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- DirectorSamuel FullerStarsLee MarvinMark HamillRobert CarradineA hardened sergeant and the four core members of his infantry unit try to survive World War II as they move from battle to battle throughout Europe.
- DirectorEvgeniy SherstobitovStarsVladimir NikitinGeorgiy DvornikovAleksandr KirilinSoviet sailors must destroy military equipment behind enemy lines.
- DirectorEwa PetelskaCzeslaw PetelskiStarsPiotr LysakAndrzej LapickiJolanta GrusznicThe four sequences in the film cover four days in the life of a young Warsaw lad in September 1938, 1939, 1943, and 1944. In the first sequence Jurek decides not to study at Sorbonne but enlists in a Polish military school instead. In the second sequence the war starts and Warsaw is occupied. In the third sequence he works in the underground resistance. The final sequence takes place during the Warsaw uprising.
- DirectorBoris SagalStarsMaximilian SchellJoan PlowrightJames CocoDuring World War II, a teenage Jewish girl named Anne Frank and her family are forced into hiding in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands.
- DirectorWladyslaw SlesickiStarsBoleslaw AbartElzbieta BorkowskaSlawomir DobrowolskiAKA: A Long Way to Go
- DirectorTadeusz KijanskiStarsEwa BorowikMarek DabrowskiEdmund FettingSet in a suburb of Warsaw in September of 1944, as the Germans were withdrawing after leaving the city of ruins after the Warsaw uprising and the Russians were preparing to cross the river.AKA: Vistula Day
- DirectorDavid Lowell RichStarsBilly CrystalKim DarbyPatrick DuffyThe decision to drop the atom bomb, the secrecy surrounding the mission, and the men who flew it.
- DirectorJanusz MorgensternStarsEwa BlaszczykJerzy GudejkoPiotr LysakTells the story of a very memorable in Warsaw - August 1, 1944. The Germans have been withdrawing for some time, everyone is waiting for the signal of the Polish uprising to start.
- DirectorYuri LyashenkoStarsGerman YushkoMikhail GolubovichAnatoliy RudakovDuring World War II, a squad of Soviet soldiers use the luxurious Mercedes belonged to Nazi officers for breakout behind enemy lines.
- DirectorNaum BirmanStarsOleg DalLyubov MalinovskayaLarisa TolkachyovaLeningrad, the end of the first siege winter of 1941/42. Boris Korbut, who worked as a choreographer at the Palace of Pioneers before the war, arrives in the city with the task of the political department to assemble a dance group for an agitation platoon. He does not find adult dancers, but on the street he encounters one of his former students. Then Korbut searches for other surviving members of the ensemble. Rehearsals are painful, but soon the teenagers give the first concert in front of the soldiers who returned from the front line.
- DirectorTimofei LevchukStarsMihai VolontirLes SerdyukNikolay GrinkoThe picture narrates about the last raid of the Ukrainian guerrilla division of Kovpak on Vershigora's management to the back of the enemy in 1943 - 1944, its exit to frontier of the USSR and Poland, the international help to the Polish people in release from fascist aggressors.
- DirectorDaniel MannJoseph SargentStarsVanessa RedgraveJane AlexanderMaud AdamsFemale prisoners in a Nazi concentration camp (Auschwitz) are spared from death in return for performing music for their captors.
- DirectorAndrew V. McLaglenStarsGregory PeckRoger MooreDavid NivenDuring World War II, British Intelligence brings a crew of ex-soldiers out of retirement, using their age as cover, to take to the seas and pull off an unlikely undercover mission in neutral Goa.
- DirectorGordon HesslerStarsLee PurcellAnn DusenberryTracy Brooks SwopeDuring WW2, 6. female helicopter pilots are recruited for a secret mission in England. They will bring spies, refugees and weapons back and forth from the behind enemy lines.
