Suggestions for TV series or films set during war

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DD (17) is really enjoying All the Light we Cannot See (yes not nearly as good as book etc) and it’s set her on a train of wanting to watch wartime dramas.

So not battle heavy war films, more dramas set during the war. And I say war, either WW1 or WW2.

I’ve thought of Schindlers List which may be a bit much - and am stuck. Suggestions appreciated.

She didn’t do History GCSE so is finding it an interesting learning too.

World on fire? BBC.

Films:
Atonement.
Gallipoli (watched this as a teenager and it can still make me sob decades later - but an absolute must see).

TV series:
Land Girls.
Home Fires.

Band of Brothers (TV series)- Amazon
It is about the battles in WW2, but heavily focused on the lives of the platoon.

Tenko (TV Series) - Britbox
An oldie, but still brilliant. It's 3 season drama about a group of British/Australian women imprisoned by Japanese during WW2.

Yes this! It’s brilliant!

Foyle's War - WWII detective series

It's not on iplayer sadly but the BBC series Wartime Farm was very good If you can get hold of it. Similarly Tony Robinson did a channel 4 documentary called Blitz Street if you can find that anywhere.

SECRET ARMY about the resistance workers in Belgium in WWII you might find it on TALKING PICTURES catch-up or on you tube

Home fire's burning.

Goodnight Mr Tom?

The Camomile Lawn

Foyles War : set in Folkestone amongst the civilian population. Basically criminal investigation but very evocative of WW 2 ( that was my DF opinion, and he fought in that war for five years).

Thats another brilliant one.

I've watched it recently, I think it was on Britbox..

I watched Female Agents recently, apparently based on a true story. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0824330/

Wish Me Luck was a tv series about women agents in France during WW2. Tenko, the women prisoner of war drama, and Secret Army about a WW2 escape route.

‘Allo ‘Allo for the laughs?

Beat me to it! 😆

Lovely soundtrack.

The Book Thief
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

Lol we said All the Light we Cannot See had a few Allo Allo moments 😂

Great suggestions all thank you

All Quiet at the Western Front ( I recommend watching it in its original language - German with English subtitles.

YouTube - search for Jeremy Deller's We are Here

Hollywood (Vietnam war, Ww2)
Apocalypse Now
Full Metal Jacket
Deer Hunter
Platoon
Saving Private Ryan
The Pianist
Letters from Iwo Jima

Thought of another one

Summerland (2020 Film) - Amazon
Similar to Goodnight Mr Tom.
Young lad from London is evacuated to live in a lovely coastal village, but with a young childless independent woman.
It's a bit twee but a lovely sweet film.

Sainsbury's Christmas ad (2014) 1914

Carve Her Name With Pride
Life is Beautiful
The Book Thief

Jeremy Deller's
"We are Here"

Another one for Foyle's War - It is downloadable maybe not player but DH certainly found it somewhere for me but also often on one of those terrestrial channels which show old series a couple at a time - also I think on DVD if that is not too antediluvian.

War Horse

The Bletchley Circle. Tv series
The Enigma Code. Film
World on Fire is brilliant

Boy in the striped pyjamas

Went the day well

This happy breed

A matter if life or death

Casablanca

Saving private Ryan

Dam busters

Third man

War horse

Hope and glory