Anna Neagle is a WWII WREN–-the counterpart of the American WAVE–-who encounters Michael Wilding Read More »
War
Ski Patrol (1940) Lew Landers, Philip Dorn, Luli Deste, Stanley Fields
Two rival skiers competing in the 1936 Olympics, one Russian and one Finn Read More »
The Proud and Profane (1956) George Seaton, William Holden, Deborah Kerr, Thelma Ritter
In the Pacific during WWII, a Roman Catholic widow falls for a tough lieutenant colonel. Read More »
Return to the Land of Wonders (2004) Maysoon Pachachi
Not long after the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, filmmaker Maysoon Pachachi returns to her home city of Baghdad after 35 years. Read More »
San Demetrio London (1943) Charles Frend
The San Demetrio of the title is a British merchant ship in an Atlantic convoy in 1940. Read More »
Cardinal Messias / Abuna Messias (Vendetta africana) (1939) Goffredo Alessandrini, Camillo Pilotto, Enrico Glori, Mario Ferrari
The film takes place at the end of the 19th century. The Cardinal Guglielmo Massaia 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 »
Mystery Sea Raider (1940) Edward Dmytryk, Carole Landis, Henry Wilcoxon, Onslow Stevens
At the outset of World War II, June McCarthy meets Carl Cutler aboard the S.S.Aleria Read More »
International Settlement (1938) Eugene Forde, Dolores del Rio, George Sanders, June Lang
In Shanghai amidst Sino-Japanese warfare an adventurer (Sanders) collecting money Read More »
Golden Earrings (1947) Mitchell Leisen, Ray Milland, Marlene Dietrich, Murvyn Vye
On the eve of World War II (1939) English officer Ralph Denistoun is in Nazi Germany Read More »