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1. Black Book (2006)

R | 145 min | Drama, Thriller, War

In the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II, a Jewish singer infiltrates the regional Gestapo headquarters for the Dutch resistance.

Director: Paul Verhoeven | Stars: Carice van Houten, Sebastian Koch, Thom Hoffman, Halina Reijn

Votes: 80,458 | Gross: $4.40M

2. Hyena Road (2015)

R | 120 min | Action, Drama, War

Three different men, three different worlds, three different wars - all stand at the intersection of modern warfare - a murky world of fluid morality where all is not as it seems.

Director: Paul Gross | Stars: Rossif Sutherland, Allan Hawco, David Richmond-Peck, Karl Campbell

Votes: 8,880 | Gross: $0.00M

3. Hope and Glory (1987)

PG-13 | 113 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Bill, a young boy living on the outskirts of London experiences the exhilaration of World War II. During this period, Bill learns about sex, death, love, hypocrisy, and the faults of adults as he prowls the ruins of bombed houses.

Director: John Boorman | Stars: Sarah Miles, David Hayman, Sebastian Rice-Edwards, Geraldine Muir

Votes: 14,587 | Gross: $10.02M

4. Passchendaele (2008)

R | 114 min | Drama, History, Romance

The lives of a troubled veteran, his nurse girlfriend and a naive boy intersect first in Alberta and then in Belgium during the bloody World War I battle of Passchendaele.

Director: Paul Gross | Stars: Paul Gross, Michael Greyeyes, James Kot, Jesse Frechette

Votes: 8,797

5. For a Lost Soldier (1992)

Unrated | 92 min | Drama, Romance, War

Set in The Netherlands at the end of WW II, this touching story, told in flashbacks, explores the complex and romantic relationship between an adult soldier and a displaced, lonely adolescent boy.

Director: Roeland Kerbosch | Stars: Maarten Smit, Andrew Kelley, Jeroen Krabbé, Freark Smink

Votes: 4,820 | Gross: $0.39M

6. Primeval: New World (2012–2013)

TV-14 | 42 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Canadian spin-off of Primeval (2007). A new team of scientists from the Cross Photonics company in Vancouver track down dangerous creatures emerging through anomalies in time.

Stars: Niall Matter, Sara Canning, Danny Rahim, Yan-Kay Crystal Lowe

Votes: 4,862

7. Shake Hands with the Devil (2007)

R | 112 min | Drama, History, War

The story of General Romeo Dallaire's frustrated efforts to stop the madness of the Rwandan Genocide, despite the complete indifference of his superiors.

Directors: Jennifer Capraru, Roger Spottiswoode | Stars: Roy Dupuis, Owen Sejake, James Gallanders, Michel Ange Nzojibwami

Votes: 3,695

8. Trench 11 (2017)

Not Rated | 90 min | Horror, Thriller, War

In the final days of WWI, an allied army unit led by a shell-shocked soldier is sent to investigate a mysterious abandoned German facility located deep underground. What they find is fate worse than death.

Director: Leo Scherman | Stars: Rossif Sutherland, Robert Stadlober, Charlie Carrick, Shaun Benson

Votes: 2,798

9. Attack on the Iron Coast (1968)

G | 89 min | Action, Drama, War

During World War II, a commando leader named Major Jamie Wilson leads a group of soldiers on a suicide mission to destroy a Nazi naval stronghold on the French coast.

Director: Paul Wendkos | Stars: Lloyd Bridges, Andrew Keir, Sue Lloyd, Mark Eden

Votes: 765

10. The Saddest Music in the World (2003)

R | 100 min | Comedy, Musical

A musical of sorts set in Winnipeg during the Great Depression, where a beer baroness organizes a contest to find the saddest music in the world. Musicians from around the world descend on the city to try and win the $25,000 prize.

Director: Guy Maddin | Stars: Isabella Rossellini, Mark McKinney, Maria de Medeiros, David Fox

Votes: 6,316 | Gross: $0.67M

11. Tobruk (1967)

Approved | 107 min | Drama, War

A Canadian POW major is rescued by a special British military unit made up of Germans to help lead an attack on a major German fuel depot in Tobruk, Libya.

Director: Arthur Hiller | Stars: Rock Hudson, George Peppard, Nigel Green, Guy Stockwell

Votes: 3,581

12. Action in the North Atlantic (1943)

Passed | 126 min | Drama, War

An American tanker is sunk by a German U-boat, and the survivors spend 11 days at sea on a raft. Their next assignment - bound for Murmansk through the sub-stalked N. Atlantic.

