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1. A League of Their Own (1992)
PG | 128 min | Comedy, Drama, Sport
Two sisters join the first female professional baseball league and struggle to help it succeed amid their own growing rivalry.
Director: Penny Marshall | Stars: Tom Hanks, Geena Davis, Lori Petty, Madonna
Votes: 120,307 | Gross: $107.53M
2. Brothers (I) (2009)
R | 105 min | Drama, Thriller, War
While on tour in Afghanistan, Sam's helicopter is shot down and he is presumed dead. Back home, it is his screw-up brother who looks after the family. Sam does return, but with a lot of excess baggage.
Director: Jim Sheridan | Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Natalie Portman, Tobey Maguire, Sam Shepard
Votes: 145,258 | Gross: $28.50M
3. Summer of '42 (1971)
PG | 104 min | Drama, Romance
During his summer vacation on Nantucket Island in 1942, a youth eagerly awaiting his first sexual encounter finds himself developing an innocent love for a young woman awaiting news on her soldier husband's fate in WWII.
Director: Robert Mulligan | Stars: Jennifer O'Neill, Gary Grimes, Jerry Houser, Oliver Conant
Votes: 9,039 | Gross: $7.38M
4. In Harm's Way (1965)
Approved | 165 min | Drama, Romance, War
A Naval officer, reprimanded after Pearl Harbor, is later promoted to Rear Admiral and gets a second chance to prove himself against the Japanese.
Director: Otto Preminger | Stars: John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Patricia Neal, Tom Tryon
Votes: 10,289 | Gross: $4.20M
5. The Unknown Soldier (2017)
132 min | Drama, War
A film adaptation of Väinö Linna's best selling novel The Unknown Soldier (1954) and the novel's unedited manuscript version, Sotaromaani.
Director: Aku Louhimies | Stars: Eero Aho, Johannes Holopainen, Jussi Vatanen, Aku Hirviniemi
Votes: 12,831
6. War and Remembrance (1988–1989)
Not Rated | 1,620 min | Drama, War
The trials of the Henry and the Jastrow families amidst the events after the U.S.'s entry into World War II.
Stars: Robert Mitchum, Jane Seymour, Hart Bochner, Victoria Tennant
Votes: 3,106
7. The Winds of War (1983)
883 min | Drama, Romance, War
The trials of the Henry and Jastrow families in the early years of World War II.
Stars: Robert Mitchum, Ali MacGraw, Jan-Michael Vincent, John Houseman
Votes: 4,622
8. The Cranes Are Flying (1957)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama, Romance, War
Veronica plans a rendezvous with her lover, Boris, at the bank of river, only for him to be drafted into World War II shortly thereafter.
Director: Mikhail Kalatozov | Stars: Tatyana Samoylova, Aleksey Batalov, Vasiliy Merkurev, Aleksandr Shvorin
Votes: 19,627 | Gross: $0.02M
9. Homefront (1991–1993)
60 min | Drama, History, Romance
World War II is over and the boys from the town of River Run, Ohio, are coming home. It seems that life is slowly going back to normal, but war has changed everything and they will never be the same again.
Stars: Kyle Chandler, Sammi Davis, Ken Jenkins, Mimi Kennedy
Votes: 1,395
10. The Human Comedy (1943)
Passed | 117 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Teenager Homer Macauley stays at home in small-town Ithaca to support his family while his older brother Marcus prepares to go to war.
Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: Mickey Rooney, Frank Morgan, James Craig, Marsha Hunt
Votes: 2,435
11. Since You Went Away (1944)
Approved | 177 min | Drama, Romance, War
With her husband away to fight in World War II, a housewife must care for their two daughters alone.
Directors: John Cromwell, Edward F. Cline, Tay Garnett, David O. Selznick | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Shirley Temple
Votes: 5,078
12. The War (2007)
TV-14 | 874 min | Documentary, History, War
A seven-part series focusing on the many ways in which the Second World War impacted the lives of American families.
Stars: Keith David, Katharine Phillips, Tom Hanks, Paul Fussell
Votes: 5,639
13. I Remember Mama (1948)
Approved | 134 min | Drama, Family
A young writer recalls her ups and downs of growing up as one of four children to Norwegian immigrant parents in 1910s San Francisco.
