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In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Zhang Ziyi

The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of the Japanese...

Genre: Action

Cast: Ken Watanabe

On the eve of the Second World War, two of the greatest minds of the twentieth century, C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud converge for their own personal...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Anthony Hopkins

Eugene, an aspiring writer from Brooklyn, is drafted into the US Army during the final months of World War II. For his basic training, the Army sends...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Matthew Broderick

World War II is raging, and an American general has been captured and is being held hostage in the Schloss Adler, a Bavarian castle that's nearly...

Genre: Action

Cast: Richard Burton

In May 1940, the fate of World War II hangs on Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotiate with Adolf Hitler or fight on knowing that it...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gary Oldman

During routine manoeuvres near Hawaii in 1980, the aircraft-carrier USS Nimitz is caught in a strange vortex-like storm, throwing the ship back in...

Genre: War

Cast: Kirk Douglas

Ypsilanti, Michigan, 1945. Engineer Preston Tucker dreams of designing the car of future, but his innovative envision will be repeatedly sabotaged by...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jeff Bridges

Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American Supreme Court Justice, battles through one of his career-defining cases.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chadwick Boseman

Miranda is a sensual tavern owner with a taste for men of all types. Over a year's time, Miranda copes with the death of her husband by enjoying the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Serena Grandi

In 1941 Hawaii, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his captain's wife and second in command are falling in love.

Genre: War

Cast: Burt Lancaster

Mary Lennox is born in India to wealthy British parents who never wanted her. When her parents suddenly die, she is sent back to England to live with...

Genre: Family

Cast: Dixie Egerickx

Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch reluctantly pacts with a stock-man in order to...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Nicole Kidman

A lonely boy discovers a mysterious egg that hatches a sea creature of Scottish legend.

Genre: Family

Cast: Alex Etel

A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: John Turturro

Spanish photographer Francesc Boix, imprisoned in the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp, works in the SS Photographic Service. Between 1943 and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mario Casas

In the days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, panic grips California, where a military officer leads a mob chasing a Japanese sub.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dan Aykroyd

In 1946, Branch Rickey (Harrison Ford), owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, took a stand against Major League Baseball's infamous colour line when he...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chadwick Boseman

In the aftermath of World War II, a British colonel and his wife are assigned to live in Hamburg during the post-war reconstruction, but tensions...

Genre: War

Cast: Keira Knightley

A murder in 1944 draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Daniel Radcliffe

In 1946 Berlin, an American cop searches for his missing brother while helping a novice German policewoman fight the violent crimes engulfing the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Taylor Kitsch

The story of a bustling and glamorous five star hotel at the centre of London society and a world at war.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Steven Mackintosh

In a politically, morally and economically destroyed country, three sisters of an industrialist family in post-war Germany reinvent themselves and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Thomas Sarbacher

During World War II, the Germans convert the castle of Colditz into an escape-proof prison where recidivist escapees are imprisoned under one roof....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Damian Lewis

A three-part drama about serial killer John Christie and the murders at 10 Rillington Place in the 1940s and early 1950s.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tim Roth

1945 Zero hour. Europe is reduced to rubble. Thirty million displaced and uprooted people. At the heart of this ravaged continent lies Switzerland....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Miron Sharshunov

A gripping family drama and entrepreneurial fable, set in a post-war Paris fashion house. It exposes the grit behind the glamour of a rising...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Coyle

A star-laden adaptation of Anton Myrer's sprawling 1978 novel tracing the lives of five Harvard roommates of the class of '44, following them...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Perry King

From Here to Eternity was short-lived dramatic television series that aired in 1980. It was a spinoff of the successful 1979 miniseries of the same...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Roy Thinnes

The true story of the Allied ship Laconia, sunk in WWII by a German U-Boat, which then surfaced against orders to rescue the civilian crew

Genre: Drama

Cast: Franka Potente

Five-part adaptation of Anne Frank's famous wartime diaries in which a young teenager and her family go into hiding from the Nazis in wartime...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ellie Kendrick

Screen adaptation of the memoires of Daniel Cordier, a member of the French Resistance and close friend of Resistance leader, Jean Moulin.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jules Sadoughi

Set in Shanghai in 1948. A traitor tells information about a high-level CCP undercover and Nationalist secret service tries to find him out.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Wu Xiubo

A diverse, dedicated, rough-and-tumble squad of soldiers spearheads the Allied invasion of Italy during World War II.

Genre: War & Politics

Cast: Bradley James

Colditz is a British television series co-produced by the BBC and Universal Studios and screened between 1972 and 1974. The series deals with Allied...

Genre: Drama

Cast: David McCallum

The story of the mysterious and brilliant Jack Parsons in 1940s Los Angeles as by day he helps birth the discipline of American rocketry and by night...

Genre: Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Cast: Jack Reynor

In 1944 many Germans in Eastern Prussia believed like Lena von Mahlenberg, daughter of a local aristocrat, that Hitler would surrender and spare them...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fritz Karl

When Colonel Carey-Lewis dies, his irrepressible daughter, Loveday, inherits Nancherrow and fights to keep it alive so that her son Nat will...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michael Cochrane

18 years old Engraçadinha starts a secret love affair with her cousin Sílvio, who's engaged to her best friend Letícia, who is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Cláudia Raia

The lives of the men and families of G Company, 24th Infantry Division, United States Army, on the eve of the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Genre: War & Politics

Cast: Natalie Wood