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9.4
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91
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85
/3992/
94
/34/
97
87
/28/
cc age 16+

Band of Brothers (2001)
Drawn from interviews with survivors of Easy Company, as well as their journals and letters, Band of Brothers chronicles the experiences of these men from paratrooper training in Georgia through the end of the war. As an elite rifle company parachuting into Normandy early on D-Day morning, participants in the Battle of the Bulge, and witness to the horrors of war, the men of Easy knew extraordinary bravery and extraordinary fear - and became the stuff of legend. Based on Stephen E. Ambrose's acclaimed book of the same name.
poster
88
9.2
/37030/
89
/538/
83
/163/

The World at War (1973)
A documentary series that gives a historical account of the events of World War II, from its roots in the 1920s to the aftermath and the lives it profoundly influenced.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
87
8.4
/15039/
80
/578/
79
/108/
100
/36/
95
83
/17/
cc age 14+

A Small Light (2023)
Twentysomething Miep Gies didn't hesitate when her boss Otto Frank came to her and asked her to hide his family from the Nazis during World War II. For the next two years, Miep, her husband Jan, and the other helpers watched over the eight souls in hiding in the Secret Annex. And it was Miep who found Anne’s Diary and kept it safe so Otto, the only one of the eight who survived, could later share it with the world as one of the most powerful accounts of the Holocaust.
poster
85
8.8
/39870/
84
/433/
86
/141/

Das Boot (1985)
Based on an autobiographical novel by German World War II photographer Lothar-Guenther Buchheim, Das Boot follows the lives of a fearless U-Boat captain (Jurgen Prochnow) and his inexperienced crew as they patrol the Atlantic and Mediterranean in search of Allied vessels, taking turns as hunter and prey.
poster
MGM Plus
84
8.2
/36021/
80
/1554/
77
/173/
100
/25/
86
79
/13/
cc age 16+

SAS: Rogue Heroes (2022)
The dramatised account of how the world’s greatest Special Forces unit, the SAS, was formed under extraordinary circumstances in the darkest days of World War Two.
poster
84
8.3
/142240/
83
/6598/
77
/2463/
89
/46/
91
86
/32/

The Pacific (2010)
Track the intertwined real-life stories of three U.S. Marines – Robert Leckie, John Basilone, and Eugene Sledge – across the vast canvas of the Pacific Theater during World War II. A companion piece to the 2001 miniseries Band of Brothers.
poster
85
82
9.0
/20397/
83
/350/
83
/148/

Apocalypse: The Second World War (2009)
A six-part French documentary about the Second World War composed exclusively of actual footage of the war as filmed by war correspondents, soldiers, resistance fighters and private citizens. The series is shown in color, with the black and white footage being fully colorized, save for some original color footage. The only exception to the treatment are most Holocaust scenes, which are presented in the original black and white.
poster
Netflix
80
8.2
/6979/
81
/460/
79
/90/
cc age 15+

World War II: From the Frontlines (2023)
Through vividly enhanced archival footage and voices from all sides of the conflict, this docuseries brings WWII to life like never before.
poster
Hulu
81
80
7.7
/7303/
74
/335/
75
/79/
94
/31/
86
78
/14/
cc age 15+

We Were the Lucky Ones (2024)
The true story of one Jewish family separated at the start of World War II, determined to survive—and to reunite.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
80
7.7
/10345/
76
/872/
70
/128/
91
/45/
90
79
/32/
cc age 14+

Manhattan (2014)
Set against the backdrop of the greatest clandestine race against time in the history of science with the mission to build the world's first atomic bomb in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Flawed scientists and their families attempt to co-exist in a world where secrets and lies infiltrate every aspect of their lives.
poster
Netflix
83
80
8.2
/5605/
74
/255/
72
/67/
98
/40/
88
81
/13/
cc age 16+

Five Came Back (2017)
Five acclaimed contemporary directors tell the story of five legendary Hollywood filmmakers who enlisted in the armed forces to document World War II.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
80
8.4
/28650/
81
/948/
77
/250/

