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A Walk in the Sun is a war film released in 1945 (reissued in 1951 as Salerno Beachhead), based on the novel by Harry Brown. It was directed by Lewis Milestone and starred Dana Andrews and Lloyd Bridges.
In the 1943 invasion of Italy, one American platoon lands, digs in, then makes its way inland to [...]

A combat outfit returns from the war.  Veterans Jimmy Stevens (Edmond O’brien), Eddie, Mike and Ollie  collect their twenty dollar assistance checks every week. The guys meet former W.A.V.E. Jean Madison (Wanda Hendrix).  Jimmy dubs her “The Admiral”.  Jean finds out that her fiance  has abandoned her and Jimmy invites her to spend the day [...]

U.S. Navy Warrant Officer Arthur Parker rescued an injured filly during World War II. The horse was injured in a Japanese bombing raid. Parker ended up taking the horse to the Navy base, trained her, and she eventually became the unit’s mascot.
When Parker received his orders to return to the U.S., he was denied [...]

Mein Kampf (English: My Struggle) is a book by the German-Austrian Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler, which combines elements of autobiography with an exposition of Hitler’s National Socialist political ideology. Volume 1 of Mein Kampf was published in 1925 and volume 2 in 1926.
This movie, After Mein Kampf, tells some of that story, but not from [...]

Appointment in Tokyo is a 1945 propaganda film released shortly after the surrender of Japan. It mainly follows General MacArthur and his men from their exile from the Philippines in early 1942, through the signing of the instrument of surrender on the USS Missouri on September 1, 1945.
The film is notable for its discussion of [...]

Arthur Askey plays a young, absent-minded meteorologist (Arthur Pilbeam). He gets himself assigned to a remote Scottish lighthouse to avoid women, after he is jilted by his fiancée. He will be the only occupant of the island.
Then the island starts to fill up with stowaways and the survivors of a sinking boat. Things are crowded [...]

Black Brigade is also known as Carter’s Army, which aired on January 27, 1970. The movie is a war drama. It starred a host of prominent African-American film actors including Richard Pryor, Rosie Grier, Robert Hooks, Billy Dee Williams and Moses Gun.
A redneck officer (Stephen Boyd) is put in charge of a squad of [...]

In pre-World War II Tokyo an American newspaper editor working for an English-language daily paper aimed at the American business community is given a document relating to Japan’s foreign affairs which could have political ramifications if found. He meets up with Iris Hilliard, a woman who wants to secure the document even if it means [...]

Helene von Lorbeer is sent undercover to London to live with the family of a high-placed British official where she is to transmit steal war secrets for Germany. Starring Boris Karloff. This is a spy movie that you should like, if you like that genre. Boris Karloff plays a domestic servant involved in espionage [...]

December 7th was a propaganda film produced by the US Navy and directed by John Ford in 1943, about the events of that date in 1941. As indicated by its title, the film was a presentation about the attack on Pearl Harbor, the event with sparked the Pacific War and American involvement in World War [...]

Escape from Sobibor is a made-for-TV film which aired in 1987 on CBS. It deals with the extermination camp at Sobibor, the site of the most successful uprising by Jewish prisoners of German extermination camps (there were two other uprisings, at Auschwitz and Treblinka). The film was directed by Jack Gold.
On October 14, 1943, members [...]

Go for Broke! is a war film released in 1951. It was directed by Robert Pirosh, produced by Dore Schary and starred Van Johnson, several veterans of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, and Henry Nakamura.
The film dramatizes the real-life story of the 442nd, which was composed of Nisei (second-generation Americans born of Japanese parents). Fighting [...]