NICHOLAS GALITZINE AND BILL SKARSGARD ARE PREPARING FOR AN INVASION IN THE MOSQUITO BOWL WW2 SET NETFLIX MOVIE TRAILER

  THE MOSQUITO BOWL  

TRAILER FOR NETFLIX WW2 SET MOVIE

Netflix has released a trailer for their new World War 2 set movie drama THE MOSQUITO BOWL which will first hit cinemas October 30th and then be available for streaming as well from November 25th with the cast led by Nicholas Galitzine and Bill Skarsgård under the helm of director Peter Berg. 

 WHAT IS THE FILM ABOUT?

Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, four of America’s top college football stars set their fame aside to enlist in the Marines. As they prepare for the brutal invasion of Okinawa, they’ll play in a legendary game featuring some of the greatest players in history — a game that, for many, will be the last they ever play. Check out the dramatic movie trailer below and tell us what you think, will you be watching in November?

 

SEE SCOTT EASTWOOD TRYING TO ESCAPE VICIOUS NAZIS IN WW2 TRUE STORY BASED ACTION MOVIE LUCKY STRIKE

   LUCKY STRIKE TRAILER  

WITH SCOTT EASTWOOD IN THE LEAD ROLE

Experience one soldier's journey while the fate of the world hangs in balance in new World War II action movie LUCKY STRIKE for 

Lucky Strike arrives June 26th

which we have just received first trailer. Inspired by true events, the movie tells the story of one soldier trapped behind enemy lines during the last major German offensive during WWII, what will become known as The Battle of the Bulge of 1944 in Belgium. Armed only with his Motorola SCR-300 radio, a new technology only battle-ready near the end of the war, he must use his wits and spy craft to thwart the advancing Nazi Panzer army and find his way back home. The film reunites Scott Eastwood with director Rod Lurie after their film The Outpost. The movie hits theatres June 26th. Check out the trailer below:

 

NETFLIX AND TF1 TO TURN KEN FOLLETT'S BOOK JACKDAWS INTO NEW WORLD WAR 2 SET TV SERIES WITH LAETITIA CASTA

     JACKDAWS   

TO BECOME WW2 TV SERIES AT NETFLIX

Netflix is teaming up with French broadcaster TF1 on a six episode TV series adaptation of Ken Follett's war drama JACKDAWS (Le reseau

Jackdaws will have six episodes

 corneille)! Set in May 1944, just days before the D-Day landings, it tells the story of Elisabeth “Betty” Clairet (Laetitia Casta), a widowed mother who is tasked with assembling an unlikely commando of five civilian women to carry out a near-impossible mission: infiltrate an impenetrable château housing a key German communications hub and destroy it before the Normandy landings by the Allies. With only a week to prepare, the women must cross occupied territory, assume false identities and infiltrate the heavily guarded fortress by posing as cleaning staff to sabotage the underground communications network. Mathilde Seigner, Lina El Arabi and Michaël Youn round up the lead cast.

BRENDAN FRASER, ANDREW SCOTT, DAMIAN LEWIS IN NEW TRAILER FOR PRESSURE D-DAY WW2 HISTORICAL MOVIE

   NEW PRESSURE TRAILER   

WITH BRENDAN FRASER AND ANDREW SCOTT

New trailer has been released for Brendan Fraser's new World War II movie PRESSURE which is out May 29th with him playing Dwight D. Eisenhower. In the final days before the planned Allied invasion of Europe in 1944, Royal Air Force meteorologist James Stagg (Andrew Scott) must deliver a weather report to the Allied high command determining the feasibility of the planned D-Day. It also stars Kerry Condon, Damian Lewis, Chris Messina, and is directed by Anthony Maras. Check out the movie trailer below and tell us what you think, will you be watching?

