Zgodba spremlja ameriškega znanstvenika J. Roberta Oppenheimerja in njegovo vlogo pri razvoju atomske bombe. Znanstvenika Oppenheimerja je upodobil Cillian Murphy, njegovo ženo Katherine »Kitty« Oppenheimer, ki je biologinja in botaničarka, pa igralka Emily Blunt. Oskarjevec Matt Damon je upodobil generala Leslieja Grovesa ml., direktorja projekta Manhattan, igralec Robert Downey Jr. pa je ustanovni komisar ameriške komisije za jedrsko energijo Lewis Strauss.
Resnična zgodba o fotografinji Elizabeth 'Lee' Miller, manekenki, ki je med drugo svetovno vojno postala priznana vojna dopisnica revije Vogue.
Vojna akcija. V glavni vlogi Brad Pitt. April, 1945. Iz zgodovine znan Shermanov tank in njegovih pet mož, ki se bojuje na sovražnikovi črti. Mlad vojak se prvič poda v boj, v samo srce Nacistov
Režiser epopej Pogumno srce, Kristusov pasijon in Apokalipto predstavlja navdihujočo resnično zgodbo o bolničarju Desmondu, ki želi v času druge svetovne vojne pomagati tovarišem v boju. Spomladi leta 1945 – ko se je vojna na Tihem oceanu bližala svojim poslednjim, a najsmrtonosnejšim dnevom in so ameriške sile v Okinavi naletele na morda najbolj zagrizen odpor Japoncev – se je en vojak izkazal za neverjetnega junaka. Desmond T. Doss, ki je zaradi ugovora vesti odklanjal uporabo orožja in je zaprisegel, da nikoli ne bo ubil nikogar, je služil kot neoborožen bolničar… in je sam samcat – ne da bi izstrelil en sam naboj – rešil življenja na ducate svojih soborcev, ki so se opotekli pod streli sovražnika.
Resnična zgodba o tajni britanski organizaciji iz druge svetovne vojne: Special Operations Executive. Ustanovil jo je Winston Churchill, njihovi napadi na nemške sile za bojnimi linijami pa so pomagala spremeniti potek vojne in so botrovali nastanku sodobnih "črnih operacij".
Medtem ko divja druga svetovna vojna, se najstnik Mahito, ki ga preganja materina tragična smrt, iz Tokia preseli v mirno podeželsko hišo svoje nove mačehe Natsuko, ženske, ki je neverjetno podobna dečkovi materi. Medtem ko se skuša prilagoditi, postane ta nenavadni novi svet še bolj nenavaden, ko se pojavi vztrajna siva čaplja, ki Mahita zmoti in mu povzroča preglavice ter ga označi za "dolgo pričakovanega".
Leta 1942 se konvoj 35 civilnih ladij, ki prevažajo nujne zaloge iz Islandije v Sovjetsko zvezo, sooča s smrtonosnimi izzivi na Arktiki. Kljub zavezniškemu mornariškemu spremstvu, je konvoj zaradi katastrofalnih obveščevalnih napak izpostavljen neusmiljenim nemškim letalskim in pomorskim napadom. V brutalnih razmerah se neizkušeni civilni mornarji borijo za preživetje, do cilja pa je priplulo le 12 ladij.
Začetek z zavezniško invazijo na Normandijo 6. junija 1944 se pripadniki drugega jurišnega bataljona pod kapitanom Millerjem borijo za nadzor nad plažo. V bojih sta dva brata ubita. Nekoliko prej je v Novi Gvineji ubit tudi tretji brat. Njegova mati, gospa Ryan, naj bi na isti dan prejela tri telegrame smrti. Vodja ameriške vojske George C. Marshall vidi priložnost, da ji olajša trpljenje, ko izve četrtega brata, zasebnika Jamesa Ryana, in se odloči poslati osem mož (kapitan Miller in izbrana skupina iz njegovega bataljona), da jih najde njega in ga vrni v materino hišo.
