After serving in the trenches of World War I, Jean Diaz recoils with such horror that he renounces love and personal pleasure to immerse himself in scientific research, seeking a machine to prevent war. He thinks he has succeeded, but the government subverts his discovery, and Europe slides with seeming inevitability toward World War II. In desperation, Diaz summons the ghosts of the war dead from the graves and fields of France to give silent, accusing protest.

Hiroshimai: 75 Years Later

2020

English

7.3

♡ 8

James Erskine Director

Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 75 Years Later is told entirely from the first-person perspective of leaders, physicists, soldiers and survivors.

Black Rain

1989

Japanese

7.8

♡ 7

52%

55%

Action

atomic bomb

based on novel or book

Drama

hiroshima, japan

husband wife relationship

marriage proposal

War

world war ii

Shôhei Imamura Director

Sabu Kawahara as Kanemaru

Akiji Kobayashi as Katayama

Kazuko Shirakawa as Old Woman with white flag

Kazuo Kitamura as Shigematsu Shizuma

Shigematsu Shizuma, who lives with his family in a village near Fukuyama, was in Hiroshima with his wife and niece just after the devastating atomic bombing, a tragedy that cruelly took the lives of thousands of people and forever marked the harsh existence of the survivors.

The Wind Rises

2013

Japanese

7.8

♡ 48

88%

Hayao Miyazaki Director

Hideaki Anno as Jirô Horikoshi

Maki Shinta as Kayo Horikoshi - Child

Emily Blunt as Nahoko Satomi

Elijah Wood as Sone

A lifelong love of flight inspires Japanese aviation engineer Jiro Horikoshi, whose storied career includes the creation of the A-6M World War II fighter plane.

Pojat

1962

Finnish

7.2

♡ 2

based on novel or book

Mikko Niskanen Director

Tapio Hämäläinen as Kansakoulun pääopettaja

Matti Pellonpää as Koulupoika

Olavi Ahonen as Pastori Pisa

Kaarlo Wilska as Saksalainen sotilas

When Continuation War started in Summer 1941, German soldiers arrived to Oulu. With their charm they conquered women and town boys. Finnish boys communicated with them on many levels: had trades, worked as interpreters, rotated business, spied on German love adventures and fought with each other about the favor of soldiers. In autumn 1944, the war was ending. Germans left Oulu by leaving behind fragile relationships, bastard kids and unfinished businesses. The most shocking of all was the faith of young Jake...

The Purple Plain

1954

English

6.5

♡ 10

60%

struggle for survival

War

world war ii

Robert Parrish Director

Peter Arne as Flight Lieutenant

Anthony Bushell as Group Captain Aldridge

Dorothy Alison as Nurse

Gregory Peck as Squadron Leader Bill Forrester

An RAF airfield in Burma in 1945, during World War II. Canadian bomber pilot Bill Forrester is a bitter man who lives haunted by a tragic past. He has became a reckless warrior, and is feared by his comrades, who consider him a madman. Dr. Harris, the squadron physician, is determined to help him heal his tormented soul.

Head in the Clouds

2004

English

6.5

♡ 23

18%

spanish civil war (1936-39)

War

world war ii

John Duigan Director

Charlize Theron as Gilda Bessé

Amy Sloan as Linda

Karine Vanasse as Lisette

Penélope Cruz as Mia

Gilda Bessé shares her Paris apartment with an Irish schoolteacher, Guy Malyon, and Mia, a refugee from Spain. As the world drifts toward war, Gilda defiantly pursues her hedonistic lifestyle and her burgeoning career as a photographer. But Guy and Mia feel impelled to join the fight against fascism, and the three friends are separated.

Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea

1977

Czech

7.1

♡ 4

90%

changing the past or future

Jindrich Polák Director

Josef Sebek as

Karel Engel as

Viktor Maurer as Accomplice

Josef Vetrovec as Kroupa

Former Nazi Klaus Abard survives to the 1990s by taking anti-ageing pills. He plans to use a time travel trip to return to Germany in 1944 and present Hitler with a hydrogen bomb, so that he can win the war. Unfortunately the pilot, woman-chasing Karel Bures, dies on the morning of the trip and his earnest twin brother Jan impersonates him, without knowing about the plot.

Battle Cry

1955

English

6.4

♡ 2

46%

Raoul Walsh Director

Carleton Young as Maj. Jim Wellman - Battalion Executive Officer

Chuck Hicks as Marine in Hospital

Perry Lopez as Pvt. Joe Gomez - aka Spanish Joe

Gregory Walcott as Sgt. Jim Beller - Drill Instructor

The dramatic story of US Marines in training, in combat, and in love, during World War II. The story centers on a major who guides the raw recruits from their training to combat.

