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War Movies and Documentaries. Mostly on WWII.


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Movie: The Fall of Berlin ( 1945 )
Over 40 Army cameramen from 1st Belorussian and 1st Ukrainian Fronts' contributed footage of this remarkable documentary of the fall of Berlin, including captured German footage.
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Movie: Winter Flight ( 1986 )
A young RAF serviceman and a local waitress fall for each other, but Falklands War looms in the background.
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Movie: Pin Up Girl ( 1944 )
Glamorous Lorry Jones, the toast of a Missouri military canteen, has become "engaged" to almost every serviceman she's signed her pin-up photo for. Now she's leaving home to go into government service (not, as she fantasizes, to join the USO). On a side trip to New York, her vivid imagination leads her to True Love with naval hero Tommy Dooley; but increasingly involved Musical Comedy Complications follow.
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Movie: The House on Garibaldi Street ( 1979 )
After World War II, many important figures in Hitler's command escaped Germany and Occupied Europe and were rumored to be living in South America. Adolf Eichmann,wanted in connection with millions of deaths, is suspected to be living incognito in Argentina. Mossad, Israel's secret intelligence organization is determined to bring Eichmann (if it is him indeed) to justice.
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Movie: Black Fox: The True Story of Adolf Hitler ( 1963 )
The rise and fall of Nazi Germany in part through the use of classical allegory.
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Movie: 13 Rue Madeleine ( 1947 )
When spy chief Bob Sharkey finds out one of his agents-in-training is actually a Nazi double agent, his strategic decision not to arrest him results in tragedy.
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Movie: The History of the Luftwaffe ( 1989 )
Using very rare footage recently obtained from the eastern block, the Luftwaffe's success, structure, tactics and inherent weaknesses are chronicled.
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Movie: 633 Squadron ( 1964 )
An RAF squadron is assigned to knock out a German rocket fuel factory in Norway. The factory supplies fuel for the Nazi effort to launch rockets on England during D-Day.
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Movie: Lost Daughter ( 1949 )
Intrigued by the portrait of a Jewish girl at a London art gallery, a British Army Major attempts to find her amongst the refugees living in various camps for displaced people in post-World War II Germany.
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Movie: The Thousand Plane Raid ( 1969 )
A U.S. Air Force colonel convinces the Allies during World War II that a daylight bombing raid of Germany will bring a quick end to the war.
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TV Show: The Great Underground War ( 2014 )
A five-part series that explores the forgotten story of the incredible engineering feats and secret survival techniques of five legendary battles fought underground during World War I.
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Movie: A Farewell to Arms ( 1957 )
An English nurse and an American soldier on the Italian front during World War I fall in love, but the horrors surrounding them test their romance to the limit.
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Movie: Crash Dive ( 1943 )
A submarine lieutenant and his commander fall in love with the same girl.
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Movie: The Silver Fleet ( 1943 )
Jaap van Leyden (Sir Ralph Richardson) is in charge of a shipyard in newly occupied Holland. At first he collaborates with the Germans because it is the easiest course to follow. Later, a child's rhyme reminds him of his patriotic duty, but how best to resist the Nazis without endangering his wife and fellow workers?
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Movie: Men in War ( 1957 )
During the Korean War, a battle-worn lieutenant and his platoon are behind enemy lines, and have orders to march to Hill 465 for possible relief.
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Movie: The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell ( 1955 )
A dramatization of the American general and his court martial for publically complaining about High Command's dismissal and neglect of the aerial fighting forces.
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Movie: None Shall Escape ( 1944 )
The career of a Nazi officer shown as flashbacks from his trial as a war criminal.
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Movie: Summer of My German Soldier ( 1978 )
A young American girl meets a German prisoner of war.
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Movie: The Battle of Britain ( 1945 )
The official World War II US government account of Great Britain's stand against the Nazi war machine after the Dunkirk evacuation.
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Movie: They Were Expendable ( 1945 )
A Navy commander fights to prove the battle-worthiness of the PT boat at the start of World War II.
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Movie: PT 109 ( 1963 )
President John F. Kennedy kept a unique inauguration gift on his desk: a plastic-encased coconut. The tale of that coconut is the heroic story of PT 109.
