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Kanopy
89
8.1
/73920/
78
/1154/
79
/841/
4.4
/108141/
99
/94/
95
/1190/
96
/22/

The Battle of Algiers (1966)
Paratrooper commander Colonel Mathieu, a former French Resistance fighter during World War II, is sent to Algeria to reinforce efforts to squelch the uprisings of the Algerian War. There he faces Ali la Pointe, a former petty criminal who, as the leader of the Algerian Front de Liberation Nationale, directs terror strategies against the colonial French government occupation. As each side resorts to ever-increasing brutality, no violent act is too unthinkable.
poster
87
8.1
/246175/
78
/3921/
78
/2264/
4.2
/107284/
96
/103/
93
/2261/
88
/16/
cc age 11+

The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence officers conspire to blow up the structure, but Col. Nicholson, the commander who supervised the bridge's construction, has acquired a sense of pride in his creation and tries to foil their plans.
poster
The Roku Channel
87
8.0
/17904/
77
/364/
74
/261/
4.2
/24878/
97
/37/
90
/298/
93
/20/
cc age 10+

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
General Candy, who's overseeing an English squad in 1943, is a veteran leader who doesn't have the respect of the men he's training and is considered out-of-touch with what's needed to win the war. But it wasn't always this way. Flashing back to his early career in the Boer War and World War I, we see a dashing young officer whose life has been shaped by three different women, and by a lasting friendship with a German soldier.
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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.
poster
79
76
7.8
/16249/
75
/250/
75
/239/
4.1
/9444/
75
/8/
92
/202/
81
/7/

The Hill (1965)
North Africa, World War II. British soldiers on the brink of collapse push beyond endurance to struggle up a brutal incline. It's not a military objective. It's The Hill, a manmade instrument of torture, a tower of sand seared by a white-hot sun. And the troops' tormentors are not the enemy, but their own comrades-at-arms.
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Kanopy
75
6.8
/2821/
74
/281/
73
/86/
3.5
/3430/
86
/36/
84
/17/
77
/4/

Irena's Vow (2024)
19 year old Irena Gut is promoted to housekeeper in the home of a highly respected Nazi officer in Poland when she finds out that the Jewish ghetto is about to be liquidated. Determined to help twelve Jewish workers, she decides to shelter them in the safest place she can think of – the basement of the German Major's house. Over the next eight months, Irena uses her wit, humour and immense courage to hide her friends as long as possible.
poster
Netflix
71
6.5
/51101/
71
/4429/
73
/1697/
3.0
/64518/
77
/159/
89
/1786/
61
/33/
cc age 13+

Dog (2022)
An army ranger and his dog embark on a road trip along the Pacific Coast Highway to attend a friend's funeral.
poster
The Roku Channel
78
71
7.3
/7104/
70
/124/
69
/121/
3.8
/8123/
93
/14/
80
/120/
85
/9/
cc age 10+

A Canterbury Tale (1944)
Three modern-day pilgrims investigate a bizarre crime in a small town while on their way to Canterbury.
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Amazon Prime Video
72
71
6.9
/14174/
69
/435/
67
/244/
3.7
/28978/
82
/17/
77
/223/
66
/12/

Rolling Thunder (1977)
A Vietnam veteran, Charles Rane, returns home after years in a POW camp and is treated as a hero. He has a hard time adjusting, and things go badly. A movie about the walking dead, before that meant just flesh-eating zombies.
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Kanopy
69
6.3
/1642/
61
/69/
61
/43/
3.0
/2625/
71
/21/
99
/4/
66
/5/

The Forger (2022)
Jewish aesthete Cioma, 21, does not let anyone take away his joy of life, especially not the Nazis. In 1942, he has to find new ways to make his living in Berlin and escape deportation. In the process he discovers his talent for forgery: not only with passports, but also his own identity.
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Kanopy
66
6.8
/24399/
68
/1360/
66
/650/
3.5
/9630/
70
/57/
57
/73/
60
/20/
cc age 16+

A Perfect Day (2015)
Somewhere in the Balkans, 1995. A team of aid workers must solve an apparently simple problem in an almost completely pacified territory that has been devastated by a cruel war, but some of the local inhabitants, the retreating combatants, the UN forces, many cows and an absurd bureaucracy will not cease to put obstacles in their way.
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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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Kanopy
71
62
7.1
/5497/
67
/56/
70
/83/
3.5
/3688/
79
/14/
73
/58/

