Films: Second World War
In this classic film loosely based on real events, prisoners of war in Nazi-occupied Poland plan their escape. In 1943, British and other Allied soldiers at the Stalag Luft III work...
Based on Alistair MacLean's 1957 novel, this British-American epic war film tells the story of the Battle of Leros during the Dodecanese Campaign of World War II. With the Battle of Stalingrad...
Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, this highly acclaimed documentary explores the American homefront during World War II. Informed by historical scholarship, popular culture, and...
The House on 92nd Street is a 1945 black-and-white American spy film in a semidocumentary style. The movie, shot mostly in New York City, was released shortly after the end of World War...
Based on a true story, this critically acclaimed film presents the story of Alan Turing's intelligence work for the British during World War II. At Bletchley Park, Turing works to decode the...
Winner of Best Picture at the Academy Awards, The King's Speech shows how a man becomes king in the years before World War II. Prince Albert seeks a speech therapist to help him overcome...
This Oscar-winning documentary, executive produced by Steven Spielberg, focuses on the plight of five Hungarian Jews who survived imprisonment in Auschwitz. They recount their experiences in the...
Widely considered a masterpiece, directors Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger explore the changing notions of modern warfare against the tradition of British military systems from the Boer War...