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9.0
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88
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85
/16892/
4.5
/1205464/
98
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97
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95
/30/
cc age 15+

Schindler's List (1993)
The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.
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fuboTV
89
8.6
/1608983/
85
/31641/
82
/16695/
4.2
/1252408/
94
/148/
95
/41372/
91
/38/
cc age 16+

Saving Private Ryan (1998)
As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fourth trapped behind enemy lines. Ranger captain John Miller and seven men are tasked with penetrating German-held territory and bringing the boy home.
poster
Criterion Channel
85
8.0
/42682/
78
/709/
78
/797/
4.2
/93417/
100
/27/
93
/335/

Ivan's Childhood (1962)
In WW2, twelve year old Soviet orphan Ivan Bondarev works for the Soviet army as a scout behind the German lines and strikes a friendship with three sympathetic Soviet officers.
poster
84
7.8
/175660/
76
/3457/
74
/2182/
3.9
/64088/
91
/201/
86
/10115/
89
/37/
cc age 16+

Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)
The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of the Japanese who fought it.
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Kanopy
80
7.2
/12961/
71
/411/
70
/341/
3.8
/29098/
93
/111/
76
/43/
85
/26/

Beanpole (2019)
1945, Leningrad. World War II has devastated the city, demolishing its buildings and leaving its citizens in tatters, physically and mentally. Two young women, Iya and Masha, search for meaning and hope in the struggle to rebuild their lives amongst the ruins.
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Kanopy
79
7.5
/37675/
78
/2383/
77
/886/
3.7
/93528/
91
/150/
98
/224/
69
/30/
cc age 11+

One Life (2023)
British stockbroker Nicholas Winton visits Czechoslovakia in the 1930s and forms plans to assist in the rescue of Jewish children before the onset of World War II, in an operation that came to be known as the Kindertransport.
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The Roku Channel
79
7.6
/10453/
76
/302/
74
/238/
3.8
/22072/
96
/25/
91
/219/
69
/23/

Butterfly (1999)
The film centres on Moncho and his coming-of-age experience in Galicia in 1936. Moncho develops a close relationship with his teacher Don Gregorio who introduces the boy to different things in the world. While the story centres on Moncho's ordinary coming-of-age experiences, tensions related to the looming Spanish Civil War periodically interrupt Moncho's personal growth and daily life.
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MGM Plus
78
8.2
/1600260/
81
/40555/
82
/25129/
4.2
/2781389/
69
/262/
77
/26135/
63
/37/
cc age 18+

Shutter Island (2010)
World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by troubling visions and a mysterious doctor.
poster
77
7.6
/210097/
73
/4854/
74
/3177/
4.1
/186707/
80
/106/
80
/5228/
78
/32/
cc age 15+

The Thin Red Line (1998)
The story of a group of men, an Army Rifle company called C-for-Charlie, who change, suffer, and ultimately make essential discoveries about themselves during the fierce World War II battle of Guadalcanal. It follows their journey, from the surprise of an unopposed landing, through the bloody and exhausting battles that follow, to the ultimate departure of those who survived.
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Fandor
76
6.9
/2946/
67
/72/
66
/51/
3.6
/4799/
97
/35/
68
/7/
85
/10/

Atlantis (2020)
A soldier suffering from PTSD befriends a young volunteer hoping to restore peaceful energy to a war-torn society.
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The Roku Channel
79
75
7.5
/12721/
77
/262/
73
/289/
3.9
/12152/
79
/14/
94
/261/

Land and Freedom (1995)
David Carr is a British Communist who is unemployed. In 1936, when the Spanish Civil War begins, he decides to fight for the Republican side, a coalition of liberals, communists and anarchists, so he joins the POUM militia and witnesses firsthand the betrayal of the Spanish revolution by Stalin's followers and Moscow's orders.
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Kanopy
75
7.1
/133315/
70
/2916/
68
/1944/
3.4
/45902/
76
/239/
69
/8298/
79
/39/
cc age 16+

