Films: Second World War

Director(s): Hutton, Brian G., Ross, Gaylen, Imamura, Shôhei, Cazeneuve, Fabrice, Melville, Jean-Pierre, Guédiguian, Robert, Binisti, Thierry, Gilson, René, Decoin, Henri, De Sica, Vittorio, Oury, Gérard
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...

Director(s): Hutton, Brian G., Ross, Gaylen, Imamura, Shôhei, Cazeneuve, Fabrice, Melville, Jean-Pierre, Guédiguian, Robert, Binisti, Thierry, Gilson, René, Decoin, Henri, De Sica, Vittorio, Oury, Gérard
Year: 2008
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This documentary tries to rehabilitate the historical legacy of Rezső Kasztner, a Hungarian Jew who saved over 1500 Jews during World War II but who was later declared a Nazi collaborator and...

Director(s): Hutton, Brian G., Ross, Gaylen, Imamura, Shôhei, Cazeneuve, Fabrice, Melville, Jean-Pierre, Guédiguian, Robert, Binisti, Thierry, Gilson, René, Decoin, Henri, De Sica, Vittorio, Oury, Gérard
Year: 1989
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A drama about the survivors of Hiroshima five years after the end of World War II. A couple worry about the marriage prospects of their niece, which have declined because of her exposure to...

Director(s): Hutton, Brian G., Ross, Gaylen, Imamura, Shôhei, Cazeneuve, Fabrice, Melville, Jean-Pierre, Guédiguian, Robert, Binisti, Thierry, Gilson, René, Decoin, Henri, De Sica, Vittorio, Oury, Gérard
Year: 2007
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A documentary telefilm presenting the story of Sacha Guitry, a notable French playwright who took it as his mission to preserve French culture during the German occupation in World War II. The...

Director(s): Hutton, Brian G., Ross, Gaylen, Imamura, Shôhei, Cazeneuve, Fabrice, Melville, Jean-Pierre, Guédiguian, Robert, Binisti, Thierry, Gilson, René, Decoin, Henri, De Sica, Vittorio, Oury, Gérard
Year: 1969
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A masterpiece lost to shifting political winds, The Army of Shadows offers a bleak interpretation of the French Resistance during World War II. A group of men and women work in secret and...

Director(s): Hutton, Brian G., Ross, Gaylen, Imamura, Shôhei, Cazeneuve, Fabrice, Melville, Jean-Pierre, Guédiguian, Robert, Binisti, Thierry, Gilson, René, Decoin, Henri, De Sica, Vittorio, Oury, Gérard
Year: 2009
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A group of French, Jews, Hungarians, Poles, Romanians, Spaniards, Italians, and Armenians - the Manoukian Group - briefly set off a wave of armed resistance in occupied Paris in the spring of 1943...

Director(s): Hutton, Brian G., Ross, Gaylen, Imamura, Shôhei, Cazeneuve, Fabrice, Melville, Jean-Pierre, Guédiguian, Robert, Binisti, Thierry, Gilson, René, Decoin, Henri, De Sica, Vittorio, Oury, Gérard
Year: 2000
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Summer 1939: Léa Delmas is seventeen. Carefree and romantic, the young woman leads a peaceful life in the countryside of Bordeaux. But with the outbreak of the Second World War and the subsequent...

Director(s): Hutton, Brian G., Ross, Gaylen, Imamura, Shôhei, Cazeneuve, Fabrice, Melville, Jean-Pierre, Guédiguian, Robert, Binisti, Thierry, Gilson, René, Decoin, Henri, De Sica, Vittorio, Oury, Gérard
Year: 1975
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A small town in northern France launches its resistance against the Nazi occupation in the middle of World War II. Locals and recent Polish refugees unite against Nazi collaborators and occupiers...

Director(s): Hutton, Brian G., Ross, Gaylen, Imamura, Shôhei, Cazeneuve, Fabrice, Melville, Jean-Pierre, Guédiguian, Robert, Binisti, Thierry, Gilson, René, Decoin, Henri, De Sica, Vittorio, Oury, Gérard
Year: 1958
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Loosely based on the life of Mathilde Carré, a Resistance fighter and double agent in occupied France, La Chatte reveals how women responded to the shifting politics and rebelled against...

Director(s): Hutton, Brian G., Ross, Gaylen, Imamura, Shôhei, Cazeneuve, Fabrice, Melville, Jean-Pierre, Guédiguian, Robert, Binisti, Thierry, Gilson, René, Decoin, Henri, De Sica, Vittorio, Oury, Gérard
Year: 1960
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In this sequel to the beloved Chatte (1958), Cora Mennessier (also known as "Chatte") is not dead. Condemned to be shot for being a...

Director(s): Hutton, Brian G., Ross, Gaylen, Imamura, Shôhei, Cazeneuve, Fabrice, Melville, Jean-Pierre, Guédiguian, Robert, Binisti, Thierry, Gilson, René, Decoin, Henri, De Sica, Vittorio, Oury, Gérard
Year: 1961
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Based on the 1957 novel of the same name by Alberto Moravia, Two Women tells the story of a mother trying to protect her young daughter from the horrors of war. During World War II,...

Director(s): Hutton, Brian G., Ross, Gaylen, Imamura, Shôhei, Cazeneuve, Fabrice, Melville, Jean-Pierre, Guédiguian, Robert, Binisti, Thierry, Gilson, René, Decoin, Henri, De Sica, Vittorio, Oury, Gérard
Year: 1966
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In this wildly popular French-British comedy, ordinary French citizens become entangled with the Resistance during World War II. In summer 1941, a Royal Air Force B17 Flying Fortress becomes lost...

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