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3.2

♡ 2

11%

War

world war ii

Scott Martin Director

Alberto Frezza as Antonino

Stephanie Beran as Caterina

Stevie Lynn Jones as Isabelle Dickie

Daniel Riordan as Lieutenant Colonel Shelton

In the thick of WWII, the 1st Special Service Force unit is called to duty on a secret rescue mission. Challenged by Nazis at every turn, our band of heroes bunker in a bombed out city and race against time to relay a message that is crucial to the Allies invasion of Sicily. Cornered and caught between a rock and a hard place, they only have one option: fire more bullets!

When Trumpets Fade

1998

7.0

♡ 17

74%

John Irvin Director

Bobby Cannavale as Capt. Zenek

Frank Whaley as Chamberlain - Medic

Timothy Olyphant as Lt. Lukas

Ron Eldard as Manning

In WWII Western Germany, Private David Manning reluctantly leaves behind a mortally wounded fellow soldier and searches for survivors from his platoon, only to learn from commanding officer Captain Pritchett that they have all been killed in action. Despite requesting a discharge on the grounds of mental disability, Manning is promoted to sergeant and assigned to lead a new platoon of young inductees.

Eric Ravilious: Drawn to War

2022

7.3

♡ 1

100%

artist

Documentary

world war ii

Margy Kinmonth Director

Ai Weiwei as

Robert Macfarlane as

Freddie Fox as Eric Ravilious

Tamsin Greig as Tirzah Garwood

One of Britain’s greatest landscape artists, Eric Ravilious, is killed in a plane crash while on commission as Official War Artist in Iceland in 1942. His life is as compelling and enigmatic as his art, set against the dramatic wartime locations that inspire him. This film brings to life this unique and still grossly undervalued British artist caught in the crossfire of war 80 years ago, whose legacy largely sank without trace, until now…

Triple Cross

1966

6.3

♡ 9

Terence Young Director

Gordon Jackson as British Sergeant Questioning Chapman

Trevor Howard as Freddie Young aka Distinguished Civilian

Bernard Fresson as French Resistant Raymond

Jean-Claude Bercq as Major Von Leeb

Safecracker Eddie Chapman is languishing in prison on the island of Jersey when the Nazis arrive. An adept manipulator of situations, Chapman convinces the Germans to use him to spy on the British. And when the would-be traitor arrives home, he convinces the English to use him as a double agent -- in exchange for a full pardon.

Irena's Vow

2023

6.7

♡ 31

86%

Louise Archambault Director

Eryk Kulm as Abram Klinger

Sophie Nélisse as Irena Gut Opdyke

Dougray Scott as Rugmer

Andrzej Seweryn as Schultz

19 year old Irena Gut is promoted to housekeeper in the home of a highly respected Nazi officer in Poland when she finds out that the Jewish ghetto is about to be liquidated. Determined to help twelve Jewish workers, she decides to shelter them in the safest place she can think of – the basement of the German Major's house. Over the next eight months, Irena uses her wit, humour and immense courage to hide her friends as long as possible.

Spitfire

2018

♡ 31

94%

David Fairhead Director

Tony Pickering as Himself

Andy Millikin as Himself

Charles Dance as Narrator

Leslie Howard as RJ. Mitchell

A feature documentary about the people and the planes that helped win World War War II. Through people personally connected to the events, the film investigates the story of how the Spitfire, its stable-mate, the Hawker Hurricane and its great adversary, the Messerschmitt 109 came into being during the huge advances in aviation in the interwar period—and then how the pilots fared in combat, three miles up in the skies over Europe, Africa and Asia.

Spitfire

1942

♡ 14

60%

Leslie Howard Director

Peter Gawthorne as Board Member

Roland Culver as Commander Bride

David Niven as Geoffrey Crisp

Peter Hammond as Marching German Youth

This 1942 fictionalized biopic chronicles the true story of how two of the most remarkable men in aviation history - visionary Spitfire designer R.J. Mitchell and his test pilot Geoffrey Crisp - designed a streamlined monoplane that led to the development of the Spitfire.

Mynarski Death Plummet

2014

French

7.1

♡ 2

Matthew Rankin Director

Louis Negin as

Suzanne Pringle as

Eve Majzels as

Annie St-Pierre as Annie St-Pierre

A completely hand-made historical micro-epic about the final minutes in the life of Winnipeg's doomed Second World War hero, Andrew Mynarski (1916-1944). Combining wartime aviation melodrama with classical and avant-garde animation techniques (including stop-motion, silhouettes, bleaching, scratching, hand-painting and rubbing letratone patterns directly on the celluloid) Mynarski Death Plummet is a psychedelic photo-chemical war picture on the theme of self-sacrifice, immortality and jellyfish.

