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A Day Called X (1958) | Global | A Day Called ‘X’ was a dramatized CBS documentary set in Portland, Oregon in which the entire city is evacuated in anticipation of a nuclear air raid, after Soviet bombers had been detected by radar stations to the north; it… |
A Farewell to Arms (1932) | Global | Set in Europe during World War I, the plot focuses on the tragic romance between Frederick Henry (Gary Cooper), an American ambulance driver serving in the Italian Army, and English Red Cross nurse Catherine Barkley (Helen Hayes). Major Rinaldi envies… |
A Walk in the Sun (1945) | Global | A Walk in the Sun is a war film released in 1945 (reissued in 1951 as Salerno Beachhead), based on the novel by Harry Brown. It was directed by Lewis Milestone and starred Dana Andrews and Lloyd Bridges. |
Admiral was a Lady, The (1950) | Global | A combat outfit returns from the war. Veterans Jimmy Stevens (Edmond O’brien), Eddie, Mike and Ollie collect their twenty dollar assistance checks every week. The guys meet former W.A.V.E. Jean Madison (Wanda Hendrix). Jimmy dubs her “The Admiral”. Jean finds… |
Adventures of Gallant Bess (1946) | Global | U.S. Navy Warrant Officer Arthur Parker rescued an injured filly during World War II. The horse was injured in a Japanese bombing raid. Parker ended up taking the horse to the Navy base, trained her, and she eventually became the… |
After Mein Kampf (1940) | Global | Mein Kampf (English: My Struggle) is a book by the German-Austrian Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler, which combines elements of autobiography with an exposition of Hitler’s National Socialist political ideology. Volume 1 of Mein Kampf was published in 1925 and volume… |
Airpower at Khe Sanh (1968) | Global | This is an Vietnam era Air Force film about the Marine fire base at Khe Sanh, which was supported by OPERATION NIAGARA in early 1968, which supplied 24,000 tactical sorties and 2,700 B-52 sorties. Airpower dropped over 110,000 tons of… |
All Quiet on The Western Front (1930) | Global | All Quiet on the Western Front is a 1930 war film based on the Erich Maria Remarque novel of the same name. It was directed by Lewis Milestone, and stars Louis Wolheim, Lew Ayres, John Wray, Arnold Lucy and Ben… |
Anne Frank “Speaks” | Global | Annelies Marie “Anne” Frank (12 June 1929 in Frankfurt am Main – early March 1945 in Bergen Belsen) was a Jewish German girl who was born in the city of Frankfurt am Main in Weimar Germany, and who lived most… |
Appointment in Tokyo (1945) | Global | Appointment in Tokyo is a 1945 propaganda film released shortly after the surrender of Japan. It mainly follows General MacArthur and his men from their exile from the Philippines in early 1942, through the signing of the instrument of surrender… |
Big Picture, The – Korean War History (1959) | Global | The Big Picture is a product of the US Army. I edited these episodes shortening them. They needed it. The Korean War started June 25th 1950 and these films show the optimism before China sent a couple hundred thousand troops to prop up North Korea. |
Birth of the B-29 (1945) | Global | Birth of the B-29 was a 1945 propaganda film commissioned by the US War Department. As the name implies, it concerned the production of the B-29 bomber and its use in the aerial bombing of Japan in World War II.… |
Black Brigade, The (1970) | Global | Black Brigade is also known as Carter’s Army, which aired on January 27, 1970. The movie is a war drama. It starred a host of prominent African-American film actors including Richard Pryor, Rosie Grier, Robert Hooks, Billy Dee Williams and… |
Blood on the Sun (1945) | Global | In pre-World War II Tokyo an American newspaper editor working for an English-language daily paper aimed at the American business community is given a document relating to Japan’s foreign affairs which could have political ramifications if found. He meets up… |
British Intelligence (1940) | Global | Helene von Lorbeer is sent undercover to London to live with the family of a high-placed British official where she is to transmit steal war secrets for Germany. Starring Boris Karloff. This is a spy movie that you should like,… |
Casualties of War (1989) | USA | Casualties of War is a 1989 war drama about the Vietnam War, starring Michael J. Fox and Sean Penn. It was directed by Brian De Palma, with a screenplay by David Rabe based on actual events that took place in… |
