Some of the best movies of all time show the brutality of war, which catches the attention of those storytellers who want to know a little more about the events that changed the world.
World War II has dozens of tapes showing the difficult conditions experienced by its protagonists, such as Anne Frank or some of the millions of soldiers who died on the battlefield. The following is a list of movies available on Netflix that depict the horrors of war.
“A shadow in my eye”
A film based on real events and set in the height of World War II, in the city of Copenhagen, Denmark.
The story is about how a Royal Air Force plane crashed near the Joan of Arc Institute, prompting German forces to target the school as one of their bombing targets, killing more than 100 civilians.
“My best friend, Anne Frank”
The story of Anne Frank is world famous, so in this film they focus on Hannah Goslar’s girlfriend, who suffered like her from the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam.
Like Anna, Hannah was also taken to a concentration camp, where she did everything she could to keep her little sister alive, while giving her father hope for a rescue that seems farther away as the days go by.
“The forgotten battle”
Premiere on Netflix in late October 2021, “The Forgotten Battle” tells the story of what happened in Walcheren, a small island in Zeeland in 1944, where thousands of Allied soldiers fought against the German army.
A Dutch boy from the Axis side, a British pilot and a Zealand from the resistance are coming close to fate and will face crucial decisions not only for their lives but also for their friends and colleagues.
‘Dunkirk’
A British-American film co-produced and directed by Christopher Nolan, which won three Oscars in 2018 for Best Sound, Best Sound Editing and Best Editing.
Its story takes place in 1940, when German troops, in their relentless advance towards France, kept the allied forces besieged on the shores of Dunkirk.
All available civilian and military vessels were used to rescue the thousands of troops stranded in the area, with air support from French and British pilots.
“Munich on the eve of a war”
In 1938, Adolf Hitler was ready to invade Czechoslovakia and thus start the most devastating armed conflict of mankind. The government of British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain is seeking a peaceful solution to the conflict by any means possible.
With a huge responsibility on their shoulders, British civil servant Hugh Legat and German diplomat Paul Von Hartman meet in Munich for an emergency conference, the result of which could be the difference between peace and the destruction of Europe.
“final operation”
Starring Oscar winner Ben Kingsley and Golden Globe Oscar Isaac, “Operation Final” tells the details of a mission to capture Adolf Eichmann, the so-called “architect of the Holocaust.”
The action takes place fifteen years after World War II, when the Israeli intelligence service takes over the case of the arrest of a Nazi war criminal.
At the end of the war, this man had been declared dead, but was actually living with his family under a false identity in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The team of agents devised an entire strategy to arrest him, transfer him to Israel and prosecute him for his crimes.
“The photographer from Mauthausen”
Francesc Boix is ​​a Catalan Republican photographer who fought in the Spanish Civil War. After his exile, he was arrested and sent to a concentration camp in Mauthausen. Austria.
With the help of a group of Spanish prisoners, Boix is ​​dedicated to photographing everything that happens in that place, in order to show the world the atrocities of the Nazis.
The images he obtained were used as evidence to accuse Nazi leaders of crimes against humanity in the Nuremberg trials.
Source: univision
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