Directors: Lloyd Bacon, Byron Haskin, Raoul Walsh | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Raymond Massey, Alan Hale, Julie Bishop

Votes: 4,545

13. Angela (1977)

91 min | Drama

A war vet finds out that a former prostitute had his baby. Doubting it's his, he gives it away, so she reports him. Twenty years later, she still wants to find her son. She meets a young man and falls in love, but the vet's prison term ends.

Director: Boris Sagal | Stars: Sophia Loren, Steve Railsback, John Vernon, John Huston

Votes: 212

14. Waterloo Bridge (1931)

81 min | Drama, Romance

A prostitute's self-loathing makes her reluctant to marry an idealistic soldier during World War I.

Director: James Whale | Stars: Mae Clarke, Douglass Montgomery, Doris Lloyd, Frederick Kerr

Votes: 3,163

15. Storming Juno (2010 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 88 min | History, War

Docudrama retelling the Canadian assault of Juno Beach on D-Day, as told via reenactment and through interviews with those who were there.

Director: Tim Wolochatiuk | Stars: Benjamin Muir, Kevin Walker, Craig Cyr, Anthony Rella

Votes: 769

16. Von Richthofen and Brown (1971)

PG-13 | 97 min | Action, Biography, Drama

The story of Manfred von Richthofen, the German air ace during World War I and his struggle with the enemy aces and some jealous German officers.

Director: Roger Corman | Stars: John Phillip Law, Don Stroud, Barry Primus, Corin Redgrave

Votes: 1,383 | Gross: $0.17M

17. Archangel (1990)

Not Rated | 78 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

An amnesiac soldier, seeking his lost love, arrives in Archangel in northern Russia to help the townsfolk in their fight against the Bolsheviks, all quite unaware that the Great War ended three months ago.

Director: Guy Maddin | Stars: Michael Gottli, David Falkenberg, Michael O'Sullivan, Margaret Anne MacLeod

Votes: 1,626 | Gross: $0.03M

18. ZOS: Zone of Separation (2009)

Drama, War

An 8-part drama mini-series about the life and death struggle to enforce a U.N.-brokered ceasefire, as peacekeepers face the harsh reality of living in today's hot spots in many parts of ... See full summary »

Stars: Michelle Nolden, Rick Roberts, Enrico Colantoni, Allan Hawco

Votes: 180

19. Ordeal in the Arctic (1993 TV Movie)

PG | 96 min | Drama

A Canadian military flight from Greenland to Canada crashes in the frozen arctic, nearby Alert base in Nunavut, and the survivors must endure for 32 hours until rescued.

Director: Mark Sobel | Stars: Richard Chamberlain, Catherine Mary Stewart, Melanie Mayron, Scott Hylands

Votes: 289

20. Heroes of the North (2010–2015)

Action, Adventure, Crime

The Canadian government creates a team of super heroes, who battle against Criminals, Terrorist Quebec Separates, and the evil Nazi Medusa organization.

Stars: Mike Donis, Jordana Lajoie, Helena Marie, Michael Mast

Votes: 16

21. Waterloo Road (1945)

76 min | Drama, Romance, War

A drama set during World War II. A tale of adultery and desertion.

Director: Sidney Gilliat | Stars: John Mills, Stewart Granger, Alastair Sim, Joy Shelton

Votes: 691

22. Paratrooper (1953)

Approved | 88 min | Drama, War

In 1940, an American claiming to be Canadian volunteers for the British Army's paratroop school.

Director: Terence Young | Stars: Alan Ladd, Leo Genn, Susan Stephen, Harry Andrews

Votes: 802 | Gross: $5.19M

23. The Wars (1983)

120 min | Drama, War

Robert Ross lives a protected adolescence in a well-off Toronto suburb. Secretive and withdrawn, he shares his thoughts only with his sister Rowena, who is mentally disabled. He feels ... See full summary »

Director: Robin Phillips | Stars: Brent Carver, Martha Henry, William Hutt, Ann-Marie MacDonald

Votes: 60

24. 21 Brothers (2011)

Unrated | 96 min | Drama, History, War

Set in W.W.1 the film follows the story of the Canada's 21st battalion as it prepares for the battle of Courcelette in September 1916.

