Channels
War
Years

Popular War Movies

Beginning of an Unknown Era
Beginning of an Unknown Era
Two young directors adapted the short stories of two Russian authors whose works had been banned for decades, and so their film ended up in the censor’s vault as well – for twenty years. Both tales look back to the post-revolutionary era: 'Angel' speaks tragically of the brutality and destruction of the time, and 'The Homeland of Electricity' captures its haunting grotesquery.
Beginning of an Unknown Era 1967
怒海营救
怒海营救
怒海营救 2024
Wunderkinder
Wunderkinder
Three musically talented children look to the future, but their hopes crumble when Germany and Russia enter into war.
Wunderkinder 2011
The Smashing of the Reich
The Smashing of the Reich
An unpublished documentary film proposed in restored version. 100 million meters of film viewing, film libraries inventoried 11 countries and 3 years of work were needed to bring these documents. This documentary evokes the destruction of the Nazi war machine with a particular emphasis on air power. The most significant events are recounted as the Normandy landings, the battle of Paris, the last German offensive with the historical siege of Bastogne and the landing on the island of Elba. Also shown are the bombing of German industrial centers, and the liberation of concentration camps.
The Smashing of the Reich 1961
The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malaya
The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malaya
Japanese Navy air cadets train for the attacks on Pearl Harbor and the HMS Prince of Wales.
The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malaya 1942
Caught in the Draft
Caught in the Draft
Don Bolton is a movie star who can't stand loud noises. To evade the draft, he decides to get married...but falls for a colonel's daughter. By mistake, he and his two cronies enlist. In basic training, Don hopes to make a good impression on the fair Antoinette and her father, but his military career is largely slapstick. Will he ever get his corporal's stripes?
Caught in the Draft 1941
The Regent
The Regent
During the Hundred Years War, a young English prince struggles with the weight of his newfound responsibilities as he ascends The Regent's throne.
The Regent 2024
Beginning of the Great Revival
Beginning of the Great Revival
A chronicle of the events that led to the founding of the Chinese Communist Party.
Beginning of the Great Revival 2011
National Theatre Live: Good
National Theatre Live: Good
As the world faces its Second World War, John Halder, a good, intelligent German professor, finds himself pulled into a movement with unthinkable consequences.
National Theatre Live: Good 2023
The Hiding Place
The Hiding Place
World War II. Darkness has fallen over Europe, and the boots of the Third Reich echo through the streets. But on a quiet city corner in the Netherlands, some choose to resist. Corrie Ten Boom and her family risk everything to hide Jewish refugees by the hundreds, and they ultimately face the consequences when they are discovered.
The Hiding Place 2023
Woman Between Wolf and Dog
Woman Between Wolf and Dog
Lieve is a Belgian woman who marries just as World War II is beginning. When the Germans invade, her husband goes off to fight them, but he swiftly returns home after the invasion succeeds. Later, he decides that the Germans are on the right side of things, and goes off to fight for them on the Eastern Front. Soon afterward, a resistance fighter is stranded on her doorway, and she hides him. The two of them fall in love, and the conflicts and joys of this relationship cause Lieve continued grief well after the end of the war.
Woman Between Wolf and Dog 1979
Silence of the Sea
Silence of the Sea
In a small town in the West of France, during the German Occupation, a room is requisitioned by a Wehrmacht captain, Werner von Ebrennac. The house where he now stays is inhabited by young Jeanne, who makes a living by giving piano lessons, and by her grandfather. Quite upset, the two "hosts" decide to resist the occupier by never speaking a word to him. Now Werner is a lover of France and its culture, and he tries to persuade them that a rapprochement between Germany and France would be beneficial for the two nations. Quite unexpectedly Jeanne, little by little, falls in love with Werner. At the same time, the Francophile officer loses his illusions, realizing at last that what Nazi Germany actually wants is to thrall France and to stifle its culture...
