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  • Julia Jentsch in Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (2005)

    1. Sophie Scholl: The Final Days

    20052hNot Rated76Metascore
    7.6 (29K)
    A dramatization of the final days of Sophie Scholl, one of the most famous members of the German World War II anti-Nazi resistance movement, The White Rose.
    DirectorMarc RothemundStarsJulia JentschFabian HinrichsAlexander Held
  • Max Manus: Man of War (2008)

    2. Max Manus: Man of War

    20081h 58mNot Rated60Metascore
    7.3 (31K)
    The true story about one of the most brilliant saboteurs during World War II and his battle to overcome his inner demons.
    DirectorsJoachim RønningEspen SandbergStarsAksel HennieAgnes KittelsenNicolai Cleve Broch
  • Martijn Lakemeier in Winter in Wartime (2008)

    3. Winter in Wartime

    20081h 43mR66Metascore
    7.0 (14K)
    In German-occupied Netherlands, a teenage boy gets involved in the Dutch resistance after coming to the aid of a wounded RAF pilot.
    DirectorMartin KoolhovenStarsMartijn LakemeierJamie Campbell BowerYorick van Wageningen
  • Ralph Fiennes and Kristin Scott Thomas in The English Patient (1996)

    4. The English Patient

    19962h 42mR86Metascore
    7.4 (209K)
    At the close of World War II, a young nurse tends to a badly burned plane crash victim. His past is shown in flashbacks, revealing an involvement in a fateful love affair.
    DirectorAnthony MinghellaStarsRalph FiennesJuliette BinocheWillem Dafoe
  • As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me (2001)

    5. As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me

    20012h 38mTV-G
    7.3 (8.4K)
    A German Army officer is captured by the Soviets in World War II and sent to a labor camp in Eastern Siberia. After five years of enormous hardship he escapes, commencing an incredible, arduous, danger-filled journey.
    DirectorHardy MartinsStarsBernhard BettermannIris BöhmAnatoliy Kotenyov
  • Adrien Brody in The Pianist (2002)

    6. The Pianist

    20022h 30mR85Metascore
    8.5 (968K)
    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.
    DirectorRoman PolanskiStarsAdrien BrodyThomas KretschmannFrank Finlay
  • Martin Landau, Caroline Carver, and Kenny Doughty in The Aryan Couple (2004)

    7. The Aryan Couple

    20042hPG-1329Metascore
    6.3 (1.3K)
    A WWII Drama about a German/Jewish industrialist who, in order to ensure his family's safe passage out of Germany, is forced to hand over his business to the Germans.
    DirectorJohn DalyStarsMartin LandauKenny DoughtyCaroline Carver
  • Rosenstrasse (2003)

    8. Rosenstrasse

    20032h 16mPG-1349Metascore
    6.7 (2.6K)
    After the death of her father, Hannah becomes concerned with the strange behavior of her mother. As her mother's troubled childhood is revealed, Hannah realizes how little she ever knew.
    DirectorMargarethe von TrottaStarsKatja RiemannMaria SchraderSvea Lohde
  • Schindler's List (1993)

    9. Schindler's List

    19933h 15mR95Metascore
    9.0 (1.5M)
    In German-occupied Poland during World War II, industrialist Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazis.
    DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsLiam NeesonRalph FiennesBen Kingsley
  • Jude Law and Joseph Fiennes in Enemy at the Gates (2001)

    10. Enemy at the Gates

    20012h 11mR53Metascore
    7.5 (286K)
    A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad.
    DirectorJean-Jacques AnnaudStarsJude LawEd HarrisJoseph Fiennes
  • Flags of Our Fathers (2006)

    11. Flags of Our Fathers

    20062h 15mR79Metascore
    7.1 (132K)
    The life stories of the six men who raised the flag at the Battle of Iwo Jima, a turning point in World War II.
    DirectorClint EastwoodStarsRyan PhillippeBarry PepperJoseph Cross
  • Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)

    12. Letters from Iwo Jima

    20062h 21mR89Metascore
    7.8 (174K)
    The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of the Japanese who fought it.
    DirectorClint EastwoodStarsKen WatanabeKazunari NinomiyaTsuyoshi Ihara
  • Thure Lindhardt and Mads Mikkelsen in Flame & Citron (2008)

    13. Flame & Citron

    20082h 10mNot Rated74Metascore
    7.2 (20K)
    A drama centered on two fighters in the Holger Danske World War II resistance group.
    DirectorOle Christian MadsenStarsThure LindhardtMads MikkelsenStine Stengade
  • Christian Bale, Ni Ni, Jia Sun, Bai Xue, Xiting Han, Xinyi Zhang, and Yuemin Li in The Flowers of War (2011)

    14. The Flowers of War

    20112h 26mR46Metascore
    7.5 (57K)
    An American finds refuge during the 1937 Japanese invasion of Nanking in a church with a group of women. Posing as a priest, he attempts to lead the women to safety.
    DirectorYimou ZhangStarsChristian BaleNi NiXinyi Zhang
  • Armin Mueller-Stahl and Vlastimil Brodský in Jacob the Liar (1974)

