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1. The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (2024)
R | 120 min | Action, Drama, War
The British military recruits a small group of highly skilled soldiers to strike against German forces behind enemy lines during World War II.
Director: Guy Ritchie | Stars: Henry Cavill, Alan Ritchson, Alex Pettyfer, Eiza González
Votes: 6,530
2. Oppenheimer (I) (2023)
R | 180 min | Biography, Drama, History
The story of American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the development of the atomic bomb.
Director: Christopher Nolan | Stars: Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr.
Votes: 726,363 | Gross: $326.11M
3. One Life (2023)
PG | 109 min | Biography, Drama, History
Sir Nicholas 'Nicky' Winton, a young London broker who, in the months leading up to World War II, rescued over 600 children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia.
Director: James Hawes | Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Lena Olin, Johnny Flynn, Helena Bonham Carter
Votes: 15,995
4. The Boy and the Heron (2023)
PG-13 | 124 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama
In the wake of his mother's death and his father's remarriage, a headstrong boy named Mahito ventures into a dreamlike world shared by both the living and the dead.
Director: Hayao Miyazaki | Stars: Soma Santoki, Masaki Suda, Kô Shibasaki, Aimyon
Votes: 50,850
5. Sisu (2022)
R | 91 min | Action, War
When an ex-soldier who discovers gold in the Lapland wilderness tries to take the loot into the city, German soldiers led by a brutal SS officer battle him.
Director: Jalmari Helander | Stars: Jorma Tommila, Aksel Hennie, Jack Doolan, Mimosa Willamo
Votes: 75,809
6. Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022)
PG-13 | 142 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Albus Dumbledore knows that Gellert Grindelwald is moving to take control of the wizarding world. Unable to stop him alone, he asks Newt Scamander to lead an intrepid team on a dangerous mission.
Director: David Yates | Stars: Eddie Redmayne, Jude Law, Ezra Miller, Dan Fogler
Votes: 170,289 | Gross: $95.85M
7. The Devil All the Time (2020)
R | 138 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Sinister characters converge around a young man devoted to protecting those he loves in a postwar backwoods town teeming with corruption and brutality.
Director: Antonio Campos | Stars: Bill Skarsgård, Tom Holland, Banks Repeta, Emilio Subercaseaux Campos
Votes: 152,603
8. White Bird (2023)
Not Rated | 120 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
Based on the book by the best-selling author of Wonder, this uplifting movie shows how one act of kindness can live on forever.
Director: Marc Forster | Stars: Gillian Anderson, Helen Mirren, Olivia Ross, Bryce Gheisar
Votes: 782
9. A Small Light (2023)
TV-14 | 50 min | Biography, Drama, History
Follows the remarkable story of Miep Gies, a Dutch woman who risked her life to shelter Anne Frank's family from the Nazis for more than two years during World War II.
Stars: Bel Powley, Joe Cole, Amira Casar, Billie Boullet
Votes: 12,132
10. Lee (2023)
R | 116 min | Biography, Drama, History
The story of photographer Elizabeth 'Lee' Miller, a fashion model who became an acclaimed war correspondent for Vogue magazine during World War II.
Director: Ellen Kuras | Stars: Alexander Skarsgård, Kate Winslet, Andrea Riseborough, Josh O'Connor
Votes: 298
11. Faraway Downs (2023)
38 min | Adventure, Drama, History
An aristocrat, Sarah has a cattle station in Australia. Following the death of her husband, a baron plots to take her land but she joins forces with cattle drover Jackman to protect her station.
Stars: Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, Shea Adams, Eddie Baroo
Votes: 2,986
12. The Forgotten Battle (2020)
TV-MA | 124 min | Drama, War
1944, the Second World War. A British glider pilot, a Dutch boy fighting on the German side and a Dutch female resistance member all end up involved in the Battle of the Schelde. Their choices differ, but their goal is the same: freedom.
Director: Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. | Stars: Gijs Blom, Jamie Flatters, Susan Radder, Jan Bijvoet
Votes: 37,052
13. Munich: The Edge of War (2021)
PG-13 | 130 min | Biography, Drama, History
A British diplomat travels to Munich in the run-up to World War II, where a former classmate of his from Oxford is also en route, but is working for the German government.
