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10 Best Movies Like Know Your Enemy: Japan

If you loved Know Your Enemy: Japan, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Why We Fight: Prelude to War

Why We Fight: Prelude to War

1942★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Know Your Enemy: Japan for fans of Documentary & War. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Prelude to War was the first film of Frank Capra's Why We Fight propaganda film series, commissioned by the Pentagon and George C. Marshall. It was made to convince American troops...

#2
The War on Democracy

The War on Democracy

2007★ 7.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Know Your Enemy: Japan for fans of Documentary & War & History. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Set both in Latin America and the United States, the film explores the historic and current relationship of Washington with countries such as Venezuela, Bolivia and Chile. Pilger s...

#3
Waiting for Anya

Waiting for Anya

2020★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Know Your Enemy: Japan for fans of War. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

During the harrows of WWII, Jo, a young shepherd along with the help of the widow Horcada, helps to smuggle Jewish children across the border from southern France into Spain....

#4
2000 Meters to Andriivka

2000 Meters to Andriivka

2025★ 8.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Know Your Enemy: Japan for fans of Documentary & War. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Amid the failing counteroffensive, a journalist follows a Ukrainian platoon on their mission to traverse one mile of heavily fortified forest and liberate a strategic village from ...

#5
The Scarlet and the Black

The Scarlet and the Black

1983★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Know Your Enemy: Japan for fans of War & History. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Fr. Hugh O'Flaherty is a Vatican official in 1943-45 who has been hiding downed pilots, escaped prisoners of war, and Italian resistance families. His activities become so large th...

#6
The Battle of San Pietro

The Battle of San Pietro

1945★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Know Your Enemy: Japan for fans of Documentary & War. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

This documentary movie is about the battle of San Pietro, a small village in Italy. Over 1,100 US soldiers were killed while trying to take this location, that blocked the way for ...

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