Top 50 War Movies to watch on Netflix

War has been part of humankind, sadly, from the beginning. Some wars have affected the whole world, while others take place in faraway places.

Movies have always been portraying war in all its shapes. War movies are pierced by different genres such as military, romance, thriller, and sometimes fiction and horror.

But one thing always prevails, the pain and suffering of the human soul.

Here, I have chosen 50 of the best war movies you can find on Netflix that show different battles through history. Some are from the purely military point of view, others from the civilian one, some are true events with fictionalized situations.

Whether you like the genre or you’re interested in knowing more about pivotal events of history, these movies will be for you.

How to watch these movies

Although these movies are on Netflix, they aren’t available in all countries. Next to each film, I’ve listed what countries they’re available in.

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1. Too Young the Hero (1988)

Biography, Drama, War – 100 min.

Available in the United States.

A TV movie portraying the true story of Calvin Graham (Ricky Schroder), a 12-year-old boy who forges his mother’s signature to join the US Navy in World War II.

He served in the battle of Guadalcanal, becoming the youngest American man at service in the war.

2. Saving Private Ryan (1998)

Drama, War – 169 min.

Available in selected countries

Recommended VPN Locations: Australia (ExpressVPN), Canada, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Poland, the UK, the US (ExpressVPN, NordVPN, Surfshark), India (NordVPN)

Directed by Steven Spielberg and set during the Invasion of Normandy in World War II, the film shows a realistic and graphic portrayal of war.

The story follows a squad led by United States Army Rangers Captain John H. Miller (Tom Hanks). They search for a paratrooper, Private First Class James Francis Ryan (Matt Damon), who is the last surviving brother of a family of four.

All his older brothers were killed in action.

3. Apocalypse Now Redux (2001)

Drama, Mystery, War – 196 min.

Available in Argentina, Colombia, Iceland, Mexico, the Netherlands, Poland, Sweden

Recommended VPN Locations: Poland and the Netherlands

2001 re-edit of Francis Ford Coppola’s 1979 Vietnam War epic movie. This version is 49 minutes longer, with footage that was removed from the original version.

The story follows a US Army officer who is tasked with the mission of assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel.

The movie has an ensemble cast composed of Marlon Brando, Martin Sheen, Robert Duvall, Laurence Fishburne, Harrison Ford and Dennis Hopper.

4. Valkyrie (2008)

Drama, History, Thriller – 121 min.

Available in Canada.

Directed by Bryan Singer (X-Men, The Usual Suspects, Superman Returns, Bohemian Rhapsody), this film follows the true events behind the 1944 assassination plot against Adolf Hitler during World War II by renegade German Army officers.

Tom Cruise led the cast playing Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg.

5. War Horse (2011)

Action, Adventure, Drama – 146 min.

Available in the United States.

A Steven Spielberg film based on the novel of the same name by English author Michael Morpurgo.

The film follows young Albert, who enlists to serve in World War I to follow his beloved horse, which has been sold to the cavalry.

6. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)

Action, Adventure, Drama – 138 min.

Available in Argentina, Colombia, France, Germany, Mexico, South Africa, South Korea, Switzerland

Recommended VPN Locations: France, Germany

Set during the Napoleonic Wars, this film directed by Peter Weir (Dead Poets Society, The Truman Show) follows a British captain in the Royal Navy, Jack Aubrey (Russell Crowe) and Dr Stephen Maturin (Paul Bettany), the ship surgeon, in pursuit of a formidable French war vessel around South America.

7. The Pianist (2002)

Biography, Drama, Music – 150 min.

Available in selected countries

Recommended VPN Locations: Belgium, Canada, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, the US

Directed by Roman Polanski and based on the book by Wladyslaw Szpilman, The Pianist follows the true and dramatic events that Wladyslaw Szpilman (Adrien Brody) had to endure to survive the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto of World War II.

8. Downfall (2004)

Biography, Drama, History – 156 min.

Available in Belgium and the Netherlands.

The final days of Adolf Hitler in his bunker through the eyes of his last secretary, Traudl Junge.

