Flying Tigers
Genres: Action, Romance, Drama
Year: 1942
Country: USA
Director: David Miller
Starring: John Wayne, Bill Shirley, Gregg Barton, Mae Clarke, Anna Lee, Addison Richards, John Carroll
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Jim Gordon commands a unit of the famed Flying Tigers, the American Volunteer Group which fought the Japanese in China before America's entry into World War II. Gordon must send his outnumbered band of fighter pilots out against overwhelming odds while juggling the disparate personalities and problems of his fellow flyers. In particular, he must handle the difficulties created by a reckless hot-shot pilot named Woody Jason, who not only wants to fight a one-man war but to waltz off with Gordon's girlfriend.
Young Winston
Year: 1972
Country: USA, UK
Director: Richard Attenborough
Starring: Patrick Magee, Jack Hawkins, Ian Holm, Anthony Hopkins, Laurence Naismith, Simon Ward, Anne Bancroft
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This historical drama is an account of the early life of British politician Winston Churchill (Simon Ward), including his childhood years, his time as a war correspondent in Africa, and culminating with his first election to Parliament.
Went the Day Well?
Year: 1942
Country: UK
Director: Alberto Cavalcanti
Starring: Patricia Hayes, David Farrar, Mervyn Johns, Basil Sydney, Marie Lohr, Harry Fowler, Leslie Banks
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The residents of a British village during WWII welcome a platoon of soldiers who are to be billeted with them. The trusting residents then discover that the soldiers are Germans who proceed to hold the village captive.
Napoleon (TV mini-series)
Genres: Adventure, Romance, Drama
Year: 2002
Country: Germany, USA, UK, Canada, Czech Republic
Director: Yves Simoneau
Starring: Christian Clavier
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The year is 1816, and NAPOLEON, held prisoner by the British on the island of St. Helena, is telling the young English girl BETSY his life story. His meteoric rise to military prominence begins with his victory over the Royalists in 1795, which is followed by campaigns in Italy and Egypt. He marries the young and capricious JOSEPHINE DE BEAUHARNAIS, the love of his life, who unfortunately cannot bear him any children. After a coup d'état he seizes power in France and crowns himself Emperor of the French in 1804. After his decisive victory at Austerlitz, Napoleon reorganizes Europe and makes his relatives into princes and kings. Continuing re...
The Sea Chase
Year: 1955
Country: USA
Director: John Farrow
Starring: John Wayne, Claude Akins, Lyle Bettger, John Qualen, David Farrar, Paul Fix, Luis Van Rooten
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As World War II begins, German freighter captain Karl Ehrlich tries to get his ship back to Germany through a gantlet of Allied warships.
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
Year: 1944
Country: USA
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Van Johnson, Paul Langton, Louis Jean Heydt, Donald Curtis, Phyllis Thaxter, Stephen McNally
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The amazingly detailed true story of "The Doolittle Raid" based on the novel of the same name. Stunned by Pearl Harbor and a string of defeats, America needed a victory - badly. To that end, Colonel Jimmy Dolittle, a former air racer and stunt pilot, devises a plan for a daring raid on the heart of Japan itself. To do this, he must train army bomber pilots to do something no one ever dreamed possible - launch 16 fully load bombers from an aircraft carrier! Remarkable in its accuracy, this movie even uses film footage from the actual raid.
Reunion in France aka Mademoiselle France
Year: 1942
Country: USA
Director: Jules Dassin
Starring: Howard Da Silva, John Wayne, John Carradine, Reginald Owen, Moroni Olsen, Joan Crawford, Henry Daniell
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Frenchwoman Michele de la Becque, an opponent of the Nazis in German-occupied Paris, hides a downed American flyer, Pat Talbot, and attempts to get him safely out of the country.
Operation Pacific
Year: 1951
Country: USA
Director: George Waggner
Starring: John Wayne, Ward Bond, Martin Milner, Paul Picerni, Patricia Neal, Lewis Martin, Kathryn Givney
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Submarine commander Duke Gifford feels guilty in the death of his former commanding officer, as well as about his failed marriage. These issues pull at him during a hazardous mission against the Japanese in World War II.
Submarine X-1
Year: 1968
Country: UK
Director: William A. Graham
Starring: James Caan, George Pravda, Paul Young, Kenneth Farrington, Keith Alexander, Carl Rigg, Nick Tate
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After losing a submarine and fifty crew in a battle with a German ship during WWII, a Royal Navy officer gets a second chance in a daring raid with midget subs.
Paradise Road
Year: 1997
Country: USA, Australia
Director: Bruce Beresford
Starring: Glenn Close, Julianna Margulies, Cate Blanchett, Frances McDormand, Jennifer Ehle, Sab Shimono, Clyde Kusatsu
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The group of women from different countries and social levels are prisoners in a Japanese concentration camp, where one of them, Adrienne, who is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Music, organizes a vocal band in spite of their guards resistance.
