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Hogan's Heroes(1965-1971)

TV-PG
| 25min per episode | War & Politics, Comedy
3.8/5 (with 72 votes)

Hogan's Heroes is an American television sitcom that ran for 168 episodes from September 17, 1965, to July 4, 1971, on the CBS network. The show was set in a German prisoner of war camp during World War II. Bob Crane starred as Colonel Robert E. Hogan, coordinating an international crew of Allied prisoners running a Special Operations group from the camp. Werner Klemperer played Colonel Wilhelm Klink, the commandant of the camp, and John Banner was the inept sergeant-of-the-guard, Hans Schultz. The series was popular during its six-season run. In 2013, creators Bernard Fein through his estate and Albert S. Ruddy acquired the sequel and other separate rights to Hogan's Heroes from Mark Cuban through arbitration and a movie based on the show has been planned.

With Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson, Ivan Dixon, ...

Masters of the Air(2024)

TV-MA
| War & Politics, Drama
4.0/5 (with 118 votes)

During World War II, airmen risk their lives with the 100th Bomb Group, a brotherhood forged by courage, loss, and triumph.

Directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga, Dee Rees, Anna Boden, Tim Van Patten, Ryan Fleck - With Austin Butler, Callum Turner, Anthony Boyle, Nate Mann, Barry Keoghan, James Murray, ...

Masters of the Air(2020-)

War & Politics, Drama
5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

The story of the U.S. Army Air Corps’ Eighth Air Force, which was the tip of the spear during the Allies’ daylight bombing campaign of Germany from mid-1942 to the end of World War II.

Secret Army(1977-1979)

50min per episode | Drama, War & Politics
3.8/5 (with 5 votes)

World War II drama about covert organisation Lifeline helping allied airmen escape after being shot down in occupied Europe, working with the Resistance and hiding from the Gestapo.

12 O'Clock High(1964-1967)

TV-PG
| 44min per episode | Drama, War & Politics
3.7/5 (with 9 votes)

This series chronicles the adventures--in the air and on the ground--of the men of the 918th Bombardment Group of the U.S. Eighth Air Force. First commanded by irascible General Frank Savage--and later by Colonel Joe Gallagher, the son of a Pentagon General--the Group is stationed in England, and flies long-range bombing missions into German-held Europe.

With Robert Lansing, Frank Overton, Paul Burke, Chris Robinson, Barney Phillips

The Waltons(1972-1981)

TV-G
| 50min per episode | Drama
3.5/5 (with 41 votes)

The Waltons live their life in a rural Virginia community during the Great Depression and World War II.

Directed by Gabrielle Beaumont, Bernard McEveety, Robert Butler, Lee Philips, Vincent Sherman, Philip Leacock, ... - With Richard Thomas, Ralph Waite, Michael Learned, Ellen Corby, Will Geer, Judy Norton Taylor, ...

World War Two(2018-)

Documentary, War & Politics
4.0/5 (with 2 votes)

Follow the deadliest conflict in human history in real time, week by week, blow by blow.

Dad's Army(1968-1977)

TV-PG
| 30min per episode | Comedy
3.6/5 (with 31 votes)

Introducing the Walmington-On-Sea home guard. During WW2, in a fictional British seaside town, a ragtag group of Home Guard local defense volunteers prepare for an imminent German invasion.

With Arthur Lowe, John Le Mesurier, Clive Dunn, James Beck, Ian Lavender, John Laurie, ...

Foyle's War(2002-2015)

2h per episode | Mystery, Drama, War & Politics, Crime
3.9/5 (with 42 votes)

As WW2 rages around the world, DCS Foyle fights his own war on the home-front as he investigates crimes on the south coast of England. Foyle's War opens in southern England in the year 1940. Later series sees the retired detective working as an MI5 agent operating in the aftermath of the war.

With Michael Kitchen, Honeysuckle Weeks

Combat!(1962-1967)

TV-PG
| 1h per episode | War & Politics, Drama
3.8/5 (with 49 votes)

Combat! is an American television program that originally aired on ABC from 1962 until 1967. The show covered the grim lives of a squad of American soldiers fighting the Germans in France during World War II. The program starred Rick Jason as platoon leader Second Lieutenant Gil Hanley and Vic Morrow as Sergeant "Chip" Saunders.

With Rick Jason, Vic Morrow

The Sullivans(1976-1983)

30min per episode | Drama, Soap / Telenovela
2.4/5 (with 2 votes)

The Sullivans is an Australian drama television series produced by Crawford Productions which ran on the Nine Network from 1976 until 1983. The series told the story of an average middle-class Melbourne family and the effect World War II had on their lives. It was a consistent ratings success in Australia, and also became popular in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Netherlands, Gibraltar and New Zealand.

