965 Films & TV Shows Set In Europe During The 1940s
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Zero Hour
π«π· France The 1940sPropaganda short about the allied landing in France.
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Hangmen Also Die!
π¨πΏ Czechia The 1940sThe shot heard 'round the world! β During the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, surgeon Dr. Franticek Svoboda, a Czech patriot, assassinates the brutal "Hangman of Europe", Reichsprotektor Reinhard Heydrich, and is wounded in the process. In his attempt to escape, he is helped by history professor Stephen Novotny and his daughter Mascha.
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Background to Danger
πΉπ· Turkey πΈπΎ Syria The 1940sLove in the midst of intrigue! β An American gets caught up in wartime action in Turkey.
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The Man in Grey
England The 1940s The 19th CenturyAfter marrying a dour and disinterested lord for status, a young woman falls in love with a stage actor while her best friend from boarding school enters an affair with her husband.
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Forever and a Day
England The 1940s The 1910s The 1900s The 1890s The 1800s The 1840sThe Picture With a $1,000,000 Cast β In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble, tries to dissuade him from selling by telling him the 140-year history of the place and the connections between the Trimble and Pomfret families.
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This Land Is Mine
π«π· France The 1940sSomewhere in Europe, in a city occupied by the Nazis, a gentle school teacher finds himself torn between collaboration and resistance, cowardice and courage.
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The North Star
πΊπ¦ Ukraine π·πΊ Russia The 1940sA rolling wall of hell that couldn't be stopped... A handful of men who had to stop it! β A Ukrainian village must suddenly contend with the Nazi invasion of June 1941.
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Sherlock Holmes Faces Death
England The 1940sTHEIR NEWEST AND GREATEST ADVENTURE! β During WWII several murders occur at a convalescent home where Dr. Watson has volunteered his services. He summons Holmes for help and the master detective proceeds to solve the crime from a long list of suspects including the owners of the home, the staff and the patients recovering there.
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Immortal Sergeant
England π±πΎ Libya The 1940sMany heroic stories will come out of this war ... but there will never be a greater one than this ! β During WWII, a corporal in the desert reminisces about the love he left behind and faces uncertainty about his strength as a leader.
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Why We Fight: The Battle of Britain
England The 1940sExciting newsreel footage highlights this award-winning documentary of Britain's gallant stand against the encroaching Nazi horde. As the British people fight bravely, Hitler orders the Luftwaffe to begin the London Blitz in the hope of bringing England to her knees.
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Hitler's Madman
π¨πΏ Czechia The 1940sStory of the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, Nazi SS commander, by Czech partisans and the reprisals inflicted by the Nazis on the Czechs.
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The Flemish Farm
π§πͺ Belgium The 1940sWartime commando story based on fact. Allied airman risks return (on the ground) to occupied France for the honour of his regiment.
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Two Soldiers
π·πΊ Russia The 1940sA story about the friendship between two young men, two soldiers - Arkady from Odessa and Sasha from Ural.
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Three Russian Girls
π·πΊ Russia The 1940sKiss me now -- for always ! β Another of a wartime cycle of Hollywood films lauding the praises of America's Soviet allies, Three Russian Girls is a remake of Russia's The Girl From Stalingrad. Set just after the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, the film stars Anna Sten as Natasha, a Red Cross volunteer who is dispatched to a field hospital located in an old pre-revolution mansion. American test pilot John Hill (Kent Smith), who'd been in Russia on a goodwill mission, is wounded in battle and brought to the hospital. As he slowly recovers from his wounds, Hill falls in love with Natasha. A last-act crisis develops when the hospital personnel are forced to move immediately to Leningrad as the Nazis advance.
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The Bells Go Down
England The 1940s The 1930sComedian Tommy Trinder plays it straight in this tribute to the wartime AFS (Auxiliary Fire Service). The dedicated band who kept the fires of London under control during the blitz and fire bombings of WWII.
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The Silent Village
π¨πΏ Czechia The 1940sThe true story of the massacre of a small Czech village by the Nazis is retold as if it happened in Wales.
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Ukraine in Flames
πΊπ¦ Ukraine The 1940sA 1943 Soviet documentary war film by Ukrainian director Alexander Dovzhenko and Yuliya Solntseva. It is Dovzhenko's second World War II documentary, and dealt with the Battle of Kharkov. The film incorporates German footage of the invasion of Ukraine, which was later captured by the Soviets.
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Stalingrad
π·πΊ Russia The 1940sONE MILLION NAZIS COULDN'T TAKE IT! β Soviet documentary film.
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The Boy from Stalingrad
π·πΊ Russia The 1940sHollywood's first drama of Russia's young heroes. β If J.M. Barrie had had a hand in Tarkovsky's IVAN'S CHILDHOOD, it might like something like this bizarre boys' adventure confection. Surprised by the advancing German Army while gathering wheat outside their village, a spunky band of Russian adolescents employs a combination of wits and heroic self-sacrifice to defeat a Nazi battalion, blow up a tank, and save the people of Stalingrad from imminent destruction. A rarely-seen entry in Hollywoood's brief wartime spate of pro-Soviet propaganda films, THE BOY FROM STALINGRAD stars Serbian-American child actor Bobby Samarzich, who went on to found one of Southern California's greatest tamburitza bands.
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Inviati speciali
πͺπΈ Spain πͺπ¬ Egypt The 1940s The 1930sAn Italian film from 1943.
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We'll Meet Again
England The 1940sA young dancer trying to make it in London during World War II discovers that people like her singing voice, too. Although she's at first reluctant to sing, she finally does and becomes a star. She hooks up with a young musician who composes classical music and turns his nose up at this vulgar "popular" music, but she believes he can be a success at it and sets out to turn him around.
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The Priest Who Knocked Out
πΈπͺ Sweden The 1940sThe boxing promoter Charlie returns from America to Sweden and needs to find a professional Swedish boxer for an upcoming fight. By chance Charlie watches BjΓΆrn Harring fight off some hoodlums. Charlie sees great potential in BjΓΆrn and wants to promote him for an upcoming fight, the problem is though that BjΓΆrn is studying theology and is soon to become a priest. This might not look too good in a prejudiced society of the 40s with a boxing priest, but Charlie is determent to find a way.
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Casablanca
π«π· France π²π¦ Morocco The 1940sThey had a date with fate in Casablanca! β In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.
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Went the Day Well?
England The 1940sWent the day well? We died and never knew. But, well or ill, freedom we died for you. β The quiet village of Bramley End is taken over by German troops posing as Royal Engineers. Their task is to disrupt England's radar network in preparation for a full scale German invasion. Once the villagers discover the true identity of the troops, they do whatever they can to thwart the Nazis plans.
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