The late Bruno Ganz plays Hitler in one of the major roles of his career.

9. Black Hawk Down (2001)

Drama, History, War – 144 min.

Available in selected countries

Recommended VPN Locations: Canada, France, Japan, Poland (ExpressVPN, NordVPN, Surfshark), India (NordVPN)

Directed by Ridley Scott and based on the 1999 non-fiction book of the same name by journalist Mark Bowden.

The film follows the U.S. military’s 1993 raid in Mogadishu with a large ensemble cast, featuring Josh Hartnett, Ewan McGregor, Eric Bana, Tom Sizemore, William Fichtner, Sam Shepard, and Tom Hardy.

10. Inglourious Basterds (2009)

Adventure, Drama, War – 153 min.

Available in selected countries

Recommended VPN Locations: Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain (ExpressVPN, NordVPN, Surfshark), Israel (ExpressVPN), India (NordVPN), Singapore (Surfshark)

Directed and written by Quentin Tarantino and set in the Tarantinoverse, Inglourious Basterds follows a group of Jewish U.S. soldiers planning to assassinate Nazi leaders coinciding with a theatre owner’s vengeful plans as well.

The cast ensemble features Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Eli Roth, Michael Fassbender, Daniel Brühl, and Mélanie Laurent.

11. Dunkirk (2017)

Action, Drama, History – 106 min.

Available in Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Colombia, France, Germany, Mexico, Switzerland, Turkey

Recommended VPN Locations: Belgium, France & Germany.

Directed, written, and co-produced by Christopher Nolan, the film depicts the Dunkirk evacuation of World War II from three perspectives: land, sea, and air.

The movie has an ensemble cast, but the story has no central character, and the dialogues are minimal.

12. American Sniper (2014)

Action, Biography, Drama – 133 min.

Available in selected countries

Recommended VPN Locations: Australia, Israel (ExpressVPN), Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Poland (ExpressVPN, NordVPN, Surfshark)

Directed by Clint Eastwood and loosely based on the memoir American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History (2012) by Chris Kyle, the film follows Kyle’s (Bradley Cooper) life who became the deadliest sniper in U.S. military history.

He served in the Iraq War, and while he was celebrated inside the U.S. military, the weight of the war has affected his personal and family life.

13. Fury (2014)

Action, Drama, War – 134 min.

Available in selected countries

Recommended VPN Locations: Australia (ExpressVPN), Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, Spain, the UK (ExpressVPN, NordVPN, Surfshark), India (NordVPN)

Directed and written by David Ayer (Training Day, Suicide Squad), the film follows tank commander Don ‘Wardaddy’ Collier leading his crew through the final days of World War II in Germany aboard an M4 Sherman “Easy Eight” tank nicknamed Fury.

14. The Imitation Game (2014)

Biography, Drama, Thriller – 114 min.

Available in selected countries

Recommended VPN Locations: Australia (ExpressVPN), Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Poland, Spain (ExpressVPN, NordVPN, Surfshark), India (NordVPN)

During World War II, the legendary cryptanalyst Alan Turing portrayed by Benedict Cumberbatch and his team of code-breakers race against time to decipher the Germans’ Enigma code.

15. Eye in the Sky (2016)

Action, Drama, Thriller – 102 min.

Available in Australia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Malaysia, Romania, and Slovakia

Recommend VPN Locations: Australia (ExpressVPN)

The last film in which Alan Rickman worked before his death.

Eye in the Sky explores the ethical implications of drone warfare. Col. Katherine Powell (Dame Helen Mirren) is a UK-based military officer in command of a top-secret drone operation to capture terrorists in Kenya.

She discovers her mission escalates to the point of generating an ethical conflict between the US and the UK.

16. Zero Dark Thirty (2012)

Drama, History, Thriller – 157 min.

Available in selected countries

Recommended VPN Locations: Belgium, Canada (ExpressVPN, NordVPN, Surfshark), India (NordVPN)

The chronicles of the hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks that ended with his death in 2011 at the hands of the Navy S.E.A.L.s Team 6.

17. The Great Escape (1963)

Adventure, Drama, History – 172 min.

