Don’t miss out on war movie and serie releases! Argunners Magazine keeps you updated on upcoming and most anticipated Movie, TV-serie and Documentary releases. However we’re also compiling lists with war movies and series that were released in the years before, here’s our list for the year of 2015.
In the below list are War Movies and TV-series that were released in the year of 2015. This article is regularly updated when new information is available! Click on the movie, when available, to go to the separate article on the movie or serie itself. Last updated: January 19, 2019.
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JANUARY
Kampen om tungtvannet also known as The Saboteurs and The Heavy Water War (2015) [ TV-Series ] [ Season 1 ]
Starring: Andreas Döhler, Robert Hunger-Bühler, Marc Ben Puch
Release: January 4 (Norway)
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The story behind Hitler’s plan of Germany getting the atomic bomb during World War 2, and the heavy water sabotages in Rjukan, Norway, seen from four angles, the German side, the allied, the saboteurs and the company side.
Combat Report (2015) [ TV-Series ] [ Season 1 ]
Starring: Robert McKeehen, Brad Schmidt, Grant Alan Ouzts, Joshua St. James
Release: January 24
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On executive order from President Franklin Roosevelt, Lt. Dwight Dakks leads an elite squad of GIs on covert, life and death missions behind enemy lines.
FEBRUARY
Gallipoli (2015) [ TV-Series ] [ Season 1 ]
Starring: Kodi Smit-McPhee, Harry Greenwood, Sam Parsonson
Release: February 9 (Australia)
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Four young Australian boys join the military and are sent to Gallipoli.
X Company (2015) [ TV-Series ] [ Season 1 ]
Starring: Evelyne Brochu, Jack Laskey, Warren Brown
Release: February 18 (Canada)
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Set in the thrilling and dangerous world of WWII, follows the stories of five highly skilled young recruits, torn from their ordinary lives to train as agents in an ultra-secret facility.
Batalon (2015)
Starring: Lesya Andreeva, Mariya Antonova, Mariya Aronova
Release: February 20 (Russia)
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Russia, 1917, World War 1. This is the story of the 1st Russian Women’s Battalion of Death, formed as part of an ill-conceived propaganda ploy by the Russian Provisional Government in late May of 1917.
MARCH
9. April also known as April 9th (2015)
Starring: Pilou Asbæk, Lars Mikkelsen, Elliott Crosset Hove
Release: March 12 (Denmark)
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In the early morning of April 9th 1940 the Danish army is placed on high alert. The Germans have crossed the border and Denmark is at war against Europe’s strongest army. In Southern Jutland, Danish bicycle and motorcycle companies are ordered to go against all odds and hold back the forces until the Danish reinforcements can be mobilized. This is their story and based on real events.
APRIL
Bitva za Sevastopol also known as Battle for Sevastopol (2015)
Starring: Yuliya Peresild, Evgeniy Tsyganov, Joan Blackham
Release: April 2 (Ukraine)
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The war catches a young student Lyudmila Pavlichenko off-guard in Odessa. She volunteers in the army and is moved to the front line after a brief stint in the sniper school. Her natural marksmanship and ability to keep calm under duress make her a true sharpshooter. Her personal hitlist is over 309 names long. A biographical film about a woman who changed the course of history.
Elser also known as 13 Minutes (2015)
Starring: Christian Friedel, Katharina Schüttler, Burghart Klaußner
Release: April 9 (Germany)
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In November 1939, Georg Elser’s attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler fails, and he is arrested. During his confinement, he recalls the events leading up to his plot and his reasons for deciding to take such drastic action.
Deadline Gallipoli (2015) [ TV-Series ] [ Season 1 ]
Starring: Sam Worthington, Hugh Dancy, Joel Jackson
Release: April 19 (Australia)
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Three journalists, Charles Bean, Ellis Ashmead Bartlett and Phillip Schuler, arrive at Gallipoli with the invading British and Allied troops in 1915. They will report the war but are prevented from getting out the true story of an unfolding disaster. From encampment in Cairo to Anzac Cove to the evacuation, this is the story of journalists who will not accept that truth be the first casualty. This is the story of the men who will not shut up. The actions of these men will help change the course of the campaign, ensure that a strategic disaster becomes a legend of human heroism, and leave an impregnable mark on each of their lives.
