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49 Films to Buy match the keyword ‘Period 1940s’
Boy and the Heron, The (Kimitachi wa Do Ikiru ka) (2023)
- A 12–year–old boy, struggles to settle in a new town after his mother's death. However, when a sinister talking heron informs him that…
- DVD $29.95 | Blu-Ray $39.95
Godzilla Minus One (2023)
- Hailed by some as the greatest Godzilla film since the monster's sombre genesis in 1954. As with the original, a wartime subtext and some genuinely…
- DVD $24.95 | Blu-Ray $34.95
There's Still Tomorrow (2023)
- An audacious, bittersweet comedy–drama that swept the Italian Oscars and broke domestic box–office records.
Directed, co–written…
- DVD $29.95
Zone of Interest, The (2023)
- A Holocaust film quite unlike any other, The Hoss family have moved into their new home in Poland. The camera objectively documents their daily life…
- DVD $29.95 | Blu-Ray $34.95
De Gaulle (2020)
- Spectacularly mounted biographical drama depicting a crucial period in the life of French army officer Charles de Gaulle, a famous figure in modern…
- DVD $29.95
Summerland (2019)
- A love–story set in the timeless and enchanting world of Summerland; sun–dappled days by the sea over one achingly beautiful summer.…
- DVD $29.95
Alone in Berlin (2017)
- Earnest resistance drama set in 1940, with Emma Thompson and Brendan Gleeson as a working class couple who, after learning of their only son's death…
- DVD $34.95
King's Choice, The (2016)
- Vibrant war–time drama set during the three days in 1940 when German forces occupied Oslo and King Haakon VII and his family went into hiding.…
- DVD $29.95
Heavy Water War, The (The Saboteurs) (2015)
- Thrilling Norwegian mini–series tells the story behind Hitler's plan for obtaining the atomic bomb during WW2, and the heavy water sabotages in…
- DVD $34.95
Mr. Holmes (2015)
- An intriguing take on the great detective's final years with Ian McKellen in his element as the retired Sherlock Holmes who, dealing with early…
- DVD $19.95
Diplomacy (2014)
- A thematically rich and expertly staged historical drama that depicts the relationship between Dietrich von Choltitz, the German military governor of…
- DVD $29.95
Labyrinth of Lies (2014)
- Thought–provoking drama set in 1950's Germany in which an ambitious young prosecutor's pursuit of an Auschwitz commandant exposes the…
- DVD $29.95
Un Village Francais (TV Series) (2009-2017)
- Confronting the difficult subject of French collaboration with the Germans during WW2, this series details the lives of the people of a fictional…
- DVD $29.95, $39.95, $49.95, $49.95
Detective De Luca (TV Series) (2008)
- Another good looking entry into the Italian crime fiction genre, only this time set during the country's fascist era and along the war torn Bologna…
- DVD $34.95
Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (2005)
- An interesting and worthy companion piece to the excellent DOWNFALL, this necessarily grim drama looks at the trial of 21–year–old…
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$15 $11.25
Speer And Hitler: The Devil's Architect (2005)
- Painstaking docu–drama attempts to reevaluate the war crimes of one Albert Speer, Third Reich celebrity and Hilter’s personal architect…
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$20 $15
Chorus, The (Les Choristes) (2004)
- Crowd–pleasing drama set in post–WW2 France, where a sympathetic and patient music teacher strives to win over the troubled orphans in…
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$20 $15
Foyle's War (TV Series) (2002-2015)
- A distinguished drama series of mysteries set at the dawn of World War II, from the makers of Midsomer Murders. Michael Kitchen stars as charismatic…
- DVD $24.95, $24.95, $24.95, $24.95
Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary (2001)
- The astonishing true story of Hitler's private secretary, Traudl Junge, who at the age of 80 comes to terms with working alongside unspeakable evil…
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$15 $11.25
Conspiracy (2001)
- Presenting the planning of the Nazi’s ‘Final Solution’ of the jews as the matter of a simple business luncheon in 1942 of fifteen men, presided…
- DVD $30
Man Who Wasn't There, The (2001)
- The Coen Brothers chalk up another film in love with film, an attractive but slender paean to 1950s pulp melodramas, with its nostalgia–soaked…
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$24.95 $18.70
Monsignor Renard (TV Mini-series) (2000)
- ITV drama starring John Thaw as a humble parish priest who returns home to his French village to join the resistance during WWII after a twenty year…
- DVD $39.95
Earth (1998)
- The director of FIRE takes on another controversial element of modern India with the second in her (proposed) trilogy – a humanistic view of…
- DVD $19.95
Lucie Aubrac (1997)
- French Resistance true–story from the period–eye of dir. Claude Berri (JEAN DE FLORETTE), offering a romantic sub–plot between…
- DVD
$19.95 $14.95
Schindler's List (1993)
- Spielberg deservedly swept the '94 Oscars with this compassionate, consummately–crafted tale of a prominent Nazi's precarious mission to save…
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$24.95 $18.70
Broadway Bound (1992)
- Third film in the trilogy based on the Neil Simon's memoirs remains faithful to its stage origins. His alter–ego aspires to write successful…
- Poster (G) $9.95
League of Their Own, A (1992)
- Good–natured comedy centres around the female baseball league that formed while the men were off fighting in WW2.
