Historian James Bulgin reveals the origins of the Holocaust in the German invasion of the Soviet Union, exploring the mass murder, collaboration and experimentation that led to the Final Solution.

The Corporal and Others

1965

Hungarian

8.3

86%

Márton Keleti Director

Tamás Major as Albert

Iván Darvas as Gálfy Eduárd zászlós

József Fonyó as Német katona

László Márkus as Obersturmführer

PFC Molnár decides his WWII services are over, and with serious money hidden in his hand grenades, he heads to an abandoned mansion where he encounters not only the sour butler but a bunch of others who also try to wimp out of their duties.

Fat Man and Little Boy

1989

English

6.5

♡ 18

50%

Roland Joffé Director

Jim True-Frost as Donald Hornig

Mary Pat Gleason as Dora Welsh

Paul Newman as General Leslie R. Groves

John Williams as Mack Stoddard

Assigned to oversee the development of the atomic bomb, Gen. Leslie Groves is a stern military man determined to have the project go according to plan. He selects J. Robert Oppenheimer as the key scientist on the top-secret operation, but the two men clash fiercely on a number of issues. Despite their frequent conflicts, Groves and Oppenheimer ultimately push ahead with two bomb designs — the bigger "Fat Man" and the more streamlined "Little Boy."

Hell Is for Heroes

1962

English

6.9

♡ 19

86%

Don Siegel Director

Mike Kellin as Pvt. Kolinsky

Steve McQueen as Reese

Harry Guardino as Sgt. Larkin

Chuck Hicks as Wounded Prisoner

World War II drama where the action centers around a single maneuver by a squad of GIs in retaliation against the force of the German Siegfried line. Reese joins a group of weary GIs unexpectedly ordered back into the line when on their way to a rest area. While most of the men withdraw from their positions facing a German pillbox at the far side of a mine-field, half a dozen men are left to protect a wide front. By various ruses, they manage to convince the Germans that a large force is still holding the position. Then Reese leads two of the men in an unauthorized and unsuccessful attack on the pillbox, in which the other two are killed; and when the main platoon returns, he is threatened with court-martial. Rather that face the disgrace, and in an attempt to show he was right, he makes a one-man attack on the pillbox.

Hitler's Teen Killers

2020

French

6.2

♡ 2

ss (nazi schutzstaffel)

Julien Johan Director

Ken Starcevic as Self

They grew up under the Nazi regime. They pledged to give their lives for Hitler. They were fanatics who would not be stopped. They were the 20,000 teenagers who made up the 12th SS Panzer Division. Unleashed in France to halt the Allied invasion, they would sow terror and destruction in their wake. Historical colorized archives and a handful of survivors tell us this story.

Nazi Death Camp: The Great Escape

2014

English

5.6

♡ 1

Action

concentration camp

concentration camp prisoner

Documentary

History

holocaust (shoah)

holocaust (shoah) survivor

nazi

War

world war ii

Hereward Pelling Director

Semyon Rozenfeld as Self

Damien Lyne as Self - Narrator

William Ludwig as SS Officer Frenzel

Bartosz Stanislawek as Toivi blatt

The secret Nazi death camp at Sobibor was created solely for the mass extermination of Jews. But on the 14th October 1943, in one of the biggest and most successful prison revolts of WWII, the inmates fought back.

Nazi Sunken Sub

2012

English

6.2

♡ 3

Documentary

sunken submarine

world war ii

For nearly seventy years the fate of the lost Nazi submarine U-745 remained a mystery. After a decade of painstaking research and exploration, a Finnish diving team has finally solved the riddle.

Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror

1942

English

6.4

♡ 6

53%

John Rawlins Director

Donald Stuart as Grady - Basement Dive Doorkeeper

Hillary Brooke as Jill Grandis - Driver

Thomas Gomez as Meade

Edgar Barrier as Voice of Terror

England, at the start of World War Two. Mysterious wireless broadcasts, apparently from Nazi Germany are heard over the BBC. They warn of acts of terror in England, just before they take place. Baffled, the Defense Committee call in Sherlock Holmes.

De Gaulle

2020

French

♡ 6

40%

british prime minister

Drama

german occupation of france

Gabriel Le Bomin Director

Lambert Wilson as Charles de Gaulle

Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu as Hélène de Portes

Claudine Acs as Jeanne de Gaulle

Andrew Bicknell as Le général Edward Spears

Paris, June 1940. The de Gaulle couple is confronted with the military and political collapse of France. Charles de Gaulle joins London while Yvonne, his wife, finds herself with her three children on the road of the exodus.

Price for Peace

2002

English

7.5

♡ 3

James Moll Director

Adolf Hitler as Self

Bob Hope as Self

Douglas MacArthur as Self

Isoroku Yamamoto as Self

This powerful and thought provoking film chronicles the compelling events in the Pacific Theater of WWII, from the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941 to the American occupation of Japan in 1945. It depicts the strength and courage of America's youth, while examining how these men and women dealt with being thrust into this brutal war. The film includes interviews with war veterans, both American and Japanese, from all branches of the military. It features testimony from medics, nurses, dog handlers, as well as Japanese-Americans who were imprisoned at internment camps in the United States. The film also includes a first hand account of the tragic impact of the atomic bomb on Japanese citizens. Among the veterans who appear is Zenji Abe, a Japanese veteran who flew the mission to bomb Pearl Harbor, and retired General Paul Tibbets who flew the mission to bomb Hiroshima.