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Movie: The Unknown Flag Raiser of Iwo Jima ( 2016 )
In February 1945, Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal captured the image of five U.S. Marines and one U.S. Navy Corpsman hoisting the American flag atop a mountain in Iwo Jima. The identities of these men have been accepted for 70 years, but new evidence shows that one Marine was never identified. We finally reveal an unnamed hero using modern science to examine the iconic photo in ways that we have never seen before. Then we look at the battle and the stories of the men who risked it all for their country and their brothers in arms.
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Movie: Wake Island: Alamo of the Pacific ( 2003 )
This documentary is a captivating account of the defense of Wake Island by a small contingent of United States Marines and civilian contractors. From December 8th until December 23rd, 1941 the defenders thwarted an aerial attack and an attempted amphibious landing from a naval task force before finally being overwhelmed by the third attempt by the Japanese Imperial Navy. Five surviving Marines, one surviving construction contractor and others walk the viewers through the battle and the aftermath of the battle. A truly superb story of American heroes at the outset of World War II, narrated by Will Lyman.
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Movie: Sky Devils ( 1932 )
Wilkie and Mitchell, trying to desert their draft into the army, stow away on a ship which takes them into the war zone. While AWOL, the rivals for Mary's affections accidently destroy an ammunition dump.
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TV Show: Life After WWI: In Colour ( 2019 )
Historical documentary featuring colourised archive footage charting the First World War's aftermath in Europe and beyond once celebrations marking the end of hostilities had ceased.
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Movie: Pride of the Marines ( 1945 )
Marine hero Al Schmid is blinded in battle and returns home to be rehabilitated. He readjusts to his civilian life with the help of his soon to be wife.
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Movie: Anzio ( 1968 )
One of WWII's bloodiest battles as the Allies smash through the German lines which have enclosed the Anzio beachhead. Four months and 30,000 casualties before the Allies finally march to Rome.
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Movie: Sink the Bismarck! ( 1960 )
The World War II story of the British Navy's effort to defeat Nazi Germany's most powerful warship.
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Movie: The Young Lions ( 1958 )
WW2 drama that follows the lives of three young men, one German and two Americans, during wartime.
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Movie: The Science of D-Day ( 2014 )
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Movie: The Bridge at Remagen ( 1969 )
In the last days of World War II, the Allied Army desperately searched for a bridgehead across the impenetrable Rhine River, in order to launch a major assault into the center of Germany. "Bridge at Remagen" tells the true story of the battle for this last bridgehead, from both the German and American perspective.
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Movie: All Through the Night ( 1942 )
Runyonesque Broadway gamblers turn patriotic when they stumble onto a cell of Nazi saboteurs.
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Movie: The Bridge ( 1961 )
A group of German boys is ordered to protect a small bridge in their home village during the waning months of the second world war. Truckloads of defeated, cynical Wehrmacht soldiers flee the approaching American troops, but the boys, full of enthusiasm for the "blood and honor" Nazi ideology, stay to defend the useless bridge.
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Movie: Reach for the Sky ( 1956 )
The true story of airman Douglas Bader who overcame the loss of both legs in a 1931 flying accident to become a successful fighter pilot and wing leader during World War II.
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Movie: Confessions of a Nazi Spy ( 1939 )
FBI agent Ed Renard investigates the pre-War espionage activities of the German-American Bund.
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Movie: Jet Attack ( 1960 )
Three American pilots are shot down behind enemy lines during the Korean war, where they encounter a mysterious Russian nurse. Their life is in her hands.
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Movie: The Heroes of Telemark ( 1965 )
Norwegian resistance tries to stop German efforts to produce an atomic bomb component during World War II.
