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Plot Summary:
Explores the life of General De Gaulle, from the Appeal of June 18, 1940, to his departure from power in 1969. A dive into the military and political career of De Gaulle and an inside portrait of his private life.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 167
Genere: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: France
Duration: 297 min
Plot tags: political drama
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Class Act (2023)
Plot Summary:
A relentlessly ambitious working-class man becomes one of France's most controversial public figures in this fictionalized biopic about Bernard Tapie.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France
Duration: 375 min
Plot tags: political drama
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12 O'Clock High (1964)
Plot Summary:
This series chronicles the adventures--in the air and on the ground--of the men of the 918th Bombardment Group of the U.S. Eighth Air Force. First commanded by irascible General Frank Savage--and later by Colonel Joe Gallagher, the son of a Pentagon General--the Group is stationed in England, and flies long-range bombing missions into German-held Europe.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: vintage
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The General (2019)
Plot Summary:
TV show about general Ante Gotovina.
IMDB Rating: 1.8
IMDB Votes: 628
Genere: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Croatia
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags:
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Simone: Woman of the Century (2022)
Plot Summary:
Simone Veil's life story through the pivotal events of Twentieth Century. Her childhood, her political battles, her tragedies. An intimate and epic portrait of an extraordinary woman who eminently challenged and transformed her era defending a humanist message still keenly relevant today.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: non-linear
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De Gaulle (2020)
Plot Summary:
Paris, June 1940. The de Gaulle couple is confronted with the military and political collapse of France. Charles de Gaulle joins London while Yvonne, his wife, finds herself with her three children on the road of the exodus.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: France
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, exciting, tense, interesting
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The Manns (2001)
Plot Summary:
Chronicle about Germany's most extraodinary literary family.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 706
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Germany, Austria, Switzerland
Duration: 312 min
Plot tags: family saga, captivating, serious, realistic, epic, saga
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Secret Army (1977)
Plot Summary:
World War II drama about covert organisation Lifeline helping allied airmen escape after being shot down in occupied Europe, working with the Resistance and hiding from the Gestapo.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: costume drama, period drama
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Inside the Third Reich (1982)
Plot Summary:
A dramatization of the life of Albert Speer, Hitler's young architect and onetime confidant, and his meteoric rise into the Nazi hierarchy. Based upon Speer's own monograph of the same title.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 678
Genere: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 240 min
Plot tags:
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A Fortunate Life (1986)
Plot Summary:
Four part biopic about classic Australian author A.B. Facey (1894-1982). Born in a large impoverished family, uneducated and illiterate, he had to fend for himself since he was eight, and as a recruit in WWI, he was sent to Gallipoli.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: historical drama
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Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years (1981)
Plot Summary:
Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years is an 8-part 1981 drama serial based on the life of Winston Churchill, and particularly his years in enforced exile from political position during the 1920s and 30s. It was written and directed by Ferdinand Fairfax and Churchill was played by Robert Hardy. Hardy's brilliant performance as Churchill won critical acclaim and a BAFTA award in 1982. He reprised the role in The Sittaford Mystery, Bomber Harris and War and Remembrance and at the 50th anniversary celebrations of the end of World War II in 1995 when he quoted a number of Churchill's wartime speeches in character.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 330
Genere: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: historical drama, period drama
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Mussolini: The Untold Story (1985)
Plot Summary:
George C. Scott, Lee Grant, Virginia Madsen, Raul Julia, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio and Gabriel Byrne star in this Emmy-nominated program about the rise and fall of Italy's fascist dictator Benito Mussolini. Recounting his life with his wife, children and mistress, this biography (based on the recollections of Mussolini's eldest son, Vittorio) chronicles Il Duce's tyranny as he plunges Italy into the dark days of World War II.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 626
Genere: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Yugoslavia, USA
Duration: 410 min
Plot tags: family saga, historical drama, political drama
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Rivals Forever - The Sneaker Battle (2016)
Plot Summary:
The life and struggle of the Dassler brothers. Founders of the brands of Adidas and Puma.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 638
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Germany
Duration: 174 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Krupp: A Family Between War and Peace (2009)
Plot Summary:
The Krupps were one of Germany's most powerful and controversial families until their downfall.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 208
Genere: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 270 min
Plot tags: captivating, historical drama
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Churchill and the Generals (1979)
Plot Summary:
The complicated relationship between Winston Churchill and the leaders of the British army during World War II.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 91
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: historical drama
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Voltaire in Love (2021)
Plot Summary:
Explore the early life and evolution of the philosopher and visionary Voltaire, from his love stories, his father's issues to the discovery of his vocation, his commitments against religious fanaticism and the arbitrary misuse of justice and politics. Explore a life of pain, passion, and the growth of an epic and talented hero, the origins of the young François Arouet, his childhood suffering, his entourage, his talent, his years of imprisonment in the Bastille, his ambiguous relations with the French court or his return in France after his exile.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 126
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France
Duration:
Plot tags: thought provoking, captivating, disturbing
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Lucie Aubrac (1997)
Plot Summary:
