Best Argentinian war movies

Get ready to binge. We've found a collection of must-watch war films from Argentina, now streaming on Netflix, HBO, Hulu, Prime Video, and other top services!

  • Poster for Blessed by Fire

    Blessed by Fire 2005

    Argentine film about the experiences of conscripts in the Malvinas Islands War.

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  • Poster for The Crossing of the Andes

    The Crossing of the Andes 2011

    Buenos Aires, 1880. A journalist interviews Manuel Esteban Corvalán, one of the last living men who crossed the Andes in 1817 with José de San Martín, during the Argentinian and Chilean wars of independence, as one of his secretaries, when he was only 15 years old.

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  • Poster for Alias Maria

    Alias Maria 2015

    A vision of Colombia's inhuman armed conflict, seen through the eyes of a young - and pregnant - girl soldier.

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  • Poster for The Debt

    The Debt 1988

    The drama tells the story of an Argentine elementary-school teacher sent by the government to a rural hamlet located in the northwestern province of Jujuy. It shows how he touches the lives of the villagers, especially the young and impressionable boy Verónico, whose mother died and father left to seek work when he was an infant. The film is based on a non-fiction book written by Fortunato Ramos, a rural teacher in northwest Argentina, that discusses his teaching experiences.

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  • Poster for Chaco

    Chaco 2020

    In 1934, Bolivia is at war with Paraguay. Liborio and Ticona and other Bolivian indigenous soldiers are lost in the hell of the Chaco, under the commandment of German Captain Kundt. They're looking for the Paraguayan enemy that they haven't seen for months, and that they will never find. They leave together in a search that will make them realize, progressively, the destiny they have been pushed into and the inevitable condition of a defeated troop. They're walking like shadows, wandering forever in the middle of dust and silence.

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  • Poster for Concert for the Battle of El Tala

    Concert for the Battle of El Tala 2021

    This is a film with music. Or about the music and texts that accompany, in a poetic way, a decisive battle between Unitarian and Federalists. The vicissitudes of the birth of a nation based on the play written by Mariano Llinás and Gabriel Chwojnik, whose images achieve some hypnotic strength.

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  • Poster for Invasion

    Invasion 2014

    INVASION is a documentary about the collective memory of a country. The invasion of Panama by the U.S in 1989 serves as an excuse to explore how a people remember, transform, and often forget their past in order to re-define their identity and become who they are today.

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  • Poster for The Lost Republic II

    The Lost Republic II 1986

    A history of Argentina's last military dictatorship (1976-1983). After "La Republica Perdida" was made, which covered 1930 to 1976, there was an important part of Argentina's history yet to be told, which was too recent to be covered by the first documentary. The first movie was made at the end of the last dictatorship. This second documentary covers this last dictatorship from 1976 to 1983.

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  • Poster for The Gaucho War

    The Gaucho War 1942

    The story of the irregular forces on the north of Argentina, fighting against the Spanish Crown for the independence.

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  • Poster for The Last Indian Attack

    The Last Indian Attack 1918

    The movie dramatizes the last Indian uprising in Argentina, which happened in the north of the country, in the Chaco region, in the early 1900s.

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  • Poster for Argentine Soldier Only Known by God

    Argentine Soldier Only Known by God 2017

    The story is centered on the human drama of three young people from a small town in Traslasierra, Córdoba, who from very different ideological places, are forever transformed by the war in Malvinas Argentinas (Falkland Islands).

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  • Poster for Anahy de las Misiones

    Anahy de las Misiones 1997

    Told by gauchos from Brazil, Argentina and Uruguai, the legend says that Anahy de las Missiones wandered around the Plata Basin during the time of Cisplatina War (1825-1828), stealing the dead.

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  • The Last Post 2001

    October 1982: War is waged between Britain and Argentina over the Falkland Islands. A British soldier stumbles upon an Argentinean soldier. They share a few minutes of uneasy respite before national hostilities re-emerge.

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  • Poster for The Children of the War

    The Children of the War 1984

    Based on the lives of four boys, all of different social classes and psychological makeup, this film tries to reflect through them the political history of Argentina during the years leading up to the Malvinas War.

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  • Poster for Historias Breves I: Guarisove, los olvidados

    Historias Breves I: Guarisove, los olvidados 1995

    A group of soldiers who naively went to fight in the Falklands War remains forgotten in those desolate lands a month after the end of the conflict.

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  • Poster for Rule Britannia

    Rule Britannia 1996

    A detailed account of each of the details of the Malvinas War based on interviews, dramatic scenes, maps and other elements of historical roots without ignoring the historical antecedents from the 18th century that ended in this confrontation.

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  • Poster for Poor Butterfly

    Poor Butterfly 1986

    A turbulent era in Argentine politics is highlighted in this well-wrought drama, set in Buenos Aires at the end of 1945, about Clara (Graciela Borges), a young, half-Jewish woman awakening to the reasons behind the political conflicts of her time and place. Clara's father was a Communist who fought the Nazis in Argentina and possessed a list of the top Nazi exiles and their contacts. Through a former lover, Clara -- a successful broadcast journalist -- begins to see her Jewish roots (and the leftists) in a whole new light. Meanwhile, the political storms sweeping through Argentina are setting the stage for the Peronist government to come.

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  • Poster for Gracias Gauchito

    Gracias Gauchito 2018

    The legend of the life of Antonio 'Gauchito' Gil and the construction of the myth are axes of this story. 40 years after his death, an old man goes through the towns telling the legend of the pagan saint. He tells the story of his miracles and the exploits of the Gaucho, who knew how to do justice in times of war.

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  • Poster for El último montonero

    El último montonero 1963

    The last actions of the Riojan caudillo Chacho Peñaloza until his death and beheading.

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  • Poster for Malvinas: Stories of Betrayals

    Malvinas: Stories of Betrayals 1984

    Malvinas, history of betrayals is an Argentine-Mexican co-production documentary film directed by Jorge Denti from a script by Irene Selzer and Alberto Adellach.

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  • Poster for El general y la fiebre

    El general y la fiebre 1993

    While sick in the small town of Saldán, the General José de San Martín remembers his life and achievements

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  • Poster for Bajo el signo de la patria

    Bajo el signo de la patria 1971

    Aspects of the life of General Manuel Belgrano since he took command of the Army of the North until, together with his men, he defeated the enemy in the battle of Salta in February 1813.

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  • Poster for La muerte en las calles

    La muerte en las calles 1952

    During the English invasions, a merchant forces his daughter to marry a soldier.

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