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War Movies and Documentaries. Mostly on WWII.


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Movie: Bitter Victory ( 1957 )
A Commander receives a citation for an attack on General Erwin Rommel's headquarters, which is actually undeserved, as the Commander is unfit for his job. On top of that, unbeknownst to him, his wife is having an affair with one of his officers.
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Movie: The Sea Shall Not Have Them ( 1955 )
In the North Sea in 1944, passengers of a downed R.A.F. transport aircraft talk about their lives while awaiting rescue in their dinghy.
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Movie: War Hunt ( 1962 )
Dispatched to the front lines during the Korean War, an idealistic American soldier discovers the horrors of combat and comes at odds with a psychopathic member of his platoon.
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Movie: Aces High ( 1976 )
In World War I, the high casualty rate amongst the rookie pilots of the Royal Flying Corps puts an enormous strain on the survivors.
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Movie: Tomorrow Is Forever ( 1946 )
An American World War I soldier, whose disfigured face is reconstructed by Austrian plastic surgeons, returns home after twenty years, but no one recognizes him, his widow is married to another man, and his son is a grown young man.
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Movie: Frieda ( 1947 )
A Royal Air Force pilot who was shot down during World War II returns home to his English village with his new bride. The trouble is that she is the German lady who helped him escape. Then her brother arrives.
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Movie: Five Graves to Cairo ( 1943 )
June, 1942. The British Army, retreating ahead of victorious Rommel, leaves a lone survivor on the Egyptian border--Corporal John Bramble, who finds refuge at a remote desert hotel...soon to be German HQ. To survive, Bramble assumes an identity which proves perilous. The new guest of honor is none other than Rommel, hinting of his secret strategy, code-named 'five graves.' And the fate of the British in Egypt depends on whether a humble corporal can penetrate the secret...
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Movie: Attack! Battle of New Britain ( 1944 )
Documentary film depicting the attack by Allied forces on the Japanese strong-holds of Arawe Beach and Cape Gloucester, New Britain, in the South Pacific theatre of the Second World War in 1943.
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Movie: Angel of Death ( 1987 )
A Jewish commando unit hunting Nazi war criminals tracks down the infamous Dr. Josef Mengele in the jungle, and find that he is torturing nubile young virgins and performing horrible medical experiments on the locals. They prepare to battle their way past Mengele's hordes of fanatic Nazi bodyguards in order to get to him.
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Movie: A Gathering of Eagles ( 1963 )
Rock Hudson plays an Air Force Colonel who has just been re-assigned as a cold war B-52 commander who must shape up his men to pass a grueling inspection that the previous commander had failed, and had been fired for. He is also recently married, and as a tough commanding officer doing whatever he has to do to shape his men up, his wife sees a side to him that she hadn't seen before.
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Movie: The Lost Battalion ( 2001 )
Fact-based war drama about an American battalion of over 500 men which gets trapped behind enemy lines in the Argonne Forest in October 1918 France during the closing weeks of World War I.
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Movie: The Man Who Captured Eichmann ( 1996 )
The story of the 1960 hostile extraction of the Nazi war criminal, Adolf Eichmann, by the Mossad to Israeli justice.
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Movie: Battle Zone ( 1952 )
During the Korean War, two combat photographers with the U.S. Marine Corps compete for the heart of a pretty Italian Army nurse.
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Movie: Wake Island ( 1942 )
December, 1941. With no hope of relief or re-supply, a small band of United States Marines tries to keep the Japanese Navy from capturing their island base.
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Movie: The Big Lift ( 1950 )
Experiences of two Air Force sergeants during the 1948 Berlin Airlift.
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Movie: Merrill's Marauders ( 1962 )
During WW2, a 3000-strong American unit, known as Merrill's Marauders, battles the Japanese forces in Burma.
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Movie: The Cockleshell Heroes ( 1955 )
During World War II, German ships are "safely" docked upriver at Bordeaux, but the British send a team of kayakers to attack them.
