Based on a true story. On 27 April 1940, Luftwaffe pilot Horst Schopis' Heinkel 111 bomber is shot down near Grotli by an RAF Blackburn Skua L2940 fighter, which then crash-lands. The surviving German and English crew members begin to shoot at each other, but later find themselves huddled up in the same cabin. In order to survive the harsh winter in the Norwegian wilderness, they have to stand together. An unlikely, lifelong friendship blossoms.

Puppet Master: Axis of Evil

2010

English

4.1

♡ 12

20%

David DeCoteau Director

William Hickey as Andre Toulon

Tom Sandoval as Ben / Max

Levi Fiehler as Danny Coogan

Mike Brooks as Mr. Gifford

Following the murder of Andre Toulon by Nazi assassins during the height of World War II, a young Danny Coogan finds his crate of mysterious puppets, and discovers their plan to attack a secret American manufacturing plant.

The Resistance Banker

2018

Dutch

6.9

♡ 23

75%

Action

based on a true story

Joram Lürsen Director

Götz Schubert as Friedrich Viebahn

Matteo van der Grijn as Huub

Jochum ten Haaf as Jaap Buys

Raymond Thiry as Van den Berg

In the occupied Netherlands during World War II, banker Walraven van Hall is asked to use his financial contacts to help the Dutch resistance. With his brother Gijs, he comes up with a risky plan to take out huge loans and use the money to finance the Resistance.

A Diary for Timothy

1945

English

7.0

♡ 4

56%

Humphrey Jennings Director

John Gielgud as Hamlet

Jennifer as Herself - 5 year-old girl

Elvin Jenkins as Himself - Tim's father

Michael Redgrave as Narrator

A narrator recounts the state of Great Britain near the end of WWII via a visual diary for the titular baby boy born in September 1944.

Miracle at St. Anna

2008

English

6.1

♡ 36

33%

Spike Lee Director

Walton Goggins as Captain Nokes

Waldemar Kobus as Colonel Pflueger

Curt Lowens as Dr. Everton Brooks

John Leguizamo as Enrico

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.

The Codebreaker Who Hacked Hitler

2015

English

7.2

♡ 1

Russell England Director

Brian Deacon as Gordon Welchman

Eric Ellingson as Self - Gordon Welchman's Colleague

Steven Mackintosh as Self - Narrator

Diana Lucy as Self - Welchman Family Friend

Gordon Welchman was one of the original elite codebreakers crucial to the allies defeating the Nazis in World War II. He is the forgotten genius of Bletchley Park.

Hitler's Disastrous Desert War

2021

English

6.5

♡ 1

Yvan Demeulandre Director

Geoffrey Bateman as Self

When the British army looks set to defeat Mussolini’s Italian forces, Hitler sends reinforcements; the Afrika Korps led by General Rommel. The Desert Fox is on winning form until Montgomery, the British commander, sets up a plan to crush his opponent. After the American landing in North Africa, the Axis armies have no choice but to surrender and put an end to the Desert War.

My Favorite War

2020

Latvian

7.4

♡ 2

Ilze Burkovska Jacobsen Director

Ilze Burkovska, a little girl who is obsessed with stories of World War II and will be a filmmaker in a distant future, lives in Latvia under the totalitarian boot of the Soviets and the ominous shadow of the many menaces and horrors of the Cold War.

My Way Home

1965

Hungarian

7.4

♡ 1

Miklós Jancsó Director

Viktor Chekmaryov as

József Madaras as Hadifogoly

Sergey Nikonenko as Kolja

Judit Meszléry as Menekülõ lány

In the aftermath of World War II, a Hungarian teenager, captured by Soviet troops, forms an unlikely bond with a Russian soldier in a remote prison camp.

