20 best movies like Testament of Youth (2014)

List of the best movies like Testament of Youth (2014): Call the Midwife, Olga, A Tale of Two Cities, Korczak, The Railway Man, The Saboteurs, The Water Diviner, Hacksaw Ridge, Süskind, The Flowers of War.

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Markimdb: 8.6
Genredrama, history
CountryUnited Kingdom

Drama following the lives of a group of midwives working in the poverty-stricken East End of London during the 1950s, based on the best-selling memoirs of Jennifer Worth.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genremelodrama, drama, military, biography, history
CountryBrazil

Based upon the true story of Olga Benário, the German-born wife of Brazilian communist leader Luís Carlos Prestes. During the dictatorship of Getúlio Vargas (1930-1945) she was arrested and sent to Nazi Germany, where she was put to death in a concentration camp. After World War II began, Vargas decided to uphold the Allies.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genremelodrama, drama, military, history
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:57

British barrister Sydney Carton lives an insubstantial and unhappy life. He falls under the spell of Lucie Manette, but Lucie marries Charles Darnay. When Darnay goes to Paris to rescue an imprisoned family retainer, he becomes entangled in the snares of the brutal French Revolution and is himself jailed and condemned to the guillotine. But Sydney Carton, in love with a woman he cannot have, comes up with a daring plan to save her husband.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genredrama, military, biography, history
CountryPoland, Germany, United Kingdom

The story of Polish pedagogue Janusz Korczak and his dedication to protecting Jewish orphans during the war.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genremelodrama, drama, military, biography
CountryAustralia, United Kingdom
Duration01:56

A victim from World War II's "Death Railway" sets out to find those responsible for his torture. A true story.

Markimdb: 7.9
Genredrama, military, history
CountryNorway, Denmark, United Kingdom, Czech Republic, Sweden

When the Nazis secure a heavy water plant to realize their plan to create an atomic bomb, the Norwegian Allies struggle to sabotage the operation.

Markimdb: 7
Genredrama, military, history
CountryAustralia, USA
Duration01:51

In 1919, Australian farmer Joshua Connor travels to Turkey to discover the fate of his three sons, reported missing in action. Holding on to hope, Joshua must travel across the war-torn landscape to find the truth and his own peace.

Markimdb: 8.1
Genredrama, military, biography, history
CountryAustralia, USA
Duration02:29

    WWII American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, who served during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people and becomes the first Conscientious Objector in American history to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genredrama, military, biography, history
    CountryNetherlands

    In Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, Walter Süskind is a member of the Dutch Jewish Council who rescues hundreds of children from the concentration camps.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genreaction, drama, military, history
    CountryChina, Hong Kong
    Duration02:26

    A Westerner finds refuge with a group of women in a church during Japan's rape of Nanking in 1937. Posing as a priest, he attempts to lead the women to safety.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genreaction, drama, military, biography, history
    CountryGermany, France, Austria
    Duration02:00

    The story of the final seven months in the life of German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genredrama, biography, history
    CountryUnited Kingdom, France
    Duration02:35

      Based on true events about the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement who were forced underground to evade the State.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genreaction, drama, adventure, military, history
      CountryUSA, Japan
      Duration02:15

      There were five Marines and one Navy Corpsman photographed raising the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi by Joe Rosenthal on February 23, 1945. This is the story of three of the six surviving servicemen – John 'Doc' Bradley, Pvt. Rene Gagnon and Pvt. Ira Hayes, who fought in the battle to take Iwo Jima from the Japanese.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, military, history
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:17

      Based on a true story, during World War II, four Jewish brothers escape their Nazi-occupied homeland of West Belarus in Poland and join the Soviet partisans to combat the Nazis. The brothers begin the rescue of roughly 1,200 Jews still trapped in the ghettos of Poland.

      Markimdb: 8.1
      Genredrama, military, biography, history
      CountryUnited Kingdom, South Africa, Italy, USA
      Duration02:01

      Inspired by true events, this film takes place in Rwanda in the 1990s when more than a million Tutsis were killed in a genocide that went mostly unnoticed by the rest of the world. Hotel owner Paul Rusesabagina houses over a thousand refuges in his hotel in attempt to save their lives.

