In WWII, a squad of U.S. African-American soldiers are sent on a rescue mission behind enemy lines to locate their lost commanding officer and a downed fighter pilot.

City on the River

2020

Latvian

7.0

♡ 1

1940s

Action

based on novel or book

Viesturs Kairiss Director

Imants Slisans as Ansis' Father

Maris Susejs as Bite

Juozas Budraitis as Captain

Guntis Pelna as Mamonov

A Latvian tragicomedy about a young artist who bears witness to the dramatic political upheavals of the WWII era. As brutal regimes come and go, his country, his village, his people, and even his heart are swept up in the inexorable currents of history.

The Ghost Army

2013

English

7.6

♡ 1

74%

Rick Beyer Director

Peter Coyote as Narrator

Dwight D. Eisenhower as Self

Winston Churchill as Self

George S. Patton as Self

During World War II, a hand-picked group of American GI's undertook a bizarre mission: create a traveling road show of deception on the battlefields of Europe, with the German Army as their audience. The 23rd Headquarters Special Troops used inflatable rubber tanks, sound trucks, and dazzling performance art to bluff the enemy again and again, often right along the front lines. Many of the men picked to carry out these dangerous deception missions were artists. Some went on to become famous, including fashion designer Bill Blass. In their spare time, they painted and sketched their way across Europe, creating a unique and moving visual record of their war. Their secret mission was kept hushed up for nearly 50 years after the war's end.

The Dead Nation

6.9

Radu Jude Director

Radu Jude as Narrator

A documentary-essay which shows Costică Axinte's stunning collection of pictures depicting a Romanian small town in the thirties and forties. The narration, composed mostly from excerpts taken from the diary of a Jewish doctor from the same era, tells the rising of the antisemitism and eventually a harrowing depiction of the Romanian Holocaust.

Army of Crime

2009

French

6.7

♡ 6

ss (nazi schutzstaffel)

War

world war ii

Robert Guédiguian Director

Pierre Niney as Henri Keltekian

Virginie Ledoyen as Mélinée Manouchian

Simon Abkarian as Missak Manouchian

Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet as Thomas Elek

This gripping historical drama recounts the story of Armenian-born Missak Manouchian, a woodworker and political activist who led an immigrant laborer division of the Parisian Resistance on 30 operations against the Nazis in 1943. The Nazis branded the group an Army of Crime, an anti-immigrant propaganda stunt that backfired as the team's members became martyrs for the Resistance.

The Silent Village

1943

English

7.0

♡ 2

60%

Humphrey Jennings Director

Arwel Michael as Self

Villagers of Cwmgiedd as Themselves

The true story of the massacre of a small Czech village by the Nazis is retold as if it happened in Wales.

The Cruel Sea

1953

English

7.4

♡ 6

100%

Charles Frend Director

Sam Kydd as Carslake

Aileen Lewis as Lady at Party

Denholm Elliott as Morell

Meredith Edwards as Yeoman Wells

At the start of World War II, Cmdr. Ericson is assigned to convoy escort HMS Compass Rose with inexperienced officers and men just out of training. The winter seas make life miserable enough, but the men must also harden themselves to rescuing survivors of U-Boat attacks, while seldom able to strike back. Traumatic events afloat and ashore create a warm bond between the skipper and his first officer

Absent

2015

Romanian

6.1

♡ 1

Matthew Mishory Director

For over a hundred years, Mărculești was a vibrant Jewish agricultural and mercantile community in Bessarabia (now present-day Moldova). In July 1941, the village was the site of an unimaginable atrocity. Seventy-three years later, few speak honestly or completely about what happened. ABSENT is a cinematic portrait of the ghost village of Mărculești, its current inhabitants, and their very complex relationship to their own history. Filmed entirely on location, the film documents one of Europe's poorest, most remote, and least-visited places.

Bedknobs and Broomsticks

1971

English

7.1

♡ 39

66%

live action and animation

Robert Stevenson Director

Sam Jaffe as Bookman

John Ericson as Col. Heller

Roddy McDowall as Mr. Jelk

Hank Worden as Old Home Guardsman

Three children evacuated from London during World War II are forced to stay with an eccentric spinster. The children's initial fears disappear when they find out she is in fact a trainee witch.

Operation Finale

2018

English

6.6

♡ 50

60%

67%

Action

adolf eichmann

based on a true story

Chris Weitz Director

Ben Kingsley as Adolph Eichmann

Rainer Reiners as Fritz Bauer

Oscar Isaac as Peter Malkin

Haley Lu Richardson as Sylvia Hermann

In 1960, a team of Israeli secret agents is deployed to find Adolf Eichmann, the infamous Nazi architect of the Holocaust, supposedly hidden in Argentina, and get him to Israel to be judged.

Sophie Scholl: The Final Days

2005

German

7.6

♡ 7

87%

Marc Rothemund Director

Franco Moscon as Gestapo Officer

Paul Herwig as Rechtsanwalt August Klein

André Hennicke as Roland Freisler

Maria Hofstätter as Wärterin

In 1943, as Hitler continues to wage war across Europe, a group of college students mount an underground resistance movement in Munich. Dedicated expressly to the downfall of the monolithic Third Reich war machine, they call themselves the White Rose. One of its few female members, Sophie Scholl is captured during a dangerous mission to distribute pamphlets on campus with her brother Hans. Unwavering in her convictions and loyalty to the White Rose, her cross-examination by the Gestapo quickly escalates into a searing test of wills as Scholl delivers a passionate call to freedom and personal responsibility.