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TV Show: Adolf Hitler: The Itinerary ( 2018 )
For 25 years, Harald Sandner, a history enthusiast, has traced the Führer's itinerary from his childhood to the end of his life.
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Movie: Battle of the Coral Sea ( 1959 )
In 1942 submarine commander Jeff Conway secretly photographs Japanese aircraft carriers in the Coral Sea but his submarine is damaged and he's forced to surrender.
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TV Show: Hitler's Rise: The Colour Films ( 2013 )
As its title implies, this two-part documentary uses historical footage to illustrate how Adolf Hitler rose to become one of the twentieth century's most infamous figures. Episode One describes Hitler's early life up to and including the time he spent in jail writing Mein Kampf. Episode Two relates Hitler's political climb to become Germany's all-powerful Führer, his oppression and abuse of the Jewish population, and the beginnings of his war machine.
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Movie: Battle Hymn ( 1957 )
A remorseful bomber pilot-turned-minister rejoins for the Korean War.
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Movie: The Adventures of Tartu ( 1943 )
1940. Captain Terence Stevenson with the British Army is part of the bomb disposal unit in London, his primary job to defuse them. Despite having no experience as a spy, he is asked by his superiors, because of his academic background as a chemical engineer and being fluent in Romanian and German, to lead a spy mission deep in Nazi occupied territory. The Nazis have near perfected a formula for a new poisonous gas to use in chemical warfare, his mission to infiltrate the gas plant near Pilsen in Czechoslovakia where it is being mass produced, steal the formula to bring back to Britain, and blow up the plant before the Nazis are able to distribute the gas for their war effort.
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Movie: Darby's Rangers ( 1958 )
The lives, loves, and battles of fictional characters in the Army's First Ranger Battalion during WWII.
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Movie: The Way Ahead ( 1945 )
World War II drama that follows a group of British draftees, starting with their rigorous basic training, and ending with their deployment in North Africa.
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Movie: Tarawa Beachhead ( 1958 )
A marine sergeant witnesses a captain kill one of their men at Guadalcanal to cover his own incompetence, and fears he won't be believed because of rank, so finds the captain has gotten him assigned to his next command plus is cozying up to the family of his victim.
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Movie: The Young Warriors ( 1968 )
In World War II, a tough sergeant is put in charge of a squad of young recruits and assigned to lead them on a mission against the Germans.
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Movie: The Conspirators ( 1944 )
During WW2, in neutral Portugal, a Dutch resistance fighter is attempting to find passage to England while trying to avoid Nazi spies and Portuguese policemen.
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Movie: Beach Red ( 1967 )
As a US marine unit fight against the defenders of a Japanese held island, both sides are haunted by their own thoughts and memories.
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Movie: Above Suspicion ( 1943 )
Oxford Professor Richard Myles and new bride Frances are off on a European honeymoon. It isn't your typical honeymoon though, for they are on a spying mission for British intelligence on the eve of World War 2.
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Movie: The More the Merrier ( 1943 )
During the World War II housing shortage in Washington, two men and a woman share a single apartment and the older man plays Cupid to the other two.
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Movie: Time Limit ( 1957 )
During the Korean War former prisoner of war, Major Harry Cargill admits to having collaborated with the enemy but military investigator Colonel William Edwards wants the details.
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Movie: Attack ( 1956 )
In 1944, an American Infantry company sets up an artillery observation post, but tensions between Captain Cooney and Lieutenant Costa run high.
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Movie: Operation Bikini ( 1964 )
In 1944, an American submarine must transport an Underwater Demolition Team to a secret mission in the Japanese infested waters of the South Pacific.
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Movie: The Purple Heart ( 1944 )
A stock WW2 era drama which was produced for morale purposes.
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Movie: Cloak and Dagger ( 1946 )
In WW2, the Allies race against time to persuade two nuclear scientists working for the Germans to switch sides.
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Movie: Pursuit of the Graf Spee ( 1956 )
In the first major naval battle of World War II, the British Navy must find and destroy a powerful German warship.