Rudolf Höss je komandant v nemški vojski v drugi svetovni vojni. Skupaj z ženo Hedwig in otroki živi v idilični hiši, od katere je neokrnjena narava le korak oddaljena. To je popolno okolje za vzgojo otrok: tam se lahko v miru igrajo, medtem ko mati skrbi za vrt, ob koncu dneva pa se družina zbere pri večerji. Nekaj je pri Hössovih vendarle drugače. Njihovo posestvo meji na koncentracijsko taborišče Auschwitz. A to družine prav nič ne moti pri vsakodnevnih opravilih. Občasni streli, kriki in prah, ki ga prinese iz dimnikov, so samo bežna motnja v ozadju, ob kateri nihče ne trene z očesom.
Film pripoveduje malo znano zgodbo o Alanu Turingu, genialnem matematiku, ki ga je britanska vojska med drugo svetovno vojno najela, da bi razvozlal sporočila nemškega šifrirnega stroja Enigma. Turing se je s pisano druščino strokovnjakov podal v napeto bitko s časom, a uspeh, ki ga je nazadnje dosegel, je moral ostati strogo varovana državna skrivnost. Njegovo delo je bistveno pripomoglo k skrajšanju druge svetovne vojne in rešilo številna življenja, stroj, ki ga je iznašel, pa velja za prototip sodobnega računalnika. Leta 1952 so Turinga aretirali in obsodili zaradi homoseksualnosti. Dve leti kasneje je naredil samomor.
Provokativni režiser trilerjev Šund in Ubila bom Billa se je tokrat podal v čas 2. svetovne vojne, naravnost v žrelo pekla - za sovražnikove bojne linije. Smrtonosni vod neobrzdanih ameriških vojakov pod vodstvom odločnega Alda se odpravi v okupirano Francijo, kjer z brezkompromisnim nasiljem v sovražnikove vrste vnašajo strah in trepet. Njihove načrte atentata na vplivne nacistične voditelje pa prekriža želja osebnega maščevanja francoske lastnice manjšega kina.
Zgodba opisuje komandirja ameriške mornarice na prvi plovbi prek Atlantika kmalu po vstopu ZDA v drugo svetovno vojno v začetku leta 1942, med katero je zadolžen za varovanje konvoja trgovskih ladij pred napadi nemških podmornic.
Julian se v novi šoli trudi, da bi ga sprejeli po tem, ko je bil iz prejšnje šole izključen zaradi neprimernega obnašanja do dečka Auggija. Obišče ga njegova babica iz Pariza in mu pove svojo zgodbo o sočutju in pogumu: kot deklica v Franciji, okupirani od nacistov, se skrije s pomočjo sošolca, mladeniča, ki tvega vse, da ji omogoči preživetje. Skupaj najdeta lepoto in ljubezen v skrivnem svetu lastnega ustvarjanja. Medtem pa je mati tega fanta tvegala vse, kar je imela, da bi ju zaščitila.
Resnična zgodba pianista Wladyslawa Szpilmana in njegovega življenja v Varšavi med nacistično okupacijo.
Red Sun is a family drama that tells stories of courage, sacrifice, and hardships that every Filipino family has. These stories were inspired by the tales of the unsung heroes who defied the odds of World War II and the Japanese occupation of the Philippines.
The Waltons live their life in a rural Virginia community during the Great Depression and World War II.
Hogan's Heroes is an American television sitcom that ran for 168 episodes from September 17, 1965, to July 4, 1971, on the CBS network. The show was set in a German prisoner of war camp during World War II. Bob Crane starred as Colonel Robert E. Hogan, coordinating an international crew of Allied prisoners running a Special Operations group from the camp. Werner Klemperer played Colonel Wilhelm Klink, the commandant of the camp, and John Banner was the inept sergeant-of-the-guard, Hans Schultz. The series was popular during its six-season run. In 2013, creators Bernard Fein through his estate and Albert S. Ruddy acquired the sequel and other separate rights to Hogan's Heroes from Mark Cuban through arbitration and a movie based on the show has been planned.