 

SEE SHIPS SAILING ON ICE IN THE MESMERIZING TRAILER FOR ANGELS OF LADOGA HISTORICAL WORLD WAR TWO SET MOVIE

  ANGELS OF LADOGA  

TRAILER FOR RUSSIAN WORLD WAR 2 MOVIE

Angels of Ladoga will sail this April

An extremely exciting trailer has been released for Russian war movie ANGELS OF LADOGA (Ангелы Ладоги) in which you can see sailing ships skating on ice. Out in cinemas April 23rd, it is set in November, at the very beginning of the terrible winter of 1941! As the Nazi siege closes in around Leningrad, a group of young iceboat sailors sets out onto the thin, unformed ice over the lake of Ladoga. A mission to deliver ammunition turns into a rescue operation for orphans from an orphanage who hadn't been evacuated in time. Former regatta rivals must now forge a true team to survive and give hope to everyone else. Tikhon Zhiznevsky, Roman Evdokimov, Ksenia Treister, Viktor Dobronravov, lead the cast of this action packed movie depicting the heroic struggles of Russian people under the German invasion which left million of citizens dead. Check out the icy trailer below and tell us what you think.

 

BRENDAN FRASER, ANDREW SCOTT, DAMIAN LEWIS IN TRAILER FOR PRESSURE D-DAY WW2 HISTORICAL MOVIE

   PRESSURE TRAILER   

WITH BRENDAN FRASER AND ANDREW SCOTT

A trailer has been released for Brendan Fraser's new World War II movie PRESSURE which is out May 29th with him playing Dwight D. Eisenhower. In the final days before the planned Allied invasion of Europe in 1944, Royal Air Force meteorologist James Stagg (Andrew Scott) must deliver a weather report to the Allied high command determining the feasibility of the planned D-Day. It only also stars Kerry Condon, Damian Lewis, Chris Messina, and is directed by Anthony Maras. Check out the movie trailer below and tell us what you think, will you be watching?

 

JARED HARRIS, GUY PEARCE, MERAB NINIDZE TO PLAY TRUMAN, CHURCHIL, STALIN IN THE PRICE OF PEACE HISTORICAL MOVIE THRILLER

   THE PRICE OF PEACE  

JARED HARRIS, GUY PEARCE TO STAR

Historical political thriller from director Anthony McCarten titled THE PRICE OF PEACE has set Jared Harris, Guy Pearce and Merab Ninidze as leads in the story set during the Potsdam Conference in July 1945, in the aftermath of Nazi Germany’s defeat. President Harry S. Truman (Pearce), Prime Minister Winston Churchill (Harris) and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin (Ninidze) converge on the meeting which will shape the future of Europe and the world. Each man has a personal and political agenda. Newly appointed Truman needs to end the War with Japan. Churchill is facing a pivotal election back home. Stalin has territorial ambitions over occupied territories. As political tensions rise and personal crises unfold, a high-stakes diplomatic chess game emerges. The three leaders’ decisions and balance of power will impact millions and shape global politics for decades to come.

SWEEPING TEASER FOR FRENCH WORLD WAR II EPIC MOVIE DE GAULLE: TILTING IRON, A TWO PART BIOPIC ON GENERAL'S LIFE AND WORK

   DE GAULLE TEASER  

FOR NEW FRENCH WW2 EPIC MOVIE

Or actually two movies, as Antonin Baudry's sweeping epic on the French leader has been split into two parts premiering both next summer DE GAULLE: TILTING IRON out June 10th and “De Gaulle: The Sovereign Edge” out July 3rd. The two films follow Charles De Gaulle's life and political

The first film is out in cinemas next June

 commitment between 1940 and 1945, and trace his development towards a political career. Simon Abkarian takes the lead role with Simon Russell Beale as Winston Churchill. The two part historical thriller saga is charting the French Resistance during WWII through the eyes of General Charles de Gaulle. Benoît Magimel stars as Pierre Koenig, Mathieu Kassovitz as Francois Darlan, Niels Schneider as General Leclerc, and Campbell Scott as Franklin D. Roosevelt. Tom Mison, Pip Torrens, Stephen Campbell Moore also star. See the teaser below:

 

SEE A HYPO BEING SAVED FROM A LENINGRAD ZOO DURING WW2 IN ENCHANTINGLY BEAUTIFUL TRAILER FOR KRASAVITSA MOVIE ADVENTURE

  KRASAVITSA TRAILER 

LENINGRAD ZOO WW2 SET MOVIE

Krasavitsa  is out in cinemas next February

Here is an enchanting trailer for you, for a truly gorgeous film titled KRASAVITSA (Beauty in Russian) which is out next February set in Leningrad, winter 1941. After a severe concussion, Sergeant Major Nikolai Svetlov (Slava Kopeykin) is discharged from the hospital and assigned to the zoo, where workers perform a quiet act of heroism day after day, saving animals from starvation. A hippopotamus named Beauty holds a special place in the zoo. At first, the sergeant major perceives his service at the zoo as a misunderstanding and dreams of being at the front again, but the longer he stays there, the more clearly he realizes the importance of his mission. Through kindness and selfless love for animals, he and the remaining zoo keepers preserve the warmth of human souls and give hope for a miracle to all residents of besieged Leningrad. Ivan Dobronravov and Yulia Peresild also star.

