Keyword: world war ii

World War Two: Behind Closed Doors

7.9

2008

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A story showing the 3 allied leaders, Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalins actions and relationships behind the scenes during World War 2. It isnt as friendly as it seems. Shows how close the war was to favoring the axis if the Soviet Union joined forces with Hitlers Nazis.

Apocalypse: D-Day

8.6

2024

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On 6 June 1944, the Allied armada launched an assault on the Normandy coast. After a day of unrest, the Normandy coastline was in the hands of the Allies. The operation was repeated in Provence, and caught the Germans in a vice-like grip.

Frontlines

7.6

2020

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Frontlines presents a list of desperate courage: Midway, Anzio, Monte Cassino, Omaha, Hill 112, Bastogne, Iwo Jima and Berlin.

From Here to Eternity

7.1

1979

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In Hawaii in 1941, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his units team, while his captains wife and second-in-command are falling in love.

The Attackers

7.1

2013

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The Eastern Front, 1943. Two Soviet pilots, straight out of training, join a veteran fighter squadron on the front line.

Hitler's Secret Sex Life

5.2

2021

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From incest to stalking women as a youth, from masochism to murder, as he tried to hide his sexual past, this investigation delves deeper than ever before into the primal mindset of historys most destructive man.

Dunkirk

7.2

2004

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A dramatized documentary about the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk in May 1940.

Man in an Orange Shirt

7.9

2017

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Tales of love across two films highlighting the very different challenges that face the couples, With Michael and Thomas just after WWII, and Adam and Steve in the present day.

Colditz

6.7

2005

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While WWII Allied officer Jack Rose is held prisoner in Germanys notorious Colditz Castle, he recruits a band of fellow escape artists in the ultimate break-out only to discover that the greatest betrayal awaits him on safe ground.

Five Came Back

8.2

2017

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The wartime contributions of five prominent Hollywood film directors during World War II are profiled.

Secret Agent Selection: WW2

7.7

2018

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Immersive history series focusing on one of World War IIs most covert organisations, Britains Special Operations Executive. A group of modern-day volunteers undertake the SOE agent training programme.

Then Churchill Said to Me

7

1993

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Set in the 1940s in Winston Churchills secret underground bunker. Frankie Howerd plays a soldier named Private Potts who is a barman to a group of officers, who, like his character in Up Pompeii!, is hell-bent on avoiding work.

Operation Blood Hunt

5.6

2024

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The Reverend, accompanies a ragtag group of military rejects to a remote South Pacific Island to investigate the disappearance of Marine units said to be at the hands of the Japanese Imperial Army.

When the Wind Blows

8.2

1986

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A naive elderly British rural couple survive the initial onslaught of a nuclear war.

The Book Thief

7.8

2013

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While subjected to the horrors of World War II Germany, young Liesel finds solace by stealing books and sharing them with others. In the basement of her home, a Jewish refugee is being protected by her adoptive parents.

Seven Years in Tibet

7.5

1997

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True story of Heinrich Harrer, an Austrian mountain climber who became friends with the Dalai Lama at the time of Chinas takeover of Tibet.

Murder Company

3

2024

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In the midst of the D-Day invasion, a group of US soldiers are given orders to smuggle a member of the French resistance behind enemy lines to assassinate a high-value Nazi target.

Goebbels and the Führer

6.7

2024

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Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels is in charge of building public support for the Holocaust and for the war that Hitler is about to start.

The Believer

7.2

2001

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A young Jewish man develops a fiercely anti-Semitic philosophy. Based on the factual story of a K.K.K. member in the 1960s who was revealed to be Jewish by a New York Times reporter.

Patton

8.2

1970

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The World War II phase of the career of controversial American general George S. Patton.

Europa Europa

5.6

1990

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A boy in Nazi Germany, trying to conceal that he is Jewish, joins the Hitler Youth.

Nazi Death Camp: The Great Escape

7.8

2014

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From PBS - The Nazi death camp at Sobibor was created solely for the mass extermination of Jews. But on October 14, 1943 the inmates fought back, in the biggest and most successful prison outbreak of the Second World War. Of the 600 inmates present on the day of the escape, 300 escaped. Around 50 survived the war and of that 50, only a handful are still alive. This is their last chance to reveal the true story of their escape.

Battle of Britain

7.1

1969

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In 1940, the British Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle to prevent the Luftwaffe from gaining air superiority over the English Channel as a prelude to a possible Axis invasion of the U.K.

Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence

7.3

1983

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During W.W. II, a British colonel tries to bridge the cultural divides between a British P.O.W. and the Japanese camp commander in order to avoid blood-shed.