1940s - Story Timelines
1,197 Movies and TV Series
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Outlander
― The story of Claire Randall, a married combat nurse from 1945 who is mysteriously swept back in time..
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The Cider House Rules
― Homer is an orphan who was never adopted, becoming the favorite of orphanage director Dr. Larch. Dr...
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The Hurricane
― The story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder, and the people who aid..
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Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
― Television made him famous, but his biggest hits happened off screen. Television producer by day, CI..
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42
― The powerful story of Jackie Robinson, the legendary baseball player who broke Major League Baseball..
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Frida
― "Frida" chronicles the life Frida Kahlo shared unflinchingly and openly with Diego Rivera, as the yo..
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U-571
― In the midst of World War II, the battle under the sea rages and the Nazis have the upper hand as th..
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The Longest Ride
― The lives of a young couple intertwine with a much older man as he reflects back on a lost love whil..
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Trumbo
― The career of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo is halted by a witch hunt in the late 1940s when he defies ..
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Black Book
― In the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II, a Jewish singer infiltrates the regional Gesta..
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Agent Carter
― It's 1946, and peace has dealt Peggy Carter a serious blow as she finds herself marginalized when th..
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Seabiscuit
― True story of the undersized Depression-era racehorse whose victories lifted not only the spirits of..
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Overlord
― On the eve of D-Day, a group of American paratroopers is dropped behind enemy lines to carry out a m..
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Mr. Holmes
― The story is set in 1947, following a long-retired Holmes living in a Sussex village with his housek..
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The Chorus
― Set in 1940's France, a new teacher at a school for disruptive boys gives hope and inspiration...
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Kinsey
― Kinsey is a portrait of researcher Alfred Kinsey, driven to uncover the most private secrets of a na..
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Lolita
― Urbane professor Humbert Humbert marries a New England widow to be near her nymphet daughter...
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Florence Foster Jenkins
― The story of Florence Foster Jenkins, a New York heiress, who dreamed of becoming an opera singer, d..
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Kon-Tiki
― The true story about legendary explorer Thor Heyerdahl and his epic crossing of the Pacific on a bal..
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Son of Saul
― In the horror of 1944 Auschwitz, a prisoner forced to burn the corpses of his own people finds moral..