Director: George Stevens | Stars: Irene Dunne, Barbara Bel Geddes, Oscar Homolka, Philip Dorn
Votes: 5,989
14. Tuntematon sotilas (2018–2019)
270 min | Drama, History, War
The story of a Finnish Army machine gun company operating in the Karelian front during the Continuation War from mobilization in 1941 to the Moscow Armistice in 1944.
Stars: Aku Hirviniemi, Andrei Alén, Jussi Vatanen, Hannes Suominen
Votes: 2,426
15. The Land Girls (1998)
R | 111 min | Drama, Romance, War
Three young women from very different walks of life join the women's land army during World War II, and are sent to work together on a farm in Dorset, where the experience changes their lives forever.
Director: David Leland | Stars: Catherine McCormack, Rachel Weisz, Anna Friel, Steven Mackintosh
Votes: 2,152 | Gross: $0.15M
16. The Littlest Rebel (1935)
Approved | 73 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Shirley Temple's father, a rebel officer, sneaks back to his rundown plantation to see his family and is arrested. A Yankee takes pity and sets up an escape. Everyone is captured and the ... See full summary »
Director: David Butler | Stars: Shirley Temple, John Boles, Jack Holt, Karen Morley
Votes: 1,668
17. The Guardians (2017)
R | 138 min | Drama, War
Women are left behind to work a family farm during the Great War.
Director: Xavier Beauvois | Stars: Nathalie Baye, Laura Smet, Iris Bry, Cyril Descours
Votes: 2,569 | Gross: $0.18M
18. Molly: An American Girl on the Home Front (2006 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 85 min | Drama, Family, War
Molly is a girl living in the year 1943 and WWII has brought many changes to Molly's life. An English girl comes to live with Molly's family to escape the bombings. They slowly become good friends.
Director: Joyce Chopra | Stars: Maya Ritter, David Aaron Baker, Tory Green, Sarah Manninen
Votes: 979
19. Three Came Home (1950)
Not Rated | 106 min | Drama, War
During Word War II, American author Agnes Newton Keith is imprisoned by the Japanese in various POW camps in North Borneo and Sarawak.
Director: Jean Negulesco | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Patric Knowles, Florence Desmond, Sessue Hayakawa
Votes: 2,126
20. Vartioitu kylä 1944 (1978)
100 min | Drama, War
Director: Timo Linnasalo | Stars: Raimo Grönberg, Markku Huhtamo, Kaija Kangas, Antti Litja
Votes: 85
21. Reveille with Beverly (1943)
Approved | 78 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Beverly Ross moderates a 5:30 AM radio show with swing music, dedicated to the local servicemen. Two buddies of her brother have a chance to meet her and both fall in love. One of them is a... See full summary »
Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Ann Miller, Bob Crosby Orchestra, Freddie Slack and His Orchestra, Ella Mae Morse
Votes: 477
22. The White Cliffs of Dover (1944)
Passed | 126 min | Drama, Romance, War
Susan travels with her father to England for a vacation. Invited to a ball, Susan meets Sir John Ashwood and marries him after a whirlwind romance. However, American Susan never quite adjusts to life as a new member of the British gentry.
Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: Irene Dunne, Alan Marshal, Roddy McDowall, Frank Morgan
Votes: 1,797
23. Thousands Cheer (1943)
Passed | 125 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
Acrobat Eddie Marsh is in the army now. His first act is to become friendly with Kathryn Jones, the colonel's pretty daughter. Their romance hits a few snags, including disapproval from her... See full summary »
Director: George Sidney | Stars: Kathryn Grayson, Gene Kelly, Mary Astor, John Boles
Votes: 1,191
24. Germany Pale Mother (1980)
152 min | Drama, History, War
Germany 1939. Hans and Lene marry the day before the war breaks out, and Hans is sent to the Eastern front. During a bombing raid their daughter Anna is born. The house is destroyed and ... See full summary »
Director: Helma Sanders-Brahms | Stars: Eva Mattes, Ernst Jacobi, Elisabeth Stepanek, Angelika Thomas
Votes: 842
25. Evakko (1956)
100 min | Drama, History, War
When the Winter War of 1939 begins but an evacuation order never arrives in Karelia, a local family must assemble the townspeople to flee their homes from the impending destruction.
