Movies and TvShows featuring "nazi-occupation-of-france" theme.

Based on the book by the best-selling author of Wonder, this uplifting movie shows how one act of kindness can live on forever.

6 June 1944. A titanic fleet launched an assault on the beaches of Normandy. Objective: to liberate Europe from Hitler's yoke. Drawing on the lessons learned from the Dieppe raid in August 1942, the mission was a spectacular success.

The true story of Charlotte Salomon, a young German-Jewish painter who comes of age in Berlin on the eve of the Second World War. Fiercely imaginative and deeply gifted, she dreams of becoming an artist. Her first love applauds her talent, which emboldens her resolve. When anti-Semitic policies inspire violent mobs, she escapes to the safety of the South of France. There she begins to paint again, and finds new love. But her work is interrupted, this time by a family tragedy that reveals an even darker secret. Believing that only an extraordinary act will save her, she embarks on the monumental adventure of painting her life story.

Léon Morin, a Catholic priest, forms an unlikely friendship with a young widow in Nazi-occupied France, leading to conversations about faith, seduction, and anti-Semitism.

During the turmoil of World War II, a group of soldiers find themselves trapped behind enemy lines. As they struggle to survive and complete their mission, they face challenges that test their loyalty, courage, and humanity.

Dan Snow examines how the Allied Forces planned and executed the D-Day landings, as surviving veterans tell the story of one of the most dramatic military operations in history.

Stage mime Antoine Moreau is compelled by the Gestapo to put on a performance for the children of Terezin, a "model" concentration camp, to convince the Red Cross observers that the camp is truly what it seems. Reluctant at first, Moreau slowly learns the true nature of the camp, including the meaning of the "transports" on which people leave. With a world-class orchestra (made up of people interned in the camp) and a cast of children, Moreau stages a show to end all shows.

In Nazi-occupied France, a career criminal on death row is given three days to live, during which he crosses paths with a patriotic train conductor, an executioner with doubts, and a police detective with ulterior motives.

An old man reads the diary of a young Jewish woman living at the time of the Nazi Occupation, sixty years ago. Sarah Rosemblum, 25, was young, beautiful and in love… with a German officer named Hans. Under a false name, Sarah lives under the protection of Huguette, a cabaret singer who makes a habit of hiding Jews and helping them to escape to England. In Huguette’s remote house, Sarah and Hans are able to pursue their romantic idyll, unaware that they are being spied on by Robert, a 16-year-old who is secretly in love with Sarah, and Huguette’s mother, who is still mourning her son’s death. With the world closing in on them, Sarah and Hans know that they must take flight, whilst they still have time…

The incredible story of Sally Noach, a Dutch Jewish carpet salesman who rescued hundreds of Jews from Vichy France by forging identification papers and arranging their escape. Equally intriguing is the controversy still surrounding Noach’s exploits: lingering rumours about espionage and black-market profiteering. Finally, with assistance from the filmmaker, researchers and living witnesses whose families he saved, Noach’s children attempt to solve the puzzle.