The Men (1950)
Ken, a WWII GI, returns home after he's paralyzed in battle. Residing in the paraplegic ward of a veteran's hospital and embittered by his condition, he refuses to see his fiancée and sinks into a solitary world of hatred and hostility. Head physician, Dr. Brock cajoles the withdrawn Ken into the life of the ward, where fellow patients Norm, Leo and Angel begin to pull him out of his spiritual dilemma.
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Amazon Prime Video
73
60
7.0
/2693/
67
/47/
66
/46/
3.6
/2832/
92
/12/
71
/44/

Signs of Life (1968)
During World War II, three German soldiers are withdrawn from combat when one of them, Stroszek, is wounded. They are assigned to a small coastal community on the Greek island of Kos while Stroszek recuperates. The men become increasingly stir crazy in their uneventful new assignment. Stroszek eventually goes mad.
poster
73
59
7.0
/2912/
69
/42/
66
/40/
3.5
/1933/
100
/5/
68
/28/
74
/7/

One of Our Aircraft Is Missing (1942)
During a raid on Germany, a British bomber crew is forced to bail out after their plane is damaged. They land in Holland, where they're aided by Dutch civilians.
poster
58
6.4
/1170/
63
/16/
60
/22/
3.3
/251/

Counterpoint (1967)
In December of 1944, Lionel Evans, an internationally renowned American conductor, is on a USO tour with his 70-piece symphony orchestra in newly-liberated Belgium. While fleeing from a German counterattack, Evans and his orchestra members are captured by a Panzer division and taken to an old chateau in Luxembourg. Despite orders to execute every prisoner, General Schiller, an avid music lover, commands Evans to give a private concert for him.
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Amazon Prime Video
57
6.3
/3523/
65
/76/
60
/78/
3.1
/1093/
33
/876/

Triple Cross (1966)
Safecracker Eddie Chapman is languishing in prison on the island of Jersey when the Nazis arrive. An adept manipulator of situations, Chapman convinces the Germans to use him to spy on the British. And when the would-be traitor arrives home, he convinces the English to use him as a double agent -- in exchange for a full pardon.
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Kanopy
73
56
7.4
/3570/
67
/37/
69
/50/
3.7
/1380/
84
/854/

Colonel Redl (1985)
Set during the fading glory of the Austro-Hungarian empire, the film tells of the rise and fall of Alfred Redl, an ambitious young officer who proceeds up the ladder to become head of the Secret Police only to become ensnared in political deception.
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Kanopy
55
5.5
/5612/
63
/410/
54
/124/
2.6
/2207/
43
/53/
60
/106/
42
/11/
cc age 15+

Robert the Bruce (2019)
In 1306, Scottish King Robert the Bruce turns a defeated outlaw when his country is invaded. But before to free his sacred land, he must manage to regain his will to fight back and survive the persecution of those who want take his head and the English gold.
poster
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.
poster
72
45
7.4
/2242/
54
/20/
55
/23/
3.5
/773/
100
/5/
82
/22/

So Proudly We Hail (1943)
During the start of the Pacific campaign in World War II, Lieutenant Janet Davidson is the head of a group of U.S. military nurses who are trapped behind enemy lines in the Philippines. Davidson tries to keep up the spirits of her staff, which includes Lieutenants Joan O'Doul and Olivia D'Arcy. They all seek to maintain a sense of normal life, including dating, while under constant danger as they tend to wounded soldiers.
poster
51
41
6.2
/2477/
66
/130/
60
/471/
3.2
/5157/
25
/24/
42
/29/
41
/14/
cc age 12+

War of the Buttons (2011)
Occupied France; Lebrac leads a play war between two rival kid gangs, but a girl he likes, who's Jewish, is in danger of being discovered by local Nazi sympathisers. Lebrac and the village must now respond to the reality of what's happening.
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Amazon Prime Video
69
40
7.2
/2106/
68
/35/
63
/32/
3.4
/549/
77
/46/

A Town Like Alice (1956)
In 1941 Malaysia, the advancing Japanese army captures a lot of British territory very quickly. The men are sent off to labor camps, but they have no plan on what to do with the women and children of the British.
poster
Criterion Channel
67
39
7.0
/1558/
64
/12/
62
/25/
3.6
/972/
77
/545/

Coup de Grâce (1976)
A countess loves her brother's Prussian-officer friend in the 1919 Baltic area.
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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.
poster
62
33
6.7
/1873/
60
/24/
59
/28/
3.4
/503/
58
/211/

