20 movies like The True Glory, ordered by similarity : The Battle of Russia(1943), They Shall Not Grow Old(2018), #AnneFrank. Parallel Stories(2019), Who Will Write Our History(2018), Fury(2014), They Who Dare(1954), Darkest Hour(2017), The Rape of Europa(2006), Battleground(1949), The Monuments Men(2014), Night Ambush(1958), Desert Victory(1943) ...
Documentary, War
UK|USA
1945
85 Minutes
Dwight D. Eisenhower
dwight d. eisenhower soldier nazi historian confident fiery patriotic inspiring europe united states world war ii nazism allied forces victory historical events rivalry rise 1940s
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 »
History, War, Documentary, Drama
USA
1943
83 Minutes
american soldier russian soldier nazi adolf hitler mussolini joseph stalin patriotic rousing inspiring thrilling stalingrad, russia battlefield military base battle of stalingrad world war ii russian history allied forces siege heroism quest
Documentary revealing the nature and process of the fight between the Soviet Union and Germany in the Second World War.
Documentary, War, Drama, History
UK|New Zealand
2018
99 Minutes
soldier army recruit british officer british soldier british soldiers german soldier german troops bleak emotional moving patriotic powerful sad somber war zone france belgium united kingdom trenches training camp
A documentary about World War I with never-before-seen footage to commemorate the centennial of the end of the war.
Documentary, Drama, History
Italy
2019
92 Minutes
Helen Mirren Anna Migotto Anne Frank
anne frank jew nazi nazi collaborator holocaust survivor bleak chilling dark disheartening disturbing emotional engaging gripping incredible melancholy moving amsterdam concentration camp hideout holocaust
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
nazi jew journalist scholar historian brooding brutal gripping emotional fascinating warsaw ghetto journalism historical events nazi occupation nazis propaganda quest adventure discovery rivalry
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 »
War, Drama, History
USA|China|UK
2014
134 Minutes
Brad Pitt Shia LaBeouf Logan Lerman Michael Peña Jon Bernthal Jason Isaacs Brad Henke Jim Parrack Xavier Samuel Scott Eastwood Kevin Vance
sergeant soldier crew member nazi commander german brooding confident cool germany england france battlefield united states tank world war ii survival courage nazi hunting friendship
A grizzled tank commander makes tough decisions as he and his crew fight their way across Germany in April, 1945.
War
UK
1954
101 Minutes
Dirk Bogarde Denholm Elliott Akim Tamiroff Kay Callard William Russell Harold Siddons Eric Pohlmann Gérard Oury Lisa Gastoni Sam Kydd Peter Burton
british soldier german soldier commando nazi englishman lieutenant gripping tense patriotic greece england island world war ii dangerous assignment secret mission sabotage nazis underdog sacrifice quest
During World War II, British commandos are sent to destroy a Luftwaffe airfield on a Greek island.
War, Biography, Drama, History
UK|USA
2017
125 Minutes
Gary Oldman Kristin Scott Thomas Ben Mendelsohn Lily James Ronald Pickup Stephen Dillane Nicholas Jones Samuel West Richard Lumsden Charley Palmer Rothwell Hannah Steele
winston churchill nazi king soldier politician adolf hitler brooding rousing passionate striking tense spirited london great britain war zone nazi germany government building house of parliament world war ii nazi occupation
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.
Documentary
USA
2006
117 Minutes
Richard Berge
nazi art expert soldier historian shocking moving museum germany europe art nazism adolf hitler world war ii theft discovery quest rescue 20th century
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.
War
USA
1949
118 Minutes
Van Johnson John Hodiak Ricardo Montalban George Murphy Marshall Thompson Jerome Courtland Don Taylor Bruce Cowling James Whitmore Douglas Fowley Leon Ames
mexican-american soldier general nazi chaplain inspiring patriotic thrilling europe belgium battlefield world war ii military bravery battle of the bulge underdog adventure sacrifice 1940s
True tale about a squad of the 101st Airborne Division coping with being trapped by the Germans in the besieged city of Bastogne, Belgium during the Battle of the Bulge in December of 1944.
History, War, Drama
USA|Germany
2014
118 Minutes
George Clooney Matt Damon Bill Murray John Goodman Jean Dujardin Bob Balaban Hugh Bonneville Dimitri Leonidas Cate Blanchett Justus von Dohnányi Holger Handtke
art expert historian expert nazi adolf hitler soldier bleak brooding chilling amusing powerful nazi germany art gallery museum apartment school old city art theft preservation nazis
An unlikely World War II platoon is tasked to rescue art masterpieces from Nazi thieves and return them to their owners.
