Pure-Hearted Unit
★ 8 · 1957 · 85m · War · Comedy
A story of young people in the immediate aftermath of World War II, their post-war careers, sorrows, and triumphs.
More Like This
Germans
1997 · ★ 6.3
A story about a German family during World War II with every family member having a different approach to Jews, raging from hatred to compassion.
More info →
Europa Europa
1990 · ★ 7.3
A Jewish boy separated from his family in the early days of WWII poses as a German orphan and is taken into the heart of the Nazi world as a 'war hero' and eventually becomes a Hitler Youth.
More info →
Black Book
2006 · ★ 7.5
Israel, 1956: Jewish teacher Rachel Stein rather unexpectedly meets an old friend at the kibbutz. It brings back memories of her experiences in the Netherlands during the war, memories of betrayal. In September 1944, Rachel's hiding place is bombed by Allied troops; she makes contact with a resistance member and joins a group of Jews to be smuggled across the Biesbosch to the freed South Netherlands. Only Rachel escapes a massacre by patrol Germans, and is rescued by a resistance group under the leadership of Gerben Kuipers, whose son is captured trying to smuggle weapons. Kuipers asks Rachel to seduce SS-hauptsturmführer Ludwig Müntze, a mission that she will soon learn that the boat attack wasn't a coincidence.
More info →
The Longest Day
1962 · ★ 7.6
The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day"
More info →
Festín para la muerte
1954 · ★ 9
A war film set during World War II, which delves into the psychology of the inhabitants of a city waiting to be bombed. Described by critics as an "artistic essay" and a "experimental film".
More info →
Operation Petticoat
1959 · ★ 7.2
A World War II submarine commander finds himself stuck with a damaged sub, a con-man executive officer, and a group of army nurses.
More info →
Kokoda
2006 · ★ 6.2
A bitter battle is fought between Australian and Japanese soldiers along the Kokoda trail in New Guinea during World War II.
More info →
Empire of the Sun
1987 · ★ 7.5
Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all foreigners into prison camps. Jamie is captured with an American sailor, who looks out for him while they are in the camp together. Even though he is separated from his parents and in a hostile environment, Jamie maintains his dignity and youthful spirit, providing a beacon of hope for the others held captive with him.
More info →
Saints and Soldiers
2003 · ★ 6.3
Five American soldiers fighting in Europe during World War II struggle to return to Allied territory after being separated from U.S. forces during the historic Malmedy Massacre.
More info →
The Aftermath
2019 · ★ 6.4
In the aftermath of World War II, a British colonel and his wife are assigned to live in Hamburg during the post-war reconstruction, but tensions arise with the German widower who lives with them.
More info →
Slingboy
1960 · ★ 4.9
A young Czech boy is freed from a concentration camp and now is working for the army against the Germans.
More info →
Das Boot
1981 · ★ 8.1
A German submarine hunts allied ships during the Second World War, but it soon becomes the hunted. The crew tries to survive below the surface, while stretching both the boat and themselves to their limits.
More info →