eve of world war ii movies

The Dig (2021)
6.877 / 10

Drama, History

As WWII looms, a wealthy widow hires an amateur archaeologist to excavate the burial mounds on her estate. When they make a historic discovery, the...

There's No Business Like Show Business (1954)
6 / 10

Music, Comedy

Molly and Terry Donahue, plus their three children, are The Five Donahues. Youngest son Tim meets hat-check girl Vicky and the family act begins to...

The Tobacconist (2018)
6.551 / 10

Drama, History

Vienna, 1937, on the eve of the annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany. The young and inexperienced Franz Huchel begins to learn about both the joys...

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008)
6.778 / 10

Drama, Comedy, Romance

London, England, on the eve of World War II. Guinevere Pettigrew, a strict governess who is unable to keep a job, is fired again. Lost in the hostile...

Hitler: A Career (1977)
7.3 / 10

Documentary, History

A keen chronicle of the unlikely rise to power of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) and a dissection of the Third Reich (1933-1945), but also an analysis of...

The Day of the Locust (1975)
6.389 / 10

Drama

Hollywood, 1930s. Tod Hackett, a young painter who tries to make his way as an art director in the lurid world of film industry, gets infatuated with...

Night Train to Munich (1940)
7.217 / 10

Drama, Thriller, War

Czechoslovakia, March 1939, on the eve of World War II. As the German invaders occupy Prague, inventor Axel Bomasch manages to flee and reach...

Above Suspicion (1943)
6.4 / 10

Thriller

Two newlyweds spy on the Nazis for the British Secret Service during their honeymoon in Europe.

Days of Betrayal (1973)
5 / 10

History, Drama

This feature film based on the events of 1938 is a chronicle of the futile efforts of the Czechoslovak president Edvard Benes (Jirí Pleskot),...

City in Darkness (1939)
6.25 / 10

Crime, Thriller, Mystery

Chan, in Paris for a reunion with friends from World War I, becomes involved in investigating the murder of a munitions manufacturer who was...

Stalin and the Katyn Massacre (2020)
6.4 / 10

Documentary, History, TV Movie

The Katyn massacre, carried out by the Soviet NKVD in 1940, was only one of many unspeakable crimes committed by Stalin's ruthless executioners over...

The Stolen Border (1947)
3 / 10

Drama, War

Czech film tells the story of a border town in World War II. Family members and friends become enemies.

Mário a kúzelník (1976)
0 / 10

Drama

St. Louis (2019)
6.833 / 10

Documentary, History, TV Movie, Drama

Hamburg, Germany, 1939. Getting a passage aboard the passenger liner St. Louis seems to be the last hope of salvation for more than nine hundred...

The Eagle and the Lion: Hitler vs Churchill (2017)
9.4 / 10

Documentary, History, War, TV Movie

Winston Churchill, one of the most revered men of the twentieth century. Adolf Hitler, one of the most hated leaders in contemporary history. Between...

Žhavou stezkou (1978)
0 / 10

Drama, History

Neporažená armáda (1938)
0 / 10

Drama

V hodině nejtěžší... (1978)
0 / 10

Drama, History

Crisis (1939)
0 / 10

Documentary

A documentary about the conquest of Czechoslovakia by the Nazis just prior to World War 2.

The World at War (1942)
6.8 / 10

Documentary, War

Documentary examining the events which led up to the Second World War.