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1. Foyle's War (2002–2015)
TV-14 | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
As WWII rages, DCS Foyle fights his own war on the home-front; investigating crime on the south coast of England. Later series, see the retired detective working as an MI5 agent in the aftermath of the war.
Stars: Michael Kitchen, Honeysuckle Weeks, Anthony Howell, Ellie Haddington
Votes: 18,277
2. World on Fire (2019–2023)
TV-14 | 57 min | Drama, Romance, War
World War II-era drama centered on the lives of ordinary people affected by the war.
Stars: Jonah Hauer-King, Zofia Wichlacz, Lesley Manville, Eryk Biedunkiewicz
Votes: 8,125
3. Allied (2016)
R | 124 min | Action, Drama, Romance
In 1942, a Canadian intelligence officer in North Africa encounters a female French Resistance fighter on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. When they reunite in London, their relationship is tested by the pressures of war.
Director: Robert Zemeckis | Stars: Brad Pitt, Marion Cotillard, Jared Harris, Vincent Ebrahim
Votes: 169,799 | Gross: $40.10M
4. The Eagle Has Landed (1976)
PG | 123 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller
A German plot to kidnap Sir Winston Churchill unfolds at the height of World War II.
Director: John Sturges | Stars: Michael Caine, Donald Sutherland, Robert Duvall, Jenny Agutter
Votes: 24,518
5. Dad's Army (1968–1977)
30 min | Comedy, War
A ragtag group of Home Guard volunteers prepare for an imminent German invasion during World War II.
Stars: Arthur Lowe, John Le Mesurier, Clive Dunn, John Laurie
Votes: 7,234
6. Goodnight Sweetheart (1993–2016)
Not Rated | 30 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
British sitcom in which an unhappily married man discovers he can time travel back to 1940s war-torn London where he masquerades as an MI5 agent and part-time songwriter whilst courting the local barmaid.
Stars: Nicholas Lyndhurst, Victor McGuire, Christopher Ettridge, Elizabeth Carling
Votes: 3,338
7. Home Fires (2015–2016)
TV-PG | 45 min | Drama, War
A drama following a group of inspirational women in a rural Cheshire community during World War II.
Stars: Clare Calbraith, Brian Fletcher, Samantha Bond, Ruth Gemmell
Votes: 4,358
8. Land Girls (2009–2011)
TV-14 | 225 min | Drama
Follow the lives, loves and highs and lows of four members of the Women's Land Army who are working at the Hoxley Estate during World War II.
Stars: Becci Gemmell, Susan Cookson, Mark Benton, Mykola Allen
Votes: 3,576
9. The Halcyon (2017)
60 min | Drama, War
The story of a bustling and glamorous five star hotel at the center of London society and a world at war.
Stars: Annabelle Apsion, Mark Benton, Jamie Blackley, Edward Bluemel
Votes: 3,104
10. Dad's Army (2016)
Not Rated | 100 min | Comedy, War
The Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard platoon deal with a visiting female journalist and a German spy as World War II draws to its conclusion.
Director: Oliver Parker | Stars: Mark Tandy, Russell Balogh, Andrew Havill, Heinz
Votes: 8,521
11. Danger UXB (1979)
60 min | Action, Drama, History
The series chronicles the exploits of the fictional Royal Engineer Tunnelling Company 97, which has been made a bomb disposal unit to deal with the thousands of unexploded bombs ("UXBs") in London during the Battle of Britain.
Stars: Anthony Andrews, Maurice Roëves, George Innes, Gordon Kane
Votes: 1,074
12. We'll Meet Again (1982)
683 min | Drama, Romance, War
It's 1943 and the American Air Force has come to Market Weatherby, a small East Anglian town. The war weary British and the brash American GIs sometimes clash, but friendships are also forged.
