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1. Wonder Woman (2017)
PG-13 | 141 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
When a pilot crashes and tells of conflict in the outside world, Diana, an Amazonian warrior in training, leaves home to fight a war, discovering her full powers and true destiny.
Director: Patty Jenkins | Stars: Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Robin Wright, Lucy Davis
Votes: 700,399 | Gross: $412.56M
2. Breakthrough (1979)
PG | 115 min | Drama, War
In 1944 a German sergeant gets involved in an anti-Hitler conspiracy, and saves the life of an American colonel.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen | Stars: Richard Burton, Rod Steiger, Helmut Griem, Klaus Löwitsch
Votes: 1,481
3. Night Ambush (1957)
Unrated | 93 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Led by British officers, partisans on Crete plan to kidnap the island's German commander and smuggle him to Cairo, Egypt to embarrass the occupiers.
Directors: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Marius Goring, David Oxley, Dimitri Andreas
Votes: 1,982
4. Down River (2018)
70 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
Four soldiers trapped behind enemy lines must confront their fears and desires while finding a way back to their battalion.
Director: Alexander Raye Pimentel | Stars: Alexander Raye Pimentel, Zachary Greene, Cody Poirot, Nicholas Winand
Votes: 592
5. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1962)
Approved | 153 min | Drama, War
In Argentina, one daughter of patriarch Madariaga is married to a Frenchman while the other is married to a German thus leading to a crisis when Nazi Germany occupies France and some Madariaga family members fight on opposite sides.
Director: Vincente Minnelli | Stars: Glenn Ford, Ingrid Thulin, Charles Boyer, Lee J. Cobb
Votes: 2,353 | Gross: $1.91M
6. Counterpoint (1967)
Approved | 107 min | Drama, Music, War
A famous orchestra conductor is captured by the Germans in WW2, and is forced to perform at private concerts for the Nazi generals.
Director: Ralph Nelson | Stars: Charlton Heston, Maximilian Schell, Kathryn Hays, Leslie Nielsen
Votes: 1,056
7. The Two-Headed Spy (1958)
Approved | 93 min | Drama, Thriller, War
A long-entrenched British agent planted in the German Army is urged to continue his work during the Second World War, but struggles to keep secret his true identity from the Third Reich.
Director: André De Toth | Stars: Jack Hawkins, Gia Scala, Erik Schumann, Alexander Knox
Votes: 934
8. Which Way to the Front? (1970)
G | 96 min | Comedy, War
Brendan Byers III is a wealthy playboy who wants to serve his country as a soldier, but he has been classified as 4-F (registrant not acceptable for military service). He recruits ... See full summary »
Director: Jerry Lewis | Stars: Jerry Lewis, Jan Murray, John Wood, Steve Franken
Votes: 1,424 | Gross: $0.40M
9. Inside Out (1975)
PG | 97 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Thirty years after WW2, a team of former GIs and German soldiers plans to retrieve Nazi loot hidden in the Soviet occupied East Germany, its exact location only known to an imprisoned Nazi war criminal.
Director: Peter Duffell | Stars: Telly Savalas, Robert Culp, James Mason, Aldo Ray
Votes: 655
10. Raiders in the Sky (1953)
Unrated | 96 min | Drama, Romance, War
War drama about the dangerous and stressful work of Lancaster bomber British crews during World War II.
Director: Philip Leacock | Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Ian Hunter, Dinah Sheridan, Bryan Forbes
Votes: 824
11. Apocalypse: Hitler Takes on the West (2021– )
104 min | Documentary, History, War
May 10th, 1940, Hitler takes on the West. Will he precipitate Europe into the Apocalypse?
Stars: Mathieu Kassovitz, Nathan Rippy, Stephen Rashbrook
Votes: 256
12. Babette Goes to War (1959)
106 min | Comedy, War
Comedy about a naive French country girl in London who helps the war effort by parachuting into German-occupied France to help kidnap an important German general. She bungles through to a heroic finish of plot and counter-plot.
Director: Christian-Jaque | Stars: Brigitte Bardot, Jacques Charrier, Ronald Howard, Michael Cramer
Votes: 452
13. Nurse Edith Cavell (1939)
Approved | 108 min | Biography, Drama, War
An English nurse with a great reputation for her work in Belgian hospitals, becomes outraged at the number of Allied soldiers detained in German prisoner-of-war camps during World War I, and devises a secret plan to help hundreds escape.
