3,596 Films & TV Shows Set In Europe During The 20th Century
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The Lost Battalion
๐ซ๐ท France The 1910sAnd he told them to go to hell โ World War I, October 1918. The more than 500 men of the 77th Infantry Division of the United States Army, who have been recruited in New York City and trained in Yaphank, are sent to France, to help break down the German defenses located in the Argonne forestโฆ
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Shoulder Arms
๐ซ๐ท France The 1910sUnprecedented in film annals! โ An American doughboy, stationed in France during the Great War, goes on a daring mission behind enemy lines and becomes a hero.
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The Diary of Dr. Hart
๐ต๐ฑ Poland The 1910sDr. Robert Hart visits his friend Ursula von Hohenau in Saxony in July 1914. There he hears about the Austrian ultimatum to Serbia. He immediately returns to his home town where, just before mobilisation, he meets the Polish count Bransky and his daughter Jadwiga, the French Vicomte Latour and the Russian counsellor of embassy count Bronislaw Krascinsky. Bronislaw is madly in love with Jadwiga and jealous of Dr. Hart. After the outbreak of the war Dr. Hart works close to the Polish frontlines. Bronislaw leads the Russian troops in this area. When Bronislaw is wounded during a battle with the Germans Dr. Hart finds him and takes care of his wounds.
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The Kaiser, the Beast of Berlin
๐ง๐ช Belgium ๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1910sA propagandistic view of the First World War, showing the political greed of the German Kaiser Wilhelm, the resistance of some of his own soldiers, and fanciful prediction of the nature of the war's end.
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Patriotism
Scotland The 1910sDuring World War I, Robin Cameron transforms her home on the Scottish seacoast into a hospital for convalescing soldiers. Sidney Carson, who owns the adjoining estate, and Dr. Hyde both love Robin, but she gives her heart to John Hamilton, an American soldier whose ship was sunk off the coast.
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The Great Love
England The 1910sJim Young of Youngstown, Pennsylvania, reads of the German war atrocities and decides to enlist in the British army, thus becoming a forerunner of the American forces that are subsequently to leave for the battlefields of Europe. He begins active training at a camp outside London. While enjoying a few hours of leave, he meets Susie Broadplains , a young woman from Australia. She is flattered by his attentions and their friendship soon blossoms into love. However German plotters plan to destroy an arsenal at night and Sir Roger is inveigled into driving an automobile along a London road with its lights turned skyward to guide the Zeppelins. Jim, wounded and home on furlough, detects Sir Roger on the lonely road, follows and traps him in his cottage. Sir Roger turns his pistol on himself rather than be taken alive. Susie finds the "great love" in service for the cause of democracy and her country, with a greater love in sight.
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The Little American
๐ซ๐ท France The 1910sThe silent sufferers โ A young American has her ship torpedoed by a German U-boat but makes it back to her ancestral home in France, where she witnesses German brutality firsthand.
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Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
๐ฎ๐ถ Iraq ๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1910s The 1st Century The 16th CenturyThe Cruel Hand of Intolerance โ The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.
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Zepped
England The 1910sZepped is a 1916 propaganda comedy short film about a German Zeppelin attack on London during the First World War. Charlie Chaplin appears in the film, although it is unlikely he himself was involved in the production. Making use of stop-motion animation, Zepped uses possibly previously unknown outtakes of three or four earlier Chaplin films: His New Profession (1914), A Jitney Elopement (1915) and The Tramp (1915), and according to Bonhams, By the Sea (1915). Two copies are known: one was unknowingly purchased by a collector who bought an old film reel tin on eBay for ยฃ3.20 (about $5) in September 2009 and found the nitrate film inside. He put it up for auction in June 2011 but the sole bid did not reach the ยฃ100,000 ($160,000) reserve price. The second copy was found in a tin of assorted items bought from a secondhand shop in Sheffield in July 2011.
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Les Vampires
๐ซ๐ท France The 1910sTwo journalists attempt to uncover the truth behind the criminal organisation, known as The Vampires, who are terrorizing Paris.
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You Remember Ellen
๐ฎ๐ช Ireland The 1910sSummer 1911, Sidney Olcott cross again the Atlantic to shoot films in Ireland for Kalem company. With a stage company, he settled in Beaufort near Killarney. Among the films: You Remember Ellen, an adaptation of a famous poem written by Thomas Moore.
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Pinocchio
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1930sSet during the rise of fascism in Mussolini's Italy, Pinocchio is a story of love and disobedience as Pinocchio struggles to live up to his father's expectations.
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KOMMANDO 1944
California ๐ฉ๐ช 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.
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Napoli d'altri tempi
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Monster Butler
Maine England The 1970sThe film is based on the true story of the serial-killing con man Roy Fontaine who worked as a butler and robbed and murdered numerous employers throughout England and Scotland.
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Living
England The 1950sAn English-language adaptation of the script of "Ikiru" (1952), set in London in the 1950s
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See How They Run
England The 1950sIn 1950s London, a desperate Hollywood film producer sets out to turn a popular West End play into a film. When members of the production are murdered, world-weary Inspector Stoppard and overzealous rookie Constable Stalker find themselves in the midst of a puzzling whodunit within Londonโs glamorous Theatreland and sordid underground.
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Miracle in Bosnia
๐ง๐ฆ Bosnia and Herzegovina The 1990sA documentary film shot in the occasion of the third anniversary of Bosnian Army.
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The Crown: Season 5
England The 1990sThe gripping, decades-spanning inside story of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Prime Ministers who shaped Britain's post-war destiny. The Crown tells the inside story of two of the most famous addresses in the world โ Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street โ and the intrigues, love lives and machinations behind the great events that shaped the second half of the 20th century. Two houses, two courts, one Crown.