World War II was one of the most spectacular events in chronicle , and it ’s been memorialized in countless works of fabrication , includingthe just - released filmBlitz . These various works tackle every view of the war , from what sprightliness was like at home to what was happening on every front in the war .

The U.K. was on the fron line of the war for essentially its entire duration , so while there have been plenty of American takes on World War II , the war have in mind something dissimilar for those live on closer to the difference . We ’ve pulled together five picture show and television demonstrate that the British made about the war for your viewing pleasure .

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World on Fire (2019)

Most World War II stories focus on the war itself , butWorld on Firefocuses on the many people who had to live their life story amid the turmoil of Europe ’s upheaval . World on Firefocuses on an American state of war correspondent who face censorship in Germany , and a man living on a farm who tries to smuggle his Polish lover to Manchester .

macrocosm on Fireis a admonisher that when the entire human race goes to warfare , there ’s no such thing as going on with your spirit as if nothing happened .

you may watchWorld on Fireon Amazon Prime Video .

Life After Life (2022)

Adapted from one of the most acclaimed novels of the twenty-first century , Life After Lifetells the taradiddle of Ursula , a woman who slow discovers that she ’s experience her life sentence over and over again .

Born in 1910 , she lives through the events of World War II , and slowly becomes convinced that her repeated lives should give her the chance to commute the course of history . It ’s a delicate examination of sprightliness ’s substance at a specially polar time in the chronicle of the commonwealth that she is perpetually born into .

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Dunkirk (2017)

A brilliant war movie that embroider the British voiding fromDunkirk , Christopher Nolan‘s war epic is the rare state of war movie about a losing battle . Thanks to Nolan ’s singular power to manipulate clock time , the movie is unmistakably tense , simultaneously following soldiers on the land , a cowcatcher flying over the engagement , and the civilian boaters who span the channel to bring through their soldiers .

Dunkirkwas about fleeing for safe , but it ’s also a motion-picture show about the triumph of veritable citizenry working to economize one another from one of the most horrific warfare in the history of the world . In Nolan ’s hands , it feels like an utter triumph .

you may watchDunkirkon Amazon Prime Video .

The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

A slap-up heroic poem that centre on a exclusive slice of World War II , The Bridge on the River Kwaitells the story of a mathematical group of British POW who are instructed by their Japanese captors to build a strategically important bridge .

While the soldier ab initio delay the work , they eventually agree to give it their all , and their commanding policeman slowly becomes more and more attached to the project . A consummate film about honour , duty , and striving to be excellent , The Bridge on the River Kwaiis an absolute classic .

you may rentThe Bridge on the River Kwaion Amazon Prime Video .

Atonement (2007)

A bleak reminder of how hard it was to find felicity during World War II , Atonementconcerns itself first and first with events that take place before the war , but features unforgettable struggle scene afterwards on that still astound to this sidereal day .

When a untried girl incorrectly criminate her older sister ’s boyfriend of rapine , she sets both he and her baby on an unforgiving trend that cross with the tragedies of the war . Atonementis a pensive , lyric picture show about what it signify to find peace treaty , and whether the brutal realness of our world will ever allow us to find it . It also made a star out of Saoirse Ronan , who is the confidential information actress inBlitz .

you may rentAtonementon Amazon Prime Video .