Wartime
"wartime" Movies and TV Shows
#1
Sniper: The White Raven
Synopsis:
Mykola is an eccentric pacifist who wants to be useful to humanity. When the war begins at Donbass, Mykola’s naive world is collapsing as the militants kill his pregnant wife and burn his home to the ground. Recovered, he makes a cardinal decision and gets enlisted in a sniper company. Having met his wife’s killers, he emotionally breaks down and arranges “sniper terror” for the enemy. He’s saved…
Starring:
Pavlo Aldoshyn,
Maryna Koshkina,
Andrii Mostrenko
#2
Two Women
Synopsis:
Widowed shopkeeper Cesira and her 13-year-old daughter Rosetta flee from the allied bombs in Rome during the second World War; they travel to the remote village where Cesira was born. During their journey and in the village and onward, the mother does everything she can to protect Rosetta. Meanwhile, a sensitive young intellectual, Michele, falls in love with Cesira.
Starring:
Pupella Maggio,
Jean-Paul Belmondo,
Andrea Checchi
#3
Grave of the Fireflies
Synopsis:
In the final months of World War II, 14-year-old Seita and his sister Setsuko are orphaned when their mother is killed during an air raid in Kobe, Japan. After a falling out with their aunt, they move into an abandoned bomb shelter. With no surviving relatives and their emergency rations depleted, Seita and Setsuko struggle to survive.
Starring:
Tsutomu Tatsumi,
Ayano Shiraishi,
Yoshiko Shinohara
Plot:
orphan,
food,
survival,
older brother younger sister,
theft,
insect,
homelessness,
ghost,
doctor,
illness
...
#4
Forbidden Games
Synopsis:
Orphaned after a Nazi air raid, Paulette, a young Parisian girl, runs into Michel, an older peasant boy, and the two quickly become close. Together, they try to make sense of the chaotic and crumbling world around them, attempting to cope with death as they create a burial ground for Paulette's deceased pet dog. Eventually, however, Paulette's stay with Michel's family is threatened by the harsh …
Starring:
Jacques Marin,
Georges Poujouly,
Brigitte Fossey
Plot:
cemetery,
death,
dead dog,
children,
digging a grave,
wartime,
loss of brother,
loss of son,
family feud,
loss of parents
...
#5
Wonder Woman
Synopsis:
An Amazon princess comes to the world of Man in the grips of the First World War to confront the forces of evil and bring an end to human conflict.
Starring:
Robin Wright,
Ewen Bremner,
Danny Huston
Plot:
anti war,
world war one,
matriarchy,
superhero,
princess,
1910s,
invulnerability,
airplane chase,
wartime,
superhuman speed
...
#6
The Monuments Men
Synopsis:
Based on the true story of the greatest treasure hunt in history, The Monuments Men is an action drama focusing on seven over-the-hill, out-of-shape museum directors, artists, architects, curators, and art historians who went to the front lines of WWII to rescue the world’s artistic masterpieces from Nazi thieves and return them to their rightful owners. With the art hidden behind enemy lines, h…
Starring:
John Goodman,
Cate Blanchett,
Matt Damon
Plot:
art,
1940s,
world war two,
1970s,
year 1945,
year 1943,
year 1944,
mine,
map,
cigarette smoking
...
#7
The Man with the Iron Heart
Synopsis:
With the Third Reich is at his peak in 1942, the Czech resistance in London plans the most ambitious military operation of WWII – Anthropoid. Two young recruits are sent to Prague to assassinate the most ruthless Nazi leader – Reinhardt Heydrich – head of the SS, the Gestapo and the architect of the Final Solution.
Starring:
Jack O'Connell,
Mia Wasikowska,
Rosamund Pike
Plot:
nazi,
resistance,
central europe,
church,
crypt,
shooting,
based on real events,
fascist,
assassination,
assassin
...
#8
Terminator Salvation
Synopsis:
All grown up in post-apocalyptic 2018, John Connor must lead the resistance of humans against the increasingly dominating militaristic robots. But when Marcus Wright appears, his existence confuses the mission as Connor tries to determine whether Wright has come from the future or the past -- and whether he's friend or foe.
Starring:
Bryce Dallas Howard,
Helena Bonham Carter,
Common
#9
Dunkirk
Synopsis:
The story of the miraculous evacuation of Allied soldiers from Belgium, Britain, Canada and France, who were cut off and surrounded by the German army from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk between May 26th and June 4th 1940 during World War II.
Starring:
Fionn Whitehead,
Damien Bonnard,
Aneurin Barnard
Plot:
world war two,
1940s,
soldier,
beach,
evacuation,
military,
army,
yacht,
sinking ship,
survival
...
#10
Black Panther
Synopsis:
King T'Challa returns home to the reclusive, technologically advanced African nation of Wakanda to serve as his country's new leader. However, T'Challa soon finds that he is challenged for the throne by factions within his own country as well as without. Using powers reserved to Wakandan kings, T'Challa assumes the Black Panther mantle to join with ex-girlfriend Nakia, the queen-mother, his princ…
Starring:
Chadwick Boseman,
Michael B. Jordan,
Lupita Nyong'o