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Movie: Johnny Doesn't Live Here Anymore ( 1944 )
Kathie Aumont has just arrived in the big city to work at a defense plant. When the promised accommodation with her friend Sally falls through, Kathie is forced to find somewhere else to live in the city where there is a virtually zero vacancy. She is able to finagle renting the apartment of Johnny Moore, who is just heading off into the marines. What Johnny forgets to tell her before he leaves is that he has given his apartment key to many of his enlisted friends for them to be able to use the apartment whenever they are in town. As such, Kathie never knows who she's going to find in the apartment. Complications ensue when Kathie falls for two of them, and they with her. One of them is Mike O'Brien, a navy sailor and notorious womanizer. The other is Johnny himself, Kathie and he who had a moment before he left and who comes home unexpectedly on a twenty-four hour pass. It gets even more complicated when one of the apartment keys gets into the wrong hands. All these complications are fueled by a gremlin, who vowed to Kathie that he would oversee her seven weeks of bad luck for spilling some salt.
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Movie: The Dam Busters ( 1955 )
The story of how the British attacked German dams in WWII by using an ingenious technique to drop bombs where they would be most effective.
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Movie: In Enemy Country ( 1968 )
Wartime secret agents are on a mission to destroy a deadly new type of torpedo hidden in a Nazi stronghold in France.
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Movie: They Who Dare ( 1954 )
During World War II, British commandos are sent to destroy a Luftwaffe airfield on a Greek island.
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Movie: The McKenzie Break ( 1970 )
During WW2, German POWs in Britain plot to escape from their prison camp in Scotland.
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Movie: Foreign Correspondent ( 1940 )
On the eve of World War II, a young American reporter tries to expose enemy agents in London.
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Movie: The Silent Enemy ( 1958 )
In the Mediterranean in 1941 the Italians start using underwater chariots to mine the undersides of allied ships. Explosives expert Lionel Crabbe arrives in Gibraltar to organise defenses, but finds only two British divers available to help him. Even more worrying, it seems likely that the Italians are secretly using neutral Spain across the bay as their key base.
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Movie: Satan Never Sleeps ( 1962 )
During the Chinese Civil War of 1949, the Communists constantly harass the two priests of a remote Catholic mission outpost.
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Movie: Hell to Eternity ( 1960 )
When his adoptive Japanese-American family is sent to Manzanar after Pearl Harbor, a young Chicano enlists in the marines to become a hero in the Battle of Saipan.
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Movie: Back Door to Hell ( 1964 )
During World War II, a three man commando team places its trust in the hands of a band of Filipino resistants, as they try to knock out a Japanese communication center.
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Movie: The North Star ( 1944 )
A Ukrainian village must suddenly contend with the Nazi invasion of June 1941.
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Movie: Journey Together ( 1945 )
British propaganda film from WWII stressing the importance of the navigator on RAF's bomber crews.
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Movie: The Pied Piper ( 1942 )
While traveling in France during the Nazi invasion of 1940, an Englishman is entrusted with the care of a group of refugee children.
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Movie: The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel ( 1951 )
The story of the final years of the respected World War II German general, Erwin Rommel.
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Movie: Hellcats of the Navy ( 1957 )
The daring exploits of a submarine commander whose mission is to chart the minefields in the waters of Japan during World War II.
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Movie: The Long Voyage Home ( 1940 )
A merchant ship's crew tries to survive the loneliness of the sea and the coming of war.
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Movie: Hell in Korea ( 1957 )
In 1951, during the Korean War general retreat of United Nations Forces, a small British re-con platoon finds itself cut-off from the main British force.The platoon is led by Lieutenant Butler and Sergeant Payne. Corporals Ryker and Hodge are in charge of the men. After executing a search and destroy mission in an abandoned and booby-trapped South Korean village, the platoon heads toward rice fields, but finds itself surrounded by Chinese enemy troops. When sending for help becomes no option, Lieutenant Butler decides to closer investigate the isolated South Korean temple perched atop a steep hill. The temple seems to be a good defensible position for the platoon, but it's located at the top of the steep hill with only a sheer cliff to its rear.
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Movie: 36 Hours ( 1965 )
Germans kidnap an American Major and try to convince him that World War II is over so they can get details about the Allied invasion of Europe out of him.
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Movie: Yesterday's Enemy ( 1959 )
In World War II, during the Japanese invasion of Burma, the lost remnant of a British Army Brigade HQ, led by the ruthless Captain Alan Langford, escapes through the jungle toward the British lines.
