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** ''[[Pillars Of The Earth]]''
* Wars of the Roses
** ''[[Black AdderBlackadder|The Black Adder]]''
* Sengoku Jidai
** Too many [[Jidai Geki]] to count
* The Ottoman-Safavid Wars
** Referenced several times in ''[[My Name Is Red (Literature)|My Name Is Red]]''.
* [[English Civil War]]
** ''[[Black AdderBlackadder]]: the Cavalier Years''
* Glorious Revolution
** ''[[Doctor Who]]''
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** ''[[ANZA Cs]]''
** ''[[A Very Long Engagement]]'' - Features a wide panorama of warfare of the age (though all taking place on the Somme) and the post-war period.
** ''[[Black AdderBlackadder]] Goes Forth'' - Pushed the 'war is hell' angle for laughs and succeeded, until the last episode where they pushed the 'war is hell'' angle for tragedy. [[Tear Jerker|And succeeded]]
** ''[[Doctor Who]]''
** ''Galipolli''
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** ''[[Paths of Glory]]''
** ''Sergeant York''
** ''[[Torchwood (TV)|Torchwood]]''
* Irish War of Independence
** ''[[Michael Collins]]''
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* [[World War II]]
** ''[[A Bridge Too Far]]'' - Operation Market-Garden, and its ultimate failure, the Allied attempt to break through German lines and seize several bridges in the occupied Netherlands.
** ''[['Allo 'Allo (TV)!|Allo Allo]]'' (portrayed all sides, German, British, French, Italian, as incompetent fools, and lasted for ten years)
** ''[[Band of Brothers]]'' - Follows Easy Company (of 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division) from training through the end of the war, including D-Day, Market Garden, and Bastogne.
** ''The Battle of Britain'' - where the movie budget did cover Spitfire hire, and Hurricane hire, and Me109 hire and He111 hire from the Spanish Airforce.
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** ''[[Das Boot]]''
** ''[[Call of Duty]]'' - Discounting the ''[[Modern Warfare]]'' spinoff series and ''Black Ops''.
** ''[[Captain America: theThe First Avenger]]''
** ''Combat''
** ''[[Company of Heroes]]''
** ''[[Dad's Army (TV)|Dads Army]]''
** ''[[The DambustersDam Busters]]''
** ''[[Danger UXB (TV)|Danger UXB]]''
** ''[[The Dirty Dozen]]''
** ''[[Doctor Who]]''
** ''The Eagle Has Landed''
** ''[[The English Patient]]''
** ''[[Flags of Ourour Fathers]]''
** ''[[The Great Escape]]'' - Realistic Prison Camp
** ''The Great Raid''
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*** ''[[Force 10 From Navarone]]''
** ''[[Hogan's Heroes]]'' - Comic Prison Camp
** ''[[It AintAin't Half Hot Mum]]''
** ''[[Jackboots Onon Whitehall]]''
** ''Jeux interdits'' (English title: ''Forbidden Games'')
** ''[[KellysKelly's Heroes]]'' - ''The Italian Job'' {{smallcaps|[[During the War]]!}}
** ''[[Letters From Iwo Jima]]''
** ''[[The Longest Day]]'' - D-Day
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** ''Operation Peticoat''
** ''Pearl Harbor''
** ''[[The Rat Patrol (TV)|The Rat Patrol]]''
** ''[[Saving Private Ryan]]''
** ''[[Secret Army]]''
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** ''[[The Thin Red Line]]''
** ''To Hell and Back''
** ''[[Tora! Tora! Tora!]]'' - Named for the code words used by the Japanese to signal that the Pearl Harbor attack had been successful.