Flags of Our Fathers (2006)
There were five Marines and one Navy Corpsman photographed raising the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi by Joe Rosenthal on February 23, 1945. This is the story of three of the six surviving servicemen - John 'Doc' Bradley, Pvt. Rene Gagnon and Pvt. Ira Hayes - who fought in the battle to take Iwo Jima from the Japanese.
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Kanopy
75
7.4
/126801/
74
/3758/
73
/1799/
3.9
/175548/
72
/69/
84
/2891/
62
/20/
cc age 16+

Jacob's Ladder (1990)
After returning home from the Vietnam War, veteran Jacob Singer struggles to maintain his sanity. Plagued by hallucinations and flashbacks, Singer rapidly falls apart as the world and people around him morph and twist into disturbing images. His girlfriend, Jezzie, and ex-wife, Sarah, try to help, but to little avail. Even Singer's chiropractor friend, Louis, fails to reach him as he descends into madness.
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FXNow
70
6.8
/15185/
76
/1632/
73
/470/
3.1
/7269/
62
/78/
96
/325/
51
/25/
cc age 15+

The Last Full Measure (2020)
The incredible true story of Vietnam War hero William H. Pitsenbarger, a U.S. Air Force Pararescuemen medic who personally saved over sixty men. Thirty-two years later, Pentagon staffer Scott Huffman investigates a Congressional Medal of Honor request for Pitsenbarger and uncovers a high-level conspiracy behind the decades-long denial of the medal, prompting Huffman to put his own career on the line to seek justice for the fallen airman.
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Fandor
70
7.0
/3662/
66
/140/
72
/101/
3.5
/2974/
82
/17/
86
/12/
69
/8/

Youth (2017)
A group of performing art troupe members each face their own trials and tribulations in Chengdu; from escaping a family scandal to dealing with unrequited love, each experiences rejection that shapes their lives.
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Kanopy
69
7.1
/167526/
71
/4198/
73
/3812/
3.5
/267675/
63
/156/
62
/5821/
58
/31/
cc age 17+

Brothers (2009)
When his helicopter goes down during his fourth tour of duty in Afghanistan, Marine Sam Cahill is presumed dead. Back home, brother Tommy steps in to look over Sam’s wife, Grace, and two children. Sam’s surprise homecoming triggers domestic mayhem.
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MGM Plus
69
7.5
/290298/
77
/7319/
74
/3889/
3.5
/96453/
53
/139/
82
/6152/
53
/33/
cc age 17+

Enemy at the Gates (2001)
A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII.
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Netflix
75
68
7.2
/7739/
73
/504/
68
/255/
3.7
/9758/
88
/25/
82
/13/
73
/4/
cc age 16+

The Endless Trench (2019)
A small village in Huelva, Andalusia, Spain, 1936. Higinio and Rosa have been married only for a few months when the Civil War breaks out. Higinio, being afraid of possible reprisals from the rebel faction, decides to use a hole dug in his own house as a temporary hideout.
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Kanopy
65
6.9
/43009/
72
/1794/
66
/609/
3.4
/34717/
47
/19/
82
/1980/
57
/11/
cc age 17+

Up in Smoke (1978)
An unemployed pot-smoking slacker and amateur drummer, Anthony Stoner ditches his strict parents and hits the road, eventually meeting kindred spirit Pedro de Pacas. While the drug-ingesting duo is soon arrested for possession of marijuana, Anthony and Pedro get released on a technicality, allowing them to continue their many misadventures and ultimately compete in a rock band contest, where they perform the raucous tune "Earache My Eye."
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Kanopy
64
6.1
/27935/
53
/594/
59
/570/
2.3
/35871/
91
/45/
40
/559/
cc age 16+

The Birth of a Nation (1915)
Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwine. When Confederate colonel Ben Cameron is captured in battle, nurse Elsie Stoneman petitions for his pardon. In Reconstruction-era South Carolina, Cameron founds the Ku Klux Klan, battling Elsie's congressman father and his African-American protégé, Silas Lynch.
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73
64
6.9
/4087/
69
/117/
67
/124/
3.4
/3329/
89
/37/
77
/31/
74
/10/

