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A middle-aged man recalls his childhood growing up in and around London during World War II.
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Overlord
Film · 1975 · also drama and warDuring World War II, a young man is called up and, with an increasing sense of foreboding, undertakes his army training ready for D-Day, June 6th, 1944.
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Shepherd: The Story of a Jewish Dog
Film · 2020 · also drama and familyFollow the perilous journey to freedom when a young boy and his dog attempt to escape a concentration camp during World War II. Based on true events.
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Dunkirk
Film · 2017 · also drama and warThe 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 an...
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The Island on Bird Street
Film · 1997 · also drama and warAlex is an 11-year old boy who, during WWII, hides in the Jewish ghetto from Nazis after all his relatives have been sent to the concentration camp. The movie portrays th...
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Empire of the Sun
Film · 1987 · also drama and warJamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all foreigners into prison camps. Jamie is captured with an American sail...
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Six Minutes to Midnight
Film · 2020 · also drama and warSummer 1939. Influential families in Nazi Germany have sent their daughters to a finishing school in an English seaside town to learn the language and be ambassadors for...
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The Boy in the Woods
Film · 2023 · also drama and warThe remarkable true-life survival story of a Jewish boy hiding and being hunted in the forests of Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe, based on Maxwell Smart's memoir.
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The Great Escaper
Film · 2023 · also drama and warIn the summer of 2014, a World War II veteran sneaks out of his care home to attend the 70th anniversary commemoration of the D-Day landings in Normandy.
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Oliver Twist
Film · 2005 · also drama and familyAn orphan endures a harsh life in a workhouse before fleeing to London, where he falls in with a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the criminal Fagin, and eventually fi...
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The War
Film · 1994 · also drama and warThe son of a Vietnam War Veteran must deal with neighborhood bullies as well as his dad's post-traumatic stress disorder while growing up in the deep south in the 1970's.
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