Films: Second World War

Director(s): Feng, Xiao, Petersen, Wolfgang, Rademakers, Fons, Enrico, Robert, Zwick, Edward, Hirschbiegel, Oliver, Boucault, Mosco, Sanders-Brahms, Helma, Schlöndorff, Volker, Wicki, Bernhard, Fassbinder, Rainer Werner
Year: 2018
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This Chinese action war drama film directed by Xiao Feng about the massive Japanese bombing of the Chinese city Chongqing, capital of General Chiang Kai-shek's provisional government, from...

Director(s): Feng, Xiao, Petersen, Wolfgang, Rademakers, Fons, Enrico, Robert, Zwick, Edward, Hirschbiegel, Oliver, Boucault, Mosco, Sanders-Brahms, Helma, Schlöndorff, Volker, Wicki, Bernhard, Fassbinder, Rainer Werner
Year: 1981
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This classic war film tells the story of a German U-Boat crew during the Battle of the Atlantic in World War II. Presenting the crew as ordinary men, some embittered by and some new to war,...

Director(s): Feng, Xiao, Petersen, Wolfgang, Rademakers, Fons, Enrico, Robert, Zwick, Edward, Hirschbiegel, Oliver, Boucault, Mosco, Sanders-Brahms, Helma, Schlöndorff, Volker, Wicki, Bernhard, Fassbinder, Rainer Werner
Year: 1986
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Adapted from a 1982 novel of the same name by Harry Mulisch (1927-2010), this Oscar-winning film explores the consequences of the Dutch resistance during World War II on a young boy. One fateful...

Director(s): Feng, Xiao, Petersen, Wolfgang, Rademakers, Fons, Enrico, Robert, Zwick, Edward, Hirschbiegel, Oliver, Boucault, Mosco, Sanders-Brahms, Helma, Schlöndorff, Volker, Wicki, Bernhard, Fassbinder, Rainer Werner
Year: 1987
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De guerre lasse is the film adaptation of a novel of the same title by Françoise Sagan, initially published in 1985. The plot centers around Alice, a widow of a Jewish surgeon,...

Director(s): Feng, Xiao, Petersen, Wolfgang, Rademakers, Fons, Enrico, Robert, Zwick, Edward, Hirschbiegel, Oliver, Boucault, Mosco, Sanders-Brahms, Helma, Schlöndorff, Volker, Wicki, Bernhard, Fassbinder, Rainer Werner
Year: 2008
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Based on a true story, this film by Edward Zwick, traces the evolution of the Bielski Partisans, the largest and most successful Jewish resistance during World War II. The three Bielski brothers...

Director(s): Feng, Xiao, Petersen, Wolfgang, Rademakers, Fons, Enrico, Robert, Zwick, Edward, Hirschbiegel, Oliver, Boucault, Mosco, Sanders-Brahms, Helma, Schlöndorff, Volker, Wicki, Bernhard, Fassbinder, Rainer Werner
Year: 2004
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This Oscar-nominated Best Foreign Language Film, directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel, explores the final days of Hitler and his top officials during the Battle of Berlin in World War II. Trapped in a...

Director(s): Feng, Xiao, Petersen, Wolfgang, Rademakers, Fons, Enrico, Robert, Zwick, Edward, Hirschbiegel, Oliver, Boucault, Mosco, Sanders-Brahms, Helma, Schlöndorff, Volker, Wicki, Bernhard, Fassbinder, Rainer Werner
Year: 1985
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This documentary highlights Jewish resistance during the Holocaust in Vichy France during World War II. Interviewees – "the terrorists" – were Jewish immigrants and communists who survived the...

Director(s): Feng, Xiao, Petersen, Wolfgang, Rademakers, Fons, Enrico, Robert, Zwick, Edward, Hirschbiegel, Oliver, Boucault, Mosco, Sanders-Brahms, Helma, Schlöndorff, Volker, Wicki, Bernhard, Fassbinder, Rainer Werner
Year: 1980
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An example of New German Cinema, this film offers a feminist perspective on the historical memory of Nazi Germany through the relationship between mother and child. Anna imagines her mother's life...

Director(s): Feng, Xiao, Petersen, Wolfgang, Rademakers, Fons, Enrico, Robert, Zwick, Edward, Hirschbiegel, Oliver, Boucault, Mosco, Sanders-Brahms, Helma, Schlöndorff, Volker, Wicki, Bernhard, Fassbinder, Rainer Werner
Year: 1979
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This internationally acclaimed film, based on the 1959 novel of the same title by Nobel laureate Günter Grass, portrays the horrors of World War II through the eyes of a child. Oskar Matzerath...

Director(s): Feng, Xiao, Petersen, Wolfgang, Rademakers, Fons, Enrico, Robert, Zwick, Edward, Hirschbiegel, Oliver, Boucault, Mosco, Sanders-Brahms, Helma, Schlöndorff, Volker, Wicki, Bernhard, Fassbinder, Rainer Werner
Year: 1959
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This critically acclaimed film, based on the 1958 novel of the same name by journalist and writer Gregor Dorfmeister, was the first major anti-war film from post-World War II West Germany. In the...

Director(s): Feng, Xiao, Petersen, Wolfgang, Rademakers, Fons, Enrico, Robert, Zwick, Edward, Hirschbiegel, Oliver, Boucault, Mosco, Sanders-Brahms, Helma, Schlöndorff, Volker, Wicki, Bernhard, Fassbinder, Rainer Werner
Year: 1978
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An internationally acclaimed film that heralded New German Cinema, this film shows the agency and powerlessness of women during and after World War II. The film stars Hanna Schygulla as Maria,...

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