Tag: 1940s

Hitler – The First 100 Days

It is customary to give every new government 100 days...

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

During the rise of fascism in Mussolini's Italy, a wooden...

The Railway Children Return

Follow a group of children who are evacuated to a...

A Jazzman's Blues

A tale of forbidden love and family drama unravels 40...

Robbing Mussolini

Near the end of WWII, a young bootlegger and his...

The Chest of Ryou

Amid the hysteria of World War II, a Chinese-American private...

Valiant Hearts

In August 1942, during the Second World War, Six Jewish...

High Seas

Two sisters discover disturbing family secrets after a string of...

Nightmare Alley

An ambitious carnival man with a talent for manipulating people...

The Shadow in My Eye

On March 21st, 1945, the British Royal Air Force set...

12 Mighty Orphans

Haunted by his mysterious past, a devoted high school football...

The United States vs. Billie Holiday

Billie Holiday spent much of her career being adored by...

Farha

Palestine, 1948. After the withdrawal of the British occupiers, tensions...

Saturday Fiction

Iconic actress Jean Yu returns to Japanese-occupied China to star...

The Vinland Club

Boys' college in eastern Quebec at the end of the...

A League of Their Own

In 1943, Carson Shaw travels to Chicago to try out...

Why I'm Alive

Mariupol. Pre-war life in a small Ukrainian town on the...

Babi Yar. Context

Nazi troops massacre 30,000 Jews over a three-day period in...

Catch-22

Pianosa Island, Italy, World War II. Bombardier John Yossarian tries...

Soror

In 1946, in Soror city, three different stories intersect amid...

España, el siglo XX en color

Summerland

A woman during the Second World War opens her heart...

The Secret Garden

Mary Lennox is born in India to wealthy British parents...

Wife of a Spy

It’s 1940, and the population of Japan is divided over...