Top 20 movies like Shielding the Flame
Top 20 Movies like Shielding the Flame
- 1. Men Behind the Sun
- 2. Tobruk
- 3. The Silent Enemy
- 4. Memory of the Camps
- 5. Unknown Soldier
- 6. Impy's Island
- 7. A Soldier's Story
- 8. A Blind Hero: The Love of Otto Weidt
- 9. Mosquito Squadron
- 10. Cold Comfort
- 11. Hannibal Brooks
- 12. Weresquito: Nazi Hunter
- 13. Samuel Wilder King: Fighting For Statehood
- 14. Pippa
- 15. Rascal Does Not Dream of a Sister Venturing Out
- 16. The Man in the Photograph
- 17. Ivanhoe
- 18. The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
- 19. De Gaulle, le géant aux pieds d'argile
- 20. Hitler's Secret Science
1. Men Behind the Sun (黑太陽731)
The film is a graphic depiction of the war atrocities committed by the Japanese at Unit 731, the secret biological weapons experimentation unit of the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. The film details the various cruel medical experiments Unit 731 inflicted upon the Chinese and Soviet prisoners at the tail-end of the war.
It has an average vote of 6.122 on TMDB.
2. Tobruk
In September 1942, the German Afrika Korps under Rommel have successfully pushed the Allies back into Egypt. A counter-attack is planned, for which the fuel dumps at Tobruk are a critical impediment. In order to aid the attack, a group of British commandos and German Jews make their way undercover through 800 miles of desert, to destroy the fuel dumps starving the Germans of fuel.
It has an average vote of 6.13 on TMDB.
3. The Silent Enemy
The Mediterranean, 1941/42 - Axis forces are using frogmen and manned torpedoes to attack previously impregnable harbours. The Allied forces need to come up with something to answer this threat, which they find in the form of Lt. Lionel "Buster" Crabb.
It has an average vote of 5.4 on TMDB.
4. Memory of the Camps
In 1945, Allied troops invaded Germany and liberated Nazi death camps. They found unspeakable horrors which still haunt the world’s conscience. A film was made by British and American film crews who were with the troops liberating the camps. It was directed in part by Alfred Hitchcock and was broadcast for the first time in its entirety on PBS FRONTLINE in 1985.
5. Unknown Soldier (Soldato Ignoto)
In 1943, a group of Italian and Allied soldiers find themselves trapped inside an abandoned villa. When they discover that they are in fact dead and that the villa is the starting point of their journey into afterlife, each character tells his life story, united in the belief that they have died unjustly in a senseless war. The youngest, whose wife is expecting a child, wants to return to the world.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
6. Impy's Island (Urmel aus dem Eis)
On a magical tropical island, a fun-loving group of misfit animals and people discover a baby dinosaur frozen since prehistoric times. When a king from a faraway country vows to capture the loveable baby dino for his private collection, all the inhabitants must join together to save their new friend.
It has an average vote of 5.7 on TMDB.
7. A Soldier's Story
In a rural town in Louisiana, a black Master Sergeant is found shot to death just outside the local Army Base. Military lawyer, Captain Davenport—also a black man—is sent from Washington to conduct an investigation. Facing an uncooperative chain of command and fearful black troops, Davenport must battle with deceit and prejudice in order to find out exactly who really did kill the Master Sergeant.
It has an average vote of 6.7 on TMDB.
8. A Blind Hero: The Love of Otto Weidt (Ein blinder Held – Die Liebe des Otto Weidt)
A Blind Hero depicts Otto Weidt's story as told by award-winning journalist and author Inge Deutschkron, who tells the incredible tale of Weidt's efforts to save her and the rest of his employees from the Nazis, including Alice Licht, the love of Otto Weidt's life.
It has an average vote of 7.2 on TMDB.
9. Mosquito Squadron
England, World War II. Quint Munroe, RAF officer and new leader of a Mosquito squadron, is tasked with destroying a secret Nazi base in France while trying to overcome the disappearance of a brother-in-arms.
It has an average vote of 5.2 on TMDB.
10. Cold Comfort
A dancing radio stops partying to transmit an announcement on fuel conservation in this WWII cartoon short.
11. Hannibal Brooks
A POW in World War II is put to work in a Munich zoo, looking after an Asian elephant. The zoo is bombed by the Americans and the director of the zoo decides it is not safe for his Asian elephant Lucy to remain there. So he sends Brooks to safety with Lucy. They escape and go on the run in order to get to Switzerland.
It has an average vote of 6.8 on TMDB.
12. Weresquito: Nazi Hunter
Horrific Nazi experiments have left a surviving WWII soldier with a terrifying condition: at the sight of fresh blood, he transforms into a man-sized, blood-sucking killer insect. Refusing to let his affliction destroy him and all he loves, he instead commits himself to using his "powers" for good-by finding the people responsible and bringing them to justice.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
13. Samuel Wilder King: Fighting For Statehood
Samuel Wilder King: Fighting for Statehood tells the story of Samuel Wilder King's service in WWI and WWII, including his efforts to minimized the internment of Japanese Americans in Hawaii, as well as his post-war efforts that led to the territory becoming the 50th State of the Union.
14. Pippa (पिप्पा)
The story of Captain Balram Singh Mehta of India’s 45 Cavalry regiment who, along with his siblings, fought on the eastern front during the Indo-Pakistani war of 1971. Named after the Russian amphibious war tank “PT-76”, which floats on water like an empty ‘pippa’ of ghee, the film traces Mehta's coming-of-age as he steps up to prove himself in a war to liberate Bangladesh.
It has an average vote of 4.5 on TMDB.
15. Rascal Does Not Dream of a Sister Venturing Out (青春ブタ野郎はおでかけシスターの夢を見ない)
After a draining December, Sakuta is quickly nearing the end of his second year of high school. Since Mai is a third-year student, they don't have much time left together before graduation rolls around. Meanwhile, his sister, Kaede, is slowly but steadily venturing outdoors again. Just as she begins to find her footing, she announces her most ambitious goal yet—attending her brother's high school! Sakuta knows better than anyone how difficult this will be for Kaede, and he's ready to support her however he can. He's just not sure if that's what's best for her...or what she really wants...
It has an average vote of 7.929 on TMDB.
16. The Man in the Photograph (Čovjek sa fotografije)
Pro-Nazi police arrests an ordinary man from the street because he is a dead ringer for a legendary resistance leader.
It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.
17. Ivanhoe
Sir Walter Scott's classic story of the chivalrous Ivanhoe who joins with Robin of Locksley in the fight against Prince John and for the return of King Richard the Lionheart.
It has an average vote of 6.762 on TMDB.
18. The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
The life and career of Erwin Rommel and his involvement in the plot to assassinate Hitler.
It has an average vote of 6.7 on TMDB.
19. De Gaulle, le géant aux pieds d'argile (De Gaulle, le géant aux pieds d'argile)
(De Gaulle, le géant aux pieds d'argile)
It has an average vote of 9 on TMDB.
20. Hitler's Secret Science
During the Second World War, to give himself every chance of winning the conflict, Adolf Hitler instructed the most brilliant German scientists to develop advanced technology weapons of mass destruction. Among them were the V1, the first cruise missile, and the V2, the first ballistic missile. The document looks back at the context in which their creators worked and succeeded in designing innovations that laid the foundations of modern aviation and aerospace.