Schindler's List(1993)

Combined Rating:
89
Combined Critics Rating: 84

In German-occupied Poland during World War II, Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazi Germans.



Saving Private Ryan(1998)

Combined Rating:
89
Combined Critics Rating: 84

Following the Normandy Landings, a group of U.S. soldiers go behind enemy lines to retrieve a paratrooper whose brothers have been killed in action.



The English Patient(1996)

Combined Rating:
83
Combined Critics Rating: 76

At the close of WWII, a young nurse tends to a badly-burned plane crash victim. His past is shown in flashbacks, revealing an involvement in a fateful love affair.



A League of Their Own(1992)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 64

Two sisters join the first female professional baseball league and struggle to help it succeed amidst their own growing rivalry.



Devil in a Blue Dress(1995)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 75

An African-American man is hired to find a woman, and gets mixed up in a murderous political scandal.



The Remains of the Day(1993)

Combined Rating:
72
Combined Critics Rating: 65

A butler who sacrificed body and soul to service in the years leading up to World War II realizes too late how misguided his loyalty was to his lordly employer.



The Thin Red Line(1998)

Combined Rating:
58
Combined Critics Rating: 39

Adaptation of James Jones' autobiographical 1962 novel, focusing on the conflict at Guadalcanal during the second World War.



Tea with Mussolini(1999)

Combined Rating:
51
Combined Critics Rating: 48

An orphaned Italian boy is raised among a circle of British and American women living in Mussolini's Italy before and during the Second World War.



Mr. & Mrs. Bridge(1990)

Combined Rating:
40
Combined Critics Rating: 47

Set during World War II, an upper-class family begins to fall apart due to the conservative nature of the patriarch and the progressive values of his children.



Paradise Road(1997)

Combined Rating:
39
Combined Critics Rating: 39

Fact-based recounting of a group of women who are imprisoned on the island of Sumatra by the Japanese during World War II and used music as a relief to their misery.



Maadadayo(1993)

Combined Rating:
38
Combined Critics Rating: 38

Following World War II, a retired professor approaching his autumn years finds his quality of life drastically reduced in war-torn Tokyo. Denying despair, he pursues writing and celebrates his birthday with his adoring students.



A Walk in the Clouds(1995)

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Combined Rating:
38
Combined Critics Rating: 18

A married soldier returning from World War II poses as a pregnant woman's husband to save her from her father's anger and honor.



Borstal Boy(2000)

Combined Rating:
37
Combined Critics Rating: 43

Irish writer and political activist Brendan Behan, is befriended as a teenager in a British labor camp by a liberal warden.



Gloomy Sunday - Ein Lied von Liebe und Tod(1999)

Combined Rating:
36
Combined Critics Rating: 30

Follows three men who are in love with a most beautiful waitress: An intellectual restaurant owner, a mysterious musician and an erratic businessman; taking place during the WWII.



The Power of One(1992)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 13

An English boy, living in Africa during World War II, through his boxing prowess, becomes a symbol of hope, in a time of war.



Shining Through(1992)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 12

An American woman of Irish, Jewish-German parentage goes undercover in Nazi Germany.



Mother Night(1996)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 17

An American spy behind the lines during WWII serves as a Nazi propagandist, a role he cannot escape in his future life as he can never reveal his real role in the war.



Fei ying gai wak(1991)

Combined Rating:
23
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Agent Jackie is hired to find WWII Nazi gold hidden in the Sahara desert. He teams up with three bundling women (the 3 stooges?) who are all connected in some way. However a team of ...



For the Boys(1991)

Combined Rating:
20
Combined Critics Rating: 10

With the help of the singer and dancer Dixie Leonhard US-Entertainer Eddie Sparks wants to bring some fun to the soldiers during World War II. Becoming a perfect team they tour from North ...



Vsichni moji blízcí(1999)

Combined Rating:
19
Combined Critics Rating: 25

Told from the perspective of man reflecting on his childhood in Prauge in the early years of World War 2 and the eventual destruction of his family as the Nazis rise to power.




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