The Cruel Sea
Feb 24, 1953 | IMDB 6.9
126 min Watch NowDrama, History, War
At the start of World War II, Cmdr. Ericson is assigned to convoy escort HMS Compass Rose with inexperienced officers and men just out of training. The winter seas make life miserable enough, but the men must also harden themselves to rescuing survivors of U-Boat attacks, while seldom able to strike back. Traumatic events afloat and ashore create a warm bond between the skipper and his first officer
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Drei Tage im April
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Our Father
Spare Parts
The Great Raid
When Trumpets Fade
Closing the Ring
Tomka and His Friends
A Canterbury Tale
Sarah, Plain and Tall
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Fascism in Colour
IMDB 7.5 | Jan , 2006
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IMDB 6.5 | Mar , 1972
Billy Pilgrim, a veteran of the Second World War, finds himself mysteriously detached from time, so that he is able to travel, without being able to help it, from the days of his childhood to those of his peculiar life on a distant planet called Tralfamadore, passing through his bitter experience as a prisoner of war in the German city of Dresden, over which looms the inevitable shadow of an unspeakable tragedy.Fortress on the Rhine
IMDB 0 | Dec , 1962
During the Second World War, an old fortress is transformed into a detention camp for arrested allied generals who the Germans provide with every possible comfort. In the nearby garrison camp, however, hundreds of captured private soldiers try to survive hunger and cold.Charlotte
IMDB 0 | Feb , 1981
In 1939, Charlotte Salomon leaves Berlin to seek refuge at her grandparents' villa in the south of France. A little later, war breaks out, and Charlotte must, besides forgetting all she left behind, deal with her grandmother's depression, and her mother's suicide. To fight despair, Charlotte starts to paint, producing over one thousand images. "Is my life real, or is it theater?" This is the title she gives her body of work, which highlights her former life in Berlin. She finds herself though her art, but in 1943 is deported to Germany and Auschwitz.Battle of Jutland: The Navy's Bloodiest Day
IMDB 6.7 | May , 2016
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IMDB 0 | Jun , 1957
The story of two women, one French and the other German, who fight for a child who has been mistakenly taken by the Germans after a bomb raid.Enchanted
IMDB 1 | Jun , 1993
Stories of 12 gay and lesbian survivors of Nazism and the Holocaust.The Dam Busters
IMDB 6.9 | May , 1955
The story of the conception of a new British weapon for smashing the German dams in the Ruhr industrial complex and the execution of the raid by 617 Squadron 'The Dam Busters'.Lifeboat
IMDB 7.4 | Jan , 1944
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IMDB 8 | Apr , 1995
Eichmann
IMDB 6 | Sep , 2007
Based upon the final confession of Adolf Eichmann, made before his execution in Israel, of his role in Hitler's plan for the final solution.LOLA
IMDB 6.6 | Apr , 2023
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IMDB 6 | Dec , 2015
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IMDB 7.2 | Jan , 2015
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IMDB 6.6 | Aug , 2005
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IMDB 6.6 | Jun , 1998
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IMDB 6.1 | Sep , 2007
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IMDB 7.7 | Oct , 1977
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IMDB 6.9 | Aug , 1944
Three modern day pilgrims investigate a bizarre crime in a small town on the way to Canterbury.Sarah, Plain and Tall
IMDB 7.3 | Feb , 1991
Kansas, 1910. Widowed farmer Jacob Witting finds that taking care of both his farm and two children, Anna and Caleb, is too difficult to handle alone. John takes out an ad in a newspaper for a mail-order bride, to which the "plain and tall" Sarah Wheaton answers, soon traveling from Maine to Kansas to become John's wife. Despite the love that grows between Sarah and the family, Sarah finds herself homesick, and she must ultimately choose whether or not to stay.