My Best Friend Anne Frank

2021

Dutch

6.3

♡ 9

63%

68%

Action

anne frank

based on a true story

based on true story

Drama

world war ii

Ben Sombogaart Director

Balázs Veres as Drunk Officer

Zsolt Trill as Fritz

Björn Freiberg as Officer Bruno

Stefan de Walle as Vader Frank

Based on the real-life friendship between Anne Frank and Hannah Goslar, from Nazi-occupied Amsterdam to their harrowing reunion in a concentration camp.

The Fox

2022

German

7.1

♡ 9

Adrian Goiginger Director

Cornelius Obonya as Doktor

Alexander Beyer as Hauptmann Glück

Pit Bukowski as Jokesch

Karl Markovics as Josef Streitberger

At the dawn of World War II, a young motorcycle courier in the Austrian army encounters a wounded fox cub and takes it with him to occupied France. The soldier and the fox develop an unlikely bond. Based on the true story of Franz Streitberger, director Adrian Goiginger’s great-grandfather.

The Fighter Pilot

2013

Japanese

7.3

♡ 9

Takashi Yamazaki Director

Tarô Suruga as

Takehiro Hira as

Kazue Fukiishi as Keiko

Jun Fubuki as Kiyoko

A brother and sister learn their biological grandfather was a kamikaze pilot who died during World War II. During their research into his life, they get conflicting accounts from his former comrades about his character and how he joined his squadron.

Alien Endgame

2022

English

4.7

♡ 3

central intelligence agency (cia)

Documentary

extraterrestrial technology

interview

job interview

los angeles, california

world war ii

In 2021, a Pentagon report revealed what the US government had denied for decades -- UFOs are real and may even pose a threat to our planet. Now, ex-military members break their silence about the massive cover-up. Are we prepared for an alien invasion?

Barefoot Gen

1983

Japanese

8.0

♡ 15

71%

Mori Masaki Director

Taeko Nakanishi as Hana

Yoshie Shimamura as Kimie

Kôji Yada as Walla

Kôji Totani as Walla

A story about the effect of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on a boy's life and the lives of the Japanese people.

Tom of Finland

2017

Finnish

6.8

♡ 26

83%

Dome Karukoski Director

Jakob Oftebro as Jack

Werner Daehn as Müller

Pekka Strang as Touko Laaksonen aka Tom of Finland

Lauri Tilkanen as Veli

Touko Laaksonen, a decorated officer, returns home after a harrowing and heroic experience serving his country in World War II, but life in Finland during peacetime proves equally distressing. He finds peace-time Helsinki rampant with persecution of the homosexual and men around him even being pressured to marry women and have children. Touko finds refuge in his liberating art, specialising in homoerotic drawings of muscular men, free of inhibitions. His work – made famous by his signature ‘Tom of Finland’ – became the emblem of a generation of men and fanned the flames of a gay revolution.

The Third Part of the Night

1971

Polish

7.3

♡ 25

89%

Andrzej Zulawski Director

Leszek Dlugosz as

Janina Ordezanka as

Jerzy Golinski as Michal's father

Anna Milewska as Sister Klara

Set during the Nazi occupation of Poland, the story follows Michał, who witnesses the murder of his mother, wife and child and then is hurled into a life that literally is not his own; a surreal world littered with trapdoors, doppelgängers and wormholes.

Bawaal

2023

Hindi

6.6

♡ 13

21%

Nitesh Tiwari Director

Varun Dhawan as Ajay Dixit

Manoj Pahwa as Ajju's Father

Mukesh Tiwari as MLA

Janhvi Kapoor as Nisha

Ajay Dixit, an ordinary history teacher in a high school, enjoys mini celebrityhood in his town courtesy of the fake image he has built. He shares a strained relationship with his newly-wed wife. Circumstances force him to take a trip to Europe for the World War II trail accompanied by his wife. Will his relationship with his wife survive this trip? Will he manage to win the war within?

Map of the Human Heart

1992

English

7.0

♡ 7

Adventure

arctic polar circle region

Vincent Ward Director

Anne Parillaud as Albertine

Ben Mendelsohn as Farmboy

Richard Zeman as MP

John Cusack as The Mapmaker

In an Arctic village in 1931, British mapmaker Walter Russell selects 12-year-old Eskimo Avik as his guide. When the boy contracts tuberculosis, Walter flies him to a Montreal hospital, where Avik meets Albertine and is infatuated. A decade later, a grown Avik encounters Albertine again in London, where he's serving as a British combat pilot. Despite her relationship with Walter, she and Avik begin an affair.

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City on the River

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The Cruel Sea

Absent

Bedknobs and Broomsticks

Operation Finale

Sophie Scholl: The Final Days

My Best Friend Anne Frank

The Fox

The Fighter Pilot

Alien Endgame

Barefoot Gen

Tom of Finland

The Third Part of the Night

Bawaal

Map of the Human Heart