World World II: Shortly after D-Day, three American soldiers and two Army Corps nurses are stranded behind enemy lines. They take a high-ranking German officer as their prisoner and try to orchestrate an escape.

The Captive Heart

1946

English

7.0

♡ 11

72%

Basil Dearden Director

Ralph Michael as Capt. Thurston R.A.M.C.

Gordon Jackson as Lieut. Lennox

Basil Radford as Major Ossy Dalrymple

Sam Kydd as POW in Top Bunk

A series of stories about the lives and loves of men in a Prisoner of War camp over five years. The main story is of Hasek (Redgrave) a Czech soldier who needs to keep his identity a secret from the Nazis. To do this, he poses as a dead English Officer and corresponds with the man's wife. Other inmates’ stories are also revealed. Location shooting in the British occupied part of Germany adds believability.

Kokoda: 39th Battalion

2006

English

6.1

♡ 15

71%

Alister Grierson Director

Christopher James Baker as Blue

Jack Finsterer as Jack Scholt

Tom Budge as Johnno

William McInnes as The Colonel

A bitter battle is fought between Australian and Japanese soldiers along the Kokoda trail in New Guinea during World War II.

The Fighting Seabees

1944

English

6.4

♡ 17

100%

Edward Ludwig Director

Robert J. Wilke as Arriving Construction Worker

Addison Richards as Capt. Joyce

Forbes Murray as Navy Surgeon

Ben Welden as Yump Lumkin

Construction workers in World War II in the Pacific are needed to build military sites, but the work is dangerous and they doubt the ability of the Navy to protect them. After a series of attacks by the Japanese, something new is tried, Construction Battalions (CBs=Seabees). The new CBs have to both build and be ready to fight.

Chosen

2016

English

5.3

♡ 43

41%

Jasmin Dizdar Director

Florin Kevorkian as Csendor Policeman 2

Ioachim Ciobanu as German Guard

Jordan Renzo as Robi

Harvey Keitel as Sonson

An unassuming young lawyer leads a fight against the Nazis near the end of the Second World War.

Battleground

1949

English

7.4

♡ 28

78%

William A. Wellman Director

Jean Del Val as French Peasant Man

Douglas Fowley as 'Kipp' Kippton

George Chandler as Mess Sergeant

Bill Erwin as Warrant Officer

Members of the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division are fighting for their country amidst the rugged terrain of Bastogne, Belgium, in December 1944. Holley and his American compatriots have already seen one of their own, Roderigues, perish under enemy fire. The men try to rebuff another series of Nazi attacks, but what they really need is a change in the weather. Without clear skies, they'll never get the air support they need.

Playing for Time

1980

English

7.3

♡ 29

74%

Action

auschwitz-birkenau concentration camp

based on memoir or autobiography

Joseph Sargent Director

Clarence Felder as Commandant Kramer

Marisa Berenson as Elzvieta

Robin Bartlett as Etalina

Melanie Mayron as Marianne

When a Jewish songstress is plucked from the stage and sent to Auschwitz, she and other musicians find themselves assigned to a terrible task—using their talents to soothe fellow prisoners who are sentenced to die in the gas chambers.

The Sea Shall Not Have Them

1954

English

6.3

♡ 8

Action

based on novel or book

Lewis Gilbert Director

James Kenney as Cpl. Skinner

Nigel Patrick as Flight Sgt. Singsby

Jack Watling as Flying Officer Harding

Joan Sims as Hilda Tebbitt

During the autumn of 1944, RAF Hudson, carrying a VIP passenger in possession of highly secret information, is shot down and ditches in the North Sea. Fighting the elements and trying to keep up morale, the occupants of the aircraft's dinghy talk about their lives awaiting the rescue they hope will come. The film's title reflects the motto of the RAF's Air Sea Rescue Service, one of whose high speed launches battles against its own mechanical problems, enemy action, time and the weather to locate and rescue the downed crew and the vital secret papers they carry.

Betrayed

2020

Norwegian

♡ 9

100%

Eirik Svensson Director

Jakob Oftebro as Charles Braude

Carl Martin Eggesbø as Harry Braude

Anders Danielsen Lie as Knut Rød

Mads Ousdal as Sjef for statspolitiet

During World War II, millions of Jews from all over Europe are deported and killed in German concentration camps. When the German troops invade Norway, the Norwegian Jews feel safe and protected. But anti-Semitism knows no borders and as the war escalates in Europe, the situation changes drastically. Suddenly, their radios are taken away; their passports are stamped with a big J and one day, all the men men over the age of 15 are arrested and taken to prisons camps. Many of the women left behind are too frightened to escape and are desperately waiting for their husbands and sons to come back home. On November 26, 1942, hundreds of Jews are picked up by the police in the middle of the night and are transported to the dock in Oslo. Unknowing and frightened men, women, children, sick and old are forced on board the awaiting German cargo ship "SS DONAU". The ship leaves with 532 Norwegian Jews onboard; 302 men, 188 women and 42 children. The end station is Auschwitz.

