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.

Adira

2014

English

5.2

♡ 1

100%

Irene Delmonte Director

Davis Lee DeRock Jr. as Ernst Schaffer

Amelie Vienne Lincoln as LIttle Girl

Michael Cootes as Private Hartmen

Erik J. Pratt as Sergeant Major Metzger

During the Holocaust, a young Jewish girl flees from the grasp of the Gestapo and finds herself stranded on an abandoned farm.

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.