Director: Christian Schwochow | Stars: George MacKay, Jannis Niewöhner, Jeremy Irons, Liv Lisa Fries
Votes: 35,881
14. Europa: The Last Battle (2017)
746 min | Documentary, History, War
World War II revisionist film that claims Jews deliberately caused both World Wars--and that Hitler was only trying to save Germany from the Jews--as part of a plot to found the nation of Israel.
Director: Tobias B. | Stars: Muhammad Ali, Winston Churchill, Henry Ford, Joseph Goebbels
Votes: 2,339
15. Blood & Gold (2023)
TV-MA | 98 min | Action, Drama, War
At the end of World War II, a German soldier is looking for his daughter while an SS troop is looking for a Jewish treasure.
Director: Peter Thorwarth | Stars: Jördis Triebel, Robert Maaser, Alexander Scheer, Roy McCrerey
Votes: 17,148
16. World War II: From the Frontlines (2023)
TV-MA | 49 min | Documentary, History, War
Through vividly enhanced archival footage and voices from all sides of the conflict, this docuseries brings WWII to life like never before.
Star: John Boyega
Votes: 5,256
17. The Interpreter of Silence (2023)
TV-MA | 290 min | Drama, History
Follow Eva Bruhns, a fun-loving, naive and smitten twenty four-year-old who's life takes an unexpected turn when she is hired as a translator for the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials.
Stars: Katharina Stark, Anne Weinknecht, Anke Engelke, Hans-Jochen Wagner
Votes: 1,255
18. The Nightingale
Drama, History, War | Announced
The lives of two sisters living in France are torn apart at the onset of World War II. Based on Kristin Hannah's novel 'The Nightingale'.
Directors: Mélanie Laurent, Maria K. Singh | Stars: Dakota Fanning, Elle Fanning
19. Occupied City (2023)
PG-13 | 266 min | Documentary, History, War
The past collides with the present in this excavation of the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam: a journey from World War II to recent years of pandemic and protest and a provocative, life-affirming reflection on memory, time and what's to come.
Director: Steve McQueen | Star: Melanie Hyams
Votes: 480
20. Six Triple Eight (2024)
PG-13 | Drama, History, War | Completed
855 women joined the war to fix the three-year backlog of undelivered mail. Faced with discrimination and a country devastated by war, they managed to sort more than 17 million pieces of mail ahead of time.
Director: Tyler Perry | Stars: Susan Sarandon, Dean Norris, Kerry Washington, Sam Waterston
21. Sardar Udham (2021)
TV-MA | 164 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
A biopic detailing the 2 decades that Punjabi Sikh revolutionary, Udham Singh, spent planning the assassination of the man responsible for the Jallianwala Bagh massacre.
Director: Shoojit Sircar | Stars: Vicky Kaushal, Shaun Scott, Stephen Hogan, Amol Parashar
Votes: 47,254
22. Saga of Tanya the Evil (2017– )
TV-MA | 24 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
A girl with blond hair, blue eyes, and porcelain skin fights on the front lines of a brutal war and climbs the ranks of the imperial army.
Stars: Amber Lee Connors, Monica Rial, Aoi Yûki, Christopher Wehkamp
Votes: 4,225
23. War Sailor (2022)
TV-MA | 150 min | Drama, War
The sailor Alfred is in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean when World War II breaks out. Suddenly the sailors are in the front of the war, without any weapons.
Director: Gunnar Vikene | Stars: Kristoffer Joner, Pål Sverre Hagen, Ine Marie Wilmann, Henrikke Lund Olsen
Votes: 3,952
24. World War II in Colour (2009)
TV-MA | 51 min | Documentary, History, War
Recounts the events of world War II in color.
Stars: Robert Powell, Swaylee Loughnane
Votes: 7,484
25. Hitler's Circle of Evil (2018)
TV-14 | 52 min | Documentary, Biography, History
This is the story of the rise and fall of the Third Reich told like the drama it really was: through the personal relationships of the movers and shakers of the Nazi Party.
Stars: Guy Walters, Alisdair Simpson, Jay Osborne, Michael Lynch
Votes: 5,066
26. Scarface: The World Is Yours (2006 Video Game)
M | Action, Crime, Drama
Scarface the game begins during the final scene of the film, with the mansion of Tony Montana under attack from assassins sent by Alejandro Sosa. When Tony survives, his quest to kill Sosa begins.