The Key (1958)
In wartime England, circa 1941, poorly-armed tugs are sent into "U-Boat Alley" to rescue damaged Allied ships. An American named David Ross arrives to captain one of these tugs. He's given a key by a fellow tugboat-man -- a key to an apartment and its pretty female resident. Should something happen to the friend, Ross can use the key.
poster
48
33
5.7
/3490/
72
/56/
60
/40/
2.9
/982/
20
/10/
26
/47/

The Pride and the Passion (1957)
During the Napoleonic Wars, when the French have occupied Spain, some Spanish guerrilla soldiers are going to move a big cannon across Spain in order to help the British defeat the French. A British officer is there to accompany the Spanish and along the way, he falls in love with the leader's girl.
poster
62
30
6.4
/1920/
70
/35/
63
/25/
3.2
/389/
51
/711/

Crash Dive (1943)
A US Navy submarine, the USS Corsair, is operating in the North Atlantic, hunting German merchant raiders that are preying on Allied shipping. Its new executive officer, Lt. Ward Stewart, has been transferred back into submarines after commanding his own PT boat. At the submarine base in New London, Connecticut, he asks his new captain, Lt. Cmdr. Dewey Connors, for a weekend leave to settle his affairs before taking up his new assignment. On a train bound for Washington D.C., Stewart accidentally encounters New London school teacher Jean Hewlett and her students. Despite her initial resistance to his efforts, he charms her and they fall in love.
poster
66
28
6.4
/3179/
62
/18/
76
/15/
3.2
/543/

Battle of Surabaya (2015)
Musa, who is only a thirteen-year-old shoe shiner, undergoes destiny through his adventure of waging war during the war time. Will he manage to bring peace among the troops who keep on fighting for nothing?
poster
77
27
8.3
/677/
74
/15/
69
/15/
4.2
/1235/

Homeland: Iraq Year Zero (2016)
Chronicles of everyday life in Iraq before and after the U.S. invasion.
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Hoopla
56
26
6.0
/1682/
57
/51/
57
/44/
3.2
/628/
42
/9/

Lines of Wellington (2012)
Passionate romance, brutal treachery, and selfless nobility are set against the background of Napoleon’s 1810 invasion of Portugal.
poster
YouTube TV
66
24
6.8
/997/
71
/11/
58
/13/
3.3
/294/
67
/132/

Hotel Berlin (1945)
An assortment of diverse characters gather at the Hotel Berlin in World War II Germany as the Third Reich falls.
poster
70
24
7.0
/507/
70
/4/
67
/6/
75
/114/

A Letter for Evie (1946)
Evie's co-workers at the uniform shirt factory, and her almost-fiancée's inability to kiss, inspire her to slip a letter into a size sixteen-and-a-half shirt for some anonymous soldier. It's received by "Wolf" Larson, who immediately throws it away, but his sensitive, dreaming--and short--buddy John McPherson snags it, and begins a correspondence with Evie, pretending to be Wolf. But things get complicated when Evie wants to meet her tall, handsome soldier. And even more complicated when Wolf sees Evie and likes what he sees.
poster
67
22
6.6
/702/
78
/6/
60
/5/
67
/64/

Music for Millions (1944)
Six-year-old "Mike" goes to live with her pregnant older sister, Babs, who plays string bass in José Iturbi's orchestra. And the orchestra is rapidly turning completely female, what with the draft. As the orchestra travels around the country, Babs' fellow orchestra members intercept and hide her War Office telegram to protect the baby.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
60
22
6.5
/949/
56
/16/
58
/14/
3.3
/230/
55
/814/

Operation Amsterdam (1959)
When Germany invades Holland in 1940, a British intelligence officer and two Dutch diamond merchants go to Amsterdam to persuade the Dutch diamond merchants to evacuate their diamond supplies to England.
poster
52
21
5.9
/1860/
56
/30/
52
/28/
3.1
/371/
35
/16/

D-Day the Sixth of June (1956)
En route to Normandy, an American and a British officer reminisce in flashback about their romances with the same woman.
poster
60
21
6.5
/1576/
64
/10/
64
/21/
3.2
/697/
44
/6/

Edward, My Son (1949)
Following the death of his only son, a ruthless businessman reflects on his life, his unhappy marriage and his questionable parenting skills.
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Kanopy
65
20
5.5
/837/
60
/58/
60
/31/
3.1
/245/
89
/7/
cc age 14+

