If you're looking for the best military movies and shows on Netflix this August, we're here to save you from another long night of scrolling through menu tiles while your dinner slowly becomes tomorrow's breakfast. Netflix has a lot to watch, which sounds useful until the algorithm turns your search for Navy SEALs into a reality series about attractive people selling beachfront property. This list should help narrow the field. Several of these movies and shows are new to Netflix in August, including all seven seasons of SEAL Team, a new Indian Air Force drama and a few familiar military thrillers. The rest are already streaming and worth adding to the queue, whether you're looking for World War II espionage, the Iraq War, the hunt for Osama bin Laden or an animated infantry unit fighting across Europe. There should be enough here to keep most military movie fans occupied until September.
‘SEAL Team’
Arrives Aug. 18
David Boreanaz stars as Jason Hayes, leader of Bravo Team, in this long-running drama about an elite unit of Navy SEALs balancing dangerous missions overseas with complicated lives back home. Netflix is adding all seven seasons at once, which turns SEAL Team into the month's biggest military binge by a considerable margin. The series began on CBS in 2017 before moving to Paramount+, where it ended in 2024. The show built a loyal military audience by paying attention to the cost of repeated deployments, combat injuries and the difficulty of returning home when part of you never really left the mission. Veterans also worked on the production as actors, writers and advisers. Once the entire series hits Netflix, viewers can follow Bravo Team from its earliest deployments through its final mission without needing to conduct their own streaming-service scavenger hunt.
