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Mission to Moscow
District of Columbia England 🇩🇪 Germany 🇷🇺 Russia The 1930sOne American's Journey into the Truth — Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to America as an advocate of Stalinism.
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China
🇨🇳 China The 1930s The 1940sAlan Ladd and twenty girls - trapped by the rapacious Japs! — Shortly before Pearl Harbor, American opportunist Jones and partner Johnny are in China to sell oil to the invading Japanese army. Cynical about the sufferings of the Chinese, Jones meets compassionate teacher Carolyn Grant while travelling cross-country to Shanghai. Sparks fly between these strong-willed characters, neither budging an inch. But when Jones witnesses a Japanese atrocity, his feelings toward his customers (and Carolyn) begin to change...
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Behind the Rising Sun
🇯🇵 Japan 🇨🇳 China The 1930s The 1940sThe year's most timely story. — A Japanese publisher urges his American-educated son to side with the Axis.
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The Shipbuilders
Scotland England The 1930sThe Shipbuilders is a 1943 British drama film directed by John Baxter and starring Clive Brook, Morland Graham and Nell Ballantyne. The film is set in a Clyde shipyard in the build-up to the Second World War. It was based on a novel by George Blake.
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Tornado
Illinois The 1930sA WIND FROM HELL!--blowing life...or DEATH! — The owner of an Illinois coal mine struggles to keep his business in operation, all the while unaware that among his employees is a saboteur planning destruction and chaos.
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Variety Jubilee
England The 1930s The 1920s The 1910s The 1900s The 1890sThis domestic melodrama chronicles three generations of a family of music-hall owners. In the early 1900s, two variety stars, Kit Burns and Joe Swann, are staunch friends even when Kit marries Joe's dancing partner Evelyn. Joe fights in the Boer War where a bullet puts an end to his dancing days. He goes to work on the staff at Burns' Music Hall where Kit Jr. soon finds a place in his affections. Kit and Joe purchase the music hall and soon become a success.
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The Bells Go Down
England The 1940s The 1930sComedian Tommy Trinder plays it straight in this tribute to the wartime AFS (Auxiliary Fire Service). The dedicated band who kept the fires of London under control during the blitz and fire bombings of WWII.
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The Man from Down Under
🇦🇺 Australia The 1930sTHRILLS! FUN! ACTION! — An Australian blowhard raises two orphaned children as his own in the years leading up to WWII.
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Night Plane from Chungking
🇨🇳 China The 1930s The 1940sWithout lights and in a driving rain, a bus is lumbering along the muddy Assam Road en route from Chunking to the Indian border. Passengers include a European of unknown nationality, a missionary a French officer, and a White Russian. There is also an ancient Chinese lady on an important diplomatic mission to Indian and her traveling companion. The trip is halted when Japanese planes bomb the road and hit a munitions truck and kill many Chinese soldiers. The Chinese commander puts the wounded soldiers on the bus and directs it to a nearby secret airport where the officer in charge is an American attached to the Chinese Air Force.
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Happy Land
Iowa The 1940s The 1930s The 1920s The 1910sAn Iowa drugstore owner becomes embittered when his son is killed in World War II. The druggist believes that the boy's life was cut short before he had an opportunity to truly appreciate his existence.
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Harlem
New York The 1930sThis propaganda film was partly inspired by the story of the first Italian heavyweight champion Primo Carnera who, after winning the title with Al Capone’s help in 1933, was beaten the following year by the Jewish Max Bear and then again by the ‘Brown Bomber’ Detroit Joe Lewis in June 1935, on the eve of the Italian invasion of Ethiopia. This match provoked numerous racial skirmishes on the streets of Harlem between the Black community and pro-Fascist Italian-Americans. The film overturns historical facts and here, obviously, it is the white boxer who wins in order to demonstrate the superiority of the “Aryan Italians” over the “sinister Jewish entrepreneurs” and the “savage Afro-American fans in Yankee Stadium”. In the film, these were played by South African prisoners-of-war interred in a work camp, which the German and Italian propaganda ministries had set up near Cinecittà “for cinematic purposes”.
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Inviati speciali
🇪🇸 Spain 🇪🇬 Egypt The 1940s The 1930sAn Italian film from 1943.
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To Be or Not to Be
🇵🇱 Poland The 1930sDuring the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy.
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The Pride of the Yankees
New York The 1930s The 1920sIntimate and thrilling drama of a hero of the headlines... the girl who had his love and shared his life, but dared not question his one secret! — The story of the life and career of the baseball hall of famer, Lou Gehrig.
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Random Harvest
England The 1930s The 1920s The 1910sHe had found love - lost it - and now had found it again! — An amnesiac World War I vet falls in love with a music hall star, only to suffer an accident which restores his original memories but erases his post-War life.
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Mrs. Miniver
England The 1940s The 1930s"Mrs. Miniver" is more than a picture... It's dramatic. It's tender. It's human. It's real. — English middle-class family, The Minivers, experience life in the first months of World War II.
