Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, DL, FRS, RA was a British statesman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, during the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 15.69 |
Birthday | 1874-11-30 |
Place of Birth | Blenheim, Oxfordshire, England |
Also Known As | Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, DL, FRS, RA, |
2010
The Battle of Britain
6.3/5
Seventy years on, brothers Colin and Ewan McGregor take viewers through the key moments of the Battle of Britain, when 'the few' of the RAF faced the...
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The Battle of Britain
1943
Why We Fight: Divide and Conquer
6.8/14
The third film of Frank Capra's 'Why We Fight" propaganda film series, dealing with the Nazi conquest of Western Europe in 1940.
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Why We Fight: Divide and Conquer
2012
A Jubilee Tribute to The Queen by The Prince of Wales
0/0
Marking the Diamond Jubilee (1952-2012) of Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Charles shares his memories of the private side of his mother, the Queen, making...
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A Jubilee Tribute to The Queen by The Prince of Wales
1976
All This and World War II
4.9/5
Peter Gabriel is among the rockstars performing the music of Lennon and McCartney against a montage of World War II newsreel footage.
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All This and World War II
2001
Beyond the Movie: The Fellowship of the Ring
6/15
A documentary about the influences on Tolkien, covering in brief his childhood and how he detested the onslaught of industry through the idyllic count...
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Beyond the Movie: The Fellowship of the Ring
1939
The Four Just Men
6.2/4
The Four Men of the title are British WWI veterans who decide to work secretly against enemies of the country. They aren't above a bit of murder or sa...
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The Four Just Men
1944
Know Your Ally: Britain
4.6/8
Know Your Ally: Britain was a 45-minute propaganda film made in 1944. It was narrated by Walter Huston and produced by the United States War Departmen...
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Know Your Ally: Britain
2016
The Marvellous World of Roald Dahl
8/1
Fighter pilot, inventor, spy - the life of Roald Dahl is often stranger than fiction. Through a vast collection of his letters, writings and archive,...
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The Marvellous World of Roald Dahl
1961
The Aegean Tragedy
5.5/2
Documentary on the Greek history of the first half of the 20th century, from the Balkan wars until December events, with a special emphasis on the Asi...
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The Aegean Tragedy
2017
Agnelli
7.5/20
Documentary about the life of Giovanni "Gianni" Agnelli, an influential Italian industrialist and principal shareholder of Fiat.
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Agnelli
1943
Why We Fight: The Nazis Strike
6.4/24
The second film of Frank Capra's Why We Fight propaganda film series. It introduces Germany as a nation whose aggressive ambitions began in 1863 with...
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Why We Fight: The Nazis Strike
1995
Truman
7.6/15
Biographical account of America's President for the latter part of WWII. Shows Truman's rise from small-town nobody to leader of the USA, his decision...
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Truman
2017
The Eagle and the Lion: Hitler vs Churchill
9.4/6
Winston Churchill, one of the most revered men of the twentieth century. Adolf Hitler, one of the most hated leaders in contemporary history. Between...
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The Eagle and the Lion: Hitler vs Churchill
1975
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
5.7/7
Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.
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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
2013
Speeches That Shook the World
0/0
Speech-making is the art of persuasion. Well-honed rhetoric appeals not just to the mind, but to the heart and, deeper down, in the guts. Examining th...
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Speeches That Shook the World
1983
Schindler
8.125/8
The true story of German-Czech businessman Oskar Schindler (1908-74) as told by some of the Jews — more than a thousand people — whose lives he saved...
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Schindler
1944
Attack in the Pacific
0/0
Part of a a video series that documents the fighting between the United States and Imperial Japan during and immediately after World War II.
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Attack in the Pacific
1943
Desert Victory
5.8/6
A featureless land fit only for war, as the narrator, J. L. Hodson stated in the early scenes: "If war was to be fought then let it begin here". In en...
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Desert Victory
1943
Mission to Moscow
5.2/17
Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to America as an advocate of Stalinism.
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Mission to Moscow
2019
The Hitler–Stalin Pact
8.2/5
How could Hitler and Stalin, sworn ideological enemies, come to a secret pact in 1939? The captivating and detailed story of the diplomatic fiasco tha...
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The Hitler–Stalin Pact
2015
The Street Performers
3/1
This documentary-style short follows two impoverished teens performing on the streets of London in the days leading up to the London Blitz of 1940.
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The Street Performers
2019
Battlefield Gender
7/2
Both a visit to a very peculiar exhibition at the Bundeswehr Military History Museum in Dresden, Germany, as well as an unprejudiced look at the artis...
