Keyword: 1940s

Plenty

6.1

1985

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A young Englishwoman spends twenty years to make whatever kind of life for herself, at the expense of others around her, in post-World War II England.

Distant Voices, Still Lives

7.5

1988

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The lives of an English working-class family are told out of order in a free-associative manner. The first part, Distant Voices, focuses on the fathers role in the family. The second part, Still Lives, focuses on his children.

The Land Girls

6.2

1998

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Three young women from very different walks of life join the womens land army during World War II, and are sent to work together on a farm in Dorset, where the experience changes their lives forever.

Comes a Horseman

6.2

1978

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A brave and proud woman struggles for her land, finding help and something more in unexpected way.

Sophie and the Rising Sun

6.5

2016

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In a small Southern town in the autumn of 1941, Sophie’s lonely life is transformed when an Asian man arrives under mysterious circumstances. Their love affair becomes the lightning rod for long-buried conflicts that erupt in bigotry and violence with the outbreak of World War ll.

Map of the Human Heart

7.2

1992

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Arctic, 1965: Avik tells his story starting 1931. A mapmaker flies Avik, then a preteen Eskimo boy with TB, to a hospital in Montreal, where he meets Albertine. They meet again when Avik joins WWII in UK.

The Victors

7

1963

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Intelligent, sprawling saga of a squad of American soldiers, following them through Europe during World War II.

Operation: Daybreak

7.1

1975

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In 1942, Britain sends a group of British-trained Czech commandos to Prague to assassinate SS-General Reinhard Heydrich, head of the Nazi security services.

The Grass Harp

7

1995

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Based on the novel by Truman Capote, this often-witty coming-of-age drama looks at a young man growing up with an unusual family in the Deep South in the 1940s.

The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial

6.7

1988

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A full-length adaptation, originally staged as a play, of the court-martial segment from the novel The Caine Mutiny.

Our Miss Fred

5.8

1972

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Shakespearian actor Fred Wimbushs drafted during WWII. While entertaining the troops with his drag act one day, the Germans capture them. Thinking hes a girl, they let him go. He mustnt break his character until he reaches safety.

Cult of the Cobra

5.8

1955

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American G.I.s who trespass on a Hindu ceremony are hunted down by a beautiful woman who has the power to transform herself into a cobra.