Kalashnikov

2020

Russian

6.6

♡ 34

64%

Konstantin Buslov Director

Artur Smolyaninov as Captain Lyutyy

Sergey Gazarov as Krotov

Jean-Luc Julien as Lobov

Igor Kulachko as The Officer

A Russian military propaganda film about the tank commander Kalashnikov, severely injured in battle in 1941. The accident leaves him incapacitated and unable to return to the front line. While recovering in the hospital, he begins creating the initial sketches of what will become one of the world’s most legendary weapons. A self-taught inventor is only 29 when he develops the now iconic assault riffle — the AK-47. Shot in occupied Crimea.

Winter in Wartime

2008

Dutch

7.0

♡ 7

75%

Martin Koolhoven Director

Dan van Husen as Auer

Tygo Gernandt as Bertus

Jamie Campbell Bower as Jack

Raymond Thiry as Johan

During World War II in the freezing winter of 1944-45 the western Netherlands are in the grip of a famine. Many people move east to provide for their families. Fourteen year old Michiel can't wait to join the Dutch resistance, to the dismay of his father, who, as mayor, works to prevent escalations in the village.

Run Silent Run Deep

1958

English

7.3

♡ 12

100%

Robert Wise Director

Brad Dexter as Ens. Gerald Cartwright

Ken Lynch as Frank

Don Rickles as Quartermaster 1st Class Ruby

Rudy Bond as Sonarman 1st Class Cullen

The captain of a submarine sunk by the Japanese during WWII is finally given a chance to skipper another sub after a year of working a desk job. His singleminded determination for revenge against the destroyer that sunk his previous vessel puts his new crew in unneccessary danger.

Waterloo Bridge

1940

English

7.7

♡ 11

83%

88%

Action

based on play or musical

Mervyn LeRoy Director

Janet Waldo as Elsa

Norma Varden as Hostess at Restaurant

Robert Taylor as Roy Cronin

Tom Conway as (voice) (uncredited)

On the eve of World War II, a British officer revisits Waterloo Bridge and recalls the young man he was at the beginning of World War I and the young ballerina he met just before he left for the front.

Fortress of War

2010

Russian

7.4

♡ 13

Aleksandr Kott Director

Pavel Derevyanko as Fomin

Ekaterina Vilkova as Olesya

Anna Tsukanova-Kott as Sonya

Sergey Taramaev as (uncredited)

The film covers the heroic defence of the Brest Fortress, which was attacked during the first strike of German invaders on June 22 1941. The story describes the events of the first days of the defence, including the three main resistance zones, headed by the regiment commander, Pyotr Mikhailovich Gavrilov, the commissar Efim Moiseevich Fomin and the head of the 9th frontier outpost, Andrey Mitrofanovich Kizhevatov. Many years later veteran Alexander Akimov again recalls the memories of the time, when he, then a 15 year old Sasha Akimov was deeply in love with the beautiful Anya and suddenly found himself in the middle of the bloody events of war.

A Midnight Clear

1992

English

7.1

♡ 12

88%

Keith Gordon Director

John English as American Soldier

Frank Whaley as Paul 'Father' Mundy

Ethan Hawke as Sgt. Will Knott

Arye Gross as Stan Shutzer

In 1944 France, an American Intelligence Squad locates a German Platoon wishing to surrender rather than die in Germany's final war offensive. The two groups of men, isolated from the war at present, put aside their differences and spend Christmas together before the surrender plan turns bad and both sides are forced to fight the other.

Battle for Sevastopol

2015

Russian

7.0

♡ 48

58%

Sergey Mokritskiy Director

Vilen Babichev as Fima

Valeriy Grishko as General Petrov

Yuliya Peresild as Lyudmila Pavlichenko

Oleg Vasilkov as Makarov

The story of Lyudmila Pavlichenko, the most successful female sniper in history.

Mister Roberts

1955

English

7.6

♡ 12

93%

Joshua Logan Director

Ken Curtis as Dolan

William Hudson as Olson

Perry Lopez as Rodrigues

Gregory Walcott as Shore Patrolman

Mr. Roberts is a Navy officer who's yearning for battle but is stuck in the backwaters of World War II on a non-commissioned ship run by the bullying Captain Morton.

Panama Hattie

1942

English

5.9

♡ 3

40%

Vincente Minnelli Director

Alan Mowbray as Jay Jerkins, Dick's Butler

Red Skelton as Red

Fred Graham as Shore Patrolman

Lena Horne as Singer in Phil's Place

Sailors and spies mingle in between the acts at Hattie's nightclub in the Canal Zone.

House of Time

2015

English

5.6

♡ 3

96%

Jonathan Helpert Director

Julia Piaton as Lynn Fooley

Esther Comar as Mathilde Barthélémy

Benjamin Wangermee as Philippe Pétin

Maxime Dambrin as Robert d'Eglantine

Robert d'Eglantine invites his friends to spend a few days in an old country house where he proposes them to embark on a daring adventure with a surprising destination.

The Invaders

1941

English

7.3

♡ 9

88%

Michael Powell Director

Raymond Massey as Andy Brock

Laurence Olivier as Johnnie - The Trapper

Eric Portman as Lieutenant Ernst Hirth

Niall MacGinnis as Vogel

In the early days of World War II, a German U-boat is sunk in Canada's Hudson Bay. Hoping to evade capture, a small band of German soldiers led by commanding officer Lieutenant Hirth attempts to cross the border into the United States, which has not yet entered the war and is officially neutral. Along the way, the German soldiers encounter brave men such as a French-Canadian fur trapper, Johnnie, a leader of a Hutterite farming community, Peter, an author, Philip and a soldier, Andy Brock.