On the Double

1961

English

6.4

♡ 15

58%

Melville Shavelson Director

Edgar Barrier as Blankmeister

Gregory Walcott as Colonel Rock Houston

Dana Wynter as Lady Margaret MacKenzie-Smith

Diana Dors as Sergeant Bridget Stanhope

American GI Ernie Williams, admittedly weak-kneed, has an uncanny resemblance to British Colonel MacKenzie. Williams, also a master of imitation and disguise, is asked to impersonate the Colonel, ostensibly to allow the Colonel to make a secret trip East. What Williams is not told is that the Colonel has recently been a target of assassins. After the Colonel's plane goes down, the plan changes and Williams maintains the disguise to confuse the Nazis about D-Day.

Summer of '42

1971

English

7.2

♡ 34

78%

Robert Mulligan Director

Jennifer O'Neill as Dorothy

Walter Scott as Dorothy's Husband

Paul Henreid as Jerry Durrance

Christopher Norris as Miriam

Over the summer of 1942 on Nantucket Island, three friends -- Hermie, Oscy and Benjie -- are more concerned with getting laid than anything else. Hermie falls in love with the married Dorothy, whose husband is an army pilot recently sent to the battlefront of World War II.

Slaughterhouse-Five

1972

English

6.8

♡ 17

82%

68%

Action

based on novel or book

Comedy

Drama

husband wife relationship

George Roy Hill Director

Richard Stahl as Army Doctor

Warren Frost as Driver

Eugene Roche as Edgar Derby

Perry King as Robert Pilgrim

Billy Pilgrim, a veteran of the Second World War, finds himself mysteriously detached from time, so that he is able to travel, without being able to help it, from the days of his childhood to those of his peculiar life on a distant planet called Tralfamadore, passing through his bitter experience as a prisoner of war in the German city of Dresden, over which looms the inevitable shadow of an unspeakable tragedy.

Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story

2017

English

7.4

♡ 26

95%

Alexandra Dean Director

Diane Kruger as Herself

Merv Griffin as Himself

Stephen Michael Shearer as Himself

Mel Brooks as Himself

The life and career of the hailed Hollywood movie star and underappreciated genius inventor, Hedy Lamarr.

Wedding in White

1972

English

6.5

♡ 4

78%

Action

Drama

dysfunctional family

parent child relationship

William Fruet Director

Stan Ross as

Donald Pleasence as

Gerald Crack as (as Jerry Crack)

Carol Kane as Jeannie Dougall

A young girl's brother comes home from the army, and brings an army buddy with him. The three of them go out that night to celebrate, and after much drinking has been done, the brother's friend rapes the sister. After the two men have gone back, the girl finds that she's pregnant--and discovers that her parents don't blame the soldier, but blame her.

Brothers of War

2015

English

4.3

♡ 12

55%

Mike Carter Director

Pip Henderson as Betty Davies

Clare Fettarappa as Christabelle Hurot

Gordon Winter as Jacob Jackson

Michael Koltes as Sam Williams

When a bitter rivalry between two brothers finally erupts into bloody, life-changing violence it is younger bother Greg who signs up for frontline battle in France. Greg discovers a world of uncompromising brutality as we follow him on his journey through France at the outbreak of World War 2.

Never So Few

1959

English

5.8

♡ 8

40%

John Sturges Director

Steve McQueen as Bill Ringa

Robert Bray as Col. Fred Parkson

Irene Tedrow as Head Nurse

Charles Bronson as Sgt. John Danforth

A U.S. military troop takes command of a band of Burmese guerillas during World War II.

The Naked and the Dead

1958

English

6.4

♡ 11

83%

Raoul Walsh Director

William Hudson as Major

John Dennis as Master Sgt. - Dispatch Messenger

Robert Gist as Red

Joey Bishop as Roth

Fighting men in World War II learn the value of courage and quickness at the risk of losing their lives.

It Happened Here

1964

English

6.7

♡ 13

71%

nazi collaborationism

Kevin Brownlow Director

Michael Mellinger as Announcer

Sebastian Shaw as Doctor Richard Fletcher

John Herrington as Dr. Westerman

Peter Dyneley as German Officer

World War II, 1940. When the Nazi hordes invade and occupy Great Britain, the English citizens are soon divided between those who choose to submissively collaborate and those who are willing to fight.

Thousand Yard Stare

2018

English

4.0

♡ 29

95%

Action

africa

post traumatic stress disorder

post-traumatic stress disorder

post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd)

sergeant

War

world war ii

Aaron Kurmey Director

Adam Munro as

Kirsten Wendlandt as Barbara Rothach

Chris Krueger as Lt. Pine

Mathieu Bourassa as Pvt. Johnson

Returning home after fighting in Africa during World War II, a soldier with PTSD finds reintegrating with family life increasingly difficult as he relives the battle of Kasserine Pass.

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