- DirectorNikolay KoshelevStarsVladimir GostyukhinNatalya SaykoIvan BortnikAfter lying in the hospital and bidding farewell to the front-line service, Sergeant Katsuba goes to a small provincial town to teach young cadets a military wisdom. However, the relationship with the seventeen-year-olds does not add up, as they consider their teacher to be too picky and unfair.
- DirectorSlobodan SijanStarsPavle VuisicDragan NikolicDanilo 'Bata' StojkovicIt's April 5, 1941, somewhere in Serbia. A group of people go on a bus to Belgrade, on a journey that will change their lives forever.
- DirectorWitold OrzechowskiStarsWojciech WysockiJerzy BonczakDoris KunstmannA spy thriller set in 1943 when the Polish Resistance was killing SS- officers and collaborators in Lublin and Zamosc. Polish hitman romances with "officer's lady" while he is setting up her boyfriend for his sentence of death. In the end, he loses out to a collaborator living next door.AKA: The Death Sentence
- DirectorStanislaw JedrykaStarsTomasz JarosinskiJacek BryniarskiAgnieszka KonopczynskaSet in 1939 tells a story of friendship among three 10-year olds, living in town of Sosnowiec: a Polish and Jewish boys and a German girl. The Jewish boy's parents are killed and he is wounded and left for dead, but saved by the other two. Polish boy sees his baby brother taken from his mother to be raised by an Aryan family, after Polish resistance members are found in his home and then shot in the street. The German girl leaves with her parents to live in Germany, after resisiting family pressure to associate only with German-bred companions.AKA: Salad Days
- DirectorYves BoissetStarsLucas BelvauxJean CarmetJean-Pierre AumontThis is a coming of age drama adapted from the 1952 Yves Gibeau novel of the same title. A young anti-militarist is forcibly sent to military school by his father. He's a bookish pacifist who endures being bullied by his superiors all throughout school, not out of weakness rather out of strength to deny violence it's coveted reciprocity. On the eve of his much anticipated graduation day, Word War II ensues and swaps out the freedom he earned for the brutality of its first front lines. An original score by French composer Phillipe Sarde with photography directed by Yves Boisset sets the atmosphere of 1932 in France.AKA: Let's Go Children
- DirectorAleksandr AlovVladimir NaumovStarsNatalya BelokhvostikovaCurd JürgensIgor KostolevskiyAlain Delon and Claude Jade stars in this Soviet movie: Documents reveal in 1980 that the Germans planned to kill the Big Three in Teheran in 1943.
- DirectorGeorge SchaeferStarsAnthony HopkinsRichard JordanCliff GormanDramatization depicting the events surrounding Adolf Hitler's (Sir Anthony Hopkins) last weeks in and around his underground bunker in Berlin before and during the battle for the city.
- DirectorWolfgang PetersenStarsJürgen ProchnowHerbert GrönemeyerKlaus WennemannA German U-boat stalks the frigid waters of the North Atlantic as its young crew experience the sheer terror and claustrophobic life of a submariner in World War II.
- DirectorMarkus ImhoofStarsTina EngelHans DiehlMartin WalzDuring World War II, Switzerland severely limited refugees: "Our boat is full." A train from Germany halts briefly in an isolated corner of Switzerland. Six people jump off seeking asylum: four Jews, a French child, and a German soldier. They seek temporary refuge with a couple who run a village inn. They pose as a family: the deserter as husband, Judith as his wife, an old man from Vienna as her father, his granddaughter and the French lad, whom they beg to keep silent, as their children. Judith's teenage brother poses as a soldier. The fabrication unravels through chance and the local constable's exact investigation. Whom will the Swiss allow to stay? Who gets deported?AKA: The Boat is Full
- DirectorFranz AntelStarsKarl MerkatzAlfred BöhmHans HoltA politically naïve Viennese butcher (Bockerer) manages to survive the unification of Germany and Austria and the Second World War.
