List of war films and TV specials set between 2001 and the present

War depictions in film and television include documentaries, TV mini-series, and drama serials depicting aspects of historical wars. The films included here are films set in the time period from 2001 to present day, or from the moment the world woke up to a new reality one September morning at the dawn of a new century, the 9/11 attacks were followed by the War on Terrorism, which has now lasted for about two decades. But it's worth noting that the early period of 21st century hasn't only seen the war on terror, but wars that have followed in the aftermath of the Arab Spring.

Note: Various wars on here are still ongoing in one form or another.

War on Terrorism (2001–present)

September 11 attacks (2001)

War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
See also: List of Afghanistan War (2001–2021) documentaries

Iraq War (2003–2011)

Covert special operations in Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia etc.

Insurgency in Saudi Arabia (2003–present)

Insurgency in the Maghreb (2002–present)

Joint Chiefs of Staff operations
  • E-Ring (2005–2006) (TV series)

Operation Enduring Freedom – Philippines (2002–2015)

Terrorist Sleeper cells

War on Terror in Pakistan

Modern wars in sub-Saharan Africa (2003–present)

War in Darfur (2003–present)

Central African Republic Bush War (2003–2012)

Kivu conflict (2004–2013)
  • Blood Coltan (2008), documentary
  • Sniper: Reloaded (2011)
  • Kony, M23, and the Real Rebels of Congo (2012), VICE News documentary
  • War Witch (2012)

Chadian Civil War (2005–10)

Central African Republic conflict (2012–present)
  • The Devil Tried to Divide Us (2014), VICE News documentary

Tuareg rebellion (2012)

South Sudanese Civil War (2013–2015)
  • Saving South Sudan (2014), VICE News documentary

2004 unrest in Kosovo

Mexican Drug War (2006–present)
  • Breaking Bad (TV series) (2008–2013)
  • El Sicario, Room 164 (2010), A documentary about an anonymous Ciudad Juárez Sicario known to have killed hundreds
  • Miss Bala (2011), A beauty contestant is kidnapped by a cartel and forced to do drug missions in wartorn Mexico
  • Savages (2012), Small-time pot growers search for their lover, kidnapped by a cartel they refused to work with
  • Snitch (2012), His son arrested, a concerned father makes a deal with a US attorney to infiltrate a Mexican cartel and ends up trapped in a war zone
  • End of Watch (2012), The Sinaloa Cartel declares war on 2 LAPD officers arrest who raid a safe house
  • The Last Stand (2013), A border-town Sheriff's Department takes on a powerful drug lord and his private army
  • The Mexican Mormon War (2012), Vice documentary on the Mormon vigilante militia fighting a drug cartel in Chihuahua
  • Narco Cultura (2013), A documentary film that explores the cultural glorification of modern drug traffickers
  • El Velador/The Night Watchman (2013), A documentary portraying the quieter, less obvious impact of the drug war
  • 600 Miles (2015)
  • Cartel Land (2015), documentary
  • Metástasis (TV series) (2015)
  • Sicario (2015), An idealistic FBI agent is enlisted by an elected government task force to aid in the escalating war against drugs at the border area between the U.S. and Mexico
  • Sicario: Day of the Soldado (2018), A sequel to 2015's Sicario. The story relates to the drug war at the U.S.-Mexico border and an attempt by the United States government to incite increased conflict among the cartels.
  • Narcos: Mexico (2018–present), It focuses on the illegal drug trade in Mexico.
  • Rambo: Last Blood (2019 Film),

South Ossetia War (2008)

2011 Libyan Civil War
  • Benghazi Rising (2011), documentary
  • Qaddafi: Our Best Enemy (2011), documentary
  • First to Fall (2014), documentary
  • War Story (2014)
  • A Private War (2018)

Factional violence in Libya (2011–2014)

Syrian Civil War (2011–present)
See also: List of documentary films about the Syrian civil war

Iraqi Civil War (2014–2017)
  • The Road to Mosul (2015), VICE News documentary
  • The Road to Fallujah (2016), VICE News documentary
  • Reseba (2016)
  • Mosul (2019)
  • Mosul (2020)
  • Once Upon a Time in Iraq (2020), BBC documentary

Russo-Ukrainian War (2014–present)

Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation (2014)

War in Donbas (2014–present)

2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine

Yemeni Civil War (2015–present)
  • Yemen's forgotten war (2016), BBC documentary
  • Operation Red Sea (2018)
  • Al Kameen(The Ambush) (2021)

2016 Nagorno-Karabakh conflict

Battle of Marawi (2017)

2020–2022 China–India skirmishes
  • Galwan Valley Clash (working title, in pre-production)

2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war
  • 45 Days, The Fight For A Nation (2021), documentary


See also

List of war films and TV specials

References
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