Dawn of a Filmmaker: The Keisuke Kinoshita Story

6.8

Keiichi Hara Director

Ryô Kase as Keisuke Kinoshita

Yûko Tanaka as Kinoshita's mother

Mari Hamada as Koman

Rio Yamashita as Sakuyo Kinoshita

Keisuke Kinoshita sits easily alongside Ozu, Kurosawa and Naruse as one of Japan’s most respected legends of cinema. Made to commemorate the centenary of Kinoshita’s birth, this biographical drama chronicles formative hardships and personal encounters to provide a rare glimpse into the life of one of Japan’s most acclaimed screen directors. Includes archival footage from 49 of the films he produced during his career at Shochiku.

Yamato

2005

Japanese

6.4

♡ 9

Jun'ya Satô Director

Shinobu Terajima as Ayako

Kimiko Yo as Sayo Nishi Yû Aoi

Yû Aoi as Taeko

Atsuko Takahata as Tsune Tamaki

Directed by Junya Sato and based on a book by Jun Henmi, "Yamato" has a framing story set in the present day and uses flashbacks to tell the story of the crew of the World War II Japanese battleship Yamato. The film was never released in the United States, where reviewers who have seen it have compared the military epic to "Titanic" and "Saving Private Ryan."

Air Strike

2018

English

3.2

♡ 33

japanese occupation of china

kuomintang

second sino-japanese war (1937-45)

sino japanese war

War

world war ii

Xiao Feng Director

Bruce Willis as Jack

Janine Chun-Ning Chang as Qian Xue

Adrien Brody as Steve

Bingbing Fan as Ye Peixuan

An American pilot is sent to a Chinese province to teach a crew of would-be pilots how to fly war planes against the Japanese during World War II.

MacArthur

1977

English

6.5

♡ 14

45%

Joseph Sargent Director

Tom Rosqui as General Sampson

Garry Walberg as General Walker

Lloyd Kino as Japanese Administrative Assistant

Barry Coe as Television Reporter

The film portrays MacArthur's life from 1942, before the Battle of Bataan, to 1952, the time after he had been removed from his Korean War command by President Truman for insubordination, and is recounted in flashback as he visits West Point.

Wake Island

1942

English

6.6

♡ 4

89%

John Farrow Director

Edward Earle as Commander

Hillary Brooke as Girl at the Inn

Frank Faylen as Marine Finding Skipper's Litter

Dane Clark as 'Sparks'

In late 1941, with no hope of relief or re-supply, a small band of United States Marines tries to keep the Japanese Navy from capturing their island base.

Germany Pale Mother

1980

German

7.2

♡ 8

Helma Sanders-Brahms Director

Roland Schäfer as

Anna Sanders as Anna

Eva Mattes as Helene

Helma Sanders-Brahms as Narrator

Germany 1939. Hans and Lene marry the day before the war breaks out, and Hans is sent to the Eastern front. During a bombing raid their daughter Anna is born. The house is destroyed and Lene and Anna moves in with relatives in Berlin. Hans survives the war but he is not the same person as in 1939, and he and Lene find it difficult to live together again.

Piloti

4.7

Igor Bityukov Director

Tatyana Agafonova as

Yanina Lisovskaya as

Boris Shcherbakov as Lezhnev

Ladislav Zupanic as Vindys

Further east of the Dark Blue Sky, where the Heavenly Horsemen fought, the story of a Czechoslovakian fighter squadron takes place, to which Second Lieutenant Jandak arrives as a rookie. He then experiences both his first love and a battle high above the clouds in the collective of combat pilots. Combat pilots on the Eastern Front thus experience similar stories to their Western colleagues, with the same goals and plans and the same slim prospects of survival in their daily life-and-death battles. Not surprisingly, they fought at a time when they had a common enemy, characterised by the Messerschmitt aircraft.

Pursuit of the Graf Spee

1956

English

6.6

♡ 9

82%

Michael Powell Director

Nigel Stock as Chief Officer, Tairoa, Prisoner on Graf Spee

David Farrar as Narrator

John Le Mesurier as Rev. George Groves - Padre, HMS Exeter

Patrick Jordan as Signalman, Aft-Conning, HMS Exeter

In the early years of the World War II, the Royal Navy is fighting a desperate battle to keep the Atlantic convoy routes open to supply the British Isles, facing the great danger posed by the many German warships, such as the Admiral Graf Spee, which are scouring the ocean for cargo ships to sink.

Finding the Graf Zeppelin

2017

English

5.7

♡ 1

Paul Russel Director

John Young as Narrator

While exploring the Baltic Sea in 2006, a Polish oil firm stumbled upon the remains of Germany’s first – and last – aircraft carrier at 80 meters depth off the coast near Gdansk. It was a discovery that solved an enduring maritime mystery that had baffled experts for over half a century. The Graf Zeppelin has finally been found! This film tells the incredible story of the lead ship of the German "Kriegsmarine", from its construction to its sinking and its amazing discovery over five decades later. The Graf Zeppelin was a war ship of massive proportions that was never used for its intended purpose and eventually fell into the hands of the Russians, who used it for target practice off the coast of Poland. The program features rare access to private Graf Zeppelin archives, state-of-the-art animation, dramatic reconstructions and a high-tech underwater shoot at the mysterious site of the sunken wreck.

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Kalashnikov

Winter in Wartime

Run Silent Run Deep

Waterloo Bridge

Fortress of War

A Midnight Clear

Battle for Sevastopol

Mister Roberts

Panama Hattie

House of Time

The Invaders

Dawn of a Filmmaker: The Keisuke Kinoshita Story

Yamato

Air Strike

MacArthur

Wake Island

Germany Pale Mother

Piloti

Pursuit of the Graf Spee

Finding the Graf Zeppelin