- DirectorRichard MarquandStarsDonald SutherlandKate NelliganStephen MacKennaA ruthless German spy, trying to get out of Britain with vital information about D-Day, must spend time with a young woman and her crippled husband.
- DirectorAlmantas GrikeviciusStarsRegimantas AdomaitisDonatas BanionisJuozas BudraitisThis film only evokes one day, the last day of a Lithuanian village of which all the inhabitants have been massacred, shot and burnt by Nazi executioners Saturday, June 3td. 1944. But the action unfolds in the past and in the present because man's memory does not forget and does not pardon genocide.
- DirectorBen VerbongStarsRenée SoutendijkPeter TuinmanLoes LucaThe story of Hannie Schaft of the Dutch resistance told in flashbacks how she tries to bring collaborators and criminals to justice in 1945.
- DirectorShûe MatsubayashiStarsSusumu FujitaHiroshi HasegawaAkihiko HirataA lavish retelling of the true story of the final voyage and ultimate destruction and sinking of the battleship Yamato, Japan's greatest flagship during the Second World War.
- DirectorLiliana CavaniStarsMarcello MastroianniKen MarshallAlexandra KingAfter the Allies liberate Naples in 1943, the life for the locals is not much easier, especially for women. Many sacrifice their dignity and morale to survive.
- DirectorRainer Werner FassbinderStarsHanna SchygullaGiancarlo GianniniMel FerrerIn 1938, a German singer falls in love with a Jewish composer in Zurich, who helps Jews flee Nazi Germany. She wants to help but is forced back to Germany. Her song "Lili Marleen" becomes a hit with soldiers and the Nazi top brass.
- DirectorVladimir FokinStarsBoris TokarevYuriy NazarovMikhail KokshenovA realistic portrayal of the early days in the Russian occupation of Berlin.
- DirectorTimur ZoloyevStarsBoris GalkinViktor PlyutSergey KachanovSummer 1944, Belorussia. Group of Soviet soldiers have to bring back their scout through the front line behind German lines.
- StarsHelen MorseBryan BrownGordon JacksonSet against the brutal chaos of World War II, a love story begins that will take two lovers through a living nightmare of captivity, across three continents and two decades.
- DirectorYevgeniya ZhigulenkoStarsValentina GrushinaYana DrouzDmitri ZamulinThis war film tells about the feat of Soviet women-pilots, who during the WWII, mostly at night, bombed the positions of German-fascist troops and enemy communications. The Germans were horrified at the sudden appearance of Soviet light U-2 airplanes at night, and they began to call them "Night Witches".
- DirectorJohn HustonStarsMichael CaineSylvester StallonePeléAs allied P.O.W.s prepare for a soccer game against the German National Team to be played in Nazi-occupied Paris, the French Resistance and British officers are making plans for the team's escape.
- DirectorAleksandr IgishevStarsOleg De-RibasPille PihlamagiVladimir MkrtchyanThe hard days of August 1941. Enemy troops approached Zaporozhye, the island of Khortitsa was captured, from its high banks the Nazis fired on the city. Our troops sought at all costs to recapture this bridgehead. The Soviet soldiers were helped by schoolchildren - fighters of the Young Chapaivets detachment. They found out the location of fascist military installations and made bonfires a signal to the Soviet paratroopers. Khortitsa was released.
- DirectorIgor TalankinStarsAlla DemidovaPyotr FyodorovMaksim PrizovAt the end of World War II, the pretty, young Misja Jerofeje is wounded and admitted to a primitive hospital. Here he meets Lida. An unhappy love affair arises because Misja has to return to the front.
- DirectorTim BurstallStarsJohn Phillip LawMel GibsonSam NeillA group of Australian commandos launch a secret mission against Japanese forces in World War II.
- StarsMarlies EngelRolf BeckerLeslie MaltonFollows a German boys involvement in the Hitler Youth during the pre WWII years.Mini-Series
- DirectorEwa PetelskaCzeslaw PetelskiStarsWirgiliusz GrynTomasz StockingerTomasz ZaliwskiA psychological movie set in World War II in occupied Poland. Partisans, commanded by autocratic self-proclaimed General Boldyn, who becomes unbearable during inactivity, start to submit false reports on sudden German troop movements.
