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1. Mudbound (2017)
R | 134 min | Drama, War
Two men return home from World War II to work on a farm in rural Mississippi, where they struggle to deal with racism and adjusting to life after war.
Director: Dee Rees | Stars: Jason Mitchell, Carey Mulligan, Jason Clarke, Mary J. Blige
Votes: 54,444
2. The Captain (2017)
118 min | Drama, History, Thriller
In the last moments of World War II, a young German soldier fighting for survival finds a Nazi captain's uniform. Impersonating an officer, the man quickly takes on the monstrous identity of the perpetrators he's escaping from.
Director: Robert Schwentke | Stars: Max Hubacher, Alexander Fehling, Sebastian Rudolph, Max Thommes
Votes: 21,619 | Gross: $0.11M
3. Biloxi Blues (1988)
PG-13 | 106 min | Comedy, Drama
A group of young recruits go through boot camp during the Second World War in Biloxi, Mississippi. From the play by Neil Simon.
Director: Mike Nichols | Stars: Matthew Broderick, Christopher Walken, Matt Mulhern, Corey Parker
Votes: 16,522 | Gross: $43.18M
4. Ivan's Childhood (1962)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama, War
During WWII, Soviet orphan Ivan Bondarev strikes up a friendship with three sympathetic Soviet officers while working as a scout behind the German lines.
Directors: Andrei Tarkovsky, Eduard Abalov | Stars: Nikolay Burlyaev, Valentin Zubkov, Evgeniy Zharikov, Stepan Krylov
Votes: 39,955
5. Max Manus: Man of War (2008)
Not Rated | 118 min | Action, Biography, Crime
The true story about one of the most brilliant saboteurs during World War II and his battle to overcome his inner demons.
Directors: Joachim Rønning, Espen Sandberg | Stars: Aksel Hennie, Agnes Kittelsen, Nicolai Cleve Broch, Ken Duken
Votes: 29,794
6. Ashes and Diamonds (1958)
Not Rated | 103 min | Drama, Romance, War
As World War II and the German occupation ends, the Polish resistance and the Soviet forces turn on each other in an attempt to take over leadership in Communist Poland.
Director: Andrzej Wajda | Stars: Zbigniew Cybulski, Ewa Krzyzewska, Waclaw Zastrzezynski, Adam Pawlikowski
Votes: 13,480
7. Another Time, Another Place (1958)
Approved | 91 min | Drama, Romance, War
An American war correspondent falls in love with a BBC reporter, but their relationship seems doomed from the start.
Director: Lewis Allen | Stars: Lana Turner, Barry Sullivan, Glynis Johns, Sean Connery
Votes: 888
8. Nazi Concentration Camps (1945)
Not Rated | 59 min | Documentary, History
Produced and presented as evidence at the Nuremberg war crimes trial of Hermann Göring and twenty other Nazi leaders.
Director: George Stevens | Stars: Dwight D. Eisenhower, Omar N. Bradley, George S. Patton, Hayden Sears
Votes: 1,651
9. The Iron Curtain (1948)
Approved | 87 min | Biography, Crime, History
The story of Soviet cypher-clerk Igor Gouzenko who was posted to the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa,Canada in 1943 and defected in 1945 to reveal the extent of Soviet espionage activities directed against Canada.
Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney, June Havoc, Berry Kroeger
Votes: 1,108
10. Bettie Page Reveals All (2012)
R | 101 min | Documentary, Biography
The world's greatest pinup model and cult icon, Bettie Page, recounts the true story of how her free expression overcame government witch-hunts to help launch America's sexual revolution.
Director: Mark Mori | Stars: Bettie Page, Hugh Hefner, Olivia de Berardinis, Dita Von Teese
Votes: 1,631 | Gross: $0.10M
11. Anatahan (1953)
PG | 91 min | Drama, History, War
From June 1944, twelve Japanese seamen are stranded for seven years on an abandoned and forgotten island called Anatahan.
Director: Josef von Sternberg | Stars: Akemi Negishi, Tadashi Suganuma, Kisaburo Sawamura, Shôji Nakayama
Votes: 1,352 | Gross: $0.05M
12. Berlin 1945 (2020)
52 min | Documentary, History, War
Life in Berlin in 1945 before, during and after the battle of Berlin seen through the eyes of those who were there at the time from common Berliners to Allied troops.
Stars: Simon Brauer, Konstantin Achmed Bürger, Yvette Coetzee, Lucie David
Votes: 319
13. The Savage Peace (2015 TV Movie)
60 min | Documentary, History
When the Second World War ended, the people of liberated Europe celebrated their freedom from Nazi tyranny. Their years of suffering had ended, but for millions of Germans, the end of the conflict opened a new and terrible chapter.
