post world war ii

In a touring Shakespearean theater group, a backstage hand – the dresser, is devoted to the brilliant but tyrannical head of the company. ...

A Japanese family weathers much hardship after their military uncle comes to live with them during WWII. Release: Morning for the Osone Family ...

Set against the turbulent backdrop of London in the 1940s, this adaptation of Sarah Waters’ bestselling novel, The Night Watch, follows ...

How the 1948 Olympic Games came into being, as the world struggled to cope in the aftermath of the Second World War, and the Games were held for ...

Based on the true story of the greatest treasure hunt in history, The Monuments Men is an action drama focusing on seven over-the-hill, ...

In the final days of the Second World War in 1945 Frantisek Pribyl is killed during a shoot-out with the Germans. After the funeral, the widow ...

Postwar Germany, 1945. Leopold Kessler, an American of German descent, works as a sleeping car conductor for the Zentropa railway line. When he ...

What happened in France just after WWII, between 1945 and 1949? An interesting historic documentary looks at the fate of male and female ...

After serving bravely in WWII, American Paul remains in France and becomes a black marketeer. He meets Christine, an attractive French girl whose ...

In Knockemstiff, Ohio and its neighboring backwoods, sinister characters converge around young Arvin Russell as he fights the evil forces that ...

In the post-World War II South, two families are pitted against a barbaric social hierarchy and an unrelenting landscape as they simultaneously ...

January 1953: Stalin organizes the most violent anti-Semitic campaign ever launched in the USSR, by fabricating the “Doctors’ ...

Nazi POWs suspected of heinous acts are locked up in a Soviet women’s prison run by vengeful female guards. To weed out the guilty, the ...

Allide experienced The Great Terror under Stalin’s regime, and decades after her hometown people were deported to Siberia, she lives alone ...

Noriko is perfectly happy living at home with her widowed father, Shukichi, and has no plans to marry — that is, until her aunt Masa ...

Set against the brutal chaos of World War II, a love story begins that will take two lovers through a living nightmare of captivity, across three ...

A harrowing tale of survival centers on Rose, a Masurian woman, whose husband, a German soldier, was killed in the war, leaving her alone on ...

During World War II there were nearly 2,500 Allied prisoners held in Sandakan POW camp in British North Borneo. Along with the ravages of war and ...

In a post-nuclear world, a happy family of ranchers is beseiged by a roving band of ne’er do well marauders who want to eat the men and ...

Sandra comes back to Volterra, in Tuscany, the little town where she spent her childhood. She is with her American husband, Andrew. She wishes to ...