Year 1942
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Midway (2019)
Directed by Roland Emmerich, starring Ed Skrein, Patrick Wilson, Woody Harrelson. Critics Consensus: Midway revisits a well-known story with modern special effects and a more balanced point of view, but its screenplay...
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Greyhound (2020)
Directed by Aaron Schneider, starring Tom Hanks, Stephen Graham, Rob Morgan. Critics Consensus: Greyhound's characters aren't as robust as its action sequences, but this fast-paced World War II thriller benefits from...
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Enemy at the Gates (2001)
Directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud, starring Jude Law, Joseph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz. Critics Consensus: Atmospheric and thrilling, Enemy at the Gates gets the look and feel of war right. However, the love story seems out of...
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The Thin Red Line (1998)
Directed by Terrence Malick, starring Jim Caviezel, Nick Nolte, Sean Penn. Critics Consensus: The Thin Red Line is a daringly philosophical World War II film with an enormous cast of eager stars.
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Pearl Harbor (2001)
Directed by Michael Bay, starring Ben Affleck, Kate Beckinsale, Josh Hartnett. Critics Consensus: Pearl Harbor tries to be the Titanic of war movies, but it's just a tedious romance filled with laughably bad dialogue....
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The English Patient (1996)
Directed by Anthony Minghella, starring Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe. Critics Consensus: Though it suffers from excessive length and ambition, director Minghella's adaptation of the Michael Ondaatje novel is...
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Allied (2016)
Directed by Robert Zemeckis, starring Brad Pitt, Marion Cotillard, Jared Harris. Overview: In 1942, a Canadian intelligence officer and a French Resistance fighter fall in love during a mission in Casablanca,...
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Defiance (2008)
Directed by Edward Zwick, starring Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber, Jamie Bell. Critics Consensus: Professionally made but artistically uninspired, Ed Zwick's story of Jews surviving WWII in the Belarus forest lacks the...