      Markimdb: 5.6
      Genreaction, melodrama, drama, adventure, military, biography, history
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Germany, Netherlands, France, Italy, Morocco, Thailand
      Duration02:55

        Alexander, the King of Macedonia, leads his legions against the giant Persian Empire. After defeating the Persians, he leads his army across the then known world, venturing farther than any westerner had ever gone, all the way to India.

        Markimdb: 5.8
        Genredrama, military, biography, history
        CountryHungary, United Kingdom

        Based upon the final confession of Adolf Eichmann, made before his execution in Israel, of his role in Hitler's plan for the final solution.

        Markimdb: 6.7
        Genredrama, military, biography, history
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:36

        April 14, 1865. One gunshot. One assassin hell-bent on killing a tyrant, as he charged the 16th President of the United States. And in one moment, our nation was forever changed. This is the most dramatic and resonant crime in American history: the true story of the killing of Abraham Lincoln. From Executive Producers Ridley Scott and Tony Scott, and narrated by Tom Hanks, National Geographic Channel's first ever docudrama, Killing Lincoln, based on the New York Times bestseller, combines re-creations with historical insight in a thrilling chronicle of the final days of President Lincoln and his assassin, John Wilkes Booth.

        Markimdb: 6.8
        Genredrama, biography, history
        CountryUnited Kingdom, USA

        British Prime Minister Winston Churchill suffers from a stroke in the summer of 1953 that's kept a secret from the rest of the world.

        Markimdb: 6.5
        Genredrama, western, military, history
        CountryMexico
        Duration02:25

        A chronicle of the Cristeros War (1926-1929), which was touched off by a rebellion against the Mexican government's attempt to secularize the country.

        Markimdb: 6.8
        Genredrama, biography, history
        CountryUnited Kingdom, France, Germany, USA
        Duration02:30

        Eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner lives his last 25 years with gusto and secretly becomes involved with a seaside landlady, while his faithful housekeeper bears an unrequited love for him.

        Markimdb: 4.1
        Genredrama, military, history
        CountryNetherlands
        Duration01:45

        A thrilling love story between the young boxer Vincent and the German Eva, who soon has to marry with the middle-aged Dirk to save her family. While the war starts in the Netherlands their impossible love inflames. May 14, 1940, the day that the centre of Rotterdam is bombed and the young lovers lose sight of each other.

        Markimdb: 6.5
        Genredrama, military, history
        CountryJapan, USA
        Duration01:45

        As the Japanese surrender at the end of WWII, Gen. Fellers is tasked with deciding if Emperor Hirohito will be hanged as a war criminal. Influencing his ruling is his quest to find Aya, an exchange student he met years earlier in the U.S.

        Markimdb: 6.6
        Genrethriller, drama, military, biography, history
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom
        Duration01:48

        Based on Mariane Pearl's account of the terrifying and unforgettable story of her husband, Wall Street Journal reporter Danny Pearl's life and death.

        Markimdb: 6.7
        Genredrama, military, history
        CountryRussia, Germany, Netherlands, Latvia, Belarus
        Duration02:07

        Western frontiers of the USSR, 1942. The region is under German occupation. A man is wrongly accused of collaboration. Desperate to save his dignity, he faces an impossible moral choice.

        Markimdb: 7.7
        Genremelodrama, drama, military, biography, history
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:14

        Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is then called to serve his country and despite deep religious and moral objections to fighting becomes one of the most celebrated American heroes of WWI.

        Markimdb: 7.7
        Genredrama, history
        CountryTurkey

        A look inside the story of two newlyweds who are parted from each other and spend the next half-century of their lives trying to reunite.

        Markimdb: 5.9
        Genreaction, drama, military, biography, history
        CountryUSA

        Spend time on both sides of World War I, partly with German flying ace Baron Manfred Von Richthofen (John Phillip Law), aka "The Red Baron," and his colorful "flying circus" of Fokker fighter planes, during the time from his arrival at the war front to his death in combat. On the other side is Roy Brown of the Royal Air Force, sometimes credited with shooting Richthofen down.

