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Paris brûle-t-il?
"Burn Paris!" was the order that had come shrieking over the phone.
Movie · 7.2 / 10 · 226 ratings · 26 Oct 1966 · French · 2h 53m · Released
Near the end of World War II, General Dietrich von Choltitz receives orders to burn down Paris if it becomes clear the Allies are going to invade, or if he's unable to maintain control of the city. After much contemplation, Choltitz ignores orders, enraging the Germans and giving hope to various resistance factions that the city will be liberated. Choltitz, alongside Swedish diplomat Raoul Nordling, helps a leader organise his forces.
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The Longest Day
Movie · 7.6 / 10 · 25 Sept 1962 · English
The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day"
Uprising
Movie · 6.5 / 10 · 4 Nov 2001 · English
In the Warsaw ghetto in 1943, Jews rise against the Nazis.
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.
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?
Days of Glory
Movie · 6.7 / 10 · 27 Sept 2006 · French
1943. They have never stepped foot on French soil but because France was at war, Said, Abdelkader, Messaoud and Yassir enlist in the French Army, along with 130,000 other “indigenous” soldiers, to liberate the “fatherland” from the Nazi enemy. Heroes that history has forgotten…
Battle of the Bulge
Movie · 6.9 / 10 · 16 Dec 1965 · English
In the winter of 1944, the Allied Armies stand ready to invade Germany at the coming of a New Year. To prevent it, Hitler orders an all-out offensive to re-take French territory and capture the major port city of Antwerp.
A Bag of Marbles
Movie · 7.8 / 10 · 18 Jan 2017 · French
At the beginning of the 1940s, in a France occupied by Nazi forces, lived the Jewish Joffo family. Happy and tight-knit, she sees her future darken when all members of the family are forced to wear the yellow star. Fearing the worst, the parents organized their family to flee to the free zone in the south of the country. Maurice, twelve years old, and Joseph, ten years old, will therefore leave alone in order to maximize their chances of finding their older brothers already settled in Nice. The brothers left to their own devices demonstrate an incredible amount of cleverness, courage, and ingenuity to escape the enemy invasion and to try to reunite their family once again.
The Bunker
Movie · 6.3 / 10 · 15 Apr 1981 · English
Dramatization depicting the events surrounding Adolf Hitler's last weeks in and around his underground bunker in Berlin before and during the battle for the city.
Austerlitz
Movie · 6.6 / 10 · 17 Jun 1960 · French
Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself emperor and fights the English, Austrians and Russians in 1802.
Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle
Movie · 7.1 / 10 · 21 Jul 2021 · French
Japan, 1944. Trained for intelligence work, Hiroo Onoda, 22 years old, discovers a philosophy contrary to the official line: no suicide; stay alive whatever happens; the mission is more important than anything else. Sent to Lubang, a small island in the Philippines where the Americans are about to land, this role will be to wage a guerrilla war until the return of the Japanese troops. The Empire will surrender soon after; Onoda, 10,000 days later.
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 Six Triple Eight
Movie · 7.5 / 10 · 6 Dec 2024 · English
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.