- DirectorJohn KrishStarsJohn BardonStacey TendeterJohn HolmesTwo children in wartime England find a German fighter pilot.
- DirectorIgor GostevVictor KulleStarsVyacheslav TikhonovIvan LapikovEvgeniy MatveevFront v tylu vraga (1981) is the final episode in the trilogy about the Russian partisan's resistance during WWII. The film is set in 1944, when Russian partisans are making progress in their fighting against the Nazi occupation of Russia, Poland and Czechozlovakia. Lt. Colonel Mlynsky is now in charge of an international clandestine operation. He is the commander of the special group of partisan-fighters. Mlynsky is organizing the Russian, Polish and Czechoslovakian partisans to join foces for an attack behind the enemy lines.
- DirectorPeter MaxwellSeiji MaruyamaStarsJohn HowardAtsuo NakamuraStuart WilsonThe true story of a daring raid on Japanese-occupied Singapore Harbour by Australian and British troops during WWII.
- DirectorPaolo TavianiVittorio TavianiStarsOmero AntonuttiMargarita LozanoClaudio BigagliIn 1944, the residents of a small Italian town under Axis control flee their homes to seek out the liberating Allied forces.
- DirectorStanislaw RózewiczStarsJerzy RadziwilowiczFranciszek PieczkaPiotr BajorDuring the German occupation of Poland a young priest tries hard to prevent the execution of a local farmer, accused of treason, by a resistance fighter.AKA: Lynx: The Smile of the Evil Eye
- DirectorAleksandr SurinStarsAndrey TashkovMarina YakovlevaVladimir Simonov1942 year. Fierce battles are going on near Rzhev. Among the soldiers, who are fighting unequal battles with the enemy, the recruit Sashka.
- StarsNatalya NaumKonstantin StepankovLyubov BogdanYaroslava "Slavka" Petryn, avid communist whose family was torn apart by World War II returns to her village as a party leader only to find that her family are among nationalists which terrorize the village.
- CreatorDavid ButlerStarsSusannah YorkMichael ShannonPatrick O'ConnellIt's 1943 and the American Air Force has come to Market Weatherby, a small East Anglian town. The war weary British and the brash American GIs sometimes clash, but friendships are also forged.
- DirectorMichael VerhoevenStarsLena StolzeMartin BenrathWulf KesslerDuring the Second World War, a small group of students at Munich University begin to question the decisions and sanity of Germany's Nazi government. The students form a resistance cell which they name the "White Rose" after a newsletter that is secretly distributed to the student body. At first small in numbers and fearful of discovery, the White Rose begins to gain massive support after a Nazi Gauleiter nearly incites a student riot after a provocative speech. At this point, the matter is taken over by the Gestapo, who pledge to hunt down and destroy the members of the White Rose.
- DirectorTimofei LevchukStarsYakov TripolskyMikhail UlyanovVladimir MenshovThe film recreated the events that occurred during the Great Patriotic War. The Korsun-Shevchenkovskiy battle was a brilliantly conducted operation by the Soviet General Staff, with which 1944 began. This is a story about events taking place in the Korsun-Shevchenkov region. The enemy's grouping was located there, preventing two Ukrainian fronts from uniting and moving further to the Southern Bug. The task was set clearly and uncompromisingly - to destroy the enemy. The generals of the two armies Vatutin and Konev think over everything to the smallest detail, no mistakes can be made. All this is not easy, since at the same time battles are being fought from other sides.
- DirectorBranko BaleticStarsDragan NikolicBora TodorovicTanja BoskovicA group of petty criminals is trying to make some money under the disguise of a musical band in German-occupied Serbia.