    15. Jacob the Liar

    19741h 40m
    7.1 (1.4K)
    A Jewish ghetto in central Europe, 1944. By coincidence, Jakob Heym eavesdrops on a German radio broadcast announcing the Soviet Army is making slow by steady progress towards central Europe. In order to keep his companion in misfortune, Mischa, from risking his life for a few potatoes, he tells him what he heard and announces that he is in possession of a radio - in the ghetto a crime punishable by death. It doesn't take long for word of Jakob's secret to spread - suddenly, there is new hope and something to live for - and so Jakob finds himself in the uncomforting position of having to come up with more and more stories.
    DirectorFrank BeyerStarsVlastimil BrodskýErwin GeschonneckHenry Hübchen
  • Robin Williams in Jakob the Liar (1999)

    16. Jakob the Liar

    19992hPG-1340Metascore
    6.5 (18K)
    During World War II, an ordinary inhabitant of a ghetto fakes news about Allied offensives to inspire hope for other victims of the Nazi regime.
    DirectorPeter KassovitzStarsRobin WilliamsHannah Taylor GordonÉva Igó
  • Sunshine (1999)

    17. Sunshine

    19993h 1mR71Metascore
    7.5 (16K)
    The fate of a Hungarian Jewish family throughout the 20th century.
    DirectorIstván SzabóStarsRalph FiennesRosemary HarrisRachel Weisz
  • Jang Dong-gun and Joe Odagiri in My Way (2011)

    18. My Way

    20112h 17mR30Metascore
    7.6 (13K)
    In World War II-era Korea, rival runners, one Korean (Jang Dong-gun) and one Japanese (Joe Odagiri), go to war together against the Soviets.
    DirectorKang Je-kyuStarsJang Dong-gunJoe OdagiriBingbing Fan
  • Robert De Niro in The Deer Hunter (1978)

    19. The Deer Hunter

    19783h 3mR90Metascore
    8.1 (375K)
    An in-depth examination of the ways in which the Vietnam War impacts and disrupts the lives of several friends in a small steel mill town in Pennsylvania.
    DirectorMichael CiminoStarsRobert De NiroChristopher WalkenJohn Cazale
  • Saints and Soldiers (2003)

    20. Saints and Soldiers

    20031h 30mPG-1356Metascore
    6.7 (22K)
    Four American soldiers and one Brit fighting in Europe during World War II struggle to return to Allied territory after being separated from U.S. forces during the historic Malmedy Massacre.
    DirectorRyan LittleStarsCorbin AllredAlexander PolinskyKirby Heyborne
  • My Best Enemy (2011)

    21. My Best Enemy

    20111h 49mUnrated43Metascore
    6.7 (1.5K)
    A dark WWII comedy about two friends, stolen artwork, and an unfortunate case of mistaken identity as a Jewish man switches places with his Nazi best friend in order to survive
    DirectorWolfgang MurnbergerStarsMoritz BleibtreuGeorg FriedrichUrsula Strauss
  • Ghetto (2005)

    22. Ghetto

    20051h 50m
    6.7 (1.3K)
    In 1942, in Vilnius, the Nazi annihilate 55,000 Jews and squeeze the 15,000 survivors in a seven blocks ghetto. The twenty-two year old sadistic commander Kittel is assigned to administrate the ghetto in the capital of Lithuania, becoming the master of life or death. When he finds the gorgeous Hayyah sneaking with one kilo of beans stolen from the German army, he sentences her to death; but when he is informed that she was a former successful singer, he decides to activate the old theater and promote shows in the ghetto. The Jewish Chief of Police, Gens, uses the theater and a sewing factory to save as much lives as he can; in his ambiguous position, he kills Jews to save lives of others.
    DirectorAudrius JuzenasStarsHeino FerchSebastian HülkErika Marozsán
  • Downfall (2004)

    23. Downfall

    20042h 36mR82Metascore
    8.2 (388K)
    Traudl Junge, the final secretary for Adolf Hitler, tells of the Nazi dictator's final days in his Berlin bunker at the end of WWII.
    DirectorOliver HirschbiegelStarsBruno GanzAlexandra Maria LaraUlrich Matthes
  • Marlon Brando and Martin Sheen in Apocalypse Now (1979)

    24. Apocalypse Now

    19792h 27mR94Metascore
    8.4 (742K)
    A U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god.
    DirectorFrancis Ford CoppolaStarsMartin SheenMarlon BrandoRobert Duvall
  • Jean-Marc Barr in Europa (1991)

    25. Europa

    19911h 48mR69Metascore
    7.5 (24K)
    Just after World War II, an American takes a railway job in Germany, but finds his position politically sensitive with various people trying to use him.
    DirectorLars von TrierStarsBarbara SukowaJean-Marc BarrUdo Kier

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