Films: Second World War

Director(s): Bouchareb, Rachid, Tarantino, Quentin, Tarkovsky, Andrei, Boisset, Yves, Calef, Henri, Clément, René, Kramer, Stanley, Wajda, Andrzej, Imamura, Shôhei, Hutton, Brian G.
Year: 2006
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Rachid Bouchareb's powerful film chronicles the journey of four North African soldiers who join the French army to help liberate France from Nazi occupation during World War II, thereby...

Director(s): Bouchareb, Rachid, Tarantino, Quentin, Tarkovsky, Andrei, Boisset, Yves, Calef, Henri, Clément, René, Kramer, Stanley, Wajda, Andrzej, Imamura, Shôhei, Hutton, Brian G.
Year: 2009
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Director Quentin Tarantino re-imagines World War II as a revenge-fantasy for Jewish victims of Nazi Germany. In Nazi occupied France, young Jewish refugee Shosanna Dreyfus (Mélanie Laurent)...

Director(s): Bouchareb, Rachid, Tarantino, Quentin, Tarkovsky, Andrei, Boisset, Yves, Calef, Henri, Clément, René, Kramer, Stanley, Wajda, Andrzej, Imamura, Shôhei, Hutton, Brian G.
Year: 1962
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This critically acclaimed film, which won director Andrei Tarkovsky the Golden Lion at the 1962 Venice Film Festival, explores the loss of childhood and innocence in World War II. When Nazi...

Director(s): Bouchareb, Rachid, Tarantino, Quentin, Tarkovsky, Andrei, Boisset, Yves, Calef, Henri, Clément, René, Kramer, Stanley, Wajda, Andrzej, Imamura, Shôhei, Hutton, Brian G.
Year: 2002
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This made-for-television autobiography charts the rise and fall of Jean Moulin (1899–1943), a famed hero of the French Resistance during World War II. A rising leftist politician from Chartes,...

Director(s): Bouchareb, Rachid, Tarantino, Quentin, Tarkovsky, Andrei, Boisset, Yves, Calef, Henri, Clément, René, Kramer, Stanley, Wajda, Andrzej, Imamura, Shôhei, Hutton, Brian G.
Year: 1946
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A film about the resistance during World War II, Jericho highlights a Royal Air Force and French Resistance operation to free hostages held by German soldiers near Amiens. In February...

Director(s): Bouchareb, Rachid, Tarantino, Quentin, Tarkovsky, Andrei, Boisset, Yves, Calef, Henri, Clément, René, Kramer, Stanley, Wajda, Andrzej, Imamura, Shôhei, Hutton, Brian G.
Year: 1952
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Forbidden Games is a 1952 French war drama film directed by René Clément and based on François Boyer's novel Jeux Interdits. In 1940, five-year-old Paulette loses her parents and...

Director(s): Bouchareb, Rachid, Tarantino, Quentin, Tarkovsky, Andrei, Boisset, Yves, Calef, Henri, Clément, René, Kramer, Stanley, Wajda, Andrzej, Imamura, Shôhei, Hutton, Brian G.
Year: 1961
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Judgment at Nuremberg is a 1961 American epic courtroom drama, set in Nuremberg, Germany, in 1948. The film depicts a fictionalized version of the Judges' Trial of 1947, one of the 12 U.S...

Director(s): Bouchareb, Rachid, Tarantino, Quentin, Tarkovsky, Andrei, Boisset, Yves, Calef, Henri, Clément, René, Kramer, Stanley, Wajda, Andrzej, Imamura, Shôhei, Hutton, Brian G.
Year: 1957
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Director Andrzej Wajda offers a bleak interpretation of the Warsaw Uprising during World War II. A group of 27 resistance fighters from the Home Army retreat into the sewers after their plan to...

Director(s): Bouchareb, Rachid, Tarantino, Quentin, Tarkovsky, Andrei, Boisset, Yves, Calef, Henri, Clément, René, Kramer, Stanley, Wajda, Andrzej, Imamura, Shôhei, Hutton, Brian G.
Year: 1998
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Dr. Akagi, a physician in Japan during WWII, wages a one-man crusade against hepatitis, earning him a reputation. But his campaign brings him into disfavor with the Japanese army, and as the war...

Director(s): Bouchareb, Rachid, Tarantino, Quentin, Tarkovsky, Andrei, Boisset, Yves, Calef, Henri, Clément, René, Kramer, Stanley, Wajda, Andrzej, Imamura, Shôhei, Hutton, Brian G.
Year: 1970
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Kelly's Heroes is a 1970 US-Yugoslav co-production. In the midst of World War II, an array of colorful American soldiers gets inside information from a drunk German officer about millions...

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