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  • Scott Grimes, Damian Lewis, Ron Livingston, Shane Taylor, and Peter Youngblood Hills in Band of Brothers (2001)

    1. Band of Brothers

    200110 epsTV-MATV Mini Series
    9.4 (563K)
    The story of Easy Company of the U.S. Army 101st Airborne Division and their mission in World War II Europe, from Operation Overlord to V-J Day.
    StarsScott GrimesDamian LewisRon Livingston
  • Adrien Brody in The Pianist (2002)

    2. The Pianist

    20022h 30mR85Metascore
    8.5 (969K)
    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
  • Before the Fall (2004)

    3. Before the Fall

    20041h 50m65Metascore
    7.4 (19K)
    Friedrich's boxing skills gets him in an elite Nazi high school in a castle in 1942. He enrolls against his dad's wish as it promises a brighter future. It's not what he expected.
    DirectorDennis GanselStarsMax RiemeltTom SchillingDevid Striesow
  • Carice van Houten, Michiel Huisman, and Sebastian Koch in Black Book (2006)

    4. Black Book

    20062h 25mR71Metascore
    7.7 (82K)
    In the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II, a Jewish singer infiltrates the regional Gestapo headquarters for the Dutch resistance. Things get complicated when she falls for the enemy.
    DirectorPaul VerhoevenStarsCarice van HoutenSebastian KochThom Hoffman
  • Ralph Fiennes, Kate Winslet, and David Kross in The Reader (2008)

    5. The Reader

    20082h 4mR58Metascore
    7.6 (269K)
    Post-WWII Germany: Nearly a decade after his affair with an older woman came to a mysterious end, law student Michael Berg re-encounters his former lover as she defends herself in a war-crime trial.
    DirectorStephen DaldryStarsKate WinsletRalph FiennesBruno Ganz
  • Daniel Craig in Defiance (2008)

    6. Defiance

    20082h 17mR58Metascore
    7.1 (159K)
    Jewish brothers in German-occupied Eastern Europe escape into a Belorussian forest, where they join Russian resistance fighters, and endeavor to build a village, in order to protect themselves and about one thousand Jewish non-combatants.
    DirectorEdward ZwickStarsDaniel CraigLiev SchreiberJamie Bell
  • Brad Pitt, Til Schweiger, Daniel Brühl, Mélanie Laurent, Eli Roth, Christoph Waltz, and Diane Kruger in Inglourious Basterds (2009)

    7. Inglourious Basterds

    20092h 33mR69Metascore
    8.4 (1.7M)
    In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a plan to assassinate Nazi leaders by a group of Jewish U.S. soldiers coincides with a theatre owner's vengeful plans for the same.
    DirectorQuentin TarantinoStarsBrad PittDiane KrugerEli Roth
  • Saskia Rosendahl in Lore (2012)

    8. Lore

    20121h 49mNot Rated76Metascore
    7.1 (16K)
    As the Allies sweep across Germany, Lore leads her siblings on a journey that exposes them to the truth of their parents' beliefs. An encounter with a mysterious refugee forces Lore to rely on a person she has always been taught to hate.
    DirectorCate ShortlandStarsSaskia RosendahlKai-Peter MalinaNele Trebs
  • Generation War (2013)

    9. Generation War

    20133 epsTV-MATV Mini Series57Metascore
    8.4 (34K)
    Five friends go out to war and promise each other to be back for Christmas.
    StarsVolker BruchTom SchillingKatharina Schüttler
  • Jack O'Connell in Unbroken (2014)

    10. Unbroken

    20142h 17mPG-1359Metascore
    7.2 (191K)
    After a near-fatal plane crash in WWII, Olympian Louis Zamperini spends a harrowing 47 days in a raft with two fellow crewmen before he's caught by the Japanese navy and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp.
    DirectorAngelina JolieStarsJack O'ConnellMiyaviDomhnall Gleeson
  • Brad Pitt, Shia LaBeouf, Logan Lerman, Michael Peña, and Jon Bernthal in Fury (2014)

    11. Fury

    20142h 14mR64Metascore
    7.6 (580K)
    A grizzled tank commander makes tough decisions as he and his crew fight their way across Germany in April, 1945.
    DirectorDavid AyerStarsBrad PittShia LaBeoufLogan Lerman
  • George Clooney, Bill Murray, Matt Damon, John Goodman, Bob Balaban, Hugh Bonneville, and Jean Dujardin in The Monuments Men (2014)

    12. The Monuments Men

    20141h 58mPG-1352Metascore
    6.1 (146K)
    An unlikely World War II platoon is tasked to rescue art masterpieces from German thieves and return them to their owners.
    DirectorGeorge ClooneyStarsGeorge ClooneyMatt DamonBill Murray
  • Benedict Cumberbatch in The Imitation Game (2014)

