Letters from Iwo Jima(2006)

Combined Rating:
90
Combined Critics Rating: 87

The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of the Japanese who fought it.



The Pianist(2002)

Combined Rating:
89
Combined Critics Rating: 84

A Polish Jewish musician struggles to survive the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto of World War II.



Atonement(2007)

Combined Rating:
89
Combined Critics Rating: 86

Fledgling writer Briony Tallis, as a thirteen-year-old, irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.



Inglourious Basterds(2009)

Combined Rating:
87
Combined Critics Rating: 81

In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a plan to assassinate Nazi leaders by a group of Jewish U.S. soldiers coincides with a theatre owner's vengeful plans for the same.



Flags of Our Fathers(2006)

Combined Rating:
86
Combined Critics Rating: 82

The life stories of the six men who raised the flag at the Battle of Iwo Jima, a turning point in World War II.



Hellboy(2004)

Combined Rating:
85
Combined Critics Rating: 79

A demon, raised from infancy after being conjured by and rescued from the Nazis, grows up to become a defender against the forces of darkness.



The Reader(2008)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 72

Post-WWII Germany: Nearly a decade after his affair with an older woman came to a mysterious end, law student Michael Berg re-encounters his former lover as she defends herself in a war-crime trial.



Valkyrie(2008)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 71

A dramatization of the 20 July assassination and political coup plot by desperate renegade German Army officers against Hitler during World War II.



The Notebook(2004)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 68

A poor yet passionate young man falls in love with a rich young woman, giving her a sense of freedom, but they are soon separated because of their social differences.



Australia(2008)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 70

Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch reluctantly pacts with a stock-man in order to protect her new property from a takeover plot. As the pair drive 2,000 head of cattle over unforgiving landscape, they experience the bombing of Darwin, Australia, by Japanese forces firsthand.



Memoirs of a Geisha(2005)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 68

Nitta Sayuri reveals how she transcended her fishing-village roots and became one of Japan's most celebrated geisha.



The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas(2008)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 66

Set during WWII, a story seen through the innocent eyes of Bruno, the eight-year-old son of the commandant at a German concentration camp, whose forbidden friendship with a Jewish boy on the other side of the camp fence has startling and unexpected consequences.



Windtalkers(2002)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 66

Two U.S. Marines in World War II are assigned to protect Navajo Marines, who use their native language as an unbreakable radio cypher.



Sophie Scholl - Die letzten Tage(2005)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 72

A dramatization of the final days of Sophie Scholl, one of the most famous members of the German World War II anti-Nazi resistance movement, The White Rose.



Lust, Caution(2007)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 70

During World War II era, a young woman, Wang Jiazhi, gets swept up in a dangerous game of emotional intrigue with a powerful political figure, Mr. Yee.



The Sum of All Fears(2002)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 64

CIA analyst Jack Ryan must stop the plans of a Neo Nazis faction that threatens to induce a catastrophic conflict between the United States and Russia's newly elected president by detonating a nuclear weapon at a football game in Baltimore.



Everything Is Illuminated(2005)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 66

A young Jewish American man endeavors to find the woman who saved his grandfather during World War II in a Ukrainian village, that was ultimately razed by the Nazis, with the help of an eccentric local.



Hart's War(2002)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 62

A law student becomes a lieutenant during World War II, is captured and asked to defend a black prisoner of war falsely accused of murder.



Hannibal Rising(2007)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 57

After the death of his parents during World War II, young Hannibal Lecter moves in with his beautiful aunt and begins plotting revenge on the barbarians responsible for his sister's death.



The Good German(2006)

Combined Rating:
68
Combined Critics Rating: 64

While in post-war Berlin to cover the Potsdam Conference, an American military journalist is drawn into a murder investigation which involves his former mistress and his driver.




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