One month after celebrating moms around the world, it’s time for dads to get their due.
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Father’s Day is this Sunday, June 21, and Watch With Us wants to celebrate by recommending a movie genre near and dear to all dads’ hearts – war films.
Streamers like Netflix, Prime Video and Tubi have tons of action-packed movies to watch, which is why we narrowed down our selections that cover a specific historical event – World War II.
From Tom Cruise trying to kill Adolf Hitler in the thriller Valkyrie to Clark Gable battling Japanese submarines in Run Silent, Run Deep, these WWII films are guaranteed to make pops happy on his special day of the year.
What happens after war ends and the enemy needs to be punished? That’s the question Nuremberg grapples with as it depicts the beginning of the Nuremberg trials in 1945. Hitler’s second-in-command, Hermann Göring (Russell Crowe), is accused of mass murder, and the prosecution needs to determine if he’s mentally fit to stand trial. After U.S. Army psychiatrist Douglas Kelley (Rami Malek) examines him, he doesn’t quite believe a man so civil to him – and caring for his family – could commit such atrocities. But as the trial proceeds and evidence is shown to the public, Kelley grapples with Göring’s true nature.
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Unlike classic WWII movies like Saving Private Ryan and Das Boot, Nuremberg focuses on the aftermath of war and the battles waged in the courtroom and in public opinion. The Nuremberg trials were, for many, the first real look at what the Germans had done to their Jewish prisoners, and the film convincingly conveys this dawning horror through Kelley’s perspective. Crow gives his best performance in years as a monster cosplaying as a family man who thinks that by denying what he did, he can make it go away. Nuremberg shows how wrong he was and the need for public accountability for private misdeeds.
Tom Cruise as a Nazi? Yeah, it happened – kinda – in 2008’s Valkyrie, which sees the Top Gun star play a German soldier, Claus von Stauffenberg, who is fed up with Hitler (David Bamber) and his cronies. He decides to do something about it by leading a resistance effort to assassinate the German leader so he can take over the military and end the war. That sounds simple, but to get close enough to Hitler, Claus has to make sure everything goes right – and nobody finds out what his real intentions are.
Directed by Bryan Singer, Valkyrie is an excellent thriller that retells a moment in history few people know about. There really was a Claus von Stauffenberg, and he almost pulled off an act that would have saved millions of lives. (It shouldn’t be a spoiler to reveal that Claus was not successful in assassinating Hitler.) Cruise is miscast as an eye-patch-wearing German officer, but he’s also oddly right at home spying on others and staging daring acts of subterfuge. He’s surrounded by a top-notch cast of British character actors, like Kenneth Branagh, Bill Nighy and Terence Stamp, and they’re all terrific as Claus’ fellow soldiers who want to off their big boss.
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This story was originally published June 21, 2026 at 5:30 AM.