Eastern Boys (2013)
Arriving from all over the Eastern Bloc, the men who loiter around the Gare du Nord train station in Paris are scraping by however they can, forming gangs for support and protection, ever fearful of being caught by the police and deported. When the middle-aged, bourgeois Daniel approaches a boyishly handsome Ukrainian who calls himself Marek for a date, he learns the young man is willing to do anything for some cash.
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67
64
6.6
/5343/
67
/338/
66
/177/
3.4
/5921/
70
/37/

Cousinhood (2011)
Three cousins travel to the village where they spent summer vacations as kids.
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70
59
7.1
/3542/
66
/105/
66
/84/
3.7
/4532/
73
/628/

Ay, Carmela! (1990)
Paulino and Carmela are husband and wife, troubadours touring the countryside during the Spanish Civil War. They are Republicans, and with their mute assistant, Gustavete, they journey into rebel territory by mistake. They are arrested, fear a firing squad, and receive a reprieve from an Italian Fascist commander who loves the theatre. He arranges a performance for his troops, bargaining with Paulino to stage a burlesque of the republic in exchange for the actors' freedom. Will the fiery and patriotic Carmela consent?
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Amazon Prime Video
58
6.8
/63864/
69
/2875/
68
/1515/
3.1
/20594/
53
/55/
49
/229/
52
/14/
cc age 14+

Stonehearst Asylum (2014)
An Oxford Medical School graduate takes a position at a mental institution and soon becomes obsessed with a female mental patient, but he has no idea of a recent and horrifying staffing change.
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Amazon Prime Video
57
6.1
/32312/
64
/1078/
62
/600/
3.0
/37579/
63
/16/
46
/562/
44
/5/

House (1985)
Roger Cobb, a divorced horror novelist coming to terms with the disappearance of his young son, inherits an old mansion home to malevolent supernatural residents.
poster
The Roku Channel
56
6.5
/18588/
69
/557/
67
/390/
3.2
/4829/
30
/70/
63
/404/
40
/25/
cc age 13+

Jakob the Liar (1999)
In 1944 Poland, a Jewish shop keeper named Jakob is summoned to ghetto headquarters after being caught out after curfew. While waiting for the German Kommondant, Jakob overhears a German radio broadcast about Russian troop movements. Returned to the ghetto, the shopkeeper shares his information with a friend and then rumors fly that there is a secret radio within the ghetto.
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Criterion Channel
77
56
7.7
/1898/
71
/37/
70
/49/
3.9
/1889/
90
/343/

Wooden Crosses (1932)
The young and patriotic student Demachy joins the French army in 1914 to defend his country. But he and his comrades soon experience the terrifying, endless trench war in Champagne, where more and more wooden crosses have to be erected for this cannon fodder.
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70
55
7.5
/2282/
74
/120/
66
/65/
3.8
/3584/
59
/58/

The Heifer (1985)
During the Spanish Civil War a platoon of mismatched Republican soldiers cross the front-line to steal the bull that the enemy is going to fight on the local holiday of the nearby village. In addition to ruining the Nationalist faction's celebration they want the animal in order to butcher it and feed their famished troops. They get caught in the process and have to go through a series of funny and pathetic incidents before they can get back to their side.
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Amazon Prime Video
54
5.8
/5116/
66
/434/
60
/149/
3.0
/2594/
45
/40/
37
/34/
56
/16/
cc age 16+

The Yellow Birds (2018)
Two young soldiers, Bartle and Murph, navigate the terrors of the Iraq war under the command of the older, troubled Sergeant Sterling. All the while, Bartle is tortured by a promise he made to Murph's mother before their deployment.
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51
5.8
/8284/
65
/293/
57
/130/
2.8
/3025/
23
/13/
51
/95/

Flight of the Intruder (1991)
U.S. Navy pilot Lt. Jake Grafton and his bombardier buddy, Lt. Cmdr. Virgil Cole, are two soldiers embedded in the Vietnam War growing frustrated by the military's constraints on their missions. Despite the best efforts of their commanding officer, Cmdr. Frank Camparelli, to re-engage them, this disillusioned pair decide to take the war effort into their own hands with an explosive battle plan that could well get them court-martialed.
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Kanopy
75
50
7.2
/863/
66
/20/
72
/18/
3.7
/1803/
93
/15/
78
/5/