Communism (1952) | Global | This is a Coronet educational film from 1950 about the rise of communism in Russia and China in the first half of the last century. It has communisms greatest hits and has information on Mao, Stalin, Lenin with a special… |
December 7th (1943) | Global | December 7th was a propaganda film produced by the US Navy and directed by John Ford in 1943, about the events of that date in 1941. As indicated by its title, the film was a presentation about the attack on… |
Escape from Angola (1976) | Global | This is a movie by Stan Brock who is the founder of Remote Area Medical Volunteer Corps (RAM) is a Knoxville, Tennessee-based “non-profit, volunteer, airborne relief corps dedicated to serving mankind by providing free health care, dental care, eye care,… |
Escape from Sobibor (1987) | Global | Escape from Sobibor is a made-for-TV film which aired in 1987 on CBS. It deals with the extermination camp at Sobibor, the site of the most successful uprising by Jewish prisoners of German extermination camps (there were two other uprisings,… |
Flight of the Intruder (1991) | USA | Flight of the Intruder is a 1991 film directed by John Milius, which is based on the novel of the same name by A-6 Intruder pilot Stephen Coonts. The film stars Danny Glover as Commander Frank ‘Dooke’ Camparelli, Willem Dafoe… |
Go for Broke! (1951) | Global | Go for Broke! is a war film released in 1951. It was directed by Robert Pirosh, produced by Dore Schary and starred Van Johnson, several veterans of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, and Henry Nakamura. |
Green Glove, The (1950) | Global | The Green Glove is an action adventure film starring Glenn Ford, directed by Rudolph Mata and released by United Artists. |
Hell in Normandy (1968) | Global | A special forces parachute unit is sent to destroy a German flamethrower installation on Omaha Beach in the days before the D-day invasion during World War II. |
House of Rothschild, The (1934) | Global | The story of the rise of the Rothschild financial empire founded by Mayer Rothschild and continued by his five sons. From humble beginnings the business grows and helps to finance the war against Napoleon, but it’s not always easy, especially… |
Huk (1956) | USA | Academy Award-winning screenwriter Stirling Sillipant (IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT) created this violent drama about a young plantation owner (George Montgomery) who faces rampaging former Filipino Freedom Fighters. |
Japanese Relocation (1945) | Global | Japanese American internment refers to the forcible relocation and internment of approximately 110,000 Japanese nationals and Japanese Americans to housing facilities called “War Relocation Camps”, in the wake of Imperial Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor. The internment of Japanese Americans… |
KGB Connections, The (1982) | Global | KGB is the Russian abbreviation of Committee for State Security (Komitjet Gosudarstvjennoj Bjezopasnosti), which was the official name of the umbrella organization serving as the Soviet Union’s premier security agency, secret police, and intelligence agency, from 1954 to 1991. |
Khartoum (1966) | USA | Khartoum is a 1966 film written by Robert Ardrey and directed by Basil Dearden. It stars Charlton Heston as General Gordon and Laurence Olivier as the Mahdi (Mahommed Ahmed) and is based on Gordon’s defence of the Sudanese city of… |
Korean War Newsreels (1951-52) | Global | Here’s some vintage footage from Newsreels including an address by Harry Truman and the how the troops retreated in the face of a million Chinese communist troops. Later, a 1952 clip after the Chinese have been repulsed. The war plan… |
Last Days of World War II (2009) | USA | The History Channel presents this series about the last days of World War II. WWII was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world’s nations, including all of the great powers, organized into two opposing military alliances:… |
Man in the Middle (1961) | USA | Robert Mitchum plays a career military attorney brought in to defend an Army officer (play by Keenan Wynn) for murdering a British soldier in India. The commander informs Mitchum that the Army would like the case to quietly go away… |
Marie Galante (1934) | Global | Marie Galante, a pretty French deliverer of telegrams, is inadvertently abducted by a drunken sea captain bound for Central America. Escaping in Mexico, Marie travels down the coast trying to find a way back home to France. In the Panama… |