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Movie: The Man Between ( 1953 )
In post-World War II Berlin, the British Susanne Mallison travels to Berlin to visit her older brother Martin Mallison, a military man who married German Bettina Mallison. The naive Susanne snoops on Bettina and suspects she is hiding a something from her brother. When Susanne meets Bettina with her friend Ivo Kern, he offers to show...
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TV Show: World War II: When Lions Roared ( 1994 )
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin lead the Allied powers to victory in the second World War.
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Movie: Arch of Triumph ( 1948 )
In winter of 1938, Paris is crowded with refugees from the Nazis, who live in the black shadows of night, trying to evade deportation. One such is Dr. Ravic, who practices medicine illegally and stalks his old Nazi enemy Haake with murder in mind. One rainy night, Ravic meets Joan Madou, a kept woman cast adrift by her lover's sudden death. Against Ravic's better judgement, they become involved in a doomed affair; matters come to a crisis on the day war is declared.
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Movie: Golden Earrings ( 1947 )
On the eve of WW2, a British spy goes to Germany to obtain a secret poison-gas formula from a scientist but things go awry and he is saved by a beautiful nomadic gypsy woman.
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Movie: Once Before I Die ( 1967 )
WW-II 1941: Shortly after Pearl Harbor the Japanese attack the Philippine islands. A group of Polo playing soldiers and their families are surprised far off in the countryside. Lt. Bailey leads them back to Manila, but the streets are jammed with fugitives. On the trip Bailey's fiancée Alex talks with a 22 years old shy soldier. He tells her of his fears to die and admits that he's never been with a woman. Only once before he dies, he'd like to have sex.
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Movie: Silent Wings: The American Glider Pilots of World War II ( 2007 )
6,000 young Americans volunteered to fly large unarmed gliders into battle. Only a few returned.
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Movie: Fireball Forward ( 1972 )
A hard-nose general takes over a division with a bad combat record.
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Movie: The Raid ( 1954 )
Van Heflin As Maj. Neal Benton
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Movie: American Guerrilla in the Philippines ( 1950 )
American soldiers stranded in the Philippines after the Japanese invasion form guerrilla bands to fight back.
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Movie: GI Jews: Jewish Americans in World War II ( 2018 )
GI JEWS: Jewish Americans in World War II tells the story of the 550,000 Jewish American men and women who fought in World War II. In their own words, veterans both famous and unknown (from Hollywood director Mel Brooks to former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger) bring their war experiences to life: how they fought for for their nation and their people, struggled with anti-Semitism within their ranks, and emerged transformed, more powerfully American and more deeply Jewish.
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Movie: 49th Parallel ( 1942 )
A World War II U-boat crew are stranded in northern Canada. To avoid internment, they must make their way to the border and get into the still-neutral U.S.
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Movie: Iwo Jima: 50 Years of Memories ( 2007 )
It was one of the last major battles of WWII, fought on a tiny Pacific island only eight miles square. And when it was over, nearly 30,000 American and Japanese men were dead. Thousands more were wounded. This is the story of Iwo Jima, told entirely through the voices of American servicemen who survived the hell that was "Operation Detachment." Interviewed 50 years after the last shot on Iwo was fired, many of these brave men had never before spoken to anyone about their experiences on "Sulpher Island" -- a silence that haunted them for decades. Originally broadcast on PBS, Iwo Jima: 50 Years of Memories has been digitally remastered with added footage and photographs, including additional maps and archival film not previously available to the public. Iwo Jima: 50 Years of Memories remains a moving tribute to all of the men who suffered through this horrific campaign -- and the thousands who didn't come home.
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Movie: Attack on the Iron Coast ( 1968 )
During World War II, a commando leader named Major Jamie Wilson leads a group of soldiers on a suicide mission to destroy a Nazi naval stronghold on the French coast.
