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7.3

3rd Reich Mothers, in the Name of the Master Race

September 2012 •French

Two beautiful and different girls, Alice and Lisette are 17 years old, when forcibly removed from their Alsatian family to cooperate in the war effort in Germany. After spending six months in a indoctrination camp, they are both sent to a munitions factory where they are tasked to perform inhuman works. An explosion erupts, they are suspected of sabotage and threatened with being sent to a boot camp. Alice and Lisette believe they saved when transferred to a maternity where they continue living the hell of war.

5.1

The Haunted Airman

October 2006 •English

An injured RAF pilot, confined to a wheelchair is committed to an eerie hospital where he starts to lose his mind.

7.2

The 12th Man

December 2017 •Norwegian

After a failed anti-Nazi sabotage mission leaves his eleven comrades dead, a Norwegian resistance fighter finds himself fleeing the Gestapo through the snowbound reaches of Scandinavia.

0.0

Ghost Army

Invalid date •English

The US military forms a squadron of unconventional recruits during World War II to trick the German army into thinking there were outposts and bases where there were only mannequins, props and inflatable tanks.

5.6

Not Scared to Die

January 1973 •

Historical movie set during the Japanese occupation of China during WWII. Jackie Chan is one of the good guys but has nothing much more than a supporting role.

0.0

If I Don't Come Home: Letters from D-Day

June 2014 •English

A partly dramatised account of the lives of four Allied servicemen ahead of D-Day, the programme told their story through their final letters home before the assault.

7.6

Gandhi

December 1982 •English

In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian independence. Faced with armed resistance from the British government, Gandhi adopts a policy of 'passive resistance', endeavouring to win freedom for his people without resorting to bloodshed.

7.3

Closely Watched Trains

November 1966 •Czech

At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice longs to liberate himself from his virginity. Oblivious to the war and the resistance that surrounds him, this young man embarks on a journey of sexual awakening and self-discovery, encountering a universe of frustration, eroticism, and adventure within his sleepy backwater depot.

8.0

Judgment at Nuremberg

December 1961 •English

In 1947, four German judges who served on the bench during the Nazi regime face a military tribunal to answer charges of crimes against humanity. Chief Justice Haywood hears evidence and testimony not only from lead defendant Ernst Janning and his defense attorney Hans Rolfe, but also from the widow of a Nazi general, an idealistic U.S. Army captain and reluctant witness Irene Wallner.

7.8

The Bridge on the River Kwai

October 1957 •English

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.

7.4

Enemy at the Gates

February 2001 •English

A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII.

7.5

Letters from Iwo Jima

December 2006 •English

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.

8.0

Mirror

March 1975 •Russian

A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell of and juxtapose pivotal moments in Soviet history with daily life.

0.0

The Boy and the Sea Turtle

August 2002 •Japanese

The first film in Shin-Ei's series of annual WWII themed anime television movies for children "Sensou Douwa"

7.0

The Blanket

September 2022 •Finnish

Ten-year-old Marja is sent to fetch milk for her baby brother. On the way there are things even more dangerous than the thin ice.

7.0

Antonia's Line

September 1995 •Dutch

After World War II, Antonia and her daughter, Danielle, go back to their Dutch hometown, where Antonia's late mother has bestowed a small farm upon her. There, Antonia settles down and joins a tightly-knit but unusual community. Those around her include quirky friend Crooked Finger, would-be suitor Bas and, eventually for Antonia, a granddaughter and great-granddaughter who help create a strong family of empowered women.

7.8

The Best Years of Our Lives

December 1946 •English

It's the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally return home. For three WWII veterans, the day has arrived. But for each man, the dream is about to become a nightmare.

6.6

The Great Love

June 1942 •German

The attractive Oberleutnant Paul Wendlandt is stationed in North Africa as a fighter pilot. While in Berlin to deliver a report he is given a day's leave, and on the stage of the cabaret theatre "Skala" sees the popular Danish singer Hanna Holberg. For Paul it is love at first sight. When Hanna visits friends after the end of the performance, he follows her, and speaks to her in the U-Bahn. After the party in her friends' flat, he accompanies her home and chance throws them further together when an air raid warning forces them to take cover in the air raid shelter. Hanna reciprocates Paul's feelings, but after a night spent together Paul has to return immediately to the front. There now follows a whole series of misunderstandings, and one missed opportunity after another. While Hanna waits in vain for some sign of life from Paul, he is flying on missions in North Africa. When he tries to visit her in her Berlin flat, she is giving a Christmas concert in Paris.

7.2

Seven Years in Tibet

September 1997 •English

Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer journeys to the Himalayas without his family to head an expedition in 1939. But when World War II breaks out, the arrogant Harrer falls into Allied forces' hands as a prisoner of war. He escapes with a fellow detainee and makes his way to Llaso, Tibet, where he meets the 14-year-old Dalai Lama, whose friendship ultimately transforms his outlook on life.

7.2

The English Patient

November 1996 •English

In the 1930s, Count Almásy is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to chart the vast expanses of the Sahara Desert along with several other prominent explorers. As World War II unfolds, Almásy enters into a world of love, betrayal, and politics.

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Cast

František Němec

Jana Gýrová

Petr Haničinec

Hannjo Hasse

Klaus-Dieter Klebsch

Josef Větrovec

Jiří Bartoška

Yevgeni Zharikov

Yevgeni Shutov

Boris Tokarev

Radovan Lukavský

Dana Medřická

Oto Ševčík

Zdeněk Martínek

Marie Brožová

Zlata Adamovská

Václav Vydra

Jiří Havel

Karel Houska

Karel Urbánek

Josef Kubíček

Zdena Hadrbolcová

Miroslav Zounar

Marcel Vašinka

Jan Skopeček

Věra Tichánková

Pavel Trávníček

Jindřich Narenta

Petr Svoboda

Jindřich Bonaventura

Martin Učík

Jiří Prýmek

Bohuslav Ličman

Vítězslav Jirsák

Augustín Kubán

Michal Pešek

Josef Hajdučík

Alexej Gsöllhofer

Karel Vavřík

Renáta Doleželová

Čestmír Gebouský

Jiří Kosek

Vít Pešina

Tomáš Sedláček

Petr Voříšek

Josef A. Stehlík

Roman Hájek

Milan Charvát

Jan Kraus

Ferdinand Krůta

Jiří Máša

Milan Pěkný

Kateřina Besserová

Jaroslav Radimecký

Karel Chromík

Josef Šebek

Jana Vaňková

Ludvík Pozník

Daniel Dítě

Miloslav Šindler

Roman Janoušek

Vladimír Navrátil

Gerhard Sgalitzer

David Schneider

Vladislav Beneš

Pavel Robin

Petr Skarke

Jiří Schmiedt

Jiří Růžička

Karel Richter

Josef Střecha

František Suchomel

Vítězslav Sutr

Jaroslava Tichá

Jiří Holeček