Stream Acclaimed Films and Series with the New Kino Film Collection + MHz Choice Bundle
Great stories know no borders—and now you can explore even more of them with the new Kino Film Collection + MHz Choice bundle on Amazon Prime Video. Enjoy acclaimed international films and series together in one subscription, bringing award-winning cinema and captivating television from around the world to your screen, for just $9.99/month.
Not sure where to begin? Start with each platform's World War II collection, featuring unforgettable stories inspired by one of history's most defining eras.
On MHz Choice, stream acclaimed series including A French Village, The Heavy Water War, Babylon Berlin, and new addition Das Boot. On Kino Film Collection, discover award-winning dramas, including new addition Amrum and Vittorio De Sica's Sunflower, and dozens of other films and documentaries that explore the war's lasting human impact.
Browse the complete World War II collections on both platforms, then continue your journey with even more exceptional international film and television through the new Kino Film Collection + MHz Choice bundle.
Babylon Berlin (2017)
DRAMA - CRIME | GERMANY | GERMAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES
Best of 2024 - The New York Times & The Wall Street Journal
A troubled cop and a working class typist uncover a political conspiracy amid the vice and glamour of 1920s Berlin.
A French Village (2009)
DRAMA | FRANCE | FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES | TV-MA
This acclaimed drama is about the German occupation of France during World War II, and its effects on the inhabitants of a small village in Jura. In June 1940, the village of Villeneuve awakes to the arrival of the German army - and the next four years of occupation have a shattering effect on the lives of all its inhabitants.
Das Boot (2018)
DRAMA | GERMANY | GERMAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES | TV-MA
In this tense World War II drama, a German U-boat crew faces perilous missions as the French Resistance infiltrates the occupied port of La Rochelle. This series is available to stream within the U.S. only.
The Heavy Water War (2015)
DRAMA | NORWAY | NORWEGIAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES | TV-14
Six-part dramatization of one of the most compelling stories of World War II: British intelligence and the Norwegian military's heroic struggle to thwart Nazi Germany’s atomic bomb ambitions by sabotaging the heavy water plant in Rjukan, Norway.
Amrum (2025)
Golden Globe-winning director Fatih Akin (In the Fade) reunites with frequent collaborator Diane Kruger in this tender coming-of-age tale set during the waning days of World War II. On the windswept island of Amrum in northern Germany, a young farm boy sets out on a quest to gather the scarce ingredients for white bread with butter and honey to bring solace to his ailing mother.
Sunflower (1970)
An Oscar nominee for Best Score (Henry Mancini), Sunflower is a grandly emotional melodrama from Vittorio De Sica. Sophia Loren plays a steel-willed Italian woman on a desperate search to find her husband Antonio (Marcello Mastroianni), who has gone missing on the WWII battlefields of Russia. Making the grueling journey after the end of the war, she tracks Antonio down and finds him a changed man.
Churchill and the Movie Mogul (2019)
Winston Churchill was mad about movies, but the full extent of his use of film as a wartime weapon has never been told. Before WWII, producer Alexander Korda enlisted Churchill as a writer and advisor. When war came, Churchill sent Korda to Hollywood on a covert mission to sway America. Using newly uncovered documents, this film reveals their extraordinary alliance.
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story (2017)
What do the most ravishingly beautiful actress of the 1930s and 40s and the inventor whose concepts were the basis of cell phone and bluetooth technology have in common? They are both Hedy Lamarr, the glamor icon whose ravishing visage was the inspiration for Snow White and Cat Woman and a technological trailblazer who perfected a secure radio guidance system for Allied torpedoes during WWII.
The Forger (2022)
Berlin, 1942. Cioma Schönhaus won't let anyone take away his zest for life, especially not the Nazis. Hiding in plain sight, he audaciously poses as a marine officer and joins a network of underground rescuers, where his masterfully forged IDs save hundreds of fellow Jews. He also throws himself into the city's nightlife, until his one last forged document – his own. Based on a true story.
Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (2005)
The true story of Germany’s most famous anti-Nazi heroine is brought to thrilling life in this Academy Award Nominated Best Foreign Language Film. Armed with long-buried historical records of her incarceration, director Marc Rothemund expertly re-creates the last six days of Sophie Scholl’s life: a heart-stopping journey from arrest to interrogation, trial and sentence.
The Conformist (1970)
Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, Bernardo Bertolucci's masterpiece is a political drama set in Mussolini's Italy starring Jean-Louis Trintignant as a man who joins the Fascists in an attempt to fit in. Newly restored from the original camera negative by Cineteca di Bologna in collaboration with Minerva Pictures under the supervision of Fondazione Bernardo Bertolucci.
Beanpole (2020)
In post-WWII Leningrad, two women, Iya and Masha, intensely bonded after fighting side by side as anti-aircraft gunners, attempt to readjust to a haunted world. Kantemir Balagov won Un Certain Regard’s Best Director prize at the Cannes Film Festival for this richly burnished, occasionally harrowing rendering of the persistent scars of war.
The Sorrow and The Pity (1972)
Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary, The Sorrow and The Pity has been acclaimed as one of the most moving and influential films of all time. A triumph of humanist filmmaking, it is considered one of the most valuable achievements in the history of cinema and an epic account of France under the occupation of the Nazi regime during World War II.
The Day and the Hour (1963)
International screen icon Simone Signoret stars in this powerful World War II drama directed by René Clément. Signoret is superb as Thérèse, an isolated woman who unwittingly gets involved in the Resistance when British and American planes are shot down over Nazi-occupied France. She reluctantly agrees to smuggle the pilots into neutral Spain, and along the way finds herself falling in love.
Filmmakers for the Prosecution (2022)
Filmmakers for the Prosecution retraces the hunt by brothers Budd and Stuart Schulberg for film evidence that would be used to convict the Nazis at the Nuremberg Trial. Seventy-five years later, Jean-Christophe Klotz uncovers never-before-seen footage and interviews key figures to unravel why the resulting film about the trial was intentionally buried by the U.S. government.
Wife of a Spy (2022)
Master filmmaker Kiyoshi Kurosawa won the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival for this riveting, gorgeously crafted, old-school Hitchockian thriller set in 1940 on the eve of the outbreak of World War II. When the population of Japan is divided over its entry into the war, a well-to-do actress is torn between loyalty to her husband, the life they have built, and the country they call home.
Confidence (1980)
István Szabó's Confidence was nominated for an Academy Award and won Berlinale's Silver Bear for Best Director in 1980. Set in World War II-era Hungary, it follows two unrelated members of the resistance who must act as husband and wife in an effort to stay hidden in plain sight. Will they be able to maintain the illusion without giving in to their growing feelings for each other?
Anatahan (1954)
Directed by Josef von Sternberg, this film follows a dozen Japanese sailors who are stranded on the remote island of Anatahan during the waning days of the war. The war ends, unbeknownst to the men, and they engage in their own private war for dominance of their island domain and possession of the sole woman in their midst, Keiko (Akemi Negishi), the so-called "Queen Bee" of Anatahan.
Chichinette: The Accidental Spy (2020)
The extraordinary story of Marthe Cohn, who joined the French Resistance as a feisty young woman during WWII. After her family fled south and her sister was sent to Auschwitz, Marthe posed as a nurse, using her German accent and blond hair to slip behind enemy lines and gather vital intelligence. Silent for 60 years, she later lectured worldwide with joie de vivre and hope until her death at 105.