Tagged:WWII
Working from quartet of Eugene O’Neill plays, John Ford created a hauntingly dark dramatic universe, populated with his usual stock company of players augmented by John Wayne in the role of the naïve Swedish sailor Olsen.
With actual Nazi documents in hand this film reconstructs what would have happened if the Nazis had won WWII. Operation “Sea Lion” was an actual operation planned by the Nazis to hit Great Britain with overwhelming force.
The fate of prisoners of war and missing in action is one of the darkest chapters of the Cold War. Tens of thousands of American soldiers European survivors were sent to unknown destinations during World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War
Sophia Loren stars in Two Women, a 1960 Italian language film (dubbed) which tells the story of a woman trying to protect her teenage daughter from the horrors of war. The story centers on Cesira (Loren), a widowed Roman shopkeeper, and Rosetta (Brown), her devoutly religious teenage daughter, during World War II. Amid Allied bombing [...]
After the Japanese invade China in WW 2, a young woman (Anna May Wong) leads a band of partisans against the occupying troops.
American accounts of prisoners-of-war and their efforts at resistance and escape emphasize team work and camaraderie — but the European approach tends to be steeped in isolation.
Beginning in the 1950s, American and Soviet scientists embarked on a perilous race to see who could build and detonate the world’s largest bomb. The results exceeded all expectations about how big a bomb could be built.
Burt Lancaster plays resistance member Labishe, who in 1944 wants to stop Colonel von Waldheim from shipping rare French masterpieces to Germany.