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1101.
Friend or Foe (1982)
 United Kingdom
In wartime Britain, two boys are looking for a crashed Nazi German plane...
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1102.
Get Cracking (1943)
United Kingdom
George Formby joins the home guard...
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1103.
Went the Day Well? (1942)
United Kingdom
The residents of a British village during WWII welcome a platoon of soldiers who are to be billeted with them...
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1104.
Eva Braun: Her Life with Adolf Hitler (1996)
 USA
Documents the tale of a dim, middle-class teenager who comes to love the greatest mass murderer of all time...
User Rating: 6.3/10
Votes: 3
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1105.
Der Laden (1998)
 Germany
Director Jo Baier assumed the challenge to direct these mini series about the life of Esau Matte and his family, based on his autobiographical novel...
User Rating: 6.9/10
Votes: 10
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1106.
The Thin Red Line (1998)
USA
Adaptation of James Jones' autobiographical 1962 novel, focusing on the conflict at Guadalcanal during the second World War...
User Rating: 3.0/10
Votes: 4
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1107.
Elysium (1986)
 Hungary
This jarring wartime drama set in Budapest is adapted from a novel of the same name by Imre Keszi which was, in turn, based on a true story...
User Rating: 7.0/10
Votes: 14
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1108.
La tregua (1997)
 Italy,  France, Germany,  Switzerland
This is the true story of Italian Jews returning home from Auschwitz after the war...
User Rating: 6.7/10
Votes: 13
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1109.
Bye Bye Blues (1989)
 Canada
Story about a WWII wife & mother who joins a local dance band to provide for family while husband at war...
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1110.
Escape from Sobibor (1987)
United Kingdom,  Yugoslavia
During WWII, the death camp at Treblinka had an escape, causing the Commandant at a similar camp in Sobibor to vow (actually threaten) that his camp would never experience the same thing...
User Rating: 5.6/10
Votes: 7
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1111.
Map of the Human Heart (1992)
 Australia, United Kingdom, Canada, France
In 1931, a chartist lands a plane in the Arctic to map unrecorded regions...
User Rating: 6.4/10
Votes: 5
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1112.
Les violons du bal (1974)
France
For many years, filmmaker Michel Drach wanted to tell the story of his childhood during WWII and his family's escape from the occupying Nazis...
User Rating: 6.0/10
Votes: 2
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1113.
Hei tai yang 731 (1988)
 Hong Kong,  China
Story of a Japanese terror camp in the end of WW2, where the Japanese are using the Chinese as guinea pigs in terrible experiments to develop deadly bacterial-plagues...
User Rating: 6.6/10
Votes: 9
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1114.
Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969)
USA
While it might not have been the best idea on earth to remake the 1939 classic Goodbye Mr...
User Rating: 6.0/10
Votes: 3
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1115.
Slaughterhouse-Five (1972)
USA
Using his own terminology, Billy Pilgrim is "unstuck in time", which means he is moving between different points in his life uncontrollably, although he is aware of it at certain of those points as witnessed by the letter to the editor he writes to the Ilium Daily News about his situation...
User Rating: 5.5/10
Votes: 6
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1116.
A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
United Kingdom
Returning to England from a bombing run in May 1945, flyer Peter Carter's plane is damaged and his parachute ripped to shreds...
User Rating: 3.7/10
Votes: 3
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1117.
Detskiy sad (1984)
 Soviet Union
A spacious and exuberant film-poem from director/writer Yevgeny Yevtushenko tells the semi-autobiographical tale of a young boy tramping across Russia during World War II with his trusty violin...
User Rating: 6.4/10
Votes: 5
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1118.
Hope and Glory (1987)
United Kingdom, USA
A semiautobiographical project by John Boorman about a nine year old boy called Bill as he grows up in London during the blitz of World War 2...
User Rating: 6.6/10
Votes: 12
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1119.
Le vieil homme et l'enfant (1967)
France
Claude is a Jew...
User Rating: 6.9/10
Votes: 15
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1120.
Das Boot ist voll (1981)
Switzerland, West Germany,  Austria
During World War II, Switzerland severely limited refugees: "Our boat is full." A train from Germany halts briefly in an isolated corner of Switzerland...
User Rating: 6.8/10
Votes: 26
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1121.
Sibiriada (1979)
Soviet Union
This ambitious 1979 Russian film attempts no less a feat than the encapsulation of the tumultuous history of Russia in the 20th century...
User Rating: 6.8/10
Votes: 13
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1122.
Jób lázadása (1983)
Hungary
Hungary, 1943...
User Rating: 6.7/10
Votes: 26
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1123.
Adieu, mon ami (1996)
Germany
Germany, WWII: 10-year old Dagmar has just lost her beloved twin brother Doug and her family through a bomb attack...
User Rating: 6.8/10
Votes: 16
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1124.
Begynnelsen på en historie (1988)
 Norway
Norway 40s...
User Rating: 6.4/10
Votes: 7
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1125.
Poslední motýl (1991)
 Czechoslovakia, France, United Kingdom
Stage mime Antoine Moreau (Tom Courtenay) is compelled by the Gestapo to put on a performance for the children of Terezin, a "model" concentration camp, to convince the Red Cross observers that the camp is truly what it seems...
User Rating: 6.9/10
Votes: 18
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1126.
Die Blechtrommel (1979)
West Germany, France,  Poland, Yugoslavia
Danzig in the 1920s/1930s...
User Rating: 6.6/10
Votes: 27
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1127.
Nirgendwo in Afrika (2001)
Germany
A Jewish family in Germany emigrate short before the Second World War...
User Rating: 6.7/10
Votes: 15
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1128.
Novecento (1976)
Italy, France, West Germany
Set in Italy, the film follows the lives and interactions of two boys/men, one born a bastard of peasant stock (Depardieu), the other born to a land owner (de Niro)...
User Rating: 7.4/10
Votes: 65
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1129.
Voor een verloren soldaat (1992)
 Netherlands
Based on the autobiography by Rudi Van Dantzig, "For A Lost Soldier" takes place during the end of WW II in the Netherlands...
User Rating: 7.6/10
Votes: 63
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1130.
Le petit garçon (1995)
France
Touching story of the boy who kept sincere belief in kind human feelings after difficult ordeals.
User Rating: 7.1/10
Votes: 21
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1131.
Hong ying tao (1995)
China
Based on a true story, this horrifying tale follows two orphaned friends as they struggle to survive during World War 2...
User Rating: 6.8/10
Votes: 23
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1132.
Ba wang bie ji (1993)
China, Hong Kong
"Farewell, My Concubine" is a movie with two parallel, intertwined stories...
User Rating: 6.2/10
Votes: 12
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1133.
The Island on Bird Street (1997)
 Denmark, United Kingdom, Germany, France
Alex is an 11-year old boy who, during WWII, hides in the Jewish ghetto from Nazis after all the relatives have been sent to the concentration camp...
User Rating: 5.9/10
Votes: 16
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1134.
Jacquot de Nantes (1991)
France
Agnes Varda's 1991 tribute to her late husband, Jacques Demy--Varda's fellow pioneer in the French New Wave movement of the 1950s and early 1960s--is a moving combination of reenacted scenes from Demy's fanciful childhood, clips from his movies (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Donkey Skin), and filmed interviews with him shortly before he passed away...
User Rating: 7.5/10
Votes: 23
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1135.
Tendres cousines (1980)
France, West Germany
The story takes place in 1939 on a French country-side, in a house that hosts people...
User Rating: 6.8/10
Votes: 28
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