Quick Summary
- Who this is for: History buffs, war movie fans, and anyone who wants a WWII story with real emotional weight and a strong faith undercurrent.
- What it’s about: Four American soldiers and a British pilot try to make it back to Allied lines after surviving the Malmedy Massacre, one of WWII’s darkest moments.
- The short version: You can watch it on Prime Video, Angel Studios, fuboTV, The Roku Channel, Filmzie, and a few other spots — but it’s not on Netflix in the US.
- Our take: If you want a clean, ad-free watch without bouncing between apps, Living Scriptures+ is the easiest way to go, and it comes with a free 30-day trial.
What Saints and Soldiers Is About
If you haven’t seen it, Saints and Soldiers is a 2005 war drama directed by Ryan Little, based on real events from the Battle of the Bulge. After surviving the Malmedy Massacre, where German forces executed dozens of American POWs, four U.S. soldiers and a British RAF pilot find themselves stranded behind enemy lines. They’ve got no way to call for backup and only one working weapon between them, and somehow they need to cross about 20 miles of enemy territory to reach Allied forces — all while carrying intelligence that could save thousands of lives.
What makes it stand out from a typical war movie is how it treats its characters. As the group marches, each soldier opens up about who he is outside the war, including one man wrestling with his faith after what he’s just been through.
It’s tense, it moves fast, but the real heart of the film is what keeps people going when everything around them has fallen apart. It picked up two Independent Spirit Award nominations, including Best First Feature.
Cast: Corbin Allred, Alexander Polinsky, Kirby Heyborne, Larry Bagby, and Peter Holden.
Runtime and rating: About 1 hour 29 minutes, rated PG-13 for war violence, language, and smoking.
Quick Note: Don’t Mix This Up With Airborne Creed
Worth clearing up before you go looking for it: this article is about the original 2005 film. There’s also a 2012 follow-up, Saints and Soldiers: Airborne Creed, which follows a different group of paratroopers during the invasion of southern France. Same franchise, similar tone, but a totally separate story and cast. If you’re after the Malmedy Massacre story specifically, double check whatever platform you land on is showing you the 2005 film and not the sequel.
Is Saints and Soldiers on Netflix?
Nope. Pull it up there and you’ll just get a message saying it’s not available in your region. That’s not a glitch on your end — it simply isn’t part of Netflix’s US catalog right now, so you’ll need to look somewhere else.
Where You Can Actually Watch Saints and Soldiers
Because this is an older independent film, it’s ended up spread across a mix of bigger platforms and a few smaller, niche ones. Here’s what’s out there right now:
- Living Scriptures+ — Buy or rent the film and you’ll get a free 30-day trial of Living Scriptures+, which comes with over 5,000 other family-friendly and faith-based titles.
- Angel Studios — Streaming with an Angel subscription, and one of the more reliable places to find it given the subject matter.
- Amazon Prime Video — Streams free with ads if you’re a Prime member, or you can rent/buy it without a subscription.
- fuboTV — Included if you already have fuboTV.
- The Roku Channel — Free with ads.
- Filmzie — Free with ads.
- Plex — Free with ads through Plex’s ad-supported library.
- Apple TV Store — Rent or buy.
- DVD/Blu-ray — Available through Amazon if you’d rather own a physical copy.
Want to Watch It for Free?
The Roku Channel, Filmzie, Plex, and Amazon Prime Video (assuming you already have Prime) will all let you watch this one without paying extra. The catch, as usual, is ads — none of these are ad-free — and free-tier catalogs tend to shift around without much warning. If you’re planning a specific movie night around this one, it’s worth double-checking it’s still live before everyone sits down.
Rent or Buy — Which Makes More Sense?
Go the Apple TV or Amazon rental route and you’ll pay less upfront, but you only get a short window to watch once you hit play. Buying costs more, but then it’s yours for good. Either way, you’re paying for one movie, one time. If you think you’ll want more WWII dramas or faith-based films down the line, a subscription starts to make a lot more sense financially.
Why We’d Point You Toward Living Scriptures+
Of everywhere you can find this movie, Living Scriptures+ is genuinely the one we’d recommend. A few reasons why:
You get way more than just one movie out of it. Rent it through Amazon or Apple and that’s it — one film, one watch, done. Buy or rent through Living Scriptures and you also unlock a free 30-day trial covering thousands of other titles, plenty of which share the same tone and depth as Saints and Soldiers.
It just fits the film better. Living Scriptures has spent years building a library around stories that take faith, sacrifice, and history seriously — which is exactly what this movie is about. It feels like a better home for it than sitting in a general catalog next to whatever’s trending that week.
No ads, no hoping the free version is still up. The Roku Channel, Filmzie, and Plex are all ad-supported, and titles on free platforms can vanish with little warning. Living Scriptures+ skips all of that.
Better value if you’ll watch more than once. If your household tends to like this kind of movie, paying per rental adds up fast. A trial — and a subscription after, if you decide to keep it — gets you a lot more for close to the same money.
You’re supporting the kind of filmmaking this movie represents. Watching through Living Scriptures helps back independent filmmakers telling honest, faith-and-history-driven stories, which is the same tradition Saints and Soldiers comes out of.
A Few Common Questions
Is Saints and Soldiers based on a true story? Yes — it’s based on real events tied to the Malmedy Massacre during the Battle of the Bulge.
Who directed it? Ryan Little, and the film picked up two Independent Spirit Award nominations, including Best First Feature.
Is this the same movie as Airborne Creed? No, that’s a separate 2012 sequel with a different cast and story, set during the invasion of southern France.
Is it okay for teens to watch? It’s rated PG-13 for war violence, some language, and smoking, so it leans toward older kids and up.
Where can I watch it for free? The Roku Channel, Filmzie, Plex, and Amazon Prime Video (if you already have Prime) all currently have it at no extra cost.
What’s genuinely the best way to watch it? Living Scriptures+ — free 30-day trial, no ads, and a library full of similar historical and faith-based titles worth exploring afterward.
Bottom Line
There’s no shortage of ways to watch Saints and Soldiers — you could stream it free on Roku tonight if you wanted to. But if you’re after the best overall experience, without ads, without hunting through catalogs that might not have it next week, and on a platform built around the same values this film explores, Living Scriptures+ is worth starting with. The free 30-day trial makes it easy to watch this one and see what else is sitting in their library.