War
UK
1958
93 Minutes
Dirk Bogarde Emeric Pressburger Marius Goring David Oxley Cyril Cusack Laurence Payne Michael Gough Brian Worth John Cairney
major british soldier german soldier nazi hostage guerrilla fighter tense spirited crete cairo countryside world war ii capture dangerous assignment nazis military quest sacrifice 1940s
Led by British officers, partisans on Crete plan to kidnap the island's German commander and smuggle him to Cairo, Egypt to embarrass the occupiers.
Documentary
UK
1943
60 Minutes
general marshal nazi winston churchill field marshal erwin rommel hitler fascinating chilling shocking gripping intense patriotic egypt propaganda world war ii footage nazism battle documentaries discovery
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.
War, Action
1978
93 Minutes
Bo Svenson Fred Williamson Ian Bannen Peter Hooten Jackie Basehart Michel Constantin Debra Berger Raimund Harmstorf Michael Pergolani
soldier deserter thief assassin prisoner lieutenant intense confident gutsy thrilling dark patriotic france world war ii prison break dangerous mission captivity nazism friendship adventure
Two officers (Bo Svenson, Ian Bannen) lead military misfits on a mission to steal a Nazi V-2 rocket gyroscope.
Drama, War
1946
134 Minutes
Carmela Sazio Robert Van Loon Dotts Johnson Alfonsino Maria Michi Gar Moore Harriet Medin Renzo Avanzo William Tubbs Dale Edmonds Carlo Pisacane
soldier nurse prostitute chaplain nazi street urchin bleak engaging gripping italy sicily massacre theft resistance world war ii death rivalry fall rise 1940s
Six vignettes from Roberto Rossellini focusing on American soldiers' experiences in World War II Italy.
Documentary, War
USA
1945
70 Minutes
narrator winston churchill josef goebbels adolf hitler franklin delano roosevelt patriotic rousing engaging tense united states propaganda world war ii national security democracy pearl harbor world domination adventure pursuit rivalry 1940s
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.
War
USA
1943
131 Minutes
Brian Donlevy Walter Brennan Anna Lee Gene Lockhart Dennis O'Keefe Alexander Granach Margaret Wycherly Nana Bryant William Roy Hans Heinrich von Twardowski Tonio Selwart
rebel nazi professor traitor suspenseful gripping patriotic rousing czechoslovakia city prague nazism rebellion assassination political intrigue world war ii escape rescue 1940s
After the Nazi administrator of Czechoslovakia is shot, his assassin tries to elude the Gestapo and struggles with his impulse to give himself up as hostages are executed.
Documentary, War, Drama, History
France|UK
1985
561 Minutes
Simon Srebnik Michael Podchlebnik Richard Glazar Rudolf Vrba Inge Deutschkron Filip Müller
victim survivor nazi bystander guard brooding shocking disturbing auschwitz germany ghetto poland holocaust nazism horrors of war concentration camp fall discovery 1980s
Claude Lanzmann's epic documentary recounts the story of the Holocaust through interviews with witnesses - perpetrators as well as survivors.
War, Drama, History
USA
2017
118 Minutes
Max Hubacher Milan Peschel Frederick Lau Waldemar Kobus Alexander Fehling Samuel Finzi Wolfram Koch Britta Hammelstein Bernd Hölscher Sascha Alexander Gersak Blerim Destani
soldier nazi nazi commandant prison guard prisoner deserter uneasy intense tense unrestrained brutal bleak concentration camp truck woods base camp office fraud nazi collaboration power
After the tragic deaths of her husband and daughter, Sarah Doyle moves back to her childhood home with her estranged brother, Richard. It's not long before Sarah begins to experience ... See full summary »
Drama, Biography, War
Russia|Germany|Lithuania|Poland
2018
120 Minutes
Konstantin Khabensky Christopher Lambert Felice Jankell Dainius Kazlauskas Sergey Godin Roman Ageev
prisoner of war soviet soldier concentration camp survivor lieutenant nazi sergeant dark chilling intense disturbing frightening raw poland concentration camp survival nazis prisoners of war world war ii concentration camp uprising
Soviet officer Alexander Pechersky organizes a revolt and mass escape of prisoners from Sobibór extermination camp in October 1943.
War, Drama, History
2019
104 Minutes
Oto Brantevics Gatis Gaga Martins Vilsons Renars Zeltins Vilis Daudzins Great Trusina Ieva Florence
army recruit young man eastern european man teenager soldier local tense gritty inspiring gripping patriotic frightening latvia eastern europe war zone living space russian revolution big city world war i family