Stars: Al Pacino, Steven Bauer, Robert Loggia, Al Israel
Votes: 2,820
27. Phantasm: Ravager (2016)
Not Rated | 85 min | Action, Fantasy, Horror
The final installment of the long-running Phantasm series.
Director: David Hartman | Stars: A. Michael Baldwin, Reggie Bannister, Dawn Cody, Gloria Lynne Henry
Votes: 5,155
28. In My Mother's Skin (2023)
97 min | Action, Fantasy, Horror
Stranded in the Philippines during World War II, a young girl finds that her duty to protect her dying mother is complicated by her misplaced trust in a beguiling, flesh-eating fairy.
Director: Kenneth Dagatan | Stars: Beauty Gonzalez, Felicity Kyle Napuli, James Mavie Estrella, Jasmine Curtis-Smith
Votes: 661
29. War Sailor (2023)
TV-MA | 175 min | Drama, War
The sailor Alfred is in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean when World War II breaks out. Suddenly the sailors are in the front of the war, without any weapons.
Stars: Ine Marie Wilmann, Pål Sverre Hagen, Kristoffer Joner, Alexandra Gjerpen
Votes: 2,487
30. La Unidad (2020–2023)
Action, Drama, Thriller
A secret unit of cops is assembled to stop a terrorist band from attacking Spain after their leader is arrested there.
Stars: Nathalie Poza, Michel Noher, Marian Álvarez, Fariba Sheikhan
Votes: 1,859
31. From Hilde, with Love (2024)
124 min | Biography, Drama, History
In Berlin 1942, Hilde is a member of an anti-Nazi group. She falls in love with another member, Hans. The two spend a summer together until they get caught by the Gestapo and Hilde is imprisoned, eight months pregnant.
Director: Andreas Dresen | Stars: Liv Lisa Fries, Johannes Hegemann, Sina Martens, Lisa Lee Paulick
Votes: 92
32. Abbé Pierre: A Century of Devotion (2023)
137 min | Biography, Drama, History
The life of Henri Grouès, known as Abbé Pierre, from his time in the Resistance in WWII to his fights against poverty and for the homeless.
Director: Frédéric Tellier | Stars: Benjamin Lavernhe, Emmanuelle Bercot, Michel Vuillermoz, Antoine Laurent
Votes: 428
33. Brothers (2023)
135 min | Action, Drama, History
Adaptation of controversial real-life story from the 1950s.
Director: Tomas Masin | Stars: Oskar Hes, Jan Nedbal, Adam Ernest, Tatiana Dyková
Votes: 309
34. Jaguar (2021)
TV-14 | 50 min | Action, Drama, History
In the 1960s, Spain became a home to hundreds of survivors of the Mauthausen camp. Isabel, a young Spanish woman, is one of them. She is looking for Skorzeny, Europe's most dangerous man, but she is not alone.
Stars: Blanca Suárez, Iván Marcos, Óscar Casas, Adrián Lastra
Votes: 2,220
35. The Fallout Shelter (2024)
Drama
When World War III is about to break out, a group of billionaires takes refuge in a luxury bunker. Through screens, they watch the spectacle of the world they knew collapsing above their heads.
Stars: Joaquín Furriel, Natalia Verbeke, Miguel Garcés, Miren Ibarguren
36. Bardejov (2024)
85 min | History, War
The story of small town Jewish leader Rafuel Lowy, who found an ingenious way to save Bardejov's Jewish population from being sent to Auschwitz during World War Two.
Director: Danny A. Abeckaser | Stars: Robert Davi, Danny A. Abeckaser, Emma Renana Bardea, Julian Brass
Votes: 85
37. The Silence of Swastika (2021)
56 min | Documentary, History
Hitler used a symbol for his political and racial ideology. The world today calls that symbol "Swastika", an Indian name to a symbol used by Hindus, Buddhists, and Jains for ages. But was it a Swastika? or Something else?
Director: Anuj Bhardwaj | Star: Suzanne Bernert
Votes: 10,519
38. Battlefield (1995–2004)
Documentary, History, War
Major battles of World War II are recounted in depth.
Stars: Tim Pigott-Smith, Jonathan Booth
Votes: 534
39. Peace on Earth (1939)
Passed | 9 min | Animation, Short, Drama
Two baby squirrels ask grandpa to explain what "men" are when they hear everyone singing of "peace on earth, goodwill to men". Grandpa tells the story of man's last war.
