28 Films & TV Shows Set In Libya During The 1940s
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Tobruk
🇱🇾 Libya The 1940sIt is the story of Jiri and Jan, two Czech soldiers, battling alongside the allied forces against the Germans, during World War II in Tobruk, Libya. Jiri Pospichal, eighteen years old, signs up as a volunteer in the Czechoslovak army. His naive ideas about heroism are rawly confronted with the hell of the African desert, complicated relationships in his unit and the ubiquitous threat of death.
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El Alamein
🇱🇾 Libya The 1940sWar seen through the eyes of Serra, a university student from Palermo who volunteers in 1942 to fight in Africa. He is assigned to the Pavia Division on the southern line in Egypt. Rommel and the Axis forces are bogged down; it's October, the British prepare an offensive. At first, boredom, heat, hunger, and thirst bedevil the Italians; then the Brits attack, and there's no luck or heroism in death. Finally, it's retreat in confusion. Serra, his sergeant Rizzo, and his lieutenant Fiori take a last walk toward home. It's said that each soldier gets three miracles; when Serra's are used up, what then?
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The English Patient
🇮🇹 Italy 🇪🇬 Egypt 🇱🇾 Libya The 1940s The 1930sIn love, there are no boundaries. — In the 1930s, Count Almásy is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to chart the vast expanses of the Sahara Desert along with several other prominent explorers. As World War II unfolds, Almásy enters into a world of love, betrayal, and politics.
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Madman at War
🇱🇾 Libya The 1940sStory about a doctor in a Libyan military hospital who is mad, but no-one wants to declare him unfit, and he becomes the captain of a fighting unit. Through him the Germans risk losing a truce with the British, and therefore kill him and give him a hero's funeral.
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Lion of the Desert
🇮🇹 Italy 🇱🇾 Libya The 1930s The 1920s The 1940sHe was a man of honor in a war without any. — This movie tells the story of Omar Mukhtar, an Arab Muslim rebel who fought against the Italian conquest of Libya in WWII. It gives western viewers a glimpse into this little-known region and chapter of history, and exposes the savage means by which the conquering army attempted to subdue the natives.
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Raid on Rommel
🇱🇾 Libya The 1940sCaptain Foster plans on raiding German-occupied Tobruk with hand- picked commandos, but a mixup leaves him with a medical unit led by a Quaker conscientious objector.
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Sole Survivor
🇱🇾 Libya The 1950s The 1940sIn 1960, the ruins of an American bomber were found in the Libyan desert, but the remains of the crew were never located. In Guerdon Trueblood's teleplay, the ghosts of a bomber crew hang around their derelict plane, awaiting the day that their bones will be recovered and given a decent burial. The sole survivor, navigator Russell Hamner, has in the intervening 25 years become a General. He joins an investigation team that has come across the wreckage, while the ghosts, headed by Major Devlin, plot to expose Hamner as a coward who deserted his post and left his crew mates to die.
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Play Dirty
🇱🇾 Libya The 1940sForget the medals, throw away the rule book, if you want to survive… Play Dirty — The Dirty Dozen meet the Stiff Upper Lip. A British Petroleum executive is assigned to work with the British Army in North Africa handling port duties for incoming fuels.
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Tobruk
🇱🇾 Libya The 1940sIn September 1942, the German Afrika Korps under Rommel have successfully pushed the Allies back into Egypt. A counter-attack is planned, for which the fuel dumps at Tobruk are a critical impediment. In order to aid the attack, a group of British commandos and German Jews make their way undercover through 800 miles of desert, to destroy the fuel dumps starving the Germans of fuel.
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War Italian Style
🇱🇾 Libya The 1940sIt's May 1943, and two Italian American soldiers, Joe and Frank, are searching the North African desert for a Nazi general called Von Kassler. Von Kassler's aide captures them, and arranges for them to escape with fake war plans. But, things don't go exactly as planned for either side.
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The Hill
🇱🇾 Libya The 1940sThey went up like men! They came down like animals! — North Africa, World War II. British soldiers on the brink of collapse push beyond endurance to struggle up a brutal incline. It's not a military objective. It's The Hill, a manmade instrument of torture, a tower of sand seared by a white-hot sun. And the troops' tormentors are not the enemy, but their own comrades-at-arms.
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Taxi for Tobruk
🇱🇾 Libya The 1940sThe most exciting, explosive journey the screen has ever taken through a minefield of human emotions. — During World War II, French Commandos join forces with a German officer in order to survive the African desert.
