Movie | United States | 08/21/2009 | War | World War II
In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as \The Basterds\ are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds, lead by Lt. Aldo Raine soon cross paths with a French-Jewish teenage girl who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers.
Movie | United States | 12/19/2006 | War | World War II
The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of the Japanese who fought it.
Movie | Czech Republic | 09/04/2008 | War | World War II
It is the story of Jiri and Jan, two Czech soldiers, battling alongside the allied forces against the Germans, during World War II in Tobruk, Libya. Jiri Pospichal, eighteen years old, signs up as a volunteer in the Czechoslovak army. His naive ideas about heroism are rawly confronted with the hell of the African desert, complicated relationships in his unit and the ubiquitous threat of death.
Movie | United States | 10/19/2006 | War | World War II
There were five Marines and one Navy Corpsman photographed raising the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi by Joe Rosenthal on February 23, 1945. Flags of Our Fathers is the story of three of the six surviving servicemen, John Doc Bradley (Ryan Phillippe), Pvt. Rene Gagnon (Jesse Bradford), and Pvt. Ira Hayes (Adam Beach), who fought in the battle to take Iwo Jima. Flags of Our Fathers is the American viewpoint of Eastwood's diptych on the battle of Iwo Jima, the other being Letters From Iwo Jima
Movie | United States | 12/31/2008 | War | World War II
During World War II, four Jewish brothers escape their Nazi-occupied homeland of West Belarus in Poland and join the Soviet partisans to combat the Nazis. The brothers begin the rescue of roughly 1,200 Jews still trapped in the ghettos of Poland. Based on a true story.
Movie | Russia | 11/03/2005 | War | World War II
The film is based on the true story of Captain Marinesku and set in 1944 during WWII at the Russian Navy Base. Young and beautiful Tanka is in love with Aleksandr Marinin, the brave Captain of the Russian submarine. He is under the KGB surveillance, and his life is at risk. He takes his boat to fight the Nazi fleet, and he cannot come back home without a victory.
Movie | Norway | 03/06/2012 | War | World War II
Into the White is an anti-war movie. High above the harsh Norwegian wilderness, English and German pilots shoot each other to the ground after a violent chance encounter. Isolated, they must fight to survive the brutal winter. Though war has made them enemies, antagonism is hard to maintain as days go by. Through mutual need, unlikely friendships bloom. Somehow, they become comrades. War, after all, is absurd.
Movie | United States | 02/26/2013 | War | World War II
American soldiers lost behind enemy lines during the WWII make a horrific discovery: Hitler has a super bomb in development. Against all odds, they set out to find the scientist in charge of the program who is looking to defect.
Movie | Poland | 09/01/2007 | War | World War II
Movie | United States | 01/19/2012 | War | World War II
The story of the Tuskegee Airmen, the first African-American pilots to fly in a combat squadron during World War II.
Movie | United States | 08/12/2005 | War | World War II
The Great Raid is an inspirational true story of one of the most triumphant rescue missions during World War II. As the war rages, the elite 6th Ranger Battalion is given a mission of heroic proportions: push 30 miles behind enemy lines and liberate over 500 prisoners of war.
Movie | Russia | 10/09/2013 | War | World War II
Drama set in 1942, during one of the most important battles of World War II, which stopped the progress of Nazi forces and turned the tide of war in favor of the Allies. The Soviet army mounts a counter-attack on the Nazi forces that occupy half of Stalingrad on the other side of the Volga, but the operation to cross the river is unsuccessful. A few soldiers who managed to get to the other side take refuge in a house on the bank of Volga. Here they find a girl who didn’t escape when the Germans came. While the whole might of the German army descends onto them, the heroes of Stalingrad experience love, loss, joy and the sense of ultimate freedom that can only be felt by those about to die. They defend the house at all costs while the Red Army prepares for another attack.
