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Recommended Thirty Documentaries on World War II Films (I)

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Recommended Thirty Documentaries on World War II Films (I)

Jojo's Whimsical World

During World War II, the boy Jojo and his mother lived under Nazi Germany, unaware that his mother was hiding a Jewish girl in the house and that her mother secretly worked for the Resistance. Jojo aspires to join the Hitler Youth, and a subversive version of Hitler appears in his mind, a charismatic, silly, innocent and cute Hitler who is his friend and helps him cope with life's difficulties.

Recommended Thirty Documentaries on World War II Films (I)

Greyhound

The film tells the story of an escort fleet of 37 Allied ships under the command of an American destroyer led by Captain Ernest Klaus, traversing the treacherous North Atlantic Ocean while battling the Wolf Pack of German U-Boats.

Recommended Thirty Documentaries on World War II Films (I)

The Battle of Lezhev

The most neglected battle of World War II, known as the "Lezhev Meat Grinder", was no less important than the Battle of Stalingrad. The battle was ignored for unknown reasons, and the Red Army suffered heavy losses, killing and wounding more than four times that of the Germans. Very tragic.

Recommended Thirty Documentaries on World War II Films (I)

Battle of Midway

The film is about an important turning point in the Pacific War of World War II: the Battle of Midway, after which the Japanese Navy was "struck by dimensionality reduction" and the naval power of the United States and Japan was reversed, thus reversing the situation in the entire Pacific Theater.

Recommended Thirty Documentaries on World War II Films (I)

Soldier

Based on the true story, during the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union, a six-year-old child escaped the massacre and was brought back to the regimental headquarters by the Soviet Red Army, becoming a Red Army soldier and completing many "tasks" for the Red Army.

Recommended Thirty Documentaries on World War II Films (I)

T-34 Tank

Based on true events from World War II. During the defense of Moscow, Nikolai, who had just graduated from the tank school, was sent to the battlefield on a "suicide" mission, and in the case of one enemy and six enemies, he piloted the legendary tank T-34, miraculously destroyed the squad of the German Colonel Jaeger, but himself was captured...

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"The Masterless Work"

Kurt's aunt was once imprisoned in a concentration camp and eventually died under the torture of the Nazi doctor Karl. Although Kurt was fortunate enough to flee to West Germany before the Berlin Wall was built, his entire childhood was spent living in the shadow of the Nazis, which caused great trauma to his personality. After that, Kurt entered the Düsseldorf Academy of Fine Arts, and unable to get out of the shadows of the past, he spilled his inner despair and pain on the canvas.

Recommended Thirty Documentaries on World War II Films (I)

The Twelfth Man

The film is based on a true story, during the Second World War, 12 Norwegian sabotage squads infiltrated the German garrison in Norway to carry out the sabotage plan code-named "Red Martin", 11 people were arrested, the 12th was able to escape, and the secret documents were brought back to Britain...

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The Darkest Hour

The film tells the story of the most important trial that British Prime Minister Winston Churchill faced during his time as prime minister: was he a prisoner of compromise with the Nazis, or was he uniting the people to revolt? Churchill will rally the whole nation to fight for freedom, trying to change the course of world history and survive the darkness before dawn.

Recommended Thirty Documentaries on World War II Films (I)

"The Counterfeit Captain"

Based on a true story, the film tells the story of a nineteen-year-old general Defence Soldier, Willie Herold, who became the so-called "Emsland executioner" in the last two weeks of World War II. By virtue of the captain's uniform he found, he impersonated an officer, gathered the other soldiers who had collapsed to form a special task force, plundered all the way to the land of the fallen Nazi Empire, and used the Fuehrer as an example to seize and kill people.

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