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The Night We Dropped a Clanger
England 🇫🇷 France 🇱🇾 Libya The 1940sThe movie takes place during WWII. A dashing British RAF Officer is earmarked for a secret mission behind enemy lines in occupied France, but wishing to distract the enemy, enlists a person to double for him and thereby draw attention to North Africa . An unlikely airman is found and tutored in the ways of an English officer.
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Ice Cold in Alex
🇱🇾 Libya The 1940sFrom Tobruk to Alexandria... they had to make it... even if one of'em was a traitor! — A group of army personnel and nurses attempt a dangerous and arduous trek across the deserts of North Africa during the second world war. The leader of the team dreams of his ice cold beer when he reaches Alexandria.
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No Time To Die
🇱🇾 Libya The 1940sBorn out of the blazing passions of war! — During World War II, members of a British tank unit in northern Africa are captured and held prisoners by Germans.
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Bitter Victory
🇱🇾 Libya The 1940sTHE DESERT COMMANDO RAID THEY WIPED OFF THE RECORD BOOKS! — During the second world war, two British officers, Brand and Leith, who have never seen combat are assigned a vital mission. Their relationship and the operation are complicated by the arrival of Brand's wife, who had a tryst with Leith years earlier.
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The Black Tent
🇱🇾 Libya The 1940sThe Black Tent is a 1956 British war film directed by Brian Desmond Hurst and starring Donald Sinden, Anthony Steel, Anna Maria Sandri, André Morell and Donald Pleasence. It is set in North Africa, during the Second World War and was filmed on location in Libya.During the British retreat through Libya, a British officer takes shelter with a group of Arab Bedouin. He marries the chief's daughter. Sometime later his younger brother, who had believed him to be dead, is informed that he may be alive in Libya - prompting him to set out and search for him.
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The Desert Rats
🇱🇾 Libya The 1940sThey crawled their way across the blazing sands of Africa... to turn disaster into victory! — Richard Burton plays a Scottish Army officer put in charge of a disparate band of ANZAC troops on the perimeter of Tobruk with the German Army doing their best to dislodge them
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The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
🇩🇪 Germany 🇫🇷 France 🇱🇾 Libya The 1940sAt last! The sensational best-seller comes to the screen! — The life and career of Erwin Rommel and his involvement in the plot to assassinate Hitler.
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The Rats of Tobruk
🇵🇬 Papua New Guinea 🇱🇾 Libya The 1940s The 1930sThree friends enlist in the Australian Army and serve in North Africa, holding the city of Tobruk against Rommel's forces.
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Sahara
🇱🇾 Libya The 1940sTheir dramatic story can now be told! — Sergeant Joe Gunn and his tank crew pick up five British soldiers, a Frenchman and a Sudanese man with an Italian prisoner crossing the Libyan Desert to rejoin their command after the fall of Tobruk. Tambul, the Sudanese leads them to an abandoned desert fortress where they hope to find water. Soon a detachment of German soldiers arrives and attempts to barter food for water, but Gunn and his followers refuse. When the Germans attack, Gunn leads his desert-weary men in a desperate battle, hoping that British reinforcements can arrive in time.
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Around the World
California 🇱🇾 Libya 🇪🇬 Egypt The 1940sTHE MUSICAL THAT GOES PLACES... all over the global map on a song-and-laugh tour of our fighting fronts! — Bandleader Kay Kyser takes his troupe of nutty musicians, goofball comics and pretty girl singers on a tour around the world to entertain the troops during World War II.
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Immortal Sergeant
England 🇱🇾 Libya The 1940sMany heroic stories will come out of this war ... but there will never be a greater one than this ! — 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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Five Graves to Cairo
🇱🇾 Libya The 1940sDid a Woman Start the Rout of Rommel? — The British Army, retreating ahead of victorious Rommel, leaves a lone survivor on the Egyptian border who finds refuge at a remote desert hotel. He is helped by the hotel's owner, despite protest from the French chambermaid, afraid of the imminent arrival of Rommel and the Germans. John assumes the identity of the recently deceased waiter to survive.
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Nine Men
🇱🇾 Libya The 1940sThe Nine men of the title are a British WWII Army patrol stuck in a desert fort during the African campaign. The Men must defend the fort against the Italian and German troops until they can be relieved.
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