war – Stream On Demand

Kathryn Bigelow’s ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ on Prime Video

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Jessica Chastain stars in the searing story of the hunt for Osama Bin Laden and legacy of torture in America’s war on terror.

What to stream: WWII thriller ‘Operation Mincemeat’ plus ‘The Lincoln Lawyer’ series on Netflix, ‘The Lost City’ on Paramount+, ‘Candy’ on Hulu

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Plus ‘The Essex Serpent’ on Apple TV+, the return of ‘The Kids in the Hall’ on Prime Video, ‘Senior Year’ on Netflix, ‘Sneakerella’ on Disney+, a new season of ‘Hacks’ on HBO Max

Tom Hanks, Matt Damon, and Ed Burns in Steven Spielberg's World War II platoon drama

‘Saving Private Ryan’ – Spielberg, Hanks, and WWII on Netflix and Paramount+

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Steven Spielberg delivers a classic platoon drama with a new mission in this Oscar-winning World War II epic set during the D-Day invasion.

Steven Spielberg’s ‘Empire of the Sun’ – Innocence in wartime on HBO Max

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Christian Bale made his film debut as British schoolboy in a Japanese prison camp in World War II Shanghai in this superb war drama.

Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker on Netflix

Oscar winner ‘The Hurt Locker’ on Peacock

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Kathryn Bigelow directs this searing drama of men under fire and how war tranforms them and entered the record books as the first woman to win the Oscar for best director.

Tom Hardy, Mark Rylance, and Kenneth Branagh star in Christopher Nolan's World War II drama

Christopher Nolan’s ‘Dunkirk’ on Netflix and HBO Max

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Tom Hardy, Mark Rylance, and Cillian Murphy star in the epic World War II drama about the evacuation of Dunkirk.

‘The Tuskegee Airmen’ – America’s first Black Air Force squadron on HBO Max

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Laurence Fishburne, Cuba Gooding Jr., and Andre Braugher star in the true story of the only Air Force squadron of World War II made up of African-American pilots.

Bruno Ganz is Adolph Hitler in the Oscar-nominated film from Oliver Hirschbiegel

‘Downfall’ – The last days of Hitler – free on Kanopy and Hoopla

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Bruno Ganz plays Adolph Hitler in Oliver Hirschbiegel’s dramatization of his final days in the bunker as Germany fell to the Allied invasion.

‘Wonder Woman’ on HBO Max

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Gal Gadot stars as the iconic superhero in this 2017 big screen adventure, in my opinion the best of the DCU features to date.

‘Das Boot: The Series’ – submarines, spies, and WWII on Hulu

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The small screen series continues the story begun in the 1981 film, with a new submarine crew on a base in Nazi-occupied France and the Resistance movement working to sabotage it.