Step by Step

A Canterbury Tale

August 1944 •English

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

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.

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.

Hope and Glory

September 1987 •English

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

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.

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...

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.

For Me and My Gal

October 1942 •English

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

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.

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.

London Can Take It!

October 1940 •English

A tribute to the courage and resiliency of Britons during the darkest days of the London Blitz.

In The Trap

Invalid date •English

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

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.

Arise, My Love

November 1940 •English

A dashing pilot and a vivacious reporter have romantic and dramatic adventures in Europe as World War II begins.

Her Sister's Secret

September 1946 •English

A WWII tale of romance that begins during New Orlean's "Mardi Gras" celebration when a soldier and a girl meet and fall in love. He asks her to marry him but she decides to wait until his next leave. He is sent overseas and she does not receive his letter and feels abandoned, but she does find out she is pregnant. She gives the child to her married sister and does not see her child again for three years. She returns to her sister's home to reclaim the child, and the soldier, who has been searching for her, also turns up. The sister is not interested in giving up the child. Written by Les Adams