Movies (104) tagged by 'WWII'
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Summer of '42 (1971)
Silent as a painting, the movie shows us day-dreamer Hermie and his friends Oscy and Benjie spending the summer of '42 on an US island with their parents - rat...
A Bridge Too Far (1977)
It is near the end of WWII. The Germans have lost most of France, and the Allied forces decide to give them the final hit. They plan to drop thousands of parat...
Attack On Leningrad (2010)
It is 1941, and World War II rages on; the Nazis succeeded in taking over half of Europe and part of Russia until they reached Leningrad. Hitler fails to take L...
Band of Brothers (2001)
This is the story of "E" Easy Company, 506th Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division from their initial training starting in 1942 to the end of World War II. T...
The English Patient (1996)
A Hungarian count's (Ralph Fiennes) fling with a British newlywed leads to tragedy in World War II North Africa.
Catch-22 (1970)
A bombardier in World War II tries desperately to escape the insanity of the war. However, sometimes insanity is the only sane way cope with a crazy situation....
Windtalkers (2002)
In the close quarters and brutal fighting of the World War II Pacific Theater, the U.S. Intelligence services desperately seek a fool-proof encryption code, im...
The Others (2001)
A woman named Grace (Kidman) is living with her two children Anne and Nicholas (Mann and Bentley) on an almost empty island in their huge mansion. Grace's husba...
Pink Floyd The Wall (1982)
The movie tells the story of rock singer "Pink" who is sitting in his hotel room in Los Angeles, burnt out from the music business and only able to perform on ...
Miracle at St. Anna (2008)
In the fall of 1944, four African-American soldiers find themselves caught behind enemy lines and surrounded by German soldiers. They take refuge in a small It...
To Hell and Back (1955)
True-life account of the military career of Audie Murphy, the most decorated soldier in WWII. Native of Texas, he was placed in charge of his many younger sibl...
The Tuskegee Airmen (1995)
An action-filled dramatization of the true story of the Tuskegee Airmen, the first squadron of black American pilots to defend their country in World War II. ...
The Message (2009) (2009)
1942, Nanjing (Nanking). Following a series of assassination attempts on officials of the Japanese-controlled puppet government, the Japanese spy chief gathers ...
The Aviator (2004)
The script begins as a young Hughes directs one of Scorsese's favorite films, Hell's Angels. Hughes was so obsessed with perfection in the aerial sequences that...
Back Door to Hell (1965)
In December, 1944, three US soldiers sneak ashore on Luzon to gather intelligence about Japanese troops in advance of the American armada. The three are to rec...
The Devil's Arithmetic (1999)
This is another telling of the holocaust, but this time from the perspective of a modern teenage girl who only grudgingly accepts the Jewish traditions, but whe...
Whisky Galore! (1949)
When 50,000 cases of whisky are stranded on a ship which runs aground, the inhabitants of a Scottish island cannot resist the temptation. Unfortunately, a Home...
The Sea Wolves (1980)
They were the unlikeliest heroes of World War II - the gray-haired veterans of the Calcutta Light Horse, who hadn't seen action since the Boer War, but were f...
Ice-Cold in Alex (1958)
A group of army personnel and nurses attempt a dangerous and arduous trek across the deserts of North Africa during the second world war. The leader of the tea...
Flags of Our Fathers (2006)
In February and March of 1945, U.S. Marines fight and win one of the most crucial and costly battles of the war on the island of Iwo Jima. A p...
Murphy's War (1971)
Murphy is the sole survivor of his crew, that has been massacred by a German U-Boat in the closing days of World War II. He lands on a forgotten island and beg...
Operation Pacific (1951)
During WWII, Duke E. Gifford is second in command of the USS Thunderfish, a submarine which is firing off torpedoes that either explode too early or never expl...
Closing the Ring (2007)
In 1943, A dying gunner, who was in a crash involving a United States B-17, gives a ring to a local to return to his girlfriend in the USA. Fifty years later, ...
