Good Luck, Mr. Yates

Two Women

December 1960 •Italian

A young widow flees from Rome during WWII and takes her lonely twelve-year-old-daughter to her rural hometown but the horrors of war soon catch up with them.

A Canterbury Tale

August 1944 •English

Three modern day pilgrims investigate a bizarre crime in a small town on the way to Canterbury.

Gate to Heaven

April 2022 •Armenian

Robert Sternvall, a German journalist, returns to Artsakh in 2016 to cover the war which has been reignited after a 22-year ceasefire. In the result of his journalistic investigation, Robert meets Sophia, a young opera singer, who happens to be the daughter of missing photojournalist Edgar Martirosyan, whom Robert abandoned in captivity during the fall of the village of Talish in 1992. Robert and Sophia’s frequent rendezvouses ignite a passionate romance...

Hope and Glory

September 1987 •English

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

The Naked and the Dead

August 1958 •English

Fighting men in World War II learn the value of courage and quickness at the risk of losing their lives.

Education for Death: The Making of the Nazi

January 1943 •English

A propaganda film during World War II about a boy who grows up to become a Nazi soldier.

For Me and My Gal

October 1942 •English

Two vaudeville performers fall in love, but find their relationship tested by the arrival of WWI.

Step by Step

January 2011 •Croatian

At the beginning of the war in Croatia, Vjera refuses to leave the ruins of her home on the front line . Her husband flees town while their son goes to battlefield. Working as an interpreter she starts her path of self-discovery.

Cruel Train

December 1995 •English

In wartime England, railway official Ruben Roberts discovers that his wife was sexually abused as a child by the Chairman of the Line, also her godfather. With her assistance, Ruben plots murder on the Brighton Express.

Millions Like Us

June 1943 •English

When Celia Crowson is called up for war service, she hopes for a glamorous job in one of the services, but as a single girl, she is directed into a factory making aircraft parts. Here she meets other girls from all different walks of life and begins a relationship with a young airman.

Commando Duck

June 1944 •English

Donald Duck is ordered to wipe out a Japanese airfield. After parachuting out of an airplane, he lands in a Japanese forest. He uses an inflated canoe to cross the river, but as soon as it fills up with water, Donald is running for his life. He makes sure the canoe hits nothing that would pop it. When he gets to the edge of a cliff, he sees the airfield. The canoe has already exploded, causing water to flow. This large amount of water splashes onto the airfield, wiping the whole thing clean, but leaving disfigured airplanes

Waterloo Road

February 1945 •English

During WW2 a former railway employee who had been drafted, goes AWOL to hunt down the spiv and draft dodger who is having an affair with his wife.

Niskavuori taistelee

November 1957 •Finnish

The last black-and-white film in the Niskavuori series of movies.

Mr. Winkle Goes to War

July 1944 •English

Wilbert Winkle, a henpecked, mild-mannered, middle-aged bank clerk and handyman finds himself in the midst of battle in the South Pacific.

Our Queen at War

April 2020 •English

Learn how the longest reigning monarch in British history was shaped by World War II. Princess Elizabeth’s experiences during the war mirrored those of the public and helped shape her into the Queen she is today.

The Grand Budapest Hotel

February 2014 •English

The Grand Budapest Hotel tells of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars and his friendship with a young employee who becomes his trusted protégé. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting, the battle for an enormous family fortune and the slow and then sudden upheavals that transformed Europe during the first half of the 20th century.

National Theatre Live: Good

April 2023 •English

As the world faces its Second World War, John Halder, a good, intelligent German professor, finds himself pulled into a movement with unthinkable consequences.

7 Wrekers

June 2020 •Dutch

Gold

June 2018 •Swedish

Amal lives in a bomb shelter with her sisters in a wartime Syria. Food and water is scarce. One day when Amal is out playing, she finds a piece of gold. Suddenly other people claims the gold belongs to them.

In The Trap

Invalid date •English

In the midst of a war, two kids hide in their home from an approaching looter.