Les Combattantes

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If you enjoyed Les Combattantes, these series share similar themes, tone, and quality. Each recommendation is scored on genre overlap, tonal match, and critical acclaim.

1. War & Peace

   2016 · Drama, Romance, History · ended

   Recommended for similar History profile, highly rated (8), hidden gem.

   In a new adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's timeless novel, three young people experience life, love and loss against the epic backdrop of Russia's wars with Napoleon.

2. Parade's End

   2012 · Drama, War, History · ended

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   In the dying days of the Edwardian Empire, Christopher Tietjens enters into a destructive marriage with the beautiful but cruel socialite Sylvia.

3. Atlantic Crossing

   2020 · Drama, War, History · ended

   Recommended for similar War / History profile, hidden gem.

   1940. Norway is occupied by Nazi Germany. Crown Princess Märtha and her children find shelter as political refugees in the White House. Her presence in Washington soon influences President Roosevelt's views on the tragic events unfolding in Europe and eventually changes the dynamics of U.S. politics significantly. What starts as an affair turns into love and turmoil when Märtha speaks out publicly against the Nazi tyranny. In an attempt to fight for her country, she puts her marriage at risk and convinces the President to support Norway – a first step in the struggle that will lead to the U.S. joining the War. However, Märtha's actions cause her to make many enemies, some of them even closer than she thinks: within the walls of the White House.

4. Krigsseileren

   2023 · Drama, War, History · ended

   Recommended for similar War / History profile, hidden gem.

   Krigsseileren is based on true stories of Norwegian merchant sailors and their families during and after World War II. When WWII erupts, two sailors on a Norwegian merchant ship face brutal conditions as they fight to survive a conflict they were never asked to join.

5. A Small Light

   2023 · Drama, War, History · ended

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   A Small Light follows twenty-something Miep Gies who, when her boss Otto Frank came to her and asked her to hide his family from the Nazis during World War II, didn't hesitate. For the next two years, Miep, her husband Jan, and the other helpers watched over the eight souls (Otto Frank, his wife Edith and daughters Anne and Margot as well as four others) in hiding in the Secret Annex. And it was Miep who found Anne's Diary and kept it safe so Otto, the only one of the eight who survived, could later share it with the world as one of the most powerful accounts of the Holocaust.

6. North and South

   1985 · Drama, History · ended

   Recommended for similar History profile, highly rated (8.1).

   Patrick Swayze, Kirstie Alley and Lesley-Anne Down star in a 1985 miniseries based on John Jakes' novel about the Civil War and its effect on two families.

7. World on Fire

   2019 · Drama, War, History · ended

   Recommended for similar War / History profile, hidden gem.

   Three young people are in the eye of the storm as World War II explodes around them. Nothing can survive unchanged. Not even love.

8. Leonardo

   2021 · Drama, History · ended

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   Leonardo Da Vinci is a twenty-year-old illegitimate son of a notary and a painter, who works in Florence in the workshop of Andrea Del Verrocchio. Always curious about science and nature, the artist expresses in all his works the complex and enigmatic personality that leads him, over the years, to create the masterpieces we all know but also to experience great inner conflicts.

9. The Long Road Home

   2017 · Drama, War, History · ended

   Recommended for similar War / History profile.

   Based on Martha Raddatz's bestseller, The Long Road Home chronicles the events of April 4th, 2004, when a platoon was ambushed in Sadr City, Baghdad, in an attack that came to be known as "Black Sunday".

10. Masters of the Air

    2024 · Drama, War, History · ended

    Recommended for similar War / History profile.

    Masters of the Air follows the men of the 100th Bomb Group (the "Bloody Hundredth") as they conduct perilous bombing raids over Nazi Germany and grapple with the frigid conditions, lack of oxygen and sheer terror of combat conducted at 25,000 feet in the air. Portraying the psychological and emotional price paid by these young men as they helped destroy the horror of Hitler's Third Reich, is at the heart of Masters of the Air. Some were shot down and captured; some were wounded or killed. And some were lucky enough to make it home. Regardless of individual fate, a toll was exacted on them all.