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Movie: Malta Story ( 1954 )
In 1942, Britain was clinging to the island of Malta since it was critical to keeping Allied supply lines open. The Axis also wanted it for their own supply lines. Plenty of realistic reenactments and archival combat footage as the British are beseiged and try to fight off the Luftwaffe. Against this background, a Royal Air Force reconnaissance photographer's romance with a local girl is endangered as he tries to plot enemy movements.
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Movie: Battle at Bloody Beach ( 1961 )
This is only the second Audie Murphy movie set in WWII after his autobiographical "To Hell and Back." Here Murphy steps out of his usual kid-Western role to play a civilian working for the Navy helping supply guerilla insurgents in the Philippines. His sole motive is not politics nor bravery, but to find his bride from whom he was separated during the Japanese invasion two years before.
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Movie: Hearts in Bondage ( 1936 )
Best friends Kenneth Reynolds and Raymond Jordan are U.S. Navy officers, and Kenneth is engaged to Raymond's sister. But the eruption of the Civil War divides them.
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Movie: The Outsider ( 1962 )
Tony Curtis plays an Indian (Nicknamed "Chief" by other soldiers) who fights in WWII and helps to raise the flag at Iwo Jima.
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Movie: Joan of Paris ( 1942 )
An RAF squadron is brought down over occupied France. The flyers get to Paris in spite of the fact that the youngest, Baby, is injured. He must be hidden and his wounds cared for. The Gestapo has already issued orders for their arrest.
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Movie: The Red Badge of Courage ( 1951 )
Truncated adaptation of Stephen Crane's novel about a Civil War Union soldier who stuggles to find the courage to fight in the heat of battle.
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Movie: Nazi Britain ( 2003 )
In 1940 the Channel Islands became the only part of Britain to fall under Nazi rule. Now in this film Islanders speak from the heart about one of the most extraordinary periods in our history. Reliving in their own words the horror of the first air raids, the shock of occupation and the islands' gradual five year long decent into privation and starvation before experiencing the capitulation of the German forces and the joy of liberation.
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Movie: God Is My Co-Pilot ( 1945 )
During WW2, American volunteer pilots are stationed in China where, as part of the Flying Tigers unit, they dog-fight against Japanese warplanes.
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Movie: Desire Me ( 1947 )
Shortly after WWII, flashbacks tell the story of Marise, her husband Paul, and Jean, who was imprisoned with Paul in a German camp. While attempting to escape from the camp Paul is shot, and Jean goes to see Marise, confirming the news she had gotten already about Paul's death. Jean has fallen in love with Marise through the stories Paul told him, and wants to stay with her in the seaside town in Brittany where Paul owned a small business.
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Movie: Wing and a Prayer ( 1945 )
In WW2, an American aircraft carrier sails around the Pacific on a decoy mission until it joins the battle of Midway against the Japanese forces.
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Movie: Doolittle's Raiders: A Final Toast ( 2015 )
A detailed look at the Doolittle Raid, and the final official public reunion of the surviving Raiders.
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Movie: Halls of Montezuma ( 1951 )
The Marines attack a strongly held enemy island in the Pacific. We follow them from the beach to a Japanese rocket site through enemy infested jungle as their ex-school teacher leader is transformed into a battle veteran and his squad becomes a tight fighting unit.
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Movie: Eight Iron Men ( 1952 )
Stanley Kramer's WWII character study has Lee Marvin as the Sergeant of a small squad laid over during fighting in Italy. During the otherwise boring time between battles, tensions arise as they are ordered not to rescue a squadmate pinned down by the enemy, for fear of risking more lives. Based on the stage play "A Sound of Hunting" by Harry Brown.
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Movie: Operation Secret ( 1952 )
While under attack by German forces, a French army unit discovers there is a traitor in their midst, feeding the Germans information.
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Movie: Spitfire ( 1942 )
Aircraft designer/patriot R. J. Mitchell, alarmed at growing German militarism, works to perfect a defense against the German Messerschmidt at the cost of his health.