- DirectorMori MasakiStarsIssei MiyazakiCatherine BattistoneYoshie ShimamuraA powerful statement against war, Barefoot Gen is a disturbing story about the effect of the atomic bomb on a boy's life and the lives of the Japanese people.
- DirectorIgor NikolaevStarsValeri TsvetkovAleksey SafonovMikhail UlyanovNovember 8th, 1941. The Soviet Army begins its counteroffensive against the Germans before Moscow. General Beloborodov directs the activities of his division's men and staff to open the road to Istra during the course of one day.
- DirectorArkadi SirenkoStarsVyacheslav BaranovGeorgiy DrozdEduard BocharovWorld War 2, White Sea. A Soviet transport ship carrying wounded from the front line is sunk by German planes. The ship's only survivor, an 18-year old conscript is being pursued from the air by the German ace pilot who wants to "finish the job".
- DirectorDiane KurysStarsMiou-MiouIsabelle HuppertGuy MarchandA Jewish refugee marries a soldier to escape deportation to Germany. Meanwhile a wealthy art student loses her first husband to a stray Resistance bullet; at the Liberation she meets an actor, gets pregnant, and marries him.
- DirectorRobert EnricoStarsMichael YorkJacques PenotMacha MérilA story of the life of a Polish Jewish Holocaust survivor.
- DirectorOle RoosStarsAllan OlsenOle MeyerSanne SalomonsenTwo young Danes have joined Free Corps Denmark and have struggled on the Eastern Front, In the beginning of 1945 they desert from barracks of the corps on Zealand and shoot two superiors. They seek home to their North Jutlantic birthplace, persecuted by the Free Corps, the Germans, and also the resistance group through an extreme cold Danmark.AKA: Traitors
- DirectorJanusz KondratiukStarsWitold GolinskiWlodzimierz PreyssMaria BasterTwo young boys living in a small town in the east of Poland try to survive the war by working as projectionists in a local cinema. They provide entertainment to Poles, Germans and Russians alike.AKA: Heads Full of Stars
- DirectorMichael MannStarsScott GlennIan McKellenAlberta WatsonNazis are forced to turn to a Jewish historian for help in battling the ancient demon they have inadvertently freed from its prison.
- DirectorNagisa ÔshimaStarsDavid BowieTom ContiRyuichi SakamotoDuring WWII, a British colonel tries to bridge the cultural divides between a British POW and the Japanese camp commander in order to avoid bloodshed.
- DirectorArgel JosephStarsFernando Poe Jr.Helen VelaDang CecilioTHIS FAMILY SAGA THAT SPANS TWO DECADES, FROM THE JAPANESE OCCUPATION TO THE 1950s, IS ADAPTED FOR THE BIG SCREEN FROM THE RADIO SERIAL THAT WENT ON AIR IN THE 1950s.
- DirectorJerry LondonStarsGregory PeckChristopher PlummerJohn GielgudVatican efforts, led by Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty, to save Allied P.O.W.s and downed Allied airmen as the Nazis invade Rome.
- DirectorAlan JohnsonStarsMel BrooksAnne BancroftRonny GrahamAt the onset of WW2, a Polish actor's family and the Polish Resistance help the troupe of a theatre escape Poland and the invading Nazis.
- DirectorSemyon AranovichStarsRodion NakhapetovAleksey ZharkovAndrei BoltnevIn 1944,when British navy convoys try to supply the Soviets with war matériel under the lend-lease agreement,the Soviet naval aviation base in Murmansk is attacked by German bombers.
- DirectorViktor GeorgiyevStarsLyubov VirolaynenAleksandr ZbruevAleksandr GraveThis adventure suspense story, set in World War II, features Soviet saboteurs, evil Nazis, and chemical weapons.
- DirectorVeljko BulajicStarsJames FranciscusSteve RailsbackEdward AlbertThis WW2 epic was one of the last movies of that kind made in former Yugoslavia. It tells the story of great transport of Partizans from Vojvodina to Bosnia in 1943.
