The Pianist (2002)
1939–1945 · Resource
Szpilman in the Warsaw ghetto and the 1944 uprising; Polanski's own survival informs it.
On these timelines: Historical films, Resources: Combined
Around 1939
- Berlin Airlift (1948)
- The Holocaust (1933)
- Manhattan Project (1942)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Spanish Civil War (1936)
- Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Great Depression (1929)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)