After one month of celebrating mothers around the world, it’s time for fathers to get their due.
Father’s Day is this Sunday, June 21, and Watch With Us wants to celebrate by recommending a movie genre that is near and dear to every dad’s heart – war movies.
Streamers like Netflix, Prime Video and Tubi have loads of movies to watch, so we’ve narrowed down our selection to one particular historical event – World War II.
From Tom Cruise trying to kill Adolf Hitler in this game The Valkyrie to Clark Gable fighting Japanese submarines in between Run Quiet, Run Deepthese WWII movies are guaranteed to make pops happy on his special day of the year.
‘Enemy at the Gates’ (2001) – Paramount+
Jude Law in Enemy at the Gates.
Paramount/ courtesy Everett CollectionIn the midst of World War II, everyone needs a hero, including the Soviets. They got one with Vassili Zaitsev (Jude Law), a Red Army sniper famous for his amazing skills, who took out an invading German army. He becomes friends with his commanding officer, Danilov (Joseph Fiennes), but the two men soon face a conflict in their relationship – they both love Tania (Rachel Weisz), a secret agent with the ability to translate German. They will have to put aside their rivalry when the Germans send Erwin König (Ed Harris), an even better sniper than Vassili, taking out his opponent and any Soviet soldier who crosses his path.
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While the love triangle is in the middle The Enemy at the Gates less believable, the film lives up to it with its iconic battle scenes and the climactic sniper-on-sniper battle between Vassili and Erwin. Hollywood doesn’t make many WWII movies with Russian and German characters, and the film’s depiction of the Battle of Stalingrad is truly amazing.
‘Department of Injustice Wars’ (2024) – HBO Max
Alan Ritchson in the Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare.
Dan Smith /© Lions Gate Films /Courtesy Everett CollectionIf you want a war movie that doesn’t take itself too seriously, watch it Department of Unjust Wars. Based on a non-fiction book Churchill’s Secret Warriors by Damien Lewis, movie stars Henry Cavill as real-life war hero Gus March-Phillipps, who led a covert operation to destroy an Italian supply ship near a Spanish-controlled island. Gus can’t do it alone, so he brings together dirty officials like Anders Lassen (Alan Ritchson) and Marjorie Stewart (Eiza Gonzalez) to help him.
Director Guy Ritchie it plays fast and loose with some realism, including adding a few guns and explosions that never really happened. Anyway, if you watch the former Superman Cavill shoot Nazis again Shortcut star Ritchson smashes Axis Powers heads, and hangs out with him Department of Unjust Wars.
‘Run Silent, Run Deep’ (1958) – Main Video
As World War II continued, submarine commander PJ Richardson (Clark Gable) has only one thing on his mind – revenge. Japanese destroyer He never did you’ve sunk four American subs, including PJ’s last ship, and you want to stop it from doing it again. He gets his chance when he is given command of the USS Nerkabut the Navy refuses him to follow the He never did. PJ ignores their orders and trains his crew to hunt down and destroy his Japanese enemy, but faces resistance from one man on board – Lieutenant Jim Bledsoe (Burt Lancaster), who thinks that PJ’s obsession will kill them all in a watery grave.
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Two guys fighting it out on a submarine? If Run Silent, Run Deep sounds like 1995’s Cold War The Crimson Tide with Gene Hackman again Denzel Washingtonyou are right. Both movies feature two stars locked in a battle of wills while torpedoes are fired at them thousands of feet underwater. But Run Quiet, Run Deep is even more intense, with background and white cinematography that lends a patina of realism to its fictional story. At the end of his career, Gable gives one of his best performances ever as a non-gentleman. His anxiety about finding out even endangers his teammates, and Gable is incredibly convincing in portraying PJ’s growing desperation.
‘Nuremberg’ (2025) – Netflix
Russell Crowe in Nuremberg.
Sony Classics Collection / Everett Courtesy CollectionWhat happens after the war is over and the enemy needs to be punished? That is the question Nuremberg contradicts it as it shows the beginning of the Nuremberg trial in 1945. Hitler’s second in command, Hermann Göring (Russell Crowe), is accused of multiple murders, and prosecutors must decide if he is fit to stand trial. After US Army psychiatrist Douglas Kelley (Rami Malek) diagnoses him, he can’t believe that a man who is loyal to him – and takes care of his family – can do such a cruel thing. But as the trial continues and the evidence is shown to the public, Kelley confronts Göring’s true nature.
Unlike classic WWII movies like Saving Private Ryan again Das Boot, Nuremberg it focuses on the effects of war and the battles waged in court and society. The Nuremberg Trials were, for many, a very real look at what the Germans had done to their Jewish prisoners, and the film convincingly conveys this terrifying horror through Kelley’s perspective. Crowe gives his best performance in years as a monster cosplaying as a family man who thinks that by denying what he did, he can make it go away. Nuremberg it shows how wrong he was and the need for public accountability for private mistakes.
‘Valkyrie’ (2008) – Tubi
Tom Cruise in Valkyrie.
United Artists/courtesy Everett CollectionTom Cruise like a nazi? Yes, it happened – in 2008 The Valkyriewho sees the Top shot star plays a German soldier, Claus von Stauffenberg, fed up with Hitler (David Bamber) and his followers. He decides to do something about it by leading a resistance effort to kill the German leader in order to take over the military and end the war. That sounds simple, but in order to get close enough to Hitler, Klaus has to make sure that everything goes smoothly – and no one finds out what his true intentions are.
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Directed by Bryan Singer, The Valkyrie is a great thriller that chronicles a moment in history that few people know about. There really was Claus von Stauffenberg, and he almost pulled off an act that could have saved millions of lives. (It shouldn’t be a spoiler to reveal that Klaus was not he succeeds in killing Hitler.) Cruise is miscast as a bespectacled German officer, but he’s also strangely at home spying on others and performing scheming tricks. He is surrounded by a cast of top British actors, such as Kenneth Branagh, Bill Nighy again Terence stampand they’re all good as Klaus’ fellow soldiers who want to break up with their boss.
