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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

As America's stock of athletic young men is depleted during World War II, a professional all-female baseball league springs up in the Midwest, funded...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tom Hanks

The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocate them to a...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Steve McQueen

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

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

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

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

Genre: Family

Cast: Alex Etel

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

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

The career of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo is halted by a witch hunt in the late 1940s when he defies the anti-communist HUAC committee and is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bryan Cranston

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

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

During World War II, a secret agent must seduce then assassinate an official who works for the Japanese puppet government in Shanghai. Her mission...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tony Leung Chiu-wai

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

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

Set in 1940s France, a new teacher at a school for disruptive boys gives hope and inspiration.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gérard Jugnot

Island of Java, 1942, during World War II. British Major Jack Celliers arrives at a Japanese prison camp, run by the strict Captain Yonoi. Colonel...

Genre: Drama

Cast: David Bowie

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 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

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

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

The Ashton family struggles to deal with the harsh realities of the Second World War as their sons are sent away to fight. Those who remain at home...

Genre: War & Politics

Cast: Colin Douglas

After the sudden death of ex-Secret Intelligence Service man Alexander, his wife Alison investigates when mysteries from her husband's past come...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ruth Wilson

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

Nazi diehard and fanatics fight to the last man to stop Allied forces from freeing Europe, keeping an unrelenting grip on the naval bases, citadels...

Genre: Documentary

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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

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

Genre: Drama

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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

Genre: Drama

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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 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 Second World War. Leningrad was in blockade in the winter of 1941. The only way to deliver food and other supplies to the city is through the icy...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kseniya Rappoport

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

Following his service in World War II, Doctor Finlay returns to the practice at Arden House. This is at a time when the National Health Service is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Annette Crosbie

East Berlin, 1956. Bertolt Brecht, revolutionary of the theater and poet of the state, looks back: his exploits as a teenager during the World War I;...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Burghart Klaußner

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

Fortunes of War is a 1987 BBC television adaptation of Olivia Manning's cycle of novels Fortunes of War. It stars Kenneth Branagh as Guy Pringle,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Emma Thompson

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