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Los Angeles, 1949. Ruthless, Brooklyn-born mob king Mickey Cohen runs the show in this town, reaping the ill-gotten gains from the drugs, the guns,...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Josh Brolin

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

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

Freddie, a volatile, heavy-drinking veteran who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, finds some semblance of a family when he stumbles onto...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joaquin Phoenix

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

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

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

In the horror of 1944 Auschwitz, a prisoner forced to burn the corpses of his own people finds moral survival trying to save from the flames the body...

Genre: War

Cast: Géza Röhrig

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

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

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

Oskar Matzerath is a very unusual boy. Refusing to leave the womb until promised a tin drum by his mother, Agnes, Oskar is reluctant to enter a world...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mario Adorf

In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. "Tora! Tora!...

Genre: War

Cast: Martin Balsam

A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign in the Forbidden City, the object of worship by...

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Lone

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

Genre: Family

Cast: Alex Etel

As the Japanese surrender at the end of WWII, Gen. Fellers is tasked with deciding if Emperor Hirohito will be hanged as a war criminal. Influencing...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Matthew Fox

A man convicted of murdering his wife escapes from prison and works with a woman to try and prove his innocence.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Humphrey Bogart

The harrowing true story of the crew of the USS Indianapolis, who were stranded in the Philippine Sea for five days after delivering the atomic...

Genre: Action

Cast: Nicolas Cage

The story of Operation Market Garden—a failed attempt by the allies in the latter stages of WWII to end the war quickly by securing three...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Dirk Bogarde

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

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

Seoul 1945 is a 2006 South Korean television series starring Ryu Soo-young, Han Eun-jeong, So Yoo-jin, Kim Ho-jin, and Park Sang-myun. It aired on...

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Cast: Lee Ji-hoon

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

Homefront is an American television drama series created and produced by Lynn Marie Latham and Bernard Lechowick in association with Warner Bros....

Genre: Drama

Cast: David Newsom

Follow three intricately connected stories of Jamaicans and Londoners involved in World War Two. Hortense yearns for a new life away from rural...

Genre: Drama

Cast: David Oyelowo

Genre: Drama

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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

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

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 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

In post-World War II Hollywood, an ambitious group of aspiring actors and filmmakers will do almost anything to make their showbiz dreams come true.

Genre: Drama

Cast: David Corenswet

A promise to his mother led him to become the best musical and movie star of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema; his songs and characters went around...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mario Morán

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

The True Believers is a 1988 Australian mini series which looks at the history of the Australian Labor Party from the end of World War Two up to the...

Genre: War & Politics

Cast: Ed Devereaux

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

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

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

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