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10 Best Movies Like It Happened on July 20th

If you loved It Happened on July 20th, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
The Scarlet and the Black

The Scarlet and the Black

1983★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to It Happened on July 20th for fans of Drama & War & History. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Fr. Hugh O'Flaherty is a Vatican official in 1943-45 who has been hiding downed pilots, escaped prisoners of war, and Italian resistance families. His activities become so large th...

#2
The Boy in the Woods

The Boy in the Woods

2023★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to It Happened on July 20th for fans of Drama & War & History. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The remarkable true-life survival story of a Jewish boy hiding and being hunted in the forests of Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe, based on Maxwell Smart's memoir....

#3
Run Boy Run

Run Boy Run

2014★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to It Happened on July 20th for fans of Drama & War & History. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A true story of Jurek, an eight-year-old boy, who escapes from the Warsaw ghetto, then manages to survive in the woods and working as a farmhand, disguising himself as a Polish orp...

#4
The Monuments Men

The Monuments Men

2014★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to It Happened on July 20th for fans of Drama & War & History. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Based on the true story of the greatest treasure hunt in history, The Monuments Men is an action drama focusing on seven over-the-hill, out-of-shape museum directors, artists, arch...

#5
The War Below

The War Below

2021★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to It Happened on July 20th for fans of Drama & War & History. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

During World War I, a group of British miners are recruited to tunnel underneath no man's land and set bombs from below the German front in hopes of breaking the deadly stalemate o...

#6
Munich - The Edge of War

Munich - The Edge of War

2021★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to It Happened on July 20th for fans of Drama & History. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

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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