Director: Herbert Wilcox | Stars: Anna Neagle, Edna May Oliver, George Sanders, May Robson
Votes: 408
14. Osvobozhdenie: Napravlenie glavnogo udara (1971)
125 min | Drama, History, Romance
This five part WW2 epic drama gives a dramatized detailed account of the five major eastern front Soviet campaigns against Nazi Germany.
Director: Yuriy Ozerov | Stars: Mikhail Nozhkin, Nikolay Olyalin, Mikhail Ulyanov, Larisa Golubkina
Votes: 771
15. Apocalypse Hitler attaque à l'Est (2021)
Documentary, History, War
In June 1941, Hitler took his greatest gamble - launching an attack against the Soviet Union. Despite being the largest German operation of WWII, Operation Barbarossa was one of his biggest failures.
Stars: Mathieu Kassovitz, Stephen Rashbrook, Nathan Rippy
Votes: 209
16. Il cielo cade (2000)
102 min | Drama, Music, Romance
1943, an estate north of Firenze. The weight of the world is on the shoulders of Penny, who's about 10. An orphan, she must watch over her little sister when they go to live with her aunt ... See full summary »
Directors: Andrea Frazzi, Antonio Frazzi | Stars: Isabella Rossellini, Jeroen Krabbé, Barbara Enrichi, Gianna Giachetti
Votes: 490
17. Battle of Kursk (2009 Video)
57 min | Documentary, History, War
A documentary recounting the WW2 engagement between German and Soviet forces on the Eastern Front in July 1943.
Director: Robert Garofalo | Stars: Roy Ward, Heinrich Himmler, Adolf Hitler, Ivan Konev
Votes: 10
18. Fabrik der Offiziere (1960)
91 min | Crime, Drama, War
A German officer school, World War II. After an officer dies during an explosives demonstration a newly transferred officer is tasked by the commandant to investigate if it was an accident or if there is more.
Director: Frank Wisbar | Stars: Helmut Griem, Horst Frank, Carl Lange, Peter Carsten
Votes: 115
19. The Enemy General (1960)
Approved | 74 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
An American OSS agent and the French underground attempt to rescue a Nazi general, who is awaiting execution by the Germans, and help him escape to London.
Director: George Sherman | Stars: Van Johnson, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Dany Carrel, John van Dreelen
Votes: 175
20. Battle for the Bulge (1969)
48 min | Documentary, History, War
This WWII documentary uses current location filming and authentic historic film clips to document the Battle of the Bulge, the last big German offensive in World War II, which was launched ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Batty | Stars: Hasso von Manteuffel, Robert Hasbrouck, John Mace, David Belchem
Votes: 16
21. Le jour de gloire (1976)
94 min | Comedy, War
In 1944, a retired German detachment found itself stranded in a French town. The inhabitants try to live in good harmony with the occupants. But one day kids, playing with a grenade, accidentally cause the death of an SS lieutenant.
Director: Jacques Besnard | Stars: Jean Lefebvre, Pierre Tornade, Darry Cowl, Jacques Marin
Votes: 226
22. This Mad World (1930)
Passed | 70 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
Paul Parisot, a French spy in World War 1, returns home on a secret mission to visit his mother, and finds that Victoria, the wife of a German general, is billeted in the Parisot home while... See full summary »
Director: William C. de Mille | Stars: Kay Johnson, Basil Rathbone, Louise Dresser, Veda Buckland
Votes: 26
23. The Black Parachute (1944)
Approved | 85 min | Adventure, Drama, War
An imprisoned King must be rescued from the Nazi general holding him captive.
Director: Lew Landers | Stars: John Carradine, Osa Massen, Larry Parks, Jeanne Bates
Votes: 72
24. 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
25. Hitler's Coup 1923 (2023 TV Special)
Documentary, History
In 1923, Adolf Hitler led the infamous Beer Hall Putsch, an attempt to take power in Germany by force. It was a day that changed the world forever, birthing Hitler's regime.
Directors: Dominic Saville, Lyndy Saville | Stars: Giles Milton, Clare Mulley, Nicholas O'Shaughnessy, Richard John Evans
26. Maratón (1968)
103 min | Comedy, Drama, War
It is 5 May 1945 and the uprising against the hated German occupiers has broken out in Prague. The Czech guards open the gate of the Pankrác prison to allow the prisoners to escape en masse... See full summary »
Director: Ivo Novák | Stars: Jaromír Hanzlík, Jana Brejchová, Vladimír Mensík, Karel Höger
Votes: 29
27. Battle for Cassino (1969 Video)
51 min | Documentary, History, War
In this World War II documentary, we examine several of the controversial bombings of the war. Included is Allies bombing of the Benedictine Monastery on Monte Cassino.