The Earth Is Blue as an Orange (2020)
Single mother Anna and her four children live in the front-line war zone of Donbas, Ukraine. While the outside world is made up of bombings and chaos, the family is managing to keep their home a safe haven, full of life and full of light. Every member of the family has a passion for cinema, motivating them to shoot a film inspired by their own life during a time of war. The creative process raises the question of what kind of power the magical world of cinema could have during times of disaster. How to picture war through fiction? For Anna and the children, transforming trauma into a work of art is the ultimate way to stay human.
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76
50
7.2
/986/
70
/44/
68
/30/
3.6
/2099/
100
/94/

Bicycles Are for the Summer (1984)
In Madrid, the family of Don Luis, his wife Dolores and their children, Manolita and Luisito, share the daily life of the Civil War with their maid and neighbours. Despite having failed his exams, Luisito wants his father to buy him a bicycle. However, the situation forces them to delay the purchase and the delay, like the war itself, is to last much longer than expected.
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The Roku Channel
70
46
6.9
/2309/
67
/61/
63
/64/
3.6
/1881/
83
/17/

Freedomfighters (1996)
At the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, the nun Maria is forced to flee her convent. She takes refuge in a brothel, until it is liberated by a woman's anarchist group. Maria joins the group and eventually goes to the front. The women's group faces the problems of fighting not only the nationalists, but also factions on the left seeking to impose a more traditional military structure.
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68
44
7.0
/4370/
71
/60/
68
/51/
3.5
/1192/
65
/12/

The Battle of Neretva (1969)
In January 1943 the German army, afraid of an Allied invasion of the Balkans, launched a great offensive against Yugoslav Partisans in Western Bosnia. The only way out for Partisan forces and thousands of refugees was the bridge on the river Neretva.
poster
64
39
6.4
/254/
61
/75/
66
/15/
3.4
/2243/

The Good Manners (2025)
In a Valencian village, during the postwar period, Ana tries to get ahead with her family; the civil war has opened a deep wound in all of them, especially in her brother-in-law, Antonio. Ana tries to heal that wound with stews, secrets and silences, but when Isabel, newly married to Antonio, comes to the family, Ana’s attention and care will be worth little or nothing: the sacrifice does not always have its reward.
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The Roku Channel
56
36
4.7
/1313/
61
/124/
51
/17/
50
/10/
71
/34/

Freetown (2015)
A group of native Liberian missionaries make a desperate cross-country trip through their war torn country to save one of their own.
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Amazon Prime Video
69
35
6.6
/785/
67
/47/
59
/23/
3.4
/566/
81
/27/
75
/3/
71
/7/
cc age 15+

Hearts and Bones (2019)
A shell-shocked photojournalist, haunted by what he has witnessed on assignment in Africa, returns home on the eve of becoming a father. When one of his photographs threatens to destroy a Sudanese refugee's new life, the two men are reunited by nightmare events from the past.
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fuboTV
61
33
6.4
/2036/
66
/134/
64
/35/
2.3
/1438/
Popcorn
69
/4/

Bringing Christmas Home (2023)
Retired military officer, now Military History professor, Caroline Upton is enlisted to assist antiques store owner, Russell Carlisle in finding the family of WWII Army officer Orin Newton before Christmas with the hope of returning precious personal artifacts – Orin’s dress uniform, medals, and a stack of love letters from his beloved Alice who waits for him back home. Epaulettes and insignia provide initial clues, though the search seems to dead end when Caroline discovers Orin was captured and listed as MIA. Caroline and Russell then search the love letters for clues as to what happened to Orin and whether he ever made it home to Alice.
poster
66
33
7.2
/895/
54
/20/
66
/19/
3.8
/1046/
60
/351/

Germany Pale Mother (1980)
Germany 1939. Hans and Lene marry the day before the war breaks out, and Hans is sent to the Eastern front. During a bombing raid their daughter Anna is born. The house is destroyed and Lene and Anna moves in with relatives in Berlin. Hans survives the war but he is not the same person as in 1939, and he and Lene find it difficult to live together again.
poster
67
32
6.8
/1113/
62
/24/
63
/24/
3.3
/269/
80

