1940s Movies

A retrospective on Hollywood's role in the war effort in World War II, narrated by Johnny Carson.

In an Arctic village in 1931, British mapmaker Walter Russell selects 12-year-old Eskimo Avik as his guide. When the boy contracts tuberculosis,...

The story of Aung San Suu Kyi as she becomes the core of Burma's democracy movement, and her relationship with her husband, writer Michael Aris.

A ticking-clock thriller following Winston Churchill in the 24 hours before D-Day.

A woman during the Second World War opens her heart to an evacuee after initially resolving to be rid of him.

Romek is a Polish railway worker and Guido is a German soldier. They are both 17, in love with jazz and the same pretty girl. But it's 1943 somewhere...

A middle-aged man recalls his childhood growing up in and around London during World War II.

The extraordinary true story of St. Maximilian Kolbe, a Polish Catholic priest who volunteered to die in place of another man in Auschwitz during...

March 1945. The Japanese army launches a sudden and extremely brutal assault against the French garrisons in the Far East. Thousands of civilians and...

A shy and quiet World War II evacuee is housed by a disgruntled old man, and they soon develop a close bond.

The incredible, untold true story of how a group of prisoners attempt a seemingly impossible escape from the first Nazi death camp in order to...

Philippe Clarence, a famous Parisian dressmaker, seduces his friend's fiancee. But, for the first time in his life, this is for real. The film is...

Set during World War II, an upper-class family begins to fall apart due to the conservative nature of the patriarch and the progressive values of his...

19 year old Irena Gut is promoted to housekeeper in the home of a highly respected Nazi officer in Poland when she finds out that the Jewish ghetto...

A cop clashes with his priest brother while investigating the brutal murder of a young prostitute.

In a rural town in Louisiana, a black Master Sergeant is found shot to death just outside the local Army Base. Military lawyer, Captain...

The re-imagining of VE Day in 1945, when Princess Elizabeth and her sister, Margaret were allowed out from Buckingham Palace for the night to join in...

The true story of the formation of Ian Fleming's 30 Commando unit, a precursor for the elite forces in the U.K.

The life and career of the hailed Hollywood movie star and underappreciated genius inventor, Hedy Lamarr.