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1. The Man Who Cried (2000)
R | 100 min | Drama, Music, Romance
A young refugee traveling from Russia to America in search of her lost father falls for a gypsy horseman.
Director: Sally Potter | Stars: Christina Ricci, Cate Blanchett, Oleg Yankovskiy, Claudia Lander-Duke
Votes: 16,464 | Gross: $0.74M
2. The King's Choice (2016)
133 min | Biography, Drama, History
April 1940. Norway has been invaded by Germany and the royal family and government have fled into the interior. The German envoy to Norway tries to negotiate a peace. Ultimately, the decision on Norway's future will rest with the king.
Director: Erik Poppe | Stars: Jesper Christensen, Anders Baasmo, Karl Markovics, Tuva Novotny
Votes: 10,084 | Gross: $0.11M
3. 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: 4,015
4. April 9th (2015)
93 min | Drama, History, War
On April 9, 1940 Germany invaded Denmark. Based on real events - in Southern Jutland a military unit on bicycles was sent south to help hold back the Germans until reinforcement.
Director: Roni Ezra | Stars: Pilou Asbæk, Lars Mikkelsen, Ari Alexander, Joachim Fjelstrup
Votes: 6,478
5. Charlatan (2020)
Unrated | 118 min | Biography, Drama, History
The life of successful Czech healer Jan Mikolasek, who diagnosed and healed people using his intuition and strong familiarity with plants, set against the background of the events of the totalitarian fifties.
Director: Agnieszka Holland | Stars: Ivan Trojan, Josef Trojan, Juraj Loj, Jaroslava Pokorná
Votes: 3,216
6. Red Cherry (1995)
120 min | Drama, War
It is 1940. Chuchu and Luo Xiaoman are Chinese students who have been sent to study in Moscow, at the international school. She is 13; he is 12. Xiaoman is from Yanan, Mao's base after the ... See full summary »
Director: Daying Ye | Stars: Ke-Yu Guo, Xiao-Li Xu, Igor Ledogorov, Vyacheslav Butenko
Votes: 748
7. The Moon Is Down (1943)
90 min | Drama, War
During the Nazi occupation of Norway, a small Norwegian village struggles to cope with the invaders and some locals choose collaboration while others prefer armed resistance.
Director: Irving Pichel | Stars: Cedric Hardwicke, Henry Travers, Lee J. Cobb, Dorris Bowdon
Votes: 538
8. The Pied Piper (1942)
87 min | Drama, War
While traveling in France during the Nazi invasion of 1940, an Englishman is entrusted with the care of a group of refugee children.
Director: Irving Pichel | Stars: Monty Woolley, Roddy McDowall, Anne Baxter, Otto Preminger
Votes: 737
9. Anatomie zrady (2020– )
Biography, Drama, History
Stars: Marián Labuda, Dana Droppová, Rebeka Poláková, Filip Brezina
Votes: 74
10. Goryachiy sneg (1972)
99 min | Drama, War
In November, 1942, near the Volga, Stanlingrad is under siege of Commander Friederich Paulus and his 330,000 men. The Soviet high command unleashes an operation to protect the Mishkova ... See full summary »
Director: Gavriil Egiazarov | Stars: Georgi Zhzhyonov, Anatoliy Kuznetsov, Vadim Spiridonov, Boris Tokarev
Votes: 585
11. Two Hearts as One (2014)
126 min | Drama, History
A look inside the story of two newlyweds who are parted from each other and spend the next half-century of their lives trying to reunite.
Director: Hasan Kiraç | Stars: Serkan Senalp, Hande Soral, Fikret Hakan, Yagmur Kasifoglu
Votes: 4,139
12. Westerplatte Resists (1967)
TV-14 | 96 min | Drama, War
Dramatization of the first battle of World War II. The first target of German troops in the invasion of Poland is a small garrison at Westerplatte. Outnumbered and out-gunned, the Poles mount a fierce defense against an overwhelming enemy.
