In World War I London, Myra is an American out of work chorus girl making ends Read More »
War
There’s Something About a Soldier (1943) Alfred E. Green, Tom Neal, Evelyn Keyes, Bruce Bennett
War-time films set in stateside training camps abounded in the early Forties. Read More »
Sniper’s Ridge (1961) John A. Bushelman, Jack Ging, Stanley Clements, John Goddard
A treaty to end the Korean War is about to be signed, but tensions between enemy forces Read More »
Amigo (2010) John Sayles, Joel Torre, Chris Cooper, Garret Dillahunt
AMIGO, the 17th feature film from Academy Award-nominated writer-director John Sayles Read More »
Memoir of War / La douleur (2017) Emmanuel Finkiel, Mélanie Thierry, Benoît Magimel, Benjamin Biolay
June 1944, France is still under the German occupation. Read More »
Song of Russia (1944) Gregory Ratoff, Robert Taylor, Susan Peters, John Hodiak
In June 1941, famed American symphony conductor John Meredith (Robert Taylor) Read More »
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis / Il giardino dei Finzi Contini (1970) Vittorio De Sica, Dominique Sanda, Lino Capolicchio, Helmut Berger
Mussolini’s Italy, late 1930s: the Finzi-Contini are one of the leading wealthy Jewish families. Read More »
Away All Boats (1956) Joseph Pevney, Jeff Chandler, George Nader, Lex Barker
The story of USS ‘Belinda’, Attack Transport PA22, launched late 1943 with regular-navy Read More »
The Secret of Santa Vittoria (1969) Stanley Kramer, Anthony Quinn, Anna Magnani, Virna Lisi
Bombolini is a fairly-worthless drunk in the small Italian town of Santa Vittoria Read More »
Many Wars Ago / Uomini contro (1970) Francesco Rosi, Mark Frechette, Alain Cuny, Gian Maria Volontè
In Northern Italy, WWI has turned into a bloody stalemate. Bogged down in their trenches on a barren highland Read More »