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Battlefield Gender
2019
Brexit: The Uncivil War
6.554/299
Political strategist Dominic Cummings leads a popular but controversial campaign to convince British voters to leave the European Union from 2015 up u...
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Brexit: The Uncivil War
2019
Storm Front in Mayo
7.5/4
Ireland, June 1944. The crucial decision about the right time to start Operation Overlord on D-Day comes to depend on the readings taken by Maureen Fl...
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Storm Front in Mayo
1986
When the Wind Blows
7.41/268
With the help of government-issued pamphlets, an elderly British couple build a shelter and prepare for an impending nuclear attack, unaware that time...
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When the Wind Blows
2015
1945: The Savage Peace
7.4/9
How, in 1945, after the end of World War II and the fall of the Nazi regime, the defeated were atrociously mistreated, especially those ethnic Germans...
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1945: The Savage Peace
2014
Winston Churchill: A Giant in the Century
7.7/6
A new look at the public and private life of one of the most important statesmen in the history of Europe: Winston Churchill (1874-1965), soldier, pol...
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Winston Churchill: A Giant in the Century
2016
I Betrayed Hitler
6.7/3
During the worst days of World War II, the British government asks the mathematician Alan Turing to unravel the mysteries of the German Enigma encrypt...
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I Betrayed Hitler
2019
The Phoney War
8/3
September 3rd, 1939. Britain and France declare war on Nazi Germany, only two days after the Wehrmacht invades Poland. This day, the sad date when the...
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The Phoney War
2012
Edward & George: Two Brothers, One Throne
0/0
The complex relationship between royal brothers Edward VIII and George VI, who were both at the heart of the infamous abdication crisis of 1936, is th...
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Edward & George: Two Brothers, One Throne
1945
John Bull's Own Island
0/0
Made at the end of WWII, this documentary looks at Britain's post-war period. During a time of economic hardship, Prime Minister Winston Churchill is...
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John Bull's Own Island
1950
Herrliche Zeiten
0/0
Compilation film about a very German first half of the 20th century.
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Herrliche Zeiten
2003
The Corporation
7.7/248
Since the late 18th century American legal decision that the business corporation organizational model is legally a person, it has become a dominant e...
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The Corporation
2015
The Great European Disaster Movie
5.5/5
2014-2015: 17. The Great European Disaster Movie Authored documentary by Italian director Annalisa Piras and former editor of The Economist Bill Emmo...
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The Great European Disaster Movie
1953
A Queen Is Crowned
7.1/7
A lavish documentary film of Queen Elizabeth II's Coronation in 1953.
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A Queen Is Crowned
2011
4 Days in May
6.2/18
Germany, Baltic Sea coast, May 1945, a few days before the end of World War II. A small Soviet patrol arrives at an isolated house where an elderly ba...
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4 Days in May
1994
FDR
9.2/2
Polio at age 39, president at age 50. Explore the public and private life of a determined man who steered this country through two monumental crises:...
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FDR
2004
Voices from the List
6.6/9
Based exclusively on testimonies of "Schindler Juden" from the Institute’s Visual History Archive, Voices from the List continues beyond the narrative...
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Voices from the List
2020
Stalin and the Katyn Massacre
6.4/5
The Katyn massacre, carried out by the Soviet NKVD in 1940, was only one of many unspeakable crimes committed by Stalin's ruthless executioners over t...
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Stalin and the Katyn Massacre
2019
Korea: The Never-Ending War
7.9/11
Shedding new light on a geopolitical hot spot, the film — written and produced by John Maggio and narrated by Korean-American actor John Cho — confron...
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Korea: The Never-Ending War
1977
Soldier of Orange
7.048/147
The lives of Erik Lanshof and five of his closest friends take different paths when the German army invades the Netherlands in 1940: fight and resista...
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Soldier of Orange
1982
Genocide
7.2/15
The mass murder of Jewish people by the Nazi regime is chronicled, with a warning that anti-Semitism is on the rise and the events of the Holocaust co...
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Genocide
2017
Viceroy's House
6.6/273
In 1947, Lord Mountbatten assumes the post of last Viceroy, charged with handing India back to its people, living upstairs at the house which was the...
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Viceroy's House
2015
The Jack King Affair
5.8/6
England, 1940, during World War II. An MI5 officer, codenamed Jack King, infiltrates a network of conspirators, a British fifth column sympathetic to...
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The Jack King Affair
2001
Pearl Harbor
6.936/6326
The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the two ace fighter pilots become entangled in a love...