Available in the UK

An epic adventure suspense war film based on the 1950 non-fiction book of the same name by Paul Brickhill. Starred by an ensemble cast with Steve McQueen, James Garner, and Richard Attenborough and featuring James Donald, Charles Bronson, Donald Pleasence, James Coburn, John Leyton, David McCallum and Hannes Messemer.

Although the film portrays a fictionalized version of the facts, overall it follows the events surrounding the mass escape by British Commonwealth prisoners of war from German POW camp Stalag Luft III in Sagan, in the province of Lower Silesia, Nazi Germany.

18. Glory (1989)

Biography, Drama, History – 122 min.

Available in selected countries

Recommended VPN Locations: Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, the UK (ExpressVPN, NordVPN, Surfshark), Israel (ExpressVPN)

Based on the books Lay This Laurel (1973) by Lincoln Kirstein and One Gallant Rush (1965) by Peter Burchard, the film follows the U.S. Civil War’s first all-black volunteer company led by Col.

Robert Gould Shaw (Mattew Broderick) with Denzel Washington and Morgan Freeman playing fictional members of the company. The movie is the first filming role of Denzel Washington.

19. A Bridge Too Far (1977)

Drama, History, War – 175 min.

Available in the United States.

An epic war film based on the 1974 book of the same name, directed by Richard Attenborough.

Starring an ensemble cast with Dirk Bogarde, James Caan, Michael Caine, Sean Connery, Edward Fox, Elliott Gould, Gene Hackman, Anthony Hopkins, Hardy Krüger, Laurence Olivier, Ryan O’Neal, Robert Redford, Maximilian Schell and Liv Ullmann.

The film follows Operation Market Garden, whose goal was to capture several strategically important bridges in the Netherlands to break the German lines.

20. Hacksaw Ridge (2016)

Biography, Drama, History – 139 min.

Available in Belgium, Czech Republic, Hong Kong, Hungary, Japan, the Netherlands, Romania, Slovakia

Recommended VPN Locations: Belgium, Japan, the Netherlands

A biographical war film directed by Mel Gibson and based on the 2004 documentary The Conscientious Objector.

The film follows the World War II experiences of Desmond Doss (Andrew Garfield), an American pacifist combat medic who, as a Seventh-day Adventist Christian, refused to carry or use a weapon or firearm of any kind.

Doss becomes the first man in American history to receive the Medal of Honor without firing a shot. The cast features Sam Worthington, Luke Bracey, Teresa Palmer, Hugo Weaving, Rachel Griffiths, and Vince Vaughn in supporting roles.

21. A Call to Spy (2019)

Biography, Crime, Drama – 123 min.

Available in Canada and the UK.

The film is inspired by the true stories of three women who worked as spies in World War II.

At the beginning of WWII, Churchill ordered his new spy agency to recruit and train women as spies. Their mission is to conduct sabotage and build resistance.

Vera Atkins (Stana Katic) recruits two unusual candidates: Virginia Hall (Sarah Megan Thomas), an American with a wooden leg, and Noor Inayat Khan (Radhika Apte), an Indian Muslim pacifist.

22. Seal Team Six: The Raid on Osama Bin Laden (2012)

Action, Crime, Drama – 90 min.

Available in India.

A TV movie accounting the events behind the Osama Bin Laden hunting by a Navy SEAL group.

23. Midway (2019)

Action, Adventure, Drama – 138 min.

Available in Czech Republic, the Netherlands, Slovakia.

Recommended VPN Locations: the Netherlands.

Directed by Roland Emmerich (Independence Day – Godzilla), the film follows the events of the Battle of Midway, a turning point in the Pacific Theater of World War II.

The ensemble cast features Ed Skrein, Patrick Wilson, Luke Evans, Aaron Eckhart, Nick Jonas, Mandy Moore, Dennis Quaid, Tadanobu Asano, and Woody Harrelson.

The movie has been praised for its historical accuracy in portraying the events.

24. Overlord (2018)

Action, Adventure, Horror – 110 min.

