15 Best War Movies On Netflix Right Now
13. Beasts Of No Nation
Led by a career best performance from Idris Elba, Beasts of No Nation is a war film written and directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga. Following a young boy who finds himself drawn into a civil war and used as a child soldier, it remains one of Netflix's most poignant and powerful original films.
Often uncompromising in its look at war, death and sacrifice, thanks to Fukunaga's script it still manages to fill itself full of hope.
The true power of the film is its narrative structure, which allows audiences to fully fall in line with Agu's world and the way he is seeing the events playing out. You never understand what the war is about, and all you do know is that it's set somewhere in Africa, and this detachment from the facts allows audiences to better connect with Agu and his struggles, none of which he himself understands.
Beasts of No Nation manages to subvert its genre and instead make the concept of war and unrest a coming-of-age drama, brilliantly acted, directed and perfectly formed.