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1. Narvik: Hitler's First Defeat (2022)
TV-14 | 108 min | Drama, History, War
April 1940. The eyes of the world are on Narvik, a small town in northern Norway, source of the iron ore needed for Hitler's war machinery. Through two months of fierce winter warfare, Hitler is dealt his first defeat.
Director: Erik Skjoldbjærg | Stars: Kristine Hartgen, Carl Martin Eggesbø, Christoph Gelfert Mathiesen, Henrik Mestad
Votes: 17,430
2. The King's Choice (2016)
133 min | Biography, Drama, History
April 1940. Norway has been invaded by Germany and the royal family and government have fled into the interior. The German envoy to Norway tries to negotiate a peace. Ultimately, the decision on Norway's future will rest with the king.
Director: Erik Poppe | Stars: Jesper Christensen, Anders Baasmo, Karl Markovics, Tuva Novotny
Votes: 10,084 | Gross: $0.11M
3. April 9th (2015)
93 min | Drama, History, War
On April 9, 1940 Germany invaded Denmark. Based on real events - in Southern Jutland a military unit on bicycles was sent south to help hold back the Germans until reinforcement.
Director: Roni Ezra | Stars: Pilou Asbæk, Lars Mikkelsen, Ari Alexander, Joachim Fjelstrup
Votes: 6,478
4. Arch of Triumph (1948)
Approved | 120 min | Drama, Romance, War
Illegal refugees lead dark lives in pre-World War II Paris.
Director: Lewis Milestone | Stars: Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer, Charles Laughton, Louis Calhern
Votes: 1,919 | Gross: $1.40M
5. Resistance (2011)
92 min | Drama, Thriller, War
In 1944 a group of women in an isolated Welsh village wake up to discover all of the their husbands have mysteriously vanished.
Director: Amit Gupta | Stars: Andrea Riseborough, Michael Sheen, Alexander Dreymon, Tom Wlaschiha
Votes: 1,955
6. The Last Train (1973)
PG | 95 min | Drama, Romance, War
Two people, a Frenchman Julien Maroyeur and a Jewish German woman (Anna Kupfer) met on a train while escaping the German army entering France.
Director: Pierre Granier-Deferre | Stars: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Romy Schneider, Maurice Biraud, Paul Amiot
Votes: 1,737
7. Come What May (2015)
R | 114 min | Drama, War
A German communist flees to Northern France with his son. German troops follow May 1940. The son flees with the village towards Dieppe at the English Channel, as does the separated dad, joined by a Scottish officer.
Director: Christian Carion | Stars: August Diehl, Olivier Gourmet, Mathilde Seigner, Alice Isaaz
Votes: 1,253 | Gross: $0.03M
8. Anatomie zrady (2020– )
Biography, Drama, History
Stars: Marián Labuda, Dana Droppová, Rebeka Poláková, Filip Brezina
Votes: 74
9. 40,000 Horsemen (1940)
Approved | 100 min | Drama, History, War
Three young Australians join the army at the beginning of World War I and are assigned to the Australian Light Horse cavalry, which is serving in Palestine. The three eventually take part ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Chauvel | Stars: Grant Taylor, Betty Bryant, Chips Rafferty, Pat Twohill
Votes: 240
10. Westerplatte Resists (1967)
TV-14 | 96 min | Drama, War
Dramatization of the first battle of World War II. The first target of German troops in the invasion of Poland is a small garrison at Westerplatte. Outnumbered and out-gunned, the Poles mount a fierce defense against an overwhelming enemy.
Director: Stanislaw Rózewicz | Stars: Zygmunt Hübner, Arkadiusz Bazak, Tadeusz Schmidt, Józef Nowak
Votes: 561
11. 14-18: The Noise and the Fury (2008 TV Movie)
148 min | Documentary, History
A documentary of World War I, exploring how soldiers accepted their conditions in the trenches when no clear reason had been given for the fight.
