There is a reason why the events of World War II are some of the most adapted stories in Hollywood. Dunkirkand Oppenheimer, both Oscar-winning WWII-era movies directed by Christopher Nolan, capture aspects of the war while the world was actively embroiled in the conflict. The Finnish-language action sequel, Sisu: Road to Revenge and the Russell Crowe-led film, Nuremberg, try to capture post-World War II-era events and realities. Overall, the conflict will continually draw eyes for documentary or entertainment purposes, which means new projects will be released, like Tom Hanks’ upcoming WWII series, World War II With Tom Hanks.
As more projects are commissioned, other stories, with less fanfare, will slip under the radar and potentially become forgotten. An example of that is the largely underappreciated Cillian Murphy war thriller, Anthropoid, which chronicled one of the most daring assassinations of the time. While pictures like Nolan’s Oppenheimer and Dunkirk grossed well over $1 billion at the box office, Anthropoid, on the other hand, was a box office disappointment, earning just under $5.5 million at the global box office. Directed by Sean Ellis, Anthropoid was released in 2016 and was based on the real-life Operation Anthropoid with the film praised by Empire upon its release as being “a compelling and moving interpretation of a largely forgotten moment in European history.”
While the war thriller didn’t perform on the big screen, streaming platforms are likely to offer a branch of redemption. Per a new report, Ellis‘ Anthropoid will make its way to Netflix in the United States on June 4, 2026. In the film, Murphy stars as Jozef Gabčík, with Fifty Shades of Grey‘s Jamie Dornan as Jan Kubiš. Anthropoid opened to mixed reviews, which likely affected its box office performance, and it now sits at a 67% score on the aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, where the critics’ consensus reads, “Anthropoid completes its mission rather unevenly but delivers a historically illuminating story with great performances to back it up.” The war thriller’s arrival on Netflix marks a renewed push on streaming for the Murphy-led film, as the movie was added back to Prime Video in February 2026 after being removed in August 2025.
Collider Exclusive · Oscar Best Picture Quiz Which Oscar Best Picture Is Your Perfect Movie? Parasite · Everything Everywhere · Oppenheimer · Birdman · No Country
Five Oscar Best Picture winners. Five completely different visions of what cinema can be — and what it can do to you. One of them is the film that was made for the way your mind works. Ten questions will figure out which one.
🪜Parasite
🌀Everything Everywhere
☢️Oppenheimer
🐦Birdman
🪙No Country for Old Men
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What kind of film experience do you actually want? The best movies don’t just entertain — they leave something behind.
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Which idea grabs you most in a film? Great films are driven by a central obsession. What’s yours?
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How do you like your story told? Form is content. The way a story is shaped changes what it means.
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What makes a truly great antagonist? The opposition defines the protagonist. What kind of opposition fascinates you?
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What do you want from a film’s ending? The final note is the one that lingers. What do you want it to sound like?
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Which setting pulls you in most? Where a film takes place shapes everything — mood, stakes, what’s even possible.
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What cinematic craft impresses you most? Every great film has a signature — a technical or artistic element that makes it unmistakable.
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What kind of main character do you root for? The protagonist is the lens. Who you choose to follow says something about you.
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How do you feel about a film that takes its time? Pace is a choice. Some films sprint; others let tension accumulate slowly, deliberately.
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What do you want to feel walking out of the cinema? The best films leave a mark. What kind of mark do you want?
The Academy Has Decided Your Perfect Film Is…
Your answers have pointed to one Oscar Best Picture winner above all others. This is the film that was made for the way your mind works.
Parasite
You are drawn to films that operate on multiple levels simultaneously — that begin in one genre and quietly, brilliantly migrate into another. Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite is a film about class, desire, and the architecture of inequality that manages to be darkly funny, deeply suspenseful, and genuinely shocking across a single extraordinary running time. Your instinct is for cinema that hides its true intentions until the moment it’s ready to reveal them. Parasite is exactly that — a film that rewards close attention and punishes assumptions, right up to its devastating final image.
Everything Everywhere All at Once
You want it all — and this film gives you all of it. The Daniels’ Everything Everywhere All at Once is one of the most maximalist films ever made: action comedy, multiverse sci-fi, family drama, existential crisis, and a genuinely earned emotional core that sneaks up on you amid the chaos. You are someone who responds to ambition, who doesn’t want cinema to choose between being entertaining and being meaningful. This film refuses that choice entirely. It is overwhelming by design, and its overwhelming nature is precisely the point — because the feeling of being crushed by infinite possibility is exactly what it’s about.
Oppenheimer
You are drawn to cinema on a grand scale — films that understand history not as a backdrop but as a force, and that place their characters inside that force and watch what happens. Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer is a film about the terrifying gap between what we can do and what we should do, told with the full weight of one of the most consequential moments in human history behind it. You want your films to feel important without feeling self-important — to earn their ambition through sheer craft and the gravity of their subject. Oppenheimer does exactly that. It is enormous, complicated, and refuses easy comfort.
Birdman
You are drawn to films that foreground their own construction — that make the how of the filmmaking part of the what it’s about. Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Birdman, shot to appear as a single continuous take, is cinema examining itself through the cracked mirror of a fading actor’s ego. You respond to formal daring, to the feeling that a film is doing something that probably shouldn’t be possible. Michael Keaton’s performance and Emmanuel Lubezki’s restless camera create something genuinely unlike anything else — a film that is simultaneously about creativity, relevance, self-destruction, and the impossibility of ever truly knowing if your work means anything at all.
No Country for Old Men
You are drawn to cinema that trusts silence, that refuses to explain itself, and that treats dread as a form of meaning. The Coen Brothers’ No Country for Old Men is a film about the arrival of a new kind of evil — implacable, arbitrary, and utterly indifferent to the moral frameworks we use to make sense of the world. It is one of the most formally controlled films ever made, and its controlled restraint is what makes it so terrifying. You want your films to haunt you, not comfort you. You are not interested in resolution if resolution would be dishonest. No Country for Old Men is honest in a way that most cinema never dares to be.
What Is ‘Anthropoid’ About?
Anthropoid is based on a historically accurate mission to assassinate a high-ranking Nazi official. The target was SS officer Reinhard Heydrich, third in command behind Hitler and Himmler and the leader of Nazi forces in Czechoslovakia. Heydrich, many historians believe, was one of the main architects of the Final Solution and what we have ultimately come to refer to as the Holocaust. The film follows two soldiers from the Czechoslovakian army-in-exile, Josef Gabčík (Murphy) and Jan Kubiš (Dornan), who parachute into Prague to assassinate Heydrich and must deal with the challenge of ensuring their mission succeeds in a city under a strict lock-down and limited resources and assistance.
Anthropoid was filmed in actual locations where the real events took place and the film also stars Charlotte Le Bon, Anna Geislerová, Harry Lloyd Alena Mihulová, Marcin Dorociński, Bill Milner, Sam Keeley, Jiří Šimek, Mish Boyko, Václav Neužil, Andrej Polák and Toby Jones.
Anthropoid arrives on Netflix in the U.S. on June 4, 2026. Stay tuned to Collider for updates.