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In Which We Serve
🇬🇷 Greece The 1940s The 1930sYou'll Never Forget... In Which We Serve — The story of the HMS Torrin, from it's construction to its sinking in the Mediterranean during action in World War II. The ship's first and only commanding officer is Captain E.V. Kinross, who trains his men not only to be loyal to him and the country, but—most importantly—to themselves.
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Flying Tigers
🇨🇳 China The 1930s The 1940sStrong Brave Men Flying in the Face of Death that We may Live ... — 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.
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Crossroads
🇫🇷 France The 1930sWhere women wait to seal your fate! — A French diplomat who's recovered from amnesia is blackmailed over crimes he can't remember.
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Native Land
The 1930sThe Picture with the Most Exciting Story of Our Time! — By the start of World War II, Paul Robeson had given up his lucrative mainstream work to participate in more socially progressive film and stage productions. Robeson committed his support to Paul Strand and Leo Hurwitz’s political semidocumentary Native Land. With Robeson’s narration and songs, this beautifully shot and edited film exposes violations of Americans’ civil liberties and is a call to action for exploited workers around the country. Scarcely shown since its debut, Native Land represents Robeson’s shift from narrative cinema to the leftist documentaries that would define the final chapter of his controversial film career.
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Tortilla Flat
California The 1930sTHEY'RE STRONG FOR WINE, WOMEN, AND SONG. — Danny, a poor northern Californian Mexican-American, inherits two houses from his grandfather and is quickly taken advantage of by his vagabond friends.
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Juke Girl
Florida The 1930sSure She's Easy To Meet .....but try and forget her! — During the depths of the Great Depression a hitch-hiker Steve Talbot and jukebox-joint hostess Lola Mears stumble into Cat-Tail Florida where farmers and pickers struggle under the buyer who rules by monopoly, dirty contracts and violence. Steve helps organize against the buyer, leading to further escalation ending in a lynch mob.
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Lady from Chungking
🇨🇳 China The 1930s The 1940sBLOODY REBELLION AGAINST SAVAGE CONQUERORS! — In World War II, Chinese guerrillas fight against the occupying Japanese forces. A young woman is the secret leader of the villagers, who plot to rescue two downed Flying Tigers pilots who are currently in the custody of the Japanese. The rescue mission takes on even more importance with the arrival of a Japanese general, which signals a major offensive taking place in the area.
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They Flew Alone
England 🇦🇺 Australia The 1930sSHE LED THE PARADE FROM SILK TO KHAKI! -- This girl who bolted a white-collar job to win her place in the air force...it's the amazing story of Amy and her Jim -- The Flying Mollisons. — The story of flyer Amy Johnson the girl from Yorkshire who won the hearts of the British public in the 1930s with her record-breaking solo flights around the world. Her marriage to fellow aviator Jim Mallison was less noteworthy.
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Alibi
🇫🇷 France The 1930sIn 1930s France a bar hostess (Margaret Lockwood) helps a man (James Mason) prove himself innocent of murder.
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Raza
🇪🇸 Spain The 1930sThe troubled story of the Churruca family, a noble lineage of brave seamen, descendants of Cosme Damián Churruca, the Spanish hero of the Battle of Trafalgar; from the Spanish-American War (1898) to the end of the Spanish Civil War (1936-39). (In 1950, a new cut of the film was released with less ideological depth and ten minutes shorter.)
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Inside Fighting China
🇨🇳 China The 1930s The 1940sThis wartime newsreel from 1942 documents the efforts of China to deal with Japanese aggression.
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Hard Steel
England The 1930sA steelworker rises through the ranks to become manager of three steel mills, but ruthless ambition overwhelms him.
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G.P.U.
🇸🇪 Sweden 🇫🇮 Finland 🇳🇱 Netherlands 🇷🇺 Russia The 1940s The 1930sOlga, a Russian refugee from Bolshevik terror, has joined the Soviet secret police to find the man responsible for killing her parents. Meanwhile, a young Baltic couple are caught up in the schemes of the communists.
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Citizen Kane
New York Florida The 1940s The 1930s The 1920s The 1910s The 1900s The 1890s The 1870sIt's terrific! — Newspaper magnate, Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.
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Suspicion
England The 1930sIn his arms she felt safety...in his absence, haunting dread! — Wealthy, sheltered Lina McLaidlaw is swept off her feet by charming ne'er-do-well Johnnie Aysgarth. Though warned that Johnnie is little more than a fortune hunter, Lina marries him anyway and remains loyal to her irresponsible husband as he plows his way from one disreputable business scheme to another. Gradually Lina comes to the conclusion that Johnnie intends to kill her in order to collect her inheritance. The suspicion seems confirmed when Johnnie's business partner dies under mysterious circumstances.