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$19.95 $14.95
Barton Fink (1991)
- The Coen Bros' striking if enigmatic account of a brilliant scribe hampered with writer's block and a strange hotel companion in mid 1940s Hollywood.…
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$19.95 $14.95
Mediterraneo (1991)
- Oscar–winning tale of eight Italian soldiers who find themselves stranded on a remote Greek isle during WW2. An affecting and surprising…
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$24.95 $18.70
Olivier Olivier (1991)
- After disappearing from his country home six years earlier, a boy's mysterious return brings with it a mix of salvation and suspicion to his…
- Poster (G) $9.95
Come See the Paradise (1990)
- An epic romance about a hot–headed unionist whose love affair with a Japanese American is torn apart when the state interns 100,000 Japanese…
- DVD $24.95
Inspector Alleyn Mysteries, The (TV Series) (1990)
- Detective series plucked from the novels of famed crime writer Ngaio Marsh follows Detective Inspector Roderick Alleyn as he suavely solves crime in…
- DVD $34.95, $39.95, $49.95
Triumph of the Spirit (1989)
- Harrowing tale of a Greek–Jewish boxer (Willem Dafoe) who is deported to Auschwitz during WW2.
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$15 $11.25
Empire of the Sun (1987)
- A much–admired Spielberg epic in which a young boy witnesses the Japanese invasion of China in WWII. Based on the memoirs of sci–fi…
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$20 $15
Hope and Glory (1987)
- Well–crafted account of Dir. Boorman's childhood in wartime London.
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$24.95 $18.70
Wallenberg: A Hero's Story (1985)
- The true story of Hungarian diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, who risked his own life manufacturing protective passports for thousands of Jews in exile…
- DVD $24.95
Constance (1983)
- Donogh Rees gives a restrained performance in this post–war period drama as a school–teacher whose fanciful dreams are realised and then…
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$24.95 $18.70
'Allo 'Allo (TV Series) (1982-1992)
- British farce at its best and silliest, this sitcom takeoff of every WW2 French Resistance film (and the TV Series 'Secret Army') is set around the…
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$30 $22.50
Gandhi (1982)
- Epic retelling of the life of the inspirational Indian leader with Ben Kingsley as 'The Mahatma'. Won eight Academy Awards including Best Picture.
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$19.95 $14.95
Unknown War, The (1978)
- Burt Lancaster narrates this enormous 20–part documentary series on the conflict between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.
- DVD $39.95
Gable and Lombard (1976)
- A speculative and superficial biopic based on the scandalous romance and tumultuous marriage of 1930's screen stars Clark Gable and Carole Lombard,…
- DVD $14.95
World At War, The (1973)
- Epic – both in length and scope – series that comprehensively examines the second World War. Assembling a vast array of rare footage and…
- Blu-Ray $109.95
Godfather, The (1972)
- Adaptation of Mario Puzo's novel is a vivid and immaculately staged chronicle of a Sicilian family's ascension to NY gangland dominance. Seamlessly…
- DVD $19.95
How I Won the War (1967)
- John Lennon and Michael Crawford do service in this black satire on military lunacy.
- DVD
$19.95 $14.95
Longest Day, The (1962)
- One the great WW2 films, with over 40 international stars. The large scale battle scenes have taken some outdoing.
- DVD
$20 $15
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
- Moving adaptation stars Gregory Peck in an Oscar–winning performance as the genial lawyer who defends an innocent Negro accused of rape in the…
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$15 $11.25
Diary of Anne Frank, The (1959)
- Absorbing film version of the play based on the experience of a Jewish girl who was forced to live within the confines of a tiny attic, under…
- DVD
$19.95 $14.95
FBI Story, The (1959)
- This official ‘biopic’ of the FBI, seen through the eyes of career agent James Stewart from 1924 to the late 1950s, has sturdy…
- VHS $19.95
From Here to Eternity (1953)
- Frank Sinatra established himself an actor alongside Burt Lancaster in this account of life at a Honolulu barracks at the time of Pearl Harbour.…
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$24.95 $18.70