Available in selected countries

Recommended VPN Locations: Australia, Israel (ExpressVPN), Belgium, the UK (ExpressVPN, NordVPN, Surfshark), India (NordVPN), Singapore (Surfshark)

A horror twist to the war genre, where a small group of American soldiers dropped behind enemy lines the day before D-day discover a secret Nazi experiment that unleashes horror.

25. Unbroken (2014)

Action, Biography, Drama – 137 min.

Available globally.

Directed by Angelina Jolie and written by the Coen brothers, the film is based on the 2010 non-fiction book by Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption.

It follows the story of USA Olympian, army officer Louis “Louie” Zamperini (Jack O’Connell), who survived in a raft for 47 days after his bomber crash-landed in the ocean during the Second World War and then he was captured by the Japanese and was sent to a series of prisoner of war camps.

26. Troy (2004)

Drama, History – 163 min.

Available in selected countries

Recommended VPN Locations: Australia, Israel (ExpressVPN), Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Poland (ExpressVPN, NordVPN, Surfshark), India (NordVPN), Singapore (Surfshark)

This epic war movie inspired by Homer’s poem depicts the assault on Troy by the united Greek forces and follows the fate of the men who take part in this.

Brad Pitt as Achilles, Orlando Bloom as Paris, and Eric Bana as Hector are the leading stars.

27. 300 (2007)

Action, Drama – 117 min.

Available in selected countries.

Recommended VPN Locations: Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Poland, Spain

Directed by Zack Snyder and based on Frank Miller’s Graphic Novel, the film is a fictionalized retelling of the Battle of Thermopylae within the Persian Wars.

King Leonidas (Gerard Butler) leads 300 Spartans into battle against the Persian “God-King” Xerxes (Rodrigo Santoro) and his invading army of more than 300,000 soldiers.

The movie was filmed using the superimposition chroma key technique to emulate the graphic style of the comic.

28. Risen (2016)

Action, Drama, History – 107 min.

Available in selected countries

Recommended VPN Locations: France, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands & Spain

Set during the Jew-Roman Wars, it’s 33 AD, and a Roman Tribune in Judea is tasked with the mission of finding the missing body of Jesus Christ, who rose from the dead.

Clavius (Joseph Fiennes) is a non-believer who starts questioning his convictions.

29. Kingdom of Heaven (2005)

Action, Adventure, Drama – 144 min.

Available in Italy.

Directed by Ridley Scott, the film follows Balian de Ibelin (Orlando Bloom), who travels to Jerusalem during the Crusades of the 12th century.

There, he will become a protector and the defender of the city and its people.

30. The King (2019)

Biography, Drama, History – 140 min.

Available globally

A Netflix original production starring Timothée Chalamet (Call Me By Your Name, Lady Bird) in the role of Hal, wayward prince and reluctant heir to the English throne.

But, when his tyrannical father dies, he’s crowned King Henry V, and now he must be part of the life he always denied.

31. Elizabeth The Golden Age (2007)

Biography, Drama, History – 114 min.

Available in selected countries

Recommended VPN Locations: Australia, Israel (ExpressVPN), Belgium, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, the UK (ExpressVPN, NordVPN, Surfshark), India (NordVPN), Singapore (Surfshark)

A sequel to Elizabeth, also directed by Shekhar Kapur and starring Cate Blanchett, Clive Owen, and Geoffrey Rush. Now a mature Queen Elizabeth must face multiple crises, including a war with Spain.

32. The Way Back (2010)

Adventure, Drama, History – 133 min.

Available in Germany

Directed and written by Peter Weir and inspired by the book The Long Walk (1956), the memoir by a former Polish prisoner of war, Sławomir Rawicz.

The film, starring Jim Sturgess, Colin Farrell, Ed Harris, and Saoirse Ronan, with Alexandru Potocean, Sebastian Urzendowsky, Gustaf Skarsgård, Dragoș Bucur and Mark Strong, follows Janusz Wieszczek and his escape from a Soviet Gulag until reaching freedom in India.

33. Centurion (2010)

Action, Drama, History – 97 min.