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Movie: The Warriors ( 1955 )
During the fourteenth century when the Hundred Years War between France and England ends with the English occupation of French Aquitainia, rebel French Knights vow to oust Edward, Prince of Wales, ruler of Aquitaine.
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Movie: Screaming Eagles ( 1956 )
Screaming Eagles is a world war two drama about a 15-men platoon of paratroopers. The platoon, under Lt. Pauling's command, belongs to Company D, 502nd Parachute Regiment, 101st Airborne Division of the U.S. Army. Shortly before the Normandy landings, the platoon receives last-minute recruits who must be parachute-trained in a hurry. Some of the new men come from the Merchant Marine. There is some friction between the newcomers and the veteran members of the platoon. Lieutenant Pauling and Sergeant Forrest do their best to keep incidents to a minimum. On the eve of the Normandy landings, the platoon decides to use the issued passes to celebrate in town the upcoming action. However, at the gate of the base, the soldiers are informed that all passes have been canceled in the view of the imminent Normandy invasion. All members of the platoon are rejoiced at the news. They head back to the barracks and prepare their gear for the flight to France. They even sober-up private Mason, who, having decided to celebrate alone rather than go into town with the platoon, is drunk in the dorm. After a tense flight over the English Channel, the platoon is parachuted into Normandy, France. Its mission is to take a vital bridge and join the other units of their battalion. Unfortunately, due to night-time error, the platoon is dropped 20 miles off course from the originally assigned drop-zone. It lands right into the lap of an unsuspecting German battalion.
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TV Show: The Blue & the Gray ( 1982 )
The Blue and the Gray is a sprawling adaptation of a story concept by Civil War historian Bruce Catton. The drama begins in 1859, with young war correspondent-to-be John Geyser meeting future Union officer Jonas Steele at the trial of abolitionist John Brown. They are reunited two years later during the presidential campaign of Abraham Lincoln and are eyewitnesses at the battle of Bull Run.
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Movie: The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell ( 1968 )
During WW2, Sgt. O'Farrell's Pacific unit is demoralized when a Japanese submarine torpedoes an American supply ship containing beer.
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Movie: Battleground ( 1950 )
True tale about a squad of the 101st Airborne Division coping with being trapped by the Germans in the besieged city of Bastogne, Belgium during the Battle of the Bulge in December of 1944.
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Movie: The Last Confederate: The Story of Robert Adams ( 2005 )
The true love story of the conflict between Captain Robert Adams' dedication to the south, and his love for Eveline McCord, his beloved from the north. Produced, written, and directed by the descendants of Robert and Eveline, this American Civil War tale is an explosive, richly detailed saga of fierce combat, honor and the will to risk all that's precious for love or country.
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Movie: Hiroshima: The Aftermath ( 2015 )
A documentary about the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima/Nagasaki and their aftermaths in both Japan and the United States. It includes many eyewitness accounts and historical documentation from both US and Japanese citizens.
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Movie: Break to Freedom ( 1953 )
In 1944, at a POW camp in Germany the Allied prisoners use a dummy prop named Albert to fool the German guards and escape.
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Movie: The Quiet American ( 1958 )
A young naive American and a cynical older British diplomat disagree over politics in 1952 Vietnam and over a beautiful young native girl.
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Movie: Hitler ( 1962 )
Richard Basehart stars as one of the most influential and one of the most reviled men in history in this probing psychological study of a man who nearly gained dominance over the entire western world--at the cost of millions of lives--Hitler.
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Movie: Mission of Danger ( 1960 )
Digest of 3 "Northwest Passage" (1958) 30-minute episodes: 2 by director George Waggner, and the central episode, 'The Break-Out' (first aired 19 October 1958), by Jacques Tourneur.
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Movie: Korean War in Color ( 2001 )
Color footage includes: The Inchon Invasion The rise and fall of Seoul The Naktong river campaign Winter at the Choisin reservoir The 1st Marine Division in action Flame throwers in action Bombing raid on a North Korean industrial complex Prisoners of war being captured Amphibious attack behind enemy lines
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Movie: Above Us the Waves ( 1956 )
The attack by British submarines on the German battleship "Tirpitz" in a Norwegian fjord during World War II.
