It Happened Here

It Happened Here

The German occupation of England

1966101 min6.8 / 10

A bleak, intellectually rigorous alternate-history examination of collaboration and moral compromise under totalitarian occupation, presented with semi-documentary restraint.

World War II, 1940. When the Nazi hordes invade and occupy Great Britain, the English citizens are soon divided between those who choose to submissively collaborate and those who are willing to fight.

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