Movies Like The Viking Watch of the Danish Seaman
If you liked The Viking Watch of the Danish Seaman (1948), a war and drama movie directed by Lau Lauritzen Jr. and Bodil Ipsen, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.
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The War Below (2021)
★ 6.6/10Also war and dramaDuring World War I, a group of British miners are recruited to tunnel underneath no man's land and set bombs from below the German front in hopes of breaking the deadly stalemate of the Battle of Messines.
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The One That Got Away (1957)
★ 6.8/10Also war and dramaBased on the true story of Oberleutnant Franz von Werra, the only German prisoner of war captured in Britain to escape back to Germany during the Second World War.
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Waiting for Anya (2020)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and warDuring the harrows of WWII, Jo, a young shepherd along with the help of the widow Horcada, helps to smuggle Jewish children across the border from southern France into Spain.
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The Last Rifleman (2023)
★ 6.7/10Also drama and warA WWII veteran escapes his care home in Northern Ireland and embarks on an arduous but inspirational journey to France to attend the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings, finding the courage to face the ghosts of his…
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Sink the Bismarck! (1960)
★ 6.9/10Also war and dramaThe story of the breakout of the German battleship Bismarck—accompanied by the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen—during the early days of World War II. The Bismarck and her sister ship, Tirpitz, were the most powerful…
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The Scarlet and the Black (1983)
★ 7.1/10Also drama and warFr. Hugh O'Flaherty is a Vatican official in 1943-45 who has been hiding downed pilots, escaped prisoners of war, and Italian resistance families. His activities become so large that the Nazis decide to assassinate him…
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The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (1955)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and warA dramatization of the American general and his court martial for publically complaining about High Command's dismissal and neglect of the aerial fighting forces.
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Cast a Giant Shadow (1966)
★ 6.3/10Also war and dramaAn American Army officer is recruited by the yet to exist Israel to help them form an army. He is disturbed by this sudden appeal to his Jewish heritage. Each of Israel's Arab neighbors has vowed to invade the poorly…
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The Monuments Men (2014)
★ 6.1/10Also war and dramaBased on the true story of the greatest treasure hunt in history, The Monuments Men is an action drama focusing on seven over-the-hill, out-of-shape museum directors, artists, architects, curators, and art historians…
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The Battle of the River Plate (1956)
★ 6.4/10Also drama and warIn the early years of the World War II, the Royal Navy is fighting a desperate battle to keep the Atlantic convoy routes open to supply the British Isles, facing the great danger posed by the many German warships, such…
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The Young Lions (1958)
★ 6.7/10Also war and dramaThe lives of three young men, a German and two Americans, during WWII.
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Devotion (2022)
★ 7/10Also war and dramaThe harrowing true story of two elite US Navy fighter pilots during the Korean War. Their heroic sacrifices would ultimately make them the Navy's most celebrated wingmen.
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Darkest Hour (2017)
★ 7.4/10Also dramaIn May 1940, the fate of World War II hangs on Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotiate with Adolf Hitler or fight on knowing that it could mean the end of the British Empire.
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The Longest Day (1962)
★ 7.6/10Also war and dramaThe retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall…
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Churchill (2017)
★ 6.2/10Also dramaA ticking-clock thriller following Winston Churchill in the 24 hours before D-Day.
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The Guns of Navarone (1961)
★ 7.3/10Also drama and warA team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers.
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The Boy in the Woods (2023)
★ 7/10Also drama and warThe remarkable true-life survival story of a Jewish boy hiding and being hunted in the forests of Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe, based on Maxwell Smart's memoir.
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Munich - The Edge of War (2021)
★ 6.9/10Also dramaAt the tense 1938 Munich Conference, former friends who now work for opposing governments become reluctant spies racing to expose a Nazi secret.
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Radium Girls (2020)
★ 6.6/10Also dramaYoung women toiling in a factory are exposed to hazardous material which takes a disastrous toll on their health.