Director: Peter Batty | Stars: Bernard Archard, Allan Francis Harding, Dan Davin, Achim Oster
Votes: 13
28. Generale - Anatomie der Marneschlacht (1977 TV Movie)
89 min | War
Director: Franz Peter Wirth | Stars: Otto Kurth, Friedrich Gröndahl, Alexander Hegarth, Hans Daniel
Votes: 26
29. Der Hund des Generals (1964 TV Movie)
110 min | Drama, War
Before a commission investigating war crimes, General Rampf has to answer, among other things, for a senseless deployment order
Director: Franz Peter Wirth | Stars: Paul Hoffmann, Carl Lange, Hans-Dieter Asner, Klaus Löwitsch
Votes: 48
30. I Was a General of Wehrmacht (1988)
18 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
Kazimierz Leski tells the story of his life. During the war, he was a spy of the Polish resistance, pretending to be a German general. After the war, he was tortured and imprisoned for espionage, and spent 10 years in Stalinist jail.
Director: Jacek Blawut | Star: Kazimierz Leski
Votes: 12
31.
Hogan's Heroes (1965–1971)
Episode:
Art for Hogan's Sake
(1966)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy, War
An assertive Gen. Burkhalter "requisitions" the famous Édouard Manet painting, "The Fife Player," from the Louvre museum in Paris to give to Hermann Goering as a birthday present. Undaunted... See full summary »
Director: Gene Reynolds | Stars: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary
Votes: 195
32.
Rise of the Nazis (2019–2023)
Episode:
Politics
(2019)
Documentary, History
Delving into the corridors of power where Germany's top political mastermind sees an opportunity to use the popularity of the Nazis for his own ends.
Director: Julian Jones | Stars: Stephan Malinowski, Mike Jackson, Richard John Evans, Helena Kennedy
Votes: 139
33.
Rise of the Nazis (2019–2023)
Episode:
Night of the Long Knives
(2019)
Documentary, History
Threatened by the ambition of SA leader Ernst Röhm, Hitler is persuaded by Himmler to destroy Röhm and his stormtroopers and make the SS Germany's only paramilitary force.
Director: Julian Jones | Stars: Heike B. Görtemaker, Richard John Evans, Mike Jackson, Richard Overy
Votes: 113
34.
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: 12
35.
Battlefield (1995–2004)
Episode:
The Battles for Tunisia
(2001)
Documentary, History, War
The campaign in Tunisia in World War Two saw the battles that finally ended the brutal war in the desert. We look at the weapons used and tactics and tell the story of the battle itself.
Stars: Jonathan Booth, Harold Alexander, Kenneth Anderson, Claude Auchinleck
Votes: 7
36.
Battlefield (1995–2004)
Episode:
The Siege of Leningrad
(2000)
Documentary, History, War
Tim Pigott-Smith narrates the story of one of the Second World War's most harrowing episodes - the 890-day siege of the Soviet Union's second city Leningrad which was not liberated until January 1944.
Stars: Tim Pigott-Smith, Rolf Carls, Karl Dönitz, Joseph Goebbels
Votes: 7
37.
The Winds of War (1983)
Episode:
The Storm Breaks
(1983)
139 min | Drama, Romance, War
With the German invasion of Poland underway, Pug Henry is called to Washington for a meeting with President Roosevelt. The President is impressed that Pug foresaw the German-Soviet pact and... See full summary »
Director: Dan Curtis | Stars: Robert Mitchum, Ali MacGraw, Jan-Michael Vincent, John Houseman
Votes: 157
38.
Rise of the Nazis (2019–2023)
Episode:
Barbarossa
(2022)
Documentary, History
At the peak of his power, Hitler now faces fellow ruthless dictator Stalin. He tries to deceive Stalin with a plan to invade Britain, all while preparing an attack on the Soviet Union.
Director: Julian Jones | Stars: Richard John Evans, Garry Kasparov, John Scarlett, Alexandra Richie
Votes: 63
39.
