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1. Midway (2019)

PG-13 | 138 min | Action, Drama, History

The story of the Battle of Midway, told by the leaders and the sailors who fought it.

Director: Roland Emmerich | Stars: Ed Skrein, Patrick Wilson, Woody Harrelson, Luke Evans

Votes: 94,475 | Gross: $56.85M

2. Night Moves (1975)

R | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Los Angeles private investigator Harry Moseby is hired by a client to find her runaway teenage daughter. Moseby tracks the daughter down, only to stumble upon something much more intriguing and sinister.

Director: Arthur Penn | Stars: Gene Hackman, Jennifer Warren, Edward Binns, Harris Yulin

Votes: 17,716

3. Father Goose (1964)

Approved | 118 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance

During World War II, a man persuaded to live on an isolated island and spot aircraft finds himself responsible for a teacher and several students, all female.

Director: Ralph Nelson | Stars: Cary Grant, Leslie Caron, Trevor Howard, Jack Good

Votes: 12,327 | Gross: $12.50M

4. The Painted Bird (2019)

Unrated | 169 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

A young Jewish boy somewhere in Eastern Europe seeks refuge during World War II where he encounters many different characters.

Director: Václav Marhoul | Stars: Petr Kotlár, Nina Sunevic, Alla Sokolova, Stanislav Bilyi

Votes: 7,625

5. The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964)

Approved | 122 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Anthology movie about three owners of a yellow Rolls-Royce. A British diplomat buys the car for his French wife. A mobster's girlfriend has an affair in Italy. An American woman drives a Yugoslavian partisan

Director: Anthony Asquith | Stars: Ingrid Bergman, Rex Harrison, Shirley MacLaine, Jeanne Moreau

Votes: 4,011

6. The North Star (1943)

Passed | 108 min | Drama, Romance, War

A Ukrainian village must suddenly contend with the German invasion of June 1941.

Director: Lewis Milestone | Stars: Anne Baxter, Dana Andrews, Walter Huston, Walter Brennan

Votes: 1,792

7. The Hook (1963)

Not Rated | 98 min | Drama, War

In the final days of the Korean War, an enemy airman is captured by three American soldiers who cannot bring themselves to follow the order to execute their prisoner.

Director: George Seaton | Stars: Kirk Douglas, Robert Walker Jr., Nick Adams, Pancho Magalona

Votes: 780

8. One Minute to Zero (1952)

Approved | 105 min | Drama, War

During the early days of the Korean War, U.S. Army colonel Steve Janowski is one of the military advisers training the South Korean army and he's tasked with evacuating American civilians from the war zone.

Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Robert Mitchum, Ann Blyth, William Talman, Charles McGraw

Votes: 833

9. Battle Stations (1956)

Approved | 81 min | Drama, War

The crew of a U.S. Navy ship in World War II goes into battle against the Japanese fleet.

Director: Lewis Seiler | Stars: John Lund, William Bendix, Keefe Brasselle, Richard Boone

Votes: 298

10. Cry 'Havoc' (1943)

Passed | 97 min | Drama, War

A chronicle of the experiences of a mixed group of Army hospital volunteers stationed in Bataan during World War II.

Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Margaret Sullavan, Ann Sothern, Joan Blondell, Fay Bainter

Votes: 1,218

11. Suzy (1936)

Passed | 93 min | Drama, Romance, War

Believing that a German spy has killed her new husband (Franchot Tone), a struggling chorus girl (Jean Harlow) flees to Paris where she meets and marries a World War I pilot (Cary Grant), whose carefree ways bring unexpected results.

Director: George Fitzmaurice | Stars: Jean Harlow, Franchot Tone, Cary Grant, Lewis Stone

Votes: 1,722

12. Up from the Beach (1965)

Not Rated | 99 min | Drama, War

After the D-Day landings in June 1944, a US Army platoon liberates a small village in Normandy from German occupation.

Director: Robert Parrish | Stars: Cliff Robertson, Red Buttons, Irina Demick, Marius Goring

Votes: 145

13. Landfall (1949)

86 min | Drama, War

During WW2, an RAF pilot from coastal command is accused of sinking a British submarine that he mistook for a German one.

Director: Ken Annakin | Stars: Michael Denison, Patricia Plunkett, Edith Sharpe, Margaret Barton

Votes: 241

14. Strange Confession (1944)

Approved | 92 min | Drama, War

In World War 2 an escaped murderer who takes the identity of a dead soldier becomes a hero fighting in Africa, but his past catches up with him.

Director: Julien Duvivier | Stars: Jean Gabin, Richard Whorf, Allyn Joslyn, Ellen Drew

Votes: 223

15. Suicide Battalion (1958)

Approved | 79 min | War, Drama

During the Japanese invasion of the Philippines, an American commando team is sent to an evacuated American base in the jungle to destroy classified documents.

Director: Edward L. Cahn | Stars: Mike Connors, John Ashley, Jewell Lain, Russ Bender

Votes: 211

16. Somewhere in France (1942)

Approved | 87 min | Adventure, Drama, War

In 1940, a British engineer goes to France to retrieve specialized armaments machinery, loaned to the French, before the invading Nazi armies can capture it.

Director: Charles Frend | Stars: Tommy Trinder, Constance Cummings, Clifford Evans, Robert Morley

Votes: 400

17. Il sergente Klems (1971)

R | 117 min | Action, Adventure, Romance

A man masquerading as a dead soldier seeks to desert his post and join the enemy in their struggle.

Director: Sergio Grieco | Stars: Peter Strauss, Tina Aumont, Pier Paolo Capponi, Howard Ross

Votes: 76

18. Battle Flame (1959)

Approved | 78 min | Drama, War

The trials and tribulations of a platoon of U.S. Marines, led by 1st Lt. Frank Davis, during the Korean War.

Director: R.G. Springsteen | Stars: Scott Brady, Elaine Edwards, Robert Blake, Wayne Heffley

Votes: 54

19. Isle of Missing Men (1942)

Approved | 67 min | Drama, Romance

A penal colony governor invites a ravishing blond vagabond to join him for a week on his island prison grounds, unaware that she has manipulated their meeting for ulterior motives.

Director: Richard Oswald | Stars: John Howard, Helen Gilbert, Gilbert Roland, Alan Mowbray

Votes: 178

20. Angel in Overalls (1945)

15 min | Documentary, Short

The revolutionary P-38 Lightning was invaluable in the American war effort in World War Two, serving with distinction in all theaters. This War Department film shows American factory workers the results of their hard work.

Stars: Richard Bong, George C. Kenney

21. Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode: Shore Leave (1966)

TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

The past months have left the crew exhausted and in desperate need of a break, but does this explain McCoy's encounter with a human-sized white rabbit or Kirk crossing paths with the prankster who plagued his days at Starfleet Academy?

Director: Robert Sparr | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Emily Banks, Oliver McGowan

Votes: 4,431

22. Tony Robinson's History of Britain (2020–2022)
Episode: The Second World War (2020)

Documentary, History

Bethnal Green station was hit during the Blitz. Grocer's daughter Eileen worked with Princess Elizabeth in the ATS. Maisie's father was punished for his resistance in Guernsey. Joy married an American GI. Ch. 5 description.

Stars: Tony Robinson, King George VI, Queen Elizabeth II, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother

Votes: 11