Keyword: world war ii

Britain's Greatest Codebreaker

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2011

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The highs and lows of Alan Turings life, tracking his extraordinary accomplishments, his government persecution through to his tragic death in 1954. In the last 18 months of his short life, Turing visited a psychiatrist, Dr. Franz Greenbaum, who tried to help him. Each therapy session in this drama documentary is based on real events. The conversations between Turing and Greenbaum explore the pivotal moments in his controversial life and examine the pressures that may have contributed to his early death. The film also includes the testimony of people who actually knew and remember Turing. Plus, this film features interviews with contemporary experts from the world of technology and high science including Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. These contributors bring Turings exciting impact up to the present day, explaining why, in many ways, modern technology has only just begun to explore the potential of Turings ideas.

Radio Days

7.6

1987

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A nostalgic look at radios golden age focusing on one ordinary family and the various performers in the medium.

The Marriage of Maria Braun

7.9

1979

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Maria marries Hermann Braun in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the war. Alone, Maria puts to use her beauty and ambition in order to find prosperity during Germanys economic miracle of the 1950s.

Under Ten Flags

6.6

1960

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German raider, using various disguises, forces British ship to surrender. Story told from German point of view.

The Battle of the River Plate

6.7

1956

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In the first major naval battle of World War II, the British Navy must find and destroy a powerful German warship.

The Third Part of the Night

7.4

1971

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Set during the occupation of Poland during World War II. Some German soldiers, slaughter a woman, her son and daughter-in-law. The husband and his father escape by being in the forest. The young man decides to join the resistance but at the first meeting Gestapo kills his go-between and chase him. During his escape he gets into an apartment of a pregnant woman and helps her with the childbirth. He works in the typhus center where he is guinea pig for lice after being immunized to make more vaccine. He goes to the hospital to end a misery of a man mistaken by him and tortured where he seems to see his own body and is finally reconciled with himself.

Any Bonds Today?

5.1

1942

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Bugs Bunny and friends sing and dance to promote the sale of government bonds in support of the war effort.

Truman

7.2

1995

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Though considered unqualified, Harry S. Truman becomes the 33rd president following the April 1945 death of Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Objective, Burma!

7.4

1945

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A platoon of special ops are tasked to parachute into the remote Burmese jungle and destroy a strategic Japanese radar station, but getting out isnt as easy.

The Hour Before the Dawn

5.6

1944

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A beautiful Austrian refugee in England--who is also a Nazi agent--marries a scholarly English pacifist. He lives near a secret military base she needs to get information about so she can help in Hitlers planned invasion of England.

Eric Ravilious: Drawn to War

7.4

2022

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Born in London, painter Eric Ravilious raised in Sussex. Served as WWII war artist. His plane crashed off Iceland in 1942, first artist killed on duty. Archives, letters narrate his story through his words with Estates backing.

Divided We Fall

7.8

2000

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In Nazi occupied Czech Republic (then Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia), a childless couple agree to hide a Jewish friend at great personal risk of discovery and execution.