Films: Second World War

Director(s): Spielberg, Steven, Vecchiali, Paul, Annaud, Jean-Jacques, Apted, Michael, Huston, John, von Trier, Lars, Holland, Agnieszka, Mizrahi, Moshé, Vincent Goubet, Ritt, Martin, Wilder, Billy
Year: 1987
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Director Steven Spielberg explores the loss of childhood innocence in this semi-autobiographical tale, based on the 1984 semi-autobiographical novel of the same name by J.G. Ballard, set during...

Director(s): Spielberg, Steven, Vecchiali, Paul, Annaud, Jean-Jacques, Apted, Michael, Huston, John, von Trier, Lars, Holland, Agnieszka, Mizrahi, Moshé, Vincent Goubet, Ritt, Martin, Wilder, Billy
Year: 1983
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Nearly twenty years after the end of World War II, a woman returns home to reclaim her past and rehabilitate her husband's image. Françoise Canavaggia and her husband fled their home in Toulon...

Director(s): Spielberg, Steven, Vecchiali, Paul, Annaud, Jean-Jacques, Apted, Michael, Huston, John, von Trier, Lars, Holland, Agnieszka, Mizrahi, Moshé, Vincent Goubet, Ritt, Martin, Wilder, Billy
Year: 2001
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In World War II, the fall of Stalingrad will mean the collapse of the whole country. The Germans and Russians are fighting over every block, leaving only ruins behind. The Russian sniper Vassili...

Director(s): Spielberg, Steven, Vecchiali, Paul, Annaud, Jean-Jacques, Apted, Michael, Huston, John, von Trier, Lars, Holland, Agnieszka, Mizrahi, Moshé, Vincent Goubet, Ritt, Martin, Wilder, Billy
Year: 2001
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In this fictionalized account of the British cryptography project, British cryptoanalysts have discovered to their horror that Nazi U-boats have changed their enigma code. Authorities enlist the...

Director(s): Spielberg, Steven, Vecchiali, Paul, Annaud, Jean-Jacques, Apted, Michael, Huston, John, von Trier, Lars, Holland, Agnieszka, Mizrahi, Moshé, Vincent Goubet, Ritt, Martin, Wilder, Billy
Year: 1981
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Escape to Victory (stylized as Victory) is a 1981 American-British-Italian sports war film. The head of a German POW camp, soccer enthusiast Karl von Steiner (Max von Sydow)...

Director(s): Spielberg, Steven, Vecchiali, Paul, Annaud, Jean-Jacques, Apted, Michael, Huston, John, von Trier, Lars, Holland, Agnieszka, Mizrahi, Moshé, Vincent Goubet, Ritt, Martin, Wilder, Billy
Year: 1991
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In a highly technical visual style, director Lars von Trier explores the themes of accountability, gullibility, and guilt in post-World War II Germany. A simplistic American takes a job as a...

Director(s): Spielberg, Steven, Vecchiali, Paul, Annaud, Jean-Jacques, Apted, Michael, Huston, John, von Trier, Lars, Holland, Agnieszka, Mizrahi, Moshé, Vincent Goubet, Ritt, Martin, Wilder, Billy
Year: 1990
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Based on the memoir by Solomon Perel (1925-), this film tells the story how a Jewish boy survives World War II. Displaced by Kristallnacht and the Invasion of Poland, Solomon winds up in a Russian...

Director(s): Spielberg, Steven, Vecchiali, Paul, Annaud, Jean-Jacques, Apted, Michael, Huston, John, von Trier, Lars, Holland, Agnieszka, Mizrahi, Moshé, Vincent Goubet, Ritt, Martin, Wilder, Billy
Year: 1986
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Every Time We Say Goodbye is an American romantic drama film, which tells the story of an RAF pilot (Tom Hanks) in Jerusalem during World War II. He falls in love with a Sephardic Jewish...

Director(s): Spielberg, Steven, Vecchiali, Paul, Annaud, Jean-Jacques, Apted, Michael, Huston, John, von Trier, Lars, Holland, Agnieszka, Mizrahi, Moshé, Vincent Goubet, Ritt, Martin, Wilder, Billy
Year: 2013
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This documentary explores why some joined the French Resistance during World War II. Interviewees reveal an unwillingness to submit to Germany and Vichy France. Their memories reveal the origins,...

Director(s): Spielberg, Steven, Vecchiali, Paul, Annaud, Jean-Jacques, Apted, Michael, Huston, John, von Trier, Lars, Holland, Agnieszka, Mizrahi, Moshé, Vincent Goubet, Ritt, Martin, Wilder, Billy
Year: 1960
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Five Branded Women is a 1960 Italian-American international co-production film directed by Martin Ritt and produced by Dino De Laurentiis. It featured an international cast including ...

Director(s): Spielberg, Steven, Vecchiali, Paul, Annaud, Jean-Jacques, Apted, Michael, Huston, John, von Trier, Lars, Holland, Agnieszka, Mizrahi, Moshé, Vincent Goubet, Ritt, Martin, Wilder, Billy
Year: 1943
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Five Graves to Cairo is a 1943 war film directed by Billy Wilder. Set in World War II, it is one of a number of films based on Lajos Bíró's 1917 play Hotel Imperial: Színmű négy...

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