Movie | United Kingdom | 05/07/2004 | War | World War II
Movie | United States | 09/15/2008 | War | World War II
Miracle at St. Anna chronicles the story of four American soldiers who are members of the all-black 92nd Buffalo Soldier Division stationed in Tuscany, Italy during World War II.
Movie | Czech Republic | 01/01/2011 | War | World War II
Movie | Germany | 09/20/2012 | Thriller | World War II
After her Nazi parents are imprisoned, Lore leads her younger siblings across a war-torn Germany in 1945. Amidst the chaos, she encounters mysterious Jewish refugee Thomas, who shatters her fragile reality with hatred and desire. To live, she must trust someone she was taught to hate and face the darkness within herself.
Movie | Germany | 03/21/2012 | Drama | World War II
Movie | France | 01/18/2012 | Drama | World War II
The true story of a nun who betrayed a network of Resistance fighters after having a passionate but doomed love affair with a priest during the Second World War.
Movie | Germany | 11/10/2005 | Drama | World War II
Movie | Czech Republic | 03/15/2009 | Drama | World War II
Movie | France | 09/06/2008 | Drama | World War II
Movie | United Kingdom | 12/07/2012 | Drama | World War II
A young woman finds out that her mother worked as a spy for the British Secret Service during World War II and has been on the run ever since.
Movie | Germany | 11/24/2011 | Drama | World War II
Hannah, a young Jewish girl, is rescued from a concentration camp by her Polish boyfriend, and believes he died after their perilous escape. More than 30 years later, the married Hannah faces an emotional crisis when she learns he's alive.
Movie | Netherlands | 01/27/2011 | Drama | World War II
Waldemar Nods, a young man from Suriname, meets the older Dutch woman Rika van der Lans and they fall in love. In pre-WWII Netherlands they could not be more different. The one black, the other white, 17 years between them and on top of that Rika already has four children with another man. They love each other, but then Rika appears to be pregnant...
Movie | France | 10/13/2010 | Drama | World War II
On the night of 16 July 1942, ten year old Sarah and her parents are being arrested and transported to the Velodrome dHiver in Paris where thousands of other jews are being send to get deported. Sarah however managed to lock her little brother in a closed just before the police entered their appartment.Sixty years later, Julia Jarmond, an American journalist in Paris, gets the assignment to write an article about this raid, a black page in the history of France. She starts digging archives and through Sarahs file discovers a well kept secret about her own in-laws.
Movie | United Kingdom | 05/31/2009 | Drama | World War II
This powerful follow-up to “The Gathering Storm” follows Churchill from 1940 to 1945 as he guided his beleaguered nation through the crucible of the war years--even as his marriage was encountering its own struggles.
Movie | France | 09/15/2010 | Drama | World War II
A theater projectionist's daughter is involved in the Resistance in WWII, but she doesn’t share his political involvement & only believes in passion. She follows the men she loves unconditionally, suffering betrayal and hardship.
Movie | Poland | 05/25/2010 | Drama | World War II
An atmospheric coming-of-age story featuring an imaginative young boy named Marek who dreams of escaping an increasingly dangerous Poland on the eve of war for beautiful Venice.
Movie | France | 03/26/2003 | Comedy | World War II
Lucien, 14, can’t understand why his father, a serious and respected teacher, makes a fool of himself by dressing up as a clown and giving a show. André, Lucien’s father’s best friend, feels for the teenager and decides to reveal something from their mutual past that will explain the reason for Lucien’s father’s strange behavior.
Movie | Croatia | 07/16/2011 | Drama | World War II
It’s inspiring true story about two thirteen-year-old girls who were, on the eve of World War II, great dancing and acting stars in Zagreb. Selling out theatre venues, they were praised in the most superb headlines by the Croatian and European press. They were filmed by Parisian Pathe and Berlin’s UFA…\r During the Nazi persecution of Jews and the later German nationals’ flight from communists, a dramatic friendship was born through entertainment, dance, but also anxiety. This led towards an unexpected end.