Stars: Susannah York, Michael Shannon, Patrick O'Connell, Lynne Pearson
Votes: 197
13. Housewife, 49 (2005 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 93 min | Drama, Romance, War
In the late 1930s, Nella Last, a 49 year old housewife living in Barrow-in-Furness on the North West English coast, agrees to send details of her routine to the Mass Observation Project; a ... See full summary »
Director: Gavin Millar | Stars: Victoria Wood, David Threlfall, Christopher Harper, Ben Crompton
Votes: 804
14. Dad's Army: The Lost Episodes (2019)
30 min | Comedy, War
Remakes of the three missing episodes of the original BBC comedy series Dad's Army (1968)
Stars: Kevin McNally, Robert Bathurst, Kevin Eldon, David Hayman
Votes: 263
15. Murder on the Home Front (2013 TV Movie)
91 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Set during the London Blitz of 1940, this is a world where people live life in the moment. It is also a world where criminals can use the blackout and devastation to hide their darkest activities.
Director: Geoffrey Sax | Stars: Patrick Kennedy, Tamzin Merchant, Emerald Fennell, James Fleet
Votes: 2,194
16. The Beatles and India (2021)
96 min | Documentary, Music
Documentary exploring how John, Paul, George and Ringo fell in love with Indian culture while visiting the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi at his Himalayan ashram in 1968.
Directors: Ajoy Bose, Peter Compton | Stars: Shankara Angadi, Sidharth Bhatia, Steve Turner, Ajoy Bose
Votes: 502
17. The Battle of Britain: 3 Days That Saved the Nation (2020)
45 min | Documentary, History, War
The Battle of Britain - A three-part guide to the critical aerial battle that changed the course of the Second World War, featuring personal stories of pilots, ground crews and members of the public.
Stars: Dan Snow, Kate Humble, David Baker, Mel McKellar
Votes: 20
18. Battle of Britain (2005)
Documentary, History, War
A chronological history of the Battle of Britain between July 10th and September 30th 1940, featuring interviews with eyewitnesses including surviving British and German pilots.
Stars: Bob Doe, Cyril Bamberger, Thomas Neil, Ulrich Steinhilper
Votes: 10
19. Elenya (1992)
87 min | Drama, War
In Wales during WW2, a German airman crash-lands in a wood and is found by 12-year-old Elenya. Elenya decides to keep him a secret and does so for as long as she can until finally the village learns the truth, with tragic consequences.
Director: Steve Gough | Stars: Klaus J. Behrendt, Pascale Delafouge-Jones, Margaret John, Edward Elwyn Jones
Votes: 55
20. Little Ships (2010 TV Movie)
Documentary, History, War
Dan Snow tells the story of the 'little ships' which took part in the Dunkirk evacuation.
Director: Linda Sands | Stars: Dan Snow, Ian Gilbert, John Tough, Simon Palmer
Votes: 12
21. Agatha Christie's England (2021 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 45 min | Documentary, Biography
How legendary British crime author Agatha Christie depicted England in her works based on her privileged childhood in turn of the 20th century Edwardian seaside resort town of Torquay, Devon, England.
Director: Toby Roebuck | Stars: Samantha Bond, Janet Morgan, Laura Thompson, Mark Aldridge
Votes: 69
22. Britain at War (1995)
Documentary, History, War
Stars: William Rushton, Eddie Cain, Justine Hodgkinson, Kit Nairne
23. Cake Bakers & Trouble Makers: Lucy Worsley's 100 Years of the WI (2015 TV Movie)
59 min | Documentary, History, War
Historian Lucy Worsley marks the centennial of the Women's Institute in Britain by exploring and celebrating their amazing history, social evolution and impressive accomplishments.
Director: Eleanor Scoones | Star: Lucy Worsley
Votes: 10
24. Wiatraki z Ranley (1993 TV Movie)
59 min | War
Director: Juliusz Janicki | Stars: Zygmunt Bielawski, Krzysztof Ibisz, Andrzej Mrozek, Ryszard Mróz
25. Blitz on London (2014 Video)
Documentary, History, War
A documentary which documents the massive bombing raids on Britain's capital city by the Luftwaffe during 1940 and 1941.