McHales Navy (1966) | USA | During World War II, Lieutenant Commander Quinton McHale (Borgnine) is the commanding officer of the U.S. Navy PT boat-73 stationed at the Pacific island base Taratupa. In the late spring of 1942, the Japanese heavily bombed the island, virtually destroying… |
My Japan (1943) | Global | My Japan is an extremely racist, extremely violent example of a World War II propaganda film. It’s pretty disturbing, but that’s what makes it sort of interesting. To see where we were in the 1940s. |
Mystery Squadron, The (1933) | Global | This Mascot serial starts with Fred Cromell (Bob Steele) and Bill “Jellybean” Cook (Guinn Williams) who enlist to protect a dam from the air raids by a group known as the Mystery Squadron, under the leadership of the mysterious Black… |
Nanking (2007) | USA | Nanking is a 2007 documentary film about the 1937 Nanking Massacre committed by the Japanese army in the former capital city Nanjing, China. The film draws on letters and diaries from the era as well as archive footage and interviews… |
National Geographic : Inside Special Forces (2007) | USA | The United States Army Special Forces, also known as Green Berets, is a Special Operations Force (SOF) of the United States Army tasked with five primary missions: unconventional warfare, foreign internal defense, special reconnaissance, direct action, and counter-terrorism. The first… |
Night People (1954) | USA | Night People is a 1954 motion picture, starring Gregory Peck, Broderick Crawford, Anita Bjork and Buddy Ebsen, and directed by Nunnally Johnson. It was co-written by Jed Harris, a noted theatrical producer. |
NOVA | Missing in MiG Alley | Watch the Program | PBS | Global | During the Korean War, a new episode of Cold War confrontation erupted as Russian MiGs and American Sabres engaged in dogfights high over the border between China and Korea. |
Our Enemy: The Japanese (1943) | Global | Stridently anti-Japanese film that attempts to convey an understanding of Japanese life and philosophy so that the U.S. may more readily defeat its enemy. Depicts the Japanese as “primitive, murderous and fanatical.” With many images of 1930s and 1940s Japan,… |
Pearl Harbor (1941) | Global | Pearl Harbor is a harbor on the island of OÊ»ahu, Hawaii, west of Honolulu. Much of the harbor and surrounding lands is a United States Navy deep-water naval base. It is also the headquarters of the U.S. Pacific Fleet. The… |
Private Snafu (1943-45) | Global | Private Snafu is the title character of a series of black-and-white American instructional cartoon shorts produced between 1943 and 1945 during World War II. The character was created by director Frank Capra, chairman of the U.S. Army Air Force First… |
Project Kill (1976) | Global | Project: Kill is a 1976 action film directed by William Girdler and starring Leslie Nielsen before he began doing comedy. This film should almost me a comedy though because it is absolutely hokey. In the film, Nielsen plays John Trevor,… |
Return to Tarawa (2008) | USA | The Battle of Tarawa was a battle in the Pacific Theatre of World War II, largely fought from November 20 to November 23, 1943. It was the second time the United States was on the offensive (the Battle of Guadalcanal… |
Russia’s Last Tsar – National Geographic | USA | Nicholas II (Nikolai Alexandrovich Romanov; Russian: Никола́й II, Никола́й Алекса́ндрович Рома́нов) (18 May [O.S. 6 May] 1868 – 17 July 1918) was the last Emperor of Russia, Grand Duke of Finland, and claimant to the title of King of Poland.… |
Saints and Soldiers (2004) | USA | Saints and Soldiers is a war film released by Excel Entertainment Group, a Mormon film company in August, 2004. The movie is about a small group of soldiers who are trapped deep behind enemy lines following the infamous Malmedy massacre… |
Sante Fe Trail (1940) | Global | Sante Fe Trail is a 1940 movie starring Errol Flynn, Ronald Reagan and Olivia de Havilland. The movie details the conflicts that puts the north and south at odds prior to the civil war. It paints abolitionist John Brown as… |
Secret Invasion, The (1964) | USA | The Secret Invasion is a 1964 war film directed by Roger Corman. In World War II, convicts are recruited by the Allies for an extremely hazardous mission. |
Secret Life of Adolf Hitler, The (1958) | Global | Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party (German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, abbreviated NSDAP), popularly known as the Nazi Party. He was the ruler… |