World War II: Resistance fighters accept a suicide mission to deliver a stolen Nazi submarine carrying atomic uranium. Hunted by Hitler’s army, the crew must outwit the German Navy to bring the cargo safely to America.

Convoy

1940

English

6.1

♡ 4

Pen Tennyson Director

John Wengraf as Commander Deutschland

Albert Lieven as Commander U.37

Michael Wilding as 'Dot'

Mervyn Johns as His Mate

A tale of life on board a Royal Navy cruiser assigned to protect the vital convoys between America and England during WWII.

South Pacific

1958

English

6.8

♡ 10

75%

69%

Action

based on play or musical

Drama

interracial relationship

Joshua Logan Director

Richard Harrison as Co-Pilot

Tom Laughlin as Lt. Buzz Adams

Ray Walston as Luther Billis Ron Ely

Ron Ely as Navigator

Can a girl from Little Rock find happiness with a mature French planter she got to know one enchanted evening away from the military hospital where she is a nurse? Or should she just wash that man out of her hair? Bloody Mary is the philosopher of the island and it's hard to believe she could be the mother of Liat who has captured the heart of Lt. Joseph Cable USMC. While waiting for action in the war in the South Pacific, sailors and nurses put on a musical comedy show. The war gets closer and the saga of Nellie Forbush and Emile de Becque becomes serious drama.

Manon

1949

French

6.8

♡ 6

50%

Henri-Georges Clouzot Director

Serge Reggiani as Léon Lescaut

Michel Bouquet as Le second

Cécile Aubry as Manon Lescaut

Franck Maurice as Un voyageur

Port of Marseille, France, recently liberated from the German yoke. Caught as stowaways aboard a ship, Manon, a young woman who was accused of collaborating with the Nazis, and Robert, a freedom fighter who saved her from reprisals, tell the captain about the many challenges they have had to face in order to survive.

Fires on the Plain

1959

Japanese

7.9

♡ 17

100%

struggle for survival

War

world war ii

Kon Ichikawa Director

Yoshio Inaba as

Yûzô Hayakawa as

Shunji Tsuda as

Eiji Funakoshi as Tamura

In the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier afflicted with tuberculosis is abandoned by his company and left to wander the Philippine island of Leyte.

Distant Journey

1949

Czech

7.3

♡ 4

Action

Drama

holocaust (shoah)

husband wife relationship

jewish ghetto

jew persecution

prague, czech republic

Thriller

War

world war ii

Alfréd Radok Director

Jirí Plachý as Abrahamovic

Zdenka Baldová as Hedvika Kaufmannová- Hana's mother

Rudolf Deyl as Jarda Noha - worker

Milos Kopecký as Prisoner building a gas chamber #1

Prague, during World War II. Hana Kaufmann, a Jewish ophthalmologist, marries Dr. Antonín Bureš, a Christian man. When her family is sent to the Theresienstadt concentration camp, their romance turns into a struggle for survival.

Jungle Fighters

1961

English

6.6

♡ 3

57%

army

based on play or musical

Leslie Norman Director

Richard Harris as Cpl. Johnstone

Anthony Chinn as Japanese Sniper

Laurence Harvey as Pte. Bamforth

John Meillon as Pte. Smith

Based on a play by Willis Hall. A troop of British soldiers are out in the jungle to record jungle noises and troop noises in the jungle so that the recordings can be played back by other troops to divert the enemy to their whereabouts. As they progress to what they think is closer to the base camp they find themselves farther and farther from radio range until the only channel they can get clearly is that of a Japanese broadcast. They now realize they are probably only 10 to 15 miles from a Japanese camp! The tension is added to by rowdy and openly admitted "non-hero" Private Bamforth who has nothing good to say about anyone and especially Corporal Johnstone (who holds an equal dislike for Bamforth). When a Japanese soldier is taken as their prisoner, the true colours of each man comes to the surface

Mister V

1941

English

7.2

♡ 14

77%

Leslie Howard Director

Michael Brennan as Camp Guard with Lantern

Roland Pertwee as Embassy Official - Sir George Smith

Arthur Hambling as Jordan

Michael Rennie as Prison Camp Officer

Eccentric Cambridge archaeologist Horatio Smith takes a group of British and American archaeology students to pre-war Nazi Germany to help in his excavations. His research is supported by the Nazis, since he professes to be looking for evidence of the Aryan origins of German civilisation. However, he has a secret agenda: to free inmates of the concentration camps.

D-Day: Normandy 1944

2014

English

7.0

♡ 28

100%

Pascal Vuong Director

Blanche de Saint-Phalle as Narration in French

Glynis Loizeau as Narration Pop-up Books

Tom Brokaw as Narrator

François Cluzet as Narrator

June 6, 1944: The largest Allied operation of World War II began in Normandy, France. Yet, few know in detail exactly why and how, from the end of 1943 through August 1944, this region became the most important location in the world. Blending multiple cinematographic techniques, including animation, CGI and stunning live-action images, “D-Day: Normandy 1944” brings this monumental event to the world’s largest screens for the first time ever. Audiences of all ages, including new generations, will discover from a new perspective how this landing changed the world. Exploring history, military strategy, science, technology and human values, the film will educate and appeal to all. Narrated by Tom Brokaw, “D-Day: Normandy 1944” pays tribute to those who gave their lives for our freedom… A duty of memory, a duty of gratitude.

