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Cast

Roland Mu00f8ller

Louis Hofmann

Mikkel Boe Fu00f8lsgaard

Joel Basman

Land of Mine (2015)

7.8 1.5K votes

Genre: Drama, History, War

Country: Germany, Denmark

Duration: 100 min.

Audience: R

Story: In the days following the surrender of Germany in May 1945, a group of young German prisoners of war is handed over to the Danish authorities and subsequently sent to the West Coast, where they are ordered to remove the more than two million mines that the Germans had placed in the sand along the coast. With their bare hands, crawling around in the sand, the boys are forced to perform the dangerous work under the leadership of a Danish sergeant.

Plot: beach, prisoner of war, post world war ii, land mine, minefield, sudden death, boy soldier, meager rations

Time: 1940s

Cast

Gorden Kaye

Carmen Silvera

Vicki Michelle

Richard Marner

'Allo 'Allo! (1984) TV Show

7.8 267 votes

Genre: Comedy, War

Country: United Kingdom

Seasons: 9

Episodes: 82

Audience: TV-PG

Story: The misadventures of hapless cafe owner René Artois and his escapades with the Resistance in occupied France.

Style: surreal

Plot: raf (royal air force), small town, prisoner of war, british army, workplace, slapstick comedy, parody, french resistance, ...

Time: world war ii, 1940s

Place: france

Cast

James Badge Dale

Jon Seda

Joseph Mazzello

Ashton Holmes

The Pacific (2010) TV Show

7.8 2.5K votes

Genre: Action, Drama, War

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 10

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Track the intertwined real-life stories of three U.S. Marines – Robert Leckie, John Basilone, and Eugene Sledge – across the vast canvas of the Pacific Theater during World War II. A companion piece to the 2001 miniseries Band of Brothers.

Plot: marine corps, okinawa, pacific war, miniseries, historical, military life, guadalcanal, iwo jima, ...

Time: world war ii, 1940s

Cast

Gu00e9rard Jugnot

Franu00e7ois Berlu00e9and

Kad Merad

Jean-Paul Bonnaire

The Chorus (2004)

7.7 2.6K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music

Country: France, Switzerland

Duration: 97 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: In 1940s France, a new teacher at a school for disruptive boys gives hope and inspiration.

Plot: penalty, boarding school, choir, diary, musical, boys' choir, dormitory, principal, ...

Time: 1940s

Cast

Sarah Paulson

Finn Wittrock

Jon Jon Briones

Judy Davis

Ratched (2020) TV Show

7.6 1.3K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 8

Audience: TV-MA

Story: In 1947, Mildred Ratched begins working as a nurse at a leading psychiatric hospital. But beneath her stylish exterior lurks a growing darkness.

Plot: nurse, motel, mutilation, lobotomy, mental hospital

Time: 1940s

Cast

Zhang Ziyi

Gong Li

Michelle Yeoh

Ken Watanabe

Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)

7.6 3.4K votes

Genre: Drama, History, Romance

Country: United States of America, Japan

Duration: 146 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.

Plot: secret love, prostitute, sibling relationship, geisha, brothel, mentor, loss of virginity, period drama, ...

Time: world war ii, 1920s, 1940s, ...

Place: japan

Cast

Nicole Kidman

Alakina Mann

James Bentley

Fionnula Flanagan

The Others (2001)

7.6 7.3K votes

Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Country: Spain, United States of America

Duration: 101 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Grace is a woman who lives in an old house kept dark because her two children, Anne and Nicholas, have a rare sensitivity to light. When the family begins to suspect the house is haunted, Grace fights to protect her children at any cost in the face of strange events and disturbing visions.

Plot: nightmare, suicide attempt, shotgun, servant, cemetery, nanny, haunted house, channel islands, ...

