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1. The Cranes Are Flying (1957)

Not Rated | 95 min | Drama, Romance, War

Veronica plans a rendezvous with her lover, Boris, at the bank of river, only for him to be drafted into World War II shortly thereafter.

Director: Mikhail Kalatozov | Stars: Tatyana Samoylova, Aleksey Batalov, Vasiliy Merkurev, Aleksandr Shvorin

Votes: 19,876 | Gross: $0.02M

2. Cyborg X (2016)

90 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi

After X-Corp, a radical weapons manufacturer, is taken over by a Cyber Virus, a group of survivors must fight to save humanity from the army of Machines the Virus now controls.

Director: K. King | Stars: Eve Mauro, Rocky Myers, Jake Stormoen, Danny Trejo

Votes: 1,863

3. Idiot's Delight (1939)

Approved | 107 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A group of disparate travelers are caught and thrown together in a posh Alpine hotel when the borders are closed at the beginning of World War II.

Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: Norma Shearer, Clark Gable, Edward Arnold, Charles Coburn

Votes: 1,719

4. Adventure for Two (1943)

Not Rated | 114 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Ivan Kouznetsoff, a Russian engineer, recounts during World War II his stay in England prior to the war working on a new propeller for ice-breaking ships. Naive about British people, and ... See full summary »

Director: Anthony Asquith | Stars: Laurence Olivier, Penelope Dudley-Ward, Marjorie Fielding, Margaret Rutherford

Votes: 539

5. The White Sister (1933)

Approved | 105 min | Drama, Romance

A young woman falls in love with a dashing officer, but becomes a nun when she believes him to be killed in battle.

Director: Victor Fleming | Stars: Helen Hayes, Clark Gable, Lewis Stone, Louise Closser Hale

Votes: 486

6. Blitz on Berlin (2014 Video)

56 min | Documentary, History, War

A detailed account of the allied bombing raids on the city of Berlin in World War Two.

Director: Stanley Joseph | Stars: Barbara Von Rimscha, Anne-Marie Von Mutius, Adolf Hitler, Kaiser Wilhelm II

Votes: 6

7. Lost Empires (1986)
Episode: Episode #1.7 (1986)

51 min | Drama

The police close in on a murder suspect, but Uncle Nick has one last trick up his sleeve before he strikes out for America. As war breaks out, Richard enlists in the army and heads to the ... See full summary »

Director: Alan Grint | Stars: Colin Firth, Jim Carter, John Castle, Mike Edmonds

Votes: 22

8. Apocalypse: Hitler Takes on the West (2021– )
Episode: Le piège (2021)

Documentary, History, War

Nine months after the onset of World War II, Hitler attacks the West - Belgium, the Netherlands, France and Great Britain - with intense violence.

Directors: Isabelle Clarke, Daniel Costelle | Stars: Mathieu Kassovitz, Stephen Rashbrook, Nathan Rippy, Fernand Bignon

Votes: 38

9. Parade's End (2012)
Episode: Episode #1.2 (2012)

TV-MA | 61 min | Action, Drama, Romance

Sylvia returns to Christopher,largely for the financial security and attends his mother's funeral,where her showy appearance shocks the mourners. Realising she is reviled she goes to a ... See full summary »

Director: Susanna White | Stars: Rebecca Hall, Benedict Cumberbatch, Janet McTeer, Ned Dennehy

Votes: 363

10. The Balkans in Flames (2021–2022)
Episode: A State Falls Apart (2021)

Documentary, History, War

We are in the fateful year of Yugoslavia's first free elections since World War II: 1990. It is the hour of the nationalists, and the collapse of the multi-ethnic state is only a matter of ... See full summary »

Stars: Vjekoslav Skrinjar, Marie-Janine Calic, Laura Silber, James Gow

11. How to Lose a War (2023)
Episode: The Right Tools (2023)

Documentary, History, War

Victory in war doesn't just require sound military strategy, vital resources and equipment are also critical. Discover how the Axis powers failed in this regard.

Director: Tim Bosanquet | Stars: Richard Hammond, Giuseppe Finaldi, Alexander Henry, Charles Schencking

12. Secrets d'histoire (2007– )
Episode: François Ferdinand ou la fin du monde (2014)

Biography, History

About Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, whose assassination in Sarajevo in 1914 is generally seen as the event marking the outbreak of Word War One.

Director: David Jankowski | Star: Stéphane Bern

13. Tutankhamun (2016)
Episode: Episode #1.1 (2016)

TV-14 | 45 min | Drama, History, Romance

Archaeologist Howard Carter is recruited by amateur Egyptologist Lord Carnarvon to explore the Valley of the Kings. Carter discovers tantalising evidence of the final resting place of the ... See full summary »

Director: Peter Webber | Stars: Max Irons, Jonathan Aris, Sam Neill, Leon Clingman

Votes: 161

14. Spying on the Royals (2017)
Episode: Episode #1.2 (2017)

TV-PG | 47 min | Documentary

After his abdication Edward and Wallis Simpson holiday in America, unaware that they are being tailed by US intelligence agents. The outbreak of war and dealings with a Nazi collaborator in Lisbon raise concerns for MI5.

Directors: Chris Durlacher, Paul Elston | Stars: Samuel West, Richard Crowest, Luke Hope

Votes: 16