Silence of the Sea 2004
Bomb Squad Men: The Long Walk
Bomb Squad Men: The Long Walk
Three former bomb disposal officers who served at the height of the Northern Ireland conflict, return for the first time in 30 years to revisit the defining moments of their careers, and the moments when they almost lost their lives.
Bomb Squad Men: The Long Walk 2012
Greyhound Attack
Greyhound Attack
WWII drama from film-maker Christopher Forbes which follows American fighter pilots on a perilous mission into the skies of enemy territory.
Greyhound Attack 2019
Picket 43
Picket 43
The film dealt with the story of an Indian army officer guarding a picket alone in Kashmir, and his friendship with a Pakistani soldier.
Picket 43 2015
Curveball
Curveball
Although he already has searched Iraq unsuccessfully for weapons of mass destruction as a member of a UN mission, German bio-weapons expert Arndt Wolf is still obsessed with the idea that Saddam Hussein is hiding something. Nobody around him is interested in this topic any more. This changes abruptly when an Iraqi asylum seeker claims to have been involved in the manufacture of chemical weapons. The German Federal Intelligence Service summons Dr. Wolf to ascertain the legitimacy of the claims made by the informant, who has been given the code name “Curveball”.
Curveball 2021
The Man Who Lived at the Ritz
The Man Who Lived at the Ritz
In this drama, an American art student is trapped amidst the political turmoil of war-torn Europe while visiting Paris and staying at the fabulous Ritz hotel. Rather than cope constructively with it all, the fellow opts to ignore it and continue living the high-life for as long as possible.
The Man Who Lived at the Ritz 1988
Sharpe's Siege
Sharpe's Siege
Sharpe, with his new commanding officer, is sent to capture a castle when news comes of locals who will rise against Bonaparte. However, he is somewhat distracted by thoughts of his wife whom he was forced to leave while stricken with fever.
Sharpe's Siege 1996
Quel maledetto ponte sull'Elba
Quel maledetto ponte sull'Elba
Quel maledetto ponte sull'Elba 1969
Süskind
Süskind
In Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, Walter Süskind is a member of the Dutch Jewish Council who rescues hundreds of children from the concentration camps.
Süskind 2012
Guns at Batasi
Guns at Batasi
An anachronistic martinet RSM on a remote Colonial African army caught in a local coup d'etat must use his experience to defend those in his care.
Guns at Batasi 1964
Betrayed
Betrayed
Screen superstars Clark Gable ("Gone With The Wind," "It Happened One Night") and sultry bombshell Lana Turner ("Peyton Place," "The Postman Always Rings Twice") team-up in this intriguing WWII drama. Suspected of being a Nazi spy, Dutch-resistance member Turner is given a last chance mission to redeem herself. Gable is an intelligence agent of the exiled Dutch government, who falls in love with her. Co-starring Victor Mature ("My Darling Clementine") and Oscar-nominee Louis Calhern ("The Asphalt Jungle").
Betrayed 1954
The Biggest Battle
The Biggest Battle
A story of how World War II affected the lives of a German family and an American family, both of whom had sons and fathers fighting in the war.
The Biggest Battle 1978
The Silver Fleet
The Silver Fleet
Jaap van Leyden is in charge of a shipyard in newly occupied Holland. At first he collaborates with the Germans because it is the easiest course to follow. Later a child's rhyme reminds him of his patriotic duty, but how best to resist the Nazis without endangering his wife and fellow workers?
The Silver Fleet 1943
Był sobie dzieciak
Był sobie dzieciak
Był sobie dzieciak 2013
The Last Reunion
The Last Reunion
Several members of a platoon of American soldiers not only kill a Japanese general, but also rape and murder the man's wife. The couple's son, Kimon, witnesses these ghastly events and vows revenge. Thirty-three years later the platoon get back together in Manila for a reunion. The adult Kimon also shows up to pick off the platoon members who are responsible for butchering his parents.
