Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keywords "nazi-occupation", "year-1943"

1. The Pianist (2002)

R | 150 min | Biography, Drama, Music

During WWII, acclaimed Polish musician Wladyslaw faces various struggles as he loses contact with his family. As the situation worsens, he hides in the ruins of Warsaw in order to survive.

Director: Roman Polanski | Stars: Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Frank Finlay, Emilia Fox

Votes: 914,385 | Gross: $32.57M

2. Come and See (1985)

Not Rated | 142 min | Drama, Thriller, War

After finding an old rifle, a young boy joins the Soviet resistance movement against ruthless German forces and experiences the horrors of World War II.

Director: Elem Klimov | Stars: Aleksey Kravchenko, Olga Mironova, Liubomiras Laucevicius, Vladas Bagdonas

Votes: 97,644

3. The Guns of Navarone (1961)

Not Rated | 158 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A team of Allied saboteurs is assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held Greek island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers.

Director: J. Lee Thompson | Stars: David Niven, Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn, Anthony Quayle

Votes: 55,496 | Gross: $28.90M

4. Holocaust (1978)

Not Rated | 95 min | Drama, History, Romance

The saga of a Jewish family's struggle to survive the horror of Nazi Germany's systematic marginalization and extermination of their community.

Stars: Joseph Bottoms, Tovah Feldshuh, Rosemary Harris, Tony Haygarth

Votes: 5,518

5. The 12th Man (2017)

Unrated | 135 min | Drama, History, Thriller

They were 12 saboteurs. The Nazis killed 11 of them. This is the true story of the one that got away.

Director: Harald Zwart | Stars: Thomas Gullestad, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Marie Blokhus, Mads Sjøgård Pettersen

Votes: 29,264

6. Army of Shadows (1969)

Not Rated | 145 min | Drama, War

An account of underground resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied France.

Director: Jean-Pierre Melville | Stars: Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Simone Signoret

Votes: 25,917 | Gross: $0.74M

7. A Bag of Marbles (2017)

Not Rated | 110 min | Biography, Drama, History

In occupied France, Maurice and Joseph, two young Jewish 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.

Director: Christian Duguay | Stars: Dorian Le Clech, Batyste Fleurial, Patrick Bruel, Elsa Zylberstein

Votes: 6,427 | Gross: $0.41M

8. Hatred (2016)

150 min | Drama, War

Despite being in love with a Ukrainian boy from the same village, Polish girl named Zosia is forced into marrying a wealthy widower. Soon World War II begins and ethnic tensions arise. Amidst the war chaos Zosia tries to survive.

Director: Wojciech Smarzowski | Stars: Michalina Labacz, Arkadiusz Jakubik, Wasyl Wasylik, Adrian Zaremba

Votes: 6,814

9. Days of Glory (2006)

R | 120 min | Action, Drama, War

During World War II, four North African men enlist in the French army to liberate that country from German oppression, and to fight French discrimination.

Director: Rachid Bouchareb | Stars: Samy Naceri, Roschdy Zem, Sami Bouajila, Jamel Debbouze

Votes: 15,149 | Gross: $0.32M

10. Triumph of the Spirit (1989)

R | 120 min | Biography, Drama, History

In Greece during World War II, a young Jewish boxer, his girlfriend, and their families are sent to Auschwitz. When the camp guards learn of his boxing abilities, they force him to participate in weekly boxing matches.

Director: Robert M. Young | Stars: Willem Dafoe, Edward James Olmos, Robert Loggia, Wendy Gazelle

Votes: 2,793 | Gross: $0.41M

11. Out Stealing Horses (2019)

Not Rated | 123 min | Drama, Mystery

A grieving widower moves to the country where a chance encounter rekindles memories from his past.

