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51. Our Queen at War (2020 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 60 min | Documentary, Biography, History

Our Queen at War reveals Princess Elizabeth's extraordinary teenage life; from broadcasting to the children of the Empire, to putting on pantomimes for the war effort.

Director: Christopher Bruce | Stars: Ron Batchelor, Winston Churchill, Marion Crawford, Jane Dismore

Votes: 123

52. The Blitz on the Midlands (2001 Video)

56 min | Documentary, History, War

This is a powerful account of the German bombing raids on the central towns and airfields of England, including the terrible blitz on Coventry and the smaller raids on the airfields of Lincolnshire and East Anglia.

Director: Stanley Joseph | Stars: Don Burbridge, Rudolf Hess, Adolf Hitler, King George VI

Votes: 6

53. Ruth Rendell Mysteries (1987–2000)
Episode: The Orchard Walls (1998)

TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A bright young teenage girl is 'farmed out' to relatives in the rural West Country during the Battle of Britain and makes many astute observations about life there.

Director: Gwennan Sage | Stars: Honeysuckle Weeks, Marsha Fitzalan, John McGlynn, Sylvia Syms

Votes: 66

54. Foyle's War (2002–2015)
Episode: The Funk Hole (2003)

TV-14 | 98 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Foyle's investigation of the death of a young black marketeer and stolen food is interrupted by his suspension on charges of sedition.

Director: Jeremy Silberston | Stars: Andrew Lee Potts, Jonathan Moore, Tom Bennett, Bill Moody

Votes: 694

55. Hamish Macbeth (1995–1997)
Episode: Destiny: Part 1 (1997)

Not Rated | 49 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

TV John's brother Kenneth breaks out of jail and returns to Lochdubh in search of the Stone of Destiny. Hamish learns a great secret that he must protect.

Director: Nicholas Renton | Stars: Sean Scanlan, Richard Marsella, Kenny Ireland, Caroline Loncq

Votes: 99

56. Lost Worlds (2005–2007)
Episode: Churchill's Secret Bunkers (2006)

TV-PG | 46 min | Documentary, History

In London during WWII, Winston Churchill reluctantly agreed to the construction of secret bunkers. Investigators yield up some of their secrets.

Director: George Pagliero

Votes: 18

57. Telephone Time (1956–1958)
Episode: Diamond Peer (1957)

30 min | Drama

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Director: Lewis Allen | Stars: Tom Helmore, John Nesbitt, Jean Byron, Richard Karlan

58. Masters of the Air (2024)
Episode: Part Four (2024)

TV-MA | 52 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

Lt. Rosenthal joins the 100th just as one of its crews reaches a milestone. The U-boat pens at Bremen become a target for the second time.

Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga | Stars: Austin Butler, Harry Ames, Darragh Cowley, Elliot Warren

Votes: 2,353

59. The World at War (1973–1974)
Episode: Home Fires: Britain - 1940-1944 (1974)

TV-PG | 52 min | Documentary, History, War

The war effort required total commitment from British citizens stretching their bodies and spirits to the breaking point and occasionally beyond it. As a result of grim news early in the ... See full summary »

Stars: Laurence Olivier, George Hodgkinson, Gwen Bunt, Lord Chandos

Votes: 366

60. Tony Robinson's History of Britain (2020–2022)
Episode: The Second World War (2020)

Documentary, History

Bethnal Green station was hit during the Blitz. Grocer's daughter Eileen worked with Princess Elizabeth in the ATS. Maisie's father was punished for his resistance in Guernsey. Joy married an American GI. Ch. 5 description.

Stars: Tony Robinson, King George VI, Queen Elizabeth II, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother

Votes: 11

61. Secrets of Royal Travel (2020– )
Episode: Royal Train (2020)

Unrated | 48 min | Documentary

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Stars: Nigel Havers, Emily Andrews, Phil Marsh, Kate Williams

Votes: 11

62. Cambridge Spies (2003)
Episode: Episode #1.3 (2003)

58 min | Drama, History

Chronicling the story of the most infamous double agents in British history. Anthony Blunt is sent to Germany to retrieve sensitive documents.

Director: Tim Fywell | Stars: Rupert Penry-Jones, Anna-Louise Plowman, Darrell D'Silva, Ben Meyjes

Votes: 56

63. World War Weird (2017– )
Episode: Episode #2.5 (2018)

Documentary, History, War

In 1940, Japan launch an attack on a Chinese city - but they are not dropping bombs. Swarms of fleas descend and the city is infected with the bubonic plague.

Director: Mike Ibeji | Stars: Martin K.A. Morgan, Guy Walters, Dominic Selwood, Alexandra Churchill

64. World War Weird (2017– )
Episode: Episode #2.7 (2018)

Documentary, History, War

In blacked-out London four young women are murdered - just like Jack fifty years before. When two flights disappear without a trace, the legend of the Bermuda Triangle begins.

Directors: Mike Ibeji, Justine Ostrowska | Stars: Guy Walters, Joshua Levine, Andrew Robertshaw, Martin K.A. Morgan

65. Apocalypse: Hitler Takes on the West (2021– )
Episode: Ultimes Combats (2021)

Documentary, History, War

France is in chaos. The French people take to the roads, trying to escape. The government signs an armistice as Germans take over half the country.

Directors: Isabelle Clarke, Daniel Costelle | Stars: Mathieu Kassovitz, Stephen Rashbrook, Nathan Rippy, William C. Bullitt

Votes: 40

66. Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode: Victory of the Daleks (2010)

TV-PG | 42 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi

The TARDIS takes The Doctor and Amy to war-torn Britain in the middle of World War Two. Not only do they meet Winston Churchill himself, but the Doctor comes face to face once again with his greatest enemy of all.

