conscientious objector 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...

A Hidden Life (2019)
7.129 / 10

Drama, War, History

Austrian farmer Franz Jägerstätter faces the threat of execution for refusing to fight for the Nazis during World War II.

Sergeant York (1941)
7.2 / 10

War, Drama

Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is then called to serve his country and despite deep...

The Replacement Killers (1998)
6.229 / 10

Action, Crime, Thriller

Hired assassin John Lee is asked by Chinatown crime boss Terence Wei to murder the young son of policeman Stan Zedkov. Lee has the boy in his sights,...

The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity (1959)
8.156 / 10

War, Drama, History

Kaji is sent to the Japanese army labeled Red and is mistreated by the vets. Along his assignment, Kaji witnesses cruelties in the army and revolts...

The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (1959)
8.013 / 10

War, Drama, History

After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labor chief at a large mining operation in...

Carrington (1995)
6.2 / 10

History, Drama, Romance

Painter Dora Carrington develops an intimate but extremely complex bond with writer Lytton Strachey. Though Lytton is a homosexual, he is enchanted...

There Is No Evil (2020)
7.57 / 10

Drama

Every country that enforces the death penalty needs people to kill other people. Four men are put in front of an unthinkable but simple choice....

Tutti giù per terra (1997)
6.5 / 10

Comedy

Having just moved back in with his working-class parents, twentysomething on-and-off philosophy undergrad Walter navigates turn-of-the-millennium...

Kangaroo (1986)
6 / 10

Drama

A mild-mannered English conscientious objector moves to what he feels will be the relative calm of Australia after World War I, but gets caught in...

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...

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...

Camilo (2008)
10 / 10

Documentary

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...

I Refuse to Kill: He Went to War with War (1969)
0 / 10

Documentary

At the risk of a 5-year prison term, Francesco Da Vinci struggles with his Virginia draft board to be recognized as a sincere conscientious objector...

Objector (2019)
8.5 / 10

Documentary

Like all Israeli youth, Atalya is obligated to become a soldier. Unlike most, she questions the practices of her country's military, and becomes...

No Drums, No Bugles (1972)
0 / 10

Drama

During the Civil War, a conscientious objector is forced to flee to the woods of West Virginia to avoid being sent into combat where he would be...

Men Who Won't Pick Up Guns 2: Breaking a Taboo (2021)
0 / 10

Documentary

Ko Eun-young, a thirty, non-naitive Jeju Island woman with no experience in politics, runs for Jeju governor in the 2018 local elections. The bumpy...

Room 708, A Letter from a Private (2004)
0 / 10

Documentary

A documentary about the 8-day sit-in struggle by GANG Cheolmin, a 22 year-old private in the South Korean army who declared his objection to military...