Director: Hans Petter Moland | Stars: Stellan Skarsgård, Bjørn Floberg, Jon Ranes, Tobias Santelmann

Votes: 3,309

12. Story of Women (1988)

108 min | Drama, History, Romance

A housewife in Nazi-occupied France struggles to make ends meet when her husband returns home after being wounded in the war.

Director: Claude Chabrol | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, François Cluzet, Marie Trintignant, Nils Tavernier

Votes: 5,757 | Gross: $0.44M

13. The Saviour (1971)

105 min | Drama, War

In 1943, rural French teenager Nanette meets an injured British airman and decides to give him shelter at her family's farm after falling in-love with him.

Director: Michel Mardore | Stars: Horst Buchholz, Muriel Catalá, Hélène Vallier, Roger Lumont

Votes: 279

14. Uncertain Glory (1944)

Approved | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

After a career criminal is recaptured and knows he faces the guillotine, he offers to exchange his life for 100 hostages slated for execution by the Germans.

Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Errol Flynn, Paul Lukas, Lucile Watson, Faye Emerson

Votes: 1,496

15. Babi Yar. Context (2021)

121 min | Documentary, History

Nazi troops massacre 30,000 Jews over a three-day period in September 1941.

Director: Sergey Loznitsa | Stars: Hans Frank, Dina Pronicheva, Anastasya Osmachko, Vladimir Artobolevsky

Votes: 435

16. Everybody Go Home! (1960)

122 min | Comedy, Drama, War

When Italy surrenders to the Allies, part of the Italian army is disbanded and soldiers begin to return to their homes.

Director: Luigi Comencini | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Serge Reggiani, Carla Gravina, Martin Balsam

Votes: 1,454

17. The Liberation of Skopje (2016)

110 min | Drama, War

Skopje 1941, the city is occupied by the Germans and their Bulgarian allies. Zoran, a boy of 11, witnesses the horrors of war. Zoran's father is away fighting in the partisan army. Zoran's ... See full summary »

Directors: Danilo Serbedzija, Rade Serbedzija | Stars: Rade Serbedzija, Mikko Nousiainen, Lucija Serbedzija, Silvija Stojanovska

Votes: 399

18. Kuda idu divlje svinje (1971)

60 min | Crime, Drama, War

It happens around Zagreb in 1941-1943, during World War II. Two groups of smugglers led by Crni Rok and Veriga, fight for supremacy on the black market. They also have to deal with the Germans, Ustashas, the police and communist illegals.

Stars: Ljubisa Samardzic, Fabijan Sovagovic, Ivo Serdar, Miodrag Loncar

Votes: 453

19. Miracle at Moreaux (1985 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 58 min | Drama, History, War

It is 1943, and the students at a catholic boarding school decide to hide three Jewish children from the Nazis. To save the children, the members of the boarding school will have to find the courage to risk their own lives in the process.

Director: Paul Shapiro | Stars: Loretta Swit, Robert Joy, Ken Pogue, Robert Kosoy

Votes: 146

20. I due marescialli (1961)

93 min | Comedy, Drama, War

September 1943: in the general confusion a thief dressed as a priest and a sergeant exchange clothes and roles.

Director: Sergio Corbucci | Stars: Totò, Vittorio De Sica, Gianni Agus, Arturo Bragaglia

Votes: 653

21. Gli sbandati (1955)

102 min | Drama

In the summer of 1943 Countess Luisa and her son Andrea left Milan to escape the bombings and retreated to their country villa, where they host two of Andrea's contemporaries, cousin Carlo,... See full summary »

Director: Francesco Maselli | Stars: Lucia Bosè, Isa Miranda, Jean-Pierre Mocky, Goliarda Sapienza

Votes: 257

22. The Silent Village (1943)

36 min | Documentary, Drama, Short

The true story of the massacre of a small Czech village by the Nazis is retold as if it happened in Wales.

Director: Humphrey Jennings | Stars: Villagers of Cwmgiedd, Arwel Michael

Votes: 194

23. Battle for Cassino (1969 Video)

51 min | Documentary, History, War

In this World War II documentary, we examine several of the controversial bombings of the war. Included is Allies bombing of the Benedictine Monastery on Monte Cassino.

