965 Films & TV Shows Set In Europe During The 1940s
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Confirm or Deny
England The 1940sNewsman Mitch and teletype operator Jennifer, whose job is to see he doesn't send inappropriate stuff out of the country, dodge bombs during the blitz of London while falling in love.
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The Ghost of St. Michael's
Scotland The 1940sWill Hay, back in his role as a hapless teacher, is hired by a grim school in remotest Scotland. The school soon starts to be haunted by a legendary ghost, whose spectral bagpipes signal the death of one of the staff. Hay, assisted by Claude Hulbert and Charles Hawtrey, has to unravel the mystery before he becomes the next victim.
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Words for Battle
England The 1940sPoetry by Rudyard Kipling, John Milton, and William Blake, and excerpts from speeches by Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill, all read by Laurence Olivier, illuminate documentary footage of England during its defense against the Nazi blitz in World War II. This short film serves as both propaganda and as a rallying cry to the British people.
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Churchill's Island
England The 1940sThe people of Britain resist the German air force and navy with help from North America.
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Ships with Wings
🇬🇷 Greece The 1940sBefore the war, a Fleet Air Arm pilot is dismissed for causing the death of a colleague. Working for a small Greek airline when the Germans invade Greece, he gets a chance to redeem himself and rejoin his old unit on a British carrier. This is regarded the last of the conventional, rather stiff 1930th style Ealing war films, to be succeeded by much more realism and better storytelling.
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Stukas
🇩🇪 Germany England The 1940sThis Nazi propaganda film details the exploits of a group of German Luftwaffe pilots flying Stukas--fighter-bombers--in the Battle of France in the early days of World War II.
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L'an 40
🇫🇷 France The 1940s"To care as little as about the year 40" is a French expression meaning "not to give a care". Well, this is 1940 and the Germans have invaded France. But, paradoxically, a well off couple will remember it fondly. Indeed, fleeing the invaders they gradually lose all their material possessions but discover the true meaning of life instead.
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Waterloo Bridge
England The 1940s"Gone With the Wind's" Tempestuous "Scarlett O'Hara"! Romantic Robert Taylor! Exciting Together! — On the eve of World War II, a British officer revisits Waterloo Bridge and recalls the young man he was at the beginning of World War I and the young ballerina he met just before he left for the front. Myra stayed with him past curfew and is thrown out of the corps de ballet. She survives on the streets of London, falling even lower after she hears her true love has been killed in action. But he wasn't killed. Those terrible years were nothing more than a bad dream is Myra's hope after Roy finds her and takes her to his family's country estate.
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Contraband
England The 1930s The 1940sWhen a neutral Danish merchant ship is forced to put into port after trying to evade British wartime contraband control, its captain becomes involved in a beautiful British Naval Intelligent agent's efforts to capture a group of German spies operating from a London cinema.
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Convoy
England The 1940sA tale of life on board a Royal Navy cruiser assigned to protect the vital convoys between America and England during WWII.
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London Can Take It!
England The 1940sA tribute to the courage and resiliency of Britons during the darkest days of the London Blitz.
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Law and Disorder
England The 1940sOn the eve of WWII a young defence lawyer, assisted by his wife, invaigles his way into a gang of foreign saboteurs. Comedy thriller, ably executed by a satisfactory cast.
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Things to Come
England The 1970s The 1960s The 1940s The 2030sThe future is here! — The story of a century: a decades-long second World War leaves plague and anarchy, then a rational state rebuilds civilization and attempts space travel.
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High Treason
England The 1940s The 1990s1930s Vision of 1940 — The year is 1940 and tension is growing between the empires of United Europe and the Atlantic States. A bloody border incident puts both sides on high alert.
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KOMMANDO 1944
California 🇩🇪 Germany The 1940sJuly 1944, An Asian American soldier Corporal Soo is thrown into a Nazi work camp on a farm in Germany as his family back home in America are forced into an American Japanese concentration camp in Manzanar California. The allied soldiers think Soo is a Japanese soldier and segregate him. Soo must fight to let go of the past in order to be set free.