Yesterday's Enemy
Year: 1959
Country: UK
Director: Val Guest
Starring: Leo McKern, Percy Herbert, Stanley Baker, Bryan Forbes, David Lodge, Gordon Jackson, Richard Pasco
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Cut off by the Japanese advance into Burma, Captain Langford (Stanley Baker)and his exhausted British troops take over an enemy-held jungle village. Despite the protests of an elderly padre (Guy Rolfe) and of war correspondent Max Anderson (Leo McKern), Langford orders Sergeant McKenzie (Gordon Jackson) to shoot two innocent villagers, thereby "persuading" a Japanese informer to surrender vital information. When the Japanese recapture the village, their commander uses Langford's own desperate war-born tactics in a similar effort to extract information from the British.
The Fighting Seabees
Genres: Action, Romance, Drama
Year: 1944
Country: USA
Director: Edward Ludwig
Starring: John Wayne, Susan Hayward, Paul Fix, Leonid Kinskey, William Frawley, Addison Richards, J.M. Kerrigan
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Construction workers in World War II in the Pacific are needed to build military sites, but the work is dangerous and they doubt the ability of the Navy to protect them. After a series of attacks by the Japanese, something new is tried, Construction Battalions (CBs=Seabees). The new CBs have to both build and be ready to fight.
The Devil's Rock
Genres: Action, Thriller, Fantasy
Year: 2011
Country: New Zealand
Director: Paul Campion
Starring: Craig Hall, Geraldine Brophy, Matthew Sunderland, Jessica Grace Smith, Gina Varela, Karlos Drinkwater, Luke Hawker
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Set in the Channel Islands on the eve of D Day,two Kiwi commandos, sent to destroy German gun emplacements to distract Hitler's forces away from Normandy, discover a Nazi occult plot to unleash demonic forces to win the war.
Anne Frank Remembered
Genres: War, Documentary, Biography
Year: 1995
Country: USA, UK, Netherlands
Director: Jon Blair
Starring: Glenn Close, Kenneth Branagh, Joely Richardson, Anne Frank, Edith Frank, Margot Frank, Miep Gies
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Using previously unreleased archival material in addition to contemporary interviews, this academy award-winning documentary tells the story of the Frank family and presents the first fully-rounded portrait of their brash and free-spirited daughter Anne, perhaps the world's most famous victim of the Holocaust.
Gods and Generals
Genres: Action, Drama, History
Year: 2003
Country: USA
Director: Ronald F. Maxwell
Starring: Stephen Lang, Jeff Daniels, Robert Duvall, Mira Sorvino, Kevin Conway, Mark Aldrich, George Allen
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Gods and Generals follows the rise and fall of legendary war hero "Stonewall Jackson". The prequel to the 1993 hit Gettysburg.
Colditz aka Escape from Colditz
Year: 2005
Country: UK
Director: Stuart Orme
Starring: James Fox, Tom Hardy, Juliet Howland, Damian Lewis, Sophia Myles, Timothy West, Laurence Fox
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Brothers In Arms... Rivals In Love
Gettysburg
Year: 1993
Country: USA
Director: Ronald F. Maxwell
Starring: Stephen Lang, Jeff Daniels, Tom Berenger, Royce D. Applegate, Richard Jordan, William Morgan Sheppard, Martin Sheen
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The four and 1/4 hour depiction of the historical and personal events surrounding and including the decisive American civil war battle features thousands of civil war re-enactors marching over the exact ground that the federal army and the army of North Virginia fought on. The defense of the Little Round Top and Pickett's Charge are highlighted in the actual three day battle which is surrounded by the speeches of the commanding officers and the personal reflections of the fighting men. Based upon the novel 'The Killer Angels'.
Back to Bataan
Year: 1945
Country: USA
Director: Edward Dmytryk
Starring: Anthony Quinn, John Wayne, Vladimir Sokoloff, Beulah Bondi, Paul Fix, Richard Loo, Lawrence Tierney
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The US Army's defense of its Philippines colony and the allied Malay countries/colonies behind it counted on its island fortress of Corregidor on Luzon -and a few others- but loses it in the 6 May 1942 Japanese combined forces attack. Colonel Joseph Madden is among the escaping survivors who are ordered by general Douglas McArthur to organize a guerrilla. As he finds many native Filipinos inclined to resist the occupier's vision of returning to the South Asian fold under a paternalistic empire which doesn't hesitate to 'spank the unruly', but is mainly civilian, unprepared, inept in military matters, Madden appeals to the legendary anti-US fr...
Age of Heroes
Genres: War
Year: 2011
Country: UK
Director: Adrian Vitoria
Starring: Stephen Walters, Danny Dyer, Sean Bean, James D'Arcy, Jay Simpson, William Houston, Izabella Miko
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Based on the real-life events of Ian Fleming's 30 Commando during World War II - the inspiration for the SAS - this is a story which takes our heroes from the edge of defeat on the beaches of Dunkirk to the mountains of Norway on a dangerous mission behind enemy lines that, if successful, could change the course of the war.
The Green Berets
Year: 1968
Country: USA
Director: Ray Kellogg, John Wayne
Starring: John Wayne, George Takei, Jason Evers, David Janssen, Patrick Wayne, Bruce Cabot, Aldo Ray
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Col. Mike Kirby picks two teams of crack Green Berets for a mission in South Vietnam. First off is to build and control a camp that is trying to be taken by the enemy the second mission is to kidnap a North Vietnamese General