Movies like First Light
If First Light's mix of raf (royal air force), world war ii and fighter pilot stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what First Light's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Dunkirk
2017 · Directed by Christopher Nolan · 107 min7.5
Why you'll like itShares: raf (royal air force), world war ii · Also war and drama · From the same decade (2010s)
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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Battle of Britain
1969 · Directed by Guy Hamilton · 132 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: raf (royal air force), world war ii · Also war and history
In 1940, the Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle against the might of the Luftwaffe for control of the skies over Britain, thus preventing an attempted Nazi invasion.
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Red Tails
2012 · Directed by Anthony Hemingway · 125 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: world war ii, fighter pilot · Also drama and history · From the same decade (2010s)
The story of the Tuskegee Airmen, the first African-American pilots to fly in a combat squadron during World War II.
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Schindler's List
1993 · Directed by Steven Spielberg · 195 min8.6
Why you'll like itShares: world war ii · 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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Darkest Hour
2017 · Directed by Joe Wright · 125 min7.4
Why you'll like itShares: world war ii · Also drama and history · From the same decade (2010s)
In May 1940, the fate of World War II hangs on Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotiate with Adolf Hitler or fight on knowing that it could mean the end of the British Empire.
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The Guns of Navarone
1961 · Directed by J. Lee Thompson · 160 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: world war ii · Also drama and war
A team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers.
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Cross of Iron
1977 · Directed by Sam Peckinpah · 133 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: world war ii · Also drama and history
It is 1943, and the German army—ravaged and demoralised—is hastily retreating from the Russian front. In the midst of the madness, conflict brews between the aristocratic yet ultimately pusillanimous Captain Stransky…
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The Eagle Has Landed
1976 · Directed by John Sturges · 135 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: world war ii · 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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Operation Mincemeat
2022 · Directed by John Madden · 128 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: world war ii · Also war and history
In 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 into believing the Allied forces were planning…
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The Great Raid
2005 · Directed by John Dahl · 132 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: world war ii · Also history and war
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.