    13. The Imitation Game

    20141h 54mPG-1371Metascore
    8.0 (854K)
    During World War II, the English mathematical genius Alan Turing tries to crack the German Enigma code with help from fellow mathematicians while attempting to come to terms with his troubled private life.
    DirectorMorten TyldumStarsBenedict CumberbatchKeira KnightleyMatthew Goode
  • Christian Friedel in 13 Minutes (2015)

    14. 13 Minutes

    20151h 54mR58Metascore
    7.0 (10K)
    In November 1939, Georg Elser's attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler fails, and he is arrested. During his confinement, he recalls the events leading up to his plot and his reasons for deciding to take such drastic action.
    DirectorOliver HirschbiegelStarsChristian FriedelKatharina SchüttlerBurghart Klaußner
  • Night Will Fall (2014)

    15. Night Will Fall

    20141h 15mNot Rated85Metascore
    8.0 (3.6K)
    Researchers discover film footage from World War II that turns out to be a lost documentary shot by Alfred Hitchcock and Sidney Bernstein in 1945 about German concentration camps.
    DirectorAndré SingerStarsHelena Bonham CarterJasper BrittonLeonard Berney
  • Im toten Winkel - Hitlers Sekretärin (2002)

    16. Im toten Winkel - Hitlers Sekretärin

    20021h 30mPG79Metascore
    7.3 (1.9K)
    Documentary featuring interview footage with Traudl Junge, one of Hitler's personal secretaries during WWII.
    DirectorsAndré HellerOthmar SchmidererStarTraudl Junge
  • Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport (2000)

    17. Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport

    20002h 2mPG79Metascore
    7.7 (2K)
    The secret smuggling of 9,300 Jewish children out of Nazi Germany in the late 1930s.
    DirectorMark Jonathan HarrisStarsJudi DenchLory CahnKurt Fuchel
  • Paragraph 175 (2000)

    18. Paragraph 175

    20001h 21mNot Rated85Metascore
    7.7 (2.2K)
    Historian Klaus Müller interviews survivors of the Nazi persecution of homosexuals because of the German Penal Code of 1871, Paragraph 175.
    DirectorsRob EpsteinJeffrey FriedmanStarsRupert EverettKlaus MüllerKarl Gorath
  • Anthropoid (2016)

    19. Anthropoid

    20162hR59Metascore
    7.2 (57K)
    Based on the extraordinary true story of Operation Anthropoid, the WWII mission to assassinate SS General Reinhard Heydrich, the main architect behind the Final Solution and the Reich's third in command after Hitler and Himmler.
    DirectorSean EllisStarsJamie DornanCillian MurphyBrian Caspe
  • Timothy Spall, Rachel Weisz, and Tom Wilkinson in Denial (2016)

    20. Denial

    20161h 49mPG-1363Metascore
    6.8 (24K)
    Acclaimed writer and historian Deborah E. Lipstadt must battle for historical truth to prove the Holocaust actually occurred when David Irving, a renowned denier, sues her for libel.
    DirectorMick JacksonStarsRachel WeiszTom WilkinsonTimothy Spall
  • Helen Mirren, Sam Worthington, and Jessica Chastain in The Debt (2010)

    21. The Debt

    20101h 53mR65Metascore
    6.8 (73K)
    In 1965, three Mossad Agents cross into East Berlin to apprehend a notorious Nazi war criminal. Thirty years later, the secrets the Agents share come back to haunt them.
    DirectorJohn MaddenStarsHelen MirrenSam WorthingtonTom Wilkinson
  • Lior Ashkenazi, Knut Berger, and Caroline Peters in Walk on Water (2004)

    22. Walk on Water

    20041h 43mR65Metascore
    7.3 (7.1K)
    Following the suicide of his wife, an Israeli intelligence agent is assigned to befriend the grandchildren of a Nazi war criminal.
    DirectorEytan FoxStarsLior AshkenaziKnut BergerCaroline Peters
  • Géza Röhrig in Son of Saul (2015)

    23. Son of Saul

    20151h 47mR91Metascore
    7.4 (53K)
    A Jewish-Hungarian concentration camp prisoner sets out to give a child he mistook for his son a proper burial.
    DirectorLászló NemesStarsGéza RöhrigLevente MolnárUrs Rechn
  • In Darkness (2011)

    24. In Darkness

    20112h 25mR74Metascore
    7.3 (11K)
    A dramatization of one man's rescue of Jewish refugees in the German-occupied Polish city of Lvov.
    DirectorAgnieszka HollandStarsRobert WieckiewiczBenno FürmannAgnieszka Grochowska
  • Aldo Fabrizi in Rome, Open City (1945)

    25. Rome, Open City

    19451h 43mNot Rated
    8.0 (32K)
    During the Nazi occupation of Rome in 1944, the Resistance leader, Giorgio Manfredi, is chased by the Nazis as he seeks refuge and a way to escape.
    DirectorRoberto RosselliniStarsAnna MagnaniAldo FabriziMarcello Pagliero

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