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Using your Google credentials log into Swank to watch these WWII/ Holocaust movies.
An actual World War II incident provided the inspiration for this classic adventure about a group of Allied officers attempting to tunnel out of a Nazi POW camp in 1942.
WWII Germany is the backdrop for this saga of two teens (Robert Sean Leonard, Christian Bale) among a group of jazz-loving youths rebelling against Nazism. Arvid: Frank Whaley. Frau Muller: Barbara Hershey. SS Official: Kenneth Branagh. Evey: Tushka Bergen. Willi: David Tom. Frau Linge: Julia Stemberger
In 1942, a few months after the infamous Pearl Harbor attack and a few years before World War II ended, the Japanese forces were once again planning to stage a sudden attack against their opponents this time near the Midway Atoll. Their plan, however, was intercepted, and the American forces arrived at the Pacific Ocean theater just in time to stop them. The battle lasted for three days, and its outcome became a critical turning point in the ongoing war.
A restaging of the surprise Japanese attack against the backdrop of a love triangle involving a nurse and two fighter pilots. The film was nominated for three Oscars and won one for Best Sound Effects Editing
A look at the first women's professional baseball league is set during World War II and focuses on the rivalry between sisters, one a sweet-swinging catcher and the other a pouty, impulsive pitcher, who play on the same team, which is managed by a washed-up, hard-drinking ex-Major Leaguer.
Academy Award winners Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman light up the screen in one of the most enduring romances in movie history--Casablanca. Rick Blaine (Bogart--The African Queen, The Caine Mutiny) owns a nightclub in Vichy-controlled Casablanca, frequented by refugees desperate to escape German domination. Despite the ever-present human misery, Rick manages to remain uninvolved in World War II now raging across Europe and Northern Africa. But all that changes when Ilsa Lund (Bergman--Gaslight, Notorious) walks through the front door of Rick's club--Rick must now choose between a life with the woman he loves and becoming the hero that both she and the world need.
"Dunkirk" opens as hundreds of thousands of British and Allied troops are surrounded by enemy forces. Trapped on the beach with their backs to the sea they face an impossible situation as the enemy closes in.
The true-life tale of Louis Zamperini, the Olympic track star who survived a plane crash in World War II, and later fought for his life against nature and as a Japanese prisoner of war.
World War II thriller about an American major who recruits a group of military prisoners for a suicide mission on a French chateau held by top Nazi officers. Since no "normal" GI can be expected to volunteer for this assignment, the "volunteers," serving life sentences, receive the dim promise of getting pardons if they survive. (Available starting 3/24)
Biopic about World War II Army medic Desmond Doss, a conscientious objector who refused to take a life or even carry a weapon. Doss was eventually awarded the Medal of Honor for saving the lives of 75 soldiers on the battlefields of Okinawa. (Available starting 3/24)
Movies about the Holocaust
After accusing fellow historian David Irving of being a Holocaust denier, Deborah Lipstadt is sued for libel and forced to provide proof of her claims in court. This drama is based on a real-life legal case, which reached a verdict in 2000
Best Actor Roberto Benigni directed this Oscar-winning Best Foreign Language Film about an Italian Jew who concocts an elaborate hoax to shield his son from the realities of a Nazi concentration camp.