King Rat (1965)
Inside a Japanese POW camp during World War II, an American prisoner runs a black market operation for the benefit of his fellow captives, and among his "merc...
Mission of the Shark: The Saga of the U.S.S. Indianapolis (1991)
True story of the sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis, its crew's struggle to survive the sharks and exposure, and the captain's scape-goat court-marti...
Run Silent Run Deep (1958)
Despite his lieutenant (Burt Lancaster), a submarine commander (Clark Gable) hunts the Japanese destroyer that sank his last sub. ...
Torpedo Run (1959)
The commander of an American submarine during World War II sets out to destroy the Japanese Aircraft carrier which launched the attack on Pearl Harbour. His wi...
The Great Raid (2005)
Following the 1942 Bataan Death March, thousands of U.S. and Filipino soldiers were imprisoned by the Japanese in a POW camp in Cabantauan in the Philippines....
When Trumpets Fade (1998)
In WWII Western Germany, Private David Manning reluctantly leaves behind a mortally wounded fellow soldier and searches for survivors from his platoon, only to...
The Young Lions (1958)
Two U.S. soldiers (Montgomery Clift, Dean Martin) and a Nazi (Marlon Brando) meet amid World War II inhumanity.
The Island on Bird Street (1997)
Alex is an 11-year old boy who, during WWII, hides in the Jewish ghetto from Nazis after all the relatives have been sent to the concentration camp. The movie p...
Malta Story (1954)
In 1942 Britain was clinging to the island of Malta since it was critical to keeping Allied supply lines open. The Axis also wanted it for their own supply lin...
Desperate Journey (1942)
When Flight Lt Forbes and his crew are shot down after bombing their target, they discover valuable information, about a hidden German aircraft factory, that m...
Philadelphia Experiment II (1994)
David Herdeg's participation in a failed 1943 experiment in radar invisibility has propelled him 40 years into the future. An aberration in his genetic makeup ...
Farewell to the King (1989)
An American soldier who escapes the execution of his comrades by Japanese soldiers in Borneo during WWII becomes the leader of a personal empire among the head...
The Cockleshell Heroes (1955)
A British Army Reserve Major must work with a veteran Captain and a group of incorrigible recruits to attempt what is generally regarded as a suicide mission: ...
New York, New York (1977)
The day WWII ends, Jimmy, a selfish and smooth-talking musician, meets Francine, a lounge singer. From that moment on, their relationship grows into love as th...
Battle of the Coral Sea (1959)
A U.S. submarine and its crew are captured by the Japanese on the eve of a major World War II battle.
In Tranzit (2009)
In the winter of 1946, in Leningrad, a group of German prisoners of war are sent to a female transit camp by the cruel Russian Commander Pavlov. When they arriv...
Wake Island (1942)
In November 1941, Major Caton takes command of the small Marine garrison on Wake Island. His tendency toward spit and polish upsets the men's tropical lassitud...
The Desert Rats (1953)
Rommel has the British in retreat on his way to the Suez Canal. All that stands in his way is Tobruk, held by a vastly out numbered force of Australian troops....
Sea of Sand (1958)
A small British army team is sent to destroy a German petrol dump as part of the preparation for a major attack in the North African campaign. Whilst they are t...
Summer of My German Soldier (1978)
Patty Bergen is a teenager in a Jewish family living in the American South during World War II. Patty feels like an outcast even in her own family and is unable...
Flying Leathernecks (1951)
Major Kirby leads The Wildcats squadron into the historic WWII battle of Guadalcanal...
Raid on Rommel (1971)
Captain Foster plans on raiding German-occupied Tobruk with hand- picked commandos, but a mixup leaves him with a medical unit led by a Quaker conscientious ob...
Brideshead Revisited (2008)
The latest adaptation of the novel by Evelyn Waugh centres around the memoirs of Captain Charles Ryder who is stationed at Brideshead Castle during WWII and rem...
Up Periscope (1959)
Lieutenant Braden discovers that Sally, the woman he's been falling in love with, has actually been checking out his qualifications to be a U.S. Navy frogman. ...