Little Boy (2015)
Starring: Jakob Salvati, Emily Watson, David Henrie
Release: April 24
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An eight-year-old boy is willing to do whatever it takes to end World War II so he can bring his father home. The story reveals the indescribable love a father has for his little boy and the love a son has for his father.
MAY
Home Fires (2015) [ TV-Series ] [ Season 1 ]
Starring: Clare Calbraith, Brian Fletcher, Samantha Bond
Release: May 5 (UK)
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Starring Masterpiece favorites Samantha Bond (Downton Abbey) and Francesca Annis (Reckless) as part of a remarkable group of women living in a small rural village during World War II. Separated from husbands, fathers, sons and brothers for years at a time, they find themselves under extraordinary pressures in a rapidly fragmenting world.
1944 also known as 1944: Forced To Fight and Brüder/Feinde (2015)
Starring: Kaspar Velberg, Kristjan Üksküla, Maiken Schmidt
Release: May 15 (Latvia)
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In the year 1944, Estonia faces advances from both the Russian Red Army and German forces. Families are torn apart across enemy lines and soldiers are forced to make difficult choices to preserve a small nation caught in the middle of a global war.
JUNE
Saul Fia also known as Son of Saul (2015)
Starring: Géza Röhrig, Levente Molnár, Urs Rechn
Release: June 11 (Hungary)
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October 1944, Auschwitz-Birkenau. Saul (Géza Röhrig) is a Hungarian member of the Sonderkommando, the group of Jewish prisoners forced to assist the Nazis. While working, Saul discovers the body of a boy he takes for his son. As the Sonderkommando plans a rebellion, Saul decides to carry out an impossible task: save the child’s body, find a rabbi to recite the mourner’s Kaddish and offer the boy a proper burial.
Max (2015)
Starring: Thomas Haden Church, Josh Wiggins, Luke Kleintank
Release: June 26
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A Malinois dog that helped American Marines in Afghanistan returns to the United States and is adopted by his handler’s family after suffering a traumatic experience.
SEPTEMBER
Krigen also known as A War (2015)
Starring: Pilou Asbæk, Tuva Novotny, Søren Malling
Release: September 10 (Denmark)
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The story of a Danish commander, who is accused of civil murder in Afghanistan, while trying to save his squad. Company commander Claus M. Pedersen (Pilou Asbæk) and his men are stationed in an Afghan province. Meanwhile back in Denmark Claus’ wife Maria (Tuva Novotny) is trying to hold everyday life together with a husband at war and three children missing their father. During a routine mission, the soldiers are caught in heavy crossfire and in order to save his men, Claus makes a decision that has grave consequences for him – and his family back home.
Eye in the Sky (2015)
Starring: Helen Mirren, Aaron Paul, Alan Rickman
Release: September 11 (Canada – Film Festival)
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Col. Katherine Powell, a military officer in command of an operation to capture terrorists in Kenya, sees her mission escalate when a girl enters the kill zone triggering an international dispute over the implications of modern warfare.
War Pigs (2015)
Starring: Luke Goss, Dolph Lundgren, Chuck Liddell
Release: September 18
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A rag tag unit of misfits known as the War Pigs must go behind enemy lines to exterminate Nazis by any means necessary.
OCTOBER
Beasts of No Nation (2015)
Starring: Abraham Attah, Emmanuel Affadzi, Ricky Adelayitor
Release: October 15
Watch: On Netflix
A drama based on the experiences of Agu, a child soldier fighting in the civil war of an unnamed African country.
DECEMBER
Under Sandet also known as Land of Mine (2015)
Starring: Roland Møller, Louis Hofmann, Joel Basman
Release: December 3 (Denmark)
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In post-World War II Denmark, a group of young German POWs are forced to clear a beach of thousands of land mines under the watch of a Danish Sergeant who slowly learns to appreciate their plight.
