Having been discharged from the Marines for a hayfever condition before ever seeing action, Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith delays the return to his hometown, feeling that he is a failure. While in a moment of melancholy, he meets up with a group of Marines who befriend him and encourage him to return home to his mother by fabricating a story that he was wounded in battle with honorable discharge.

Bones of Crows

2022

English

6.8

♡ 4

95%

roman catholic church

world war ii

Marie Clements Director

Glen Gould as Matthew Spears

Cara Gee as Percy Whallach

Karine Vanasse as Sister Ruth

Alanis Obomsawin as TRC Film Director

Cree matriarch Aline Spears survives a childhood in Canada’s residential school system to continue her family’s generational fight in the face of systemic starvation, racism, and sexual abuse. She uses her uncanny ability to understand and translate codes into working for a special division of the Canadian Air Force as a Cree code talker in World War II. The story unfolds over 100 years with a cumulative force that propels us into the future.

The Eagle Has Landed

1976

English

6.9

♡ 35

71%

67%

Action

Adventure

based on novel or book

John Sturges Director

Robert Duvall as Colonel Radl

John Standing as Father Verecker

Jenny Agutter as Molly

Michael Caine as Oberst Kurt Steiner

When the Nazi high command learns in late 1943 that Winston Churchill will be spending time at a country estate in Norfolk, it hatches an audacious scheme to kidnap the prime minister and spirit him to Germany for enforced negotiations with Hitler.

All Through the Night

1942

English

7.1

♡ 5

100%

Vincent Sherman Director

Kenneth Gibson as Club Patron

Barton MacLane as Marty Callahan

William Hopper as Reporter

Ben Welden as Smitty

Broadway gamblers stumble across a plan by Nazi saboteurs to blow up an American battleship.

Ivan's Childhood

1962

Russian

8.0

♡ 42

100%

Andrei Tarkovsky Director

Ivan Savkin as (as I. Savkin)

Vladimir Marenkov as (as V. Marenkov)

Irina Tarkovskaya as Ivan's Mother

Andrey Konchalovskiy as Soldier with glasses

In WW2, twelve year old Soviet orphan Ivan Bondarev works for the Soviet army as a scout behind the German lines and strikes a friendship with three sympathetic Soviet officers.

Come See the Paradise

1990

English

6.7

♡ 10

64%

Alan Parker Director

David Carpenter as Army Captain

Dennis Quaid as Jack McGurn

Tamlyn Tomita as Lily Yuriko Kawamura / McGann

Kim Robillard as Road Block Soldier

In this drama from director Alan Parker, on-the-lam Jack McGurn flees to Los Angeles and takes a job as a projectionist at a movie theater owned by a Japanese-American man. Jack falls for the owner's daughter, Lily, but they are forced to elope to Seattle when her father forbids the relationship. The couple marry and have a daughter, but when World War II breaks out, Jack is powerless to stop his new family's forced internment.

Australia

2008

English

6.6

♡ 88

53%

Baz Luhrmann Director

Ben Mendelsohn as Captain Dutton

Bruce Spence as Dr. Barker

Hugh Jackman as Drover

Nicole Kidman as Lady Sarah Ashley

Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch reluctantly pacts with a stock-man in order to protect her new property from a takeover plot. As the pair drive 2,000 head of cattle over unforgiving landscape, they experience the bombing of Darwin by Japanese forces firsthand.

The Bunker

1981

English

6.8

♡ 10

55%

George Schaefer Director

Anthony Hopkins as Adolf Hitler

Susan Blakely as Eva Braun

Terrence Hardiman as Gen. Fegelein

Robert Pugh as Turnow

Dramatization depicting the events surrounding Adolf Hitler's last weeks in and around his underground bunker in Berlin before and during the battle for the city.

Philadelphia Experiment II

1993

English

4.5

♡ 7

Stephen Cornwell Director

Brad Johnson as David Herdeg

Cyril O'Reilly as Decker

David Wells as Pinstripes

James Jude Courtney as Vortex Technician

It is several years after the events of the first movie, and David Herdeg (the survivor of the Philadelphia Experiment from the first film) and Allison (the woman from 1984 he fell in love with) have married and have a child. David awakes, in agony, to a changed world. Germany won World War II and the United States is now about to mark 50 years as a Nazi conquest.

Eye of the Needle

1981

English

7.1

♡ 18

85%

75%

Action

based on novel or book

d-day

husband wife relationship

Richard Marquand Director

Philip Martin Brown as Billy Parkin

Ian Bannen as Godliman

Sam Kydd as Lock Keeper

Bill Nighy as Squadron Leader Blenkinsop

Great Britain, 1944, during World War II. Relentlessly pursued by several MI5 agents, Henry Faber the Needle, a ruthless German spy in possession of vital information about D-Day, takes refuge on Storm Island, an inhospitable, sparsely inhabited island off the coast of northern Scotland.

Tanks for Stalin

♡ 6

Kim Druzhinin Director

Aglaya Tarasova as

Oleg Senchenko as

Andrey Merzlikin as Mikhail Koshkin

Igor Grabuzov as The Man with Beard

A prototype of a new cutting edge tank is being taken on a secret mission to Moscow, to Comrade Stalin. Soon the cross-country run turns into a ruthless race. Followed by Nazis, the tanks' team defeats their pursuers and proves the great ability and vast superiority of the machine that is about to become a legendary T-34.

Tankers

2018

Russian

5.6

♡ 5

Konstantin Maksimov Director

Sergei Halturin as

Olga Pogodina as Pavla Chumak

Vladimir Epifantsev as Sgt. Siitov

Roman Madyanov as (uncredited)

The film is based on the true story about a Soviet KV-1 crew of a Soviet KV-1 tank, under the command of Semyon Konovalov , whom despite being heavily outnumbered by German forces, destroyed 16 tanks, 2 armored vehicles and 8 other enemy vehicles at the village of Nizhnemytyakin, Tarasovsky district, Rostov region on July 13th, 1942.

I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians

2018

Romanian

7.3

♡ 4

92%

Radu Jude Director

Sofia Nicolaescu as

Ilinca Harnut as

Gabriel Spahiu as

Mihai Niculescu as

"I do not care if we go down in history as barbarians." These words, spoken in the Council of Ministers of the summer of 1941, started the ethnic cleansing on the Eastern Front. The film attempts to comment on this statement.

Black Book

2006

Dutch

7.7

♡ 49

77%

Paul Verhoeven Director

Garrick Hagon as British General

Derek de Lint as Gerben Kuipers

Waldemar Kobus as Günther Franken

Michiel Huisman as Rob

In the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II, a Jewish singer infiltrates the regional Gestapo headquarters for the Dutch resistance.

Come Out Fighting

2022

English

3.7

♡ 20

Steven Luke Director

Tyrese Gibson as

Kellan Lutz as Lieutenant Frank Ross

Dolph Lundgren as Major Chase Anderson

Michael Jai White as Sergeant AJ 'Red' McCarron

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.

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