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Movie: A Time to Love and a Time to Die ( 1958 )
On the Russian front in 1944, German Private Ernst Graeber receives a leave and visits his family in Germany but Germany isn't the same country he left behind.
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Movie: Submarine X-1 ( 1968 )
During World War II, the British Royal Navy used experimental midget submarines to raid German warships in Norway.
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Movie: The Naked and the Dead ( 1958 )
Set during the Pacific War against the Japanese, this WW2 drama discerns between achieving one's mission at any cost versus preserving the lives under one's command and enforcing discipline through fear as opposed to mutual respect.
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Movie: Brass Target ( 1979 )
In 1945, General Patton sends Germany's confiscated gold reserves to Frankfurt, but the Army train is robbed by plotters who also hire a Swiss hitman to kill the General.
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Movie: Hell Is for Heroes ( 1962 )
Small squad must hold off German attack.
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Movie: To the Shores of Tripoli ( 1942 )
Sergeant Dixie Smith has more raw recruits to turn into Marines, if he can. Among them is cocky casanova Chris Winters, son of an officer, who's just tried to "mash" Mary Carter, a major's niece. Once on base, he finds Mary's a nurse and an off-limits officer. Does this stop him? Of course not. But his attitude problem soon puts him in a position where he must redeem himself, with December 7, 1941 fast approaching.
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Movie: Went the Day Well? ( 1942 )
An English village is occupied by disguised German paratroopers as an advance post for a planned invasion.
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Movie: In Which We Serve ( 1942 )
This "story of a ship", the British destroyer H.M.S. Torrin, is told in flashbacks by survivors as they cling to a life raft.
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Movie: To Be or Not to Be ( 1942 )
During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy.
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Movie: Blitz on Britain ( 1960 )
Archive footage from both British and German sources to tell the story of the defense of Britain during World II.
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Movie: Captain Newman, M.D. ( 1963 )
In 1944, an Army doctor is in charge of a neuropsychiatric ward at an Army Air Corps hospital in Arizona, and he must deal with a variety of tough cases.
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Movie: Nine Men ( 1943 )
The Nine men of the title are a British WWII Army patrol stuck in a desert fort during the African campaign. The Men must defend the fort against the Italian and German troops until they cam be relieved.
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Movie: Sergeant Ryker ( 1968 )
During the Korean War Sergeant Paul Ryker is accused of defecting to Communist China and then returning to his unit as a spy. He's court-martialed and sentenced to death but his attorney believes Ryker's innocent and asks for a new trial.
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Movie: Two Flags West ( 1951 )
Forced by circumstances,Confederate POWs and Union soldiers join forces against Indians but old animosities resurface during their fragile alliance.
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Movie: Kill the Messenger ( 2003 )
Two rebel brother, Drake and Daniel, disguise themselves as Union soldiers in order to deliver a secret letter to a turncoat Union officer named Hatcher. When Drake gets injured, young Daniel is forced to deliver the message alone. But the mission goes awry and Daniel must flee camp with a meek northern photographer Benjamin, who has been framed for a murder he didn't commit. Unaware that they are being pursued by Hatcher, who has plans of his own for the letter, they embark upon an incredible journey that will test their courage, friendship, their views on war, and their very lives.
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Movie: Yellowneck ( 1955 )
5 Confederate soldiers desert, make their way through the Everglades and try to make it to Cuba.
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Movie: Bataan ( 1944 )
In 1942, in the Bataan peninsula of the Philippines, a ragtag American unit commanded by Sergeant Bill Dane attempts to blow-up a bridge in order to slow the Japanese advance.
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Movie: They Raid by Night ( 1942 )
The British Commandos send Bob Owen (Lyle Talbot) to Norway to prepare for a raid. His mission also includes freeing General Heden (Paul Baratoff) who is being held by the Nazis. His aides include Eric Falken (George Nesie) and Harry (Charles Rogers). Inga (June Duprez), a Norwegian girl to whom Falken was once engaged but who has become the sweetheart of Oberst Von Ritter (Victor Varconi), betrays their hiding place. The three overpower the Gestapo men sent after them, take their uniforms and enter the prison camp and free Heden. The four men then start for the coast to meet the Commando expedition. Inga, who the men still trust, again informs von Ritter and Falken is captured but Bob and Harry escape with the aid of Dalberg, who they thought was a Quisling stooge.
