WWII: The Home Front

Highlights the post-war adjustment period of several WWII veterans in the US. Technically the war is over, but it shows the effect of the war on the women that the soldiers left behind.

Drama about a British family's travails during the war. Includes the famous flower scene poached by Julian Fellowes for Downton Abey.

Based on a true story, Mrs. Henderson tells the tale of the plucky Laura Henderson (played magnificently by Judy Dench) who kept her burlesque theater open even in the midst of the Blitz.

Apartments are scarce in WWII-era Washington DC and Connie (Jean Arthur) finds herself living with two men in a comic and awkward situation. Naturally, she begins to fall in love with one of them.

Claudette Colbert tries to hold together her family on the home front while her husband is off fighting in this melodrama from David Selznick.

A New York office girl (Judy Garland) and a soldier on leave (Robert Walker) spend a day together and fall in love.

After the war ends, a group of US Marines must adjust to civilian life.

With all of the male baseball players at war, a group of very different women join a newly formed women's baseball league.

A young English girl works as a nurse in London while trying to reconcile herself to a horrible lie she told years earlier.

Poet Dylan Thomas lives in the country during the war with his wife and his lover.

A little boy grows up in the midst of the Blitz.

GIs stationed in Lancashire find romance with local girls in this 1979 drama.

High school student Homer (Mickey Rooney) comes of age during the war in a small California town.

A group of factory workers pool expenses and living arrangements while their husbands are at war.

A factory worker (Goldie Hawn) falls for a musician (Kurt Russell) while her husband is off at war. The actors first fell in love on the set of Swing Shift and began their 30+ year relationship.

A young boy struggles with life on the home front in rural Georgia.

A bitter old man becomes close with an abused little boy after he is evacuated to the country to avoid the Blitz.

A wounded lieutenant (Marlon Brando) tries to adjust to life after becoming a paraplegic.

A group of English girls work the land to replace their enlisted male counterparts in this BBC drama.

Family man Ian (Griff Rhys Jones) joins his careless friend and fellow soldier (Martin Clunes) in a comedy career after WWII.

A family experiences a new kind of sexual freedom during the unrestrained days of the war.

A repressed housewife blossoms despite experiencing heartache during the war.

A small-town doctor adjusts to post-war life.

A lonely little boy escapes into his fantasies to avoid the harsh realities of war.

The inhabitants of the Channel Islands have to deal with both life on the home front and with being occupied by German forces.

Two couples encounter racial prejudice and hardship during World War II.

Disappointed in love, a girl (Emily Mortimer) enlists in the Royal Navy to escape her problems.

When their patriarch (Robert Mitchum) is stationed in Germany, an American family becomes entangled in the war.

During the midst of the war, Guy Crouchback (Daniel Craig) tries to rekindle romance between himself and his estranged wife Virginia (Megan Dodds).

A young British girl works in an airplane factory during World War II.