 

SEE TRAILER FOR WORLD WAR 2 MOVIE DESPERATE JOURNEY WITH ED STOPPARD, TIL SCHWEIGER, HUGO SPEAR, NATHANIEL PARKER

    DESPERATE JOURNEY    

WORLD WAR TWO MOVIE TRAILER

We have for World War Two set movie DESPERATE JOURNEY that I first mentioned to you two years ago and which boasts an international 

The movie is out this November in cinemas

cast that includes Lucas Lynggaard Tønnesen, Clara Rugaard, Fernando Guallar, Hugo Spear, Ed Stoppard, Steven Berkoff, Nathaniel Parker and Til Schweiger.

 THE STORY 

 Directed by Annabel Jankel, it is based on the true story of Freddie Knoller (Tønnesen), a young man forced to flee Vienna as Nazi hysteria takes hold. The story is set in a burlesque world of 1940s Paris. Knoller’s captivating story has been widely recognized around the world and he was honored by the late Queen Elizabeth. The film will hit cinemas November 28th!

 

MATTHEW GOODE, ED SKREIN, BEN KINGSLEY, MICHAEL SHEEN, ALICE EVE, ART MALIK, LUKAS HAAS, NICOLAS CAGE TO STAR IN WW2 ADVENTURE MOVIE FORTITUDE

   STELLAR CAST FOR   

WORLD WAR II ADVENTURE FORTITUDE

And it truly is stellar: Simon West's World War II action adventure movie FORTITUDE has just cast Matthew Goode, Ed Skrein, Alice Eve, Jordi Molla, Ben Kingsley, Michael Sheen, Art Malik, Lukas Haas, Nicolas Cage. It is based on the true story of British Intelligence operatives using unprecedented strategic operations to fool Nazi leadership and help change the course of World War II through the brilliance of British Army officers Dudley Clarke and Thomas Argyll “Tar” Robertson, who deployed an elaborate web of deception campaigns, including fictitious armies, fake military equipment, and a network of double agents to mislead Nazi Intelligence. Among them was Yugoslavian playboy Dusko Popov, a real-life double agent, who inspired Ian Fleming’s James Bond character.

BBC RENEWS SAS ROGUE HEROES WW2 SERIES FOR SEASON 3 AND ADS NEW CAST NEXT TO JACK O'CONNELL AND DOMINIC WEST

  SAS ROGUE HEROES 

RENEWED FOR 3RD SEASON WITH ADDED CAST

BBC has ordered a third season of their popular World War II series SAS ROGUE HEROES which, based on Ben Macintyre’s book continues the dramatised story of the world’s greatest Special Forces unit, charting their astounding feats of bravery and the impact of war upon the men. Summer, 1944, France. Paddy Mayne (Jack O’Connell) and his Rogues have parachuted deep behind enemy lines and must destroy and disrupt the mighty

Andrew Dawson, Jake Jarratt and Lorne MacFadyen

 German army as they continue to repel the Allied advances. Alongside the French resistance and new recruits, the SAS once again face seemingly unsurmountable challenges, as the liberation of Western Europe begins. Sofia Boutella returns as French-Algerian intelligence operative, Eve Mansour and Dominic West as British Army officer, Dudley Clarke. Lorne MacFadyen joins as Reverend Fraser McLusky, offering support to returning troops Theo Barklem-Biggs, Corin Silva, Jacob Ifan, Jacob McCarthy, Stuart Campbell, Bobby Schofield and Jack Barton. Further new recruits include Nick Hargrove, Andrew Dawson and Jake Jarratt, fighting alongside members of the French and Belgian Maquis. In USA the series airs on MGM Plus.