'Allo 'Allo! (1984)
The misadventures of hapless cafe owner René Artois and his escapades with the Resistance in occupied France.
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Hoopla
80
79
8.6
/20718/
80
/372/
79
/101/
78
/4/
cc age 13+

Foyle's War (2002)
As WW2 rages around the world, DCS Foyle fights his own war on the home-front as he investigates crimes on the south coast of England. Foyle's War opens in southern England in the year 1940. Later series sees the retired detective working as an MI5 agent operating in the aftermath of the war.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
78
8.4
/34905/
83
/899/
80
/456/
60
/30/
91

Generation War (2013)
Five young German friends promise to meet again after WW2 ends, but soon their naive wishes of peace and happiness will become a long and tragic nightmare.
poster
Hoopla
78
77
7.4
/10102/
71
/399/
70
/94/
91
/34/
93
70
/8/

Mrs Wilson (2018)
After the sudden death of ex-Secret Intelligence Service man Alexander, his wife Alison investigates when mysteries from her husband's past come knocking.
poster
Netflix
76
7.5
/16078/
72
/699/
70
/131/
91
/11/
84
67
/4/

The Devil Next Door (2019)
A Cleveland grandfather is brought to trial in Israel, accused of being the infamous Nazi death camp guard known as Ivan the Terrible.
poster
Hulu
76
7.7
/22952/
73
/1294/
73
/261/
84
/90/
82
70
/34/
cc age 17+

Catch-22 (2019)
Pianosa Island, Italy, World War II. Bombardier John Yossarian tries to fulfill his duty, maintain sanity and return home as soon as possible, but incompetence and bureaucracy constantly stand in his way.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
81
75
8.0
/5103/
74
/182/
75
/48/
92
/13/
94
72
/6/

Man in an Orange Shirt (2017)
A love story in two films charts the very different challenges to happiness for Michael and Thomas in the aftermath of World War 2, and to Adam and Steve in the present day.
poster
MGM Plus
74
7.8
/19642/
75
/1365/
78
/362/
66
/35/
89
60
/9/
cc age 15+

Pennyworth (2019)
The origin story of Bruce Wayne's legendary butler, Alfred Pennyworth, a former British SAS soldier who forms a security company in 1960s London and goes to work with young billionaire Thomas Wayne and his wife Martha, before they become Bruce Wayne’s parents.
poster
fuboTV
79
74
8.3
/5334/
80
/307/
74
/69/
cc age 11+

Danger 5 (2012)
Set in a bizarre, 1960's inspired version of World War II, the action comedy series follows the finest group of spies the Allies have to offer on a mission to kill Adolf Hitler.
poster
Apple TV
73
7.8
/68824/
78
/3226/
77
/538/
85
/100/
73
72
/42/
cc age 15+

Masters of the Air (2024)
During World War II, airmen risk their lives with the 100th Bomb Group, a brotherhood forged by courage, loss, and triumph.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
79
72
7.2
/3891/
69
/243/
76
/32/
100
/37/
74
83
/9/
cc age 15+

The Narrow Road to the Deep North (2025)
The story of Dorrigo Evans, an army surgeon whose short but forbidden affair with his uncle's wife sustains and haunts him through his darkest days in a Thai-Burmese prisoner of war camp in WWII.
poster
Hulu
72
7.6
/11517/
73
/559/
69
/144/
cc age 17+

Das Boot (2018)
An inexperienced U-boat crew has to survive a secret mission and a young German woman is torn between loyalty for her home country and the French resistance in the WWII drama.
poster
Netflix
75
71
7.7
/4202/
76
/331/
74
/58/
cc age 16+

Hitler and the Nazis: Evil on Trial (2024)
This gripping docuseries examines Adolf Hitler and the Nazis' rise, rule and reckoning from pre-WWII to the Holocaust to the Nuremberg trials.
poster
Peacock Premium
71
8.0
/13658/
78
/620/
81
/137/
77
/35/
75
60
/17/
cc age 16+

