Dynamic Watchlist Hub: Apr 11, 2026

10 Best Movies Like The Second Civil War

If you loved The Second Civil War, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
The Scarlet and the Black

The Scarlet and the Black

1983★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Second Civil War for fans of Drama & TV Movie & War. 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...

#2
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

2007★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Second Civil War for fans of Drama & TV Movie & War. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Beginning just after the bloody Sioux victory over General Custer at Little Big Horn, the story is told through two unique perspectives: Charles Eastman, a young, white-educated Si...

#3
Love Me Tender

Love Me Tender

1956★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Second Civil War for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

At the end of the Civil War, a Confederate team is ordered to rob a Union payroll train but the war ends leaving these men with their Union loot, until the Feds come looking for it...

#4
The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell

The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell

1955★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Second Civil War for fans of Drama & War. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A dramatization of the American general and his court martial for publically complaining about High Command's dismissal and neglect of the aerial fighting forces....

#5
Emperor

Emperor

2020★ 7.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Second Civil War for fans of Drama & War. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

An escaped slave travels north and has chance encounters with Frederick Douglass and John Brown. Based on the life story of Shields Green....

#6
Birdy

Birdy

1984★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Second Civil War for fans of Drama & War. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Two young men are seriously affected by the Vietnam War. One of them has always been obsessed with birds - but now believes he really is a bird, and has been sent to a mental hospi...

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