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WWII
see all genres ›By the time the second World War broke out, many film industries around the world had become vast, efficient, sophisticated factories, allowing their hitherto unprecedented use to create propaganda for the cause, whether Allied or Axis, in the form of exciting fictional narratives, industrial training film or newsreels. The myriad horrors revealed after the conflict's end continue to magnetize filmmakers of today looking for stories of resistance, atrocity, intrigue and injustice.
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Genres / War / WWII
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Against the Odds
Of the thousands of men and women imprisoned under inhuman conditions behind the wires of the German concentration camps some found the strength to fight back. They collected evidence about German crimes in the camps, sabotaged equipment they were forced to manufacture, prepared uprisings and even tried to...Start your free trial to watch
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Ambush
AMBUSH takes place in the first days of World War II in Russian Karelia by the Finnish border. A young lieutenant is sent on a reconnaissance mission behind enemy lines, leaving his beautiful fiancee behind. During his mission he receives the tragic news that she has been killed by the Russians. Now the war is personal and...Start your free trial to watch
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Army of Crime
In Robert Guédiguian’s taut, internationally acclaimed thriller, set during the French Resistance, Armenian poet Missak Manouchian (Simon Abkarian) and his French wife (Virginie Ledoyen) lead a ragtag assortment of volunteers (Jews, Poles, Hungarians, Italians, Spaniards and Armenians) in an assassination plot against the...Start your free trial to watch
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The Battle of Britain
Originally released in 1943, THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN represents the fourth movie in Frank Capra's epic WHY WE FIGHT documentary series. This film traces the fate of the British during the dark days of the Blitz. It is a portrait of the desperate, but ultimately successful struggle to prevent a Nazi invasion...Start your free trial to watch
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The Battle of Midway
The stars and director of THE GRAPES OF WRATH re-united under very different circumstances two years later for this undeniably hyperbolic yet stirring portrait of U.S. Naval forces rallying to defeat Axis conquerors. "Tom Joad" (Henry Fonda) and "Ma Joad" (Jane Darwell) were among the voice actors...Start your free trial to watch
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The Battle of San Pietro
Starting with an unusually romantic depiction of the region that became key to the Allies' capture of Italian territory from German forces, this was director/narrator John Huston's government-produced chronicle of the late 1943 battle. His film crew shot right alongside U.S. Army troops and (partly as a...Start your free trial to watch
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Beat the Fascist Pirates
This animated "political poster" grants "no mercy for Hitler's bloodthirsty sharks," which are depicted prowling international waters to sneakily "bite" Allied ships from beneath. Calling for patriots to “"Smash the fascist rats relentlessly! In the air, on land and at sea," it's a striking piece of...Start your free trial to watch
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Candlelight in Algeria
James Mason stars as fugitive British agent Alan Thurston on a mission to find secret photographs of the location of the Allied invasion of North Africa before the Nazis. Susan Foster (Carla Lehmann) is drawn into the intrigue of the event when she decides to help Thurston by hiding him from Dr. Muller...Start your free trial to watch
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Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures
In the middle of northeastern Brazil in 1942, two very different men meet along the road: Johan, an aspirin salesman avoiding the German draft, and Ranulpho, a rural Brazilian seeking escape from the drought. Although their personalities and lives are worlds apart, the two men develop a deep friendship, as...Start your free trial to watch
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City of Life and Death
CITY OF LIFE AND DEATH, a stunning depiction of the Rape of Nanking, is "a film strong enough to change your life" (Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times). Director Lu Chuan based the film on the recorded witness testimony from the real-life survivors of the massacre, meticulously recreating the infamous reign...Start your free trial to watch
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Contraband
Set in England during the early days of WW II, CONTRABAND stars Conrad Veidt and Valerie Hobson as a Danish sea captain and his enigmatic passenger who are kidnapped by a cell of Nazi spies operating from a basement in London's Soho. In evocatively Hitchcockian fashion, the plot progresses as a chase that puts the characters...Start your free trial to watch
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Dear Arabella
Ancestors of music videos, YANKEE DOODLER, ROSIE THE RIVETER, and DEAR ARABELLA were made during World War II for coin-operated jukebox devices found in restaurants, bars, and train stations. On built-in glass screens, they projected 16mm films of artists performing popular tunes. These examples, although not in perfect...Start your free trial to watch
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December 7th
John Ford and Gregg Toland's DECEMBER 7TH was banned by the U.S. government for nearly fifty years. This restored version runs 82 minutes (with subtitles added to the controversial Japanese language sequences) whereas a censored 34 minute version of the film was released in the 1940s and earned John Ford his fourth Academy...Start your free trial to watch
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Fascist Boots on Our Homeland
FASCIST BOOTS ON OUR HOMELAND, made in the midst of the Second World War, is a stark animated short that portrays the Soviet Union as the last bulwark against the Nazi advance. In spite of the film’s grave historical ironies (“Fascism brings massive destruction, starvation and death to hundreds of...Start your free trial to watch
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Father
Ever since the death of his father, young Tako (Dani Erdélyi) has filled the paternal void with a series of fantasies in which his father (Miklós Gábor) is envisioned as a partisan freedom-fighter, a cultured world traveler and a decorated hero. When he reaches manhood, Tako (now played by András Bálint) struggles to live up...Start your free trial to watch
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15 Amore
A story of love and loss, set in the final months of WWII. With her husband off at war, the beautiful and independent Dorothy has remained in the Australian countryside to raise three young children. Living with them are two Italian POW's Alfredo and Joseph, who assist with the homestead upkeep. Dorothy and Alfredo have...Start your free trial to watch
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Fighter in the Wind
A young Korean Taekwondo competitor arrives in Japan near the end of World War II with hopes of being a fighter pilot, but ends up on the streets battling racism, organized crime, occupying American servicemen, and his own fear of failure as a martial artist. He retires to the wilderness for two years to...Start your free trial to watch