Movies like While at War
While at War (2019) is a history movie directed by Alejandro Amenábar. The list below collects the movies that people who loved it enjoyed most, best known first.
1. Land and Freedom (1995)
★ 7.3 · 310 votes · War, Drama, History
Summer 1936: young unemployed communist David Carr leaves Liverpool to join the fight against fascism in Spain. He joins an international group of Militia-men and women, the POUM (Partido Obrero de Unificación Marxista). After being wounded, he goes to Barcelona, where he joins another group of fighters.
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2. The Photographer of Mauthausen (2018)
★ 6.9 · 766 votes · Drama, History, Thriller
Spanish photographer Francesc Boix, imprisoned in the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp, works in the SS Photographic Service. Between 1943 and 1945, he hides, with the help of other prisoners, thousands of negatives, with the purpose of showing the freed world the atrocities committed by the Nazis, exhaustively documented. He will be a key witness during the Nuremberg Trials.
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3. Mirror (1975)
★ 7.9 · 1,141 votes · Drama, History
A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell of and juxtapose pivotal moments in Soviet history with daily life.