The Last Reunion 1980
Born to Fight
Born to Fight
Vietnam War veteran Sam Wood is a survivor of a vicious prison camp where he was brutally and painfully tortured before finally managing to escape. Then he returns to rescue his friends.
Born to Fight 1989
The Bells Go Down
The Bells Go Down
Comedian Tommy Trinder plays it straight in this tribute to the wartime AFS (Auxiliary Fire Service). The dedicated band who kept the fires of London under control during the blitz and fire bombings of WWII.
The Bells Go Down 1943
HUSSEIN Who Said No
HUSSEIN Who Said No
The story of Imam Hossein's battle in Karbala, an unfair war which made one the most important effects in Islam history.
HUSSEIN Who Said No 2014
The Damned
The Damned
A group of Nazis and sympathizers board a submarine bound for South America in the hopes of finding shelter.
The Damned 1947
Black and White in Color
Prime Video
Black and White in Color
French colonists in Africa, several months behind in the news, find themselves at war with their German neighbors. Deciding that they must do their proper duty and fight the Germans, they promptly conscript the local native population. Issuing them boots and rifles, the French attempt to make "proper" soldiers out of the Africans. A young, idealistic French geographer seems to be the only rational person in the town, and he takes over control of the "war" after several bungles on the part of the others.
Black and White in Color 1976
Hassan Terro
Hassan Terro
While he tries by all means to stay out of the bloody upheavals caused by the battle of Algiers, Hassan, an honest and naive father, unknowingly offers hospitality to a mujahid actively sought by the army. French. A series of events and misunderstandings quickly catapult him to the forefront, presenting him under the pseudonym “Hassan Terro”, a great fictitious terrorist who would have sworn the doom of the French army...
Hassan Terro 1967
Nine Lives
Nine Lives
The movie takes place during World War II and depicts the true story of Jan Baalsruds amazing escape from the German army from the coast of Northern Norway and across the border to the neutral country Sweden.
Nine Lives 1957
Black Dragons
Black Dragons
It is prior to the commencement of World War II, and Japan's fiendish Black Dragon Society is hatching an evil plot with the Nazis. They instruct a brilliant scientist, Dr. Melcher, to travel to Japan on a secret mission. There he operates on six Japanese conspirators, transforming them to resemble six American leaders. The actual leaders are murdered and replaced with their likeness.
Black Dragons 1942
Merrill's Marauders
Merrill's Marauders
Brigadier General Frank D. Merrill leads the 3,000 American volunteers of his 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), aka "Merrill's Marauders", behind Japanese lines across Burma to Myitkyina, pushing beyond their limits and fighting pitched battles at every strong-point.
Merrill's Marauders 1962
Coyote's Bloodbath
Coyote's Bloodbath
Coyote's Bloodbath 2024
Attack and Retreat
Attack and Retreat
Chronicle of the unheralded and unsuccessful invasion of the Soviet Union by the Italian army during World War II.
Attack and Retreat 1964
Buck Privates
Buck Privates
Pvt. Smith, an American soldier stationed in a German town during the occupation of Germany after World War I, falls in love with the daughter of the town's leading citizen. The problem is that his sworn enemy, Sgt. Butts, also has designs on the girl. Butts comes up with a plan to get rid of his competition and get the girl for himself, but things don't go quite the way he planned.
Buck Privates 1928
Eagles Over London
Eagles Over London
The British High Command finds itself in the thick of a huge dilemma when it is realized that they have long been infiltrated by spies from a German intelligence group. This all happens during the preliminary stages of the Battle of Britain.
Eagles Over London 1969
Area 88 Act I: The Blue Skies of Betrayal
Area 88 Act I: The Blue Skies of Betrayal
Shin Kazama, tricked and forced into flying for the remote country of Aslan, can only escape the hell of war by earning money for shooting down enemy planes or die trying. Through the course of the series, Shin must deal with the consequences of killing and friends dying around him as tries to keep his mind on freeing himself from this nightmare.
Area 88 Act I: The Blue Skies of Betrayal 1985