8 best movies like The Finest Hours (1964)

A family that survives the genocide in Indonesia confronts the men who killed one of their brothers.

In 1966, Dieter Dengler was shot down over Laos, captured, and, down to 85 pounds, escaped. Barefoot, surviving monsoons, leeches, and machete-wielding villagers, he was rescued. Now, near 60, living on Mt. Tamalpais, Dengler tells his story: a German lad surviving Allied bombings in World War II, postwar poverty, apprenticed to a smith, beaten regularly. At 18, he emigrates and peels potatoes in the U.S. Air Force. He leaves for California and college, then enlistment in the Navy to learn to fly. A quiet man of sorrows tells his story: war, capture, harrowing conditions, escape, and miraculous rescue. Where did he find the strength; how does he now live with his memories?

Liv Grannes from Mosjøen became Norway's highest decorated woman after World War II. But, both her achievements, and Stalin and Churchill's false flag operation in Helgeland, disappeared in the darkness of history. Why?

Mira Kniaziew of Stuptnik (A 15538) and Lea Zajac of Novera (33502) are survivors of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest of the concentration and extermination camps built by the Nazi Germany regime after the invasion of Poland in the early World War II. After a happy childhood in Poland, his homeland, and a adolescence truncated by his detention in the concentration camp, both manage to survive and leave for Argentina where they develop their lives without forgetting. These two women, united by an intimate friendship, have the decision, the strength and the will to remember and transmit one of the cruelest events of the twentieth century.What resources did they develop to face life, what is their look from old age ?; Does time soothe wounds? Can you forgive? Can life make sense after hell?Already in the twilight of their lives and through this documentary, they provide us with a moving example of resilience.

Hollywood collides with a group of veterans who are tired of the typical PTSD and valor-portrayed movies and decide to make an original dark humor zombie apocalypse film all on their own.

A look at the parallel lives of Charlie Chaplin and Adolf Hitler and how they crossed with the creation of the film “The Great Dictator,” released in 1940.

The life and career of the hailed Hollywood movie star and underappreciated genius inventor, Hedy Lamarr.

Pat Tillman never thought of himself as a hero. His choice to leave a multimillion-dollar football contract and join the military wasn't done for any reason other than he felt it was the right thing to do. The fact that the military manipulated his tragic death in the line of duty into a propaganda tool is unfathomable and thoroughly explored in Amir Bar-Lev's riveting and enraging documentary.