- StarsRobert MitchumAli MacGrawJan-Michael VincentThe trials of the Henry and Jastrow families in the early years of World War II.
- DirectorJunzhao ZhangStarsDaoming ChenXiaoyan LuZeru TaoSet in the Anti-Japanese War, an instructor who used to be an undercover at the enemy-occupied area. He is set up by a spy and could not prove his innocence.AKA: One and Eight
- DirectorWaris HusseinStarsAnthony HopkinsLesley-Anne DownDonald PleasenceIn Paris, before the Nazis penetrate into the city, an Austrian refugee doctor falls in love with a mysterious woman.
- DirectorPo-Chih LeongStarsChow Yun-FatCecilia YipAlex ManYears later, a woman narrates her personal story of the Japanese takeover of Hong Kong in 1941. She's Nam, young, attractive, daughter of a wealthy rice merchant, and prey to painful, disabling seizures. Her boyhood friend is Coolie Keung, whose family used to have wealth; he's now impoverished, a tough kid, a leader, in love with her. Into the mix steps Fay, cool and resourceful, an actor from the north, intent on getting to Gold Mountain in the US or Australia. They form a threesome, but the day they are to leave Hong Kong, the invasion stops them. Fay must rescue Keung from collaborators, Nam falls in love with Fay, and danger awaits their next attempt to escape.AKA: Hong Kong 1941
- DirectorHeinz SchirkStarsDietrich MattauschGerd BöckmannFriedrich G. BeckhausAt the Wannsee Conference on January 20, 1942, senior Nazi officials meet to determine the manner in which the so-called "Final Solution to the Jewish Question" can be best implemented.AKA: The Wannsee Conference
- DirectorLudmila NiedbalskaStarsChristoph PieczynskiJaroslaw DominBogdan SzczesiakAKA: The Fourth Day
- DirectorRoman WionczekStarsLeonard AndrzejewskiBoguslaw AugustynJolanta GrusznicIn 1943 a group of partisans is ordered to blow up a railway bridge during the passage of a military transport. The mission is accomplished, but at great cost to themselves and others.AKA: Tribute to a Gray Day
- DirectorPál GáborStarsJohn SavageKelly RenoIldikó BánságiThis movie is about the love and protection of a man from another culture from the lowly horsemen of the plains in Hungary during World War II.AKA: The Long Ride
- DirectorWaldemar DzikiStarsWladyslaw KowalskiRafal WieczynskiMaja KomorowskaA story of a middle-aged Jew methodically preparing himself to be shipped off to a concentration camp. The main character, Jacob Rosenberg, is a former industrial counselor, who is forced to work as a street cleaner. He knows what the fate is holding for him in the future, nevertheless he takes it with and implacable calmness.AKA: Postcard From a Journey
- DirectorBohdan PorebaStarsJerzy Sergiusz AdamczewskiLeonard AndrzejewskiBoguslaw AugustynTells the story of General Wladyslaw Sikorski from September 1939 to his tragic and controversial death on July 4, 1943. During the Second World War, Sikorski became prime minister of the Polish government in exile, commander-in-chief of the Polish armed forces, and a vigorous advocate of the Polish cause in the diplomatic sphere.AKA: Crash of Gibraltar
- StarsBill HunterColin McEwanRon BlanchardThe Last Bastion is a television mini-series telling the story of Australia's involvement in World War II, and its often strained relations with its two main allies, Great Britain and the United States.
