يؤدي (كينيث براناه) دور البطولة، دور المحقق الشهير "هيركول بوارو" في هذا اللغز المرعب الذي تقع أحداثه بعد الحرب العالمية الثانية في ليلة عيد هالوين مخيفة، إذ تقاعد وبات يعيش في منفى فرضه على نفسه في "البندقية" الساحرة في "إيطاليا". يحضر "بوارو" مترددًا جلسة استحضار أرواح في قصر منتاب متداع. حين يقتل أحد الضيوف، يغوص المحقق في عالم مشؤوم من الظلال والأسرار.
في Knockemstiff ، أوهايو والغابات الخلفية المجاورة لها ، تلتقي الشخصيات الشريرة حول الشاب أرفين راسل بينما يحارب قوى الشر التي تهدده هو وعائلته.
في فيينا بعد الحرب ، بالنمسا ، وصلت هولي مارتينز ، وهي كاتبة من لب الغرب ، مفلسة كضيف على صديق طفولته هاري لايم ، لتعلم فقط أنه مات. يطور مارتينز نظرية مؤامرة بعد أن علم بوجود "رجل ثالث" وقت وفاة هاري ، وواجه تدخل من الضابط البريطاني الرائد كالواي ، وسقط في أعقاب آنا ، حبيبة هاري المنكوبة بالحزن.
تدور أحداث الفيلم حول مجموعة من الصحافيين الذين يعملون في مقر جريدة أمريكية تقع في مدينة فرنسية خيالية خلال القرن العشرين، وهو ما يبعث الحياة لمجموعة من القصص المنشورة فيها.
في أعقاب الحرب العالمية الثانية ، تم تعيين كولونيل بريطاني وزوجته للعيش في هامبورغ أثناء إعادة الإعمار بعد الحرب ، لكن التوترات نشأت مع الأرمل الألماني الذي يعيش معهما.
يرصد الفيلم القصة الواقعية حول أكبر عملية استرداد آثار في التاريخ. في جوٍ من الحركة الممزوج بالدراما ،يكشف لنا فصيلة مكونة من سبعة أشخاص معنيين بالفن والتحف والآثار. يتم تكليف تلك الفصيلة من قبل فرانكلين روزفيلت بالذهاب لمهمة غاية في الأهمية من أجل إنقاذ مجموعة من التحف والآثار من يد النازيين. من الجدير بالذكر أن تلك المهمة ليست فقط صعبة أو مستحيلة لأنها خلف خطوط العدو ،بل لأنهم في صراعٍ مع الوقت من أجل إنقاذ 1000 سنة من الحضارة من التدمير.
يتناول العمل قصة رجل مسن أرهقته السنين بالعمل في نظام روتيني ممل، ويحلم بالشعور بالحياة وقضاء أيامه على النحو الأمثل فيما تبقى من عمره.
في الجنوب ما بعد الحرب العالمية الثانية ، هناك أسرتان تواجهان التسلسل الهرمي الاجتماعي الهمجي والمشهد القاسي حيث تخوضان في نفس الوقت المعركة في الداخل والمعركة في الخارج.
الفيلم مستوحى من الأحداث الحقيقية لأسرى حرب ألمان تم تكليفهم بعد الحرب العالمية الثانية بتطهير ألغام زرعها الألمان على الشاطئ الدنماركي. التطهير كان ضمن صفقة مُثيرة للجدل أُبرمت بين جنرال ألماني والحكومة الدنماركية والقوات البريطالنية راح ضحيتها أكثر من 2000 جندي ألماني من ضمنهم مراهقين.
As part of a deal with an intelligence agency to look for his missing brother, a renegade pilot goes on missions with an advanced battle helicopter.
Explore what it would be like if the Allied Powers had lost WWII, and Japan and Germany ruled the United States. Based on Philip K. Dick's award-winning novel.
The year is 1947, August. Ono Junko's family is being evacuated to Wakayama and the father is going to war. A few years later, the father has returned from Manchuria but he also brought a boy that had been abandoned by his mother. The boy is Yuta and the family will adopt him.
