9 Films & TV Shows Set In Norway During The 1940s
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Avengers: Endgame
New York New Jersey California ๐ณ๐ด Norway Tokyo Prefecture Africa - General The 1970s The 1940s The 2010s The 2020s The 2000sPart of the journey is the end. โ After the devastating events of Avengers: Infinity War, the universe is in ruins due to the efforts of the Mad Titan, Thanos. With the help of remaining allies, the Avengers must assemble once more in order to undo Thanos' actions and restore order to the universe once and for all, no matter what consequences may be in store.
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The King's Choice
๐ณ๐ด Norway The 1940sThree Days in April โ On 9 April 1940, German soldiers arrive in the city of Oslo. The King of Norway faces a choice that will change his country forever. The King's Choice is a story about the three most dramatic days in Norway's history, the royal family's escape and King Haakon's difficult choice after Nazi Germany's invasion of Norway.
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Kon-Tiki
New York ๐ณ๐ด Norway ๐ต๐ช Peru South Pacific - General Pacific Ocean The 1940sThe true story about legendary explorer Thor Heyerdahl and his epic crossing of the Pacific on a balsa wood raft in 1947, in an effort to prove it was possible for South Americans to settle in Polynesia in pre-Columbian times.
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Into the White
๐ณ๐ด Norway The 1940sInspired by the true world war II story. โ Based on a true story. On 27 April 1940, Luftwaffe pilot Horst Schopis' Heinkel 111 bomber is shot down near Grotli by an RAF Blackburn Skua L2940 fighter, which then crash-lands. The surviving German and English crew members begin to at shoot each other, but later find themselves huddled up in the same cabin. In order to survive the harsh winter in the Norwegian wilderness, they have to stand together. An unlikely, lifelong friendship blossoms.
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Captain America: The First Avenger
New York New Jersey England ๐ณ๐ด Norway ๐ฌ๐ฑ Greenland ๐ฆ๐น Austria ๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1940s The 2010sWhen patriots become heroes โ During World War II, Steve Rogers is a sickly man from Brooklyn who's transformed into super-soldier Captain America to aid in the war effort. Rogers must stop the Red Skull โ Adolf Hitler's ruthless head of weaponry, and the leader of an organization that intends to use a mysterious device of untold powers for world domination.
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Beyond the Border
๐ธ๐ช Sweden ๐ณ๐ด Norway The 1940sThe Mission is a Man โ December 1942. Two young soldiers leave their posts at checkpoint 83 in North Vรคrmland, Sweden and make their way through the ice cold winter night towards the Nazi-occupied Norwegian border. Sweden stands on the brink of invasion and they want to see the enemy everybody's talking about. But the adventure ends in disaster and soon thereafter Lieutenant Aron Stenstrรถm finds out that his brother Sven is one of the missing soldiers. With the odds stacked against him he is forced to go behind enemy lines on a secret rescue mission. Deep inside the Norwegian forests Aron realizes that a completely different kind of line must be crossed if they're to come out alive.
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Max Manus: Man of War
Scotland ๐ธ๐ช Sweden ๐ณ๐ด Norway ๐ซ๐ฎ Finland The 1940sMax Manus is a Norwegian 2008 biographic war film based on the real events of the life of resistance fighter Max Manus (1914โ96), after his contribution in the Winter War against the Soviet Union. The story follows Manus through the outbreak of World War II in Norway until peacetime in 1945.
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Hamsun
๐ณ๐ด Norway The 1940sThey were worshipped as national saints. Hated as traitors. Their marriage spanned from the worst kind of betrayal to the greatest love... โ Knut Hamsun is Norway's most famous and admired author. Ever since he was young he has hated the English for the starvation they caused Norway during WWI. When the Germans occupy Norway 9 April 1940 he welcomes them and the protection they can give from Great Britain. He supports the national socialist ideals, but opposes the way these ideals are turned into action - that Norwegians are jailed and executed. His wife Marie travels in Germany during the war as a sign of support from Knut and herself.
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The Damned
๐ณ๐ด Norway Atlantic Ocean The 1940sA group of Nazis and sympathizers board a submarine bound for South America in the hopes of finding shelter.