An American OSS agent and the French underground attempt to rescue a Nazi general Read More »
War
Submarine Seahawk (1958) Spencer Gordon Bennet, John Bentley, Brett Halsey, Wayne Heffley
For his first command in the Pacific war a by-the-book officer is ordered to take his submarine Read More »
Storm Over the Pacific AKA Hawai Middowei daikaikûsen: Taiheiyô no arashi (1960) Shûe Matsubayashi, Hugo Grimaldi, Yôsuke Natsuki, Toshirô Mifune, Kôji Tsuruta
Lt. Koji Kitami is a navigator-bombardier in Japan’s Naval Air Force. Read More »
Conspiracy (2001) Frank Pierson, Kenneth Branagh, Clare Bullus, Stanley Tucci
In January 1942, as the United States enters World War II, a conference assembles near Berlin. Read More »
Yanks Ahoy (1943) Kurt Neumann, William Tracy, Joe Sawyer, Marjorie Woodworth
Sgt. Doubleday and Sgt. Ames are deployed overseas, but a saboteur is thought to be aboard their transport ship. Read More »
Massacre in Rome AKA Rappresaglia (1973) George P. Cosmatos, Richard Burton, Marcello Mastroianni, Leo McKern
In the Nazi occupied city of Rome, an assault on an SS brigade draws retaliation from the military governship. Read More »
Buck Privates (1941) Arthur Lubin, Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Lee Bowman
Bud and Lou enlist in the army in order to escape being hauled off to jail, and soon find themselves in basic training. Read More »
British Agent (1934) Michael Curtiz, Leslie Howard, Kay Francis, William Gargan
It’s 1917. In Russia, the Communist revolution is in full swing. Stephen ‘Steve’ Locke is a British agent in Russia. Read More »
The Red Badge of Courage (1951) John Huston, Audie Murphy, Bill Mauldin, Douglas Dick
Plot centers around how a young recruit (Audie Murphy) faces the horrors of war. Read More »
Don’t Go Near the Water (1957) Charles Walters, Glenn Ford, Gia Scala, Earl Holliman
On a small island in the South Pacific, the Navy’s P.R. department is spending WWII without getting near a ship. Read More »
Theirs Is the Glory (1946) Brian Desmond Hurst, Stanley Maxted, Thomas Scullion, Allan Wood
In 1944, British General Montgomery and his command were way north of the Allied line Read More »
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis AKA Il giardino dei Finzi Contini (1970) Vittorio De Sica, Dominique Sanda, Lino Capolicchio, Helmut Berger
Mussolini’s Italy, late 1930s: the Finzi-Contini are one of the leading wealthy Jewish families. Read More »
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) Lewis Milestone, Lew Ayres, Louis Wolheim, John Wray
This is an English language film (made in America) adapted from a novel by German author Erich Maria Remarque. Read More »
The Devastator (1986) Cirio H. Santiago, Rick Hill, Katt Shea, Terrence O’Hara
This war’s in your own backyard. Violent warfare erupts in Northern California when Vietnam vet Deacon Porter Read More »
Four Flights to Love AKA Paradis perdu (1940) Abel Gance, Fernand Gravey, Elvire Popesco, André Alerme
Before World War I in Paris, a budding artist, Pierre Leblanc, falls in love and marries Janine, a dressmaker’s assistant. Read More »