Director: Stanislaw Rózewicz | Stars: Zygmunt Hübner, Arkadiusz Bazak, Tadeusz Schmidt, Józef Nowak
Votes: 561
13. The Nazis Strike (1943)
Not Rated | 41 min | Documentary, Short, History
The official World War II US government account of Nazi international aggression leading up to the British and French declarations of war.
Directors: Frank Capra, Anatole Litvak | Stars: Eduard Benes, Neville Chamberlain, Clementine Churchill, Winston Churchill
Votes: 966
14. 1941 (2009)
44 min | War
June, 1941. A small Russian village at the border is living its everyday life - people work, love, squabble, make plans for the future. The war changes all plans, tears families apart, the ... See full summary »
Stars: Sergey Strelnikov, Anatoliy Kotenyov, Hilmar Eichhorn, Johannes Gabriel
Votes: 53
15. War of the Century (1999– )
200 min | Documentary, History, War
Documentary examining Operation Barbarossa, Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941.
Stars: Samuel West, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Rolf Becker
Votes: 493
16. Baptism of Fire (1940)
90 min | Documentary
Poland was the first victim of Hitler's infamous blitzkrieg. Combat cameramen filmed the aerial campaign, showing preparations for flight, massive air strikes, and the appalling devastation... See full summary »
Director: Hans Bertram | Stars: Herbert Gernot, Hermann Göring, Adolf Hitler
Votes: 79
17. Legge di guerra (1961)
103 min | War, Drama
During WW2, in a Nazi-occupied country, a local partisan blows-up a German military train, prompting the Germans to take civilian hostages to be shot if the culprit doesn't surrender before a deadline.
Director: Bruno Paolinelli | Stars: Mel Ferrer, Magali Noël, Peter van Eyck, Jean Desailly
Votes: 54
18. Kim jest ten czlowiek? (1985)
100 min | Adventure, Drama, War
The story is set in 1939. A military officer is stripped of his rank for his apparent collaboration with a counter-espionage agent while on a mission in Paris. Then he is enlisted in his ... See full summary »
Directors: Ewa Petelska, Czeslaw Petelski | Stars: Henryk Talar, Ewa Szykulska, Wienczyslaw Glinski, Krzysztof Chamiec
Votes: 34
19. The Brave Bunch (1970)
157 min | Adventure, Drama, War
In the first years of the German occupation, some Greeks living in villages of Macedonia, try to face the Bulgarian invaders, who act undisturbed.
Director: Kostas Karagiannis | Stars: Giannis Voglis, Xenia Kalogeropoulou, Petros Fyssoun, Lakis Komninos
Votes: 122
20. Wohin und zurück - Teil 1: An uns glaubt Gott nicht mehr - Ferry oder Wie es war (1982 TV Movie)
109 min | Drama
After his father is murdered by the Nazis in 1938, a young Viennese Jew named Ferry Tobler flees to Prague, where he joins forces with another expatriate and a sympathetic Czech relief ... See full summary »
Director: Axel Corti | Stars: Johannes Silberschneider, Barbara Petritsch, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Georg Corten
Votes: 154
21. Vyzyvaem ogon na sebya (1963)
317 min | Drama, War
In the Soviet airbase, occupied by the Nazis, a resistance group occurs, led by a modest girl Anna Morozova. For each victory (important, albeit small on a scale of the war) they have to pay a heavy price.
Stars: Lyudmila Kasatkina, Yelena Korolyova, Izolda Izvitskaya, Aleksandr Lazarev
Votes: 75
22. Wniebowstapienie (1969)
85 min | Drama, War
Raisa Wolkowa is a young conservatory student in Lwów, who marries psychiatrist Sebastian Goldstein. The problem is that he's a Polish Jew and the Germans are coming. The year is 1941.