        Markimdb: 6.4
        Genrethriller, drama, detective, military, history
        CountryUnited Kingdom
        Duration02:09

        A mysterious tale set around a traditional British family on the eve of World War Two. Oblivious to the looming shadow of World War II, the wealthy Keyes maintain a confident façade in the British countryside until daughter Anne becomes an unexpected pawn. Her accidental discovery of secret recordings creates a rift in the family.

        Markimdb: 5.6
        Genremelodrama, drama, biography
        CountryUnited Kingdom
        Duration01:40

        The Newlyn School of artists flourished at the beginning of the 20th Century and the film focuses on the wild and bohemian Lamorna Group, which included Alfred Munnings and Laura and Harold Knight. The incendiary anti-Modernist Munnings, now regarded as one of Britain's most sought-after artists, is at the centre of the complex love triangle, involving aspiring artist Florence Carter-Wood and Gilbert Evans, the land agent in charge of the Lamorna Valley estate. True - and deeply moving - the story is played out against the timeless beauty of the Cornish coast, in the approaching shadow of The Great War.

        Markimdb: 6.4
        Genremelodrama, drama, military, history
        CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, West Germany
        Duration02:21

        During WWII, the United States set up army bases in Great Britain as part of the war effort. Against their proper sensibilities, many of the Brits don't much like the brash Yanks, especially when it comes to the G.I.s making advances on the lonely British girls. One relationship that develops is between married John, an Army Captain, and the aristocratic Helen, whose naval husband is away at war. Helen loves her husband, but Helen and John are looking for some comfort during the difficult times.

        Markimdb: 8.1
        Genredrama, military, biography, history
        CountryLebanon, Kuwait, Morocco, United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia, Egypt
        Duration02:57

        Handsomely-mounted historical epic concerns the birth of the Islamic faith and the story of the prophet Mohammed.

        Markimdb: 6.6
        Genredrama, military, biography, history
        CountryIndia
        Duration02:30

        The film begins in 1857, when India was ruled by the British East India Company. Mangal Pandey is a sepoy, a soldier of Indian origin, in the army of the East India Company. Pandey is fighting in the Anglo-Afghan Wars and saves the life of his British commanding officer, William Gordon. Gordon is indebted to Pandey and a strong friendship develops between them, transcending both rank and race.

        Markimdb: 6.2
        Genredrama, military
        CountryUnited Kingdom
        Duration01:42

        Set in the fields of Devon and the WW1 battlefields of Flanders, two brothers fall for the same girl while contending with the pressures of their feudal family life, the war, and the price of courage and cowardice.

        Markimdb: 7.1
        Genredrama, biography, history
        CountryUnited Kingdom, Australia
        Duration01:45

        The story of Margaret Humphreys, a social worker from Nottingham, who uncovers one of the most significant social scandals in recent times – the forced migration of children from the United Kingdom. Almost singlehandedly, Margaret reunited thousands of families, brought authorities to account and worldwide attention to an extraordinary miscarriage of justice.

        Markimdb: 7.3
        Genremelodrama, drama, military, history
        CountryUnited Kingdom
        Duration02:46

        As an English soldier fights in the horrific trenches of northern France, he is haunted by the memories of his forbidden love affair with a French woman.

        Markimdb: 7.4
        Genremelodrama, drama, biography, history
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom
        Duration01:58

        The true story of William Wilberforce and his courageous quest to end the British slave trade. Along the way, Wilberforce meets intense opposition, but his minister urges him to see the cause through.

        Markimdb: 8
        Genredrama, biography, history
        CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Australia
        Duration01:58

        The King's Speech tells the story of the man who became King George VI, the father of Queen Elizabeth II. After his brother abdicates, George ('Bertie') reluctantly assumes the throne. Plagued by a dreaded stutter and considered unfit to be king, Bertie engages the help of an unorthodox speech therapist named Lionel Logue. Through a set of unexpected techniques, and as a result of an unlikely friendship, Bertie is able to find his voice and boldly lead the country into war.

        Markimdb: 6.7
        Genremelodrama, drama, military, biography
        CountryNetherlands
        Duration02:10

        Waldemar Nods, a young man from Suriname, meets the older Dutch woman Rika van der Lans and they fall in love. In pre-WWII Netherlands they could not be more different. The one black, the other white, 17 years between them and on top of that Rika already has four children with another man. They love each other, but then Rika appears to be pregnant...

