Valkyrie(2008)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 71

A dramatization of the 20 July assassination and political coup plot by desperate renegade German Army officers against Hitler during World War II.



The Monuments Men(2014)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 71

An unlikely World War II platoon is tasked to rescue art masterpieces from Nazi thieves and return them to their owners.



Das Boot(1981)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 70

The claustrophobic world of a WWII German U-boat; boredom, filth, and sheer terror.



The Notebook(2004)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 68

A poor yet passionate young man falls in love with a rich young woman, giving her a sense of freedom, but they are soon separated because of their social differences.



Australia(2008)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 70

Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch reluctantly pacts with a stock-man in order to protect her new property from a takeover plot. As the pair drive 2,000 head of cattle over unforgiving landscape, they experience the bombing of Darwin, Australia, by Japanese forces firsthand.



Patton(1970)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 71

The World War II phase of the career of the controversial American general, George S. Patton.



Memoirs of a Geisha(2005)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 68

Nitta Sayuri reveals how she transcended her fishing-village roots and became one of Japan's most celebrated geisha.



The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas(2008)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 67

Set during WWII, a story seen through the innocent eyes of Bruno, the eight-year-old son of the commandant at a German concentration camp, whose forbidden friendship with a Jewish boy on the other side of the camp fence has startling and unexpected consequences.



The Book Thief(2013)

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Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 66

While subjected to the horrors of World War II Germany, young Liesel finds solace by stealing books and sharing them with others. In the basement of her home, a Jewish refugee is being protected by her adoptive parents.



A Hidden Life(2019)

Combined Rating:
75
Combined Critics Rating: 83

The Austrian Franz Jägerstätter, a conscientious objector, refuses to fight for the Nazis in World War II.



Windtalkers(2002)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 67

Two U.S. Marines in World War II are assigned to protect Navajo Marines, who use their native language as an unbreakable radio cypher.



Everything Is Illuminated(2005)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 66

A young Jewish American man endeavors to find the woman who saved his grandfather during World War II in a Ukrainian village, that was ultimately razed by the Nazis, with the help of an eccentric local.



Sophie Scholl - Die letzten Tage(2005)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 72

A dramatization of the final days of Sophie Scholl, one of the most famous members of the German World War II anti-Nazi resistance movement, The White Rose.



Lust, Caution(2007)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 70

During World War II era, a young woman, Wang Jiazhi, gets swept up in a dangerous game of emotional intrigue with a powerful political figure, Mr. Yee.



The Sum of All Fears(2002)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 64

CIA analyst Jack Ryan must stop the plans of a Neo Nazis faction that threatens to induce a catastrophic conflict between the United States and Russia's newly elected president by detonating a nuclear weapon at a football game in Baltimore.



Under sandet(2015)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 73

In post-World War II Denmark, a group of young German POWs are forced to clear a beach of thousands of land mines under the watch of a Danish Sergeant who slowly learns to appreciate their plight.



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.



The Remains of the Day(1993)

Combined Rating:
73
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.



Devil in a Blue Dress(1995)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 76

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



The Railway Man(2013)

Combined Rating:
72
Combined Critics Rating: 67

A former British Army officer, who was tortured as a prisoner of war at a Japanese labor camp during World War II, discovers that the man responsible for much of his treatment is still alive and sets out to confront him.




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