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201743 minPG-13documentary

5.6/ 10(53 ratings)• TMDB

Wartime Crime

201743 minPG-13documentary

5.6/ 10(53 ratings)• TMDB

World War II created conditions that allowed crime to flourish in bombed-out London and occupied France, despite the apparent stability on the home front.

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World War II created conditions that allowed crime to flourish in bombed-out London and occupied France, despite the apparent stability on the home front.

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Tibor Takács

Tibor Takácsdirector

Mark Dacascos

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Carrie-Anne Moss

Carrie-Anne Mosscast

Tony Todd

Graham Greene

Graham Greenecast

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While the battlefields of WWII were a stage for acts of heroism, strategic cunning, and horrific atrocities, conditions on the home front seemed more stable. Yet from bombed-out London to occupied France, the war enabled one thing to flourish - crime.

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