Time: world war ii, 1940s

Cast

Ryunosuke Kamiki

Minami Hamabe

Yuki Yamada

Munetaka Aoki

Godzilla Minus One (2023)

7.6 3.2K votes

Genre: Action, Horror, Science Fiction

Country: Japan

Duration: 125 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: In postwar Japan, Godzilla brings new devastation to an already scorched landscape. With no military intervention or government help in sight, the survivors must join together in the face of despair and fight back against an unrelenting horror.

Plot: monster, loss of loved one, giant monster, kamikaze, duty, atomic bomb test, radioactivity, naval combat, ...

Time: 1940s

Cast

Brad Pitt

Cate Blanchett

Taraji P. Henson

Julia Ormond

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)

7.6 13.8K votes

Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 166 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Born under unusual circumstances, Benjamin Button springs into being as an elderly man in a New Orleans nursing home and ages in reverse. Twelve years after his birth, he meets Daisy, a child who flits in and out of his life as she grows up to be a dancer. Though he has all sorts of unusual adventures over the course of his life, it is his relationship with Daisy, and the hope that they will come together at the right time, that drives Benjamin forward.

Plot: new york city, navy, funeral, boat, diary, tea, travel, hospital, ...

Time: great depression, 1940s, 1930s

Cast

Rami Malek

Russell Crowe

Michael Shannon

Leo Woodall

Nuremberg (2025)

7.6 1.2K votes

Genre: Drama, History

Country: United States of America, Hungary

Duration: 149 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: In postwar Germany, an American psychiatrist must determine whether Nazi prisoners are fit to go on trial for war crimes, and finds himself in a complex battle of intellect and ethics with Hermann Göring, Hitler's right-hand man.

Plot: based on novel or book, nuremberg trials, based on true story, nuremberg, germany, post world war ii, historical drama, hermann göring

Time: world war ii, 1940s

Cast

John Lone

Joan Chen

Peter O'Toole

Ruocheng Ying

The Last Emperor (1987)

7.6 1.9K votes

Genre: Drama, History

Country: China, France

Duration: 163 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign in the Forbidden City, the object of worship by half a billion people; through his abdication, his decline and dissolute lifestyle; his exploitation by the invading Japanese, and finally to his obscure existence as just another peasant worker in the People's Republic.

Plot: suicide, experiment, isolation, buddhism, becoming an adult, war crimes, suicide attempt, war on drugs, ...

Time: world war ii, 1920s, 1940s, ...

Place: china

Cast

Kerry Washington

Sam Waterston

Susan Sarandon

Dean Norris

The Six Triple Eight (2024)

7.6 697 votes

Genre: Drama, History, War

Country: United States of America

Duration: 130 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: During World War II, the US Army's only all-Black, all-women battalion takes on an impossible mission: sorting through a three-year backlog of 17 million pieces of mail that hadn't been delivered to American soldiers and finish within six months.

Plot: racial segregation, based on true story, moral courage, based on magazine, newspaper or article, african american history, human dignity, heartfelt, ...

Time: world war ii, 1940s

Cast

Brad Pitt

Shia LaBeouf

Logan Lerman

Michael Peu00f1a

Fury (2014)

7.5 13.0K votes

Genre: Action, Drama, War

Country: United States of America

Duration: 135 min.

Audience: R

Story: April, 1945. As the Allies make their final push in the European Theatre, a battle-hardened army sergeant named Wardaddy commands a Sherman tank and her five-man crew on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. Outnumbered and outgunned, and with a rookie soldier thrust into their platoon, Wardaddy and his men face overwhelming odds in their heroic attempts to strike at the heart of Nazi Germany.

Plot: hero, nazi, ambush, bravery, heroism, tank, europe, execution, ...

Time: world war ii, 1940s

Cast

Sean Connery

Harry Andrews

Ian Bannen

Alfred Lynch

The Hill (1965)

7.5 253 votes

Genre: Drama, War

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 123 min.