Under the Blood-Red Sun

2014

English

5.9

♡ 1

based on novel or book

japanese american internment

pearl harbor

War

world war ii

Tim Savage Director

Brandon Marc Higa as Background Talent

Paul S.W. Lee as Background Talent

Tom Holowach as Mr. Wilson

Chris Tashima as Papa Nakaji

December 7, 1941 - TOMIKAZU “TOMI” NAKAJI (Kyler Ki Sakamoto) and his best friend BILLY DAVIS (Kalama Epstein) are playing baseball in a field near their homes in Hawaii when Japan launches a surprise attack on the US at Pearl Harbor. As Tomi looks up at the sky and recognizes the Blood-Red Sun emblem on the fighter planes, he knows that his life has changed forever. Based on actual events, Under the Blood-Red Sun is an unforgettable story of friendship, courage and survival.

The Round Up

2010

French

7.1

♡ 14

96%

Rose Bosch Director

Adèle Exarchopoulos as Anna Traube

Mélanie Laurent as Annette Monod

Jean Reno as Dr. David Scheinbaum

Anne Benoît as Matthey Jouanis

A faithful retelling of the 1942 "Vel' d'Hiv Roundup" and the events surrounding it.

Il Varco - Once More Unto the Breach

2019

Italian

6.5

♡ 2

docudrama

Documentary

experimental narrative

Federico Ferrone Director

Emidio Clementi as Uknown soldier

July, 1941. After the beginning of the German invasion, an Italian soldier, a veteran of the colonial wars, is sent to the Soviet front. As he remembers the fairy tales his Russian mother used to tell him, the train he is travelling in crosses Europe on its way to the vast Ukrainian plains, where the enemy and a cruel winter await him… (Based on the experiences of several Italian soldiers.)

The Night of the Generals

1967

English

7.2

♡ 31

43%

Anatole Litvak Director

Gordon Jackson as Captain Engel

Raymond Gérôme as Colonel

Nigel Stock as Otto

Joanna Pettet as Ulrike

A German intelligence officer investigates a prostitute's killing in Warsaw during World War II. He lands on three major Nazi generals as suspects, two of whom are also involved in a plot to kill Adolf Hitler.

Red Tails

2012

English

5.9

♡ 51

41%

Anthony Hemingway Director

Andre Royo as Antwan 'Coffee' Coleman

Jaime King as Axis Mary

Matthew Marsh as Brigadier General Hauser

Bryan Cranston as Colonel William Mortamus

The story of the Tuskegee Airmen, the first African-American pilots to fly in a combat squadron during World War II.

Stalin's James Bond

2017

German

6.4

♡ 1

Michael Trabitzsch Director

Michael Rotschopf as Actor

Adolf Hitler as Self

Joseph Stalin as Self

Vladimir Haustov as Self - Historian - Moscow

An account of the troubled life of Richard Sorge (1895-1944), a Soviet spy of German origin who played a decisive role in the outcome of World War II.

Against the Sun

2014

English

6.5

♡ 37

78%

Brian Peter Falk Director

Jake Abel as Gene Aldrich

Garret Dillahunt as Harold Dixon

Quinton Flynn as Newsreel Narrator

Tom Felton as Tony Pastula

A WWII pilot, bombardier, and radioman find themselves adrift on a lifeboat without food or water after being forced to ditch their plane during a scouting mission.

Battle of the Bulge

1965

English

6.8

♡ 20

63%

Ken Annakin Director

Hans Christian Blech as Conrad

George Montgomery as Sgt. Duquesne

Telly Savalas as Sgt. Guffy

Charles Bronson as Wolenski

In the winter of 1944, the Allied Armies stand ready to invade Germany at the coming of a New Year. To prevent it, Hitler orders an all-out offensive to re-take French territory and capture the major port city of Antwerp.

The Fleet That Came to Stay

1945

English

6.7

♡ 2

Budd Boetticher Director

Ernie Pyle as Self

A propaganda short film produced by the US Navy in 1945 about the naval engagements of the invasion of Okinawa.

Vengeful 7

5.9

Tristan van Doorn Director

Cedrik Jakobs as German soldier

Tim Kelder as German soldier

Francis Cox as Mr. French

Nils van Buren as Rinus

June 1944. Allied troops have landed in Normandy and are fighting in France. A group of seven Dutch resistance fighters is given an important mission to help the Allied advance. However, the mission goes completely wrong and while the resistance fighters regroup at their hiding place, they begin to suspect that there is a traitor in their midst.