The Tattooist of Auschwitz (2024)
The powerful real-life story of Lali Sokolov, a Jewish prisoner who was tasked with tattooing ID numbers on prisoners' arms in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp during World War II.
poster
PBS
84
71
8.2
/4837/
74
/81/
82
/26/
100
/7/
88
79
/6/

Home Fires (2015)
The story of a group of inspirational women in a rural Cheshire community with the shadow of World War II casting a dark cloud over their lives. As the conflict takes hold and separates the women from their husbands, fathers, sons and brothers, the characters find themselves under increasing and extraordinary pressures in a rapidly fragmenting world. By banding together as the Great Paxford Women’s Institute, they help maintain the nation’s fabric in its darkest hour, and discover inner resources that will change their lives forever.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
77
71
6.6
/4011/
65
/236/
63
/64/
89
/18/
92

SS-GB (2017)
Adapted from Len Deighton’s 1978 alternate history novel. A British detective investigates a murder in German-occupied Britain during World War II.
poster
The Roku Channel
81
71
8.5
/8614/
77
/114/
79
/69/
4.2
/3153/
83
/6/
83

Brideshead Revisited (1981)
Agnostic Charles Ryder is seduced by the allure of the Flytes, a wealthy aristocratic family. Although he finds himself at odds with their strong Catholicism, his ties to the family deepen for the decades between the two world wars.
poster
Netflix
71
69
6.6
/6316/
66
/280/
63
/75/
95
/20/
77
64
/9/
cc age 14+

Transatlantic (2023)
Two Americans and their allies form a scrappy rescue operation in 1940 Marseilles to help artists, writers and other refugees fleeing Europe during WWII. Transatlantic is a historical drama television miniseries created by Anna Winger and Daniel Hendler, based on the 2019 novel The Flight Portfolio by Julie Orringer. The novel explores the historic Emergency Rescue Committee that operated in Marseilles, Spain, and Portugal in 1940 after the fall of France. The series includes or refers to well-known artists or scholars of the time who were saved by the Committee or interacted with it. The series closed the 2023 Series Mania festival in March, ahead of its Netflix premiere on 7 April 2023.
poster
73
69
7.4
/8856/
74
/256/
74
/76/
92
/39/
54
73
/18/

World on Fire (2019)
The story of World War II told through the intertwining fates of ordinary people from all sides of this global conflict as they grapple with the effect of the war on their everyday lives.
poster
Hoopla
74
68
7.9
/8278/
73
/272/
72
/89/

The Saboteurs (2015)
When the Nazis secure a heavy water plant to realize their plan to create an atomic bomb, the Norwegian Allies struggle to sabotage the operation.
poster
The Roku Channel
70
67
7.2
/24904/
70
/332/
70
/354/

Hitler: The Rise of Evil (2003)
This biopic profiles history's most spectacular madman, tracing his journey from humble roots to complete mastery of Germany.
poster
Netflix
65
7.6
/7489/
73
/388/
70
/179/
69
/13/
76
59
/7/
cc age 13+

The Liberator (2020)
A diverse, dedicated, rough-and-tumble squad of soldiers spearheads the Allied invasion of Italy during World War II.
poster
The Roku Channel
71
64
7.8
/4750/
75
/199/
71
/37/
55
/11/
84
63
/6/
cc age 14+

Bomb Girls (2012)
Focusing on a group of women working in a munitions plant during World War II, this ensemble drama depicts the dangers and new experiences they face.
poster
73
63
7.4
/3280/
70
/143/
63
/49/
60
/10/
100

The Halcyon (2017)
The story of a bustling and glamorous five star hotel at the centre of London society and a world at war.
poster
Apple TV
63
62
7.4
/9243/
70
/386/
74
/77/
59
/56/
69
61
/24/
cc age 15+

The New Look (2024)
The shocking story of how fashion icon Christian Dior and his contemporaries including Coco Chanel, Pierre Balmain, and Cristóbal Balenciaga navigated the horrors of World War Il and launched modern fashion.
poster
Britbox Apple TV Channel
76
62
8.1
/7858/
75
/148/
74
/74/

