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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… |
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… |
Back Room Boy (1944) | Global | Arthur Askey plays a young, absent-minded meteorologist (Arthur Pilbeam). He gets himself assigned to a remote Scottish lighthouse to avoid women, after he is jilted by his fiancée. He will be the only occupant of the island. |
Beaten Nazis Sign Surrender (1945) | Global | General Yodell accepts unconditional surrender for Germany. Mussolini and his mistress hang from the rafters of a gas station while partisans try and execute the last of the fascists, .German prisoners of war claim they never met a Nazi. |
Biography – Douglas MacArthur : The General (1956) | USA | General of the Army Douglas MacArthur (January 26, 1880 – April 5, 1964) was an American general, United Nations general, and Field Marshal of the Philippine Army. He was a Chief of Staff of the United States Army during the… |
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,… |
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 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,… |
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. |
Great Alaskan Mystery, The (1944) | Global | The Great Alaskan Mystery is a 1944 Universal film serial about government agents trying to stop Nazi spies from getting their hands on futuristic weapons. |
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. |
Hitler, Dead or Alive (1942) | Global | Three gansters take up a mission to go to Germany and kill Hitler. A multi-millionaire has put up a million dollars for “Hitler, Dead or Alive”. His brother was murdered in Germany by the gestapo. Only 1942 could come up with a film like this. |
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… |
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:… |
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… |
Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress (1944) | Global | “The Memphis Belle,” directed by William Wyler, is a tribute to the crew |
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. |
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. |
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… |
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… |
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… |
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… |
Stalin and the Betrayal of Leningrad | Global | Joseph Stalin was the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union’s Central Committee from 1922 until his death in 1953. In the years following Lenin’s death in 1924, he rose to become the leader of the Soviet… |
Stranger, The (1946) | Global | Edward G. Robinson pursues a nazi war criminal named Franz Kindler. He thinks it’s the kindly college professor played by Orson Welles. Only a dead man can link him to the crimes… or is it his own obsessions that will… |
Submarine Alert (1943) | Global | 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… |
Sundown (1941) | Global | Sundown is a 1941 war film directed by Henry Hathaway. It was nominated for three Academy Awards for Best Cinematography, Original Score and Best Art Direction by Alexander Golitzen and Richard Irvine. Englishmen fighting Nazis in Africa discover an exotic… |
The Battle of Midway (1942) | Global | While personally operating a hand-held 16mm camera for this film, its director, John Ford, a Commander in the Navy reserve serving on temporary duty at Midway Atoll at the time, risked enemy fire to get his footage and was wounded… |
To the Shores of Iwo Jima (1945) | Global | To the Shores of Iwo Jima was a 1945 Kodachrome color short war film produced by the United States Navy and United States Marine Corps. It documents the Battle of Iwo Jima, and was the first time that American audiences… |
Tunisian Victory (1944) | Global | Tunisian Victory is an Anglo-American propaganda film about the victories in the North Africa Campaign. |
Two Women (1960) | Global | Sophia Loren stars in Two Women, a 1960 Italian language film 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… |
Victory at Sea (1952) | Global | Victory at Sea was a documentary TV series about naval warfare during World War II that was originally aired by NBC in the USA in 26 half-hour segments on Sunday afternoons, starting October 26, 1952 and ending May 3, 1953.… |
War Stories with Oliver North (2007) | USA | War Stories is a military history program on the Fox News Channel, broadcast Saturday evenings at 9pm Eastern/6pm Pacific. All World War II-era episodes and the current season will soon be available for purchase – the expected DVD release date… |
We Dive at Dawn (1943) | Global | The British submarine Sea Tiger docks after an unsuccessful patrol and the skipper (John Mills) and his crew are given a week’s leave. They each head off for their chosen destination. However, all arrangements are cancelled as a recall order is issued to return to the sub. Back at sea, the crew find out that the Sea Tiger is on a top secret mission to find and destroy Nazi Germany’s latest battleship, the Brandenburg. |