1940s - Story Timelines
1,197 Movies and TV Series
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Europa Europa
― A Jewish boy separated from his family in the early days of WWII poses as a German orphan and is tak..
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Tucker: The Man And His Dream
― Based on a true story. Shortly after World War II, Preston Tucker is a dynamic engineer and an enthu..
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Von Ryan's Express
― Von Ryan's Express stars Frank Sinatra as a POW colonel who leads a daring escape from Nazi Germany ..
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Slaughterhouse-Five
― "Listen: Billie Pilgrim has come unstuck in time." Slaughterhouse-Five is an award-winning 1972 film..
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Hope And Glory
― British writer/director John Boorman (The Emerald Forest) draws us into an astonishing and exhilarat..
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The Sheltering Sky
― An American couple (John Malkovich, Debra Winger) drift toward emptiness in postwar North Africa...
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Closely Watched Trains
― In a small town still occupied by the Germans as World War II's tide is turning toward the Allies, a..
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The Black Stallion
― While traveling with his father, young Alec becomes fascinated by a mysterious Arabian stallion that..
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Carnal Knowledge
― The concurrent sexual lives of best friends Jonathan and Sandy are presented, those lives which are ..
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A Midnight Clear
― Set in 1944 France, an American Intelligence Squad locates a German Platoon wishing to surrender rat..
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The Hairdresser's Husband
― The film begins in a flashback from the titular character, Antoine. We are introduced to his fixatio..
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The Bridge at Remagen
― In March of 1945, as the War in Europe is coming to a close, fighting erupts between German and Amer..
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84 Charing Cross Road
― When a humorous script-reader in her New York apartment sees an ad in the Saturday Review of Literat..
TVSeries
The Winter War
― Russia attacked Finland in late November 1939. This film tells the story of a Finnish platoon of res..
TVSeries
Hogan's Heroes
― Hogan's Heroes is an American television sitcom that ran for 168 episodes from September 17, 1965, t..
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The Shop on Main Street
― In a small town in Nazi-occupied Slovakia during World War II, decent but timid carpenter Tono is na..
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Red Sorghum
― An old leper who owned a remote sorghum winery dies. Jiu'er, the wife bought by the leper, and her l..
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The Krays
― The Krays is a film based on the lives and crimes of the British gangsters Ronald and Reginald Kray,..
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Summer of '42
― Silent as a painting, the movie shows us day-dreamer Hermie and his friends Oscy and Benjie spending..
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Reflections in a Golden Eye
― Bizarre tale of sex, betrayal, and perversion at a military post...