The Lancaster at War

2009

English

6.6

♡ 4

Stephen Saunders Director

Charles Fribbens as Aircrew - Re-enactment

Daniel Darby as Aircrew - Re-enactment

Struan Rodger as Narrator

Arthur White as Self - Navigator

The incredible story of the Avro Lancaster, one of the finest bombers of the Second World War, which played a crucial role in the long and savage campaign to defeat Hitler's Third Reich. This documentary features interviews with surviving veterans of Bomber Command, who share frank personal accounts of their part in an aerial battle of attrition which claimed the lives of 55'000 aircrew.

Swing Kids

1993

English

6.8

♡ 11

56%

Thomas Carter Director

Kenneth Branagh as Herr Knopp, Gestapo

Jayce Bartok as Otto

Robert Sean Leonard as Peter Müller

Christian Bale as Thomas Berger

The story of a close-knit group of young kids in Nazi Germany who listen to banned swing music from the US. Soon dancing and fun leads to more difficult choices as the Nazis begin tightening the grip on Germany. Each member of the group is forced to face some tough choices about right, wrong, and survival.

Our Queen at War

2020

English

6.8

♡ 13

Christopher Bruce Director

Adolf Hitler as Self

Prince Philip as Self

Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother as Self

Phyllis Logan as Self

Learn how the longest reigning monarch in British history was shaped by World War II. Princess Elizabeth’s experiences during the war mirrored those of the public and helped shape her into the Queen she is today.

The Island on Bird Street

1997

English

7.1

♡ 9

76%

Søren Kragh-Jacobsen Director

Michael Byrne as Bolek

Jack Warden as Boruch

James Bolam as Doctor Studjinsky

Stefan Sauk as Goehler

Alex is an 11-year old boy who, during WWII, hides in the Jewish ghetto from Nazis after all his relatives have been sent to the concentration camp. The movie portrays the ghetto through his eyes.

Johnny in the Clouds

1945

English

7.3

♡ 4

77%

Anthony Asquith Director

Douglass Montgomery as Johnny Hollis

Joyce Carey as Miss Winterton

Trevor Howard as Sq / Leader Carter

Basil Radford as Tiny Williams

Life on a British bomber base, and the surrounding towns, from the opening days of the Battle of Britain, to the arrival of the Americans, who join in the bomber offensive. The film centres around Pilot Officer Peter Penrose, fresh out of a training unit, who joins the squadron, and quickly discovers about life during war time. He falls for Iris, a young girl who lives at the local hotel, but he becomes disillusioned about marriage, when the squadron commander dies in a raid, and leaves his wife, the hotel manageress, with a young son to bring up. As the war progresses, Penross comes to terms that he has survived, while others have been killed.

The Guard of Auschwitz

2018

English

3.8

♡ 19

50%

Action

auschwitz-birkenau concentration camp

Terry Lee Coker Director

Stephen Boxer as Franz

Lewis Kirk as Hans

Steven Bush as Karl

Nazi occupied Poland, during the World War II. Hans, a former brilliant student, has become an SS officer stationed at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. When he is commissioned by his superior officer to build an efficient gas chamber, Hans, facing the harsh reality, begins to realize the magnitude of the atrocious acts of which he is being accomplice.

Mrs. Miniver

1942

English

7.6

♡ 12

93%

84%

Action

based on novel or book

William Wyler Director

Ian Wolfe as Dentist

Tom Conway as Man

Sidney D'Albrook as Man in Store

Forrester Harvey as Mr. Huggins

Middle-class housewife Kay Miniver deals with petty problems. She and her husband Clem watch her Oxford-educated son Vin court Carol Beldon, the charming granddaughter of the local nobility as represented by Lady Beldon. Then the war comes and Vin joins the RAF.

Raggedy Man

1981

English

6.8

♡ 10

100%

Jack Fisk Director

William Sanderson as Calvin

Henry Thomas as Harry

R.G. Armstrong as Rigby

Eric Roberts as Teddy

Nita, a divorced mother of two boys, is stuck working as a telephone operator in a small Texas town in World War II. Her friendship with a sailor on leave causes tongues to wag in town.

The Cold Blue

2018

English

7.7

♡ 4

100%

Erik Nelson Director

William Wyler as (archive footage)

Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother as Self

King George VI as Self

V.G. Alexander as Self

A meditation on youth, war and stunning bravery, featuring footage, taken from the National Archives, from the documentary filmed in 1943 by legendary Hollywood director William Wyler about the famous Memphis Belle flying fortress and the gripping narration from some of the last surviving B-17 pilots.

To Be or Not to Be

1983

English

6.9

♡ 18

55%

Alan Johnson Director

Curt Lowens as Airport Officer

Christopher Lloyd as Capt. Schultz

Ivor Barry as General Hobbs

Tim Matheson as Lt. Andre Sobinski

A bad Polish actor is just trying to make a living when Poland is invaded by the Germans in World War II. His wife has the habit of entertaining young Polish officers while he's on stage, which is also a source of depression to him. When one of her officers comes back on a Secret Mission, the actor takes charge and comes up with a plan for them to escape.