Rise of the Nazis (2019–2023)
Episode:
Stalingrad
(2022)
Documentary, History
The Nazis have lost in Moscow. Hitler and Stalin take charge of their armies - with no-one to hold them back. In Stalin, Hitler has met his match - it's now a fight to the death.
Director: Julian Jones | Stars: Richard John Evans, Richard Overy, Heike B. Görtemaker, Garry Kasparov
Votes: 70
40.
Rise of the Nazis (2019–2023)
Episode:
The Home Front
(2022)
Documentary, History
Facing defeat on the Eastern Front, Hitler retreats. Deep rifts emerge, and his inner circle vies for power. The resistance gets a student voice, and an enemy within plots to kill Hitler.
Director: Julian Jones | Stars: Richard John Evans, Pablo de Orellana, Afua Hirsch, Christian Goeschel
Votes: 65
41.
Adolf Hitler's War (2020)
Episode:
This Has Happened
(2020)
Documentary, History, War
Hitler's War moves to its endgame as the Soviets cross the German border - with a death toll of over 40 million, a new scarred, Europe will emerge.
Directors: Michael Cove, Mike Kenneally | Stars: Aliaksandr Kakhanouski, David Stahel, Sergei Kudryashov, Dzmitry Kryvashei
42.
The Armchair Historian (2017– )
Episode:
German Leadership WW2: Genius or Insanity?
(2022)
22 min | Documentary, Animation
The Armchair HIstorian attempts to answer whether the German leadership, both military and political were chock-full of geniuses, idiots who prevailed because of dumb luck, generals who ... See full summary »
Director: Griffin Johnsen | Stars: Griffin Johnsen, Adolf Hitler, Heiner, Matthias Lünig
43.
Hitler: Uncovering His Fatal Obsession (2021)
Episode:
Time is Blood
(2021)
45 min | Documentary, History, War
After a terrible winter, 1942 starts badly for Stalin due to a ruthless Nazi campaign that leaves millions of Soviets captive and without food.
Directors: Lyndy Saville, Cal Seville | Stars: Max Hastings, Anthony Beevor, Klaus Schmider, Richard John Evans
Votes: 6
44.
Military Masterminds (2022)
Episode:
Rapid Dominance
(2022)
52 min | Documentary, History, War
From Julius Caesar to Napoleon Bonaparte, ancient generals took advantage of a military tactic still used in modern warfare - a tactic known as Rapid Dominance.
Director: Roberto Irwin | Stars: Ahron Bregman, Lawrence Freedman, Jenny Grant, Dina Gusejnova
45.
Beyond the Myth: The SS Unveiled (2022– )
Episode:
The Waffen-SS
(2022)
Documentary, History, War
Masqueraded as military excellence, the reality was very different. Recruits were poorly trained and remorse was nonexistent, as SS troops killed mercilessly.
Director: Gabriele Rose | Stars: Richard John Evans, Jean-Luc Leleu, Bastian Hein, Jochen Böhler
46.
Apocalypse: Stalin (2015)
Episode:
L'Homme rouge
(2015)
TV-14 | 53 min | Documentary, History, War
1942.After blocking the Germans right outside of Moscow, Stalin now faces Hitler's second assault. The world's fate will be decided in Stalingrad. Like in Leningrad, men, women and children, plunged into hell, are sacrificed.
Directors: Isabelle Clarke, Daniel Costelle | Stars: Mathieu Kassovitz, Doug Rand, Nadezhda Alliluyeva, Svetlana Alliluyeva
Votes: 78
47.
Apocalypse: Stalin (2015)
Episode:
Le Maître du Monde
(2015)
TV-14 | 53 min | Documentary, History, War
1944: the Soviets continue on the path to towards liberation. On the road to Berlin, they discover the horror of Hitler's extermination camps. Fifteen years earlier, Stalin transformed his country using every means at his disposal.
Directors: Isabelle Clarke, Daniel Costelle | Stars: Mathieu Kassovitz, Doug Rand, Nadezhda Alliluyeva, Olga Balykina
Votes: 77
48.
The Man in the High Castle (2015–2019)
Episode:
Hitler Has Only Got One Ball
(2019)
TV-MA | 49 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Juliana's instincts about Helen are put to the ultimate test. As San Francisco evacuates, Kido goes in search of his son, only to find himself a captive. A letter arrives, forever changing ... See full summary »
Director: Frederick E.O. Toye | Stars: Alexa Davalos, Joel de la Fuente, Jason O'Mara, Brennan Brown
Votes: 1,299