The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
In 1930s Italy, a wealthy Jewish family tries to maintain their privileged lifestyle, hosting friends for tennis and parties at their villa. As anti-Semitism intensifies under Fascism, they must ultimately face the horrors of the Holocaust.
Hannibal Brooks
A POW in World War II is put to work in a Munich zoo, looking after an Asian elephant. The zoo is bombed by the Americans and the director of the zoo decides it is not safe for his Asian elephant Lucy to remain there. So he sends Brooks to safety with Lucy. They escape and go on the run in order to get to Switzerland.
Max Manus: Man of War
Max Manus is a Norwegian 2008 biographic war film based on the real events of the life of resistance fighter Max Manus (1914–96), after his contribution in the Winter War against the Soviet Union. The story follows Manus through the outbreak of World War II in Norway until peacetime in 1945.
1941
In the days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, panic grips California, where a military officer leads a mob chasing a Japanese sub.
The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity
Kaji is sent to the Japanese army labeled Red and is mistreated by the vets. Along his assignment, Kaji witnesses cruelties in the army and revolts against the abusive treatment against the recruit Obara. He also sees his friend Shinjô Ittôhei defecting to the Russian border, and he ends in the front to fight a lost battle against the Russian tanks division.
The Railway Children Return
Follow a group of children who are evacuated to a Yorkshire village during the Second World War, where they encounter a young soldier who, like them, is far away from home.
Entre Nous
In 1942 in occupied France, a Jewish refugee marries a soldier to escape deportation to Germany. Meanwhile a wealthy art student loses her first husband to a stray Resistance bullet; at the Liberation she meets an actor, gets pregnant, and marries him. Lena and Madeleine meet at their children's school in Lyon in 1952 and the intensity of their relationship strains both their marriages to the breaking point.
Enemy at the Gates
A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII.
5 Fingers
During WWII, the valet to the British Ambassador to Ankara sells British secrets to the Germans while trying to romance a refugee Polish countess.
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
In the wake of Pearl Harbor, a young lieutenant leaves his expectant wife to volunteer for a secret bombing mission which will take the war to the Japanese homeland.
Story of G.I. Joe
War correspondent Ernie Pyle joins Company C, 18th Infantry as this American army unit fights its way across North Africa in World War II. He comes to know the soldiers and finds much human interest material for his readers back in the States. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation in 2000.
My Name Is Sara
The true life-story of Sara Góralnik, a 13 year-old Polish Jew whose entire family was killed by Nazis in September of 1942. After a grueling escape to the Ukrainian countryside, Sara steals her Christian best friend’s identity and finds refuge in a small village, where she is taken in by a farmer and his young wife. She soon discovers the dark secrets of her employers’ marriage, compounding the greatest secret she must strive to protect, her true identity.
Hidden Heroes: The Nisei Soldiers of WWII
Featuring sit-down interviews with experts and historians, follows the story of the Japanese American soldiers of WWII who fought for the ideals of American democracy.
WWII from Space
WWII from Space delivers World War II in a way you've never experienced it before. This HISTORY special uses an all-seeing CGI eye that offers a satellite view of the conflict, allowing you to experience it in a way that puts key events and tipping points in a global perspective. By re-creating groundbreaking moments that could never have been captured on camera, and by illustrating the importance of simultaneity and the hidden effects of crucial incidents, HISTORY presents the war's monumental moments in a never-before-seen context. And with new information brought to the forefront, you'll better understand how a nation ranked 19th in the world's militaries in 1939 emerged six years later as the planet's only atomic superpower.
The Damned
A group of Nazis and sympathizers board a submarine bound for South America in the hopes of finding shelter.
Hannibal Rising
The story of the early, murderous roots of the cannibalistic killer, Hannibal Lecter – from his hard-scrabble Lithuanian childhood, where he witnesses the repulsive lengths to which hungry soldiers will go to satiate themselves, through his sojourn in France, where as a medical student he hones his appetite for the kill.
