Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "war-effort"

51. Great Cars (2003– )
Episode: Kaiser (2004)

Not Rated | 25 min | Documentary

After a career building dams, fighter planes and ships for the World War Two effort, Henry Kaiser decided to take aim at the Big Three automakers by building his own brand of car in post-war America.

Director: Michael L. Rose | Stars: Reg Abbiss, Dave Antram, Bud Lilly, Russ Spalding

52. The U.S. and the Holocaust (2022)
Episode: The Homeless, The Tempest-Tossed (1942-) (2022)

TV-14 | 131 min | Documentary, History

A group of government officials supports and finances rescue operations. Allied soldiers begin to liberate concentration camps and find mass graves. The public sees the sheer scale of the Holocaust.

Directors: Sarah Botstein, Ken Burns, Lynn Novick | Stars: Peter Coyote, Daniel Mendelsohn, Deborah Lipstadt, Eva Geiringer

Votes: 146

53. Coffee with Scott Adams (2018– )
Musk on AI Risk, Growth Mindset Solves Poverty, Bribing Doctors, Bad Bing (2023 Podcast Episode)

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Star: Scott Adams

54. Beyond the Myth: The SS Unveiled (2022– )
Episode: The Executioner: Reinhard Heydrich (2022)

Documentary, History, War

More than any other Nazi leader, Heydrich was an orchestrator of mass murder, and was terrifyingly clinical in approach.

Director: Alexander Hugh | Stars: Anna Hajkova, Robert Gerwarth, Alexandra Richie, Richard John Evans

55. How to Lose a War (2023)
Episode: The Right Tools (2023)

Documentary, History, War

Victory in war doesn't just require sound military strategy, vital resources and equipment are also critical. Discover how the Axis powers failed in this regard.

Director: Tim Bosanquet | Stars: Richard Hammond, Giuseppe Finaldi, Alexander Henry, Charles Schencking

56. Saving Lives at Sea (2016– )
Episode: Saving Lives at Sea in World War II (2024)

59 min | Documentary

In this special episode commemorating the 2024 bicentenary of the RNLI, Dermot O'Leary uncovers the story of the RNLI's heroic efforts in WWII as its crews were called to serve in the most perilous of conditions, saving 6,376 lives.

Director: Toby Roebuck | Star: Dermot O'Leary

57. Mafia's Greatest Hits (2012– )
Episode: Charles 'Lucky' Luciano (2012)

TV-PG | 49 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime

Charles "Lucky" Luciano was the number one gangster of all time. He put the "Organised" into organised crime and invented the modern Mafia.

Director: Gerry Pomeroy | Stars: Selwyn Raab, Joseph Coffey, Douglas Valentine, Thomas Reppetto

Votes: 21

58. Nazi Mega Weapons (2013– )
Episode: Hitler's Jet Caves (2013)

TV-PG | 56 min | Documentary, History, War

Explore the story behind one of the most advanced aeroplanes of WWII, the Messerschmitt Me 262, and the subterranean bat-cave where it was built.

Director: Steve Baker | Stars: Mike Pavelec, James Holland, Peter Cronauer, Michael Gaertner

Votes: 72

59. Britain at War (1995)
Episode: The Blitz Years: 1939 - 1941 (1995)

60 min | Documentary, History, War

We look back to the bombing of London and other cities by the German Luftwaffe in 1940 and 1941, examining life between the air raids and the effects that they had on British society.

Director: Sasha Upton | Stars: William Rushton, Eddie Cain, Justine Hodgkinson, Kit Nairne

60. Mystères d'archives (2009– )
Episode: 1940: Charlie Chaplin tourne Le Dictateur (2015)

27 min | Documentary, Short, History

When Charlie Chaplin was making The Great Dictator, his brother Sydney would be nearby with a cine film camera.

Directors: Pierre Catalan, Julien Gaurichon, Serge Viallet | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Henriette Chaplin, Randolph Churchill, Winston Churchill

Votes: 11

61. Secret History (1991– )
Episode: Britain's Forgotten Army (2017)

47 min | Documentary, History

The story of the 140,000 Chinese workers who left their homes and came to war-torn Europe in 1917 and risked their lives for the Allied war effort, but whose vital contribution seems to have been airbrushed from history.

Director: Simon Chu | Stars: Adrian Bower, Frances Wood, Steve Tsang, John de Lucy

Votes: 17

62. American Dynasties: The Kennedys (2018)
Episode: The Power of Wealth (2018)

42 min | Documentary, History

Joseph Kennedy's political ambition passes first to his son Joe Jr. and then to reluctant second son, Jack.

Director: Tim Dunn | Stars: Martin Sheen, Tim Naftali, Alexis Coe, Barbara Perry

Votes: 73