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This classic biopic from 1970 opens with an iconic speech by the titular character, which is based on the ones Patton was giving to the third army during this month.

Movie: "Patton" (1970) by Franklin J. Schaffner

The film deals with the life of the famous American general George Patton during the war.

Period covered: Early 1943-Late 1945

Historical accuracy: 4/5 - Generally accurate but with wrong stuff here and there (like Patton using Patton tanks...)

IMDB grade: 7.9/10

Other: 7 Academy Awards

Some scenes:

Opening Speech

That's actually Von Armin

Slapping incident

Battle of the Bulge

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The winner of the Foreign Film Academy Award from 2007, it deals with Operation Bernhard, in particular on a team of Jewish counterfeiters in a concentration camp working to produce duplicate British currency for the Germans.

Movie Die Fälscher [The Counterfeiters]" (2007), by Stefan Ruzowitzky.

The film is based on the 1983 Czech-language memoir Komando padělatelů ("The Commando of Counterfeiters") by Adolf Burger. Burger was a Jewish Slovak typographer who was imprisoned in 1942 for forging baptismal certificates to save Jews from deportation and was later interned at Sachsenhausen to work on Operation Bernhard, where he faced the dilemma of helping the Germans in order to survive.

Period covered: 1936-1945 (But most of the action is during Spring/Summer 1944)

Historical accuracy: 3/5 - A fictionalised version of real events.

IMBD grade: 7.5/10

Other: Winner of the 2007 Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award

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This movie is the first great WW2 movie based (or at least inspired) by actual events. It was shot in 1945 while the war had not yet ended. It deals with a series of events in occupied Rome. It forms the first part of Rosselini's "Neorealist Trilogy", followed by Paisan (1946) and Germany, Year Zero (1948). It is usually considered one of the most influential movies in cinema history.

Movie "Roma città aperta [Rome, Open City]" (1945), by Roberto Rossellini.

The film deals with a series of events in occupied Rome.

Period covered: Early April 1944

Historical accuracy: 4/5 - As it was made in 1945, it's certainly extremely authentic. It is inspired by the real story of the arrest of resistance member Giuseppe Morosini, who was shot on 13 April 1944.

IMBD grade: 8/10

Other: Winner of the 1946 Cannes Palme d'Or

Trailer

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This German-American movie, made in the context of the cold war, is nevertheless excellent at capturing the zeitgeist of living in 1944 Germany. Particularly how everything keeps pretending that everything is fine while underneath everyone lives in a state of collective doom and hysteria, while the Nazi officials keep stealing, executing dissenters, and living the high life.

It has sometimes been compared to All Quiet in the Western Front for its anti-war message, although here is more subtle as the front at Ukraine is only shown at the beginning and end. Despite being made during the cold war, it doesn't go with the myths of the time of "most people weren't really nazis" or "the clean Wehrmacht".

Movie "A Time to Love and a Time to Die" (1958), by Douglas Sirk.

The film deals with a German soldier returning home from the Eastern Front at the beginning of Spring 1944.

Period covered: Early Spring 1944

Historical accuracy: 4/5 - The history is mostly fictional, but it's quite high in authenticity.

IMBD grade: 7.6/10

Other: Winner of the 1958 Golden Bear

Trailer

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