Available in Australia, Germany, Spain, Switzerland, the UK

Recommended VPN Locations: Australia (ExpressVPN), Germany, Spain, the UK (ExpressVPN, NordVPN, Surfshark)

A French-British historical action-war film written and directed by Neil Marshall and loosely based on the disappearance of the Roman Empire’s Ninth Legion in Caledonia in the early second century CE.

The film features Michael Fassbender (Centurion Quintus Dias) and Andreas Wisniewski (Commander Gratus).

34. The Thin Red Line (1998)

Drama, War – 170 min.

Available in Germany, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Switzerland & Thailand

Recommended VPN Locations: Germany (ExpressVPN, NordVPN, Surfshark), Singapore (Surfshark)

Directed by Terrence Malick, the film is an adaptation of the 1962 novel of the same name by James Jones and follows the events of the conflict at Guadalcanal during the second World War.

The ensemble cast features Sean Penn, Jim Caviezel, Nick Nolte, Elias Koteas and Ben Chaplin.

35. The Siege of Jadotville (2016)

Action, Drama, History – 108 min.

Available globally

An Irish-South African production based on The Siege at Jadotville: The Irish Army’s Forgotten Battle (2005) by Declan Power’s book.

The film follows the events that an Irish Army unit’s role in the UN peacekeeping mission in the Congo in September 1961 went through when they were besieged by overwhelming enemy forces.

36. Forbidden Ground (2013)

Action, Drama, War – 95 min.

Available in the UK

Set in France in 1916, this Australian film follows three British soldiers during World War I on the Western Front who find themselves stranded in No Man’s Land after an abortive assault on the German trenches.

37. The Outpost (2020)

Action, Drama, History – 123 min.

Available in Canada, the Netherlands, the US

Based on the 2012 non-fiction book The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor by Jake Tapper, the story accounts for the events of the Battle of Kamdesh in the war in Afghanistan, where a small team of U.S. soldiers battle against hundreds of Taliban fighters.

38. We Were Soldiers (2002)

Action, Drama, History – 138 min.

Available in Italy and Sweden

Recommended VPN Location: Italy

Based on the book We Were Soldiers Once… and Young (1992) by Lieutenant General (Ret.) Hal Moore and reporter Joseph L. Galloway, this film is set during the Vietnam war and dramatizes the events of the Battle of Ia Drang on November 14, 1965.

The cast features Mel Gibson as Lt. Col. Hal Moore, Greg Kinnear as Maj. Bruce Crandall, and Sam Elliott as Sgt. Maj. Basil Plumley.

39. The Endless Trench (2019)

Action, Drama, History – 147 min.

Available globally

A Spanish historical drama set in Spain in 1936 when the country was taken by fascism. Higinio is marked to be killed and with the help of his wife, Rosa, he hides in a hole underneath their house.

40. The Manchurian Candidate (2004)

Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi – 129 min.

Available in Iceland, India, Italy, Lithuania, Russia, South Korea, Sweden

Recommended VPN Locations: India (NordVPN), Italy (ExpressVPN, NordVPN, Surfshark)

Directed by Jonathan Demme, the film is based on Richard Condon’s 1959 novel of the same name and is a reworking of the previous 1962 film.

Bennett Marco (Denzel Washington) is a tenacious, virtuous soldier who discovers a conspiracy to kidnap soldiers and brainwash them for sinister purposes. Raymond Shaw (Liev Schreiber) is a U.S. Representative from New York, manipulated into becoming a vice-presidential candidate.

U.S. Senator Tom Jordan (Jon Voight) is a challenger for vice president. Eleanor Prentiss Shaw (Meryl Streep), also a U.S. Senator and the manipulative, ruthless mother of Raymond Shaw.

41. Assembly (2007)

Action, Biography, Drama – 124 min.

Available in Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand

Recommended VPN Location: Singapore (Surfshark)

A Hong Kong movie set during the Chinese Civil War that follows an outnumbered unit against Kuomintang troops led by Captain Gu, who must now fight to set the record straight.

42. Operation Finale (2018)

Biography, Drama, History – 122 min.

