Films: Second World War

Director(s): Lindman, Åke, Zinnemann, Fred, Ayer, David, Kihachi Okamoto, Philipp Kadelbach, Rossellini, Roberto, Poliakoff, Stephen, Jiang, Wen, Gibson, Mel, Troell, Jan, Lang, Fritz, Duigan, John
Year: 2004
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Based on wartime diaries, this film focuses on the Finnish infantry regiment 61 during the Continuation War between Finland and the Soviet Union. It highlights both the minutia of war and major...

Director(s): Lindman, Åke, Zinnemann, Fred, Ayer, David, Kihachi Okamoto, Philipp Kadelbach, Rossellini, Roberto, Poliakoff, Stephen, Jiang, Wen, Gibson, Mel, Troell, Jan, Lang, Fritz, Duigan, John
Year: 1953
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In this Oscar-winning film, director Fred Zinnemann portrays everyday life on a Hawaiian army base before the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Far from a celebratory narrative, its characters have deep...

Director(s): Lindman, Åke, Zinnemann, Fred, Ayer, David, Kihachi Okamoto, Philipp Kadelbach, Rossellini, Roberto, Poliakoff, Stephen, Jiang, Wen, Gibson, Mel, Troell, Jan, Lang, Fritz, Duigan, John
Year: 2014
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April, 1945: as the Allies make their final push in the European theater, a battle-hardened American army sergeant named Wardaddy commands a Sherman tank and her five-man crew on a deadly mission...

Director(s): Lindman, Åke, Zinnemann, Fred, Ayer, David, Kihachi Okamoto, Philipp Kadelbach, Rossellini, Roberto, Poliakoff, Stephen, Jiang, Wen, Gibson, Mel, Troell, Jan, Lang, Fritz, Duigan, John
Year: 1971
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Told from the Japanese perspective, this war drama captures the events of World War II's Battle of Okinawa (March-July 1945) – a massive amphibious assault by U.S. troops that left more than 150,...

Director(s): Lindman, Åke, Zinnemann, Fred, Ayer, David, Kihachi Okamoto, Philipp Kadelbach, Rossellini, Roberto, Poliakoff, Stephen, Jiang, Wen, Gibson, Mel, Troell, Jan, Lang, Fritz, Duigan, John
Year: 2013
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Generation War (German: Unsere Mütter, Unsere Väter, lit. "Our Mothers, Our Fathers") is a German World War II TV miniseries in three parts. The series tells the story of five...

Director(s): Lindman, Åke, Zinnemann, Fred, Ayer, David, Kihachi Okamoto, Philipp Kadelbach, Rossellini, Roberto, Poliakoff, Stephen, Jiang, Wen, Gibson, Mel, Troell, Jan, Lang, Fritz, Duigan, John
Year: 1948
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In this classic film of Italian neorealism, director Roberto Rossellini uses childhood to explore the morality of war. In the devastated remains of post-war Germany, 12-year-old Edmund (Edmund...

Director(s): Lindman, Åke, Zinnemann, Fred, Ayer, David, Kihachi Okamoto, Philipp Kadelbach, Rossellini, Roberto, Poliakoff, Stephen, Jiang, Wen, Gibson, Mel, Troell, Jan, Lang, Fritz, Duigan, John
Year: 2009
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A family mystery unravels in remembering the events of 1939. Anne Keyes, the adopted daughter of a member of British Parliament, discovers her family's involvement in appeasement. Those connected...

Director(s): Lindman, Åke, Zinnemann, Fred, Ayer, David, Kihachi Okamoto, Philipp Kadelbach, Rossellini, Roberto, Poliakoff, Stephen, Jiang, Wen, Gibson, Mel, Troell, Jan, Lang, Fritz, Duigan, John
Year: 2001
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During the Japanese occupation of China, two prisoners are dumped in a peasant's home in a small town. The owner is bullied into keeping the prisoners until the next New Year, at which time they...

Director(s): Lindman, Åke, Zinnemann, Fred, Ayer, David, Kihachi Okamoto, Philipp Kadelbach, Rossellini, Roberto, Poliakoff, Stephen, Jiang, Wen, Gibson, Mel, Troell, Jan, Lang, Fritz, Duigan, John
Year: 2016
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This internationally acclaimed film presents the true story of a conscientious objector who won the Medal of Honor for his service during the Battle of Okinawa in World War II. Desmond Doss...

Director(s): Lindman, Åke, Zinnemann, Fred, Ayer, David, Kihachi Okamoto, Philipp Kadelbach, Rossellini, Roberto, Poliakoff, Stephen, Jiang, Wen, Gibson, Mel, Troell, Jan, Lang, Fritz, Duigan, John
Year: 1996
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Based on a true story, this film traces the fall of Norway's Knut Hamsun (1859-1952) as a national hero during World War II. Hamsun, a Nobel laureate and Norway's most famous author, embraces the...

Director(s): Lindman, Åke, Zinnemann, Fred, Ayer, David, Kihachi Okamoto, Philipp Kadelbach, Rossellini, Roberto, Poliakoff, Stephen, Jiang, Wen, Gibson, Mel, Troell, Jan, Lang, Fritz, Duigan, John
Year: 1943
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Hangmen Also Die! is a 1943 noir war film directed by the Austrian director Fritz Lang, based on a story by Bertolt Brecht. The film is loosely based on the 1942 assassination of Reinhard...

Director(s): Lindman, Åke, Zinnemann, Fred, Ayer, David, Kihachi Okamoto, Philipp Kadelbach, Rossellini, Roberto, Poliakoff, Stephen, Jiang, Wen, Gibson, Mel, Troell, Jan, Lang, Fritz, Duigan, John
Year: 2004
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Head in the Clouds focuses on the lives of three young lovers torn between pursuing their passions and defending their homelands. Gilda, an American-French woman, and her lovers Guy, a...

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