Movies like Katyn
If Katyn's mix of world war ii, kraków, poland and war propaganda stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Katyn's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Oppenheimer
2023 · Directed by Christopher Nolan · 181 min8.0
Why you'll like itShares: world war ii, historical event, 1940s · Also drama and history
The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.
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Warsaw 44
2014 · Directed by Jan Komasa · 127 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: world war ii, 1940s · Also a Polish drama
City of Warsaw, Poland, August 1st, 1944. Citizens have experienced inhuman acts of terror and violence during five long years of Nazi occupation.
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Schindler's List
1993 · Directed by Steven Spielberg · 195 min8.6
Why you'll like itShares: world war ii, kraków, poland · Also drama and history
The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.
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Enemy at the Gates
2001 · Directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud · 131 min7.4
Why you'll like itShares: world war ii, 1940s · Also war and history · From the same decade (2000s)
A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII.
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The Eagle Has Landed
1976 · Directed by John Sturges · 135 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: world war ii, 1940s · Also drama and war
When the Nazi high command learns in late 1943 that Winston Churchill will be spending time at a country estate in Norfolk, it hatches an audacious scheme to kidnap the prime minister and spirit him to Germany for…
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The Great Raid
2005 · Directed by John Dahl · 132 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: world war ii, 1940s · Also history and war · From the same decade (2000s)
As World War II rages, the elite Sixth Ranger Battalion is given a mission of heroic proportions: push 30 miles behind enemy lines and liberate over 500 American prisoners of war.
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Saving Private Ryan
1998 · Directed by Steven Spielberg · 169 min8.2
Why you'll like itShares: world war ii, 1940s · Also war and drama
As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fourth trapped behind enemy lines. Ranger captain John Miller and seven men are tasked with penetrating German-held…
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Jojo Rabbit
2019 · Directed by Taika Waititi · 108 min8.0
Why you'll like itShares: world war ii, 1940s · Also war and drama
Jojo, a lonely German boy during World War II has his world shaken when he learns that his single mother is hiding a Jewish girl in their home.
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Fury
2014 · Directed by David Ayer · 135 min7.5
Why you'll like itShares: world war ii, 1940s · Also war and drama
April, 1945. As the Allies make their final push in the European Theater, a battle-hardened army sergeant commands a Sherman tank with a five-man crew on a deadly mission behind enemy lines.
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Dunkirk
2017 · Directed by Christopher Nolan · 107 min7.5
Why you'll like itShares: world war ii, 1940s · Also war and drama
The story of the miraculous evacuation of Allied soldiers from Belgium, Britain, Canada and France, who were cut off and surrounded by the German army from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk between May 26th and June…
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The Zookeeper's Wife
2017 · Directed by Niki Caro · 126 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: world war ii · Also drama and history
The account of keepers of the Warsaw Zoo, Jan and Antonina Zabinski, who helped save hundreds of people and animals during the Nazi invasion.
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Escape from Sobibor
1987 · Directed by Jack Gold · 169 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: world war ii · Also drama and war
The true story of WWII's notorious Sobibor Nazi death camp, where a courageous inmate orchestrates and leads the escape of over 300 prisoners.