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The story of an old Jewish widow named Daisy Werthan and her relationship with her black chauffeur, Hoke. From an initial mere work relationship grew...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Morgan Freeman

North Africa, World War II. British soldiers on the brink of collapse push beyond endurance to struggle up a brutal incline. It's not a military...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sean Connery

In the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II, a Jewish singer infiltrates the regional Gestapo headquarters for the Dutch resistance.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Carice van Houten

In late 1940s Los Angeles, Easy Rawlins is an unemployed black World War II veteran with few job prospects. At a bar, Easy meets DeWitt Albright, a...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Denzel Washington

City of Warsaw, Poland, August 1st, 1944. Citizens have experienced inhuman acts of terror and violence during five long years of Nazi occupation. As...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Józef Pawłowski

Free-spirited writer Juliet Ashton forms a life-changing bond with the delightful and eccentric Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, when...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Lily James

There were five Marines and one Navy Corpsman photographed raising the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi by Joe Rosenthal on February 23, 1945. This is the...

Genre: War

Cast: Ryan Phillippe

Germany, 1944. Leyna, the 15-year old daughter of a white German mother and a black African father, meets Lutz, a compassionate member of the Hitler...

Genre: War

Cast: Amandla Stenberg

The story of Jewish counterfeiter Salomon Sorowitsch, who was coerced into assisting the Nazi operation of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Karl Markovics

September, 1945. Sebastian impatiently waits for the return of his friend Angelina, whom he has not seen for two years. When the plane carrying the...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Félix Bossuet

Haunted by his mysterious past, a devoted high school football coach leads a scrawny team of orphans to the state championship during the Great...

Genre: History

Cast: Luke Wilson

A railroad worker in China in 1941 leads a team of freedom fighters against the Japanese in order to get food for the poor.

Genre: Action

Cast: Jackie Chan

Summer 1944, Schwäbisch Hall. Contrary to the war propaganda and the decreed heroism, the 16-year-old boys dream of Swing music, sex and freedom...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jonathan Berlin

Ari Ben Canaan, a passionate member of the Jewish paramilitary group Haganah, attempts to transport 600 Jewish refugees on a dangerous voyage from...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Paul Newman

As the Space Race ensues, seven pilots set off on a path to become the first American astronauts to enter space. However, the road to making history...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sam Shepard

The comic mishaps and adventures of a young boy named Ralph, trying to convince his parents, teachers, and Santa that a Red Ryder B.B. gun really is...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Peter Billingsley

Betrayed by an informant, Philippe Gerbier finds himself trapped in a torturous Nazi prison camp. Though Gerbier escapes to rejoin the Resistance in...

Genre: War

Cast: Lino Ventura

Tim Burstall directs then-up-and-comers Mel Gibson and Sam Neill in this action-packed Cannes Film Festival selection about the grim realities of...

Genre: War

Cast: John Phillip Law

Set in German-occupied Norway, resistance fighter Knut Straud enlists the reluctant physicist Rolf Pedersen in an effort to destroy the German heavy...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kirk Douglas

Explore how one man's relentless drive and invention of the atomic bomb changed the nature of war forever, led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: J. Robert Oppenheimer

Set at the outbreak of WWII – mischievous playboy Ian Fleming is untroubled by the specter of impending war – chasing women, collecting...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Dominic Cooper

Comedy drama set during World War Two following the misadventures of two very different bandsmen - one an ex-air force pilot, the other a draft...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jerome Flynn

Genre: Drama

Cast: Stéphane Gagnon

Gibbsville is an American drama television series starring John Savage and Gig Young that aired on NBC from November 11 to December 30, 1976. The...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gig Young

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tong Liya

Set before 1940s, a Hindustani family that was divided mercilessly before the partition of Pakistan by the unfortunate time incidents.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ahad Raza Mir

The story of a young woman who goes to present-day Israel/Palestine determined to find out about her soldier grandfather's involvement in the final...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Claire Foy

Sword of Honour is a two-part adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s semi-autobiographical World War II trilogy that aired Channel 4 in 2001. It centers...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Daniel Craig

Genre: Drama

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Above and Beyond is a four-hour 2006 miniseries aired by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation on October 29 and 30. The miniseries is about the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Peter MacNeill

Genre: Drama

Cast: Melis Birkan

During World War II, a passenger ship travelling from Britain to the USA is torpedoed by a German U-Boat. Eleven children survive the wreck and are...

Genre: Action & Adventure

Cast: Timothy Stark

A major political, historical, human and economic fact of the 20th century, the Gulag, the extremely punitive Soviet concentration camp system,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Florence Pernel

A drama about the national resistance movement in Latvia after the Soviet occupation. Events take place in 1949 when the British intelligence service...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jānis Znotiņš

Charles Ryder, an agnostic man, becomes involved with members of the Flytes, a Catholic family of aristocrats, over the course of several years...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ralph Fiennes

BBC adaptation of Robert Westall's acclaimed novel. In a small seaside town in northern England during World War II, a young boy discovers the...

Genre: Family

Cast: Shaun Taylor

Demob was a short-lived British comedy-drama television series, which screened for one six-episode series in 1993 on ITV. The series was set in the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Griff Rhys Jones

Genre: Crime

Cast: François Dunoyer

D-Day, June 6th, 1944. As the Allies storm the beaches of Normandy, Hitler orders the return of the Das Reich, the infamous Panzer elite division...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Luc Schillinger

Occupied Western Ukraine, 1944. The Soviet High Command is concerned about a large-scale, highly classified construction running through the line of...

Genre: War & Politics

Cast: Aleksandr Lykov