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Eugene, an aspiring writer from Brooklyn, is drafted into the US Army during the final months of World War II. For his basic training, the Army sends...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Matthew Broderick

As America's stock of athletic young men is depleted during World War II, a professional all-female baseball league springs up in the Midwest, funded...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tom Hanks

In 1946, Branch Rickey (Harrison Ford), owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, took a stand against Major League Baseball's infamous colour line when he...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chadwick Boseman

Freddie, a volatile, heavy-drinking veteran who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, finds some semblance of a family when he stumbles onto...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joaquin Phoenix

In May 1940, the fate of World War II hangs on Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotiate with Adolf Hitler or fight on knowing that it...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gary Oldman

The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocate them to a...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Steve McQueen

During World War II, a secret agent must seduce then assassinate an official who works for the Japanese puppet government in Shanghai. Her mission...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tony Leung Chiu-wai

Mary Lennox is born in India to wealthy British parents who never wanted her. When her parents suddenly die, she is sent back to England to live with...

Genre: Family

Cast: Dixie Egerickx

As the Space Race ensues, seven pilots set off on a path to become the first American astronauts to enter space. However, the road to making history...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sam Shepard

The story of the Tuskegee Airmen, the first African-American pilots to fly in a combat squadron during World War II.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bryan Cranston

The career of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo is halted by a witch hunt in the late 1940s when he defies the anti-communist HUAC committee and is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bryan Cranston

On March 21st, 1945, the British Royal Air Force set out on a mission to bomb Gestapo's headquarters in Copenhagen. The raid had fatal consequences...

Genre: War

Cast: Bertram Bisgaard Enevoldsen

A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign in the Forbidden City, the object of worship by...

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Lone

Stingo, a young writer, moves to Brooklyn in 1947 to begin work on his first novel. As he becomes friendly with Sophie and her lover Nathan, he...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Meryl Streep

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...

Genre: War

Cast: Keira Knightley

France, 1940. In the first days of occupation, beautiful Lucile Angellier is trapped in a stifled existence with her controlling mother-in-law as...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michelle Williams

Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch reluctantly pacts with a stock-man in order to...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Nicole Kidman

When the Nazi high command learns in late 1943 that Winston Churchill will be spending time at a country estate in Norfolk, it hatches an audacious...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Michael Caine

A woman during the Second World War opens her heart to an evacuee after initially resolving to be rid of him.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gemma Arterton

On the eve of the Second World War, two of the greatest minds of the twentieth century, C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud converge for their own personal...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Anthony Hopkins

A six-part French documentary about the Second World War composed exclusively of actual footage of the war as filmed by war correspondents, soldiers,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Mathieu Kassovitz

The True Believers is a 1988 Australian mini series which looks at the history of the Australian Labor Party from the end of World War Two up to the...

Genre: War & Politics

Cast: Ed Devereaux

Berlin, Germany, 1935. The day Karl Weiss, a Jewish painter, and Inga Helms, a Christian woman, marry, is the one in which both of them and the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tom Bell

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The story of the mysterious and brilliant Jack Parsons in 1940s Los Angeles as by day he helps birth the discipline of American rocketry and by night...

Genre: Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Cast: Jack Reynor

Two sisters discover disturbing family secrets after a string of mysterious deaths occur on a luxury ship traveling from Spain to Brazil in the 1940s.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Alejandra Onieva

The Ashton family struggles to deal with the harsh realities of the Second World War as their sons are sent away to fight. Those who remain at home...

Genre: War & Politics

Cast: Colin Douglas

The Camomile Lawn is British adaptation of the Mary Wesley's classic novel that aired on Channel 4. As storm clouds gather over Europe in 1939, five...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rosemary Harris

Follow three intricately connected stories of Jamaicans and Londoners involved in World War Two. Hortense yearns for a new life away from rural...

Genre: Drama

Cast: David Oyelowo

East Berlin, 1956. Bertolt Brecht, revolutionary of the theater and poet of the state, looks back: his exploits as a teenager during the World War I;...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Burghart Klaußner

From Here to Eternity was short-lived dramatic television series that aired in 1980. It was a spinoff of the successful 1979 miniseries of the same...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Roy Thinnes

Above and Beyond is a four-hour 2006 miniseries aired by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation on October 29 and 30. The miniseries is about the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Peter MacNeill

The comic adventures of a group of misfits who form an extremely bad concert party touring the hot and steamy jungles of Burma entertaining the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Windsor Davies

In a politically, morally and economically destroyed country, three sisters of an industrialist family in post-war Germany reinvent themselves and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Thomas Sarbacher

Focusing on a group of women working in a munitions plant during World War II, this ensemble drama depicts the dangers and new experiences they face.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Meg Tilly

Genre: Drama

Cast: Javier Gutiérrez

During World War II, the Germans convert the castle of Colditz into an escape-proof prison where recidivist escapees are imprisoned under one roof....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Damian Lewis

Homefront is an American television drama series created and produced by Lynn Marie Latham and Bernard Lechowick in association with Warner Bros....

Genre: Drama

Cast: David Newsom

A three-part drama about serial killer John Christie and the murders at 10 Rillington Place in the 1940s and early 1950s.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tim Roth