The Young Lions

1958

English

7.1

♡ 21

75%

Edward Dmytryk Director

Gene Roth as Bavarian Café Manager

Maximilian Schell as Capt. Hardenberg

Michael Pataki as Pvt. Hagstrom

Robert Ellenstein as Rabbi Joseph Silverstein

The lives of three young men, a German and two Americans, during WWII.

The Zookeeper's Wife

2017

English

7.0

♡ 116

64%

Niki Caro Director

Jessica Chastain as Antonina Zabinski

Waldemar Kobus as Dr. Ziegler

Daniel Brühl as Lutz Heck

Goran Kostic as Mr. Kinszerbaum

The account of keepers of the Warsaw Zoo, Jan and Antonina Zabinski, who helped save hundreds of people and animals during the Nazi invasion.

Pearl Harbor

2001

English

6.3

♡ 190

24%

Michael Bay Director

Ben Affleck as Capt. Rafe McCawley

William Fichtner as Danny's Father

Kate Beckinsale as Nurse Lt. Evelyn Johnson

Randy Oglesby as Strategic Analyst

The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the two ace fighter pilots become entangled in a love triangle with beautiful Naval nurse Evelyn Johnson. But the rivalry between the friends-turned-foes is immediately put on hold when they find themselves at the center of Japan's devastating attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.

A League of Their Own

1992

English

7.4

♡ 93

82%

Penny Marshall Director

Bill Pullman as Bob Hinson

Tom Hanks as Jimmy Dugan

Téa Leoni as Racine 1st Base

Robert Stanton as Western Union Man

As America's stock of athletic young men is depleted during World War II, a professional all-female baseball league springs up in the Midwest, funded by publicity-hungry candy maker Walter Harvey. Competitive sisters Dottie Hinson and Kit Keller spar with each other, scout Ernie Capadino and grumpy has-been coach Jimmy Dugan on their way to fame.

Underground

1995

Serbian

8.0

♡ 62

86%

Emir Kusturica Director

Ernst Stötzner as Franz / Actor playing Franz

Leonid Brezhnev as Himself

Predrag Manojlovic as Marko / Actor playing Marko

Mirjana Karanovic as Vera

A group of Serbian socialists prepares for the war in a surreal underground filled by parties, tragedies, love and hate.

Rangoon

2017

Hindi

5.6

♡ 6

55%

Vishal Bhardwaj Director

Manav Vij as Bhyro Singh

Richard McCabe as Major General Harding

Shahid Kapoor as Nawab Malik

Saif Ali Khan as Rusi Billimoria

Julia travels to the Indo-Burma border to perform for the troops during the World War II, on the insistence of Billimoria, her lover. She finds herself in love with Jemadar Malik, a soldier there.

Jackboots on Whitehall

2010

English

5.3

♡ 6

44%

Edward McHenry Director

Ewan McGregor as Chris

Timothy Spall as Churchill

Rosamund Pike as Daisy

Richard O'Brien as Himmler

A satirical alternative history of World War II where the Nazis seize London and England must band together to prevent a full on invasion.

The Crossing

2020

Norwegian

6.4

♡ 6

Action

Adventure

based on novel or book

Johanne Helgeland Director

Yazeed Faruja as

Frode Winther as Dypvik

Jonas Kippersund as Grev Svartblod

Adolf Hitler as Self

One day, just before Christmas in 1942, Gerda's and Otto's parents are arrested for being part of the Norwegian resistance movement during the Second World War, leaving the siblings on their own. Following the arrest, they discover two Jewish children, Sarah and Daniel, hidden in a secret cupboard in their basement at home. It is now up to Gerda and Otto to finish what their parents started: To help Sarah and Daniel flee from the Nazis cross the border to neutral Sweden and reunite them with their parents.

The Day Hitler Died

2016

English

7.0

♡ 6

Craig Collinson Director

Mark Strong as Narrator

Charlie Jeffrey as Reconstruction Cast

James Robson as Reconstruction Cast

Traudl Junge as Self

The story of Hitler’s final hours told by people who were there. This special features exclusive forgotten interviews, believed lost for 65 years, with members of Hitler’s inner circle who were trapped with him in his bunker as the Russians fought to take Berlin. These unique interviews from figures such as the leader of the Hitler Youth Artur Axmann and Hitler’s secretary Traudl Junge, have never before been seen outside Germany. Using rarely seen archive footage and dramatic reconstruction, this special tells the story of Adolf Hitler’s final days in his Berlin bunker.

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Head in the Clouds

Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea

Battle Cry

The Young Lions

The Zookeeper's Wife

Pearl Harbor

A League of Their Own

Underground

Rangoon

Jackboots on Whitehall

The Crossing

The Day Hitler Died