List of war films and TV specials set between 1453 and 1775

War depictions in film and television include documentaries, TV mini-series, and drama serials depicting aspects of historical wars, the films included here are films setv in the early modern history from the fall of the Byzantine Empire in 1453 until about the Age of Revolution in late 18th century.

Ottoman wars in Europe (1451-1813 ) edit

Sengoku Period (1467–1573) edit

Sword for Hire (1952)
The Seven Samurai (1954)
Throne of Blood (1957)
The Hidden Fortress (1958)
The River Fuefuki (1960)
Brave Records of the Sanada Clan (1963)
Sengoku Yaro (1963)
Samurai Spy (1965)
Kagemusha (The Shadow Warrior) (1980)
Shōgun (1980)
Ran (1985)
Rikyu (1989)
Heaven and Earth (1990)
Owls' Castle (1999)
Samurai Commando: Mission 1549(2005)
The Floating Castle(2012)
Ask This of Rikyu(2013)
The Seven Samurai (2014)
Kagemusha Tokugawa Ieyasu (2014)
Sanada Ten Braves (2016)
Nobunaga Concerto (2016)
Sekigahara (2017)
Honnōji Hotel (2017)
Touken Ranbu (2019)
Shōgun (TV series) (2024)

Italian Wars (1494–1559) edit

Battle of Mactan (1521) edit

Lapu Lapu (1955)
Lapu Lapu (2002)
Boundless (2022)

Jiajing wokou raids (1540-1567) edit

God of War (2017)

French Wars of Religion (1562–1598) edit

La Reine Margot (1954)
La Reine Margot (Queen Margot) (1994)
Henri 4 (2010)
La princesse de Montpensier (2010)

Philippine Revolts Against Spain (1567–1872) edit

Dagohoy (1953)
Diego Silang (1951)
Gabriela Silang (1971)

Eighty Years' War (1568–1648) edit

La Kermesse Héroique (1935)
De vliegende Hollander (1995)
Alatriste (2006)
Kenau (2014)

Anglo-Spanish War edit

Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–98) edit

Immortal Admiral Yi Sun-sin (2004)
Blades of Blood (2010)
The Admiral: Roaring Currents (2014)
The Jingbirok: A Memoir of Imjin War (2015)
Warriors of the Dawn (2017)
Hansan: Rising Dragon (2022)

Polish–Muscovite War (1605–1618) edit

Minin and Pozharsky (1939)
Boris Godunov (1954)
Boris Godunov (1986)
Boris Godunov (1989)
1612 (2007)

Anglo-Powhatan Wars (1609–1646) edit

The New World (2005)

Thirty Years' War (1618–1648) edit

Alatriste (2006), depiction of the Battle of Rocroi
A Jester's Tale (1964)
The Last Valley (1970)
Popel a hvězdy (The Ashes and The Stars) (1990)
May the Lord Be with Us (2018)
Wallenstein (1925)

Qing conquest of the Ming (1618–1683) edit

American Indian Wars (1622–1924) edit

Custer's Last Stand (1936)
North West Mounted Police (1940)
They Died with Their Boots On (1941), depiction of the Battle of Little Big Horn
Fort Apache (1948)
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)
Rio Grande (1950)
Broken Arrow (1950)
Only the Valiant (1951)
The Battle at Apache Pass (1952)
Brave Warrior (1952), fictionalised Battle of Tippecanoe
Arrowhead (1953)
Seminole (1953), Rock Hudson stars as an American officer who must battle his former friend, the Seminole war chief, Osceola, played by Anthony Quinn.
7th Cavalry (1953)
The Battle of Rogue River (1954)
Apache (1954)
The Indian Fighter (1955)
Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier (1955), Creek War
The Last Frontier (1955)
A Distant Trumpet (1964)
Cheyenne Autumn (1964)
Major Dundee (1965)
The Glory Guys (1965)
The Sons of Great Bear (1966)
Chingachgook, die große Schlange (1967)
Custer of the West (1967)
Little Big Man (1970), depiction of the Battle of Little Big Horn
A Man Called Horse (1970)
Soldier Blue (1970)
Ulzana's Raid (1972)
One Little Indian (1973)
The Return of a Man Called Horse (1976)
The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer (1977) (TV)
Triumphs of a Man Called Horse (1983)
Dances with Wolves (1990)
Son of the Morning Star (1991), depiction of the Battle of Little Big Horn (TV)
The Last of His Tribe (1992)
Geronimo: An American Legend (1993)
The Broken Chain (1993)
Crazy Horse (1996) (TV)
Stolen Women: Captured Hearts (1997)
Buffalo Soldiers (1997), (TV)
The Miracle Men (2002), (TV)
Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002)
Hidalgo (2004), the early part of the film depicts the 1890 Battle of/Massacre at Wounded Knee
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (2007), Battle of the Little Bighorn, and the Wounded Knee Massacre

