WWII films of the ’60s were often half caper-movie, with ornate and muscular missions behind enemy lines dreamed up by the likes of Alistair MacLean. Read More »
War
The Avenger (1931) Roy William Neill, Buck Jones, Dorothy Revier, Otto Hoffman, Romance, War, Western
In 1849, Joaquin Murietta, son of a wealthy Spanish grandee, has a bitter street quarrel with three rough prospectors. Read More »
On the Sunny Side (1942) Harold D. Schuster, Roddy McDowall, Jane Darwell, Stanley Clements, Drama, War
Because of the war, a 12-year-old boy from England, Hugh, is sent to live with the Andrews family in Ohio. Read More »
Hitler’s Madman (1943) Douglas Sirk, Patricia Morison, John Carradine, Alan Curtis, Howard Freeman, Drama, War
Somewhat fictionalized account of the destruction of the village of Lidice in Czechoslovakia and the events leading up to it. Read More »
Ghost of the China Sea (1958) Fred F. Sears, David Brian, Lynette Bernay, Norman Wright, War, Drama
A ragtag group of survivors escape a Filipino sugar plantation overrun by Japanese soldiers during World War II, finding a small boat along the way. Read More »
The War at Home (1979) Glenn Silber, Barry Alexander Brown, Karleton Armstrong, Betty Boardman, Allen Ginsberg, Documentary, History, Music, War
Documentary film about the anti-war movement in the Madison, Wisconsin area during the time of the Vietnam War. Read More »
Divisione Folgore / Folgore Division (1954) Duilio Coletti, Fausto Tozzi, Ettore Manni, Monica Clay, War
During the Second World War, after a long training, a group of young paratroopers of the Folgore is parachuted into the desert of Libya. Read More »
Invincible (2001) Werner Herzog, Jouko Ahola, Tim Roth, Anna Gourari, Drama, War
The film is based on the true story of Zishe Breitbart, a Jewish blacksmith’s son from Poland who becomes a sensation in Weimar, Berlin as a mythical strongman. Read More »
I Deal in Danger (1966) Walter Grauman, Robert Goulet, Christine Carère, Donald Harron, War, Drama
During World War II, an American who sympathizes with the Nazi cause defects to Germany, where he is greeted as a hero and given a job broadcasting propaganda to the West. Read More »
Lafayette Escadrille (1958) William A. Wellman
The brave Americans who flew for France before the U.S. entered World War I are saluted in Lafayette Escadrille, a rousing and flavorful adventure filled with flyboy camaraderie. Read More »