Thanks Girls and Goodbye
1988 Β· 51m Β· Documentary Β· War
Documentary using archival footage, newsreels and contemporary interviews with women of the WW2 Australian Women's Land Army.
More Like This
The Best Years of Our Lives
1946 Β· β 7.7
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.
More info β
The Great Dictator
1940 Β· β 8.3
Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.
More info β
Voices of Midway
2015
A multimedia original film production commissioned by the USS Midway Museum in San Diego, focusing on the young men who sailed and flew into the teeth of the Japanese Navy.
More info β
Stalag 17
1953 Β· β 7.7
After two American prisoners are killed by guards in the act of escaping from a German POW camp in World War II, barracks black marketeer J.J. Sefton is suspected of being an informer.
More info β
Soldier of Orange
1977 Β· β 7.1
The lives of Erik Lanshof and five of his closest friends take different paths when the German army invades the Netherlands in 1940: fight and resistance, fear and resignation, collaboration and high treason.
More info β
The Bridge on the River Kwai
1957 Β· β 7.8
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.
More info β
Night and Fog
1956 Β· β 8.3
Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.
More info β
Enemy at the Gates
2001 Β· β 7.4
A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII.
More info β
Saving Private Ryan
1998 Β· β 8.2
As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fourth trapped behind enemy lines. Ranger captain John Miller and seven men are tasked with penetrating German-held territory and bringing the boy home.
More info β
World War Two: A Timewatch Guide
2016
Professor Saul David uses the BBC archive to chart the history of the world's most destructive war, by chronicling how the story of the battle has changed. As new information has come to light, and forgotten stories are remembered, the history of World War Two evolves. The BBC has followed that evolution, and this programme examines the most important stories, and how our understanding of them has been re-defined since the war ended over 70 years ago.
More info β
Drei Tage im April
1995 Β· β 8
Shortly before the end of the war in 1945, the Allies can already be heard in NesselbΓΌhl in Swabia when three freight cars are uncoupled at the station. The screams of the starving concentration camp prisoners inside can be heard throughout the village, but nobody dares to help them. Only the innkeeper's daughter Anna takes heart...
More info β
Pearl Harbor
2001 Β· β 6.9
The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the two ace fighter pilots become entangled in a love triangle with beautiful Naval nurse Evelyn Johnson. But the rivalry between the friends-turned-foes is immediately put on hold when they find themselves at the center of Japan's devastating attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.
More info β