Director: Andrew Gunn | Stars: Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, Ian McNeice, Bill Paterson

Votes: 7,312

67. The Simpsons (1989– )
Episode: The Fight Before Christmas (2010)

TV-14 | 30 min | Animation, Comedy

Marge gets depressed when the rest of the family does not get into the holiday spirit, and she writes a letter, hoping to get some help; Mr. Burns and Moe's new friend delay the Simpsons as they attempt to travel to Hawaii for the holiday.

Directors: Mike B. Anderson, Bob Anderson, Matthew Schofield | Stars: Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith

Votes: 1,405

68. The U.S. and the Holocaust (2022)
Episode: Yearning to Breathe Free (1938-1942) (2022)

TV-14 | 138 min | Documentary, History

As WWII begins, Americans are divided over whether to intervene against Germany. Some individuals and organizations work tirelessly to help refugees escape. Germany invades the USSR and secretly begins the mass murder of European Jews.

Directors: Sarah Botstein, Ken Burns, Lynn Novick | Stars: Peter Coyote, Daniel Mendelsohn, Guy Stern, Peter Hayes

Votes: 157

69. World War II in Colour (2009)
Episode: Britain at Bay (2009)

TV-MA | 51 min | Documentary, History, War

Germany makes critical errors during the bombing of Britain.

Stars: Robert Powell, Winston Churchill, Adolf Hitler, Erich Raeder

Votes: 312

70. World War II in Colour (2009)
Episode: Turning the Tide (2009)

TV-MA | 51 min | Documentary, History, War

Allies turn the tide in the Atlantic, where initially German U-Boats harass freely convoys to supply Britain. The Kriegsmarine calls off their submarines. The route to bring American soldiers who will land on D-Day is clear.

Stars: Robert Powell, Winston Churchill, Arthur Harris, Adolf Hitler

Votes: 244

71. Agatha Christie: Lucy Worsley on the Mystery Queen (2022)
Episode: Unfinished Portrait (2022)

Documentary

Lucy Worsley explores Agatha Christie's later life, revealing how newfound personal happiness during the turbulent 1930s and 40s marked a golden age for her writing.

Directors: Edmund Moriarty, Simon George | Stars: Lucy Worsley, Elena Pischikova, Katherine Blakeney, Frankie Y. Bailey

Votes: 42

72. Fleming (2014)
Episode: Episode #1.1 (2014)

TV-MA | 45 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

In London, 1938, Ian Fleming is a dissolute playboy, eclipsed by his dead war hero father and successful brother. While propping up the bar at a jazz club, he meets Ann O'Neill, an alluring... See full summary »

Director: Mat Whitecross | Stars: Dominic Cooper, Lara Pulver, Samuel West, Anna Chancellor

Votes: 318

73. Secrets of the Dead (2000– )
Episode: Bugging Hitler's Soldiers (2013)

TV-PG | 54 min | Documentary, History, War

An examination of British Intelligence's World War II systematic eavesdropping on German prisoners of war.

Director: Christopher Spencer | Stars: David Barrass, Nicholas Farrell, Jack Fortune, Rupert Frazer

Votes: 83

74. How to Lose a War (2023)
Episode: The Men Who Gave the Orders (2023)

Documentary, History, War

Explore the men in charge whose rampant egos and misguided belief in their own abilities led to their country making fatal mistakes in the war.

Director: Tim Bosanquet | Stars: Tim Benbow, Russell A. Hart, Alexander Henry, Giuseppe Finaldi

75. CBS News Sunday Morning with Jane Pauley (1979– )
Episode: Episode #46.16 (2024)

TV-PG | News, Talk-Show

Jim Axelrod covers romance scams that cost Americans billions annually; efforts to help migrating animals safely cross roadways; CBS News correspondent Bob Schieffer; Tracy Smith interviews... See full summary »

Stars: Jane Pauley, Julie Andrews, Jim Axelrod, James Balog

76. Hitler's Circle of Evil (2018)
Episode: The Madness of Rudolf Hess (2018)

TV-14 | 52 min | Documentary, Biography, History

As Germany invades Poland and sparks World War II, loyal Deputy Fuhrer Rudolph Hess tries to reclaim his once lofty status among Hitler's senior staff.

Director: Guy Smith | Stars: Guy Walters, Frank McDonough, Michael Lynch, James Holland

Votes: 157

77. 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

78. Queers (2017)
Episode: Safest Spot in Town (2017)

TV-14 | 18 min | Drama

1941. Fredrick recalls his last three years in London, having emigrated from West India; finding a tentative place for himself in the queer and artistic circles, on the night one of his favourite venues is bombed.

Director: Mark Gatiss | Star: Kadiff Kirwan

Votes: 60

79. Battle of Britain (2005)
Episode: The Blitz (2005)

Documentary, History, War

During the first week of September 1940, Hitler decided to move the bombing strategy away from the airfields to civilian London.

Director: Stephen Saunders | Stars: Gordon Batt, Cyril Bamberger, Bob Doe, Ellen Saunders

80. Wartime Crime (2017– )
Episode: The Blackout Killers (2017)

TV-14 | 43 min | Crime

During the WW2 blackouts in Berlin and London, police race to catch serial killers who use the darkness as cover.

Director: Alec Lindsell | Stars: Mike Bodie, Julian Boon, Angus Kennedy, Lucy Moorhouse

Votes: 13