965 Films & TV Shows Set In Europe During The 1940s
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Mrs. Miniver
England The 1940s The 1930s"Mrs. Miniver" is more than a picture... It's dramatic. It's tender. It's human. It's real. โ English middle-class family, The Minivers, experience life in the first months of World War II.
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In Which We Serve
๐ฌ๐ท Greece The 1940s The 1930sYou'll Never Forget... In Which We Serve โ The story of the HMS Torrin, from it's construction to its sinking in the Mediterranean during action in World War II. The ship's first and only commanding officer is Captain E.V. Kinross, who trains his men not only to be loyal to him and the country, butโmost importantlyโto themselves.
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Reunion in France
๐ซ๐ท France The 1940sThe Picture Of The Hour! France In Open Revolt! Leaping From The Headlines! The Underground Of Paris! โ Frenchwoman Michele de la Becque, an opponent of the Nazis in German-occupied Paris, hides a downed American flyer, Pat Talbot, and attempts to get him safely out of the country.
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Journey for Margaret
England The 1940sIt's a dramatic BOMBSHELL when a world-famous correspondent meets MARGARET during the blitz! โ An American newspaperman and his wife, end up in London after several retreats in the opening days of WWII. After a shrapnel wound and loss of her baby she returns to America. War weary, he is forced to do a story about war orphans, where he meets Margaret.
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One of Our Aircraft Is Missing
๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands The 1940s1942's first blast of screen dynamite โ During the Allied Bombing offensive of World War II the public was often informed that "A raid took place last night over ..., One (or often more) of Our Aircraft Is Missing". Behind these sombre words hid tales of death, destruction and derring-do. This is the story of one such bomber crew who were shot down and the brave Dutch patriots who helped them home.
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Joan of Paris
๐ซ๐ท France The 1940sLured By Love Into The Relentless Grip Of The World's Most Dreaded TERROR! โ An RAF squadron is brought down over occupied France. The flyers get to Paris in spite of the fact that the youngest, Baby, is injured. He must be hidden and his wounds cared for. The Gestapo has already issued orders for their arrest.
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Desperate Journey
England ๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1940sMan alive, Just picture this excitement! โ During WWII, when an allied bomber is shot down over Germany, the five surviving crew are captured but cleverly escape detention after learning German secret information and knocking out a Nazi major. With the angry major in hot pursuit, aided by military personnel, Gestapo agents and Hitler-loyal citizens, the five wend their way across perilous Germany, intent on reaching the UK with the secrets they have learned.
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Unpublished Story
England The 1940sMorale-boosting story released in the middle of World War II. A journalist uncovers a peace organisation at the centre of disreputable dealings.
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The Pied Piper
๐ซ๐ท France The 1940sIt's all heart and thrills! โ Englishman Mr Howard is on a fishing holiday in eastern France when the Germans invade in 1940. Setting off to try and get back home he is persuaded to take along the two Cavanaugh children, and as his journey progresses his family keeps growing in size. Once in German-occupied northern France a new problem arises - the risk of being heard speaking English.
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Listen to Britain
England The 1940sA depiction of life in wartime England during the Second World War. Director Humphrey Jennings visits many aspects of civilian life and of the turmoil and privation caused by the war, all without narration.
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Eagle Squadron
England The 1940sDEVILS OF THE SKIES! Uncle Sam's Boys in the EAGLE SQUADRON โ An American joins the British Royal Air Force just before Pearl Harbor is attacked, and falls in love with a beautiful English girl.
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This Was Paris
๐ซ๐ท France The 1940sBritish agents operate in Paris during the Second World War.
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This Above All
England The 1940sHe's lost his belief in everything but love. โ In 1940 England, aristocratic Prudence Cathaway alarms her snobbish parents by joining the WAF service branch. She soon meets and falls in love with the brooding Clive Briggs, despite his prejudice against the upper classes, and agrees to spend a week with him at a Dover hotel. When Clive's soldier friend, Monty, arrives to retrieve him, Prudence learns that Clive went AWOL after Dunkirk, and urges him to recall why England must fight the war.