Burning at Both Ends (2021)
The movie follows a group of resistance radio broadcasters in Nazi-occupied France as they evade capture alongside a Jewish family.
poster
64
20
6.2
/1235/
68
/19/
67
/9/
3.3
/290/
60
/27/

The Mountain Road (1960)
In 1944, in eastern part of China, U.S.Army Major Baldwin and his volunteer team of demolition engineers are left behind the retreating Chinese forces. Their task is to slow down the Japanese advance into eastern China by blowing up bridges, roads, airfields and munitions dumps. They start by blowing up an American airfield and ammo dump. They receive the order to destroy a vital bridge over a mountain pass.The team uses a few army trucks to move around. At the bridge, they encounter a Nationalist Chinese Army unit in charge of guarding the bridge. Thanks to an American soldier who speaks some Chinese, Major Baldwin requests the permission, from the Chinese commander, to blow up the bridge.The Chinese colonel agrees but asks the American Major to do him a favor by also destroying a munitions dump located at some distance away.He also requests that Madame Sue-Mei Hung, the widow of a Chinese colonel, be transported by the American demolition team to the nearest major town.
poster
56
20
6.3
/1243/
70
/10/
51
/18/
3.2
/568/
35
/31/

Tonight and Every Night (1945)
An American girl falls for an RAF pilot while performing at a British music hall.
poster
56
19
6.2
/1093/
63
/12/
59
/14/
3.2
/481/
32
/148/

Tender Comrade (1944)
Jo Jones, a young defense plant worker whose husband is in the military during World War II, shares a house with three other women in the same situation.
poster
72
18
6.8
/1208/
68
/10/
70
/9/
3.3
/325/
89
/11/

Homecoming (1948)
Self-absorbed Dr. Lee Johnson enlists with the Army medical corps during World War II, more out of a feeling that it's "the thing to do" rather than deep-seated patriotism. On his first day, he's put into place by 'Snapshot', a sassy and attractive nurse. Their initial antagonism blossoms into romance. Lee then finds himself torn with guilt over being unfaithful to his wife, Penny, who's waiting for him back home.
poster
49
18
5.7
/1222/
55
/18/
43
/18/
3.1
/436/
29
/116/

The Angry Hills (1959)
In 1941 Greece, on the eve of German occupation, cynical American foreign correspondent Michael Morrison arrives in Athens, intending to depart for London the following day. While there he is tricked into smuggling a list of resistance leaders out of the country and is pursued by the Germans.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
55
16
6.4
/448/
36
/3/
67
/7/
3.3
/401/
46
/52/

The Love Light (1921)
Angela maintains a coastal lighthouse in Italy, where she awaits the return of her brothers from the war. She learns they are casualties and takes solace in the arms of an American sailor washed ashore. However, the sailor turns out to be a German spy, and she is torn between her love for him and her realization that he is part of the enemy force that has destroyed her family.
poster
64
13
6.8
/1925/
51
/6/
75
/2/
3.2
/211/

The Heroes of Halyard (2023)
A story inspired by the largest single rescue mission of downed Allied airmen behind enemy lines in aviation history of all time, codenamed “The Halyard Mission”. This action took place in the summer of 1944. It was led by the Yugoslav Army in the Fatherland that was headed by General Dragoljub “Draža” Mihailović. It was at great cost and sacrifice that the Serbian people saved 508 American and other Allied countries’ airmen from certain death, sending them off to safety from the improvised airfield in the Serbian village of Pranjani, at the foot of Mt Suvobor.
poster
61
13
6.6
/1139/
66
/13/
58
/8/
3.3
/265/
54
/12/

Immortal Sergeant (1943)
During WWII, a corporal in the desert reminisces about the love he left behind and faces uncertainty about his strength as a leader.
poster
55
12
5.9
/1076/
65
/18/
56
/15/
3.2
/217/
32
/6/

Bombers B-52 (1957)
Sgt. Chuch Brennan always disliked playboy and hotshot, Col. Jim Herlihy. Now Chuck has even more reason to, Jim is dating his daughter, Lois.
poster
27
?
6.3
/194/
10
/1/
10
/1/

Silent Cries (1993)
In 1942, the Japanese occupied the island of Singapore. During the take-over, not only military soldiers were taken prisoner, but also innocent civilians, particularly women and children. This is the story of a group of women who band together to face brutal treatment, harsh conditions, and ruthless captors to survive their internment.


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