WWII has ended and Hanna is still grieving over her husband's disappearance. When the Christmas Comet appears for the first time in 70 years, Hanna is caught in a terrible storm and knocked unconscious. When she wakes up, she's in 2016.

13 Hours That Saved Britain

2010

English

6.2

♡ 4

Stephen Saunders Director

Nicholas Parsons as Self - Eyewitness, age 16

Mary Sterry as Self - Eyewitness, age 18

Vera Lynn as Self - Eyewitness, age 23

Arthur White as Self - Eyewitness, age 6

In this documentary, experts dissect the Battle of Britain, which took place on Sept. 15, 1940 — a day that determined the fate of the nation.

Lola

2022

English

♡ 14

98%

Andrew Legge Director

Lorcan Cranitch as Major General Norbury

John F. Kennedy as Self

Nelson Mandela as Self

Nick Dunning as Television Newsreader

Sussex, England, 1938. Shortly before the outbreak of World War II, Thomasina and Martha Hanbury, two ingenious sisters, create LOLA, a miraculous machine.

The Small Back Room

1949

English

7.1

♡ 13

92%

Michael Powell Director

Michael Gough as Capt. Dick Stuart

Sam Kydd as Crowhurst - Door Sentry

Geoffrey Keen as Pinker

David Farrar as Sammy Rice

As the Germans drop explosive booby-traps on 1943 Britain, the embittered expert who'll have to disarm them fights a private battle with alcohol.

Maruta 2: Laboratory of the Devil

1992

Chinese

4.4

♡ 7

Godfrey Ho Director

Andrew Yu as

Dingyao Liu as

Xingqiang Li as

Man Ying Wan as (as Wan Ying Ying)

In the spring of 1945, Japan established a secret base, Unit 731 in Manchuria, where many innocent Chinese, Korean and Mongolian people were killed in grotesque experiments. An idealistic young doctor , Morishima, is horrified by the experiments being performed in the camp and when his fiancée arrives disguised as a Chinese prisoner he sets out to liberate the camp. A docudrama sequel to the notorious Men Behind the Sun, which pulls no punches when it comes to delivering the shocks!

13 Minutes

2015

German

7.0

♡ 20

75%

Oliver Hirschbiegel Director

Christian Friedel as Georg Elser

Johann von Bülow as Heinrich Müller

Franco Moscon as SS Colonel

Simon Licht as SS Obergruppenführer

The breathtaking story of a man who nearly would have changed the world. In 1939, when Hitler tricked millions of people at the height of his power, radical Georg Elser — disparaged as an assassin — is one of the greatest resistance fighters.

Sole Survivor

1970

English

7.2

♡ 6

Paul Stanley Director

Vin Scully as Baseball Announcer

Richard Basehart as Brig. Gen. Russell Hamner

Ian Abercrombie as British Co-Pilot

Alan Caillou as Corey

In 1960, the ruins of an American bomber were found in the Libyan desert, but the remains of the crew were never located. In Guerdon Trueblood's teleplay, the ghosts of a bomber crew hang around their derelict plane, awaiting the day that their bones will be recovered and given a decent burial. The sole survivor, navigator Russell Hamner, has in the intervening 25 years become a General. He joins an investigation team that has come across the wreckage, while the ghosts, headed by Major Devlin, plot to expose Hamner as a coward who deserted his post and left his crew mates to die.

The Unknown Soldier

2017

Finnish

7.7

♡ 44

Action

based on novel or book

Aku Louhimies Director

Jaakko Ohtonen as Haavoittunut

Alina Tomnikov as Rahikaisen tyttö

Adolf Hitler as Self

Diana Pozharskaya as Vera

The film follows Finnish army machine gun company in Continuation War against Soviet Union, 1941–1944. Based on Väinö Linna's best selling novel Tuntematon Sotilas (The Unknown Soldier) and the novel's uncensored version, Sotaromaani (A War Novel).

Murder Company

2024

English

3.6

♡ 12

67%

Shane Dax Taylor Director

Pooch Hall as Coolidge

Gilles Marini as Daquin

Kelsey Grammer as General Haskel

Ian Niles as Miller

In the midst of the D-Day invasion, a group of US soldiers are given orders to smuggle a member of the French Resistance behind enemy lines to assassinate a high-value Nazi target.

Far into the Night

1943

English

6.6

♡ 5

Basil Dearden Director

Ralph Michael as Dunkirk Survivor

Mervyn Johns as Sam

James Mason as Ted Robbins

Alfie Bass as (uncredited)

Comedian Tommy Trinder plays it straight in this tribute to the wartime AFS (Auxiliary Fire Service). The dedicated band who kept the fires of London under control during the blitz and fire bombings of WWII.

Eichmann

2007

English

5.9

♡ 3

38%

27%

Action

Biography

crime against humanity

Robert Young Director

Thomas Kretschmann as Adolf Eichmann

Tereza Srbová as Baroness Ingrid von Ihama

Stephen Fry as Minister Tormer

Franka Potente as Vera Less

Based upon the final confession of Adolf Eichmann, made before his execution in Israel, of his role in Hitler's plan for the final solution.

