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World War II Films

World War II Films

These World War II films remind us that history is never just a matter of dates and battles, but of choices made under impossible conditions.

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World War II Films
  • The Forger

    Movie

    Directed by Maggie Peren • Drama • 2022 • Germany, Luxembourg • German with English subtitles
    Starring Louis Hofmann, Jonathan Berlin, Luna Wedler

    Berlin, 1942. Cioma Schönhaus won't let anyone take away his zest for life, especially not the Nazis. Hiding in plain sight, he audaciously poses as ...

  • Sophie Scholl: The Final Days

    Movie

    Directed by Marc Rothemund • Drama • 2005 • Germany • German with English subtitles
    Starring Julia Jentsch, Alexander Held, Fabian Hinrichs

    The true story of Germany’s most famous anti-Nazi heroine is brought to thrilling life in this Academy Award Nominated Best Foreign Language Film. Armed wit...

  • The Conformist: Restored Edition

    Movie

    Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci • Arthouse • 1970 • Italy • Italian with English subtitles
    Starring Jean-Louis Trintignant, Stefania Sandrelli, Dominique Sanda

    Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, Bernardo Bertolucci's masterpiece is a political drama set in Mussolini's It...

  • Beanpole

    Movie

    Directed by Kantemir Balagov • Arthouse • 2020 • Russia • Russian with English subtitles
    Starring Viktoria Miroshnichenko, Vasilisa Perelygina, Andrey Bykov

    In post-WWII Leningrad, two women, Iya and Masha, intensely bonded after fighting side by side as anti-aircraft gunners, attempt to readjus...

  • The Sorrow and the Pity

    Movie

    Directed by Marcel Ophuls • Documentary • 1972 • France, Switzerland, Germany • French with English subtitles
    Featuring Pierre Mendes France, Sir Anthony Eden, Christian de la Maziere

    Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary, "The Sorrow and The Pity" has been acclaimed as one of the ...

  • The Day and the Hour

    Movie

    Directed by René Clément • Drama • 1963 • France • French, German with English subtitles
    Starring Simone Signoret, Stuart Whitman

    International screen icon Simone Signoret stars in this powerful World War II drama directed by René Clément. Signoret is superb as Thérèse, an isolated woman who unw...

  • Filmmakers for the Prosecution

    Movie

    Directed by Jean-Christophe Klotz • Documentary • 2022 • US, France • English, French with English subtitles
    Featuring KC Schulberg, Benn Schulberg

    "Filmmakers for the Prosecution" retraces the hunt by brothers Budd and Stuart Schulberg for film evidence that would be used to convict the Nazi...

  • Wife of a Spy

    Movie

    Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa • Thriller • 2021 • Japan • English, Japanese with English subtitles
    Starring Yu Aoi, Issey Takahashi, Ryota Bando

    Master filmmaker Kiyoshi Kurosawa won the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival for this riveting, gorgeously crafted, old-school Hitchockian thriller...

  • Confidence

    Movie

    Directed by István Szabó • Drama • 1980 • Hungary • Hungarian with English subtitles
    Starring Peter Andorai, Ildiko Bansagi

    István Szabó's "Confidence" was nominated for an Academy Award and won Berlinale's Silver Bear for Best Director in 1980. Set in World War II-era Hungary, it follows two un...

  • Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today

    Movie

    Directed by Stuart Schulberg • Documentary • 1948 • US • English, German with English subtitles
    Featuring Liev Schreiber

    One of the greatest courtroom dramas in history, “Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today” shows how international prosecutors built their case against top Nazi war criminals using...

  • Anatahan

    Movie

    Directed by Josef von Sternberg • Arthouse • 1954 • Japan • English, Japanese with English subtitles
    Starring Akemi Negishi, Tadashi Suganuma

    Directed by Josef von Sternberg, this film follows a dozen Japanese sailors who are stranded on the remote island of Anatahan during the waning days of th...

  • Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story

    Movie

    Directed by Alexandra Dean • Documentary • 2017 • US • English
    Featuring Mel Brooks, Peter Bogdanovich, Diane Kruger

    What do the most ravishingly beautiful actress of the 1930s and 40s and the inventor whose concepts were the basis of cell phone and bluetooth technology have in common? They are ...