On patrol the afternoon of December 7th controlling a cruiser Captain Torrie receives word about the assault on Pearl Harbor. Read More »
War
Swing Shift (1984) Jonathan Demme, Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russell, Christine Lahti, Drama, Romance, War
Jack and Kay Walsh are typical of couples of the 1940s, in which he’s the breadwinner and she the housewife determined upon him to perform the guy’s duties around the home. Read More »
Hamsun (1996) Jan Troell, Max von Sydow, Ghita Nørby, Anette Hoff, Biography, Drama, War
Knut Hamsun is Norway’s most famous and respected writer. Ever since he was young he’s despised the English because of the starvation that they caused Norway through WWI. Read More »
Midway (1976) Jack Smight, Charlton Heston, Henry Fonda, James Coburn, Action, Drama, History, War
He summer of 1942 attracted Naval stalemate into the Pacific since the Japanese and American fleets stood even numbers each waiting for another to start a renewed offensive. Read More »
A Talking Picture (2003) Manoel de Oliveira, Leonor Silveira, Filipa de Almeida, John Malkovich, Comedy, Drama, History, War
A meditation on culture. July, 2001: buddies tide as a cruise boat departs Lisbon for Mediterranean ports and also the Indian Ocean. Read More »
The Conspirators (1944) Jean Negulesco, Hedy Lamarr, Paul Henreid, Sydney Greenstreet, Drama, Romance, Thriller, War
Vincent Van Der Lyn, a Dutch freedom fighter in WWII, is made to neutral Lisbon to escape the Nazis. Read More »
Jan Zizka (1957) Otakar Vávra, Zdenek Stepánek, Frantisek Horák, Karel Höger, Drama, War
1419: The atmosphere in Prague after Hus’ death is very tense. Several rebels are prisoned and radical priest Jan Zelivský leads large masses of people to the Old Town’s council house occupied by corrupt councillors, where the prisoners are kept. Read More »
The Soldiers of Pancho Villa (1959) Ismael Rodríguez, María Félix, Dolores del Rio, Emilio Fernández, Drama, Romance, War
The Cucaracha is a courageous woman soldier who directs a group of comparable women to the fray from the forces of the Villa colonel, Zeta. Read More »
Long Live the Republic (1965) Karel Kachyna, Frank Argus, Josef Barta, Eduard Bredun, Drama, War
It’s the spring 1945 along with the front is becoming closer to the tiny Moravian village of Nesovice. Read More »
A Lame Step (1980) Luis Alcoriza, Luis Manuel Pelayo, Bruno Rey, Julio Alejandro Lobato, Comedy, Drama, War
Throughout the Cristero War a bunch of disabled encouraged by the village priest connect the battle to make a battalion Read More »
The True Glory (1945) Garson Kanin, Carol Reed, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Richard Fallon, Robert Harris, Documentary, War
British filmmaker Carol Reed and American playwright Garson Kanin team up to direct the war documentary The True Glory. Read More »
The Bunker (1981) George Schaefer, Anthony Hopkins, Richard Jordan, Cliff Gorman, Drama, History, War
Back in 1945, The Third Reich is in its death throes with the Allies relentlessly attacking the capital town of Berlin. Read More »
Sarraounia (1986) Med Hondo, Aï Keïta, Jean-Roger Milo, Féodor Atkine, Drama, History, War
On January 2 1899, beginning from the French Soudan, a french pillar below the commandment of the captains Voulet Read More »
The Hitler Gang (1944) John Farrow, Bobby Watson, Roman Bohnen, Martin Kosleck, Biography, Drama, History, War
This film shows us the growth of Adolf Hitler out of a tiny radical political adventurer into the dictator of Germany from the method of a gangster movie. Read More »
Forbidden (1984) Anthony Page, Jacqueline Bisset, Jürgen Prochnow, Irene Worth, Drama, Romance, War
In Berlin in the early 1940s, romance is forbidden between the young countess who is studying veterinary medicine and a young man she meets at the home of a former professor. Read More »