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The Winds of War (1983)
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 720 min.
Story:
In the late 1930s, world politics begin to head in a dangerous direction. In Europe, Germany expands and rearms and proceeds to annex several border countries into the Reich. Meanwhile, Italy attempts to establish a Facist Colonial Empire under Mussolini while the Empire of Japan stands ready for a major war with China. Enter the Henry family, headed by career naval officer Victor "Pug" Henry. "Winds of War" thus follows the exploits of Pug and his children, all of which are set against the backdrop of world events leading up to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.
Style:
epic, sincere, serious, realistic, captivating, thought provoking
Plot:
holocaust, political unrest, wartime life, war, politics, family life, society, state affairs, family relations, fascism, head of state, human nature, parents and children, battles, against humanity, escapades, heroes, military, behind enemy lines, international crisis, refugees, jewish girl, german soldier, u.s. navy, mistress ...
Time:
20th century, 40s, 1930s, 1940s
Place:
asia, china, germany, europe, italy, japan, poland ...
Most similar movies to The Winds of War
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, captivating and bleak films and TV series with plots about war, wartime life, society, state affairs, against humanity, world war two and political unrest mostly in Drama, War and Romance genres. Some movies like The Winds of War: War and Remembrance (1988), Hiroshima (1995), Stalingrad (1993), MacArthur (1977), The Empty Mirror (1996). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 620 min.
Story:
War and Remembrance is an American miniseries based on the novel of the same name by Herman Wouk. It is the sequel to highly successful The Winds of War.
Style:
exciting, serious, realistic, captivating, epic
Plot:
war, soldier, d day, human spirit, officers and cadets, military life, political unrest, battles, heroes, military, fascism, survival ...
Time:
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Canada, Japan
Duration: 185 min.
Story:
Hiroshima is a 1995 Japanese / Canadian film directed by Koreyoshi Kurahara and Roger Spottiswoode about the decision-making processes that led to the dropping of the atomic bombs by the United States on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ...
Style:
serious, captivating, realistic
Plot:
war, head of state, soldier, office, anti war, holocaust, political unrest, politics, atomic bomb, wartime life, battles, danger ...
Time:
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Place:
asia, usa, japan, new york, hiroshima japan
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
"Stalingrad" follows the progress of a German Platoon through the brutal fighting of the Battle of Stalingrad. After having half their number wiped out and after being placed under the command of a sadistic Captain, the Lieutenant of the ...
Style:
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war, survival, german, russian, politics, genocide, holocaust, soldier, death, wartime, nazis, brutality ...
Time:
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russia, germany, europe, poland, africa ...
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Based upon the actual cables between Washington, London and Moscow during the Second World War, this TV-movie examines the relationship between the leaders of these countries throughout the conflict. Franklin D. Roosevelt (John Lithgow), Winston ...
Style:
serious, talky, clever, realistic, captivating ...
Plot:
head of state, holocaust, war, political unrest, politics, against humanity, state affairs, orphan, leadership, teenage life, ambition, heroes ...
Time:
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Place:
europe, germany, soviet union, usa
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
The two-part TV movie Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil crystallizes that evil by concentrating on two Berlin brothers. In 1931, Helmut Hoffman (Bill Nighy) a brilliant student and self-styled opportunist, joins Hitler's SS. At the same time, ...
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disturbing, serious, realistic, bleak, captivating ...
Plot:
rise and fall, siblings relations, war, political unrest, wartime life, society, life is a bitch, uncover truth, moral dilemma, battles, coming of age, politics ...
Time:
30s, 40s, 1930s, 1940s
Place:
europe, germany
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Movies similar to Doctor Zhivago
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
The film portrays MacArthur's (Gregory Peck) life from 1942, before the Battle of Bataan, to 1952, the time after he had been removed from his Korean War command by President Truman (Ed Flanders) for insubordination, and is recounted in ...
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Plot:
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Time:
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japan, australia, asia, korea, the philippines ...
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Adolf Hitler faces himself and must come to terms with his infamous career in an imaginary post-war subterranean bunker where he reviews historical films, dictates his memoirs and encounters Eva Braun, Josef Goebbels, Hermann Göring and Sigmund ...
Style:
talky, serious, realistic, surreal, sincere ...
Plot:
head of state, downfall, leadership, war, idealism, obsession, introspection, anti semitism, genocide, holocaust, wartime life, campaign ...
Place:
europe, germany
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User:
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Norway
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Norwegian war drama. The old sea-captain retires, but the next day German WWII occupation of Norway begins. He then kisses his wife good-bye and is off to Army HQ. There he finds a lack of leadership and morale that offends him. They even laugh at ...
Style:
serious, realistic, sincere, emotional, captivating
Plot:
soldier, survival, war, military base, human spirit, rebelliousness, anti war, military life, political unrest, wartime life, battles, heroes ...
Time:
20th century, 40s, 1940s
Place:
germany, norway
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Movie in collections
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 186 min.
Story:
In 1947, four German judges who served on the bench during the Nazi regime face a military tribunal to answer charges of crimes against humanity. Chief Justice Haywood hears evidence and testimony not only from lead defendant Ernst Janning and his ...
Style:
talky, realistic, serious, bleak, dramatic ...
Plot:
courtroom, courtroom drama, holocaust, genocide, german, war, idealism, nazi, redemption, jewish, nazis, justice ...
Time:
20th century, 40s, 60s, 1940s, 1960s ...
Place:
germany, europe, poland
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System:
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User:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Germany, Norway, Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 159 min.
Story:
Knut Hamsun is Norway's most famous and admired author. Ever since he was young he has hated the English for the starvation they caused Norway during WWI. When the Germans occupy Norway 9 April 1940 he welcomes them and the protection they can ...