Skin (2008)
In the late Seventies, a Dutch teenager named Frankie, who is the son of a holocaust survivor, lives in a working class area in Holland. Frankie’s mother is taken to hospital in a terminal condition, causing a bigger rift between him and his father. This leads to Frankie becoming the interest of the local Nazi skinhead group.
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79
31
7.3
/574/
69
/10/
56
/24/
3.8
/747/
100
/5/
100
/1/

Fragment of an Empire (1929)
Director Frederick Ermler’s last silent feature and the last of four collaborations with actor Fiodor Nikitin. Nikitin plays an officer who spends a decade after the Great War as a shell-shocked amnesiac, until a glimpse of a woman through a train window sparks the return of his memory. He makes his way back to St. Petersburg, now Leningrad, a man out of time who struggles to make sense of the new society brought about by the revolution.
poster
Kanopy
55
31
6.3
/2665/
55
/82/
57
/43/
2.9
/922/
46
/7/

Snails in the Rain (2013)
Tel Aviv, Summer 1989. Boaz, a beautiful and alluring linguistics student, receives anonymous, male written love letters, that undermine his sexual identity and interfere on his peaceful life with his beloved girlfriend.
poster
64
30
6.5
/1582/
66
/27/
64
/26/
3.2
/369/
63
/33/

Upperdog (2009)
As young children, half-siblings Axel and Yanne are adopted to Norway. They are separated on arrival, him to material wealth on Oslo's west side, her to an average family on the east side. In contrast to her younger brother, Yanne remembers their journey to Norway, but she has no idea where he might be now.
poster
72
29
7.4
/515/
75
/95/
73
/49/
3.4
/240/

WWII From Space (2012)
WWII from Space delivers World War II in a way you've never experienced it before. This HISTORY special uses an all-seeing CGI eye that offers a satellite view of the conflict, allowing you to experience it in a way that puts key events and tipping points in a global perspective. By re-creating groundbreaking moments that could never have been captured on camera, and by illustrating the importance of simultaneity and the hidden effects of crucial incidents, HISTORY presents the war's monumental moments in a never-before-seen context. And with new information brought to the forefront, you'll better understand how a nation ranked 19th in the world's militaries in 1939 emerged six years later as the planet's only atomic superpower.
poster
66
28
6.8
/1526/
63
/9/
67
/17/
3.4
/277/
64
/603/

Dog Nail Clipper (2004)
Bright young soldier Mertsi suffers a permanent brain injury in the Second World War. In the late 1940s he wanders around the Finnish countryside looking for simple work and relying on other people's help. A workmate, Ville, tells him about his clever Spitz dog back home and the problems with her overlong dew claws. Together with his helpful war buddy Eetvi, Mertsi joins a lumber camp in the middle of a freezing winter, tries hard but finds the work there too strenuous for his body and mind. While he still sees nightmares about the war, in the daytime he keeps dreaming and worrying about the dog...
poster
65
28
6.7
/1799/
67
/38/
63
/23/
3.4
/781/
62
/14/

Soldiers of Salamina (2003)
Professor Lola Sánchez investigates the truth behind the events experienced by Rafael Sánchez Mazas, one of the founders of the Falange Española party, during the Spanish Civil War.
poster
73
27
8.0
/454/
73
/8/
75
/15/
3.7
/517/
67
/75/

To Die in Madrid (1963)
Morir en Madrid brings together several papers on the Spanish Civil War and integrates capturing different points of view, intended to represent the continuity of the suffering of the Spanish during the Franco regime. The death of Federico Garcia Lorca, Guernica, the defense of Madrid, the International Brigades, are some of the items comprised in this document.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
65
25
7.0
/1028/
61
/38/
63
/27/
3.4
/642/

Why We Fight: The Nazis Strike (1943)
The second film of Frank Capra's Why We Fight propaganda film series. It introduces Germany as a nation whose aggressive ambitions began in 1863 with Otto von Bismarck and the Nazis as its latest incarnation.


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