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Learn about movies based on World War 2 missions with our list containing 14 of the best WWII movies based on true stories.
Films about the Battle of Stalingrad (17 P) Pages in category "World War II films based on actual events" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 336 total.
Another World War II–Era Movie The Real Story Behind Netflix‘s ‘Transatlantic’ On the evening of October 14, 1940, a bomb fell above a Tube station in the Balham district of southern London.
Plenty of World War II movies take artistic liberties when recounting their true stories, either to enhance drama or because they are only interested in using historical events as a backdrop for their fictional narratives, but some are historically accurate.
1. The Great Raid. 2005 2h 12m R. 6.6 (24K) Rate. 48 Metascore. Taking place towards the end of WWII, 500 American Soldiers have been entrapped in a camp for 3 years. Beginning to give up hope they will ever be rescued, a group of Rangers goes on a dangerous mission to try and save them.
Many are fictional stories that take place in the World War Two ‘universe’, as it were, but there are several that are directly based on - or take heavy inspiration from real-life events such as the D-Day landings, the Battle of Stalingrad and the cracking of the Enigma code.
Set in the winter of 1942, Greyhound —a nod to the nickname of the U.S.S. Keeling, a destroyer under Krause’s command—features Hanks as a newly promoted officer tasked with leading his first...
Liam Neeson stars as the heroic figure alongside Ralph Fiennes as the truly infuriating and sadistic Nazi commander Amon Göth. There’s something uniquely special about war movies based on true stories. Here are the best war movies that pull it off well.
Loosely based on the true story of a mass escape from a German POW camp — and crafted with many narrative concessions intended to appease American viewing audiences — the action unfolds like...
In short, it doesn't ring true. There's nothing wrong with that kind of rousing family entertainment, mind you, but it needs a conventionally gripping plot to go with the conventional trappings ...