Director: Jan Rybkowski | Stars: Malgorzata Braunek, Andrzej Antkowiak, Piotr Wysocki, Stanislaw Jaworski
Votes: 24
23. 22 iyunya, rovno v 4 chasa (1992)
98 min | Drama, War
1941. Captain Vasily Bragin enjoys a vacation and goes to Leningrad to pick up his family.
Director: Boris Galkin | Stars: Sergei Parshin, Irina Rozanova, Antonina Shuranova, Sergey Artsibashev
Votes: 29
24. Gdansk '39 (1989– )
226 min | Drama, Romance, War
Stars: Krzysztof Ibisz, Ewa Skibinska, Aleksander Bednarz, Edmund Fetting
Votes: 9
25. Otryad (1984)
97 min | Drama, War
Lithuania, 1941. German tanks and motorized columns broke into the border military town. Seven Soviet soldiers were cut off from the garrison. Without food and weapons, they went through ... See full summary »
Director: Aleksei Simonov | Stars: Aleksandr Feklistov, Sergey Garmash, Dmitriy Brusnikin, Mikhail Morozov
Votes: 107
26. Obratnoy dorogi net (1971– )
198 min | War
The Red Army Major Toporkov, having escaped from the prisoners camp, gets in the partisan unit with the request of the prisoners: the uprising is being prepared in the camp, weapons are ... See full summary »
Stars: Nikolay Olyalin, Aleksandr Yanvaryov, Aleksey Chernov, Igor Yasulovich
Votes: 71
27. Dolgie vyorsty voyny (1976 TV Movie)
208 min | Drama, War
Director: Aleksandr Karpov | Stars: Vadim Yakovlev, Nikolay Fedortsov, Yuriy Duvanov, Aleksandr Vdovin
Votes: 36
28. Battle of Crete (2009 Video)
45 min | Documentary, History, War
A gripping World War Two documentary recounting the German airborne invasion of the Greek island of Crete in May 1941.
Director: Robert Garofalo | Stars: Roy Ward, Bernard Freyberg, Kurt Student
29.
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
30.
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
31.
Battlefield (1995–2004)
Episode:
Scandinavia: The Forgotten Front
(2004)
Documentary, History, War
This episode take a closer look at the Russian aggression against Finland, and the German occupation of Norway.
Star: Jonathan Booth
Votes: 21
32.
Battlefield (1995–2004)
Episode:
The Battle for the Crimea
(2002)
Documentary, History, War
Stars: Jonathan Booth, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin
Votes: 5
33.
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: 6
34.
Family Guy (1999– )
Episode:
Road to Germany
(2008)
TV-14 | 30 min | Animation, Comedy
Stewie and Brian use a time machine to go back to Nazi-era Poland and rescue Mort.
Directors: Greg Colton, James Purdum, Peter Shin | Stars: Seth MacFarlane, Alex Borstein, Seth Green, Mila Kunis
Votes: 2,307
36.
Antiques Roadshow Detectives (2015– )
Episode:
Episode 8
Documentary
A holocaust survivor liberated by British soldiers wishes to thank the soldier who rescued her. A teenager's great-grandfather flew against the Red Baron.
Star: Fiona Bruce
37.
The U.S. and the Holocaust (2022)
Episode:
Yearning to Breathe Free (1938-1942)
(2022)
TV-14 | 138 min | Documentary, History
As WWII begins, Americans are divided over whether to intervene against Germany. Some individuals and organizations work tirelessly to help refugees escape. Germany invades the USSR and secretly begins the mass murder of European Jews.
Directors: Sarah Botstein, Ken Burns, Lynn Novick | Stars: Peter Coyote, Daniel Mendelsohn, Guy Stern, Peter Hayes
Votes: 157
38.
World War II in Colour (2009)
Episode:
Hitler Strikes East
(2009)
TV-MA | 51 min | Documentary, History, War
The German invasion of Russia from Operation Barbarossa on 22 June 1941 to Kursk on 5 July 1943.
Stars: Robert Powell, Adolf Hitler, Winston Churchill, Vyacheslav Molotov
Votes: 286
39.
World War II in Colour (2009)
Episode:
Lightning War
(2009)
TV-MA | 51 min | Documentary, History, War
Country after European country falls before the unstoppable German blitzkrieg.
Stars: Robert Powell, Adolf Hitler, Wladyslaw Sikorski, Karl Dönitz
Votes: 344
40.