Director: Ville Salminen | Stars: Santeri Karilo, Linda Lampinen, Aino-Maija Tikkanen, Eila-Kaarina Roine
Votes: 85
26. Goodtime Girls (1980)
30 min | Comedy
Four young women share a Washington, D.C. apartment during World War II.
Stars: Annie Potts, Lorna Patterson, Georgia Engel, Francine Tacker
Votes: 55
27. Falling in Love Again (1980)
PG | 103 min | Drama, Romance
While struggling with his midlife crisis, Harry receives an invitation for his high school's reunion back so he takes Sue and their teenage kids on a cross-country car trip back to the Big Apple.
Director: Steven Paul | Stars: Elliott Gould, Susannah York, Michelle Pfeiffer, Kaye Ballard
Votes: 454
28. The River Pirates (1988)
PG | 108 min | Action, Adventure, Family
A timeless story of a boy's adventures growing up in a small Southern town, Yazoo City in the 1940s during World War II, roaming with his friends, playing practical jokes, and getting into trouble.
Director: Tom G. Robertson | Stars: Richard Farnsworth, Ryan Francis, Gennie James, Douglas Emerson
Votes: 182
29. Twenty Days Without War (1977)
101 min | Drama, Romance, War
During the 20-day leave, war correspondent Lopatin travels by train to the distant city of Tashkent. It's very far from the front but the war seems to be present in people's minds even there.
Director: Aleksey German | Stars: Yuriy Nikulin, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Aleksey Petrenko, Angelina Stepanova
Votes: 1,568
30. When Willie Comes Marching Home (1950)
Approved | 82 min | Comedy, War
Willie Kluggs enters the service with hopes of going overseas, but his uncanny marksmanship keeps him at home as a shooting instructor... much to his embarrassment.
Director: John Ford | Stars: Dan Dailey, Corinne Calvet, Colleen Townsend, William Demarest
Votes: 842
31. Tender Comrade (1943)
Passed | 102 min | Drama, Romance, War
Jo Jones, a young defense plant worker whose husband is in the military during World War II, shares a house with three other women in the same situation.
Director: Edward Dmytryk | Stars: Ginger Rogers, Robert Ryan, Ruth Hussey, Patricia Collinge
Votes: 970
32. The Doughgirls (1944)
Approved | 102 min | Comedy
While sharing a hotel suite during the World War II housing shortage in Washington, D.C., three friends discover that their respective marriages are not legally valid.
Director: James V. Kern | Stars: Ann Sheridan, Alexis Smith, Jack Carson, Jane Wyman
Votes: 775
33. Clear Skies (1961)
Not Rated | 110 min | Romance, War, Drama
During the 1950s Sasha Lvova reminisces about the WW2 years when she fell in love with Soviet fighter pilot Aleksei Astakhov.
Director: Grigoriy Chukhray | Stars: Nina Drobysheva, Evgeniy Urbanskiy, Natalya Kuzmina, Vitaliy Konyaev
Votes: 469
34. Okraina (1933)
98 min | Drama, War
Outskirts is an internationally renowned masterpiece of early sound cinema. In a remote Russian village during World War I, colorful and nuanced characters experience divided loyalties: ... See full summary »
Director: Boris Barnet | Stars: Yelena Kuzmina, Mikhail Zharov, Nikolay Bogolyubov, Nikolay Kryuchkov
Votes: 1,122
35. Secret Origin: The Story of DC Comics (2010 Video)
Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary, History
The history of the longstanding American comic book company that launched such legendary superhero characters such as Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman.
Director: Mac Carter | Stars: Ryan Reynolds, Paul Levitz, Gerard Jones, Mark Waid
Votes: 1,326
36. The Yoke's on Me (1944)
Approved | 16 min | Comedy, Short
Rejected by the armed services, the stooges decide to "do their bit" by becoming farmers. For $1000 plus the car, the boys buy a run down farm with no livestock. They acquire an escaped ostrich that eats gunpowder and lays explosive eggs.
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Emmett Lynn
Votes: 448
37. Lupaus (2005)
112 min | Drama, War
The film tells about members of Finnish women's Lotta Service during the Second World War through the eyes of three young women.