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The Foreman Went to France
๐ซ๐ท France The 1940sBased on the true story of Melbourne Johns, an aircraft factory foreman sent to France to prevent the Nazis getting hold of some vital equipment.
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Hitler- Dead or Alive
๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1940sWill Hitler Escape This Time? โ A team of ex-con bounty hunters go to Germany in search of Hitler. If they can find him, a million dollar reward is to be paid to them.
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The Black Sheep of Whitehall
England The 1940sA professor teaching at a correspondence school discovers that a Nazi agent is trying to prevent a trade treaty being signed between England and South America.
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The Goose Steps Out
England ๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1940sSchoolteacher William Potts is the double of a captured German spy, so he is sent to Germany by British Intelligence to obtain the plans of a new secret weapon, causing chaos in a Hitler Youth school in the process.
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G.P.U.
๐ธ๐ช Sweden ๐ซ๐ฎ Finland ๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands ๐ท๐บ Russia The 1940s The 1930sOlga, a Russian refugee from Bolshevik terror, has joined the Soviet secret police to find the man responsible for killing her parents. Meanwhile, a young Baltic couple are caught up in the schemes of the communists.
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Miss V from Moscow
๐ซ๐ท France The 1940sAmerican Ace Meets Russian Spy! โ Set in the shadows of wartime Paris, this 1940s drama directed by Albert Herman stars Lola Lane, Noel Madison and Howard Banks. When a Soviet secret agent discovers her uncanny resemblance to a dead Nazi spy, she infiltrates the enemy and works to save U.S. ships from German submarines. Assisting her on her mission are French underground agents, along with an American serving in the British armed forces.
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Dover
England The 1940sDocumentary short featuring a visit by American newsman Edward R. Murrow to the English town of Dover during the Second World War.
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Uncensored
๐ง๐ช Belgium The 1940sDuring the Nazi occupation of Belgium during World War II, a Belgian resistance group revives the newspaper "La Libre Belgique" to expose and counter Nazi propaganda efforts to deceive the people. They are so effective that the Nazis offer a reward for the capture of the paper's staff, although they don't know their identities. One of them is a well-known entertainer, and when his jealous partner hears of the reward, he turns him in. The paper's publishers escape capture, but their staff doesn't. The paper's founders must find not only a way to keep from getting captured by the Nazis but keep their newspaper going and get their staff released.
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A Yank in the R.A.F.
England The 1940sROLLICKING ROMANCE! GLORIOUS ADVENTURE! โ An American pilot impulsively joins His Majesty's Royal Air Force in Britain in an attempt to impress his ex-girlfriend.
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Cottage to Let
Scotland England The 1940sAllied spies and Nazi Agents insinuate themselves at a Scottish cottage (converted to a wartime hospital) with interests on an inventor's nearly perfected bomb sight.
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Dangerous Moonlight
England The 1940sStefan Radetzky, a Polish pilot and famous concert pianist, is hospitalised in England from injuries sustained while in combat, and having lost his memory. As Radetzky plays the piano in a trance-like state, the story moves back in time to war-torn Warsaw. During an air-raid, Radetzky meets American journalist Carole, and there is a mutual attraction. Following the fall of Poland, Radetzky and Irish pilot, Mike, escape to Rumania and then on to America. Radetzky continues his musical career in America and meets up again with Carole.
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International Squadron
England The 1940sA WARNER BROS. HIT starring RONALD REAGAN as the Yankee daredevil air-devil! โ The true story of the exploits of the RAF's (Royal Air Force) foreign legion battling the German Luftwaffe (Nazi Germany's Air Force) during the early months of 1941 during WWII before America officially entered the war at the end of the year when Pearl Harbor was attacked by Japan and Hitler declared war on the United States. The United States then drafted all of their airmen and fighter pilot aces into the United States Air Force for their own combat missions against the Luftwaffe
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