English Civil War (1642–1651) edit

The Royal Oak (1923)
The Fighting Blade (1923)
The Vicar of Bray (1937)
The Exile (1947)
Forever Amber (1947)
The Moonraker (1958)
The Crimson Blade (1963)
Witchfinder General (1968)
Cromwell (1970), depictions of the Battles of Edgehill and Naseby
Winstanley (1975)
To Kill a King (2003)
Cromwell in Ireland (2008)
The Devil's Whore (2008), numerous battles and skirmishes of the Civil War and the harrying of Ireland
A Field in England (2013)

Ukraino-Russian Liberation War from Poland (1648–1654) edit

Polish Commonwealth Wars (1648–1672) edit

Ogniem i Mieczem (With Fire and Sword) (1999) civil war – Cossacks revolt 1648–1651
Potop (The Deluge) (1974) Second Northern War 1655–1660
Pan Wolodyjowski (Colonel Wolodyjowski) (1969) 1660–1672 – skirmishes with Tartars and the beginning of Turkish – Polish Commonwealth war 1672–1676

Anglo-Dutch War (1652-1674) edit

Michiel de Ruyter (film) (2015) Dutch admiral Michiel de Ruyter

War of Louis XIV（1660–1715） edit

The Golden Hawk (1952)
La prise de pouvoir par Louis XIV (1966)
Louis, the Child King (1993)
Revenge of the Musketeers (1994)
Marquise (1997)
Vatel (2000)
La Femme Musketeer (2004)
The Death of Louis XIV (2016)

Scanian War (1675–1679) edit

Snapphanar (2006)

Jacobite risings (1688–1746) edit

Kidnapped (1917)
Bonnie Prince Charlie (1923)
Kidnapped (1935)
Kidnapped (1938)
Kidnapped (1948)
Bonnie Prince Charlie (1948)
The Master of Ballantrae (1953)
Kidnapped (1960)
Culloden (1964)
Kidnapped (1971)
The Master of Ballantrae (1984)
Kidnapped (1986)
Chasing the Deer (1994)
Rob Roy (1995)
Kidnapped (1995)

Great Northern War (1700–1721) edit

Karl XII (1925)
Pyotr perviy (Petr the First) (1937–1938) (Петр первый in Russia)
Kalabaliken i Bender (1983)
Sluga Gosudarev (The Sovereign's Servant) (2007) (Слуга государев in Russia)

Rákóczi's War of Independence (1703–1711) edit

Rákóczi nótája (1943) Hungarian film
Rákóczi hadnagya (1954) Hungarian film
Kard és kocka (1959) Hungarian film
A Tenkes kapitánya (1963) Hungarian TV-Series
Csínom Palkó (1973) Hungarian film
A menekülő herceg (1973) Hungarian TV-Movie
Rákóczi fogságai (2006) Hungarian TV-Movie

Hungary during Absolutism of the Habsburgs (1711–1848) edit

Kísértet Lublón (1976) Hungarian film
Vivát, Benyovszky! (1975) Hungarian TV series
Die unfreiwilligen Reisen des Moritz August Benjowski (1975) German-Italian TV series
A császár parancsára (1957) Hungarian film
Szegény gazdagok (1959) Hungarian film
A járvány (1975) Hungarian film

War of the Austrian Succession (1740–1748) edit

Fanfan la Tulipe (2003)

Guaraní War (1754–1756) edit

The Mission (1986)

French and Indian War (1754–1763) edit

The Deerslayer and Chingachgook (1920) German silent film
The Last of the Mohicans (1920) American film
The Last of the Mohicans (1920) German film
Leatherstocking (1924) American silent serial
The Last of the Mohicans (1936)
Northwest Passage (1940)
Unconquered (1947)
The Iroquois Trail (1950)
Fort Ti (1953)
The Last of the Mohicans (1992), depiction of the Battle of Fort William Henry
Battle of the Brave (Nouvelle-France) (2004)
The War that Made America (2006) PBS documentary

Seven Years' War (1756–1763) edit

Fanfan la Tulipe (1925) French film
Das Flötenkonzert von Sans-souci (1930)
Clive of India (1935)
Fanfan la Tulipe (1952)
Barry Lyndon (1975)
Fanfan la Tulipe (2003)

Pugachev's Rebellion (1773–1775) edit

Salavat Yulayev (1940)
The Captain's Daughter (1947)

Tempest (1958)