Director: Michael McGuire | Stars: Steve VanVolkingburgh, Clayton Garrett, Steven Spencer, Aaron Miedema

Votes: 129

25. Seven Days Leave (1930)

Passed | 80 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

Based on J.M. Barrie's play "The Old Lady Shows Her Medals," about a young Canadian soldier (Gary Cooper) wounded while fighting in World War I. While recovering from his wounds in London, ... See full summary »

Director: Richard Wallace | Stars: Gary Cooper, Beryl Mercer, Daisy Belmore, Nora Cecil

Votes: 146

26. Private Peat (1918)

50 min | Biography, Drama, War

Harold R. Peat tries to enlist in the United States army so that he may fight in World War I but is rejected by the recruiting officer. He is despondent until he and his friend, Old Bill, ... See full summary »

Director: Edward José | Stars: Harold R. Peat, Miriam Fouche, William Sorelle, Edwin J. Grant

27. Battle for Cassino (1969 Video)

51 min | Documentary, History, War

In this World War II documentary, we examine several of the controversial bombings of the war. Included is Allies bombing of the Benedictine Monastery on Monte Cassino.

Director: Peter Batty | Stars: Bernard Archard, Allan Francis Harding, Dan Davin, Achim Oster

Votes: 13

28. Opération Tango (1999)

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Director: Mark Blandford | Stars: Michael Sapieha, Jean-François Casabonne, Pierre Chagnon, Suzanne Clément

Votes: 25

29. 1943: Operazione Husky (2014 TV Movie)

73 min | Documentary

A group of Canadians set out to retrace the footsteps of the 1st Canadian Division by marching through the hills and countryside of Sicily, commemorating each stage of the battle.

Director: Giuseppe Di Tacchio | Stars: Agatino Acireale, Sheridan Atkinson, Phil Curran, Antonio Giorgi

30. Billy Bishop Goes to War (1982 TV Movie)

88 min | Musical

Musical depicting the adventures of Canadian World War I fighter pilot and Victoria Cross winner Billy Bishop.

Stars: Eric Peterson, John Gray

Votes: 40

31. Invasion - Nazi Version (1944)

16 min | Documentary, Short, War

Created by the U.S. Navy's Industrial Incentive Division and the Office of Strategic Service (OSS) during WWII, this "Nazi version" of the Normandy invasion is a translated, authentic ... See full summary »

32. Le 22e régiment en Allemagne (1955)

15 min | Documentary, Short

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Director: Bernard Devlin | Star: Gil Laroche

33. Battlefield (1995–2004)
Episode: Operation Market Garden (2001)

Documentary, History, War

Operation Market Garden was an attempt by the allies to use airborne units to seize key bridges and short-cut the slog into northern Germany thereby shortening the war. This is a look at the plan, the leaders and the equipment involved.

Directors: Andrew Aitken, Dave Flitton, James Wignall | Stars: Jonathan Booth, Wilhelm Bittrich, Omar N. Bradley, Lewis H. Brereton

Votes: 6

34. Battlefield (1995–2004)
Episode: The Battle for Caen (2001)

Documentary, History, War

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Stars: Jonathan Booth, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Bernard L. Montgomery, Erwin Rommel

Votes: 14

35. Police Call (1954– )
Episode: Montreal (1954)

Drama

When a woman is found murdered in Montreal, the police investigation focuses on her estranged husband, a Canadian soldier and his pretty girlfriend.

Director: Arthur H. Singer | Stars: King Donovan, Harry Landers, Jackie Duval, Sidney Clute

36. Il était une fois: Les Derniers de classe (2010–2020)
Episode: La nuit pluvieuse (2020)

2 min | Short, Comedy, Horror

France 1916. On a battlefield flooded by the rain, a confrontation between British and German soldiers is announced with a bloody outcome.

Director: Olivier Lafond Martel

37. Downton Abbey (2010–2015)
Episode: Episode #2.6 (2011)

TV-14 | 53 min | Drama, Romance

An unrecognizable burn victim turns up at the convalescent home claiming to be Mary's presumed drowned cousin Patrick, Carlisle plans to lure Carson from Downton, and Bates' wife reneges on her divorce agreement.

Director: Andy Goddard | Stars: Hugh Bonneville, Jessica Brown Findlay, Laura Carmichael, Jim Carter

Votes: 1,990

38. The U.S. and the Holocaust (2022)
Episode: The Homeless, The Tempest-Tossed (1942-) (2022)

TV-14 | 131 min | Documentary, History

A group of government officials supports and finances rescue operations. Allied soldiers begin to liberate concentration camps and find mass graves. The public sees the sheer scale of the Holocaust.

Directors: Sarah Botstein, Ken Burns, Lynn Novick | Stars: Peter Coyote, Daniel Mendelsohn, Deborah Lipstadt, Eva Geiringer

Votes: 144

39. World War II in Colour (2009)
Episode: Overlord (2009)

TV-MA | 51 min | Documentary, History, War

After a careful campaign of disinformation that throws the German defenders off-guard, the Western Allies finally land on Normandy. After fierce fighting, they establish a foothold in Europe. France is liberated.

Stars: Robert Powell, Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Adolf Hitler

Votes: 227