Sarajevo June 28, 1914. Dushan, the Serbian mayor of a Hungarian town, has come to see the parade of Archduke Ferdinand. Read More »
War
Keep Your Powder Dry (1945) Edward Buzzell, Lana Turner, Laraine Day, Susan Peters
A disparate group of women try to adjust to their new lives after enlisting in the Women’s Army Corps. Read More »
Sobibor, Oct. 14, 1943, 4 p.m. (2001) Claude Lanzmann, Yehuda Lerner, Francine Kaufmann
A gripping account of the prisoners uprising at the Nazi extermination camp of Sobibor in 1943. Read More »
Wake Up and Dream (1946) Lloyd Bacon, John Payne, June Haver, Charlotte Greenwood
Henry Pecket keeps a land-bound, home-made sloop in the backyard of his boarding house ran by widow Sara March, who is tolerant of the fancied trips around the world taken by her “ancient mariner” boarder. Read More »
San Pietro (1945) Mark W. Clark, John Huston
This documentary movie is about the battle of San Pietro, a small village in Italy. Read More »
To Be or Not to Be (1942) Ernst Lubitsch, Carole Lombard, Jack Benny, Robert Stack
In occupied Poland during WWII, a troupe of ham stage actors (led by Joseph Tura and his wife Maria) match wits with the Nazis. Read More »
Genghis Khan (1965) Henry Levin, Stephen Boyd, Omar Sharif, James Mason
Mostly fictionalized account of the life of Ghenghis Khan, the Mongol warlord whose 13th century armies conquered much of the known world. Read More »
Behind the Rising Sun (1943) Edward Dmytryk, Margo, Tom Neal, J. Carrol Naish
Cornell-educated Taro Seki returns to Japan just as the war party gains control. Read More »
The Devils Brigade (1968) Andrew V. McLaglen, William Holden, Cliff Robertson, Vince Edwards
During World War II, a special fighting unit is formed that combines a crack Canadian Army unit and a conglomeration of U.S. Army misfits who had previously served time in military jails. Read More »
Behind the Door (1919) Irvin Willat, Hobart Bosworth, Jane Novak, Wallace Beery
A German-American naval officer takes revenge against the German submarine commander who brutalized his wife. Read More »
Fire Over England (1937) William K. Howard, Laurence Olivier, Flora Robson, Vivien Leigh
Queen Elizabeth is running this show. The men in her court should be thinking about how to add to the glory of the Elizabethan Age Read More »
The Birth of a Nation (1915) D.W. Griffith, Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Henry B. Walthall
Two brothers, Phil and Ted Stoneman, visit their friends in Piedmont, South Carolina: the family Cameron. Read More »
Ice Cold in Alex (1958) J. Lee Thompson, John Mills, Anthony Quayle, Sylvia Syms
A group of army personnel and nurses attempt a dangerous and arduous trek across the deserts of North Africa during the second world war. Read More »
The Way to the Stars (1945) Anthony Asquith, Michael Redgrave, John Mills, Rosamund John
Life on a British bomber base, and the surrounding towns, from the opening days of the Battle of Britain, to the arrival of the Americans, who join in the bomber offensive. Read More »
The Dawn Patrol (1938) Edmund Goulding, Errol Flynn, Basil Rathbone, David Niven
In 1915 France, Major Brand commands the 39th Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps. Read More »