Films like Lion of the Desert

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   The Longest Day

   Film · 1962 · also drama and history

   The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being establ...

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   Exodus

   Film · 1960 · also drama and war

   Ari Ben Canaan, a passionate member of the Jewish paramilitary group Haganah, attempts to transport 600 Jewish refugees on a dangerous voyage from Cyprus to Palestine on...

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   Uprising

   Film · 2001 · also drama and war

   In the Warsaw ghetto in 1943, Jews rise against the Nazis.

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4. 4

   Overlord

   Film · 1975 · also drama and history

   During 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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   Lawrence of Arabia

   Film · 1962 · also history and war

   During World War I, English officer Thomas Edward 'T.E.' Lawrence sets out to unite and lead the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes to fight the Turks.

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   The Big Red One

   Film · 1980 · also drama and war

   A veteran sergeant of World War I leads a squad in World War II, always in the company of the survivor Pvt. Griff, the writer Pvt. Zab, the Sicilian Pvt. Vinci and Pvt. J...

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   Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin

   Film · 2024 · also drama and history

   As the world teeters on the brink of annihilation, Dietrich Bonhoeffer joins a deadly plot to assassinate Hitler, risking his faith and fate to save millions of Jews from...

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   Empire of the Sun

   Film · 1987 · also drama and history

   Jamie 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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   Shepherd: The Story of a Jewish Dog

   Film · 2020 · also drama and war

   Follow 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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    Battle of the Bulge

    Film · 1965 · also drama and history

    In the winter of 1944, the Allied Armies stand ready to invade Germany at the coming of a New Year. To prevent it, Hitler orders an all-out offensive to re-take French te...

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