The Young Lions

6.7

1958

167 mins

WarDrama

The lives of three young men, a German and two Americans, during WWII.

The One That Got Away

Year : 1957Rating : ⭐ 6.8

Based on the true story of Oberleutnant Franz von Werra, the only German prisoner of war captured in Britain to escape back to Germany during the Second World War.

Waiting for Anya

Year : 2020Rating : ⭐ 6.3

During the harrows of WWII, Jo, a young shepherd along with the help of the widow Horcada, helps to smuggle Jewish children across the border from southern France into Spain.

The Monuments Men

Year : 2014Rating : ⭐ 6.1

Based on the true story of the greatest treasure hunt in history, The Monuments Men is an action drama focusing on seven over-the-hill, out-of-shape museum directors, artists, architects, curators, and art historians who went to the front lines of WWII to rescue the world’s artistic masterpieces from Nazi thieves and return them to their rightful owners. With the art hidden behind enemy lines, how could these guys hope to succeed?

The Six Triple Eight

Year : 2024Rating : ⭐ 7.6

During World War II, the US Army's only all-Black, all-women battalion takes on an impossible mission: sorting through a three-year backlog of 17 million pieces of mail that hadn't been delivered to American soldiers and finish within six months.

Devotion

Year : 2022Rating : ⭐ 7.0

The harrowing true story of two elite US Navy fighter pilots during the Korean War. Their heroic sacrifices would ultimately make them the Navy's most celebrated wingmen.

The Codes of War

Year : 2025Rating : ⭐ 6.2

War stories about family, ethics and honor include the true story of two U.S. Marines who in a span of six seconds, must stand their ground to stop a suicide truck bomb, a Navy Corpsman who attempts to hold on to his humanity, and a WW2 soldier who gets separated from his squad and is forced to re-evaluate his code.

The Man Who Never Was

Year : 1956Rating : ⭐ 7.0

The true story of a British effort to trick the Germans into weakening Sicily's defenses before the 1943 attack. A dead soldier is dressed as a British officer and outfitted with faked papers showing that the Allies were intending to invade occupied Greece. His body is put into the sea where it will ultimately drift ashore and the papers be passed along to German Intelligence.

The Scarlet and the Black

Year : 1983Rating : ⭐ 7.1

Fr. Hugh O'Flaherty is a Vatican official in 1943-45 who has been hiding downed pilots, escaped prisoners of war, and Italian resistance families. His activities become so large that the Nazis decide to assassinate him the next time he leaves the Vatican.

The Birth of a Nation

Year : 1915Rating : ⭐ 5.9

Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwine. When Confederate colonel Ben Cameron is captured in battle, nurse Elsie Stoneman petitions for his pardon. In Reconstruction-era South Carolina, Cameron founds the Ku Klux Klan, battling Elsie's congressman father and his African-American protégé, Silas Lynch.

Flyboys

Year : 2006Rating : ⭐ 6.5

The adventures of the Lafayette Escadrille, young Americans who volunteered for the French military before the U.S. entered World War I, and became the country's first fighter pilots.

Paths of Glory

Year : 1957Rating : ⭐ 8.3

A commanding officer defends three scapegoats on trial for a failed offensive that occurred within the French Army in 1916.

Red Tails

Year : 2012Rating : ⭐ 6.7

The story of the Tuskegee Airmen, the first African-American pilots to fly in a combat squadron during World War II.

All Quiet on the Western Front

Year : 1930Rating : ⭐ 7.8

When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during the Great War, they are assigned to the Western Front, where their patriotism is destroyed by the harsh realities of combat.

Sands of Iwo Jima

Year : 1950Rating : ⭐ 6.4

Haunted by personal demons, Marine Sgt. John Stryker is hated and feared by his men, who see him as a cold-hearted sadist. But when their boots hit the beaches, they begin to understand the reason for Stryker's rigid form of discipline.

The First of the Few

Year : 1942Rating : ⭐ 6.7

This 1942 fictionalized biopic chronicles the true story of how two of the most remarkable men in aviation history - visionary Spitfire designer R.J. Mitchell and his test pilot Geoffrey Crisp - designed a streamlined monoplane that led to the development of the Spitfire.

Tobruk

Year : 1967Rating : ⭐ 6.4

In September 1942, the German Afrika Korps under Rommel have successfully pushed the Allies back into Egypt. A counter-attack is planned, for which the fuel dumps at Tobruk are a critical impediment. In order to aid the attack, a group of British commandos and German Jews make their way undercover through 800 miles of desert, to destroy the fuel dumps starving the Germans of fuel.

The Last Rifleman

Year : 2023Rating : ⭐ 6.6

A WWII veteran escapes his care home in Northern Ireland and embarks on an arduous but inspirational journey to France to attend the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings, finding the courage to face the ghosts of his past.

Operation Mincemeat

Year : 2022Rating : ⭐ 6.5

In 1943, two British intelligence officers concoct Operation Mincemeat, wherein their plan to drop a corpse with false papers off the coast of Spain would fool Nazi spies into believing the Allied forces were planning to attack by way of Greece rather than Sicily.

Uprising

Year : 2001Rating : ⭐ 6.6

In the Warsaw ghetto in 1943, Jews rise against the Nazis.

The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel

Year : 1951Rating : ⭐ 6.7

The life and career of Erwin Rommel and his involvement in the plot to assassinate Hitler.