Tag Archives: War
Long Voyage Home, The (1940)
Working from quartet of Eugene O’Neill plays, John Ford created a hauntingly dark dramatic universe, populated with his usual stock…
Beachhead to Berlin (1945)
Beachhead to Berlin is a 1945 film about the D-day landings shot by Coast Guard photographers. It centers on the…
Project Kill (1976)
Project: Kill is a 1976 action film directed by William Girdler and starring Leslie Nielsen before he began doing comedy.…
Black Brigade, The (1970)
Black Brigade is also known as Carter’s Army, which aired on January 27, 1970. The movie is a war drama.…
Phantom Submarine U-67(1939)
A pre-war submarine movie with Alan Hale about a U.S. Navy captain searching for sunken treasure in enemy territory.…
Train, The (1964)
Burt Lancaster plays resistance member Labishe, who in 1944 wants to stop Colonel von Waldheim from shipping rare French masterpieces…
Marie Galante (1934)
Marie Galante is a pretty French girl with a job delivering telegrams when she gets accidentally abducted by a drunk…
Blood on the Sun (1945)
James Cagney plays a reporter in Tokyo before WWII. As you could imagine, he has some trouble with the Japanese…
Tunisian Victory (1944)
Tunisian Victory is an Anglo-American propaganda film about the victories in the North Africa Campaign.
The film follows both armies…
The Big Picture – George S. Patton (1963)
This episode of the WWII documentaries series The Big Picture tells about the life of General George Patton. It’s narrated…
Farewell to Arms, A (1932)
Set in Europe during World War I, the plot focuses on the tragic romance between Frederick Henry (Gary Cooper), an…
To the Shores of Iwo Jima (1945)
67 years ago today, Marines took Surubachi and got the upper hand in the battle of Iwo Jima during WWII.…
Dawn Express, The (1942)
Chemists working on a super gasoline for aircraft encounter a Nazi spy ring bent on theft and murder.…
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…
Matter of Life and Death, A (1946)
If you haven’t, you should watch A Matter of Life and Death. It was released in the US under the…
Sante Fe Trail (1940)
Sante Fe Trail is a 1940 movie starring Errol Flynn, Ronald Reagan and Olivia de Havilland. The movie details the…
Jet Pilot (1957)
Another infamous flop from the creative team of producer Howard Hughes and actor John Wayne, who had also teamed on…
Shadows Over Shanghai (1938)
Pilot Peter Roma carries a precious amulet, but is shot down over China by a Russian agent who also wants…
Man Who Saved the World, The (2011)
In October 1962, the world held its breath. On the edge of the Caribbean Sea, just a few miles from…
Secrets of the Dead – Japanese Supersubmarine (2010)
Spring, 1946. Ten months after the end of World War II, an explosion rocks the Pacific off the coast of…
The World’s Biggest Bomb (2011)
Beginning in the 1950s, American and Soviet scientists embarked on a perilous race to see who could build and detonate…
Submarine Base (1943)
Jim Taggert, a ships engineered is rescued from a torpedoed tramp steamer by Joe Morgan, a gangster who was running…
Sea Patrol (2007)
This was recommended by a viewer and I liked it. This is an Australian made TV series about the adventures…
Time Limit (1957)
Time Limit is a 1957 court room drama directed by actor Karl Malden, it would be his only directing credit.…
We Dive at Dawn (1943)
The British submarine Sea Tiger docks after an unsuccessful patrol and the skipper (John Mills) and his crew are given…
55 Days: The Fall of Saigon (2010)
I remember my mom crying when we were watching the helicopters take the last of the diplomats out of the…
Prisoners of War Betrayed (2007)
The fate of prisoners of war and missing in action is one of the darkest chapters of the Cold War.…
This is not a Test (1962)
A lone police officer receiving orders to block a road leading into an unidentified city in California because it is…
Green Glove, The (1950)
The Green Glove is an action adventure film starring Glenn Ford, directed by Rudolph Mata and released by United Artists.…
Nazis and Blondes (2008)
What was the role of the Baltic film actors in creating the figure of the enemy in the Soviet time…
Secrets of War – Cold War: The Kennedy Years
This youngest of American presidents took over in the most tense period of the Cold War. The stories from within…
Secrets of War – Cold War: Nixon’s Secrets
The story behind Richard Nixon’s resounding triumphs and crushing defeats.…
Secrets of War – Brezhnev’s Kremlin
Before Leonid Brezhnev signed nuclear arms reduction agreements with the West, he led the Soviets into one conflict after another.…
Secrets of War – Cold War: Khrushchev’s Regime
Although he tried to distance himself from Stalin’s ruthless regime, Khrushchev brought the world to the brink of nuclear war.…
Duck and Cover (1954)
I remember films like this. Of course, being a little younger than this film, the scare was more hydrogen bombs.…
Gung Ho! (1943)
This is a Randolph Scott film based on the true story of Lieutenant Colonel Evans Carlson’s 2nd Marine Raider Battalion…
Day Called X, A (1958)
A Day Called ‘X’ was a dramatized CBS documentary set in Portland, Oregon in which the entire city is evacuated…
KGB Connections, The (1982)
KGB is the Russian abbreviation of Committee for State Security Komitjet Gosudarstvjennoj Bjezopasnosti, which was the official name of the…
Admiral was a Lady, The (1950)
A combat outfit returns from the war. Veterans Jimmy Stevens (Edmond O’Brien), Eddie, Mike and Ollie collect their twenty dollar…
Saints and Soldiers (2004)
Saints and Soldiers is a war film released by Excel Entertainment Group, a Mormon film company in August, 2004. The…
Lady from Chunking, The (1942)
After the Japanese invade China in WW 2, a young woman (Anna May Wong) leads a band of partisans against…
Yellowneck (1955)
Five deserters from the Confederate Army make their way past the Everglades and angry Seminole Indians, in an attempt to…
Carpetbagger Project, The (2011)
One of the best-kept secrets of World War II was The Carpetbagger Project. The American Army Eighth Air Force 801st/492ND…
Nova – Battle of the X Planes (2002)
From 1996 to 2001, Boeing and Lockheed Martin produced rival designs and prototypes for the Joint Strike Fighter, a stealthy,…
Attack Force Nam (1986)
Behind Enemy Lines is a 1986 American action film directed by Gideon Amir and starring David Carradine. It is set…