A love story or a tale of the resistance, this poignant movie tells both the haunting story of a French resistance cell in Lyon but also the love of Lucie Aubrac for her husband.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Biography, Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: emotional, serious, realistic, romantic, sexy, enigmatic, entertaining, melancholic, dramatic, witty
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Unknown Soldier (2018)
Plot Summary:
The Unknown Soldier miniseries expands the story of the 2017 film of the same name. The World War II series based on Väinö Linna's classic novel closely follows a machine gun company of the Finnish Army on the Karelian front during the Continuation War between Finland and the Soviet Union, from mobilization in 1941 to the Moscow Armistice in 1944. It's a story about how camaraderie, humor, and a desire to survive connect men on their journey. War upends the lives of both the individual soldiers and those left on the home front, and leaves its mark on the entire nation.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: Finland
Duration: 270 min
Plot tags:
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Thornwell (1981)
Plot Summary:
True story about James Thornwell, who was serving the Army in Europe when some military documents went missing.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 58
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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Trotsky (2017)
Plot Summary:
The life pages of a man who changed the world but paid back everything he had. Leon Trotsky is being interviewed in Mexico city of the year 1940 by Canadian journalist Frank Jackson. During eight days they have eight interview sessions revealing the true face of Comrade Trotsky.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Russia
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: rough, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, tragic ending, thought provoking, intellectual, surprise ending
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A Bag of Marbles (2017)
Plot Summary:
In occupied France, Maurice and Joseph, two young Jewish brothers left to their own devices demonstrate an incredible amount of cleverness, courage, and ingenuity to escape the enemy invasion and to try to reunite their family once again.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: France, Canada, Czech Republic
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, art film
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Churchill (2017)
Plot Summary:
A ticking-clock thriller following Winston Churchill in the 24 hours before D-Day.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: educational, factual, disturbing, political, independent film, extraordinary
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Mussolini and I (1985)
Plot Summary:
A compelling drama/documentary chronicling the life and death of Il Duce himself, from his days as a terrorist to his alliance with Hitler to the betrayal of his son-in-law and untimely demise.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 442
Genere: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Italy, France, West Germany, Switzerland, USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, bleak, serious, realistic, disturbing
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World War II: When Lions Roared (1994)
Plot Summary:
Based upon the actual cables between Washington, London and Moscow during the Second World War, this TV-movie examines the relationship between the leaders of these countries throughout the conflict. Franklin D. Roosevelt (John Lithgow), Winston Churchill (Bob Hoskins) and Joseph Stalin (Michael Caine), spring to life as real but imperfect people who nevertheless are great leaders fighting a great war.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 622
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 194 min
Plot tags: sincere, thought provoking, clever, serious, captivating, realistic, disturbing, contemplative, talky
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The Diary of Anne Frank (2009)
Plot Summary:
Called the most accurate adaptation of Anne Frank’s moving diary, the film chronicles the Frank family as they flee from the Nazis in Amsterdam. Hiding behind a bookcase in a secret annex with random bombs exploding, Anne faces friction with her family, a desire for independence and the first stirrings of young love. It’s a remarkable record of a young woman’s first-hand observations of the Holocaust.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: touching, sincere, serious, realistic, historical drama, bleak, captivating, period drama
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Ike: The War Years (1979)
Plot Summary:
Ike is a 1979 television miniseries about the life of Dwight D. Eisenhower. The screenplay by Melville Shavelson was based on Kay Summersby's 1948 memoir Eisenhower Was My Boss and her 1975 autobiography, Past Forgetting: My Love Affair. Directed by Boris Sagal and Melville Shavelson, the production starred Robert Duvall as Eisenhower and Lee Remick as Kay Summersby. Film editors John Woodcock and Bill Lenny won an Eddie Award for their work and the series garnered five Emmy Award nominations.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 456
Genere: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 291 min
Plot tags: exciting, sincere, serious, realistic, saga
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The Saboteurs (2015)
Plot Summary:
The story about the heavy water war unfolds during the prolouge, eruption and the end of the second world war. We follow the story of the the key personnel in the race of who develops the atomic bomb first.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: Norway, Denmark, UK, Czech Republic, Sweden
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, tense, period piece
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Hitler: The Rise of Evil (2003)
Plot Summary:
A unique slant, profiling the life of Adolf Hitler as a child and his rise through the ranks of the National German Workers' Party prior to World War II.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 186 min
Plot tags: serious, bleak, captivating, realistic, disturbing, political, factual, suspense, rough, suspenseful
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A Small Light (2023)
Plot Summary:
Twentysomething Miep Gies didn't hesitate when her boss Otto Frank came to her and asked her to hide his family from the Nazis during World War II. For the next two years, Miep, her husband Jan, and the other helpers watched over the eight souls in hiding in the Secret Annex. And it was Miep who found Anne’s Diary and kept it safe so Otto, the only one of the eight who survived, could later share it with the world as one of the most powerful accounts of the Holocaust.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: historical drama
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Into the Storm (2009)
Plot Summary:
This powerful follow-up to “The Gathering Storm” follows Churchill from 1940 to 1945 as he guided his beleaguered nation through the crucible of the war years--even as his marriage was encountering its own struggles.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, sincere, political, historical drama, historically accurate, gloomy, period drama, political drama
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Oppenheimer (1980)
Plot Summary:
Biography of the American physicist who led the U.S. effort to develop the atomic bomb during World War II, only to find himself suspected as a security risk in the 1950s because of his increasing ambivalence about the effect of his life's work.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 653
Genere: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 420 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, bleak, serious, captivating, realistic, disturbing