Director: Peter Molloy | Stars: Christa Ronke, Marianne Becker, Meda Mládek, Stanislava Zverinova
Votes: 313
14. Memoir of War (2017)
127 min | Biography, Drama, War
Marguerite must navigate through the hardships of the Liberation after losing her husband and starting a relationship with the enemy during the War.
Director: Emmanuel Finkiel | Stars: Mélanie Thierry, Benoît Magimel, Benjamin Biolay, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet
Votes: 1,383 | Gross: $0.10M
15. It Happened Here (1964)
Not Rated | 93 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, War
In 1940, Germany invades Britain and transforms it into a Fascist state where some Britons collaborate and others resist. In 1944, Pauline, an apolitical Irish nurse becomes a reluctant player in the fight between the two sides.
Directors: Kevin Brownlow, Andrew Mollo | Stars: Pauline Murray, Sebastian Shaw, Bart Allison, Reginald Marsh
Votes: 1,257
16. The Hasty Heart (1949)
102 min | Drama, War
In the final days of WW2, in a M.A.S.H. unit in Burma, a seriously wounded corporal watches in dismay as fellow soldiers pack-up to return home but a caring nurse and five remaining soldiers bring him solace.
Director: Vincent Sherman | Stars: Ronald Reagan, Patricia Neal, Richard Todd, Anthony Nicholls
Votes: 1,550
17. The Damned (1947)
Not Rated | 105 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller
In the last days of World War II, a group of Nazis and their sympathizers try to escape from reckoning using a submarine.
Director: René Clément | Stars: Marcel Dalio, Henri Vidal, Florence Marly, Fosco Giachetti
Votes: 1,134
18. A German Life (2016)
107 min | Documentary, Biography
Brunhilde Pomsel describes herself as an "apolitical girl" and a "figure on the margins," but she got closer to one of the worst criminals in world history than anyone else left alive. ... See full summary »
Directors: Christian Krönes, Olaf S. Müller, Roland Schrotthofer, Florian Weigensamer | Star: Brunhilde Pomsel
Votes: 451
19. 500,000 (1963)
97 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
During the Second World War, Takeichi Matsuo had participated in hiding a huge cache of gold in the Phillippine mountains. Years after the war, he is kidnapped by Mitsura and Keigo Gunji, ... See full summary »
Director: Toshirô Mifune | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Tatsuya Mihashi, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Mie Hama
Votes: 178
20. The Searching Wind (1946)
Approved | 108 min | Action, Drama, War
Always the diplomat, Alex Hazen is slow to take sides in Europe of the 1920s and 1930s. Cassie Bowman wants him to be more decisive and leaves him in Rome just as Mussolini is coming to ... See full summary »
Director: William Dieterle | Stars: Robert Young, Sylvia Sidney, Ann Richards, Dudley Digges
Votes: 148
21. London: The Modern Babylon (2012)
Not Rated | 125 min | Documentary, History, Music
London: The Modern Babylon is legendary director Julien Temple's epic time-traveling voyage to the heart of his hometown.
Director: Julien Temple | Stars: Keith Allen, Michael Gambon, Steve Jones, Bill Nighy
Votes: 656
22. Zlaté casy (1979)
78 min | Adventure, Drama, War
Director: Stefan Uher | Stars: Jan Vlasák, Ján Vrabec, Peter Gábris, Ryszarda Hanin
Votes: 14
23. Female Slave Ship (1960)
83 min | Action, Adventure, War
Towards the end of World War Two Lt. Sugawa is flying to Tokyo with top secret blueprints when his plane is shot out of the sky over the Pacific Seas. He is plucked from the ocean onto a ... See full summary »
Director: Yoshiki Onoda | Stars: Bunta Sugawara, Tetsurô Tanba, Yôko Mihara, Utako Mitsuya
Votes: 33
24. The Zero Fighter (1962)
110 min | War
The stage is Solomon County Island at the end of WWII. Yujiro, who is dressed as a captain of the "rogue troops", left behind in the small islands, draws a way to lead the troops by a ... See full summary »
Director: Toshio Masuda | Stars: Shinsuke Ashida, Mitsuo Hamada, Yûjirô Ishihara, Hiroshi Kondô
25. Gehlen: Hitler's Superspy (1974 TV Movie)
52 min | Documentary, History, War
This is the remarkable story of Reinhard Gehlen, former Head of the German Secret Service, who helped to found the CIA, the American Central Intelligence Agency.