GO BACK TO PREWAR CZECH REPUBLIC IN THE GOLDEN SWAN PERIOD SET TV SERIES SEASON TWO STREAMING NOW ON PBS MASTERPIECE

  GOLDEN SWAN SERIES  

SEASON TWO HAS STARTED ON PBS

I forgot to tell you, but given how our post on the first season is getting high views again, I thought I would share the trailer for the second 

The series streams on PBS' Walter Presents channel

season of GOLDEN SWAN Czech historical drama which has nine episodes in the new run. The season premiered on PBS on August 1, 2025. It continues the story of the Zlatá labuť department store and its employees during wartime. Key storylines include Marta's silence about her attacker, Marek's plot for revenge, and Eva's evening with Martin. The show also explores themes of love, betrayal, and the impact of war on personal lives. The first season followed Bára Veselá, who, fleeing from the law, becomes an accidental saleswoman at Prague's new Zlatá labut department store. Behind its luxurious facade, history unfolds as Nazi forces enter Czechoslovakia on March 15, 1939. The third season is coming up soon as well. 

 

SEE CALLUM WOODHOUSE FIGHTING A DESERTED ISLAND FEROCIOUS CREATURE IN MONSTER ISLAND WW2 SET MOVIE

    MONSTER ISLAND   

WW2 HORROR MOVIE OUT ON SHUDDER

If you are in the mood for some tropical horror this hot weekend, over at Shudder and AMC Plus you can catch MONSTER ISLAND as of July 25th

The movie is out on Shudder this weekend

 with Dean Fukjioka and Callum Woodhouse (looking better than ever) from All Creatures Great and Small in the lead roles. Based on Malay Folklore and drawing inspiration from Creature From the Black Lagoon, this creature feature is set in World War II. A Japanese ship transporting prisoners of war to occupied territories for slave labor. After being torpedoed by allied submarines, a Japanese soldier and a British POW are stranded on a deserted island and soon discover that they’re being hunted by a ferocious mythological creature, the Orang Ikan. Both the soldier and POW realize that they must work together to survive the unknown, despite their differences. 

 

THE MANY LIVES OF MISS K PERIOD SET TV SERIES ON DUTCH MODEL AND SECRET AGENT FROM WW2 ANNOUNCED

  THE MANY LIVES OF MISS K  

TO BECOME PERIOD SET TV SERIES

Dutch model and secret agent Toto Koopman is getting a TV series based on Jean-Noël Liaut’s THE MANY LIVES OF MISS K. As Deadline reports, it will depict Koopman’s compelling professional and personal life. Born to a Dutch cavalry officer father and half Indonesian mother 

Finite Films and TV is producing the series

in 1908, Koopman’s mixed heritage exposed her to discrimination that shaped her worldview. Twenty years later, Koopman arrived in Paris in the 1930s and made history as the first model of mixed race to be featured on French Vogue. When World War II engulfed Europe, she leveraged her social connections and multilingual abilities to gather intelligence for the Allied forces in Italy, using her glamorous personal to cover for clandestine work. But this dangerous double life led to her capture by the fascists in 1941. She was held in various detention camps and was set to be deported to Germany but escaped and rejoined the Resistance. In 1944, she was caught spying on high-ranking German officers and sent by the Nazis to the notorious women’s concentration camp at Ravensbrück, where she was one of the few who survived.

IT IS LOVE IN THE TIME OF WAR IN THE NUREMBERG STORY RUSSIAN HISTORICAL MINI TV SERIES

   THE NUREMBERG STORY   

WW2 HISTORICAL MINI TV SERIES

Currently available for streaming on Russian streamer Premier in time to celebrate the Day of Victory in the country that lost almost 30 million people because of the Nazis, is mini TV series THE NUREMBERG STORY

The series is available for streaming from May 9th

(Нюрнбергская история) a longer TV version of the same movie by Nikolai Lebedev. 1945. In Nuremberg, the International Tribunal is preparing to pass sentence on the German invaders and their accomplices. Igor Volgin, a wartime intelligence officer, acts as a translator for the Soviet delegation. In the city, Volgin meets a girl named Lena, who was forced to work in Germany during the war. While Igor and Lena gradually fall in love, the trial is in danger of being disrupted. The Soviet delegation desperately tries to stop spies and traitors from interfering with justice. Sergey Kempo, Lyubov Aksyonova, Evgeny Mironov, Sergey Bezrukov, Wolfgang Czerny, Markus Kunze, Karsten Nørgaard, Alexey Bardukov, Klaus Schindler, Charlotte Harwood, Brian Kaspe, are just some of the names appearing in the cast of this series.