Director: Jean-François Delassus | Star: Alexandre Astier
Votes: 128
12. Till I Come Back to You (1918)
Passed | 60 min | Drama, Romance, War
Belgian girl Yvonne is married to Karl Von Krutz who admits to being a spy after war breaks out. U.S. Captain Strong assumes his identity and aborts a mission he is on to save the lives of ... See full summary »
Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Bryant Washburn, Florence Vidor, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Winter Hall
Votes: 27
13. Urodziny mlodego warszawiaka (1980)
96 min | Drama, History, Romance
The four sequences in the film cover four days in the life of a young Warsaw lad in September 1938, 1939, 1943, and 1944. In the first sequence Jurek decides not to study at Sorbonne but ... See full summary »
Directors: Ewa Petelska, Czeslaw Petelski | Stars: Piotr Lysak, Andrzej Lapicki, Jolanta Grusznic, Gabriela Kownacka
Votes: 38
14. Battle of Crete (2009 Video)
45 min | Documentary, History, War
A gripping World War Two documentary recounting the German airborne invasion of the Greek island of Crete in May 1941.
Director: Robert Garofalo | Stars: Roy Ward, Bernard Freyberg, Kurt Student
16.
Battlefield (1995–2004)
Episode:
Campaign in the Balkans
(2004)
105 min | Documentary, History, War
We examine the course of savage fighting in the Balkans in the latter half of the conflict in World War 2 where after the uprising by the Romanians, the Soviet Army moved swiftly to capture Bucharest.
Stars: Jonathan Booth, Ion Antonescu, Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, Ernst Busch
Votes: 11
17.
Battlefield (1995–2004)
Episode:
Manchuria: The Forgotten Victory
(2000)
Documentary, History, War
Tim Pigott-Smith narrates the story of the Soviet victory over the mighty Japanese Kwangtung Army in the mountains of Manchuria, which is one of the least known of the Second World War.
Stars: Tim Pigott-Smith, Aleksei Antonov, Henry H. Arnold, Kai-Shek Chiang
Votes: 5
18.
Battlefield (1995–2004)
Episode:
Scandinavia: The Forgotten Front
(2004)
Documentary, History, War
This episode take a closer look at the Russian aggression against Finland, and the German occupation of Norway.
Star: Jonathan Booth
Votes: 21
19.
Battlefield (1995–2004)
Episode:
The Battle for the Crimea
(2002)
Documentary, History, War
Stars: Jonathan Booth, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin
Votes: 5
20.
Battlefield (1995–2004)
Episode:
The Siege of Leningrad
(2000)
Documentary, History, War
Tim Pigott-Smith narrates the story of one of the Second World War's most harrowing episodes - the 890-day siege of the Soviet Union's second city Leningrad which was not liberated until January 1944.
Stars: Tim Pigott-Smith, Rolf Carls, Karl Dönitz, Joseph Goebbels
Votes: 6
22.
The U.S. and the Holocaust (2022)
Episode:
Yearning to Breathe Free (1938-1942)
(2022)
TV-14 | 138 min | Documentary, History
As WWII begins, Americans are divided over whether to intervene against Germany. Some individuals and organizations work tirelessly to help refugees escape. Germany invades the USSR and secretly begins the mass murder of European Jews.
Directors: Sarah Botstein, Ken Burns, Lynn Novick | Stars: Peter Coyote, Daniel Mendelsohn, Guy Stern, Peter Hayes
Votes: 157
23.
World War II in Colour (2009)
Episode:
Hitler Strikes East
(2009)
TV-MA | 51 min | Documentary, History, War
The German invasion of Russia from Operation Barbarossa on 22 June 1941 to Kursk on 5 July 1943.
Stars: Robert Powell, Adolf Hitler, Winston Churchill, Vyacheslav Molotov
Votes: 286
24.
World War II in Colour (2009)
Episode:
Lightning War
(2009)
TV-MA | 51 min | Documentary, History, War
Country after European country falls before the unstoppable German blitzkrieg.
Stars: Robert Powell, Adolf Hitler, Wladyslaw Sikorski, Karl Dönitz
Votes: 344
25.
Beyond the Myth: The SS Unveiled (2022– )
Episode:
The Executioner: Reinhard Heydrich
(2022)
Documentary, History, War
More than any other Nazi leader, Heydrich was an orchestrator of mass murder, and was terrifyingly clinical in approach.
Director: Alexander Hugh | Stars: Anna Hajkova, Robert Gerwarth, Alexandra Richie, Richard John Evans
26.
