Tagged: War





Train, The (1964)

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Burt Lancaster plays resistance member Labishe, who in 1944 wants to stop Colonel von Waldheim from shipping rare French masterpieces to Germany.

Von Richtofen and Brown (1971)

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Germany’s greatest pilot, Baron von Richthofen, is killed in midair by a Canadian, marking the end of a war in which officers were gentlemen and glory and honor reigned.

Project Kill (1976)

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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, a military agent who escapes from a secret government base where he had been the [...]

British Intelligence (1940)

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, if you like that genre. Boris Karloff plays a domestic servant involved in espionage [...]

Submarine Alert (1943)

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Nazi spies use a stolen shortwave transmitter prototype to broadcast top secret shipping info to an offshore Japanese sub. To nab the spy ring, the Government has the West Coast’s top radio engineers fired and shadowed to see if the Nazis recruit them to complete work on the prototype radio. Radio engineer Lew Deerhold, a [...]

Cast a Giant Shadow (1966)

This fact-based drama chronicles Israel’s heroic struggle for independence under the leadership of the country’s first general (Kirk Douglas). Angie Dickinson, Frank Sinatra, Yul Brynner and John Wayne co-star.

Escape from Sobibor (1987)

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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, at Auschwitz and Treblinka). The film was directed by Jack Gold.
On October 14, 1943, members [...]

This is not a Test (1962)

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A lone police officer receiving orders to block a road leading into an unidentified city in California because it is about to fall under nuclear attack. Soon, he has detained several vehicles with a variety of occupants ranging from an elderly man and his granddaughter, to a man who has recently become rich and his [...]

Jet Pilot (1957)

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Another infamous flop from the creative team of producer Howard Hughes and actor John Wayne, who had also teamed on THE CONQUEROR (also available on Google Video). This film actually went into production in 1949, but wasnt finished and ready for an official release until 1957 (the year after the release of the Genghis Khan [...]

Admiral was a Lady, The (1950)

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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 out that her fiance  has abandoned her and Jimmy invites her to spend the day [...]