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Pub. Date
[1960]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
This 1960 World War II film, set on a South Pacific Island, is based on Philip Roth's short story "Expect the Vandals." Two soldiers are the lone survivors of a Japanese attack. The hero, Moe, a 35-year-old Jewish accountant, has to care for the injured Ken, an all-American young soldier. The two clash over personal animosity and cultural prejudice.
2) Yanks
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
An American GI finds love in Britain during World War II.
3) Lifeboat
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
When an their vessel is torpedoed in the Atlantic Ocean during WWII, eight survivors find refuge in a lifeboat. Short on food and water, their situation is further complicated when they rescue a crew member from the German submarine that sank their ship.
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
From the acclaimed filmmaker behind Mr. Six comes a riveting war epic. In 1937 during World War II, eight hundred Chinese soldiers fight under siege from a warehouse in the middle of the Shanghai battlefield, completely surrounded by the Japanese army. Based on an incredible true story.
Pub. Date
[1999?], 1997.
Language
English
Description
A charming but bumbling waiter who's gifted with a colorful imagination and an irresistible sense of humor has won the heart of the woman he loves and has created a beautiful life for his young family. But then, that life is threatened by World War II...and a beloved wife and son are saved from an unthinkable fate!
6) Air strike
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
As a U.S. Army colonel trains Chinese aviators to battle Japanese fighters, a hotheaded pilot begs to fly a powerful bomber that could stop the attacks. Meanwhile, a team of spies and refugees must carry a game-changing decoder device through the war-torn countryside.
7) Little boy
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Little Pepper Busbee enjoys an idyllic life in an American small town, but his world is shattered when his beloved father is sent off to fight in World War II. But a chance encounter with a stage magician awakens his dormant abilities and clues him into the power of faith. Now his devotion to his father will extend past time and space and into the realm of miracles.
10) A hidden life
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based on real events, this is the story of an unsung hero, Franz Jägerstätter, who refused to fight for the Nazis in World War II. When the Austrian peasant farmer is faced with the threat of execution for treason, it is his unwavering faith and his love for his wife Fani and children that keep his spirit alive.
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the throes of World War II, Captain Maude Garrett joins the all-male crew of a B-17 bomber with a top-secret package. Caught off guard by the presence of a woman on a military flight, the crew tests Maude's every move. Just as her quick wit is winning them over, strange happenings and holes in her backstory incite paranoia surrounding her true mission. But this crew has more to fear; lurking in the shadows, something sinister is tearing at the...
12) Dad's army
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
It's 1944 and WWII is reaching its climax. The Allies are poised to invade France and finally defeat the German army. Morale in the Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard is low, so they make their new mission to revive spirits, until glamorous journalist Rose arrives to write about their exploits.
13) The World Wars
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Adolf Hitler. Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Benito Mussolini. Winston Churchill. Charles de Gaulle. George Patton. Before they were the giants of WWII, they were infantrymen and privates in WWI, the war to end all wars. The story of the devastating three decades of twentieth-century world war is told through the eyes of the men whose characters were forged in the trenches before they commanded a world on the brink of disaster.
14) The great escape
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
The true story of 76 allied airmen who plot a massive escape from Stalag 3, a maximum security prison in World War II. They struggle against overwhelming odds to obtain freedom.
16) Churchill
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
June 1944. Allied Forces stand on the brink: a massive army is secretly assembled on the south coast of Britain, poised to re-take Nazi-occupied Europe. One man stands in their way: Winston Churchill. An impulsive, sometimes bullying personality; fearful, obsessive and hurting. Fearful of repeating, on his disastrous command, the mass slaughter of 1915, when hundreds of thousands of young men were cut down on the beaches of Gallipoli. Obsessed with...
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
The story of Trinidad-born Ulric Cross, who became the RAF's most decorated West Indian airman of WWII. His life took a dramatically different course when he followed the call of history and joined the Pan African independence movements sweeping the world in the '50s and '60s.
18) Jojo Rabbit
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A World War II satire that follows a lonely German boy named Jojo whose world view is turned upside down when he discovers his single mother is hiding a young Jewish girl in their attic. Aided only by his idiotic imaginary friend, Adolf Hitler, Jojo must confront his blind nationalism.
20) Dunkirk
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Allied soldiers from Belgium, the British Empire and France are surrounded by the German Army, and evacuated during a fierce battle in World War II.
Intense war experience and some language.
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