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.

The Song of Names

2019

English

♡ 14

39%

François Girard Director

Clive Owen as Dovidl

Catherine McCormack as Helen

Tim Roth as Martin

Balázs Veres as Railway Station Guard

A man searches for his childhood best friend, a Polish violin prodigy orphaned in the Holocaust, who vanished decades before on the night of his first public performance.

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.

1944

2015

Estonian

7.0

♡ 11

73%

Elmo Nüganen Director

Rain Simmul as Prohhor Sedõhh

Pääru Oja as Sanitar Elmar 'Säinas'

Marko Leht as Valter Hein

Henrik Kalmet as Voldemar 'Piir'

The events of the war in 1944, from the Blue Hills to Sõrve Peninsula. Shown through the eyes of Estonian soldiers who had to pick sides and fight against fellow brothers. Choices have to be made, not only by the soldiers, but also by their loved ones.

The History of Time Travel

2014

English

6.9

♡ 8

71%

Ricky Kennedy Director

Herbert Midgley as Aden Reenactor

Elizabeth Lestina as Anne Page

Ricky Kennedy as Jim North, News Anchor

Peter J. Calvin as Soviet Scientist

A fictional documentary about the creation of the world's first time machine, the men who created it, and the unintended ramifications it has on world events.

The Boat Is Full

1981

German

7.1

♡ 6

75%

Markus Imhoof Director

Ilse Bahrs as Frau Ostrowskij

Tina Engel as Judith Krueger

Michael Gempart as Landjäger Bigler

Curt Bois as Lazar Ostrowskij

During World War II, Switzerland severely limited refugees: "Our boat is full." A train from Germany halts briefly in an isolated corner of Switzerland. Six people jump off seeking asylum: four Jews, a French child, and a German soldier. They seek temporary refuge with a couple who run a village inn. They pose as a family: the deserter as husband, Judith as his wife, an old man from Vienna as her father, his granddaughter and the French lad, whom they beg to keep silent, as their children. Judith's teenage brother poses as a soldier. The fabrication unravels through chance and the local constable's exact investigation. Whom will the Swiss allow to stay? Who gets deported?

The Sea Chase

1955

English

6.4

♡ 8

52%

John Farrow Director

David Farrar as Cmdr. Jeff Napier

Sheb Wooley as Screaming Man hit by Axe

Gloria Dea as Señorita

John Indrisano as Sub-Lieutenant

As the Second World War breaks out, German freighter captain Karl Ehrlich is about to leave Sydney, Australia with his vessel, the Ergenstrasse. Ehrlich, an anti-Nazi but proud German, hopes to outrun or out-maneuver the British warship pursuing him. Aboard his vessel is Elsa Keller, a woman Ehrlich has been ordered to return to Germany safely along with whatever secrets she carries. When Ehrlich's fiercely Nazi chief officer Kirchner commits an atrocity, the British pursuit becomes deadly.

They Were Expendable

1945

English

7.2

♡ 16

92%

73%

Action

based on novel or book

John Ford Director

Cameron Mitchell as Ens. George Cross

John Roy as Man in Admiral's Office

Betty Blythe as Officer's Wife

Louis Jean Heydt as 'Ohio'

After a demonstration of new PT boats, navy brass are still unconvinced of their viability in combat, leaving Lt. "Rusty" Ryan frustrated. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, however, Ryan and his buddy Lt. Brickley are told they can finally take their squadron into battle. The PT boats quickly prove their worth, successfully shooting down Japanese planes, relaying messages between islands, and picking off a multitude of enemy ships.

Escape to Athena

1979

English

5.7

♡ 14

32%

George P. Cosmatos Director

Elliott Gould as Charlie Dane

Philip Locke as Vogel

Telly Savalas as Zeno

Paul Picerni as Zeno's Man

During the World War II, the prisoners of a German camp in a Greek island are trying to escape. They not only want their freedom, but also seek an ineffable treasure hidden in a monastery at the summit of the island's mountain.

Operation Dunkirk

2017

English

2.5

♡ 89

13%

Nick Lyon Director

Kimberley Hews as Angelique

Ifan Meredith as Lt. Galloway

Tyler Cole as Roger King

Michael Wouters as Strasser

A band of soldiers tasked with staying behind during the Battle of Dunkirk to rescue a scientist with information that could turn the tide of the war must battle their way through dangerous Nazi territory to complete their mission.

Behind the Line: Escape to Dunkirk

2020

English

4.7

♡ 25

Ben Mole Director

Sam Gittins as Danny Finnegan

Tim Berrington as Drexler

Joe Egan as Maximus Sennenhund

Joel Phillimore as Tim

Occupied France, 1940. A Nazi Commander discovers one of his prisoners, Danny is a champion boxer. He forces him to fight for his company's entertainment. But the POWs realise they can use these contests, as cover for an audacious breakout, before they re sent to Germany, where escape will be almost impossible. Their fate and freedom may all come down to how long Danny can keep fighting.

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The Invaders

Dawn of a Filmmaker: The Keisuke Kinoshita Story

Yamato

Air Strike

The Song of Names

MacArthur

Wake Island

Germany Pale Mother

Piloti

Pursuit of the Graf Spee

Finding the Graf Zeppelin

1944

The History of Time Travel

The Boat Is Full

The Sea Chase

They Were Expendable

Escape to Athena

Operation Dunkirk

Behind the Line: Escape to Dunkirk