Movies about Historical Events

MOVIES ABOUT THE

WORLD WAR II ERA

1934	The Triumph of the Will	Adolf Hitler, Himmler, Goering	Unbelievable film of a real Nazi Rally in Nuremburg	Germany
1936	Land and Freedom	Ian Hart	Story of the Spanish Civil War	Spain
1936	For Whom the Bell Tolls	Ingred Bergman, Gary Cooper	An American goes to Spain to help the Royalists	Spain
1937	The Eternal Jew	Adolf Hitler, Himmler, Jews	A Nazi propoganda movie depicting Jews as a 'cancer'	Germany
1938	Citizen Kane	Orson Welles	What happened when the media became biased	New York
1938	The Sound of Music	Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer	The noble Von Trapp family in Nazified Austria	Austria
1935	Raiders of the Lost Ark	Harrison Ford	Modern search for the Ark of the Covenant	North Africa
1938	Indiana Jones: Last Crusade	Harrison Ford, Sean Connery	Modern search for the Holy Grail	Levant
1939	WWII: When Lions Roared	Michael Caine, John Lithgow, Hoskins	The diplomatic history: Stalin, Churchill, Roosevelt	England
1940	The Diary of Anne Frank	Millie Perkins	Famous story of a girl in Nazi controlled Holland	Holland
1940	The Pianist	Adrien Brody, Roman Polanski	A piano player lives through Nazi occupied Poland	Poland
1940	A Generation	Andrzej Wajda	Trilogy I: Youth helps people escape Warsaw Ghetto	Poland
1941	Kanal	Andrzej Wajda	Trilogy II: Polish soldiers try to escape through sewer	Poland
1941	The Battle of Britain	Michael Caine	History of a battle that saved England	England
1941	Twelve o' Clock High	Gregory Peck	WWII Americans in England, will they return home?	England

1941	Mrs. Miniver	Greer Garson	Great Britain when it fought alone for a year	England
1941	49th Parallel	Lawrence Olivier	Germans try to provoke Canada to war	Canada
1941	U-571	Matthew McConaughey	Americans try to sneak 'Enigma' to safety	England
1941	From here to Eternity	Burt Lancaster	Did American's think their country could be bombed?	America
1941	Pearl Harbor	Ben Affleck, Kate Beckinsale	The story of the Jap bombing of America	Hawaii
1941	Thirty Seconds over Tokyo	Spencer Tracy, Robert Mitchum	The Dolittle Raids after Pearl Harbor	Hawaii
1941	Empire of the Sun	John Malkovich, Christian Bale	Life gets turned upsidown in the Pacific after PH	Pacific
1941	Wake Island	Brian Donlevy	The Marines here have no hope, and keep fighting	Pacific
1942	Bridge over the River Kwai	William Holden, Alex Guinness	In Burma during Jap occupation, British troops live	Burma
1942	Midway	Charlton Heston, Henry Fonda	Story of American navy against the odds at Midway	Pacific
1942	War and Remberance	Robert Mitchem, Jane Seymour	Epic miniseries of events inside the III Reich	Poland
1943	Patton	George C. Scott	The epic of the American general the Nazi's feared	North Africa-Italy
1943	Casablanca	Humphry Bogart, Ingred Bergman	French un-occupied territory, a love triangle	North Africa
1943	Stalingrad	A bunch of faceless foreign actors	The largest battle in human history	Russia
1943	Enemy at the Gates	Ralph Feinnes, Jude Law	Personal battle against the epic battle of Stalingrad	Russia

1943	Schindler's List	Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes	The unlikely hero for many during the Holocaust	Poland
1943	Lodz Ghetto	Jerzy Kosinski	The sembelancy of normalcy in the Lodz Ghetto	Poland
1944	Korczak	Andrzej Wajda, Zbigniew Cybulski	A Polish orphanage director in the wartime ghetto	Poland
1944	The Longest Day	Richard Burton	The definitive D-Day movie, from all perspectives	France
1944	Ballad of a Soldier	Vladimir Ivashov, Zhanna Prokhorenko	The Russian front in WWII: a soldier's story	Russia
1944	MacArthur	Gregory Peck	Life of Douglas MacArthur, flamboyant Anglo Gen.	England
1944	Saving Private Ryan	Tom Hanks	Personal story against the power and awe of D-Day	France
1944	Memphis Belle	Matthew Modine	WWII American pilots flying against the Luftwaffe	England
1944	Battleground	Van Johnson	The Battle of the Bulge, US Forces vs. Nazis	Belgium
1944	Bataan	Robert Taylor	In the Philippines, Americans try to survive	Philippines
1944	The Sands of Iwo Jima	John Wayne	The Army raises men to fight the war against Japan	Pacific
1945	Fat Man and Little Boy	Paul Newman	The Manhattan Project and the Atomic Bomb	New Mexico
1946	Ashes and Diamonds	Andrzej Wajda	Trilogy III: Poland becomes a communist country	Poland

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