 

KIRILL ZAITSEV DECEIVES DEATH AND BECOMES A HERO IN THE TRAILER FOR RUSSIAN HISTORICAL EPIC TV SERIES ROSLIY

   ROSLIY TRAILER  

FOR NEW KIRILL ZAITSEV WW2 TV SERIES

The series is now available for streaming

Available as of Monday May 5th on Russian streamer Wink, is four part war drama ROSLIY (Рослый) with our dearest Kirill Zaitsev in the lead role. In 1939, Major Ivan Rosliy, at the behest of ill-wishers, finds himself in the very heat of the Soviet-Finnish War. But it is his unit that breaks through the impregnable Mannerheim Line, which became the most important stage of the future victory. In spite of everyone, Rosliy returns from that war as a Hero of the Soviet Union with the rank of colonel. At the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, he is surrounded, but leads thousands of Soviet soldiers to their own side. Rosliy is given the reputation of a lucky commander, and his successes increasingly anger his opponents not only on the battlefield. By achieving the impossible he inspired many fighters to keep on the fight for freedom. In the Battle of the Caucasus, the troops under his command defeated the Nazi tank army, which completely thwarted the strategic plans of the fascists to conquer the oil territories. His numerous battles and victories will end in Berlin with the capture of the Imperial Chancellery.

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GAL GADOT AND MATTHIAS SCHOENAERTS TO LEAD WW2 THRILLER MOVIE RUIN SET IN POSTWAR GERMANY

   WW2 THRILLER RUIN  

CASTS GAL GADOT & MATTHIAS SCHOENAERTS

Our lovely rose of Israel, Gal Gadot will lead a World War II thriller movie RUIN together with Belgian star Matthias Schoenaerts. To be directed by Mulan's Niki Caro, it has the story set in post-WWII Germany and following a recently released camp prisoner (Gadot) who is forced to make an unlikely alliance with a German soldier (Schoenaerts) in a mutual quest to exact revenge on a Nazi SS squad.

SEE RUPERT EVANS AND EWAN HORROCKS IN WORLD WAR 2 SET ACTION MOVIE DRAMA TRUTH AND TREASON TRAILER

    TRUTH AND TREASON  

TRAILER FOR WORLD WAR 2 MOVIE

Truth and Treason is out this October

Angel Studios has released a trailer for their new historical action movie TRUTH AND TREASON which will open in cinemas October 17th starring  Rupert Evans, Ewan Horrocks, Ferdinand McKay, Daf Thomas and Sean Mahon. Originally enivisoned as a series but then turned into a movie, it revolves around Helmuth Hüebener, a 16-year-old boy whol forms a resistance group with his friends Karl and Rudi after witnessing the arrest of his Jewish friends by Nazis. Their brave actions lead them to face trial in Nazi Germany. Check out the trailer below for the film that was directed by Matt Whitaker and tell us what you think. 

GO BACK TO PREWAR CZECH REPUBLIC IN THE GOLDEN SWAN PERIOD SET TV SERIES ARRIVING THIS MONTH TO THE SMALL SCREENS

    THE GOLDEN SWAN   

NEW PERIOD SET SERIES AT PBS MASTERPIECE

The series hits Walter Presents this February

This one already aired in its homeland Czech republic back in 2023 but it hitting PBS Master- piece channel Walter Presents on Prime Video February 21st with English subtitles. THE GOLDEN SWAN (Zlatá labut) historical drama is set in a department store just like some of the German and British costume dramas we've seen before. It starts in 1939, when Bára Veselá (Marta Dancingerová), a young woman on the run from the law, unwillingly becomes a salesperson in the fashion department at Golden Swan, the newly-opened luxury department store in Prague, owned by the Kučera family. While the family’s rebellious and youngest son, Petr (Adam Vacula), takes a shine to Bára, his sister, Irena (Kristyna Ryska), a lover of luxury and power, decides to fight for the leadership of the family business. Meanwhile, German occupation forces are invading the Czechoslovakian state.