D-Day Assassins

At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice longs to liberate himself from his virginity. Oblivious to the war and the resistance that surrounds him, this young man embarks on a journey of sexual awakening and self-discovery, encountering a universe of frustration, eroticism, and adventur...

Runtime

1h 33m

Director

Jiří Menzel

Cast

Václav Neckář, Jitka Scoffin, Vladimír Valenta

The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence officers conspire to blow up the structure, but Col. Nicholson, the commander who supervised the bridge's construction, has acquired a sense of pride in his creation and tries to foil th...

Runtime

2h 41m

Director

David Lean

Cast

William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins

A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII.

Runtime

2h 11m

Director

Jean-Jacques Annaud

Cast

Jude Law, Joseph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz

As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fourth trapped behind enemy lines. Ranger captain John Miller and seven men are tasked with penetrating German-held territory and bringing the boy home.

Runtime

2h 49m

Director

Steven Spielberg

Cast

Tom Hanks, Tom Sizemore, Dennis Farina

The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of the Japanese who fought it.

Runtime

2h 21m

Director

Clint Eastwood

Cast

Ken Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya, Tsuyoshi Ihara