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Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American Supreme Court Justice, battles through one of his career-defining cases.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chadwick Boseman

In the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II, a Jewish singer infiltrates the regional Gestapo headquarters for the Dutch resistance.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Carice van Houten

Ypsilanti, Michigan, 1945. Engineer Preston Tucker dreams of designing the car of future, but his innovative envision will be repeatedly sabotaged by...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jeff Bridges

A murder in 1944 draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Daniel Radcliffe

Julian Albans, the bully who left Beecher Prep, is visited by his Grandmère from Paris and is transformed by her remarkable story of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ariella Glaser

During World War II, two French civilians and a downed British Bomber Crew set out from Paris to cross the demarcation line between Nazi-occupied...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bourvil

A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he's investigating.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Dana Andrews

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

Ari Ben Canaan, a passionate member of the Jewish paramilitary group Haganah, attempts to transport 600 Jewish refugees on a dangerous voyage from...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Paul Newman

Explore how one man's relentless drive and invention of the atomic bomb changed the nature of war forever, led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: J. Robert Oppenheimer

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

Billie Holiday spent much of her career being adored by fans. In the 1940s, the government targeted Holiday in a growing effort to racialize the war...

Genre: Music

Cast: Andra Day

There were five Marines and one Navy Corpsman photographed raising the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi by Joe Rosenthal on February 23, 1945. This is the...

Genre: War

Cast: Ryan Phillippe

On September 1st, 1939, Nazi Germany invades Poland, unleashing World War II. On September 17th, the Soviet Red Army crosses the border. The Polish...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Andrzej Chyra

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

In 1941 Hawaii, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his captain's wife and second in command are falling in love.

Genre: War

Cast: Burt Lancaster

Free-spirited writer Juliet Ashton forms a life-changing bond with the delightful and eccentric Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, when...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Lily James

In 1943, as Hitler continues to wage war across Europe, a group of college students mount an underground resistance movement in Munich. Dedicated...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Julia Jentsch

North Africa, World War II. British soldiers on the brink of collapse push beyond endurance to struggle up a brutal incline. It's not a military...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sean Connery

In the days following the surrender of Germany in May 1945, a group of young German prisoners of war is handed over to the Danish authorities and...

Genre: War

Cast: Roland Møller

When Colonel Carey-Lewis dies, his irrepressible daughter, Loveday, inherits Nancherrow and fights to keep it alive so that her son Nat will...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michael Cochrane

1945 Zero hour. Europe is reduced to rubble. Thirty million displaced and uprooted people. At the heart of this ravaged continent lies Switzerland....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Miron Sharshunov

Comedy set in an English Tuberculosis sanatorium in 1947.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Matthew Cottle

Fortunes of War is a 1987 BBC television adaptation of Olivia Manning's cycle of novels Fortunes of War. It stars Kenneth Branagh as Guy Pringle,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Emma Thompson

A star-laden adaptation of Anton Myrer's sprawling 1978 novel tracing the lives of five Harvard roommates of the class of '44, following them...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Perry King

Six young Australians go to war, full of confidence and bravado. They land in Singapore in 1942, just in time for surrender. With 15,000 others, they...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Matthew Newton

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

Set before 1940s, a Hindustani family that was divided mercilessly before the partition of Pakistan by the unfortunate time incidents.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ahad Raza Mir

Joe leaves working-class, industrial Dufton behind him and takes a job as senior audit clerk at the town hall in affluent Warley. He takes lodgings...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Matthew McNulty

Following his service in World War II, Doctor Finlay returns to the practice at Arden House. This is at a time when the National Health Service is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Annette Crosbie

A diverse, dedicated, rough-and-tumble squad of soldiers spearheads the Allied invasion of Italy during World War II.

Genre: War & Politics

Cast: Bradley James

Genre: Drama

Cast: Javier Gutiérrez

The true story of a decades-long conflict between the Los Angeles Police Department, under the determined leadership of Police Chief William Parker,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jon Bernthal

Airline is a British television series produced by Yorkshire Television for the ITV network in 1982. The series starred Roy Marsden as Jack Ruskin,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Roy Marsden

The story of a young woman who goes to present-day Israel/Palestine determined to find out about her soldier grandfather's involvement in the final...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Claire Foy

A League of Their Own is an American sitcom that aired from April 10, 1993 to April 24, 1993 with two additional episodes aired on August 13, 1993....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Carey Lowell

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

The Second World War. Leningrad was in blockade in the winter of 1941. The only way to deliver food and other supplies to the city is through the icy...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kseniya Rappoport

In 1944 many Germans in Eastern Prussia believed like Lena von Mahlenberg, daughter of a local aristocrat, that Hitler would surrender and spare them...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fritz Karl