Available globally

The film stars Oscar Isaac, Ben Kingsley, Lior Raz, Mélanie Laurent, Nick Kroll, and Haley Lu Richardson. It follows the events behind the Israeli Mossad officers capturing former SS officer Adolf Eichmann in 1960.

43. Operation Red Sea (2018)

Action, Drama, Thriller – 142 min.

Available in Spain

Although the movie is set in a fictional country, the events it portrays can be applied to anything happening in the real world.

This Chinese-Hong Kong co-production is loosely based on the evacuation of the 225 foreign nationals and almost 600 Chinese citizens from Yemen’s southern port of Aden during late March in 2015 Yemeni Civil War.

44. 1939 (1989)

Drama – 193 min.

Available in selected countries

Recommended VPN Locations: Belgium, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, the UK.

A Swedish drama set in Stockholm in 1939, where 18-year-old Annika from Värmland comes to work as a waitress and get to experience World War II.

45. My Fuhrer (2007)

Comedy, Drama, War – 89 min.

Available in selected countries

Recommended VPN Locations: Australia, Israel (ExpressVPN), Belgium, Canada, France, Japan, the Netherlands, the UK, the US (ExpressVPN, NordVPN, Surfshark), India (NordVPN), Singapore (Surfshark)

A German comedy set in 1944. It’s New Year’s Eve and Hitler seems to be in a very stressful shape, so following Goebbels’s advice, he accepts a Jewish actor coach to tutor him for the New Year speech.

46. The Zookeeper’s Wife (2017)

Biography, Drama, History – 127 min.

Available in Australia, Belgium, Hong Kong

Recommended VPN Locations: Australia (ExpressVPN), Belgium (ExpressVPN, NordVPN, Surfshark)

Directed by Niki Caro (McFarland, Mulan) and based on Diane Ackerman’s non-fiction book of the same name. The film tells the true story of Jan and Antonina Żabiński and how they hid hundreds of Polish Jews in their Warsaw zoo during World War II to keep them safe from the Germans.

Jessica Chastain, Johan Heldenbergh, Daniel Brühl, and Michael McElhatton are the main stars.

47. Kajaki: The True Story (2014)

Adventure, Biography, Drama – 108 min.

Available in the UK

Also known in the US as Kilo, Two, Bravo, this British war docu-drama is based on the true story of Mark Wright and of a small unit of British soldiers positioned near the Kajaki Dam, a dried-out river bed filled with mines.

48. Beasts of No Nation (2015)

Drama, War – 137 min.

Available Globally

An American-Ghanaian war drama film written, co-produced, shot, and directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga, based on the 2005 novel of the same name by Uzodinma Iweala.

The story follows Agu, a child soldier fighting in the civil war of an unnamed African country.

49. Grave of the Fireflies (1988)

Animation, Drama, War – 89 min.

Available in France, Portugal, Spain

Considered a masterpiece of Japanese animation, the film was directed by the late Isao Takahata, and it’s based on the 1967 semi-autobiographical short story of the same name by Akiyuki Nosaka.

Seita and Setsuko are two orphaned siblings trying to survive in Japan during World War II and in the aftermath of the atomic bomb.

50. In This Corner of the World (2016)

Animation, Drama, Family – 129 min.

Available in selected countries

Recommended VPN Locations: Australia (ExpressVPN), Canada, Germany, Italy, Poland, the UK, the US (ExpressVPN, NordVPN, Surfshark), India (NordVPN)

Based on the acclaimed manga of the same name by Fumiyo Kōno, this animated film was produced by MAPPA and directed by Sunao Katabuchi (Princess Arete, Mai Mai Miracle).

The film is set in the 1930s–1940s in Hiroshima and Kure in Japan and follows 18-year-old Suzu who just married Shusaku. Their peaceful lives are interrupted by war and the consequences of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima.

Summary

War has always been a topic explored in movies and TV series. Although most people connect war movies with military stories, the truth is war movies include a lot of subgenres and explore the topic from multiple angles.

In this list, I’ve curated 50 war movies you can find on Netflix that show different periods in history.

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