Dad's Army (1968)
Introducing the Walmington-On-Sea home guard. During WW2, in a fictional British seaside town, a ragtag group of Home Guard local defense volunteers prepare for an imminent German invasion.
poster
76
62
7.7
/3512/
76
/203/
75
/44/

X Company (2015)
An emotionally-driven character drama, set in the thrilling and dangerous world of WWII espionage and covert operations. It follows the stories of five highly skilled young recruits - Canadian, American and British - torn from their ordinary lives to train as agents in an ultra-secret facility on the shores of Lake Ontario. These agents parachute behind enemy lines, where they're fair game for torture and execution. From elegant hotels to hellholes in the field, it's one risky operation after another, masterminded by the brains of Camp X.
poster
Netflix
73
60
7.2
/3137/
71
/216/
77
/64/
cc age 15+

War Sailor (2023)
When WWII erupts, two sailors on a Norwegian merchant ship face brutal conditions as they fight to survive a conflict they were never asked to join. Based on true stories of Norwegian merchant sailors and their families during and after World War II.
poster
Paramount+ Amazon Channel
67
59
7.0
/2773/
70
/193/
65
/47/
71
/17/
72
58
/9/
cc age 17+

Strange Angel (2018)
The story of the mysterious and brilliant Jack Parsons in 1940s Los Angeles as by day he helps birth the discipline of American rocketry and by night is a performer of sex magick rituals and a disciple to occultist Aleister Crowley.
poster
Hulu
62
58
7.0
/3992/
65
/214/
68
/61/
56
/16/
77
48
/9/
cc age 14+

Faraway Downs (2023)
The story of an English aristocrat, Lady Sarah Ashley, who inherits a large cattle ranch in Australia after her husband dies. When Australian cattle barons plot to take her land, she joins forces with a cattle drover to protect her ranch.
poster
PBS
70
57
7.3
/4106/
70
/101/
65
/21/
88
/8/
56
71
/5/

Atlantic Crossing (2020)
The incredible, true story of the Norwegian Crown Princess Märtha’s efforts to support her country during World War II. After a headlong flight from the Nazis, she was forced to part from her husband and cross the Atlantic Ocean to seek refuge in the United States. There, she soon found herself involved in a close relationship with the President of the United States: Franklin D. Roosevelt.
poster
75
57
8.0
/5955/
74
/91/
73
/72/

Holocaust (1978)
Berlin, Germany, 1935. The day Karl Weiss, a Jewish painter, and Inga Helms, a Christian woman, marry, is the one in which both of them and the entire Weiss family are caught up in the maelstrom of the Nazi regime, the storms of World War II and the horrors of the criminal Final Solution, the Holocaust, the Shoah; while Erik Dorf, an ambitious lawyer, undertakes his fall into hell at the hands of the sinister Reinhard Heydrich.
poster
Netflix
56
7.5
/52429/
75
/1741/
74
/285/
28
/65/
81
37
/27/
cc age 15+

All the Light We Cannot See (2023)
A blind French girl and a young German soldier's paths collide during WWII.
poster
75
56
8.1
/5154/
74
/82/
72
/44/

The Winds of War (1983)
Set against the backdrop of world events that led to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, Victor "Pug" Henry is a career naval officer who, along with his family, learns to navigate the waters of his dangerous times in the late 1930s.
poster
77
56
7.7
/3820/
79
/99/
76
/42/

Black Sheep Squadron (1976)
The dramatized World War II adventures of US Major Gregory "Pappy" Boyington and his Marine Attack Squadron 214, AKA The Black Sheep Squadron.
poster
71
55
7.3
/7749/
68
/87/
74
/125/

Nuremberg (2000)
Justice Robert H. Jackson leads Allied prosecutors in trying 21 Germans for Nazi war crimes after World War II.
poster
73
54
7.5
/3588/
73
/102/
73
/368/
3.6
/5363/

The Diary of Anne Frank (2009)
Five-part adaptation of Anne Frank's famous wartime diaries in which a young teenager and her family go into hiding from the Nazis in wartime Amsterdam.


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