20 movies like Desert Victory, ordered by similarity : #AnneFrank. Parallel Stories(2019), Who Will Write Our History(2018), The Nazis Strike(1943), The Rape of Europa(2006), The Battle of Russia(1943), The Goebbels Experiment(2005), Dinosaur 13(2014), The True Glory(1945), War Comes to America(1945), Churchill and the Movie Mogul(2019), Prosecuting Evil: The Extraordinary World of Ben Ferencz(2018), The Sorrow and the Pity(1969) ...
Documentary
UK
1943
60 Minutes
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The Allied campaign to drive Germany and Italy from North Africa is analysed, with the major portion of the film examining the battles at El Alamein, including a re-enactment.
Documentary, Drama, History
Italy
2019
92 Minutes
Helen Mirren Anna Migotto Anne Frank
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It is based on five women who did survive the Holocaust but shared her same fate of "deportation, suffering and being denied their childhood and adolescence," according to promotional materials.
Documentary
USA
2018
95 Minutes
Jowita Budnik Piotr Glowacki Piotr Jankowski Wojciech Zielinski Karolina Gruszka
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Who Will Write Our History tells the story of Emanuel Ringelblum and the Oyneg Shabes Archive, the secret archive he created and led in the Warsaw Ghetto. With 30,000 pages of writing, ... See full summary »
Documentary
USA
1943
44 Minutes
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The official World War II US government account of Nazi international aggression leading up to the British and French declarations of war.
Documentary
USA
2006
117 Minutes
Richard Berge
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The story of Nazi Germany's plundering of Europe's great works of art during World War II and Allied efforts to minimize the damage.
History, War, Documentary, Drama
USA
1943
83 Minutes
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Documentary revealing the nature and process of the fight between the Soviet Union and Germany in the Second World War.
Documentary
Germany|UK
2005
107 Minutes
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Through archival footage and dramatic readings of his personal writings, the life of Nazi Germany's Propaganda Minister, Josef Goebbels, is examined.
Documentary
USA
2014
106 Minutes
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A documentary about the discovery of the largest Tyrannosaurus Rex fossil ever found.
Documentary, War
UK|USA
1945
85 Minutes
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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A documentary account of the allied invasion of Europe during World War II compiled from the footage shot by nearly one thousand four hundred cameramen. It opens as the assembled Allied ... See full summary »
Documentary, War
USA
1945
70 Minutes
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Part VII of the "Why We Fight" series of wartime documentaries. This entry attempts to describe the factors leading up to America's entry into the Second World War.
Documentary
UK
2019
70 Minutes
Charles Barr Stephen Fry Corey Johnson
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How Britain's wartime leader and its only ever movie mogul changed the course of history.
Documentary
Canada
2018
83 Minutes
Alan Dershowitz Benjamin Ferencz General Wesley Clark David Scheffer
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A portrait of Ben Ferencz, the last surviving Nuremberg Trial prosecutor, who continues to wage his lifelong crusade in the fight for law and peace.
Documentary
Italy|West Germany
1969
260 Minutes
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Seven mercenaries on a mission into Simba controlled Congo territory requisite with typical sterotypes.
Documentary, War
USA
2018
72 Minutes
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A tribute to one of the world's great filmmakers and the men of the 8th Air Force who flew mission after suicidal mission in the Second World War.
Documentary, War, Drama, History
France|UK
1985
561 Minutes
Simon Srebnik Michael Podchlebnik Richard Glazar Rudolf Vrba Inge Deutschkron Filip Müller
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Claude Lanzmann's epic documentary recounts the story of the Holocaust through interviews with witnesses - perpetrators as well as survivors.
Documentary
1987
268 Minutes
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Eyewitness interviews and archival footage highlight Marcel Ophuls' account of the Nazi "Butcher of Lyon.".
Documentary, War, Drama, History
UK|New Zealand
2018
99 Minutes
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A documentary about World War I with never-before-seen footage to commemorate the centennial of the end of the war.
War, Documentary
UK|Syria|USA
2019
95 Minutes
Waad Al-Khateab Waad Al-Kateab
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FOR SAMA is both an intimate and epic journey into the female experience of war.
Documentary
UK
2018
96 Minutes
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The story of the fighter plane and pilots that helped win the Battle of Britain in World War II.
Documentary
USA|UK
1944
75 Minutes
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Documentary made by the U.S. Army Signal Corps.
Documentary
USA
1994
70 Minutes
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A historical account of military policy regarding homosexuals during World War II. The documentary includes interviews with several gay WWII veterans.