Director: Ilkka Vanne | Stars: Laura Birn, Karoliina Vanne, Hanna Lekander, Pertti Sveholm
Votes: 883
38. Hella W (2011)
82 min | Biography, Drama, History
The life of a heroine. The life and work of Hella Wuolijoki. A poet, spy and millionaire, she turned into an internationally acclaimed businesswoman, politician and playwright, who ... See full summary »
Director: Juha Wuolijoki | Stars: Tiina Weckström, Hannu-Pekka Björkman, Matleena Kuusniemi, Maria Heiskanen
Votes: 379
39. The War Against Mrs. Hadley (1942)
Passed | 86 min | Drama
A Washington official courts a society matron who is trying to ignore the effects of World War II.
Director: Harold S. Bucquet | Stars: Edward Arnold, Fay Bainter, Richard Ney, Jean Rogers
Votes: 486
40. Bedside Manner (1945)
Approved | 72 min | Comedy
Macho pilot is treated by a woman doctor. Complications ensue.
Director: Andrew L. Stone | Stars: John Carroll, Ruth Hussey, Charles Ruggles, Ann Rutherford
Votes: 236
41. Listen to Britain (1942)
Not Rated | 20 min | Documentary, Short
A depiction of life in wartime England during the Second World War. Director Humphrey Jennings visits many aspects of civilian life and of the turmoil and privation caused by the war, all without narration.
Directors: Humphrey Jennings, Stewart McAllister | Stars: Leonard Brockington, Joseph Macleod, Bud Flanagan, Chesney Allen
Votes: 1,845
42. Pojat (1962)
106 min | Comedy, Drama, War
A group of mischievous Finnish boys experience the ups and downs of life during World War 2.
Director: Mikko Niskanen | Stars: Pentti Tarkiainen, Vesa-Matti Loiri, Uti Saurio, Hannu Vironmäki
Votes: 968
43. Rationing (1944)
Passed | 93 min | Comedy, Romance, War
A village butcher bickers with the postmistress in charge of World War II ration stamps.
Director: Willis Goldbeck | Stars: Wallace Beery, Marjorie Main, Donald Meek, Dorothy Morris
Votes: 273
44. The Weakly Reporter (1944)
7 min | Animation, Family, Short
A newsreel spoof with WWII homefront gags, including rationing, air raid drills and women filling in men's jobs.
Director: Chuck Jones | Stars: Mel Blanc, Bea Benaderet, Frank Graham
Votes: 285
45. Der Untergang der Pamir (2006 TV Movie)
180 min | Action, Drama
The Story of the German Sail-School Ship Pamir that sunk in a hurricane.
Director: Kaspar Heidelbach | Stars: Klaus J. Behrendt, Miroslav Milanovic Miki, Jan Josef Liefers, Dietmar Bär
Votes: 188
46. Kirje isältä (2003)
134 min | Drama
Stars: Tarja Keinänen, Noora Peltokukka, Riina Hoffrén, Mirka Varjus
Votes: 22
47. Solveigin laulu (1974– )
140 min | Drama, War
Domestic battles on the Finnish home front.
Stars: Leena Uotila, Liisamaija Laaksonen, Aino Lehtimäki, Paavo Pentikäinen
Votes: 71
48. Behind the Tunes: Looney Tunes Go to War! (2005 Video)
10 min | Documentary, Animation, Short
A documentary about the Looney Tunes war cartoons.
Directors: Robert Clampett, Friz Freleng, Chuck Jones, Frank Tashlin | Stars: Leonard Maltin, Paul Dini, Jerry Beck, Mark Kausler
Votes: 51
49. Blondie for Victory (1942)
Passed | 71 min | Comedy, Family, War
Blondie organizes Housewives of America to perform homefront wartime duties, including guarding the local dam. Dagwood and the other husbands don't care to be left home doing the cooking ... See full summary »
Director: Frank R. Strayer | Stars: Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake, Larry Simms, Daisy
Votes: 202
50. A Jolly Good Furlough (1943)
7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Popeye is doing a great job of sinking Japanese ships (complete with toilet-flush sound effect). A carrier pigeon brings him notice that he's been granted a month furlough, which he plans ... See full summary »
Directors: Dan Gordon, Joseph Oriolo | Stars: Margie Hines, Jack Mercer
Votes: 182