In a time filled with wars, environmental concerns and issues, there lives a gaggle of beautiful boys that are the personification of the world's countries. Japan, England, France, Finland, Germany and the rest of the boys attend the World Conference and tackle issues like global warming with a heavy dose of fun. Through multiple world wars the gang will traverse deserts, build mecha U-boats and solve the world's problems together!
Combat! is an American television program that originally aired on ABC from 1962 until 1967. The show covered the grim lives of a squad of American soldiers fighting the Germans in France during World War II. The program starred Rick Jason as platoon leader Second Lieutenant Gil Hanley and Vic Morrow as Sergeant "Chip" Saunders.
Drawn from interviews with survivors of Easy Company, as well as their journals and letters, Band of Brothers chronicles the experiences of these men from paratrooper training in Georgia through the end of the war. As an elite rifle company parachuting into Normandy early on D-Day morning, participants in the Battle of the Bulge, and witness to the horrors of war, the men of Easy knew extraordinary bravery and extraordinary fear - and became the stuff of legend. Based on Stephen E. Ambrose's acclaimed book of the same name.
The Sullivans is an Australian drama television series produced by Crawford Productions which ran on the Nine Network from 1976 until 1983. The series told the story of an average middle-class Melbourne family and the effect World War II had on their lives. It was a consistent ratings success in Australia, and also became popular in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Netherlands, Gibraltar and New Zealand.
During World War II, airmen risk their lives with the 100th Bomb Group, a brotherhood forged by courage, loss, and triumph.
As WW2 rages around the world, DCS Foyle fights his own war on the home-front as he investigates crimes on the south coast of England. Foyle's War opens in southern England in the year 1940. Later series sees the retired detective working as an MI5 agent operating in the aftermath of the war.
Follow the deadliest conflict in human history in real time, week by week, blow by blow.
The misadventures of hapless cafe owner René Artois and his escapades with the Resistance in occupied France.
An inexperienced U-boat crew has to survive a secret mission and a young German woman is torn between loyalty for her home country and the French resistance in the WWII drama.
Mystery! is an episodic television series that debuted in 1980 in the USA. It airs on PBS and is produced by WGBH. The show has brought a large number of detective series and television movies—most of them British productions from the BBC or the ITV companies and usually adapted from mystery fiction literary sources—to air on American television. In 2002, they added an American-produced series based on the novels of Tony Hillerman to their roster.
Track the intertwined real-life stories of three U.S. Marines – Robert Leckie, John Basilone, and Eugene Sledge – across the vast canvas of the Pacific Theater during World War II. A companion piece to the 2001 miniseries Band of Brothers.
The origin story of Bruce Wayne's legendary butler, Alfred Pennyworth, a former British SAS soldier who forms a security company in 1960s London and goes to work with young billionaire Thomas Wayne and his wife Martha, before they become Bruce Wayne’s parents.
This gripping docuseries examines Adolf Hitler and the Nazis' rise, rule and reckoning from pre-WWII to the Holocaust to the Nuremberg trials.
The shocking story of how fashion icon Christian Dior and his contemporaries including Coco Chanel, Pierre Balmain, and Cristóbal Balenciaga navigated the horrors of World War Il and launched modern fashion.
Set against the backdrop of the greatest clandestine race against time in the history of science with the mission to build the world's first atomic bomb in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Flawed scientists and their families attempt to co-exist in a world where secrets and lies infiltrate every aspect of their lives.
Introducing the Walmington-On-Sea home guard. During WW2, in a fictional British seaside town, a ragtag group of Home Guard local defense volunteers prepare for an imminent German invasion.
The true story of one Jewish family separated at the start of World War II, determined to survive—and to reunite.