Directed by David Stevens - With Lorraine Bayly, Paul Cronin, Andrew McFarlane

The New Look(2024-)

TV-MA
| Drama
4.1/5 (with 17 votes)

The shocking story of how fashion icon Christian Dior and his contemporaries including Coco Chanel, Pierre Balmain, and Cristóbal Balenciaga navigated the horrors of World War Il and launched modern fashion.

With Ben Mendelsohn, Juliette Binoche, Maisie Williams, John Malkovich, Claes Bang, Zabou Breitman, ...
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Sworn to Secrecy: Secrets of War(1998)

1h per episode | War & Politics, Documentary
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Secrets are divulged and stories of espionage, conspiracy, murder, sabotage and greed are uncovered.

Shine on Harvey Moon(1982-1995)

30min per episode | Drama
4.0/5 (with 2 votes)

Shine on Harvey Moon! is a British comedy-drama series made by Central Television for ITV from 8 January 1982 to 23 August 1985 and briefly revived in 1995 by Meridian. This generally light-hearted series was created by comedy writers Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran. The series is set in the East End of London shortly after the Second World War. Upon being demobbed RAF serviceman Harvey Moon, played by Kenneth Cranham, returns home and finds his family involved in various troubles. His wife Rita, played by Maggie Steed, is not interested in resuming their relationship, and works in a seedy nightclub frequented by American servicemen. He becomes involved with the Labour Party and the union movement. The name of the series is a wordplay on the title of the popular 1908 song 'Shine On, Harvest Moon'. The first series was commissioned and recorded by ATV at their Elstree studios with the remaining series filmed at newly constructed facilities in Nottingham.

With Suzanne Bertish

It Ain't Half Hot Mum(1974-1981)

NR
| 30min per episode | Comedy, War & Politics
3.7/5 (with 7 votes)

The comic adventures of a group of misfits who form an extremely bad concert party touring the hot and steamy jungles of Burma entertaining the troops during World War II.

Directed by Bob Spiers - With George Layton, Melvyn Hayes, Stuart McGugan, Don Estelle, John Clegg, Kenneth MacDonald, ...

Ghosts(2019-2023)

TV-14
| 30min per episode | Comedy, Science-Fiction & Fantasy
4.0/5 (with 76 votes)

A cash-strapped young couple inherits a grand country house, only to find it is both falling apart and teeming with the ghosts of former inhabitants.

Directed by Tom Kingsley - With Simon Farnaby, Jim Howick, Mathew Baynton, Martha Howe-Douglas, Laurence Rickard, Ben Willbond, ...

Donkey Kong Country(1998-2000)

TV-Y7
| 30min per episode | Animation, Action & Adventure, Comedy, Science-Fiction & Fantasy, Kids & Family
3.0/5 (with 8 votes)

Taking place on Kongo Bongo Island, the show focuses on Donkey Kong, the island's resident hero. Before the series' events, he was chosen as the island's future ruler by a magical artifact known as the Crystal Coconut, which is connected to a spirit known as Inka Dinka Doo. In the present, Donkey Kong must prove he deserves the role through his heroics and by simply guarding the coconut. Alongside various allies such as his best friend and sidekick Diddy Kong and his mentor Cranky Kong, he must protect the Crystal Coconut from various threats, most notably the villainous King K. Rool and his Kremling army who long to steal it in order to rule Kongo Bongo. Oftentimes, Donkey Kong has to juggle his guardian duties with his social life, his relationship with Candy Kong, and his love of gorging on bananas.

Directed by Mike Fallows

World on Fire(2019-)

TV-MA
| 1h per episode | Drama, War & Politics
3.9/5 (with 30 votes)

The story of World War II told through the intertwining fates of ordinary people from all sides of this global conflict as they grapple with the effect of the war on their everyday lives.

A Family at War(1970-1972)

1h per episode | War & Politics, Drama
3.5/5 (with 2 votes)

The Ashton family struggles to deal with the harsh realities of the Second World War as their sons are sent away to fight. Those who remain at home in Liverpool live in constant fear of a knock on the door with a telegram from the War Office or the Luftwaffe bombs overhead as they sleep at night.

With Colin Douglas, Barbara Flynn, Shelagh Fraser, Lesley Nunnerley

Baa Baa Black Sheep(1976-1978)

TV-PG
| 1h per episode | Action & Adventure, Drama, War & Politics
3.8/5 (with 18 votes)

The dramatized World War II adventures of US Major Gregory "Pappy" Boyington and his Marine Attack Squadron 214, AKA The Black Sheep Squadron.

