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The most fiendish plot ever conceived! The most amazing "human being" ever created! The most diabolical phantom--
Movie · 7.0 / 10 · 94 ratings · 3 Apr 1956 · English · 1h 43m · Released
The true story of a British effort to trick the Germans into weakening Sicily's defenses before the 1943 attack. A dead soldier is dressed as a British officer and outfitted with faked papers showing that the Allies were intending to invade occupied Greece. His body is put into the sea where it will ultimately drift ashore and the papers be passed along to German Intelligence.
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Operation Mincemeat
Movie · 6.5 / 10 · 1 Apr 2022 · English
In 1943, two British intelligence officers concoct Operation Mincemeat, wherein their plan to drop a corpse with false papers off the coast of Spain would fool Nazi spies into believing the Allied forces were planning to attack by way of Greece rather than Sicily.
Five Graves to Cairo
Movie · 7.0 / 10 · 26 May 1943 · English
During the 1942 North African campaign, a British straggler passes as a waiter at the hotel commandeered as Erwin Rommel's headquarters. He has thoughts of assassinating Rommel but his cover may provide an even better use.
The Young Lions
Movie · 6.8 / 10 · 2 Apr 1958 · English
The lives of three young men, a German and two Americans, during WWII.
Waiting for Anya
Movie · 6.3 / 10 · 7 Feb 2020 · English
During the harrows of WWII, Jo, a young shepherd along with the help of the widow Horcada, helps to smuggle Jewish children across the border from southern France into Spain.
The Scarlet and the Black
Movie · 7.0 / 10 · 2 Feb 1983 · English
Fr. Hugh O'Flaherty is a Vatican official in 1943-45 who has been hiding downed pilots, escaped prisoners of war, and Italian resistance families. His activities become so large that the Nazis decide to assassinate him the next time he leaves the Vatican.
Munich - The Edge of War
Movie · 6.9 / 10 · 31 Dec 2021 · English
At the tense 1938 Munich Conference, former friends who now work for opposing governments become reluctant spies racing to expose a Nazi secret.
Devotion
Movie · 7.1 / 10 · 23 Nov 2022 · English
The harrowing true story of two elite US Navy fighter pilots during the Korean War. Their heroic sacrifices would ultimately make them the Navy's most celebrated wingmen.
The Monuments Men
Movie · 6.1 / 10 · 24 Jan 2014 · English
Based on the true story of the greatest treasure hunt in history, The Monuments Men is an action drama focusing on seven over-the-hill, out-of-shape museum directors, artists, architects, curators, and art historians who went to the front lines of WWII to rescue the world’s artistic masterpieces from Nazi thieves and return them to their rightful owners. With the art hidden behind enemy lines, how could these guys hope to succeed?
The Counterfeit Traitor
Movie · 6.5 / 10 · 13 Apr 1962 · English
Blacklisted in modern day WW2, a Swedish oil trader opts to assist British Allies, by means of infiltrating and surveying Nazi Germany.
Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin
Movie · 6.8 / 10 · 20 Nov 2024 · English
As the world teeters on the brink of annihilation, Dietrich Bonhoeffer joins a deadly plot to assassinate Hitler, risking his faith and fate to save millions of Jews from genocide.
Valkyrie
Movie · 7.0 / 10 · 25 Dec 2008 · English
Wounded in Africa during World War II, Nazi Col. Claus von Stauffenberg returns to his native Germany and joins the Resistance in a daring plan to create a shadow government and assassinate Adolf Hitler. When events unfold so that he becomes a central player, he finds himself tasked with both leading the coup and personally killing the Führer.
The Sea Wolves
Movie · 6.0 / 10 · 3 Jul 1980 · English
A German spy is passing on information about the location of Allied ships in the neutral harbor of Goa, India, with catastrophic results. Unable to undertake a full military operation in the Portuguese stronghold, English intelligence brings out of retirement a crew of geriatric ex-soldiers, veterans from World War I, using their age as cover. These old soldiers are asked to take to the seas and pull off an unlikely undercover mission.