1940s - Story Timelines
1,197 Movies and TV Series
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Enemy at The Gates
― Enemy at the Gates is a war film from Jean-Jacques Annaud from 2001 that takes place during the batt..
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Paul
― For the past 60 years, a space-traveling smart-ass named Paul has been locked up in a top-secret mil..
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The Reader
― The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with ..
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Lawless
― Set in the Depression-era Franklin County, Virginia, a bootlegging gang is threatened by authorities..
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Valkyrie
― Wounded in Africa during World War II, Nazi Col. Claus von Stauffenberg returns to his native German..
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The Adventures of Tintin
― Intrepid young reporter, Tintin, and his loyal dog, Snowy, are thrust into a world of high adventure..
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Gangster Squad
― Los Angeles, 1949. Ruthless, Brooklyn-born mob king Mickey Cohen runs the show in this town, reaping..
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A Series of Unfortunate Events
― Three wealthy children's parents are killed in a fire. When they are sent to a distant relative, the..
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Revolutionary Road
― A young couple living in a Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950s struggle to come to terms with th..
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The Boy in The Striped Pajamas
― When his family moves from their home in Berlin to a strange new house in Poland, young Bruno befrie..
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The English Patient
― In the 1930s, Count Almásy is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to c..
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The Thin Red Line
― Based on the graphic novel by James Jones, The Thin Red Line tells the story of a group of men, an A..
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Letters From Iwo Jima
― The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II..
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Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children
― A teenager finds himself transported to an island where he must help protect a group of orphans with..
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Darkest Hour
― A thrilling and inspiring true story begins on the eve of World War II as, within days of becoming P..
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Allied
― In 1942, an intelligence officer in North Africa encounters a female French Resistance fighter on a ..
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Kung Fu Hustle
― Set in Canton, China in the 1940s, the story revolves in a town ruled by the Axe Gang, Sing who desp..
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Australia
― Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch ..
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A Single Man
― Adapted from a 1964 novel of the same name, the film follows a day in the life of George Falconer, a..
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Julie & Julia
― Julia Child and Julie Powell – both of whom wrote memoirs – find their lives intertwined. Though..