If you're looking for the best military movies and shows on Netflix this July, we're here to help you stop the scrolling, move past the algorithm and find something worth putting on before your dinner gets cold. Netflix has a big catalog, which sounds great until you're 37 minutes into browsing and somehow considering a British baking show instead of the war movie you meant to watch. This list should help cut through the noise. Some of these movies are new to Netflix in July. Others are already streaming and worth adding to the queue, whether you're looking for World War II combat, Vietnam War fallout, military documentaries, political history, sci-fi satire or a NASA crisis that plays like a mission debrief with movie-star cheekbones. There's enough military entertainment viewing here to last most of us a while.
This 2019 World War I film from director Sam Mendes (Skyfall) follows two young British soldiers ordered to cross enemy territory and deliver a message that could save hundreds of men from walking into a German trap. The movie is famous for being built to look like one nearly continuous shot, but the trick works because it keeps the audience trapped with the soldiers. Every trench, farmhouse and open field feels like another bad decision they have no choice but to survive.