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Pearl Harbor
2023
Filmmakers for the Prosecution
0/0
In 1945, two young American soldiers, brothers Budd and Stuart Schulberg, are commissioned to collect filmed and recorded evidence of the horrors comm...
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Filmmakers for the Prosecution
1997
Devils Don't Dream!
7.3/3
Before his journey into exile Jacobo Arbenz, the overthrown President of Guatemala, is presented to photographers stripped down to his underwear: an i...
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Devils Don't Dream!
2004
Celsius 41.11
5/3
This film attempts to correct the record when it comes to the left's attacks on President Bush, 9/11 and the war in Iraq and Kerry's 20-year tenure in...
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Celsius 41.11
1996
The Astors: High Society
0/0
The very name conjures up images of the good life black tie affairs and high society balls. Yet their long saga proves that money is no guarantee of h...
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The Astors: High Society
2001
Churchill: A Life: His Life & Great Speeches
0/0
This film covers the extraordinary life and great speeches of Winston Churchill that include the words: 'We shall never surrender,' 'blood, toil, tea...
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Churchill: A Life: His Life & Great Speeches
2012
Challenging Churchill
6/1
Churchill, a name typically associated with braveness and altruism. Recently found evidence from Soviet and British sources however brings up question...
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Challenging Churchill
2019
Coup 53
7.6/11
Tehran, Iran, August 19, 1953. A group of Iranian conspirators who, with the approval of the deposed tyrant Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, have conspired with...
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Coup 53
2020
Korea, A Hundred Years of War
5.5/2
A contemporary history of Korea(s) from a unique point of view that embraces the inner history of both South and North Korea in a single narrative.
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Korea, A Hundred Years of War
2021
The Arc de Triomphe: A Nation's Passion
8/1
The pride of Napoleon's victories, the Arc de Triomphe, whose first stone was laid in 1806 at the top of the Champs-Élysées, is, along with the Eiffel...
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The Arc de Triomphe: A Nation's Passion
2019
Laboratory Greece
8/2
A journey through Greece and Europe’s past and recent history: from the Second World War to the current crisis. It is a historical documentary, a look...
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Laboratory Greece
2013
Reza Shah
0/0
The documentary "Reza Shah" begins with the rise of Reza Khan to power and looks at his reign from beginning to the end.
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Reza Shah
2012
The Untold History Of The United States
8.12/92
Oliver Stone charts the history of the United States from the Second World War to the present.
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The Untold History Of The United States
2015
Laissez-faire
10/1
A historical perspective to understand Neoliberalism and to understand why this ideology today so profoundly influences the choices of our governments...
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Laissez-faire
1986
Return to Dresden
0/0
In 1945, Great Britain and the United States organized a bombing raid that devastated the ancient city of Dresden. This short documentary returns exac...
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Return to Dresden
1995
Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie
7.232/57
"Trinity and Beyond" is an unsettling yet visually fascinating documentary presenting the history of nuclear weapons development and testing between 1...
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Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie
UFO Invasion at Rendlesham
0/0
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UFO Invasion at Rendlesham
1911
Battle of London
0/0
Coverage of the Siege of Sidney Street, 3 January 1911, including film of Winston Churchill witnessing the events.
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Battle of London
1911
Houndsditch Murderers
0/0
The Sidney Street siege. "HOUNDSITCH MURDERERS: THE GREAT ALIENS OUTRAGE AT MILE END SHEWING (sic) THE ACTUAL SCENES.
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Houndsditch Murderers
1943
Forgotten Treasure
6/1
This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series short highlights the film preservation efforts of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Several scenes from...
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Forgotten Treasure
2022
Elizabeth: The Unseen Queen
5.2/5
The story of Queen Elizabeth II in her own words, featuring never-before-seen home movies.
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Elizabeth: The Unseen Queen
1945
The True Glory
6.1/14
A documentary account of the allied invasion of Europe during World War II compiled from the footage shot by nearly 1400 cameramen. It opens as the as...
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The True Glory
2007
How to Be an Ex-Prime Minister
0/0
Michael Cockerell tells the story of how prime ministers have coped with life after Number Ten, after Tony Blair became the youngest member of the ex-...
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How to Be an Ex-Prime Minister
1942
United We Stand
0/0
Using newsreel footage, this film reviews world events from the end of World War I to the American entry into World War II and, according to the narra...
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United We Stand
1996
A Web of War
0/0
The stories of the battles that brought together a Polish cavalry officer, a Canadian captain, and a Polish underground member are told by the very sa...
