If You Liked 55 Days at Peking, Watch These Next
Finished 55 Days at Peking (1963) and want more of the same? These 18 movies are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like 55 Days at Peking, most of them are history, war, drama.
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18 titles · updated 3rd October 2026
1.Empire of the Sun(1987)
7.5DramaHistoryWarAlso drama and history
Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all foreigners into prison camps. Jamie is captured with an American sailor, who looks out for him while they are in the camp together. Even though he is separated from his parents and in a hostile environment, Jamie…
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2.Shepherd: The Story of a Jewish Dog(2020)
6.8FamilyDramaWarAlso drama and war
Follow the perilous journey to freedom when a young boy and his dog attempt to escape a concentration camp during World War II. Based on true events.
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3.Taking Sides(2002)
6.3DramaWarMusicAlso drama and war
One of the most spectacular and renowned conductors of the 1930s, Wilhelm Furtwangler's reputation rivaled that of Toscanini's. After the war, he was investigated as part of the Allies' de-Nazification programme. In the bombed-out Berlin of the immediate post-war period, the Allies slowly bring law and order to bear…
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4.Munich - The Edge of War(2021)
6.9DramaHistoryAlso drama and history
At the tense 1938 Munich Conference, former friends who now work for opposing governments become reluctant spies racing to expose a Nazi secret.
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5.Escape to Victory(1981)
6.9DramaWarAlso drama and war
A group of POWs in a German prison camp during World War II play the German National Soccer Team in this powerful film depicting the role of prisoners during wartime.
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6.Giant(2026)
7.0DramaHistoryAlso drama and history
Follows Prince Naseem Hamed from his humble beginnings on the tough working-class streets of Sheffield and his discovery by Ingle, himself a steel industry worker turned boxing trainer. Their unlikely partnership, Naz’s unorthodox style, cocky persona, and sheer dominance in the ring propelled them to the top of…
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7.God on Trial(2008)
6.8HistoryWarDramaAlso history and war
In the Jewish tradition of arguing with God, Jewish prisoners in Auschwitz decide to put God on Trial.
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9.Lion of the Desert(1981)
7.3HistoryWarDramaAlso history and war
Resistance leader Omar Mukhtar opposes Italian colonization before World War II. The brutal guerrilla war against Italian General Rodolfo Graziani and the Fascist forces of Benito Mussolini highlights the struggle for Libyan independence and the harsh tactics utilised by the colonisers.
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10.Battle of the Bulge(1965)
6.9DramaHistoryWarAlso drama and history
In the winter of 1944, the Allied Armies stand ready to invade Germany at the coming of a New Year. To prevent it, Hitler orders an all-out offensive to re-take French territory and capture the major port city of Antwerp.
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11.Sergeant York(1941)
7.2WarDramaHistoryAlso war and drama
Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is then called to serve his country and despite deep religious and moral objections to fighting becomes one of the most celebrated American heroes of WWI.
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12.Waterloo(1970)
7.1HistoryDramaWarAlso history and drama
After defeating France and imprisoning Napoleon on Elba, ending two decades of war, Europe is shocked to find Napoleon has escaped and has caused the French Army to defect from the King back to him. The best of the British generals, the Duke of Wellington, beat Napolean's best generals in Spain and Portugal, but now…
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13.633 Squadron(1964)
6.2DramaWarAlso drama and war
When Norwegian resistance leader Lieutenant Erik Bergman reports the location of a German V-2 rocket fuel plant, the Royal Air Force's 633 Squadron is assigned the mission to destroy it. The plant is in a seemingly-impregnable location beneath an overhanging cliff at the end of a long, narrow fjord lined with…
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14.Peterloo(2018)
6.7HistoryDramaAlso history and drama
An epic portrayal of the events surrounding the infamous 1819 Peterloo Massacre, where a peaceful pro-democracy rally at St Peter’s Field in Manchester turned into one of the bloodiest and most notorious episodes in British history. The massacre saw British government forces charge into a crowd of over 60,000 that…
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15.Alone in Berlin(2016)
6.7WarThrillerDramaAlso war and drama
Berlin in June of 1940. While Nazi propaganda celebrates the regime’s victory over France, a kitchen-cum-living room in Prenzlauer Berg is filled with grief. Anna and Otto Quangel’s son has been killed at the front. This working class couple had long believed in the ‘Führer’ and followed him willingly, but now they…
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16.Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin(2024)
6.7HistoryDramaWarAlso history and drama
As the world teeters on the brink of annihilation, Dietrich Bonhoeffer joins a deadly plot to assassinate Hitler, risking his faith and fate to save millions of Jews from genocide.
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17.September 5(2024)
7.0ThrillerDramaHistoryAlso drama and history
During the 1972 Munich Olympics, an American sports broadcasting crew finds itself thrust into covering the hostage crisis involving Israeli athletes.
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18.Six Minutes to Midnight(2020)
6.2ThrillerDramaHistoryAlso drama and history
Summer 1939. Influential families in Nazi Germany have sent their daughters to a finishing school in an English seaside town to learn the language and be ambassadors for a future looking National Socialist. A teacher there sees what is coming and is trying to raise the alarm. But the authorities believe he is the…
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