Style:
talky, serious, realistic, sincere, emotional ...
Plot:
tragic hero, war, writer's life, betrayal, human nature, human spirit, idealism, introspection, anti semitism, anti war, holocaust, political unrest ...
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 177 min.
Story:
Jews rise up in the Warsaw Ghetto against the Nazis in 1943.
Style:
serious, bleak, realistic, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
anti heroes, ghetto, war, survival, human spirit, anti semitism, genocide, holocaust, heroic mission, political unrest, wartime life, against humanity ...
Time:
20th century, 40s, 1940s, year 1943
Place:
europe, poland, warsaw poland
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Genre: Action, War, Drama
Country: Poland, USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
A dramatic re-enactment of the Warsaw Ghetto Jewish uprising in April 1943 were 650 armed members of the Jewish Fighting Organization of Poland held off a 3,000 strong Nazi force in which only a handful of Jews survived. Tom Conti plays Dolek ...
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serious, bleak, realistic, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
survival, anti semitism, holocaust, ghetto, against humanity, war, confined, heroes, against the odds, danger, escapades, military ...
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20th century, 40s, 1940s
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europe, poland, warsaw poland
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Death in Love is a psychosexual-thriller about a love affair between a Jewish woman and a doctor overseeing human experimentation at a Nazi German concentration camp, and the impact this has on her sons' lives in the 1990s.
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serious, emotional, realistic, sincere, psychological ...
Plot:
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20th century, 40s, 90s, 1990s
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Two linen fabric dealers with their shops close to one another, battle against each other for more and more costumers. Umberto constantly loses clients because of the tough competition brought by Leone, who offers the best prices in the ...
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serious, bleak, realistic, captivating, thought provoking ...
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Genre: Drama, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
During the 1864 battle of the Wilderness, three Union soldiers and three Confederate Soldiers get seperated from their units as twilight engulfs the ravaged battlefield. The men wander alone through the dangerous woods, separate of each other, until ...
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serious, emotional, epic, realistic, sincere ...
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soldier, wilderness, american civil war, leadership, war, survival, anti war, genocide, military life, battles, americana, heroes ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Finland, Germany, Greece
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
There is civil war in Finland. Between whites vs reds. A woman soldier of reds is captured by the whites. She is ordered to be executed.
Style:
epic, bleak, serious, disturbing, realistic ...
Plot:
soldier, island, politics, anti war, romance, genocide, military life, war, political unrest, wartime life, revolution, battles ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century, year 1918
Place:
finland
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Netherlands, Luxembourg
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
Twin Sisters is an epic love story based on the Dutch bestseller by Tessa de Loo that has been read by more than 3.5 million readers in Holland and Germany.
Style:
epic, serious, touching, realistic, emotional ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
siblings relations, culture clash, reunion, twins, wartime life, life is a bitch, society, family relations, orphan, human nature, racism, new love ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
europe, germany, holland
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
In a remote jungle outpost in the Far Eastern theater of World War II, a hotheaded American soldier murders an allied British sergeant in cold blood. Stalwart American Lt. Colonel Barney Adams (Mitchum) is dispatched to defend him in the ensuing ...
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serious, bleak, realistic, rough, suspenseful ...
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Place:
asia, india
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, War
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
It is the Second World War. The Nazis have invaded Britain. There is a split between the resistance and those who prefer to collaborate with the invaders for a quiet life. The protagonist, a nurse, is caught in the middle.
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serious, bleak, realistic, disturbing, rough ...
Plot:
uncover truth, anti war, hospital, war, politics, political unrest, countryside, military, against humanity, german occupation, danger, society ...
Time:
40s, 1910s, 1940s
Place:
england, europe, germany
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
Justice Robert H. Jackson leads Allied prosecutors in trying 21 Germans for Nazi war crimes after World War II.
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serious, bleak, realistic, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
dedicated lawyer, courtroom, leadership, anti semitism, uncover truth, holocaust, courtroom drama, racism, against humanity, war crime, fighting the system, politics ...
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england, europe, france, germany
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: China
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
An old leper who owned a remote sorghum winery dies. Jiu'er, the wife bought by the leper, and her lover, identified only as "my Grandpa" by the narrator, take over the winery and set up an idealized quasi-matriarchal community headed ...
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 475 min.
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Holocaust is an American television miniseries broadcast in four parts in 1978 on the NBC television network. The series tells the story of the Holocaust from the perspective of the Weiss family of German Jews and that of a rising member of the SS, ...
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Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Lionel Chetwynd's film documents the horrific struggles that faced American POWs held in the North Vietnamese prison Hoa Lo -- more infamously known as the Hanoi Hilton -- between 1964 and 1975. Williamson (Michael Moriarty) leads a group of ...
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA, Denmark, Panama, UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
In April 1940, the armies of Nazi Germany invaded Denmark. The Danish government promised peaceful cooperation on the condition that Denmark s Jews remain free. The Nazi s agreed. In October, 1943, the agreement was broken...This is the true and ...
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serious, bleak, realistic, captivating, thought provoking ...
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
A WWII Drama about a German/Jewish industrialist who, in order to ensure his family's safe passage out of Germany, is forced to hand over his business to the Nazis.
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
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Duration: 148 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Genre: Drama, War
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Duration: 128 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK, Russia
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
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 innocent must pay. Can supposed enemies turn into great loves? Based on a true post-World War II story, this ...
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Allied forces land at Anzio unopposed but instead of moving straight inland their commanding officer decides to dig in. A battle-hardened war correspondent borrows a jeep and drives to Rome and back without meeting any German forces, but his report ...
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