- DirectorKazimierz KutzStarsKrzysztof KolbergerIwona SwietochowskaLidia MaksymowiczSet during World War II. The story follows a young officer returning home after the lost September 1939 campaign, who organizes an underground network, but is betrayed by a girl who had more interest in him than the cause.AKA: I Shall Always Stand Guard
- DirectorJuliusz JanickiStarsWlodzimierz BednarskiZbigniew BielskiHenryk BistaSet in the war years, it tells the story of a Jewish refugee from a transport. She hides on a farmhouse and being a doctor saves one of the family members. A young man on the farm falls for her, but braggs about it too much and collaborators come nosing around. After a shootout between the collaborators and partisans, the girl takes off with the partisans.AKA: There Was No Sun That Spring
- DirectorBoris GrigorevStarsOleg StrizhenovMikhail ZhigalovVasiliy LanovoySpring 1945. The end of World War II is approaching. In Western Belarus, near Grodno, there is a gang headed by a hardcore criminal, a former accomplice of the Germans, Boleslav Kruk. At the same time, the corpse of a certain Sudin was found in Moscow, who turned out to be a repeat offender named Mordyonok. Investigating his death, the operative group of the Moscow Criminal Investigation Department, headed by Colonel Ivan Danilov, enters a former military pilot Chistyakov (aka Altunin), who has become a deserter and accomplice of bandits, connected with Mordyonok and Boleslav Kruk.
- DirectorJerzy HoffmanStarsSharon BraunerAnna DymnaGünter LamprechtAs the Germans invade Poland Jewish Ruth and her mother are trapped by the oncoming Nazis. When they are loaded onto a truck for transportation to a ghetto, Ruth is told by her mother to jump from the truck at the first chance and to make her way to relatives in Warsaw. While the war progresses Ruth tries to survive and grow up.AKA: After Your Decrees
- DirectorKaige ChenStarsXueqi WangBai XueQuiang LiuA communist soldier travels to Shanbei to collect folk songs for propaganda while visiting a poor peasant family, giving hope to the teenage daughter in escaping an arranged marriage.
- DirectorAgnieszka HollandStarsArmin Mueller-StahlElisabeth TrissenaarWojciech PszoniakIn the winter of 1942-43, a Jewish family leaps from a train going through Silesia. They are separated in the woods, and Leon, a local peasant who's now a farmer of some wealth, discovers the woman, Rosa, and hides her in his cellar. Leon's a middle-aged Catholic bachelor, tormented by his sexual drive. He doesn't tell Rosa he's seen signs her husband is alive, and he begs her to love him. Rosa offers herself to Leon if he'll help a local Jew in hiding who needs money. Leon pays, and love between Rosa and him does develop, but then Leon's peasant subservience and his limited empathy lead to tragedy. At the war's end, a ray of sunshine comes from an unexpected place.
- DirectorAlexander RamatiStarsBen CrossJames MasonIrene PapasA simple friar and a local bishop set up a pipeline for hundreds of Jews to hide and escape the Nazis in World War II Assisi.
- StarsAleksandr ZbruevVadim SpiridonovOleg EfremovA Soviet battalion crossing the Dnieper River to liberate Kiev from the Germans, 1943.AKA: Battalions Ask for Fire
- StarsHelmut HellstorffVyacheslav TikhonovArtyom KarapetyanThe battle of Moscow was the first major defeat of German Wehrmacht in the Second World War. The film is dedicated to some fighting events that took place in the USSR after Hitler's conquest of western Europe.AKA: The Battle for Moscow
- DirectorKon IchikawaStarsKôji IshizakaKiichi NakaiTakuzô KawataniAfter becoming separated from his platoon, a Japanese soldier dons a Buddhist monk's robe and tends to the bodies of the many war casualties strewn across the countryside.
- DirectorJonathan SangerStarsEd HarrisMax von SydowHorst BuchholzEmerald is an agent the Germans "have" inside allied intelligence 1944/WWII. With "help" from Emerald, the Germans catch Wheeler, believed to know the when and where of D-Day. Emerald is sent to be Wheeler's cell mate. Let the game begin.
- DirectorElem KlimovStarsAleksey KravchenkoOlga MironovaLiubomiras LauceviciusAfter finding an old rifle, a young boy joins the Soviet resistance movement against ruthless German forces and experiences the horrors of World War II.