Director: Peter Batty | Stars: Siegfried Westphal, Walter Warlimont, Kenneth Strong, Lyman Kirkpatrick
Votes: 24
26. Battle of Okinawa in Color (2017)
Documentary, History, War
From white-knuckle, high-speed dogfights to brutal land combat, witness the Battle of Okinawa in vivid color.
Stars: Jeff Wilburn, Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr., Chester W. Nimitz, Mitsuru Ushijima
Votes: 20
27. Taiheiyô sensô to Himeyuri butai (1962)
93 min | Drama, War
The last fight put up by remaining Japanese forces and a special volunteer nursing corps on Okinawa at the end of World War II (1944-45).
Director: Kiyoshi Komori | Stars: Tôru Abe, Kanjûrô Arashi, Shinjirô Asano, Kikuko Hanaoka
Votes: 14
28. Karafuto 1945 Summer Hyosetsu no mon (1974)
119 min | Drama, War
Director: Mitsuo Murayama | Stars: Terumi Niki, Yumiko Fujita, Kawai Okada, Keiko Torii
Votes: 23
29. Reimei hachigatsu jûgo-nichi (1952)
98 min | War
Director: Hideo Sekigawa | Stars: Kappei Matsumoto, Eiji Okada, Akitake Kôno, Yatsuko Tan'ami
30. The Liberation of Zagreb (1985 TV Movie)
50 min | Documentary
Anniversary documentary about the liberation of Zagreb at the end of World War II, focusing on the testimonies of partisans and civilians who took part.
Director: Darko Vernic | Stars: Mika Spiljak, Ivan Ozbolt-Sokol, Zora Pavlovic, Boris Bakrac
31. Shino machi o nogarete (1952)
94 min | Drama, War
Director: Eiichi Koishi | Stars: Mitsuko Mito, Kenji Sugawara, Jun Negami, Ayako Wakao
33. The West Wall (2014 Video)
60 min | History, War
A documentary charting the construction and strategic development of the German Siegfried Line, which stretched from the Netherlands to Switzerland.
Director: Robert Garofalo | Stars: Jeremy Anthony, Winston Churchill, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Adolf Hitler
34.
Voyagers! (1982–1983)
Episode:
Pursuit
(1983)
TV-G | 49 min | Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
After finding no Cape Kennedy in 1969 and no United States either, Phineas and Jeffrey return to the end of World War II to make sure that German rocket scientist Werner von Braun doesn't fall into Soviet hands.
Director: Alan Myerson | Stars: Jon-Erik Hexum, Meeno Peluce, Bo Brundin, Vincent Caristi
Votes: 77
35.
Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State (2005)
Episode:
Liberation & Revenge
(2005)
TV-14 | 48 min | Documentary, History, War
In 1945, Red Army soldiers liberate Auschwitz-Birkenau. As other liberations occur in the following months, the world is appalled. Surviving Jews face horrors as they try to return to their lives, and few SS-men are found and put on trial.
Directors: Laurence Rees, Catherine Tatge | Stars: Gert Heidenreich, Linda Hunt, Samuel West, Vasily Gromadsky
Votes: 168
36.
The World at War (1973–1974)
Episode:
Nemesis: Germany - February-May 1945
(1974)
TV-PG | 52 min | Documentary, History, War
The closing weeks of the European war bring retribution for Germany in the form of carpet bombing cities like Dresden, the collapse of the Whermacht, atrocities by Soviet forces, and finally the fall of Berlin and suicide of Hitler.
Director: Martin Smith | Stars: Laurence Olivier, Ursula Gray, Albert Speer, John Seney
Votes: 371
37.
The World at War (1973–1974)
Episode:
The Bomb: February-September 1945
(1974)
TV-PG | 52 min | Documentary, History, War
Following the events from the death of US President Roosevelt through to the dropping of the two bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki that prompted Japan's surrender.
Stars: Laurence Olivier, Averell Harriman, Alger Hiss, Anthony Eden
Votes: 356
38.
The World at War (1973–1974)
Episode:
Reckoning: 1945... and after
(1974)
TV-PG | 51 min | Documentary, History, War
As wretched survivours suffer deprivations amongst the ruins, half of Germany and eastern Europe trade one socialist tyranny for another as the Soviets take power. Japan is occupied by the U. S., but the colonial empires disintegrate.
Stars: Laurence Olivier, Stephen Ambrose, William Robertson, Kay Summersby
Votes: 335
39.
Gulag: The History (2019– )
Episode:
Apogée et agonie : 1945-1957
(2020)
58 min | Documentary, History
The Gulag's peak and decline (1945-1953).