Attack Force Z (1982)
A group of Australian commandos launch a secret mission against Japanese forces in World War II.
Angels One Five (1952)
'Septic' Baird has just joined a front line RAF squadron at the height of the Battle of Britain. This is the story of "The Few" and how they managed to fight o...
The Pied Piper (1942) (1942)
Englishman Mr Howard is on a fishing holiday in eastern France when the Germans invade in 1940. Setting off to try and get back home he is persuaded to take alo...
Operation Amsterdam (1959)
During WW II, British commandos visit occupied Holland to keep a fortune in diamonds out of Nazi hands. Tense action follows as Anna, Jan and their colleagues ...
13 Rue Madeleine (1947)
Documentary-style prologue follows training of O.S.S. agents for WWII work behind enemy lines. One of the group is a German "mole;" leaders Gibson and Sharkey ...
The Power of One (1992)
The Power of One is an intriguing story of a young English boy named Peekay and his passion for changing the world. Growing up he suffered as the only English b...
Puppet Master: Axis of Evil (2010)
In a Stateside hotel during the height of World War II, young Danny Coogan dreams of joining the war effort. Following the murder of hotel guest Mr. Toulon by N...
Miracle of the White Stallions (1963)
In WWII Austria, Col. Alois Podhajsky must protect his beloved Lipizzaner stallions and make sure that they are surrendered into the right hands. But Patton's ...
In the Presence of Mine Enemies (1997)
A Rabbi in the Warsaw Ghetto in Poland in 1942 fights to maintain his stance of peace and acceptance of his fellow man despite the growing turmoil and atrociti...
Reign of the Gargoyles (2007)
During World War 2 a group of brave US Airmen are downed in Nazi controlled Europe, after their aircraft is attacked by Nazi-controlled mythological Gargoyles.
Never So Few (1959)
Captain Tom Reynolds and his band of skilled O.S.S. operatives are in WWII Burma to train the Kachin natives in modern warfare. But jungle combat, particularly...
To Be or Not to Be (1942)
In occupied Poland during WWII, a troupe of ham stage actors (led by Joseph Tura and his wife Maria) match wits with the Nazis. A spy has information which wou...
Ministry of Fear (1944)
Nazi spies and Scotland Yard hound a victim of circumstance (Ray Milland) fresh from an insane asylum.
Killdozer (1974)
Construction workers building an airstrip on a small Pacific Island during WWII encounter an ancient non-material lifeform which has lived in the ruins of an an...
Attack on the Iron Coast (1968)
They turned a dead ship into a live bomb and sailed it down the throat of the enemy!
Morituri (1965)
In 1942, a derelict German cargo ship, the Ingo, departs Tokyo headed for Nazi-occupied France, under the command of Captain Mueller, a merchant navy officer w...
Horrors of War (2006)
The life stories of the six men who raised the flag at The Battle of Iwo Jima, a turning point in WWII
Straight Into Darkness (2004)
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Spring 1941 (1941)
Successful doctor Artur Planck, his wife Clara and their two daughters are seeking shelter from the Nazis storming Poland. They find a safe house in the farm of...
Arise My Love (1940)
In 1939, American Tom Martin, who fought in the Spanish Civil War, awaits execution at the hands of the Fascist victors when reporter Augusta 'Gusto' Nash, for ...
Map of the Human Heart (1993)
Fantastic improbabilities, happenstance and the undying bridge of love are part of this romantic fantasy about an Inuit who crosses years, oceans and the ravag...
The Fighting Seabees (1944)
Construction workers in World War II in the Pacific are needed to build military sites, but the work is dangerous and they doubt the ability of the Navy to pro...
5 Fingers (1952)
During World War 2 the valet for the British ambassador in Turkey tires of his job and plans to photograph secret documents belonging to his employer, sell th...
The Secret of Santa Vittoria (1970)
Bombolini is a fairly worthless drunk in the small Italian town of Santa Vittoria in the closing days of World War II. When word comes that the Fascist governm...