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Movie: Von Steuben's Continentals: The First American Army ( 2007 )
It's all live-action, in full-color, shot and created digitally, detailing the creation and drill of the Revolutionary War American soldier from the defeats as a militia rabble in 1776 to success after Valley Forge in 1779-1781. It details all of the movements in Baron Von Steuben's "Blue Book" drill manual, as well as detailing the various uniforms, equipment, weapons, camps, marching, soldier life in camp, food and battles of the Continental Soldier. This is a first-of-its kind documentary, using actors and reenactors in authentic uniforms and settings to tell the story of the men of this army. This is the first in a planned 35 DVD "American Soldier Series" detailing the lives times and world of the American fighting men (and women) through history.
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Movie: Rogue's March ( 1953 )
Unjustly drummed out of his regiment, a Victorian Englishman (Peter Lawford) restores his honor in India.
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Movie: A Stranger in My Arms ( 1959 )
After the Korean War, an Air Force pilot meets the family of his KIA navigator and recalls, in flashbacks, the circumstances of their ordeal, after being shot down.
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Movie: Sunday Dinner for a Soldier ( 1944 )
A poor family in Florida saves all the money they can in order to plan something special for the soldier they've invited to Sunday dinner. They don't realize that their request to invite the soldier never got mailed. On the day of the scheduled dinner, another soldier is brought to their home and love soon blossoms between him and Tessa, the young woman who runs the home.
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Movie: Journey to Shiloh ( 1968 )
At the onset of the Civil War, seven young Texans decide to join General Hood's Texas regiment in Richmond. During their long horseback voyage from Texas to Virginia, the seven young men will witness first-hand the Southern prejudice and snobbery. They also will witness the lynching of runaway black slaves. Filled with dreams of war glory, they will nevertheless push ahead toward their destination. Their trek eastward is eventful and fraught with dangers, as the Texans will occasionally get into trouble with the townsfolk from various towns. Although they do eventually join the Confederate forces, it will happen in Shiloh, Tennessee not in Richmond, Virginia as planned. After becoming soldiers, they realize that war is not what they expected or dreamed about. The army and the war are not at all compatible with the core human values of ordinary Texans. The battle of Shiloh is the epitaph of this story.
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Movie: Bridge to the Sun ( 1964 )
In 1935, nineteen year old Gwen Harold of Johnson City, Tennessee, is visiting her Aunt Peg and her casual beau Fred Tyson, a low level bureaucrat, in Washington DC. Fred is able to get them an invitation to the Japanese Embassy's annual reception. At that gathering, they meet among others Hidenari Terasaki - called Terry for ease by Americans - the Under Secretary to the Japanese Ambassador. Terry and Gwen start to date, fall in love and decide that they want to get married. The entire process leading to this point has not been easy for either as she has largely hidden their relationship from her family due to the racial divide, and as his diplomatic post makes marrying anyone not Japanese difficult in what are increasingly tense geopolitical times globally. They are able to get married, which only increases the difficulties in their life, especially as Gwen is ill-prepared to accept the patriarchal customs of Japanese society, Terry who is expecting her to be a typical Japanese wife, most specifically while they are in Japan. Their problems are increased exponentially with the events of December 7, 1941. Terry, a Japanese national, is not allowed to stay in the US under the circumstances. Gwen has to decide to follow Terry back to Tokyo, he who she still loves despite their problems, or stay in the relative safety of the US. They now have a young daughter Mako Terasaki to consider, Mako who will face prejudices on both sides. Beyond Terry being sent back to Japan, he has to decide to stay true to his professional obligations and work for the Japanese war effort or stay true to his love for Gwen in not only protecting her and Mako but not work toward killing Americans.
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Movie: Armored Command ( 1961 )
An American army unit is trapped behind German lines in a small town by a German counterattack. The unit's commander discovers that there is a spy in town among the civilian population who is providing the Germans with military information.