Britain and the Blitz

2025

6.8

♡ 11

Ella Wright Director

Adolf Hitler as Self

Queen Elizabeth II as Self

Marie Price as Self - Liverpool Resident

Ballard Berkeley as Self - Special Constable

Documentary looking back at a Britain during the darkest days of WWII using stunning new archived footage and interviews with people who lived through it.

Sophie's Choice

1982

7.5

♡ 42

74%

Alan J. Pakula Director

Robin Bartlett as Lillian Grossman

Kevin Kline as Nathan

Tobin Bell as Reporter

Meryl Streep as Sophie

Stingo, a young writer, moves to Brooklyn in 1947 to begin work on his first novel. As he becomes friendly with Sophie and her lover Nathan, he learns that she is a Holocaust survivor. Flashbacks reveal her harrowing story, from pre-war prosperity to Auschwitz. In the present, Sophie and Nathan's relationship increasingly unravels as Stingo grows closer to Sophie and Nathan's fragile mental state becomes ever more apparent.

Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle

2021

Japanese

7.2

♡ 27

97%

Arthur Harari Director

Mutsuo Yoshioka as Captain Hayakawa

Kanji Tsuda as Hiroo Onoda

Yûya Endô as Hiroo Onoda

Kai Inowaki as Yuichi Akatsu

Japan, 1944. Trained for intelligence work, Hiroo Onoda, 22 years old, discovers a philosophy contrary to the official line: no suicide; stay alive whatever happens; the mission is more important than anything else. Sent to Lubang, a small island in the Philippines where the Americans are about to land, this role will be to wage a guerrilla war until the return of the Japanese troops. The Empire will surrender soon after; Onoda, 10,000 days later.

The Water Horse

2007

6.4

♡ 93

1940s

Adventure

based on children's book

Jay Russell Director

Emily Watson as Anne MacMorrow

Brian Cox as Old Angus

Jason Hood as Scottish Officer

Marshall Napier as Sgt. Strunk

A lonely boy discovers a mysterious egg that hatches a sea creature of Scottish legend.

The Train

1964

7.8

♡ 21

Arthur Penn Director

Bernard Fresson as German Train Engineer

Jacques Marin as Jacques

Burt Lancaster as Labiche

Jean-Claude Bercq as Major

As the Allied forces approach Paris in August 1944, German Colonel Von Waldheim is desperate to take all of France's greatest paintings to Germany. He manages to secure a train to transport the valuable art works even as the chaos of retreat descends upon them. The French resistance however wants to stop them from stealing their national treasures but have received orders from London that they are not to be destroyed. The station master, Labiche, is tasked with scheduling the train and making it all happen smoothly but he is also part of a dwindling group of resistance fighters tasked with preventing the theft. He and others stage an elaborate ruse to keep the train from ever leaving French territory.

Lore

2012

German

7.1

♡ 19

94%

Cate Shortland Director

Lucas Reiber as German Soldier 1

Pit Bukowski as German Soldier 2

Philip Wiegratz as Helmut

Wanda Perdelwitz as Young Blonde

After being abandoned by their Nazi parents at the end of World War II, five German siblings embark on a harrowing journey across their war-torn country. Led by the eldest, 14 year-old Lore, the children are forced to confront their parents’ actions and the reality of a new world.

Blitz

6.2

♡ 45

81%

Steve McQueen Director

Stephen Graham as Albert

Josef Altin as Harvey

Harris Dickinson as Jack

Saoirse Ronan as Rita

In World War II London, nine-year-old George is evacuated to the countryside by his mother, Rita, to escape the bombings. Defiant and determined to return to his family, George embarks on an epic, perilous journey back home as Rita searches for him.

Lee

2023

6.9

♡ 42

68%

Ellen Kuras Director

Andy Samberg as Davy Scherman

Kate Winslet as Lee Miller

Alexander Skarsgård as Roland Penrose

Marion Cotillard as Solange D'Ayen

The Six Triple Eight

6.7

♡ 49

56%

72%

based on magazine, newspaper or article

african american history

Tyler Perry Director

Susan Sarandon as Eleanor Roosevelt

Dean Norris as General Halt

Kerry O'Malley as Mildred

Jon Wennington as Racist Officer

During World War II, the US Army's only all-Black, all-women battalion takes on an impossible mission: sorting through a three-year backlog of 17 million pieces of mail that hadn't been delivered to American soldiers and finish within six months.

The Bloody Hundredth

7.5

♡ 15

100%

Laurent Bouzereau Director

Tom Hanks as Narrator

Steven Spielberg as Self

Dwight D. Eisenhower as Self

James Stewart as Self

Meet the real-life airmen who inspired Masters of the Air as they share the harrowing and transformative events of the 100th Bomb Group.

National Theatre Live: Nye

8.0

♡ 1

83%