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

2019

English

6.7

♡ 16

71%

Steven Oritt Director

Wieslaw Komasa as Father Oleksa

Radoslaw Kaim as German Soldier

Izabela Dabrowska as Marina

Michalina Olszanska as Nadya

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

2021

English

7.3

♡ 1

Action

Documentary

world war ii

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

2012

English

7.4

♡ 26

Simon George Director

John Schaffner as Himself - Corporal, 106th Infantry Division

Frank Gervasi as Himself - Master Sergeant, 1st Infantry Division

Corey Johnson as Himself - Narrator

James Jay Carafano as Himself - The Heritage Foundation

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

1947

French

7.0

♡ 7

100%

René Clément Director

Georges Niemann as

Max Herman as

Karl Münch as (as Karl Munch)

Florence Marly as Hilde Garosi

A group of Nazis and sympathizers board a submarine bound for South America in the hopes of finding shelter.

Hannibal Rising

2007

English

6.1

♡ 142

16%

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

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

6.2

Rebecca Joyce Director

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

2024

German

6.7

♡ 22

Joachim Lang Director

Robert Stadlober as Joseph Goebbels

Franziska Weisz as Magda Goebbels

Adolf Hitler as Self

Joseph Goebbels as Self

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

1991

Italian

7.4

♡ 11

80%

Gabriele Salvatores Director

Antonio Catania as Carmelo LaRosa

Claudio Bisio as Corrado Noventa

Vasco Mirandola as Felice Munaron

Vana Barba as Vassilissa

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

2014

English

6.1

♡ 84

30%

George Clooney Director

Ben-Ryan Davies as Brit Private - Bruges

Cate Blanchett as Claire Simone

George Clooney as Frank Stokes

Matt Damon as James Granger

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?

The Sound of Music

1965

English

8.1

♡ 152

83%

Robert Wise Director

Angela Cartwright as Brigitta

Norma Varden as Frau Schmidt

Nicholas Hammond as Friedrich

Eleanor Parker as The Baroness

In the years before World War II, a tomboyish postulant at an Austrian abbey is hired as a governess in the home of a widowed naval captain with seven children, and brings a new love of life and music into the home.

Saints and Soldiers: The Void

2014

English

5.3

♡ 27

45%

Ryan Little Director

Bart Johnson as Captain Derrick Davis

Blake Webb as Prisoner #2

Brenden Whitney as Pvt. Nelson

Shayne J. Cullen as Soldier

Germany, May 1945, deep in the Harz Mountains a U.S. tank crew discovers a platoon of Germans preparing to ambush U.S. supply trucks.

The Pilot: A Battle for Survival

2021

Russian

6.2

♡ 21

Cindy Robinson Director

Aleksey Demidov as

Roman Knizka as Aubert Lemke

Valeriy Grishko as Blacksmith

Pyotr Fyodorov as Nikolai Komlev

December of 1941, Northwestern Front. A German tank column is moving towards Moscow. During a mission to stop the enemy advance, Nikolai Komlev's IL-2 is shot down. Komlev manages to crash-land his plane in a remote forest clearing. He's alive, but far from friendly territory. Ahead of him is a relentless trial of severe physical and mental endurance. After battling hunger and extreme cold, evading packs of wolves and detachments of Nazi soldiers, the wounded Komlev finally makes it back to safety. But there he faces another challenge, the most life-changing of them all.

She Devils of the SS

1973

German

4.1

♡ 28

nazisploitation (nazi exploitation film)

War

world war 2

world war ii

Erwin C. Dietrich Director

Christian Brückner as Captain Mannteufel

Claudia Fielers as Elisabeth Vorrat

Karin Heske as Eva Kuhn

Elisabeth Felchner as Marga Kuhn

In the last days of WW2, women are volunteering from all over Germany to serve in the front lines by having sex with the brave Nazi soldiers. But when they start having sex with each other, things get complicated. Especially with the increasing danger from the revengeful Soviet army!

Attack

1956

English

7.4

♡ 13

Action

based on play or musical

Robert Aldrich Director

Lee Marvin as Lt. Col. Clyde Bartlett - CO, White Battalion

William Smithers as Lt. Harold 'Harry' Woodruff

Jack Palance as Lt. Joe Costa - Fox Co.

Jud Taylor as Pvt. Jacob R. Abramowitz - radioman

Battle of the Bulge, World War II, 1944. Lieutenant Costa, an infantry company officer who must establish artillery observation posts in a strategic area, has serious doubts about Captain Cooney's leadership ability.

Surviving with Wolves

2007

French

6.5

♡ 2

66%

Véra Belmont Director

Guy Bedos as Jean

Franck de la Personne as M. Valle

Kait Tenison as Nathalie

Benno Fürmann as Reuven

In 1942, the young Jewish girl Misha, her Russian mother Gerusha and her German father Reuven hide from the Germans in a small house in Ardennes, Belgium. Misha is very connected to her mother that advises her that if one day a person comes to her saying "love of my life", she would follow him or her without any question. When her parents are captured by the Nazis, Misha is delivered to a German family and the abusive matriarch gives a bad treatment to the girl. However, she finds support in the family of Ernest and his deranged wife Marthe that supplies groceries to foster family. Misha loves Ernest's dogs and the old man gives a compass to her and tells that her parents have been sent to East to forced labor. When the old couple is denounced for sheltering the girl and arrested by the Germans, Misha flees through the woods heading east. Along her journey seeking out her parents...

The Partisan

2024

English

5.2

♡ 12

A Polish spy working for the British during World War II is betrayed and compromised in Warsaw, leaving her no other choice but to descend into a dangerous world of treachery and deception in order to survive.

Sailor of the King

1953

English

6.8

♡ 3

45%

A British naval officer has a brief affair with a woman in England and never knows that she bears him a son. 20 years later the boy is on a ship under his command when he is tracking a German Raider. When the boy is captured after his ship is sunk, he finds a way to slow the German's progress while a lethal hunt for him goes on.

The Seventh Company Outdoors

1977

French

6.2

♡ 2

71%

Comedy

world war ii

Robert Lamoureux Director

Alec Sabin as

André Penvern as Apparition

Pierre Mondy as Chaudard

Jean Carmet as M. Albert, le passeur

The third part of Seventh Company adventures.

White Tiger

2012

Russian

6.1

♡ 16

59%

world war ii eastern front

Karen Shakhnazarov Director

Vitaliy Dordzhiev as Berdyev

Karl Kranzkowski as Gitler

Gerasim Arkhipov as Sharipov

Valeriy Grishko as Zhukov

WWII, 1945. After barely surviving a battle with a mysterious, ghostly-white German Tiger tank, Red Army Sergeant Ivan Naydenov becomes obsessed with its destruction.

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Goebbels and the Führer

Mediterraneo

The Monuments Men

The Sound of Music

Saints and Soldiers: The Void

The Pilot: A Battle for Survival

She Devils of the SS

Attack

Surviving with Wolves

The Partisan

Sailor of the King

The Seventh Company Outdoors

White Tiger