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A Web of War
1964
The Guns of August
0/0
Traces the origins and actions of World War I, from the funeral of Britain's King Edward VII to the Versailles Treaty.
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The Guns of August
2012
De Gaulle, le géant aux pieds d'argile
9/1
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De Gaulle, le géant aux pieds d'argile
2009
Hitler & Stalin: Portrait of Hostility
7.4/5
A double portrait of two dictators who were thousands of miles apart but were constantly fixated on each other.
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Hitler & Stalin: Portrait of Hostility
2000
Julie Andrews Forever
8.4/5
Julie Andrews starred in Hollywood productions that have become iconic movies, winning an Oscar for her performance as Mary Poppins, a symbol of the m...
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Julie Andrews Forever
2021
Parsifal: The Hidden Causes of World War II
8/1
Based on Worldwide Defeat by Salvador Borrego, it exposes the forbidden side of history and reveals Adolf Hitler's hamartia.
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Parsifal: The Hidden Causes of World War II
1953
Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II
0/0
The coronation of Elizabeth II as queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms took place on 2 June 1953 at Westminster Abbey in Lond...
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Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II
1994
In Search of Dr. Seuss
7.85/10
A nosy reporter wants to find out all she can about Dr. Seuss, aka Ted Geisel, and gets told the real facts by several of his characters, with large s...
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In Search of Dr. Seuss
2023
LOLA
6.492/65
Sussex, England, 1938. Shortly before the outbreak of World War II, Thomasina and Martha Hanbury, two ingenious sisters, create LOLA, a miraculous mac...
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LOLA
1991
Within These Walls: A Tour of the White House
0/0
A special that takes a look inside the White House.
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Within These Walls: A Tour of the White House
1950
The Debate Continues
0/0
This historic film documents the restoration of the House of Commons, which was severely damaged by a bombing raid in May 1941. It also commemorates t...
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The Debate Continues
1945
Berlin Conference
0/0
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Berlin Conference
1977
Hitler: A Career
7.3/71
A keen chronicle of the unlikely rise to power of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) and a dissection of the Third Reich (1933-1945), but also an analysis of ma...
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Hitler: A Career
2023
Où est Winston Churchill ? Le vol du Château Laurier
0/0
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Où est Winston Churchill ? Le vol du Château Laurier
2016
Brexit
0/0
A look at the streets of London in 2016 with Churchill's speech on the importance of a unified Europe.
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Brexit
2020
Money, Fascism, and Some Sort of Acid
10/1
A collection of five short films tackling the military industrial complex, the rise of fascism, political polarization and various issues in modern so...
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Money, Fascism, and Some Sort of Acid
1923
'All the Winners' - And the Losers!
0/0
No fewer than five once or future prime ministers on show at the momentous 1923 election.
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'All the Winners' - And the Losers!
2003
Stalin: Man of Steel
0/0
Emmy Awards nominee for "Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Research: Multi-faceted portrait of the man who succeeded Lenin as the head o...
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Stalin: Man of Steel
2024
The Bloody Hundredth
7.595/21
Meet the real-life airmen who inspired Masters of the Air as they share the harrowing and transformative events of the 100th Bomb Group.
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The Bloody Hundredth
1964
The Battle of France
0/0
A montage of newscasts tracing the events of the "damned war" and the German invasion of 1940.
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The Battle of France
1968
A Wall in Jerusalem
0/0
A brilliant documentary about the growth of Israel into the Jewish homeland. Seventy-three years of struggle for religious freedom is vividly recorded...
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A Wall in Jerusalem
2019
The King Who Fooled Hitler
7.5/12
In a tale of double agents and decoys, this documentary reveals, for the first time, the story of King George VI's elaborate ruse to divert German att...
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The King Who Fooled Hitler
2023
The Mistake that Killed Hitler
0/1
In April 1945, as Stalin's Red Army approach from the East and the Western Allied forces quickly approach through France and Belgium, Adolf Hitler awa...
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The Mistake that Killed Hitler
1945
Crimean Conference
0/0
The Crimean (Yalta) conference of the leaders of the three powers - allies in the Anti-Hitler coalition was held from February 4 to February 11, 1945...
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Crimean Conference
2003
Beyond the Movie: The Return of the King
8.2/5
Documentary exploring the parallels between 'The Return of the King' and real events and people in history.
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Beyond the Movie: The Return of the King
2018
1914-1945 : Les grands hommes des deux guerres
0/0
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