Director: Robert Garofalo | Stars: Roy Ward, Kai-Shek Chiang, Winston Churchill, Hugh Dowding
26. The Blitz on the Midlands (2001 Video)
56 min | Documentary, History, War
This is a powerful account of the German bombing raids on the central towns and airfields of England, including the terrible blitz on Coventry and the smaller raids on the airfields of Lincolnshire and East Anglia.
Director: Stanley Joseph | Stars: Don Burbridge, Rudolf Hess, Adolf Hitler, King George VI
Votes: 6
27. The Most Courageous Raid of WWII (2011 TV Movie)
49 min | Documentary, History, War
The story of the Cockleshell Heroes, who raided Nazi-occupied Bordeaux in 1942.
Director: Francis Whately | Stars: Paddy Ashdown, M.R.D. Foot, Norman Colley, Jeanne Baudray
Votes: 28
28.
Battlefield (1995–2004)
Episode:
Operation Market Garden
(2001)
Documentary, History, War
Operation Market Garden was an attempt by the allies to use airborne units to seize key bridges and short-cut the slog into northern Germany thereby shortening the war. This is a look at the plan, the leaders and the equipment involved.
Directors: Andrew Aitken, Dave Flitton, James Wignall | Stars: Jonathan Booth, Wilhelm Bittrich, Omar N. Bradley, Lewis H. Brereton
Votes: 6
29.
A House Through Time (2018– )
Episode:
Episode #3.4
(2020)
59 min | Documentary, Biography, History
The third series concludes by tracing the lives of 10 Guinea Street's occupants through World War Two to the present day, discovering stories of love, loss and renewal.
Director: Edmund Moriarty | Star: David Olusoga
Votes: 7
30.
Battle Honours (2021– )
Episode:
Screaming Eagles
(2021)
Documentary, History, War
The 101st Airborne parachuted into their first battle on D-Day, swiftly proving their worth as one of the most accomplished combat formations ever fielded by the US army.
Directors: Adam Luria, Ian Bremner | Stars: John O'Brien, Ed Shames, Carl Beck, Jon Trigg
31.
Battle Honours (2021– )
Episode:
The Mighty Eighth
(2021)
Documentary, History, War
The 8th United States Army Air Force flew some of WW2's most daring raids and sorties over Germany and mainland Europe.
Director: Adam Luria | Stars: Robert Ricks, Bill Toombs, Flint Whitlock, Henry Hughey
32.
The U.S. and the Holocaust (2022)
Episode:
Yearning to Breathe Free (1938-1942)
(2022)
TV-14 | 138 min | Documentary, History
As WWII begins, Americans are divided over whether to intervene against Germany. Some individuals and organizations work tirelessly to help refugees escape. Germany invades the USSR and secretly begins the mass murder of European Jews.
Directors: Sarah Botstein, Ken Burns, Lynn Novick | Stars: Peter Coyote, Daniel Mendelsohn, Guy Stern, Peter Hayes
Votes: 157
33.
How to Lose a War (2023)
Episode:
The Men Who Gave the Orders
(2023)
Documentary, History, War
Explore the men in charge whose rampant egos and misguided belief in their own abilities led to their country making fatal mistakes in the war.
Director: Tim Bosanquet | Stars: Tim Benbow, Russell A. Hart, Alexander Henry, Giuseppe Finaldi
34.
Military Masterminds (2022)
Episode:
Deception
(2022)
52 min | Documentary, History, War
Strategy and tactics can be creative. But behind every deception are the Military Masterminds planning and executing each strategy to defeat an enemy.
Director: Roberto Irwin | Stars: Christopher Catherwood, Dan Hill, James Rogers, Lucy Betteridge-Dyson
35.
Battlefield (1995–2004)
Episode:
The Battle of Britain
(1995)
Documentary, History, War
A documentary look at the Battle of Britain, the leaders and the units involved, the events leading to the battle and the key factors in determining the outcome.
Stars: Tim Pigott-Smith, Winston Churchill, Hermann Göring, Adolf Hitler