The Book Thief

2013

English

7.5

♡ 139

50%

73%

Action

based on novel or book

based on young adult novel

Brian Percival Director

Ben Schnetzer as Max Vandenburg

Godehard Giese as Policeman on Train

Rainer Reiners as Priest

Emily Watson as Rosa Hubermann

While subjected to the horrors of WWII Germany, young Liesel finds solace by stealing books and sharing them with others. Under the stairs in her home, a Jewish refugee is being sheltered by her adoptive parents.

The Conference

2022

German

7.2

♡ 11

90%

Matti Geschonneck Director

Godehard Giese as Dr. Wilhelm Stuckart

Matthias Bundschuh as Erich Neumann

Jakob Diehl as Heinrich Müller

Markus Schleinzer as Otto Hofmann

On January 20, 1942, the Wannsee Conference takes place in Berlin, a meeting that had only one item on the agenda: The Final Solution, the organization of the systematic mass murder of eleven million European Jews.

It's Always Fair Weather

1955

English

7.0

♡ 13

91%

Stanley Donen Director

John Indrisano as Charlie's Henchman

Dwight D. Eisenhower as General Eisenhower

Kenneth Gibson as Nightclub Patron

Harry S. Truman as President Harry Truman

Three World War II buddies promise to meet at a specified place and time 10 years after the war. They keep their word only to discover how far apart they've grown. But the reunion sparks memories of youthful dreams that haven't been fulfilled -- and slowly, the three men reevaluate their lives and try to find a way to renew their friendship.

Riphagen

2016

Dutch

7.1

♡ 2

amsterdam, netherlands

based on novel or book

Biography

crime boss

Drama

husband wife relationship

jew persecution

War

world war ii

Pieter Kuijpers Director

Anna Raadsveld as Betje Wery

Guido Pollemans as Harry Rond

Sigrid ten Napel as Lena

Huub Smit as Toon Kuijper

Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1944, during World War II. Andries Riphagen, a powerful underworld boss, has made his fortune by putting his many criminal talents at the service of the Nazi occupiers. But the long battle is about to end and the freedom fighters, who have been persecuted and murdered for years, are abandoning their hideouts to mercilessly hunt down those who have collaborated with the killers.

Freaks Out

2021

Italian

6.9

♡ 31

70%

Gabriele Mainetti Director

Sebastian Hülk as Amon

Franz Rogowski as Franz

Claudio Santamaria as Fulvio

Aurora Giovinazzo as Matilde

Four super-powered circus freaks find themselves trapped in war-torn Rome after their foster father is captured by the Nazis.

Days of Glory

2006

French

7.0

♡ 10

83%

institutional discrimination

northern africa

War

world war ii

Rachid Bouchareb Director

Sami Bouajila as Abdelkader

Mélanie Laurent as Margueritte village Vosges

Philippe Beglia as Rambert

Samy Naceri as Yassir

1943. They have never stepped foot on French soil but because France was at war, Said, Abdelkader, Messaoud and Yassir enlist in the French Army, along with 130,000 other “indigenous” soldiers, to liberate the “fatherland” from the Nazi enemy. Heroes that history has forgotten…

The Boy and the Heron

2023

Japanese

7.4

♡ 119

96%

88%

Adventure

Animation

based on novel or book

Hayao Miyazaki Director

Florence Pugh as Kiriko

Willem Dafoe as Noble Pelican

Christian Bale as Shoichi Maki

Robert Pattinson as The Grey Heron

While the Second World War rages, the teenage Mahito, haunted by his mother's tragic death, is relocated from Tokyo to the serene rural home of his new stepmother Natsuko, a woman who bears a striking resemblance to the boy's mother. As he tries to adjust, this strange new world grows even stranger following the appearance of a persistent gray heron, who perplexes and bedevils Mahito, dubbing him the "long-awaited one."

Patton

1970

English

7.9

♡ 59

92%

Franklin J. Schaffner Director

Harry Towb as American GI Cook

Karl Malden as General Omar N. Bradley

Edward Binns as Major General Walter Bedell Smith

Brad Harris as Sargent in Bar

"Patton" tells the tale of General George S. Patton, famous tank commander of World War II. The film begins with Patton's career in North Africa and progresses through the invasion of Germany and the fall of the Third Reich. Side plots also speak of Patton's numerous faults such his temper and habit towards insubordination.

The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler

2009

English

7.2

♡ 8

72%

John Kent Harrison Director

Michelle Dockery as Ewa Rozenfeld

Fiona Glascott as Maria

Steve Speirs as Piotr

Danny Webb as Trojan

Irena Sendler is a Catholic social worker who has sympathized with the Jews since her childhood, when her physician father died of typhus contracted while treating poor Jewish patients. When she initially proposes saving Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto, her idea is met with skepticism by fellow workers, her parish priest, and even her own mother Janina.

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Lola

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13 Minutes

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Murder Company

Far into the Night

Eichmann

The Book Thief

The Conference

It's Always Fair Weather

Riphagen

Freaks Out

Days of Glory

The Boy and the Heron

Patton

The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler