In 1952, as the Korean War rages on, American officers land in Kyoto. Among them are Major Ceve Saville, assigned to a fighter squadron, and Lieutenant Carl Abbott. Read More »
War
Escape from Yesterday (1935) Julien Duvivier, Annabella, Jean Gabin, Robert Le Vigan
Pierre Gilieth has committed a murder in Paris. He flees to Barcelona, where he runs out of money. Read More »
Pin Up Girl (1944) H. Bruce Humberstone, Betty Grable, John Harvey, Martha Raye
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. Read More »
Power of the Press (1943) Lew Landers, Guy Kibbee, Lee Tracy, Gloria Dickson
During WWII, the publisher of the isolationist New York Gazette is murdered just as he was about to change the paper’s policy and support the US war effort. Read More »
The Odd Angry Shot (1979) Tom Jeffrey, Graham Kennedy, John Hargreaves, John Jarratt
A group of Australian SAS regiment soldiers are deployed to Vietnam around 1967/8 and encounter the realities of war Read More »
Wings (1927) William A. Wellman, Harry d’Abbadie d’Arrast, Clara Bow, Charles ‘Buddy’ Rogers, Richard Arlen
Two young men from the same town but different social classes end up as fighter pilots in WW1. Read More »
Violent Summer (1959) Valerio Zurlini, Eleonora Rossi Drago, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Lilla Brignone
Summer, 1943: wealthy youth in the Riccione district of Rimini play while the war gets closer. Read More »
Too Late the Hero (1970) Robert Aldrich, Michael Caine, Cliff Robertson, Ian Bannen
A WWII film set on a Pacific island. Japanese and allied forces occupy different parts of the island. Read More »
Canaris (1954) Alfred Weidenmann, O.E. Hasse, Barbara Rütting, Adrian Hoven
Admiral Canaris is chief of the intelligence service of Nazi Germany. His department is quite successful and Hitler grants him all the money he wants for new developments. Read More »
Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. (1951) Raoul Walsh, Gregory Peck, Virginia Mayo, Robert Beatty
In 1807, Captain Horatio Hornblower leads his ship the HMS Lydia on a perilous voyage around Cape Horn and into the Pacific. Read More »
Enola Gay: The Men, the Mission, the Atomic Bomb (1980) David Lowell Rich, Billy Crystal, Kim Darby, Patrick Duffy
The decision to drop the atom bomb, the secrecy surrounding the mission, and the men who flew it. Read More »
Exodus (1960) Otto Preminger, Paul Newman, Eva Marie Saint, Ralph Richardson
The theme is the founding of the state of Israel. The action begins on a ship filled with Jewish immigrants bound for Israel who are being off loaded on Cyprus. Read More »
The Thin Red Line (1964) Andrew Marton, Keir Dullea, Jack Warden, James Philbrook
Dark tale of one man’s determination to survive his tour of duty. Separated from his new wife after only eight days of marriage Read More »
The Frogmen (1951) Lloyd Bacon, Richard Widmark, Dana Andrews, Gary Merrill
World War II drama in which Richard Widmark, as Lt. Cmdr. John Lawrence, replaces the popular commanding officer of a group of underwater demolition divers. Read More »
Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (2005) Marc Rothemund, Julia Jentsch, Fabian Hinrichs, Alexander Held
The Final Days is the true story of Germany’s most famous anti-Nazi heroine brought to life. Read More »