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.



Red Tails(2012)

Combined Rating:
68
Combined Critics Rating: 62

A crew of African American pilots in the Tuskegee training program, having faced segregation while kept mostly on the ground during World War II, are called into duty under the guidance of Col. A.J. Bullard.



Biloxi Blues(1988)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 18

A group of young recruits go through boot camp during the Second World War in Biloxi, Mississippi. From the play by Neil Simon.



Always(1989)

Combined Rating:
54
Combined Critics Rating: 42

The spirit of a recently deceased expert pilot mentors a newer pilot while watching him fall in love with the girlfriend that he left behind.



Exorcist: The Beginning(2004)

Combined Rating:
63
Combined Critics Rating: 54

Years before Father Lankester Merrin helped save Regan MacNeil's soul, he first encounters the demon Pazuzu in East Africa. This is the tale of Father Merrin's initial battle with Pazuzu and the rediscovery of his faith.



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.



Allied(2016)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 75

In 1942, a Canadian intelligence officer in North Africa encounters a female French Resistance fighter on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. When they reunite in London, their relationship is tested by the pressures of war.



The Family(2013)

Combined Rating:
71
Combined Critics Rating: 60

The Manzoni family, a notorious mafia clan, is relocated to Normandy, France under the witness protection program, where fitting in soon becomes challenging as their old habits die hard.



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.



The Reader(2008)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 72

Post-WWII Germany: Nearly a decade after his affair with an older woman came to a mysterious end, law student Michael Berg re-encounters his former lover as she defends herself in a war-crime trial.



Flags of Our Fathers(2006)

Combined Rating:
86
Combined Critics Rating: 82

The life stories of the six men who raised the flag at the Battle of Iwo Jima, a turning point in World War II.



The Pianist(2002)

Combined Rating:
89
Combined Critics Rating: 84

A Polish Jewish musician struggles to survive the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto of World War II.



Twilight Zone: The Movie(1983)

Combined Rating:
57
Combined Critics Rating: 45

Four horror and science fiction segments, directed by four famous directors, each of them being a new version of a classic story from Rod Serling's landmark television series.



The Majestic(2001)

Combined Rating:
64
Combined Critics Rating: 53

Set in 1951, a blacklisted Hollywood writer gets into a car accident, loses his memory and settles down in a small town where he is mistaken for a long-lost son.



Hannibal Rising(2007)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 57

After the death of his parents during World War II, young Hannibal Lecter moves in with his beautiful aunt and begins plotting revenge on the barbarians responsible for his sister's death.



Cloud Atlas(2012)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 73

An exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution.



The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death(2014)

Combined Rating:
61
Combined Critics Rating: 53

40 years after the first haunting at Eel Marsh House, a group of children evacuated from WWII London arrive, awakening the house's darkest inhabitant.



Captain Corelli's Mandolin(2001)

Combined Rating:
64
Combined Critics Rating: 55

When a fisherman leaves to fight with the Greek army during World War II, his fiancé falls in love with the local Italian commander.



A Soldier's Story(1984)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 15

An African American officer investigates a murder in a racially charged situation in World War II.



Empire of the Sun(1987)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 58

A young English boy struggles to survive under Japanese occupation during World War II.




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