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The Heroes of Telemark (1965)
 6.5
 8K
The Heroes of Telemark (1965)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 131 min.
Story: Set in German-occupied Norway, this is based on the efforts of the Norwegian resistance to sabotage German development of the atomic bomb. Resistance fighter Knut Straud enlists the reluctant physicist Rolf Pedersen in an effort to destroy the German heavy water production plant in rural Telemark. British commandos dispatched to destroy the plant are killed when their glider crashes. A resistance raid ends in the partial destruction of the heavy water but the Germans resume production quickly. Pedersen recommends that the Allies bomb the plant. Straud opposes him to prevent civilian deaths. The air raid takes place, but it fails to destroy the heavy water. The remaining heavy water is loaded onto a ferry for Germany, and the resistance attempt to blow it up. Pedersen boards the ferry to try and minimize civilian deaths. The film closes with resistance members rescuing passengers as the ferry sinks.
Style: exciting, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, independent film, microfilm, cult film
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, winter, spy, nazi, world war, military, resistance fighter, sabotage, mountain, great war, espionage, tank, commando, holocaust, freedom, revolutionary, revolution, mission, resistance, machine gun, struggle, fictional history, revolutionary war, heroes, skiing ...
Time: 1940s
Place: england, germany, europe
Keyword: norway, norwegian

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful and exciting films with plots about battles, world war two, military, world war, heroes, war and soldier mostly in Drama, War and Action genres. Some movies like The Heroes of Telemark: Operation Crossbow (1965), 633 Squadron (1964), The Devil's Brigade (1968), The Bridge at Remagen (1969), Tobruk (1967). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Operation Crossbow (1965)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Allied agents infiltrate the Nazi rocket complex at Peenemunde in order to obtain their secrets and sabotage the plant.The film alternates between German developments of the V-1 missile and V-2 rocket (with a German cast speaking their own language) ...
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633 Squadron (1964)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: When Norwegian resistance leader Lieutenant Erik Bergman reports the location of a German V-2 rocket fuel plant, the Royal Air Force's 633 Squadron is assigned the mission to destroy it. The plant is in a seemingly-impregnable location beneath ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Devil's Brigade (1968)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: 1968 American war film about the formation and first mission of the joint Canadian-American WWII special forces winter and mountain unit formally called 1st Special Service Force, but commonly known as “The Devil’s Brigade”. The film ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA, Czechoslovakia, West Germany
Duration: 115 min.
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Duration: 107 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama, History, War
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Country: UK
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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