In the wake of World War II, 11 Allied judges are tasked with weighing the fates of Japanese war criminals in a tense international trial.
Ellery Queen is an American television detective mystery series based on the fictional character Ellery Queen. It aired on NBC during the 1975-76 television season and stars Jim Hutton as Ellery Queen, David Wayne as his father, Inspector Richard Queen, and Tom Reese as Sgt. Velie. Created by the writing/producing team of Richard Levinson and William Link, the title character "breaks" the fourth wall to ask the audience to consider their solution.
The Bletchley Circle follows the journey of four ordinary women with extraordinary skills that helped to end World War II. Set in 1952, Susan, Millie, Lucy and Jean have returned to their normal lives, modestly setting aside the part they played in producing crucial intelligence, which helped the Allies to victory and shortened the war. When Susan discovers a hidden code behind an unsolved murder she is met by skepticism from the police. She quickly realises she can only begin to crack the murders and bring the culprit to justice with her former friends. The Bletchley Circle paints a vivid portrait of post-war Britain in this fictional tale of unsung heroes.
During the thrilling social change of the mid-1950s, four remarkable women who previously served secretly during WWII as code-breakers, turn their skills to solving murders overlooked by police. In the process they are plunged into fascinating corners of the city, forge powerful relationships, and rediscover their own powers and potential.
The story of the Second World War through the personal accounts of a handful of men and women from four American towns. The war touched the lives of every family on every street in every town in America and demonstrated that in extraordinary times, there are no ordinary lives.
Homefront is an American television drama series created and produced by Lynn Marie Latham and Bernard Lechowick in association with Warner Bros. Television for ABC. The show was set in the fictional city of River Run, Ohio in 1945, 1946, and 1947. The show's theme song, "Accentuate the Positive", was written by Johnny Mercer and performed by Jack Sheldon. Forty-two episodes were broadcast in the United States over two seasons from 1991 to 1993. TV Guide, Abigail Van Buren, and fans showed determination in getting ABC to continue the show for a third season before it was cancelled.
Summer 1944. Walter Proska is about to return to the Eastern Front when his train is blown up by partisans. Together with a scattered bunch of German soldiers, cut off from the front, he awaits certain death while the commands of his superior Willi Stehauf are becoming more and more senseless and inhuman.
A gripping family drama and entrepreneurial fable, set in a post-war Paris fashion house. It exposes the grit behind the glamour of a rising business, spearheaded by two clashing brothers.
Set in post-war Britain, ten year-old Lewis Aldridge is grief-stricken as he struggles to cope with the death of his beloved mother. Left under the care of his emotionally distant father Gilbert, whom he barely knows and who quickly remarries, Lewis is forced to bury his feelings.
Set against the brutal chaos of World War II, a love story begins that will take two lovers through a living nightmare of captivity, across three continents and two decades.
In a small area of West Germany, the American military presence opened up a new world in the early 1950s and paved the way for individual freedom, freedom of movement and capitalism in Germany. In this time of upheaval, two friends are looking for their place and have to fight time and again with the 'old order', the conservative forces from politics, church and society. Confronted with the seductions of the new world, the two dissimilar women make an opposing development that puts their intimate friendship to a severe test ...
1945 Zero hour. Europe is reduced to rubble. Thirty million displaced and uprooted people. At the heart of this ravaged continent lies Switzerland. This small neutral country, which has been all but spared by the war, becomes a hub for Nazi war criminals, Allied Secret Services and Holocaust survivors.
The True Believers is a 1988 Australian mini series which looks at the history of the Australian Labor Party from the end of World War Two up to the Australian Labor Party split of 1955. It was co-written by Bob Ellis who focused on three characters "Chifley, the unlettered man of great dignity; Menzies, who used to stand for something but eventually stood only for Menzies; and Evatt, the grand idealist... It's almost like Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1. It's a chunk of national history during Australia's great era of change after the war."
A six-part documentary series about the least known events of World War II. The series reveal a little-known picture and countless unknown details of the events of World War II in the north.
