20 movies like Kanal, ordered by similarity : They Shall Not Grow Old(2018), Sobibor(2018), #AnneFrank. Parallel Stories(2019), The Invisibles(2017), The Captain(2017), Battle of Britain(1969), Katyn(2007), Hell River(1974), Lone Survivor(2013), My Name Is Ivan(1963), Anthropoid(2016), The Monuments Men(2014) ...
7.9/10
Drama
Poland
1957
96 Minutes
Teresa Izewska Tadeusz Janczar Wisczyslaw Glinski Emil Karewicz Vladek Sheybal Tadeusz Gwiazdowski Stanislaw Mikulski
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In 1944, during the Warsaw uprising against the Nazis, Polish Lieutenant Zadra and his resistance fighters use Warsaw's sewer system to escape the German encirclement.
8.3/10
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.
6.4/10
Drama, Biography, War
Russia|Germany|Lithuania|Poland
2018
120 Minutes
Konstantin Khabensky Christopher Lambert Felice Jankell Dainius Kazlauskas Sergey Godin Roman Ageev
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Soviet officer Alexander Pechersky organizes a revolt and mass escape of prisoners from Sobibór extermination camp in October 1943.
6.5/10
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.
7.1/10
Drama, History
Germany
2017
110 Minutes
Aaron Altaras Max Mauff Alice Dwyer Ruby O. Fee Victoria Schulz Florian Lukas Andreas Schmidt Sergej Moya Lucas Reiber
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While Joseph Goebbels infamously declared Berlin "free of Jews" in 1943, 1,700 managed to survive in the Nazi capital through the end of WWII. The Invisibles traces the stories of four young people who learned to hide in plain sight.
4.8/10
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
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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 »
7.0/10
War, Drama, Action
UK
1969
132 Minutes
Laurence Olivier Michael Caine Christopher Plummer Robert Shaw Susannah York Trevor Howard Curt Jurgens Ian McShane
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In 1940, the British Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle to prevent the Luftwaffe from gaining air superiority over the English Channel as a prelude to a possible Axis invasion of the U.K.
7.0/10
Drama
Poland
2007
121 Minutes
Joachim Paul Assböck Waldemar Barwinski Stanislawa Celinska Andrzej Chyra Magdalena Cielecka Maja Ostaszewska
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An examination of the Soviet slaughter of thousands of Polish officers and citizens in the Katyn forest in 1940.
5.5/10
War, Action, Drama, History
Yugoslavia|USA|Liechtenstein
1974
90 Minutes
Rod Taylor Adam West Brioni Farrell Peter Carsten Olivera Katarina Velimir `Bata' Zivojinovic Branko Plesa
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Partisans in Yugoslavia clash with the Germans that have invaded their homeland in several confrontations until the climactic battle at Hell River.
7.5/10
War, Drama
USA|UK
2013
121 Minutes
Mark Wahlberg Taylor Kitsch Eric Bana Emile Hirsch Ben Foster Sammy Sheik Yousuf Azami Ali Suliman
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Marcus Luttrell and his team set out on a mission to capture or kill notorious Taliban leader Ahmad Shah, in late June 2005. Marcus and his team are left to fight for their lives in one of the most valiant efforts of modern warfare.
War, Drama
1963
97 Minutes
Kolya Burlyayev Valentin Zubkov Ye. Zharikov Stepan Krylov Nikolay Grinko Dmitri Milyutenko
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During World War II, a 12-year-old Russian sneaks behind enemy lines to spy on the Germans who killed his parents.
7.2/10
Mystery & Thriller, War, Drama, History
Czech Republic|UK|USA|France
2016
120 Minutes
Cillian Murphy Jamie Dornan Charlotte Le Bon Anna Geislerová Toby Jones Harry Lloyd Alena Mihulová Bill Milner Pavel Reznícek Jirí Simek Sam Keeley
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Based on the extraordinary true story of Operation Anthropoid, the WWII mission to assassinate SS General Reinhard Heydrich, the main architect behind the Final Solution and the Reich's third in command after Hitler and Himmler.
6.1/10
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
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An unlikely World War II platoon is tasked to rescue art masterpieces from Nazi thieves and return them to their owners.
Drama
1958
103 Minutes
Zbigniew Cybulski Ewa Krzyzewska Waclaw Zastrzezynsky Adam Pawlikowski Bogumil Kobiela Jan Ciecierski Stanislaw Milski Artur Mlodnicki
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A Communist commandant finds himself surrounded by the Polish resistance during the closing days of World War II.
7.8/10
Drama
West Germany
1978
120 Minutes
Hanna Schygulla Klaus Löwitsch Ivan Desny Gisela Uhlen Elisabeth Trissenaar Gottfried John Hark Bohm George Byrd Claus Holm Gunter Lamprecht Anton Schiersner
woman soldier husband industrialist intense sad somber emotional engaging germany bar train station war love devotion struggle sacrifice fall love 1940s
Maria marries Hermann Braun in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the war. Alone, Maria puts to use her beauty and ambition in order to find prosperity during Germany's "economic miracle" of the 1950s.
6.3/10
Biography, Drama, History
UK|France|Germany|USA
2020
120 Minutes
Jesse Eisenberg Ed Harris Edgar Ramírez Clémence Poésy Matthias Schweighöfer Félix Moati Géza Röhrig Karl Markovics Bella Ramsey Alicia von Rittberg
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The story of mime Marcel Marceau as he works with a group of Jewish boy scouts and the French Resistance to save the lives of ten thousand orphans during World War II.
Drama, War
2003
88 Minutes
Mirjana Karanovic Leon Lucev Alma Prica Kresimir Mikic Drazen Kuhn Predrag Vusovic
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A detective and a journalist (Alma Prica) investigate the murder of a Serb living in a Croatian town.
7.4/10
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.
7.3/10
Drama
France|Canada|Czech Republic
2017
110 Minutes
Dorian Le Clech Batyste Fleurial Patrick Bruel Elsa Zylberstein Bernard Campan Kev Adams Christian Clavier César Domboy Ilian Bergala Emile Berling Jocelyne Desverchere
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In occupied France, Maurice and Joseph, two young Jewish brothers left to their own devices demonstrate an incredible amount of cleverness, courage, and ingenuity to escape the enemy invasion and to try to reunite their family once again.
7.0/10
War, Drama
Algeria|France|Morocco|Belgium
2006
125 Minutes
Jamel Debbouze Samy Naceri Roschdy Zem Sami Bouajila Bernard Blancan Mathieu Simonet Benoît Giros Mélanie Laurent Antoine Chappey Assaad Bouab Aurèlie Eltvedt
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During WWII, four North African men enlist in the French army to liberate that country from Nazi oppression, and to fight French discrimination.
5.5/10
War, Drama
USA
1953
68 Minutes
Frank Silvera Paul Mazursky Kenneth Harp Stephen Coit Virginia Leith
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Four soldiers trapped behind enemy lines must confront their fears and desires.
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