** ''[[Torchwood (TV)|Torchwood]]''
** ''[[Valkyria Chronicles]]'', though some elements also let it fit as [[World War One]].
** ''[[Valkyrie (Film)|Valkyrie]]''
** Various [[Wartime Cartoon|Wartime Cartoons]]
** ''[[Wolfenstein 3D (Video Game)|Wolfenstein 3D]]''
* First Indochina War
** ''[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104105/ Diên Biên Phú]''
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** ''[[The Battle of Algiers]]''
* [[Vietnam War]]
** ''[[American Dreams (TV)|American Dreams]]''
** ''[[Apocalypse Now]]''
** [[The A-Team (TV)|The A-Team]]
** ''Bat 21''
** ''[[Battlefield Vietnam]]''
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** ''The Deer Hunter''
** ''First Blood''
** ''[[Flight of the Intruder (Filmfilm)|Flight of the Intruder]]'' (both versions)
** ''Forrest Gump''
** ''Full Metal Jacket''
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** ''[[The Manchurian Candidate]]'' (remake)
** ''[[Three Kings]]''
* [[The War Onon Terror|War in Afghanistan (2001)]]
** ''[[Iron Man (Filmfilm)|Iron Man]]'' (the movie)
* [[The War Onon Terror|Iraq War]]
** ''[[Generation Kill]]''
** ''[[Green Zone]]''
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** ''[[Battlefield Earth]]''
** ''[[Doctor Who]]''
** ''[[Footfall (Literature)|Footfall]]''
** ''[[Halo]]''
** ''[[Independence Day]]''
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** ''[[Macross Frontier]]''
** ''Outer Limits'' (new version, several episodes)
** ''[[Space: Above and Beyond]]''
** ''[[Starcraft]]''
** ''[[Starship Troopers (Literaturenovel)|Starship Troopers]]''
** ''[[Warhammer 40000 (Tabletop Game)|Warhammer 40000]]'' (Tyranids)
** ''[[Wing Commander (Videovideo Gamegame)|Wing Commander]] Prophecy''
* [[Demonic Invaders]]
** ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]''
** ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]''
** ''[[Warhammer 40000 (Tabletop Game)|Warhammer 40000]]'' (Chaos)
* Interstellar Civil War
** ''[[Firefly (TV)|Firefly]]''
** ''[[Star Wars]]''
** ''[[Transformers]]''
** ''[[Warhammer 40000 (Tabletop Game)|Warhammer 40000]]'' (Chaos again)
** [[Wing Commander (Videovideo Gamegame)|Wing Commander]] (Kilrathi, post-war)
* [[The Magic Versus Technology War]]
** ''[[American Gods (Literature)|American Gods]]''
** ''[[The Longest Journey]]''
** ''[[Princess Mononoke]]''
** ''[[Thundercats 2011 (Western Animation)|ThunderCats (2011)]]''
** ''[[Warhammer 40000]]'' (Anyone else vs. Necrons or Tau)
** ''[[Wizards]]''
** ''[[WolfsWolf's Rain]]''
* [[Robot War]]
** ''[[Battlestar Galactica (Franchise)|Battlestar Galactica]]'' (Both versions)
** ''[[Doctor Who]]''
** ''[[Mass Effect]]''
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** ''[[Warhammer 40000]]'' (Iron Men and the Necrons)
* [[World War III]]
** ''[[Alas, Babylon (Literature)|Alas, Babylon]]''
** ''Amerika''
** ''[[Damnation Alley]]''
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** ''Red Dawn''
** ''[[Red Storm Rising]]''
** ''[[Star Trek (Franchise)|Star Trek]]'' (backstory)
** ''[[Team Yankee]]''
** ''[[The Third World War (Literature)|The Third World War]]: August 1985''
** ''[[Threads]]''
** ''[[World in Conflict]]''
* Various others
** ''[[Babylon Five|Babylon 5]]'' gives us the Earth-Minbari War, which finished ten years before the series started, is what people usually refer to when they say "during the war...". There's also the Dilgar War, referred to in one episode but very important to the series' backstory (as it proved the Earth Alliance's status as a major galactic power). The series itself, however, is set during no less than ''six'' concurrent, interrelated wars:
*** The Shadow War
*** The Earth Alliance Civil War
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*** The Drakh War
*** The Telepath War
** ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam (Anime)|Mobile Suit Gundam]]''
*** '''The''' war is typically The One Year War, during which a [[Mobile Suit Gundam 0080 War in The Pocket (Anime)|huge number]] [[Mobile Suit Gundam The 08th MS Team|of side]] [[Gundam IGLOO|stories are set]].
*** [[Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (Anime)|The Gryps Conflict]]
*** [[Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ (Anime)|The First Neo-Zeon War]]
*** [[Chars Counterattack|The Second Neo-Zeon War]]
*** [[Mobile Suit Victory Gundam (Anime)|The Zanscare Insurrection]]
** [[Fullmetal Alchemist]]
*** In Ishval...
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