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Movie: Till the End of Time ( 1946 )
Three former Marines have a hard time readjusting to civilian life. Perry can't deal with the loss of the use of his legs. William is in trouble with bad debts. And Cliff can't decide what he wants to do with his life, although he gets encouragement from war widow Pat Ruscomb.
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Movie: Fleeing the Reich ( 2005 )
In 1940, carried on a wave of rumour and panic, thirty thousand Channel Islanders fled their homes, their livelihoods and the islands for five long years in exile. Arriving in England with just one small case and only twenty pounds in cash, they were sent by rail across the country from Oldham to Glasgow. Children separated from parents, all cast adrift in an alien culture. Homeless and jobless, the adventures that befell them helped forge friendships the length and breadth of Great Britain which survive to this day. This is their story.
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Movie: A Yank in the R.A.F. ( 1942 )
An American pilot impulsively joins His Majesty's Royal Air Force in Britain in an attempt to impress his ex-girlfriend.
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Movie: Battle Circus ( 1953 )
Set in Korea and made during the war, this is the love story of a hard-bitten Army surgeon, and a new nurse ready to save the world.
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Movie: The Captive Heart ( 1946 )
In 1940, a concentration-camp escapee assumes the identity of a dead British officer, only to become a prisoner of war.
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Movie: Unsinkable: Japan's Lost Battleship ( 2020 )
October 24, 1944, the world's greatest battle at sea begins in the Philippines. Japan's navy gambles on a decisive victory against the United States to turn the tide of World War II. Instead, Musashi, its top-secret super battleship, ends up at the bottom of the ocean.
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Movie: Force of Arms ( 1951 )
Winter, 1943. The German army has halted the American advance in the mountains of Italy; back-and-forth combat decimates Joe Peterson's platoon. On leave in Naples, Joe meets WAC lieutenant Eleanor MacKay; initially cool, she begins to melt during a bombing raid. Their romance develops despite Joe's periodic returns to the front. But whether he'll come back in the end becomes more than doubtful...
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Movie: The Fighting 69th ( 1940 )
Although loudmouthed braggart Jerry Plunkett alienates his comrades and officers, Father Duffy, the regimental chaplain, has faith that he'll prove himself in the end.
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Movie: The Gentle Sex ( 1943 )
This film tells the stories of seven 'gentle' British girls who decide to "do their bit" and help out during World War II.
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Movie: The Bridges at Toko-Ri ( 1955 )
Set during the Korean War, a Navy fighter pilot must come to terms with with his own ambivalence towards the war and the fear of having to bomb a set of highly defended bridges. The ending of this grim war drama is all tension.
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Movie: The Tanks Are Coming ( 1951 )
An American tank crew fights its way into Germany in World War II.
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Movie: 5 Fingers ( 1952 )
During WWII the valet to the British Ambassador to Ankara sells British secrets to the Germans while trying to romance a refugee Polish countess.
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Movie: B-17 Flying Legend ( 2003 )
Here is the story of WWII's most famous airplane, the B-17s. Packed with 211 minutes of content, including the original 1944 Memphis Belle
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Movie: The Hook ( 1963 )
In the final days of the Korean War, an enemy airman is captured by three American soldiers who cannot bring themselves to follow the order to execute their prisoner.
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Movie: Foxhole in Cairo ( 1960 )
In 1942, the Germans are pushing the British further back toward Cairo. Field Marshal Rommel intends to destroy the British 8th Army and take Cairo. However, the British are far from defeated and they beefed up Cairo's defenses. Taking Cairo would be a difficult task for the Germans if they cannot obtain reliable information regarding the British defenses and the British 8th Army's remaining strength. Therefore, Rommel decides to send his best two spies, disguised as civilians into British-occupied Cairo to gather intelligence. This information would then be sent by a wireless radio transmitter to a secret German relay station in the desert and ultimately end-up at Rommel's headquarters. Both German spies are speaking fluent English. One is half-German, half-Arab and grew-up in Cairo, the other choosing to pass himself as an American. They start in a five-vehicle convoy of captured British vehicles and cross the desert to a location nearby the British lines from where the two German spies, carrying forged identity papers and a suitcase of fake British currency, continue their trip on foot. However, their trip is photographed from the air by a British spotter plane. The pictures are sent to Capt. Robertson of the Intelligence Service who tries to guess what the disguised German convoy is up to. Things will become more entangled in Cairo, due to a femme-fatale, a belly dancer, two Jewish Zionists fighting for a Palestine free of British-rule, a loose-lips drunken British Major infatuated with the belly dancer and a few murderous Nazi collaborators. Capt. Robertson has to navigate his way around all these characters and unmask the two German spies sent by Rommel before the upcoming German general offensive.
