Movies like De Gaulle: Liberté (2026)

Name: De Gaulle: Liberté
Released: 2026

10 films to watch after De Gaulle: Liberté, ranked by how well they match its tone — not just its genre.

Part two of a two-part biopic following French army officer Charles De Gaulle's life and political commitment between 1940 and 1945, and trace his development towards a political career.

1

Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin (2024)

Fit 71%

Shares History, Drama and War with De Gaulle: Liberté.

As the world teeters on the brink of annihilation, Dietrich Bonhoeffer joins a deadly plot to assassinate Hitler, risking his faith and fate to save millions of Jews from genocide.
2

Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle (2021)

Fit 68%

Shares Drama, War and History with De Gaulle: Liberté.

Japan, 1944. Trained for intelligence work, Hiroo Onoda, 22 years old, discovers a philosophy contrary to the official line: no suicide; stay alive whatever happens; the mission is more important than anything else. Sent to Lubang, a small island in the Philippines where the Americans are about to land, this role will be to wage a guerrilla war until the return of the Japanese troops. The Empire will surrender soon after; Onoda, 10,000 days later.
3

The Longest Day (1962)

Fit 67%

Shares War, Drama and History with De Gaulle: Liberté.

The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day"
4

Operation Mincemeat (2022)

Fit 66%

Shares War, History and Drama with De Gaulle: Liberté.

In 1943, two British intelligence officers concoct Operation Mincemeat, wherein their plan to drop a corpse with false papers off the coast of Spain would fool Nazi spies into believing the Allied forces were planning to attack by way of Greece rather than Sicily.
5

A Call to Spy (2020)

Fit 57%

Shares History and Drama with De Gaulle: Liberté.

The story of Vera Atkins, a crafty spy recruiter, and two of the first women she selects for Churchill's "secret army": Virginia Hall, a daring American undaunted by a disability and Noor Inayat Khan, a pacifist. These civilian women form an unlikely sisterhood while entangled in dangerous missions to turn the tide of the war.
6

Munich - The Edge of War (2021)

Fit 56%

Shares Drama and History with De Gaulle: Liberté.

At the tense 1938 Munich Conference, former friends who now work for opposing governments become reluctant spies racing to expose a Nazi secret.
7

An Officer and a Spy (2019)

Fit 53%

Shares History and Drama with De Gaulle: Liberté.

In 1894, French Captain Alfred Dreyfus is wrongfully convicted of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment at the Devil’s Island penal colony.
8

Waterloo (1970)

Fit 52%

Shares History, Drama and War with De Gaulle: Liberté.

After defeating France and imprisoning Napoleon on Elba, ending two decades of war, Europe is shocked to find Napoleon has escaped and has caused the French Army to defect from the King back to him. The best of the British generals, the Duke of Wellington, beat Napolean's best generals in Spain and Portugal, but now must beat Napoleon himself with an Anglo Allied army.
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Battle of the Bulge (1965)

Fit 48%

Shares Drama, History and War with De Gaulle: Liberté.

In the winter of 1944, the Allied Armies stand ready to invade Germany at the coming of a New Year. To prevent it, Hitler orders an all-out offensive to re-take French territory and capture the major port city of Antwerp.
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Young Washington (2026)

Fit 46%

Shares History, War and Drama with De Gaulle: Liberté.

Before he led a nation, George Washington was a young soldier thrown into a global conflict. With alliances crumbling and war closing in, he must choose who to trust and confront the leader he's becoming.