Director: Peter Batty | Stars: Bernard Archard, Allan Francis Harding, Dan Davin, Achim Oster

Votes: 13

24. Obratnoy dorogi net (1971– )

198 min | War

The Red Army Major Toporkov, having escaped from the prisoners camp, gets in the partisan unit with the request of the prisoners: the uprising is being prepared in the camp, weapons are ... See full summary »

Stars: Nikolay Olyalin, Aleksandr Yanvaryov, Aleksey Chernov, Igor Yasulovich

Votes: 72

25. Urodziny mlodego warszawiaka (1980)

96 min | Drama, History, Romance

The four sequences in the film cover four days in the life of a young Warsaw lad in September 1938, 1939, 1943, and 1944. In the first sequence Jurek decides not to study at Sorbonne but ... See full summary »

Directors: Ewa Petelska, Czeslaw Petelski | Stars: Piotr Lysak, Andrzej Lapicki, Jolanta Grusznic, Gabriela Kownacka

Votes: 38

26. The Dutch Tradition (1943)

26 min | Documentary, Short, War

World War II propaganda film made to show an American audience that the Dutch were and would continue to be valuable allies in the fight against the Axis powers.

27. The Decalogue (1989–1990)
Episode: Dekalog, osiem (1989)

TV-MA | 56 min | Drama

A researcher meets a professor and reveals herself as the child to whom she refused to shelter during World War II.

Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski | Stars: Maria Koscialkowska, Teresa Marczewska, Artur Barcis, Tadeusz Lomnicki

Votes: 3,674

28. Battlefield (1995–2004)
Episode: The Battles for Tunisia (2001)

Documentary, History, War

The campaign in Tunisia in World War Two saw the battles that finally ended the brutal war in the desert. We look at the weapons used and tactics and tell the story of the battle itself.

Stars: Jonathan Booth, Harold Alexander, Kenneth Anderson, Claude Auchinleck

Votes: 7

29. Battlefield (1995–2004)
Episode: The Siege of Leningrad (2000)

Documentary, History, War

Tim Pigott-Smith narrates the story of one of the Second World War's most harrowing episodes - the 890-day siege of the Soviet Union's second city Leningrad which was not liberated until January 1944.

Stars: Tim Pigott-Smith, Rolf Carls, Karl Dönitz, Joseph Goebbels

Votes: 7

30. Untold Arctic Wars (2022– )
Episode: Kylmä rintama murtuu (2022)

55 min | Documentary, History, War

Hitler continues his massive building projects in Norway, despite the threatening situation. He intends to hold on to the iron ore transports and the Petsamo nickel mine until the end.

Directors: Anna-Reeta Eksymä, Teemu Hostikka | Stars: Peter Franzén, Lasse Laaksonen, Mika Kulju, Yuri Kilin

Votes: 16

31. 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

32. World War II in Colour (2009)
Episode: Hitler Strikes East (2009)

TV-MA | 51 min | Documentary, History, War

The German invasion of Russia from Operation Barbarossa on 22 June 1941 to Kursk on 5 July 1943.

Stars: Robert Powell, Adolf Hitler, Winston Churchill, Vyacheslav Molotov

Votes: 287

33. Apocalypse: Stalin (2015)
Episode: L'Homme rouge (2015)

TV-14 | 53 min | Documentary, History, War

1942.After blocking the Germans right outside of Moscow, Stalin now faces Hitler's second assault. The world's fate will be decided in Stalingrad. Like in Leningrad, men, women and children, plunged into hell, are sacrificed.

Directors: Isabelle Clarke, Daniel Costelle | Stars: Mathieu Kassovitz, Doug Rand, Nadezhda Alliluyeva, Svetlana Alliluyeva

Votes: 78