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 »
War
Flight from Ashiya (1964) Michael Anderson, Yul Brynner, Richard Widmark, George Chakiris
Flight from Ashiya is a 1964 film about the U.S. Air Force’s Air Rescue Service, flying out of Ashiya Air Base, Japan. Read More »
Counter-Espionage (1942) Edward Dmytryk, Warren William, Eric Blore, Hillary Brooke
The Lone Wolf tracks down Nazi spies in London during the German bombing. Read More »
Thou Shalt Not Kill (1961) Claude Autant-Lara, Laurent Terzieff, Horst Frank, Mica Orlovic
At the end of World War II, a French pacifist is arrested for refusing to fight. Read More »
Task Force (1949) Delmer Daves, Gary Cooper, Jane Wyatt, Wayne Morris
On the day of his retirement, Rear Admiral Jonathan L. Scott reflects on his role in introducing aircraft carriers to the U.S. Navy. Read More »
Cavalcade (1933) Frank Lloyd, Diana Wynyard, Clive Brook, Una O’Connor
A cavalcade of English life from New Year’s Eve 1899 until 1933 seen through the eyes of well-to-do Londoners Jane and Robert Marryot. Read More »
Pour le Mérite (1938) Karl Ritter, Paul Hartmann, Herbert A.E. Böhme, Albert Hehn
This Nazi propaganda film chronicles the rise of the German Air Force (“Luftwaffe”) from World War I until Adolf Hitler took power in 1933. Read More »
Advance to the Rear (1964) George Marshall, Glenn Ford, Stella Stevens, Melvyn Douglas
A Union army outfit of misfits and rejects is sent to the Western territory. Southern spies try to figure out what they’re up to. Read More »
The Crusades (1935) Cecil B. DeMille, Loretta Young, Henry Wilcoxon, Ian Keith
The Third Crusade as it didn’t happen. King Richard Coeur de Lion goes on the crusade to avoid marrying Princess Alice of France Read More »
The Prime Minister (1941) Thorold Dickinson, John Gielgud, Diana Wynyard, Will Fyffe
A biopic of the legendary Benjamin Disraeli, his rise from a foppish young novelist to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and confidante of Queen Victoria. Read More »