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Movie: The Victors ( 1963 )
War has no victors, only survivors. Killing destroys the killers as well as the killed; because it murders decency, self-respect and ultimately life itself. The story follows in the footsteps of a squad of young American solders from the early days of the Battle of Britain, through the fierce fighting in Italy and France, to the uneasy peace of Berlin.
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Movie: Combat America ( 1943 )
A documentary recounting the experiences of the 351st Bombardment Group of the U.S. Army Air Forces, based in England during the Second World War . The group's air and ground crews are followed through a number of bombing missions over Hitler's Germany.
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Movie: The Fighting Seabees ( 1944 )
During WW2, the U.S. Navy implements a new idea of forming construction battalions that also are fighting units, in case of Japanese attack.
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Movie: The Blue Max ( 1966 )
A young pilot in the German air force of 1918, disliked as lower-class and unchivalrous, tries ambitiously to earn the medal offered for 20 kills.
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Movie: Action in the North Atlantic ( 1943 )
An American tanker is sunk by a German U-boat and the survivors spend eleven days at sea on a raft. They're next assigned to the liberty ship "Sea Witch" bound for Murmansk through the sub-stalked North Atlantic.
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Movie: Ghost of the China Sea ( 1958 )
A ragtag band of civilians and military personnel evade the Japanese in the Philippines, utilising the so-called USS Frankenstein.
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Movie: Stand by for Action ( 1944 )
U. S. Navy Lieutenant Gregg Masterman (Robert Taylor), of THE Harvard and Boston Back Bay Mastermans, learned about the sea while winning silver cups sailing his yacht. He climbs swiftly in rank, and is now Junior Aide to Rear Admiral Stephen Thomas (Charles Laughton). In contrast, Lieutenant Commander Martin J. Roberts (Brian Donlevy) enlisted in World War I, and worked his way up gradually. He retired in 1935 but has been recalled as Executive Officer of the destroyer "Cranshaw." Impressed by Roberts' vigor, the rear admiral raises him to command of the destroyer "Warren," an over-age World War I ship that has been recommissioned. Masterman laughs at Roberts' new command, only to have the Admiral assign him as the Executive Officer of the "Warren," under Roberts. The ship is to join a convoy which has already left Hawaii, bound for the United States. The Flagship of the convoy is the cruiser, "Chattanooga,' with Admiral Thomas in command. On the way, a lifeboat is sighted. From it are picked up two old sailors, two women and twenty babies. Their boat had been sunk while evacuating them from Hawaii. Roberts puts Masterman in charge of the infants. The destroyer reaches the convoy. That night, the Japanese attack the convoy, the "Chattanooga" is hit, and the enemy then turns its attention to the "Warren."
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Movie: The Purple Plain ( 1954 )
In WW2 Burma, a Canadian bomber pilot becomes reckless after losing his bride in a Luftwaffe air-raid.
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Movie: The Day Hitler Died ( 2016 )
Filmed interviews with the survivors of the Berlin Bunker in which Adolf Hitler, Eva Braun and the Goebbels family killed themselves in the final days of World War II. The interviews were made in 1948 by Captain Michael Musmanno, a US Navy Lawyer and Nuremberg Judge, and the film was offered to Hollywood, but the mood of the western world had changed and wanted to for...Read all
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Movie: Pork Chop Hill ( 1959 )
During the Korean War peace talks, U.S. troops fight to retake a hill from the Communist Chinese forces.
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Movie: The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp ( 1943 )
From the Boer War through World War II, a soldier rises through the ranks in the British military.
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Movie: The Juggler ( 1953 )
Hans Muller is a Jewish refugee from Germany. Relocating to Israel after World War II, he can not overcome the psychological effects of the war. After attacking a policeman, Hans becomes a fugitive, traveling through Israel with a teenage boy.
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Movie: Back to Bataan ( 1945 )
In 1942, after the fall of the Philippines to the Japanese, U.S. Army Col. Joseph Madden stays behind to organize the local resistance against the Japanese invaders.