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Private Schulz (1981)
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Private Schulz (1981)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, War
Country: UK, Australia
Duration: 300 min.
TV show
Story: Private Schulz is a BBC television comedy drama serial set mostly in Germany, during and immediately after World War II. It stars Michael Elphick in the title role and Ian Richardson playing various parts. Other notable actors included Tony Caunter, Billie Whitelaw, Billy Murray and Mark Wingett. Over six one-hour episodes, it tells the story of a German fraudster and petty criminal who is forced against his will to serve in the SS. In a story based on the real, though unrealised, plot by the Germans known as Operation Bernhard, he tricks the Nazis into making counterfeit British five pound notes, millions of which will be used to destroy the British economy. However, Schulz is primarily interested in stealing them. Other elements of the story based on the history of the period include the Venlo incident, when two British intelligence officers were abducted from the Netherlands at the very start of the war, and Salon Kitty. This was a Berlin brothel which was secretly run by the SD, for the purpose of spying on its wealthy clients, who were often prominent German government officials or military officers. Additionally, many of the main characters are real people.
Style: detective
Plot: world war two, army, nazi, betrayal, nazi germany, ss, diving, brothel, deception, counterfeiter, bomb, blackmail, concentration camp, lake, unhappy ending, greed, satire, nazi officer, forgery, drowning, culture clash, love interest, suspicion, secret mission, brothel madam ...
Place: england, dunkirk
Keyword: german

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Boon (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
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Story: Boon is a British television drama and modern-day western series starring Michael Elphick, David Daker, and later Neil Morrissey. It was created by Jim Hill and Bill Stair and filmed by Central Television for ITV. It revolved around the life of a ...
Style: detective, semi serious, realistic
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Place: birmingham alabama, england, europe
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Foyle's War (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, War
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
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Story: As WW2 rages around the world, DCS Foyle fights his own war on the home-front as he investigates crimes on the south coast of England. Foyle's War opens in southern England in the year 1940. Later series sees the retired detective working as an ...
Style: clever, serious, captivating, detective, suspenseful ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: world war two, investigation, police investigation, police detective, war crime, spy, detective inspector, police, espionage, homicide detective, whodunit, murder investigation ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: england, europe, new mexico, london
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The Saboteurs (2015)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Norway, Denmark, UK, Czech Republic, Sweden
Duration: 45 min.
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Story: The story about the heavy water war unfolds during the prolouge, eruption and the end of the second world war. We follow the story of the the key personnel in the race of who develops the atomic bomb first.
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Time: 20th century, 1940s, 1930s
Place: europe, germany, scotland
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It Ain't Half Hot Mum (1974)
Genre: Comedy, War
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: The comic adventures of a group of misfits who form an extremely bad concert party touring the hot and steamy jungles of Burma entertaining the troops during World War II.
Style: sitcom, entertaining, controversial
Plot: world war two, army, military, native, coward, colony, captain, singer, satire, colonel, pianist, sergeant ...
Time: 1940s, future
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The Halcyon (2017)
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Duration: 60 min.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
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Duration: 107 min.
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Genre: Comedy, War
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
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Place: england, europe, united kingdom
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Genre: Drama, History, War
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Duration: 50 min.
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Story: World War II drama about covert organisation Lifeline helping allied airmen escape after being shot down in occupied Europe, working with the Resistance and hiding from the Gestapo.
Style: costume drama, period drama
Plot: world war two, nazism, nazi, german occupation, french resistance, resistance, cafe, ss officer, prospector, gestapo, escape, nazi occupation ...
Time: 1940s
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Country: USA, UK
Duration: 198 min.
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Duration: 45 min.
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Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
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Time: 1940s, 20th century
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The Cazalets (2001)
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Fall of the Eagles (1989)
Genre: Drama, War
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Duration: 85 min.
Story: No overview found.
Plot: world war two, nazi germany, nazi, wounded soldier, german soldier, death of loved one, male protagonist, soldier, singer, bomb, female nudity, father daughter relationship ...
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42%
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Duration: 116 min.
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Duration: 1620 min.
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Duration: 300 min.
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Genre: Comedy, War
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Duration: 87 min.
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SS-GB (2017)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Adapted from Len Deighton’s 1978 alternate history novel. A British detective investigates a murder in German-occupied Britain during World War II.
Style: detective, suspense, serious, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot: nazi germany, resistance, world war two, infiltration, alternate history, murder, alternate reality, rebel, moral dilemma, love interest, father son relationship, nazi officer ...
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35%
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Hogan's Heroes (1965)
Genre: Comedy, War
Country: USA
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Hogan's Heroes is an American television sitcom that ran for 168 episodes from September 17, 1965, to July 4, 1971, on the CBS network. The show was set in a German prisoner of war camp during World War II. Bob Crane starred as Colonel Robert ...
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34%
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Heartbeat (1992)
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