Beyond the Myth: The SS Unveiled (2022– )
Episode:
From the Protection Squadron to the SS State
(2022)
Documentary, History, War
Trace the rise to power of the SS as we examine several perpetrators. Who was recruited? And why was the SS attractive to men?
Director: Gabriele Rose | Stars: Christopher Dillon, Alexandra Richie, Benjamin Carter Hett, Otto Kumm
27.
How to Lose a War (2023)
Episode:
The Men Who Gave the Orders
(2023)
Documentary, History, War
Explore the men in charge whose rampant egos and misguided belief in their own abilities led to their country making fatal mistakes in the war.
Director: Tim Bosanquet | Stars: Tim Benbow, Russell A. Hart, Alexander Henry, Giuseppe Finaldi
28.
How to Lose a War (2023)
Episode:
The Best Laid Plans
(2023)
Documentary, History, War
Explore how the seeds of Japan's defeat in 1945 were sown a decade earlier with the occupation of Manchuria in China.
Director: Tim Bosanquet | Stars: Rana Mitter, Sandra Wilson, Yuma Totani, Guy Walters
29.
How to Lose a War (2023)
Episode:
The Right Tools
(2023)
Documentary, History, War
Victory in war doesn't just require sound military strategy, vital resources and equipment are also critical. Discover how the Axis powers failed in this regard.
Director: Tim Bosanquet | Stars: Richard Hammond, Giuseppe Finaldi, Alexander Henry, Charles Schencking
30.
Military Masterminds (2022)
Episode:
Guerrilla Warfare
(2022)
52 min | Documentary, History, War
Looking at how Mao Zedong, Fidel Castro, Josip Broz Tito and Võ Nguyên Giáp used Guerrilla Warfare to overcome a militarily superior enemy.
Director: Roberto Irwin | Stars: Eric Y. Shibuya, Eric Gomez, James Rogers, William Leogrande
31.
Hitler's Engineers: Building the Third Reich (2023–2024)
Episode:
Hans Kammler
(2023)
Documentary, History, War
Hans Kammler's fingerprints can be found all over the Third Reich's most prestigious and deadly engineering projects, including rockets and concentration camps.
Director: Matt Bone | Stars: Paul B. Jaskot, Michael Allen, Nigel Jones, Karina Urbach
32.
Hitler's Engineers: Building the Third Reich (2023–2024)
Episode:
Fritz Todt
(2024)
Documentary, History, War
Fritz Todt was the man tasked with engineering projects including the autobahn, the West Wall defences and more. But in 1942, he died under mysterious circumstances.
Director: Tom Williams | Stars: Jadwiga Korowaj, Nigel Jones, Guy Walters, Dieter Stockmann
33.
Beyond the Myth: The SS Unveiled (2022– )
Episode:
The Waffen-SS
(2022)
Documentary, History, War
Masqueraded as military excellence, the reality was very different. Recruits were poorly trained and remorse was nonexistent, as SS troops killed mercilessly.
Director: Gabriele Rose | Stars: Richard John Evans, Jean-Luc Leleu, Bastian Hein, Jochen Böhler
34.
Beyond the Myth: The SS Unveiled (2022– )
Episode:
The SS Death Head's Unit
(2022)
Documentary, History, War
Tasked with guarding concentration camps, this unit's actions knew no bounds, and, despite their heinous acts, still attended social gatherings.
Director: Carsten Binsack | Stars: Hans Münch, Richard John Evans, Christopher Browning, Harry Seidel
35.
Battlefield (1995–2004)
Episode:
The Battle of France
(1995)
Documentary, History, War
A documentary look at Early World War Two, the invasion of Poland and France, the equipment, the leaders, and the strategy.
Stars: Tim Pigott-Smith, Neville Chamberlain, Winston Churchill, Maurice Gamelin
Votes: 15
36.
Apocalypse: Stalin (2015)
Episode:
Le Possédé
(2015)
TV-14 | 52 min | Documentary, History, War
Episode covers Joseph Stalin's early life and his early political activities which resulted in his rose to power with the help of Lenin. October Revolution and Lenin's construction of new ... See full summary »
Directors: Isabelle Clarke, Daniel Costelle | Stars: Mathieu Kassovitz, Doug Rand, Nadezhda Alliluyeva, Inessa Armand
Votes: 92