        Markimdb: 7.8
        Genredrama, military, history
        CountrySouth Korea
        Duration02:06

        Korea, 1950. A child's vow to take care of his family marks the beginning of a lifelong promise spanning sixty years.

        Markimdb: 6.4
        Genreaction, melodrama, drama, military, history
        CountryRomania, Hungary, Canada, USA

        Regent Horthy is the leader of Hungary and a German ally, but his favorable standing with Hitler changes as the war comes to an end. Forced to cede Hungary’s power or else witness the execution of his son, Regent Horthy gives up control of his country to the Nazis, who quickly move Hungarians to ghettos and death camps, with no hope in sight. But the despair changes when a young man named Elek emerges. Separated from his family during the relocations and aided by the woman he loves , Elek defies the enemy by becoming one of them. In a race against time, disguised as a Nazi Officer he embarks on a mission to save his family and thousands of his countrymen.

        Markimdb: 6.8
        Genredrama, military, biography, history
        CountryVenezuela, Spain
        Duration01:58

        Bolívar was instrumental in Latin America’s struggle for independence from the Spanish Empire, and is today considered one of the most influential politicians and emancipators in American history. Libertador is told from the viewpoint of Bolívar, portrayed by Ramírez, about his quests and epic military campaigns, which covered twice the territory Alexander the Great conquered, and his vision to unify South America.

        Markimdb: 8
        Genrethriller, drama, military, biography
        CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
        Duration01:54

          Based on the real life story of legendary cryptanalyst Alan Turing, the film portrays the nail-biting race against time by Turing and his brilliant team of code-breakers at Britain's top-secret Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park, during the darkest days of World War II.

          Markimdb: 7.2
          Genreaction, drama, adventure, military, history
          CountryUSA, India
          Duration02:26

            Follows a young man named Albert and his horse, Joey, and how their bond is broken when Joey is sold to the cavalry and sent to the trenches of World War One. Despite being too young to enlist, Albert heads to France to save his friend.

            Markimdb: 7.2
            Genredrama, military, biography, history
            CountryUnited Kingdom
            Duration03:03

            Tsar Nicholas II, the inept last monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overthrown and exiled to Siberia with his family.

            Markimdb: 7.2
            Genredrama, military, biography, history
            CountryUnited Kingdom, Hungary, USA, Australia
            Duration01:59

            England, 15th century. Hal, a capricious prince who lives among the populace far from court, is forced by circumstances to reluctantly accept the throne and become Henry V.

            Markimdb: 8.2
            Genredrama, biography, history
            CountryUnited Kingdom
            Duration01:30

            This special one-off drama travels back in time to 1963 to see how Doctor Who was first brought to the screen. Actor William Hartnell felt trapped by a succession of hard-man roles. Wannabe producer Verity Lambert was frustrated by the TV industry's glass ceiling. Both of them were to find unlikely hope and unexpected challenges in the form of a Saturday tea-time drama. Allied with a team of unusual but brilliant people, they went on to create the longest running science fiction series ever made.

            Markimdb: 7.7
            Genremelodrama, drama, biography
            CountryUnited Kingdom, Japan, USA
            Duration02:03

              The Theory of Everything is the extraordinary story of one of the world’s greatest living minds, the renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who falls deeply in love with fellow Cambridge student Jane Wilde.

              Markimdb: 6.6
              Genredrama, military, history
              CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA
              Duration01:40

              Feature film adaptation of Shakespeare's Scottish play about General Macbeth whose ambitious wife urges him to use wicked means in order to gain power of the throne over the sitting king, Duncan.

              Markimdb: 7.2
              Genreaction, drama, military, biography, history
              CountryItaly, Soviet Union
              Duration02:08

              After defeating France and imprisoning Napoleon on Elba, ending two decades of war, Europe is shocked to find Napoleon has escaped and has caused the French Army to defect from the King back to him. The best of the British generals, the Duke of Wellington, beat Napolean's best generals in Spain and Portugal, but now must beat Napoleon himself with an Anglo Allied army.




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