Perfect Storms: Disasters That Changed the World (2013– )
Episode:
Hitler's Frozen Army
(2013)
TV-PG | 43 min | Documentary, Drama
October,1941. Two gargantuan armies collide west of Moscow. It is the largest battle in human history. The Soviets are on the verge of collapse, but "General Mud" and "General Cold" arrive to stop the German advance.
Director: Brian Rice | Stars: Kenneth Welsh, Aaron Rothermund, Jordan Andonov, Kevin Owen Clarke
Votes: 19
41.
Beyond the Myth: The SS Unveiled (2022– )
Episode:
The Executioner: Reinhard Heydrich
(2022)
Documentary, History, War
More than any other Nazi leader, Heydrich was an orchestrator of mass murder, and was terrifyingly clinical in approach.
Director: Alexander Hugh | Stars: Anna Hajkova, Robert Gerwarth, Alexandra Richie, Richard John Evans
42.
Beyond the Myth: The SS Unveiled (2022– )
Episode:
From the Protection Squadron to the SS State
(2022)
Documentary, History, War
Trace the rise to power of the SS as we examine several perpetrators. Who was recruited? And why was the SS attractive to men?
Director: Gabriele Rose | Stars: Christopher Dillon, Alexandra Richie, Benjamin Carter Hett, Otto Kumm
43.
How to Lose a War (2023)
Episode:
The Men Who Gave the Orders
(2023)
Documentary, History, War
Explore the men in charge whose rampant egos and misguided belief in their own abilities led to their country making fatal mistakes in the war.
Director: Tim Bosanquet | Stars: Tim Benbow, Russell A. Hart, Alexander Henry, Giuseppe Finaldi
44.
How to Lose a War (2023)
Episode:
The Best Laid Plans
(2023)
Documentary, History, War
Explore how the seeds of Japan's defeat in 1945 were sown a decade earlier with the occupation of Manchuria in China.
Director: Tim Bosanquet | Stars: Rana Mitter, Sandra Wilson, Yuma Totani, Guy Walters
45.
How to Lose a War (2023)
Episode:
The Right Tools
(2023)
Documentary, History, War
Victory in war doesn't just require sound military strategy, vital resources and equipment are also critical. Discover how the Axis powers failed in this regard.
Director: Tim Bosanquet | Stars: Richard Hammond, Giuseppe Finaldi, Alexander Henry, Charles Schencking
46.
Military Masterminds (2022)
Episode:
Guerrilla Warfare
(2022)
52 min | Documentary, History, War
Looking at how Mao Zedong, Fidel Castro, Josip Broz Tito and Võ Nguyên Giáp used Guerrilla Warfare to overcome a militarily superior enemy.
Director: Roberto Irwin | Stars: Eric Y. Shibuya, Eric Gomez, James Rogers, William Leogrande
47.
Hitler's Engineers: Building the Third Reich (2023–2024)
Episode:
Hans Kammler
(2023)
Documentary, History, War
Hans Kammler's fingerprints can be found all over the Third Reich's most prestigious and deadly engineering projects, including rockets and concentration camps.
Director: Matt Bone | Stars: Paul B. Jaskot, Michael Allen, Nigel Jones, Karina Urbach
48.
Hitler's Engineers: Building the Third Reich (2023–2024)
Episode:
Fritz Todt
(2024)
Documentary, History, War
Fritz Todt was the man tasked with engineering projects including the autobahn, the West Wall defences and more. But in 1942, he died under mysterious circumstances.
Director: Tom Williams | Stars: Jadwiga Korowaj, Nigel Jones, Guy Walters, Dieter Stockmann
49.
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
50.
Beyond the Myth: The SS Unveiled (2022– )
Episode:
The SS Death Head's Unit
(2022)
Documentary, History, War
Tasked with guarding concentration camps, this unit's actions knew no bounds, and, despite their heinous acts, still attended social gatherings.
Director: Carsten Binsack | Stars: Hans Münch, Richard John Evans, Christopher Browning, Harry Seidel