2015)
★ 7.9 IMDb
As dawn breaks on April 25, 1915, ANZAC troops go into battle on the beaches of the Gallipoli peninsula. Landing in the dark chaos, Tolly, Bevan and their mates struggle to establish a tenuous foothold on the treacherous
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The World Wars (2014)
★ 7.9 IMDb
The story of three decades of war told through the eyes of various men who were its key players: Roosevelt, Hitler, Patton, Mussolini, Churchill, Tojo, DeGaulle and MacArthur. The series examines the two wars as one cont
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Liberty's Kids (2002)
★ 7.9 IMDb
Liberty's Kids is an animated educational historical fiction television series produced by DIC Entertainment, originally broadcast on PBS Kids from September 2, 2002 to April 4, 2003, although PBS continued to air reruns
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Medici: Masters of Florence (2016)
★ 7.8 IMDb
The story of the Medici family of Florence, their ascent from simple merchants to power brokers sparking an economic and cultural revolution. Along the way, they also accrue a long list of powerful enemies.
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Hogan's Heroes (1965)
★ 7.8 IMDb
Hogan's Heroes is an American television sitcom that ran for 168 episodes from September 17, 1965, to July 4, 1971, on the CBS network. The show was set in a German prisoner of war camp during World War II. Bob Crane sta
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The Crimson Field (2014)
★ 7.8 IMDb
In a tented field hospital on the coast of France, a team of doctors, nurses and women volunteers work together to heal the bodies and souls of men wounded in the trenches.
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Manhattan (2014)
★ 7.7 IMDb
Set against the backdrop of the greatest clandestine race against time in the history of science with the mission to build the world's first atomic bomb in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Flawed scientists and their families att
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Occupied (2015)
★ 7.6 IMDb
In the near future, Norway is occupied by Russia on behalf of the European Union, due to the fact that the newly elected environmental friendly Norwegian government has stopped the all important oil- and gas-production i
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Our Girl (2014)
★ 7.6 IMDb
Drama following the extraordinary adventures of female medics in the British Army.
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Island at War (2004)
★ 7.6 IMDb
Island at War is a British television series that tells the story of the German Occupation of the Channel Islands. It primarily focuses on three local families: the upper class Dorrs, the middle class Mahys and the worki
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Shooter (2016)
★ 7.5 IMDb
Bob Lee Swagger is an expert marksman living in exile who is coaxed back into action after learning of a plot to kill the president.
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The White Princess (2017)
★ 7.5 IMDb
The story of Elizabeth of York, the White Queen's daughter, and her marriage to the Lancaster victor, Henry VII. Based on the Philippa Gregory book of the same name.
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Napoleon (2002)
★ 7.3 IMDb
A masterful soldier, tactician and statesmen, Napoleon Bonaparte's courage and love for his country sees him rise from an unpaid general consumed with ambition to the most powerful man in Europe, then his fall, and exile
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The Last Post (2017)
★ 7.3 IMDb
Drama series set in the mid-sixties, in which a unit of Royal Military Police officers and their families deal with the challenges of politics, love and war in British-controlled Aden.
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Rebellion (2016)
★ 7.2 IMDb
A group of young men and women in Dublin in 1916 are embroiled in a fight for independence during the Easter Rising. The story begins with the outbreak of World War I. As expectations of a short and glorious campaign are
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The Narrow Road to the Deep North (2025)
★ 7.2 IMDb
Dorrigo Evans, an Australian surgeon on the Burma Railway during WWII, is haunted by his time as a POW, as well as a forbidden affair he had with his uncle's wife prior to the war.
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Totems (2022)
★ 7.2 IMDb
Set in 1965 in the midst of the Cold War, Totems follows a French scientist, Francis Mareuil, as he begins working as a spy. While working for the French Secret Service and the CIA, Mareuil meets Lyudmila Goloubeva, a pi
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The Legend of El Cid (2020)
★ 6.8 IMDb
The story of Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, a Castilian nobleman and war hero in medieval Spain.
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Soldier Soldier (1991)
★ 6.8 IMDb
The daily lives of a group of soldiers in 'B' Company, 1st Battalion The King's Fusiliers.
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The Gray House (2026)
★ 6.7 IMDb
The untold true story of four brave women who served as key espionage agents and turned the tide of the American Civil War in favor of the North, risking life and liberty to help win the war and preserve democracy. A Ric
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Cleopatra (1999)
★ 6.5 IMDb
Cleopatra, the famed Egyptian Queen born in 69 B.C., is shown to have been brought by Roman ruler Julius Caesar at age 18. Caesar becomes sexually obsessed by the 18 year old queen, beds her, and eventually has a son by
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New Worlds (2014)
★ 6.2 IMDb
New Worlds is a four-part 2014 British television drama serial created by Peter Flannery and Martine Brant, a follow-up to their 2008 series The Devil's Whore, produced by Company Pictures for Channel 4.
During the turb