pacifism movies

Hacksaw Ridge (2016)
8.193 / 10

Drama, History, War

WWII American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, who served during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people and becomes the first Conscientious...

Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971)
6.337 / 10

Action, Science Fiction

The world is shocked by the appearance of three talking chimpanzees, who arrived mysteriously in a spacecraft. Intrigued by their intelligence,...

Four Lions (2010)
6.947 / 10

Comedy, Crime, Drama

A group of Muslim men living in Sheffield hatch an inept plan to become suicide bombers.

Friendly Persuasion (1956)
6.6 / 10

Drama, War

The story of a family of Quakers in Indiana in 1862. Their religious sect is strongly opposed to violence and war. It's not easy for them to meet the...

Z (1969)
7.9 / 10

Thriller, Crime, Drama

Amidst a heated political climate, the opposition leader is killed in what appears to be a traffic accident. When a magistrate finds evidence of a...

Chasing Trane (2017)
7.3 / 10

Documentary, Music

An account of the life of the brilliant jazz musician John Coltrane (1926-67), a gifted saxophonist, an extraordinarily talented thinker whose...

Testament of Youth (2014)
7.271 / 10

History, Drama, War

Testament of Youth is a powerful story of love, war and remembrance, based on the First World War memoir by Vera Brittain, which has become the...

Together (2000)
6.982 / 10

Drama, Comedy, Romance

Elisabeth leaves her abusive and drunken husband Rolf, and goes to live with her brother, Göran. The year is 1975 and Göran lives in a commune...

Bonhoeffer (2024)
0 / 10

Drama, History, War

When a pacifist is called to a political act that could change the course of history, how will a man of honor respond? This is the true story of...

Rurouni Kenshin: Requiem for the Ishin Patriots (1997)
7 / 10

Animation, Action, Fantasy

The war against the Tokugawa Shogunate ended years ago. But there are some who are not happy with the outcome. Shigure Takimi watched his friends and...

The Cuckoo (2002)
7.1 / 10

Drama, History, Romance, Comedy

September of 1944, a few days before Finland went out of the Second World War. A chained to a rock Finnish sniper-kamikadze Veikko managed to set...

Resistant (2021)
6 / 10

Documentary

Documentary film about Arndt Pekurinen and the peace movement in the early 20th century. Pekurinen spoke out for pacifism, conscientious objection...

The Iron Crown (1941)
5.8 / 10

Adventure, Fantasy

In the kingdom of Kindaor, traitor Sedesmondo kills his brother, the King of Kindaor, and becomes the tyrant of kingdom. He abandons the prince...

Field Punishment No.1 (2014)
8 / 10

War, Drama

In 1916, the New Zealand Government secretly shipped 14 of the country's most outspoken conscientious objectors to the Western Front in an attempt to...

Owen Wingrave (2001)
0 / 10

Music, Drama, War

Margaret Williams directs this 2001 production of adaptation of Benjamin Britten's television opera based on a short story by Henry James. Performers...

Albert, Albert (1994)
2 / 10

Drama

The fates of famous slovak individuals in history bring strong dramatic stories and a witness to the age in which they lived. Tragic and complicated...

Camilo (2008)
10 / 10

Documentary

Gesto (2022)
0 / 10

Documentary, History

The history of the citizens' movement that for thirty years worked hard to overcome fear, fight hatred and eradicate the violence exercised by the...

Thou Shalt Not Kill (1961)
8 / 10

Drama

At the end of World War II, a French pacifist is arrested for refusing to fight. In prison, he befriends a German priest arrested for murder of a...

Plena Rondo (1969)
10 / 10

Documentary, Adventure