Tony Robinson's VE Day Minute by Minute
Tony Robinson’s VE Day: Minute By Minute will take a unique look at a pivotal day in the history of the modern world, delving into the key events that made VE Day such a momentous twenty-four hours. This is the story of what happened on that most celebrated and important day, including original interviews with historians and veterans who tell their stories and share their first-hand experiences. Using unseen archive footage and stills, plus never told accounts from veterans who were there, this one-off special will chart the moment the clock struck midnight, to 24 hours later, when fighting officially stopped across Europe. Up and down the country it was dawning on people that they were waking up not with fear or anxiety, but with relief and excitement. This was a Great Britain no one had experienced for six years. A Britain at peace. At almost no notice street celebrations were being prepared and tens of thousands were flocking to London and other city centres.
Goebbels and the Führer
As Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels creates films and pictures used to prepare the Germans for Total War and the Holocaust. When the war is lost, he conceives his last staging, the most radical propaganda act still possible to him.
Mediterraneo
Greek Sea, World War II. An Italian ship leaves a handful of soldiers in a little island; their mission is to spot enemy ships and to hold the island in case of attack. The village of the island seems abandoned and there isn't a single enemy in sight, so the soldiers begin to relax a little. Things change when their ship is hit and destroyed by the enemy, and the soldiers find themselves abandoned there.
The Monuments Men
Based on the true story of the greatest treasure hunt in history, The Monuments Men is an action drama focusing on seven over-the-hill, out-of-shape museum directors, artists, architects, curators, and art historians who went to the front lines of WWII to rescue the world’s artistic masterpieces from Nazi thieves and return them to their rightful owners. With the art hidden behind enemy lines, how could these guys hope to succeed?
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Vittorio De Sica
Director
Helmut Berger
as
Alberto Finzi Contini
Joshua Sinclair
as
(as Gianni Loffredo)
Dominique Sanda
as
Micòl Finzi Contini
Adolf Hitler
as
Self - Acknowledges Hess
John Alderton
as
Bernard
Ernst Fritz Fürbringer
as
Elephant Keeper Kellermann
Oliver Reed
as
Stephen 'Hannibal' Brooks
Til Kiwe
as
Von Haller's Sergeant
Oliver Stokowski
as
Oberschirführer Karl Höhler
Ron Donachie
as
Oberst John Skinner Wilson
Pål Sverre Hagen
as
Roy Nilsen
Steven Spielberg
Director
Tim Matheson
as
Capt. Loomis Birkhead
Warren Oates
as
Col. 'Madman' Maddox
John Candy
as
Pvt. Foley
Gary Carlos Cervantes
as
Zoot Suiter
Masaki Kobayashi
Director
Kenjirô Uemura
as
Bannai Jôtôhei
Takashi Ebata
as
Kanamori - Nitôhei
Yûsuke Kawazu
as
Terada Nitôhei
Kaneko Iwasaki
as
Tokunaga Kangofu
Hugh Quarshie
as
General Harrison
Beau Gadsdon
as
Lily
Jenny Agutter
as
Roberta 'Bobbie' Waterbury
Isabelle Huppert
as
Lena Weber
Miou-Miou
as
Madeleine
Joseph Michael Roth
as
Un Militaire
Jean-Jacques Annaud
Director
Ron Perlman
as
Koulikov
Ed Harris
as
Major König
Rachel Weisz
as
Tania
Jude Law
as
Vassili
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Director
Martin Garralaga
as
Diello's Butler
Walter Hampden
as
Sir Frederic Taylor
Gene Roth
as
Turkish Policeman
Mervyn LeRoy
Director
Don DeFore
as
Charles McClure
Louis Jean Heydt
as
Lieut. Miller
William A. Wellman
Director
Bob Hope
as
Bob Hope (Voice on Radio Program)
Robert Mitchum
as
Lt. Walker
Dorothy Coonan Wellman
as
Nurse Lt. Elizabeth 'Red' Murphy
Peter Webber
Director
John Early
as
Drunken Man
Dominic West
as
Inspector Popil
Goran Kostic
as
Kazys 'Pot Watcher' Porvik
Hugh Ross
as
Professor Dumas
Antonio Catania
as
Carmelo LaRosa
Claudio Bisio
as
Corrado Noventa
Vasco Mirandola
as
Felice Munaron
Vana Barba
as
Vassilissa
George Clooney
Director
Ben-Ryan Davies
as
Brit Private - Bruges
Cate Blanchett
as
Claire Simone
Matt Damon
as
James Granger
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