The Sullivans (1944)
The wartime forerunner of the story told in Saving Private Ryan (1998) is this emotionally gripping depiction of the Sullivan boys of Waterloo, Iowa. Amid all...
Casablanca Express (1989)
Leaving a double to travel by plane Winston Churchill sets out on a train for his top-level meeting with President Roosevelt. However, the Germans, through th...
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1962)
Karl from Germany and Marcelo from France emigrated to Argentina and became brothers-in-law. Whatever happens later they will always preserve a strong family f...
The Sound Barrier (1952)
Directed by David Lean (LAWRENCE OF ARABIA, THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI), THE SOUND BARRIER charts the life of a fighter pilot who marries into a wealthy fam...
Three Came Home (1950)
Based on the autobiography by Agnes Newton Keith, which tells the story of Mrs Keith and her children's imprisonment in Borneo during the Japanese invasion.
If Winter Comes (1947)
It's 1939 in the small English town of Penny Green and events in Poland are about to change lives. Mark Sabre, a writer of school text books, has married Mabel ...
Zone Troopers (1986)
In Italy during WW II, a patrol of American soldiers discover a space ship that has crash-landed in the woods, and they come across its alien crew. A nearby Na...
Green for Danger (1947)
When not dealing with causalities from V1 raids on London, operating theatre staff at Heron's Park Hospital spend their time handling their jealousies, rivalri...
We Dive at Dawn (1943)
The crew of HMS submarine Sea Tiger have their leave (and assorted family problems) cut short when they are recalled for a special mission: sink the new German ...
The Way Ahead (1945)
At the outset of World War II, a disparate group of civilians undergo basic training and prepare to fight - and die - for their country. The recruits include m...
Wake Me When the War Is Over (1969)
During the latter days of WW2 an American Lieutenant (Berry), accidentally falls out of an airplane that he was on and falls into German territory. He is taken...
Carter's Army (1970)
A redneck officer is put in charge of a squad of black troops charged with taking an important bridge from the Nazis.
Commandos (1968)
Sgt. Sullivan puts together a group of Italian-Americans into disguise as Italian soldiers in order to infiltrate a North African camp held by the Italians. Af...
In Which We Serve (1942)
This "story of a ship," the British destroyer HMS Torrin, is told in flash backs by survivors as they cling to a life raft.
Aerial Gunner (1943) (1943)
Old rivals are pitted against each other in basic training and fight for the same woman.
The Yanks Are Coming (1942)
Those Yanks are on the way... in a patriotic musical to stir your blood!
War Comes to America (1945)
In this final installment of the "Why We Fight" propaganda series, the subject focuses on the United States of America. We learn of its good qualities and the ...
Gasbags (1941)
Flanagan & Allen, Nervo & Knox and Naughton & Gold do their bit for the war effort as the Crazy Gang inadvertantly invade Germany when their barrage balloon ge...
Target for Today (1944)
Target for Today is a 1944 documentary film billed as being filmed by and acted by the United States Army Air Force, all while under fire. It was directed by Wi...
This Is the Army (1943)
A Broadway star (George Murphy) does a show in World War I, and his son (Ronald Reagan) does one in World War II.
Back from the Front (1943)
Set in WW II, the stooges are the only survivors of an American ship sunk by an enemy torpedo. Adrift on a raft, they come upon a German battleship and by vari...
Education for Death (1943)
A Walt Disney wartime propaganda look into the mind of Hans, a boy born into a German family. Watch as his attitude about the value of human life degrades as he...
They Raid by Night (1942)
The British Commandos send Bob Owen (Lyle Talbot) to Norway to prepare for a raid. His mission also includes freeing General Heden (Paul Baratoff) who is being...
Bedford: The Town They Left Behind (2009)
Like the young men in many small American towns during and after the Great Depression, the boys of Bedford, Virginia, joined their local National Guard unit. Th...
Report from the Aleutians (1943)
A official documentary movie about the misson of the US forces on an island of the Aleutians, from which US bombers are attacking the Japanese occupied island K...
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