Movies like Iron Cross: The Road to Normandy

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   Brothers of War

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   2015 · 120 min · Drama · War

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   When a bitter rivalry between two brothers finally erupts into bloody, life-changing violence it is younger bother Greg who signs up for frontline battle in France. Greg discovers a world of uncompromising brutality as we follow him on his journey through France at the outbreak of World War 2.

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   • shared theme: world war ii

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   The Tank

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   2025 · 117 min · Action · Drama · War

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   A German Tiger tank crew is sent on a dangerous mission to rescue the missing officer Paul von Hardenburg from a top-secret bunker behind enemy lines. As they make their way through the lethal no-man's land, they must confront not only the enemy, but also their own fears and inner demons. Fueled by the Wehrmacht's methamphetamine, their mission increasingly becomes a journey into the heart of darkness.

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   • shared themes: 1940s and world war ii
   • a closely matched era

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   The 12th Man

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   2017 · 136 min · Drama · War

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   After a failed anti-Nazi sabotage mission leaves his eleven comrades dead, a Norwegian resistance fighter finds himself fleeing the Gestapo through the snowbound reaches of Scandinavia.

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   Trench 11

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   2017 · 90 min · Horror · Thriller · War

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   In the final days of WWI a shell-shocked soldier must lead a mission deep beneath the trenches to stop a German plot that could turn the tide of the war.

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   Operation Seawolf

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   2022 · 86 min · Action · Adventure · Thriller · War

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   During the last days of World War II, Germany, desperate for any last grasp to defeat the allied powers, looked to their last remaining weapons and soldiers. The German Navy and the last remaining U-Boats were formed together for one desperate last mission – a mission to attack the United States Homeland, known as Operation Seawolf. Captain Hans Kessler, a grizzled submarine commander from both World Wars, is called into service to make one mission a success and help turn the tide of the war.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • shared themes: 1940s and world war ii
   • a closely matched era

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   Young Men

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   2017 · 72 min · Drama · Music · War

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   Fields of France, during the First World War. A group of young soldiers, united by the indiscriminate brutality of battle, fights to maintain their humanity in an endless cycle of combat and death.

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   Turning Point Up Close - A Year with Soldiers

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   2024 · 60 min · Documentary

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   The film focuses on three male and one female soldier. They represent the challenges that the German army is currently facing: the Bundeswehr has too few personnel, too little equipment and for many years was not prepared for the type of war that it must now prepare for in the future. The film reflects the dramatic change from the perspective of those who have to shoulder the task of "national and alliance defense" in a very concrete and personal way in their everyday lives, at their location, in their unit.

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   Winter in Wartime

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   2008 · 103 min · Drama · History · War

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   During World War II in the freezing winter of 1944-45 the western Netherlands are in the grip of a famine. Many people move east to provide for their families. Fourteen year old Michiel can't wait to join the Dutch resistance, to the dismay of his father, who, as mayor, works to prevent escalations in the village.

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   • shared themes: 1940s and world war ii

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   In the Fog

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   2012 · 127 min · Drama · History · War

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   Western frontiers of the USSR, 1942. The region is under German occupation. A man is wrongly accused of collaboration. Desperate to save his dignity, he faces an impossible moral choice.

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    Stalingrad

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    2013 · 131 min · Action · Drama · War

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    A band of determined Russian soldiers fight to hold a strategic building in their devastated city against a ruthless German army, and in the process become deeply connected to a Russian woman who has been living there.

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    • strong story and style similarity
    • shared theme: world war ii

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