Director: Hugh Harman | Stars: Mel Blanc, Jeanne Dunne, The Hollywood Choir Boys, Shirley Reed
Votes: 1,750
40. Shy (2023– )
TV-14 | 23 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
A shy young girl joins a superhero organization and battles villains as well as her own fears and insecurities.
Stars: Shino Shimoji, Mamiko Noto, Nao Tôyama, Tomokazu Sugita
Votes: 196
41. The Power of Good: Nicholas Winton (2002)
64 min | Documentary
A gripping documentary about the courage and determination of a young English stockbroker who saved the lives of 669 children. Between March 13 and August 2, 1939, Nicholas Winton organized... See full summary »
Director: Matej Minac | Stars: Joe Schlesinger, Karel Reisz, Hugo Morom, Joseph Guns
Votes: 188
42. The Swedish Connection
Biography, Drama, History | Post-production
Gösta Engzell, a down prioritised bureaucrat at the Swedish Foreign Ministry during the 2nd World War. When Gösta and his team become aware that something terrible is happening to the Jews,... See full summary »
Directors: Thérèse Ahlbeck, Marcus Olsson | Stars: Henrik Dorsin, Sissela Benn, Jonas Karlsson, Marianne Mörck
43. Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the Window (2023)
114 min | Animation, Drama, Family
Going to school at Tomoe Gakuen, after not fitting at her original elementary school. She meets unique students and learns new things at school, even as Japan descends into war.
Director: Shinnosuke Yakuwa | Stars: Liliana Ôno, Koji Yakusho, Shun Oguri, Anne Watanabe
Votes: 72
44. Paradise (2016)
130 min | Drama, War
Follows three people whose paths cross during a terrible time of war: Olga, a Russian aristocratic emigrant and member of the French Resistance; Jules, a French collaborator; and Helmut, a high-ranking German SS officer.
Director: Andrey Konchalovskiy | Stars: Jakob Diehl, Peter Kurth, Yuliya Khlynina, Yuliya Vysotskaya
Votes: 2,029 | Gross: $0.01M
45. Prague (2012)
Not Rated | 109 min | Horror, Mystery, Romance
The chaotic ramblings of a young architect's mind take hold of his life as he leaves behind his past in India to work in Prague. In a city of beautiful architecture, a young architect is diverted toward constructions that exist within.
Director: Ashish R. Shukla | Stars: Chandan Roy Sanyal, Elena Kazan, Arfi Lamba, Kumar Mayank
Votes: 383
46. November Tenth (2015)
TV-14 | 99 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
Musa, a thirteen-year-old shoe shiner, with Yumna, undergoes destiny through their adventure of waging war during the war time. Will they manage to bring peace among the troops keeping on fighting for nothing?
Director: Aryanto Yuniawan | Stars: Reza Rahadian, Keagan Kang, Marlon Dance-Hooi, Maudy Ayunda
Votes: 3,136
47. Cadet 1947 (2021)
TV-14 | 111 min | Drama, History, War
When the Dutch initiates an aggression against Indonesia to regain its rule post World War II, a group of inexperienced cadets need to defend the last remaining airbase.
Directors: Rahabi Mandra, Aldo Swastia | Stars: Kevin Julio, Bisma Karisma, Marthino Lio, Omara N. Esteghlal
Votes: 274
48. World War Weird (2017– )
Documentary, History, War
Unusual, strange, weird plans, plots that took place, or planned to take place during World War Two.
Stars: Joshua Levine, Guy Walters, Dominic Selwood, Tom Bateman
Votes: 28
49. Impossible Peace (2017)
TV-14 | 60 min | Documentary
The First World War claimed a life every twenty five seconds for four years. What had been the point of it all? It was believed that World War One was the 'war to end all wars'. But 20 ... See full summary »
Star: Rod Mullinar
Votes: 59
50. Six Feet Under (2018 Video)
21 min | Short, Drama, History
During the First World War, a young British soldier (Ian Scott Castillo) and two others find themselves trapped in an underground bunker with a major German offensive imminent.
Director: Seth Amaradasa | Stars: Ian Scott Castillo, Courtney Gunter, Seth Amaradasa, Reece Griffin
Votes: 7