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2002 · 50 votes
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1983 · 66 votes
Movie6.8DramaHistoryDuring World War II, a young man is called up and, with an increasing sense of foreboding, undertakes his army training ready for D-Day, June 6th, 1944.
Overlord
1975 · 92 votes
Movie6.5WarHistoryIn 1943, two British intelligence officers concoct Operation Mincemeat, wherein their plan to drop a corpse with false papers off the coast of Spain would fool Nazi spies into believing the Allied forces were planning to attack by way of Greece rather than Sicily.
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1965 · 292 votes