Operation Pacific

1951

English

6.6

♡ 9

20%

George Waggner Director

Kathryn Givney as Cmdr. Steele

Paul Picerni as Jonesy

Carleton Young as Pilot Briefing Officers on Carrier

William Campbell as The Talker

During WWII, Duke E. Gifford is second in command of the USS Thunderfish, a submarine which is firing off torpedoes that either explode too early or never explode at all. It's a dilemma that he'll eventually take up personally. Even more personal is his quest to win back his ex-wife, a nurse; but he'll have to win her back from a navy flier who also happens to be his commander's little brother.

Reach for the Sky

1956

English

7.2

♡ 9

80%

Lewis Gilbert Director

Jack Watling as Peel

Nigel Green as Streatfield

Sam Kydd as Warrant Officer Blake

Howard Marion-Crawford as 'Woody' Woodhall

The true story of airman Douglas Bader who overcame the loss of both legs in a 1931 flying accident to become a successful fighter pilot and wing leader during World War II.

As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me

2001

German

7.3

♡ 14

82%

transport of prisoners

Hardy Martins Director

André Hennicke as Bauknecht

Michael Mendl as Dr. Stauffer

Anatoliy Kotenyov as Oberleutnant Kamenev

Hans Peter Hallwachs as Onkel Baudrexel

The German soldier Clemens Forel - determined to be reunited with his beloved family - makes a dramatic escape through bitter cold winters, desolate landscapes, and life threatening ventures from a Siberian labor camp after World War II. 8000 miles and three endless years of uncertainty later, he is finally about to reach his destination... An edge of your seat drama that celebrates the power of the human spirit and the force of will, while inspired and impowered by love.

The Devil Strikes at Night

1957

German

7.2

♡ 2

1940s

based on magazine, newspaper or article

Robert Siodmak Director

Mario Adorf as Bruno Lüdke

Ernst Fritz Fürbringer as Dr. Schleffien

Claus Holm as Kommissar Axel Kersten

Friedrich Joloff as Radiostimme

Hamburg, Germany, 1944, during World War II. A serial killer terrorizes the city. When it seems clear that the local police are unable to catch him, forces as dark and terrible as the criminal himself become involved in the case.

The Hidden Child

2013

Swedish

6.0

♡ 2

42%

Crime

Thriller

world war ii

Per Hanefjord Director

Jan Malmsjö as Axel Frankel

Inga Landgré as Britta Johansson

Anders Nyström as Erik Frankel

Fridtjov Såheim as Hans-Erik Olavsen

Erica's parents are killed in a traffic accident. She moves to Fjällbacka and discovers she has a brother.

Letters from Iwo Jima

2006

English

7.8

♡ 84

91%

Clint Eastwood Director

Tsuyoshi Ihara as Baron Nishi

Ken Watanabe as General Kuribayashi

Hiroshi Watanabe as Lieutenant Fujita

Ryô Kase as Shimizu

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.

Codebreaker

2011

English

7.0

♡ 19

84%

Clare Beavan Director

Ed Stoppard as Alan Turing

Henry Goodman as Franz Greenbaum

Samuel West as Himself - Narrator

Paul McGann as Himself - Narrator

Alan Turing is the genius British mathematician who was instrumental in breaking the German naval Enigma Code during World War II, arguably saving millions of lives. Turing's achievements went unrecognised during his lifetime. Instead he ended up being treated as a common criminal, for being homosexual at a time when homosexual acts were a crime. In 1952, he was convicted of 'gross indecency' with another man and was forced to undergo so-called 'organo-therapy' - chemical castration. Two years later, he killed himself with cyanide, aged just 41. Alan Turing was driven to a terrible despair and early death by the nation he'd done so much to save.

The Chalice of Blood

2022

Finnish

4.7

♡ 5

Jarno Elonen Director

Jarno Elonen as Isä Stefano Lombardus

Jevgeni Haukka as Lugan kylänvanhin / metropoliitta Sergei

Slava Dugin as MG-42 -ampuja / sotilas

Kirill Wilen as Partisaanijohtaja

During the final years of the World War II, Finnish sergeant Myllykoski and his fellow soldiers are forced to join the notorious Waffen-SS on a mission to find a mythical medieval chalice in the Soviet Union.

Radio Days

1987

English

7.4

♡ 27

92%

Woody Allen Director

Seth Green as Joe

Wallace Shawn as Masked Avenger

Diane Keaton as New Year's Singer

William H. Macy as Radio Voice

The Narrator tells us how the radio influenced his childhood in the days before TV. In the New York City of the late 1930s to the New Year's Eve 1944, this coming-of-age tale mixes the narrator's experiences with contemporary anecdotes and urban legends of the radio stars.

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Price for Peace

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