War Screenplays for Sale
Browse 5 professional war screenplays in the ScriptLix catalog. Each script is evaluated for cast size, location count, VFX needs, and overall producibility before publication. Read free sample pages, compare ratings, and choose the edition that fits your project — Reader, Producer, or Collector.
War screenplays in the catalog
- RATION ROLLS
Sergeant Jonah Pike has been a prisoner at Andersonville for seven months and has watched the camp kill thirteen thousand men through starvation, disease, and deliberate neglect. When he traces a foul
95 pages - THE RJUKAN OPERATION
Knut Hauge is a schoolteacher before the war, a commando after. His team parachutes onto the Hardanger Plateau in the winter of 1943 with orders to destroy the Vemork facility before the Nazis can fin
108 pages - THE FINE PRINT
Mr. Halvorsen served in Desert Storm and has been teaching American history at Millwood High School for eighteen years. The Army recruiters who set up tables in his cafeteria are not exactly lying to
101 pages - THE CITATION
Thomas Reed has spent his life in the shadow of Major General William Reed, whose citation for the battle of Qayyarah is taught at the academy. When Sergeant Elias Vance, one of the last survivors of
110 pages - TUSKEGEE
Captain Marcus Davis flies bomber escort out of Ramitelli in 1944. When his wingman puts a burst into his engine at twenty thousand feet, Marcus survives the crash and wakes up in a barn surrounded by
115 pages
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RATION ROLLS
Andersonville prison camp, 1864. A Union sergeant organizing an escape discovers the camp has been feeding prisoners the flesh of their own dead. When a riot erupts, he has to choose between running and exposing a crime so terrible no one on either side will admit it happened.
95 pages
THE RJUKAN OPERATION
A Norwegian commando team arrives at a Nazi heavy water plant to blow it up. The building is already wired with explosives. A German physicist says he has defected. His radio transmits to Moscow. One of them is lying, and the war depends on which one.
108 pages
THE FINE PRINT
James Halvorsen has been teaching American history at Millwood High School for eighteen years and has been keeping a private record of every Millwood graduate who enlisted in the United States military since 2013. When a former student is denied his GI Bill educational benefit on a paperwork technicality the recruiter never mentioned, Halvorsen begins sharing his record with families. Sergeant First Class Ryan Carter, the recruiter, recognizes Halvorsen at a diner one night and realizes that twenty two years earlier, they were on the same convoy outside Tikrit. The American Legion calls for Halvorsen's resignation. The school board holds a hearing. The film closes with two veterans, alone in a parking lot, finally talking the way they should have been talking from the beginning.
101 pages
THE CITATION
A West Point cadet idolizes his father, a Medal of Honor recipient from Fallujah. Then a dying veteran contacts him and says the ambush happened, but the hero did not. His father's medal is covering a cover up.
110 pages
TUSKEGEE
A Tuskegee Airman is shot down over Italy by his own wingman on the orders of a racist colonel. The Italian partisans who find him will not believe a Black man could be an American pilot. To prove his identity he has to expose a secret that will destroy the only program giving men like him a chance to fly.
115 pages