The Clock Stopped at Midnight

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

Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch reluctantly pacts with a stock-man in order to protect her new property from a takeover plot. As the pair drive 2,000 head of cattle over unforgiving landscape, they experience the bombing of Darwin by Japanese forces firsthand.

Runtime

2h 45m

Director

Baz Luhrmann

Cast

Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, Essie Davis

The story of Jewish counterfeiter Salomon Sorowitsch, who was coerced into assisting the Nazi operation of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp during World War II.

Runtime

1h 38m

Director

Stefan Ruzowitzky

Cast

Karl Markovics, August Diehl, Devid Striesow

In 1941, the inhabitants of a small Jewish village in Central Europe organize a fake deportation train so that they can escape the Nazis and flee to Palestine.

Runtime

1h 43m

Director

Radu Mihăileanu

Cast

Lionel Abelanski, Rufus, Clément Harari

During World War II, two French civilians and a downed British Bomber Crew set out from Paris to cross the demarcation line between Nazi-occupied Northern France and the South. From there they will be able to escape to England. First, they must avoid German troops – and the consequences of their own blunders.

Runtime

2h 12m

Director

Gérard Oury

Cast

Bourvil, Louis de Funès, Terry-Thomas