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Movie: Task Force ( 1950 )
As he is retiring, Jonathon Scott reminisces about his long Navy career and the development of the role of the aircraft carrier from the early 20s.
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Movie: The Plot to Kill Hitler ( 1990 )
"The Plot to Kill Hitler" is a historical recreation of the 1944 attempt by several German High Command Officers to assassinate Adolf Hitler and take control of the German government. Lead by Wehrmacht Colonel Count von Staufenberg, this group of brave men managed to plant a bomb in Hitler's battlefield headquarters. By sheer luck, Hitler survived the blast and the SS quickly arrested and executed all those involved in the affair.
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Movie: Keep Your Powder Dry ( 1945 )
A disparate group of women try to adjust to their new lives after enlisting in the Women's Army Corps.
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Movie: The Angry Hills ( 1959 )
In 1941, Greek resistance entrusts an American journalist with a Greek double-agent secret list that must reach London and must not fall into Nazi hands.
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Movie: Story of G.I. Joe ( 1945 )
At the close of WWII, Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent Ernie Pyle travels with the U.S. Army's Company C Division during their liberation of Italy.
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Movie: Odette ( 1950 )
This is the story of a brave woman who volunteered to join S.O.E. (Special Operations Executive) during World War II. She was flown into occupied France where she fought with the French resistance. Captured and tortured by the Gestapo, she refused to identify her accomplices.
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Movie: Reunion in France ( 1942 )
Frenchwoman Michele de la Becque, an opponent of the Nazis in German-occupied Paris, hides a downed American flyer, Pat Talbot, and attempts to get him safely out of the country.
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Movie: The Sky's the Limit ( 1943 )
Flying Tiger Fred Atwell sneaks away from his famous squadron's personal appearance tour and goes incognito for several days of leave. He quickly falls for photographer Joan Manion, pursuing her in the guise of a carefree drifter.
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Movie: Hitler's Children ( 1943 )
This lurid exposé of the Hitler Youth follows the woes of an American girl declared legally German by the Nazi government.
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Movie: Breakout ( 1959 )
In 1943, an Italian-administered P.O.W. camp for captured Allies goes through a series of failed escapes only to culminate in a daring plan for a dramatic mass escape.
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Movie: The Long Day's Dying ( 1968 )
The saga of three British soldiers and their German captive as they trek through the European countryside.
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Movie: Counter-Attack ( 1945 )
During WW2, a Mexican stand-off ensues between a group of German soldiers and a team of Soviet fighters trapped together in the basement of a bombed-out Russian building.
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Movie: Thunder Birds: Soldiers of the Air ( 1942 )
Technicolor tale of honor and romance. This drama from 1942 was directed by Oscar-winner William A. Wellman, and features stunning aerial photography, that was highly advanced for the time. John Sutton stars as Peter Stackhouse, a British aviophobe who is nonetheless determined to become a pilot. Stackhouse's resolution comes from his desire to serve his country, and his strength is recognized by Steve Britt (Preston Foster), who becomes his patient teacher. The two men's bond is tested, however, when they both fall for the same girl (Gene Tierney).
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Movie: The Last Bullet ( 1996 )
Set during WWII, an Australian and Japanese soldier play a deadly game of Cat and mouse in a South Pacific Jungle.