The Light of Dawn: The Normandy Landings
Jun 06, 2014 | IMDB 8.4
100 min Watch NowDocumentary, War
The Normandy landings of 6 June 1944 were pivotal to the outcome of WW2. We learn when Churchill and Roosevelt first proposed the operation and how preparations started—finishing with the key events of D-Day and the far-reaching effects of its outcome.
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IMDB 7.6 | Nov , 1959
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IMDB 7.8 | May , 1962
In WW2, twelve year old Soviet orphan Ivan Bondarev works for the Soviet army as a scout behind the German lines and strikes a friendship with three sympathetic Soviet officers.The Invisible Battallon
IMDB 0 | Nov , 1967
A group of children from a small Slovenian town form a battalion to fight against the Nazi enemy.Alias
IMDB 0 | Jan , 2026
Uprising
IMDB 6.5 | Nov , 2001
In the Warsaw ghetto in 1943, Jews rise against the Nazis.MacArthur
IMDB 6.3 | Jul , 1977
The film portrays MacArthur's life from 1942, before the Battle of Bataan, to 1952, the time after he had been removed from his Korean War command by President Truman for insubordination, and is recounted in flashback as he visits West Point.Ike: Countdown to D-Day
IMDB 6.4 | May , 2004
The story of the senior-level preparations for the D-Day invasion on June 6, 1944 from the time of Dwight D. Eisenhower's appointment as the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, to the establishment of the beachhead in Normandy.Battleground
IMDB 6.7 | Nov , 1949
Members of the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division are fighting for their country amidst the rugged terrain of Bastogne, Belgium, in December 1944. Holley and his American compatriots have already seen one of their own, Roderigues, perish under enemy fire. The men try to rebuff another series of Nazi attacks, but what they really need is a change in the weather. Without clear skies, they'll never get the air support they need.All the Queen's Men
IMDB 4.8 | Oct , 2001
A mismatched team of British Special Services agents led by an American must infiltrate, in disguise, a female-run Enigma factory in Berlin and bring back the decoding device that will end the war.Hell in the Pacific
IMDB 6.9 | Dec , 1968
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IMDB 6.5 | Nov , 1958
A small British army team is sent deep behind enemy lines to destroy a German petrol dump as part of the preparation for a major attack in the North African campaign. Sea of Sand was distributed in the US in a shortened version, Desert Patrol.The Truce
IMDB 6.1 | Feb , 1997
After the liberation of Auschwitz, an Italian prisoner of War begins a torturous voyage home to Turin, through a Europe caught between war and peace.The Clock Stopped at Midnight
IMDB 0 | Feb , 1959
A group of resistance members are fighting Germans in the occupied Minsk during WWII.Nikoletina Bursac
IMDB 6 | Nov , 1964
The mother of a national hero Nikoletina Bursac leads an imaginary conversation with the statue of her deceased son. We follow events from Nikoletina's life and war: his joining of the partisans together with his neighbor Jovica Jez, meeting with the small Jewish girl Erna who survived the slaughter of her village, constant quarrels and friendship with commander Pirgo and commissar Zlatko, meeting with Curetak and their unsuccessful love relationship.People with Wings
IMDB 5 | Aug , 1960
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IMDB 6.2 | Oct , 1942
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Russia attacked Finland in late November 1939. This film tells the story of a Finnish platoon of reservists from the municipality of Kauhava in the province of Pohjanmaa/Ostrobothnia who leave their homes and go to war. The film focuses on the farmer brothers Martti and Paavo Hakala.The Naked Brigade
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Documentary on the main principles of Sun Tsu "Art of War" illustrated with examples from the second world war, the Vietnam war and the American civil war.