Biographical films about military personnel

120 Bahadur is a 2025 Indian Hindi-language historical war film directed by Razneesh ‘Razy’ Ghai and produced by Excel Entertainment and Trigger Happy Studios. The film stars Farhan Akhtar as Major Shaitan Singh and Raashii Khanna in a Special appearance as Shugan Kanwar, the wife of Shaitan Singh. The film recounts the Battle of Rezang La, considered one of the major events of the Sino-Indian War and fought on 18 November 1962, when 120 soldiers of the Charlie Company, 13 Kumaon Regiment, made up of Ahirs, defended their post against a 3000-strong Chinese Army contingent, inflicting on them over 1300 casualties.

1993 film directed by Steven Spielberg

2016 film directed by Mel Gibson

2014 film directed by Clint Eastwood

1972 film by Werner Herzog

1989 film directed by Oliver Stone

2014 film directed by Angelina Jolie

1941 biographical film directed by Howard Hawks

2015 film by Sergueï Mokritskiy

1934 Soviet war film by Georgi and Sergei Vasilyev

2020 film by Konstantin Buslov

1985 film by István Szabó

2008 film by Nikolai Müllerschön

2017 film by Jason Hall

1955 film directed by Jesse Hibbs

2017 film directed by Gabriela Cowperthwaite

1947 film by Vsevolod Pudovkin

1944 film by Lev Arnshtam

1971 film by Roger Corman

2016 film directed by Jérôme Salle

2021 film directed by Igor Kopylov

1947 film by Leonid Lukov

1955 USA Army film by John Ford

Shershaah () is a 2021 Indian Hindi-language biographical war film based on the life of Vikram Batra, martyred in action in the Kargil War, directed by Vishnuvardhan in his Hindi film debut and written by Sandeep Shrivastava. The film was produced by Dharma Productions and Kaash Entertainment, with Hiroo Yash Johar, Karan Johar, Apoorva Mehta, Shabbir Boxwala, Ajay Shah and Himanshu Gandhi serving as producers. Sidharth Malhotra stars in a dual role as Vikram Batra and his twin brother Vishal, with Kiara Advani as his girlfriend Dimple Cheema.

1952 American film by Melvin Frank and Norman Panama

2021 film directed by Renat Davletyarov

2019 film directed by Andrei Kravchuk

1957 British film directed by Roy Ward Baker

2022 Russian film

2024 Indian film

1957 film

Ikkis () is a 2026 Indian Hindi-language biographical war drama film directed and co-written by Sriram Raghavan. It is co-produced by Dinesh Vijan, Binny Padda, Sharada Karki Jalota, and Poonam Shivdasani under Maddock Films. It stars Agastya Nanda in his theatrical debut, Dharmendra in his final film role & also Asrani in a posthumous appearance, and Jaideep Ahlawat and Simar Bhatia. It is based on the life of Arun Khetarpal, the youngest recipient of the Param Vir Chakra award, and centered around the Battle of Basantar during the 1971 India–Pakistan War. The film's title is in reference to

2016 biographical drama film directed by Mohammad Hossein Mahdavian

2022 film directed by Anton Sivers and Rauf Kubayev

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2015 film by Anca Damian

1955 film by John H. Auer