Director: Patrick Rotman | Stars: Florence Pernel, Louisa Gummer, Yuri Fidelgolts, David Boudennyi
Votes: 33
40.
Battlefield (1995–2004)
Episode:
Campaign in the Balkans
(2004)
105 min | Documentary, History, War
We examine the course of savage fighting in the Balkans in the latter half of the conflict in World War 2 where after the uprising by the Romanians, the Soviet Army moved swiftly to capture Bucharest.
Stars: Jonathan Booth, Ion Antonescu, Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, Ernst Busch
Votes: 11
41.
Battlefield (1995–2004)
Episode:
Guadalcanal
(2000)
Documentary, History, War
Tim Pigott-Smith narrates the story of the battle for Guadalcanal and the capture of this strategically crucial island in World War 2 during which more than 25,000 Japanese lost their lives.
Stars: Tim Pigott-Smith, Frank Jack Fletcher, Robert L. Ghormley, Hirohito
Votes: 6
42.
Battlefield (1995–2004)
Episode:
Manchuria: The Forgotten Victory
(2000)
Documentary, History, War
Tim Pigott-Smith narrates the story of the Soviet victory over the mighty Japanese Kwangtung Army in the mountains of Manchuria, which is one of the least known of the Second World War.
Stars: Tim Pigott-Smith, Aleksei Antonov, Henry H. Arnold, Kai-Shek Chiang
Votes: 5
43.
Kennedy (2023)
Episode:
The World at War (1940-1946)
(2023)
Documentary, Biography, History
After the United States joins the war against Nazi Germany and Japan, Jack joins the Navy and is deployed to the Pacific.
Director: Ashton Gleckman | Stars: Peter Coyote, T. Glenn Pait, David Nasaw, Chris Matthews
Votes: 31
44.
Battle Honours (2021– )
Episode:
Big Red One
(2021)
Documentary, History, War
The story of the longest serving infantry division in the US Army, who fought in every major campaign in Western Europe in which American forces were engaged.
Directors: Adam Luria, Ian Bremner | Stars: Harley Reynolds, Flint Whitlock, Jon Trigg, Benjamin Hilton
45.
Battle Honours (2021– )
Episode:
Red Devils
(2021)
Documentary, History, War
From the moment British airborne was formed after Churchill noted the impressive feats of Germany's elite Falschirmjaeger paratroopers, Britain's Airborne would be an elite fighting force.
Directors: Adam Luria, Ian Bremner | Stars: Chip Chapman, Tony Hibbert, Jim Knox, Jon Trigg
46.
Battle Honours (2021– )
Episode:
Desert Rats
(2021)
Documentary, History, War
The story of the armoured units who landed in Normandy to spearhead the Allied advance into Nazi occupied Europe and break open the Third Reich's defences.
Directors: Adam Luria, Ian Bremner | Stars: Dick Taylor, Jon Trigg, Rodney Scott, Cecil Newton
47.
Battle Honours (2021– )
Episode:
Screaming Eagles
(2021)
Documentary, History, War
The 101st Airborne parachuted into their first battle on D-Day, swiftly proving their worth as one of the most accomplished combat formations ever fielded by the US army.
Directors: Adam Luria, Ian Bremner | Stars: John O'Brien, Ed Shames, Carl Beck, Jon Trigg
48.
Battle Honours (2021– )
Episode:
Rangers
(2021)
Documentary, History, War
America's first true Special Forces units, specially selected and trained with the help of British commandos, Rangers became the first US ground forces to see action in Europe.
Directors: Adam Luria, Ian Bremner | Stars: Edwin Roth, George Sabine, Flint Whitlock, Jon Trigg
49.
World War Weird (2017– )
Episode:
Episode #3.3
(2019)
Documentary, History, War
The unfortunate fate of the world's first tank, which failed to make it onto the battlefield, and the case of the Japanese soldier who continued fighting - until 1974.
Directors: Mike Ibeji, Justine Ostrowska | Stars: Joshua Levine, Guy Walters, Alexandra Churchill, Dominic Selwood
50.
Untold Arctic Wars (2022– )
Episode:
Pohjoinen palaa
(2022)
55 min | Documentary, History, War
The Germans launch a retreat of thousands of kilometers on the eve of the Arctic winter. The Soviets launch a major offensive in the north while the Finns press the Germans into the massive Sturmbock defensive line.
Directors: Anna-Reeta Eksymä, Teemu Hostikka | Stars: Peter Franzén, Torgeir Ekerholt Sæveraas, Simon Orchard, Mika Kulju
Votes: 13