Films like The Man Who Never Was
The true story of a British effort to trick the Germans into weakening Sicily's defenses before the 1943 attack. A dead soldier is dressed as a British officer and outfitted with faked papers showing that the Allies were intending to invade occupied Greece. His body is put into t...
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Operation Mincemeat
Film · 2022 · also drama and historyIn 1943, two British intelligence officers concoct Operation Mincemeat, wherein their plan to drop a corpse with false papers off the coast of Spain would fool Nazi spies...
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The Scarlet and the Black
Film · 1983 · also drama and historyFr. Hugh O'Flaherty is a Vatican official in 1943-45 who has been hiding downed pilots, escaped prisoners of war, and Italian resistance families. His activities become s...
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Five Graves to Cairo
Film · 1943 · also drama and thrillerDuring the 1942 North African campaign, a British straggler passes as a waiter at the hotel commandeered as Erwin Rommel's headquarters. He has thoughts of assassinating...
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The Counterfeit Traitor
Film · 1962 · also drama and thrillerBlacklisted in modern day WW2, a Swedish oil trader opts to assist British Allies, by means of infiltrating and surveying Nazi Germany.
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The Young Lions
Film · 1958 · also drama and warThe lives of three young men, a German and two Americans, during WWII.
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36 Hours
Film · 1964 · also drama and thrillerGermans kidnap an American major and try to convince him that World War II is over, so that they can get details about the Allied invasion of Europe out of him.
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Waiting for Anya
Film · 2020 · also drama and warDuring the harrows of WWII, Jo, a young shepherd along with the help of the widow Horcada, helps to smuggle Jewish children across the border from southern France into Sp...
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The Last Rifleman
Film · 2023 · also drama and historyA WWII veteran escapes his care home in Northern Ireland and embarks on an arduous but inspirational journey to France to attend the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landing...
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13 Rue Madeleine
Film · 1947 · also thriller and warBob Sharkey, an instructor of would-be spies for the Allied Office of Strategic Services, becomes suspicious of one of the latest batch of students, Bill O'Connell, who i...
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Munich - The Edge of War
Film · 2021 · also drama and historyAt the tense 1938 Munich Conference, former friends who now work for opposing governments become reluctant spies racing to expose a Nazi secret.
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