Films: Second World War

Director(s): Ruzowitzky, Stefan, Staudte, Wolfgang, de Chalonge, Christian, Kast, Pierre, Nolan, Christopher, Delvaux, André, Becker, Jean, Meily, Mark, Wilcox, Herbert, Fabien Beziat
Year: 2007
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In this Oscar-winner for Best Foreign Language Film, a Jewish man wrestles with his complicity in the Nazi war effort as a measure of survival. A gifted artist and counterfeiter, Salomon...

Director(s): Ruzowitzky, Stefan, Staudte, Wolfgang, de Chalonge, Christian, Kast, Pierre, Nolan, Christopher, Delvaux, André, Becker, Jean, Meily, Mark, Wilcox, Herbert, Fabien Beziat
Year: 1946
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One of the first post-World War II German films and the first Trümmerfilm, an aesthetic style for films made directly after World War II highlighting the material impacts of the war, ...

Director(s): Ruzowitzky, Stefan, Staudte, Wolfgang, de Chalonge, Christian, Kast, Pierre, Nolan, Christopher, Delvaux, André, Becker, Jean, Meily, Mark, Wilcox, Herbert, Fabien Beziat
Year: 1990
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This film narrates the life of Marcel Petiot (1897-1946), a French doctor and serial killer during World War II. Between 1941 and 1944, he pretended to work for the French Resistance and drew in...

Director(s): Ruzowitzky, Stefan, Staudte, Wolfgang, de Chalonge, Christian, Kast, Pierre, Nolan, Christopher, Delvaux, André, Becker, Jean, Meily, Mark, Wilcox, Herbert, Fabien Beziat
Year: 1968
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Based on the 1945 novel of the same name by Roger Vailland, Strange Game is set in occupied Paris during World War II. A group of five member of the French underground resistance muse...

Director(s): Ruzowitzky, Stefan, Staudte, Wolfgang, de Chalonge, Christian, Kast, Pierre, Nolan, Christopher, Delvaux, André, Becker, Jean, Meily, Mark, Wilcox, Herbert, Fabien Beziat
Year: 2017
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This tense drama weaves together three narratives critical to the successful evacuation of Dunkirk in the early days of World War II. After the German military controlled the sea, land, and air...

Director(s): Ruzowitzky, Stefan, Staudte, Wolfgang, de Chalonge, Christian, Kast, Pierre, Nolan, Christopher, Delvaux, André, Becker, Jean, Meily, Mark, Wilcox, Herbert, Fabien Beziat
Year: 1979
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Woman in a Twilight Garden is a 1979 Belgian-French drama film directed by André Delvaux. Set in Antwerp in 1940, a newly married Belgian woman finds herself torn between loves and...

Director(s): Ruzowitzky, Stefan, Staudte, Wolfgang, de Chalonge, Christian, Kast, Pierre, Nolan, Christopher, Delvaux, André, Becker, Jean, Meily, Mark, Wilcox, Herbert, Fabien Beziat
Year: 2003
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In 1950s France, Jacques, a schoolteacher, heads to the small town where he lived during the Occupation, to do a clown routine for the villagers, a yearly ritual. But Lucien, his 15 year old son,...

Director(s): Ruzowitzky, Stefan, Staudte, Wolfgang, de Chalonge, Christian, Kast, Pierre, Nolan, Christopher, Delvaux, André, Becker, Jean, Meily, Mark, Wilcox, Herbert, Fabien Beziat
Year: 2012
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This biopic of Emilio Aguinaldo, the first president of the First Republic of the Philippines, reveals the long struggle for independence. Aguinaldo's efforts to coordinate colonial resistance...

Director(s): Ruzowitzky, Stefan, Staudte, Wolfgang, de Chalonge, Christian, Kast, Pierre, Nolan, Christopher, Delvaux, André, Becker, Jean, Meily, Mark, Wilcox, Herbert, Fabien Beziat
Year: 1948
Abstract:

Elizabeth of Ladymead is a 1948 British Technicolor drama film, charting the life of a British family between 1854 and 1945 and their involvement in four wars - the Crimean War (1853–1856...

Director(s): Ruzowitzky, Stefan, Staudte, Wolfgang, de Chalonge, Christian, Kast, Pierre, Nolan, Christopher, Delvaux, André, Becker, Jean, Meily, Mark, Wilcox, Herbert, Fabien Beziat
Year: 2015
Abstract:

This French documentary tells the story of the millions of European women who fought against the misery and unspeakable horror in war-torn Europe during the Second World War. It explores their...

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