Directed by Robert Conrad

A French Village(2009-2017)

50min per episode | Drama, War & Politics
4.2/5 (with 10 votes)

The stories of the people of Villeneuve, a fictional subprefecture, in the Jura, in German–occupied France during the Second World War.

With Robin Renucci, Audrey Fleurot, Thierry Godard, Emmanuelle Bach, Nicolas Gob, Marie Kremer, ...

WWII in HD(2009)

TV-PG
| Documentary
3.7/5 (with 17 votes)

WWII in HD is a 10-part American documentary television miniseries that originally aired from November 15 to November 19, 2009 on the History Channel. The program focuses on the firsthand experiences of twelve American service members during World War II, including an Army nurse, a member of the Tuskegee Airmen, a second generation Japanese American and prisoner of war, and an Austrian Jewish immigrant. The twelve members recorded their time in both theaters and some had later interviews; found footage from the battlefield was paired with the stories of the twelve service members. The episodes premiered on five consecutive days, with two episodes per day. The series is narrated by Gary Sinise and was produced by Lou Reda Productions in Easton, Pennsylvania, United States.

With Gary Sinise, Justin Bartha, Rob Lowe, Tim DeKay, Ron Livingston, Josh Lucas, ...

The World at War(1973-1974)

1h per episode | Documentary, War & Politics
4.1/5 (with 71 votes)

A documentary series that gives a historical account of the events of World War II, from its roots in the 1920s to the aftermath and the lives it profoundly influenced.

With Laurence Olivier, Albert Speer

Tenko(1981-1984)

NR
| 1h per episode | Drama, War & Politics
4.0/5 (with 4 votes)

Based on real-life experiences, Tenko remains one of the most fondly remembered and acclaimed BBC dramas of the early 1980s. It follows a group of women, formerly comfortably well-off ex-pats living in Singapore, as they are captured by the Japanese during World War II.

Directed by Pennant Roberts - With Ann Bell, Stephanie Cole, Stephanie Beacham, Louise Jameson, Patricia Lawrence, Veronica Roberts, ...

The Gallant Men(1962-1963)

1h per episode | War & Politics
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

The Gallant Men is a 1962–1963 ABC television series which depicted an infantry company of American soldiers fighting their way through Italy in World War II.

With William Reynolds, Robert McQueeney

Land Girls(2009-2011)

TV-14
| 45min per episode | Drama, War & Politics
3.9/5 (with 12 votes)

The lives, loves and highs and lows of four members of the Women's Land Army working at the Hoxley Estate during World War II.

With Selin Hizli

'Allo 'Allo!(1984-1992)

TV-PG
| 30min per episode | Comedy, War & Politics
3.9/5 (with 97 votes)

The misadventures of hapless cafe owner René Artois and his escapades with the Resistance in occupied France.

Directed by David Croft, Susan Belbin, Richard Boden, Mike Stephens - With Gorden Kaye, Richard Marner, Carmen Silvera, Guy Siner, Rose Hill, Vicki Michelle, ...

A Small Light(2023)

TV-14
| Drama, War & Politics
4.0/5 (with 34 votes)

Twentysomething Miep Gies didn't hesitate when her boss Otto Frank came to her and asked her to hide his family from the Nazis during World War II. For the next two years, Miep, her husband Jan, and the other helpers watched over the eight souls in hiding in the Secret Annex. And it was Miep who found Anne’s Diary and kept it safe so Otto, the only one of the eight who survived, could later share it with the world as one of the most powerful accounts of the Holocaust.

Directed by Susanna Fogel - With Bel Powley, Liev Schreiber, Joe Cole Lopez, Amira Casar, Eleanor Tomlinson

The Jewel in the Crown(1984)

TV-14
| 1h per episode | Drama
3.3/5 (with 11 votes)

A sweeping drama about the ruling and ruled classes of World War II India, the story begins with an unjust arrest for rape. The consequences of this arrest echo throughout the series with questions of identity and personal responsibility being explored against a background of war and personal intrigue.

Directed by Jim O'Brien, Christopher Morahan - With Susan Wooldridge, Art Malik, Tim Pigott-Smith, Peggy Ashcroft, Charles Dance, Eric Porter, ...

Catch-22(2019)

TV-MA
| 45min per episode | Comedy, Drama, War & Politics
3.7/5 (with 93 votes)

Pianosa Island, Italy, World War II. Bombardier John Yossarian tries to fulfill his duty, maintain sanity and return home as soon as possible, but incompetence and bureaucracy constantly stand in his way.

Directed by George Clooney, Grant Heslov, Ellen Kuras - With Christopher Abbott, Kyle Chandler, Hugh Laurie, George Clooney, Daniel David Stewart, Austin Stowell, ...
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