20 movies like The Rape of Europa, ordered by similarity : The Monuments Men(2014), #AnneFrank. Parallel Stories(2019), Never Look Away(2018), There Are No Fakes(2019), Burden(2016), Obey Giant(2017), Desert Victory(1943), They Shall Not Grow Old(2018), Who Will Write Our History(2018), The Price of Everything(2018), The Art of the Steal(2009), The Battle of Russia(1943) ...
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, 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.
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.
Drama, History
Germany|Italy
2018
189 Minutes
Tom Schilling Sebastian Koch Paula Beer Saskia Rosendahl Oliver Masucci Ina Weisse Johannes Allmayer Florian Bartholomäi Lars Eidinger Ben Becker Jonas Dassler
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German artist Kurt Barnert has escaped East Germany and now lives in West Germany, but is tormented by his childhood under the Nazis and the GDR-regime.
Documentary
Canada
2019
113 Minutes
Douglas E. Davidson Sienna Demers
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A painting, apparently the work of an iconic Native artist, leads the rockstar who buys it into the tragic, brutal world of an art forgery ring in Canada's far north.
Documentary
2016
88 Minutes
Richard Dewey
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The life of the always provocative artist Chris Burden, whose work consistently challenged ideas about the limits and nature of modern art, from his notorious performances in the 1970s to his later works.
Documentary
USA
2017
92 Minutes
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The life and career of street artist, illustrator, graphic designer, activist, and founder of OBEY Clothing, Shepard Fairey.
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, 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.
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
2018
105 Minutes
Jeff Koons Larry Poons Simon de Pury Amy Cappellazzo Jerry Saltz George Condo
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With unprecedented access to pivotal artists and the white-hot market surrounding them, this film dives deep into the contemporary art world, holding a fun-house mirror up to our values and times.
Documentary
USA
2009
101 Minutes
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Documentary that follows the struggle for control of Dr. Albert C. Barnes' 25 billion dollar collection of modern and post-impressionist art.
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, 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, 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
UK
2010
87 Minutes
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Following the style of some of the world's most prolific street artists, an amateur filmmaker makes a foray into the art world.
Documentary
USA
2018
87 Minutes
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WYETH tells the story of one of America's most popular, but least understood, artists. While his exhibitions routinely broke attendance records, art world critics continually assaulted his work.
Documentary
2007
105 Minutes
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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.
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.
Documentary
1987
268 Minutes
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Eyewitness interviews and archival footage highlight Marcel Ophuls' account of the Nazi "Butcher of Lyon.".