
Kay Murdock (Lynn Bari) strolls into the Dixie Bar in Shanghai on November 1, 1941 and asks the bartender for a letter addressed to Captain Larsen Read More »
War
Me and the Colonel (1958) Peter Glenville, Danny Kaye, Curd Jürgens, Nicole Maurey

Jacobowsky, a Jewish refugee, flees from the Nazis with an aristocratic, anti-semitic Polish officer trying to get papers to England. Read More »
Sailors Three (1940) Walter Forde, Tommy Trinder, Claude Hulbert, Carla Lehmann

Three British sailors find they’ve accidentally strayed on board a Nazi ship during WWII. Read More »
A Yank in the R.A.F. (1941) Henry King, Tyrone Power, Betty Grable, John Sutton

Tyrone Power is a pilots’ pilot, but he doesn’t believe in anything beyond his own abilities. Read More »
49th Parallel (1941) Michael Powell, Leslie Howard

In the early years of World War II, a German U-boat (U-37) sinks Allied shipping in the Gulf of St. Lawrence Read More »
One of Our Aircraft Is Missing (1942) Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, Godfrey Tearle, Eric Portman, Hugh Williams

Throughout the Allied Bombing offensive of World War II the people was frequently advised that “A raid happened last night over…, One (or more) Our Aircraft Is Missing”. Read More »
Suicide Fleet (1931) Albert S. Rogell, William Boyd, Robert Armstrong, James Gleason

Three US sailors fight German U-boats in World War I aboard a decoy ship and try to win Ginger Rogers who works on the Coney Island midway. Read More »
Bandido! (1956) Richard Fleischer, Robert Mitchum, Ursula Thiess, Gilbert Roland

American arms dealer Kennedy hopes to make a killing by selling to the “regulares” in the 1916 Mexican revolution. Read More »
Situation Hopeless — But Not Serious (1965) Gottfried Reinhardt, Alec Guinness, Mike Connors, Robert Redford

During World War II, two Americans are forced to bail out and parachute into a small German town. Read More »
White Material (2009) Claire Denis, Isabelle Huppert, Christopher Lambert, Isaach De Bankolé

Denis revisits Africa, this time exploring a place rife with civil and racial conflict. Read More »