Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keywords "aerial-bombing", "war-crime"

1. A Very Long Engagement (2004)

R | 133 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

Tells the story of a young woman's relentless search for her fiancé, who has disappeared from the trenches of the Somme during World War One.

Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet | Stars: Audrey Tautou, Gaspard Ulliel, Jodie Foster, Dominique Pinon

Votes: 75,975 | Gross: $6.17M

2. Von Ryan's Express (1965)

Approved | 117 min | Action, Adventure, War

An American POW leads a group of mainly British prisoners to escape from the Germans in WWII.

Director: Mark Robson | Stars: Frank Sinatra, Trevor Howard, Raffaella Carrà, Brad Dexter

Votes: 15,153 | Gross: $17.11M

3. The Train (1964)

Not Rated | 133 min | Action, Thriller, War

In 1944, a German colonel loads a train with French art treasures to send to Germany. The Resistance must stop it without damaging the cargo.

Director: John Frankenheimer | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield, Jeanne Moreau, Suzanne Flon

Votes: 18,935 | Gross: $7.41M

4. The Battle of the Rails (1946)

85 min | Drama, War

Recounts the courageous efforts by French railroad workers who were part of an organized resistance during German World War II occupation.

Director: René Clément | Stars: Marcel Barnault, Jean Clarieux, Jean Daurand, Lucien Desagneaux

Votes: 1,270

5. Killing Gaza (2018)

97 min | Documentary, War

In Killing Gaza, independent journalists Max Blumenthal and Dan Cohen documented Israel's 2014 war on Gaza. Yet this film is much more than a documentary about Palestinian resilience and suffering. It is a chilling visual document of war crimes committed by the Israeli military, featuring direct testimony and evidence from the survivors.

Director: Max Blumenthal | Stars: John Kerry, Benjamin Netanyahu, Abu Obaida

Votes: 231

6. Battle for the Bulge (1969)

48 min | Documentary, History, War

This WWII documentary uses current location filming and authentic historic film clips to document the Battle of the Bulge, the last big German offensive in World War II, which was launched ... See full summary »

Director: Peter Batty | Stars: Hasso von Manteuffel, Robert Hasbrouck, John Mace, David Belchem

Votes: 16

7. Guernica (1951)

13 min | Documentary, Short

On April 26 1937 the small Basque town of Guernica was bombed without warning by the German aviation. Two thousand people, all civilians, got killed. Like millions all over the world, Pablo... See full summary »

Directors: Robert Hessens, Alain Resnais | Stars: María Casares, Jacques Pruvost

Votes: 1,041

8. 1944: Should We Bomb Auschwitz? (2019 TV Movie)

59 min | Documentary, Drama, History

After two men escape from the death camp at Auschwitz to tell the world the details of the Nazi genocide there, the Allies face a moral dilemma: to stop further killings, should we bomb Auschwitz?

Director: Tim Dunn | Stars: Nikolaus Wachsmann, Deborah Lipstadt, Michael Berenbaum, Rebecca Erbelding

Votes: 86

9. 68 (2008 TV Movie)

110 min | Documentary, History, War

From Washington to Saigon, Rome to Mexico, Paris to London, a wave of demonstrations shakes the world. 68 travels back in time to war torn Vietnam, freed and occupied Prague, Paris demonstrating, revolution in the Americas.

Director: Patrick Rotman | Stars: Edouard Balladur, The Beatles, Claude Berri, Leonid Brezhnev

Votes: 66

10. Scott Camil Will Not Die (2011)

84 min | Documentary, History

A documentary portrait of Scott Camil, peace activist, educator, Winter Soldier, and Vietnam War Veteran.

Director: Georg Koszulinski | Stars: Scott Camil, Lois Hensel, Anthony Maroun, Richard Nixon

11. The World at War (1973–1974)
Episode: Nemesis: Germany - February-May 1945 (1974)

TV-PG | 52 min | Documentary, History, War

The closing weeks of the European war bring retribution for Germany in the form of carpet bombing cities like Dresden, the collapse of the Whermacht, atrocities by Soviet forces, and finally the fall of Berlin and suicide of Hitler.

Director: Martin Smith | Stars: Laurence Olivier, Ursula Gray, Albert Speer, John Seney

Votes: 371

12. The World at War (1973–1974)
Episode: It's a Lovely Day Tomorrow: Burma - 1942-1944 (1974)

TV-PG | 52 min | Documentary, History, War

Allied forces were totally unprepared for the Japanese invasion of Burma in 1942. The Japanese quickly overran the country. The Allies counter-attacked using troops unfamiliar with jungle ... See full summary »

Director: John Pett | Stars: Laurence Olivier, Freddie Tomkins, Teruo Okada, J.G. Smyth

Votes: 371

13. Adolf Hitler's War (2020)
Episode: Scorched Earth (2020)

Documentary, History, War

In Kursk, a battlefield the size of Wales, the tide turns and the Soviets push back, but as Germany retreats, they destroy all evidence of their genocidal activities.

Directors: Michael Cove, Mike Kenneally | Stars: Sergei Kudryashov, Alexander Vershinin, Ivan Patrylyak, Ihar Melnikau

14. The U.S. and the Holocaust (2022)
Episode: The Homeless, The Tempest-Tossed (1942-) (2022)

TV-14 | 131 min | Documentary, History

A group of government officials supports and finances rescue operations. Allied soldiers begin to liberate concentration camps and find mass graves. The public sees the sheer scale of the Holocaust.

Directors: Sarah Botstein, Ken Burns, Lynn Novick | Stars: Peter Coyote, Daniel Mendelsohn, Deborah Lipstadt, Eva Geiringer

Votes: 146

15. The Balkans in Flames (2021–2022)
Episode: Yugoslavia In Ruins (2021)

Documentary, History, War

The Srebrenica massacre is a wake-up call for the international community, which decides to intervene after four years of war. That same year, the warring parties sign a peace treaty. But ... See full summary »

Stars: Misha Glenny, James Gow, Marie-Janine Calic, Gerry Kremer

16. Apocalypse, le crépuscule d'Hitler (2023)
Episode: Le dernier acte (2023)

Documentary, History, War

Its 1944, and as the Allied forces take over the West and Nazis retreat in the East, Hitler orders his country to its ruin from his underground bunker.

Directors: Isabelle Clarke, Daniel Costelle | Stars: Mathieu Kassovitz, Stephen Rashbrook, Ahmed Ben Bella, Blondi

Votes: 7

17. Hitler's Circle of Evil (2018)
Episode: Beginning of the End (2018)

TV-14 | 52 min | Documentary, Biography, History

As the war fails, the inner circle responds with strategies to save itself, from plotting the Führer's assassination to negotiating with the Allies.

Director: Vicky Matthews | Stars: Emma Craigie, Thomas Weber, Guy Walters, Robert Gerwarth

Votes: 149