Audience: NR

Story: North Africa, World War II. British soldiers on the brink of collapse push beyond endurance to struggle up a brutal incline. It's not a military objective. It's The Hill, a manmade instrument of torture, a tower of sand seared by a white-hot sun. And the troops' tormentors are not the enemy, but their own comrades-at-arms.

Plot: prison, libya, sadism, africa, heat, british army, sahara desert, military prison, ...

Time: world war ii, 1940s

Place: north africa

Cast

Hayley Atwell

James D'Arcy

Enver Gjokaj

Wynn Everett

Marvel's Agent Carter (2015) TV Show

7.5 2.0K votes

Genre: Drama, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 18

Audience: TV-PG

Story: It's 1946, and peace has dealt Peggy Carter a serious blow as she finds herself marginalized when the men return home from fighting abroad. Working for the covert SSR (Strategic Scientific Reserve), Peggy must balance doing administrative work and going on secret missions for Howard Stark all while trying to navigate life as a single woman in America, in the wake of losing the love of her life - Steve Rogers.

Plot: secret agent, based on comic, marvel cinematic universe (mcu)

Time: 1940s

The Man Who Wasn't There (2001)

7.5 1.8K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 116 min.

Audience: R

Story: A tale of murder, crime and punishment set in the summer of 1949. Ed Crane, a barber in a small California town, is dissatisfied with his life, but his wife Doris' infidelity and a mysterious opportunity presents him with a chance to change it.

Plot: small town, hairdresser, con man, insurance fraud, black and white, barber, neo-noir

Time: 1940s

Place: california

Cast

Stephen Chow

Yuen Qiu

Yuen Wah

Lam Tze-Chung

Kung Fu Hustle (2004)

7.5 3.3K votes

Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime

Country: China, Hong Kong

Duration: 99 min.

Audience: R

Story: It's the 1940s, and the notorious Axe Gang terrorizes Shanghai. Small-time criminals Sing and Bone hope to join, but they only manage to make lots of very dangerous enemies. Fortunately for them, kung fu masters and hidden strength can be found in unlikely places. Now they just have to take on the entire Axe Gang.

Style: absurd

Plot: martial arts, magic, gangster, mafia, defense, policeman, wuxia, anarchic comedy, ...

Time: 1940s

Place: china

Cast

Andrew Scott

Brendan Fraser

Kerry Condon

Chris Messina

Pressure (2026)

7.5 139 votes

Genre: History, Thriller, War

Country: United Kingdom, France

Duration: 101 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: In the tense 72 hours before D-Day, and the fate of the free world hanging in the balance, General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Captain James Stagg face an impossible choice—launch the largest and most dangerous seaborne invasion in history or risk losing the war altogether.

Plot: weather forecast, metereologist, d-day, historical drama, extreme weather, matter of fact, unexpected problems, high‑stakes mission

Time: world war ii, 1940s

Cast

Richard Burton

Clint Eastwood

Mary Ure

Patrick Wymark

Where Eagles Dare (1968)

7.5 997 votes

Genre: Adventure, War

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 155 min.

Audience: PG

Story: World War II is raging, and an American general has been captured and is being held hostage in the Schloss Adler, a Bavarian castle that's nearly impossible to breach. It's up to a group of skilled Allied soldiers to liberate the general before it's too late.

Plot: undercover agent, nazi, liberation of prisoners, secret mission, spy, bavaria, germany, mountain, ...

Time: world war ii, 1940s

Place: germany

Cast

Jacob Anderson

Sam Reid

Assad Zaman

Delainey Hayles

Interview with the Vampire (2022) TV Show

7.5 400 votes

Genre: Drama, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 15

Audience: TV-MA

Story: A century-old vampire from New Orleans reunites with an ailing journalist to recount his life of bloodlust and his tumultuous relationship with the rakish Frenchman who turned him.

Style: shocking, philosophical, suspenseful, romantic

Plot: sibling relationship, based on novel or book, new orleans, louisiana, vampire, interview, immortality, supernatural, ...

Time: 1920s, 1940s, 1910s, ...

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