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Sullivan's Travels
Nevada California The 1930sA Happy-Go Lucky Hitch-Hiker on the Highway to happiness! He wanted to see the world . . . but wound up in Lover's Lane! — Successful movie director John L. Sullivan, convinced he won't be able to film his ambitious masterpiece until he has suffered, dons a hobo disguise and sets off on a journey, aiming to "know trouble" first-hand. When all he finds is a train ride back to Hollywood and a beautiful blonde companion, he redoubles his efforts, managing to land himself in more trouble than he bargained for when he loses his memory and ends up a prisoner on a chain gang.
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Tobacco Road
Georgia The 1930sON THE SCREEN AT LAST! The Picture you've waited eight years to see...Picturized by the men who gave you "GRAPES OF WRATH" — Shiftless Jeeter Lester and his family of sharecroppers live in rural Georgia where their ancestors were once wealthy planters. Their slapstick existence is threatened by a bank's plans to take over the land for more profitable farming.
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Man Hunt
England 🇩🇪 Germany The 1930sBritish hunter Thorndike vacationing in Bavaria has Hitler in his gun sight. He is captured, beaten, left for dead, and escapes back to London where he is hounded by German agents and aided by a young woman.
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'Pimpernel' Smith
🇩🇪 Germany The 1930sThe man the Gestapo hates! — Eccentric Cambridge archaeologist Horatio Smith (Howard) takes a group of British and American archaeology students to pre-war Nazi Germany to help in his excavations. His research is supported by the Nazis, since he professes to be looking for evidence of the Aryan origins of German civilisation. However, he has a secret agenda: to free inmates of the concentration camps.
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Remember the Day
Indiana The 1940s The 1930s The 1920s The 1910sElderly schoolteacher Nora Trinell, waiting to meet presidential nominee Dewey Roberts, recalls him as her student back in 1916 and his relation to Dan Hopkins, the man she married and lost.
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Love on the Dole
England The 1930sDepressing and realistic family drama about the struggles of unemployment and poverty in 1930s Lancashire. The 20-year-old Kerr gives an emotionally charged performance as Hardcastle, one of the cotton workers trying to make life better. Interlaced with humour that brings a ray of sunshine to the pervasive bleakness, this remains a powerful social study of life between the wars, and was a rare problem picture to come out of Britain at the time.
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Million Dollar Baby
New York The 1930sBursting with gaiety! Bubbling with youth! Brimming with happiness! — A sudden windfall has unexpected consequences on a working class girl during the Great Depression.
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They Met in Bombay
🇮🇳 India 🇭🇰 Hong Kong 🇨🇳 China The 1930s The 1940sStealing jewels for profit . . . and hearts for pleasure! — A jewel thief and a con artist are rivals in the theft of a valuable gem as the Japanese army invades China.
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Back Street
New York Ohio The 1930s The 1920s The 1910s The 1900sPreviously filmed in 1932, and remade a third time in 1961, this second film version of Fannie Hurst's novel stars Margaret Sullavan as a fashion designer in love with a married banker (Charles Boyer). Directed by Robert Stevenson, the film also stars Richard Carlson, Tim Holt, Frank McHugh, Esther Dale and Cecil Cunningham.
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So Ends Our Night
🇫🇷 France 🇦🇹 Austria 🇨🇿 Czechia 🇨🇭 Switzerland The 1930sTwo thrilling Romances in a story of high Adventure! — An anti-Nazi on the run and a young Jewish couple race across Europe trying to escape Hitler's ever powerful influence.
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Freedom Radio
🇩🇪 Germany The 1930sHitler's doctor is gradually realising that the Nazi regime isn't as good as it pretends to be when his friends start to "disappear" into the camps. His wife is courted by the party and accepts a political post in Berlin. Meanwhile Dr Karl decides to try to do something to counteract the Nazi propaganda and with the help of an engineer and a few friends he sets up the Freedom Radio to counteract the Nazi propaganda.
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Kukan: The Battle Cry of China
🇨🇳 China The 1930s The 1940sRey Scott received an Honorary Academy Award for this documentary "For his extraordinary achievement in producing Kukan, the film record of China's struggle, including its photography with a 16mm camera under the most difficult and dangerous conditions."
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Venus on Trial
🇩🇪 Germany The 1930s The 1920sA sculptor, an enemy of modern art, sets an example. He sculpts a statue of Venus in the style of the Greek antiquity and buries it in a forest. When it's dug up in 1930, it's considered to be a 2 000 year old, antique statue.
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Homecoming
🇵🇱 Poland The 1930sA Nazi propaganda film which aims to justify the invasion of Poland by portraying the plight of ethnic Germans in Poland who were discriminated against and oppressed by the Poles, and how they were saved by the intervention of the German army.
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The Grapes of Wrath
Oklahoma The 1930s The 1920sThe Joads step right out of the pages of the novel that has shocked millions! — Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due to foreclosure. He catches up with them on his Uncle’s farm, and joins them the next day as they head for California and a new life... Hopefully.
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The Mortal Storm
🇩🇪 Germany The 1930sThe Most Exciting Picture! — The Roth family leads a quiet life in a small village in the German Alps during the early 1930s. When the Nazis come to power, the family is divided and Martin Brietner, a family friend is caught up in the turmoil.
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