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Paisan
🇮🇹 Italy The 1940sSix vignettes follow the Allied invasion from July 1943 to winter 1944, from Sicily north to Venice.
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Night Editor
The 1940s The 1930sIn the middle of a kiss...Murder! — "Night Editor" was based on the already existing radio program in which a newspaper editor would recount the 'inside story' of some bit newspaper story, and later became a television series.
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The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
Pennsylvania The 1940s The 1920sFate drew them together… and only murder could part them! — Three childhood friends, Martha, Walter and Sam, share a terrible secret. Over time, the ambitious Martha and the pusillanimous Walter have married. She is a cold businesswoman; he is the district attorney: a perfect combination to dominate the corrupt city of Iverstown at will. But the unexpected return of Sam, after years of absence, deeply disturbs the life of the odd couple.
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I See a Dark Stranger
🇮🇪 Ireland 🇫🇷 France The 1940sThe woman hunt is on... For the girl with the little black book. — Determined, independent Bridie Quilty comes of age in 1944 Ireland thinking all Englishmen are devils. Her desire to join the IRA meets no encouragement, but a German spy finds her easy to recruit. We next find her working in a pub near a British military prison, using her sex appeal in the service of the enemy. But chance puts a really vital secret into her hands, leading to a chase involving Bridie, a British officer who's fallen for her, a German agent unknown to them both, and the police...paralleled by Bridie's own internal conflicts.
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A Matter of Life and Death
England The 1940sNeither Heaven nor Earth could keep them apart! — When a young airman miraculously survives bailing out of his aeroplane without a parachute, he falls in love with an American radio operator. But the officials in the other world realise their mistake, and dispatch an angel to collect him.
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Green for Danger
The 1940sMurder... weapon or clue? — In the midst of Nazi air raids, a postman dies on the operating table at a rural hospital. But was the death accidental?
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The Time of Their Lives
🇺🇸 United States of America The 1940s The 18th CenturyFOR PEOPLE WHO WANT TO DIE LAUGHING! — Two ghosts who were mistakenly branded as traitors during the Revolutionary War return to 20th century New England to retieve a letter from George Washington which would prove their innocence.
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The Battle of the Rails
🇫🇷 France The 1940sA 1946 war movie which tells the courageous efforts by French railway workers to sabotage Nazi reinforcement-troop trains.
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Shoeshine
🇮🇹 Italy The 1940sAt a track near Rome, shoeshine boys are watching horses run. Two of the boys Pasquale, an orphan, and Giuseppe, his younger friend are riding. The pair have been saving to buy a horse of their own to ride...
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Colonel Effingham's Raid
Georgia The 1940sWho Says You Can't Fight City Hall? — The story takes place in 1940. On the eve of America's entry in World War II, a colonel retired to his small Southern town, and discovers that there is a plan afoot to tear down Confederate Monument Square. He begins a campaign to rally the townspeople to save the square.
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No Regrets for Our Youth
Tokyo Prefecture Kyoto Prefecture The 1940s The 1930sYukie, the well-bred daughter of a university professor, is shocked when her father is relieved of his post for his political teachings during a purge of anti-militarism in pre-war Kyoto. Years go by as she is courted by two of her father's former students; one a fiery leftist, the other more moderate and equable.
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The Captive Heart
🇩🇪 Germany The 1940sA series of stories about the lives and loves of nine men in a Prisoner of War Camp over five years. Location shooting in the British occupied part of Germany adds believability. The main story is of Hasek (Redgrave) a Czech soldier who needs to keep his identity a secret from the Nazis, to do this he poses as a dead English Officer and corresponds with the man's wife. Upon liberation they meet and decide to continue their lives together. The other inmates' stories are revealed episodically.
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School for Secrets
England The 1940sThe Secret a Million Kept! — Wartime tale of a group of British scientists efforts to develop the first radar system. They did it just in time for it to be used in the Battle of Britain against the might of the Nazi Luftwaffe. Without it the little island could well have been overrun.
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The Bamboo Blonde
New York The 1940sA pilot of a B 29 meets Louise Anderson, a singer in a New York nightclub. He falls in love with her, but he had to leave next day for action in the Pacific. He lets paint her picture on his bomber, the "Bamboo Blonde" and becomes a hero with his crew sinking a Japanese battleship and shooting down a Japanese fighter wing. Back in New York, he leaves his fiancée and engages him to Louise.
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Margie
The 1940s The 1920sThese were the days...When youth was flaming and the Charleston was the National Anthem. — Margie and her daughter reminisce about Margie's girlhood in the roaring twenties. In flashback, Margie, a smarter, less popular girl at Central High, meets handsome new French teacher Ralph Fontayne. Circumstances keep throwing them together and Margie, in company with every other girl in school, develops a crush on him. Margie's date for the prom gets sick, and what happens next surprises everyone.
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Rendezvous with Annie
The 1940sKeep Quiet!...Don't let this wise old stork bend your ear, brother! But once Annie's secret is out...you'll howl with delight! — A homesick American soldier stationed in England during World War II makes an unauthorized trip to see his wife and returns to England with only two people knowing he was home for a few hours. When she learns that she is pregnant, she does not disclose that her husband had paid her a visit as to not get him into trouble. The townspeople are unanimous in their condemnation of her. But, after his discharge, he enlists the aid of a nightclub singer, the only other person who knew he came home.
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Somewhere in Berlin
🇩🇪 Germany The 1940sAfter WWII, Berlin lies in ruins. For Gustav, Willi and their friends the rubble provides an adventurous, dangerous playground. Especially for Gustav, it helps pass the time, as he longs for his father's return from a POW camp. One day a stranger arrives, looking helpless and hopeless... Gerhard Lamprecht built his reputation during the 1920s and '30s with films like Emil and the Detectives (1931, script Billy Wilder) and socially-critical Berlin films based on the drawings of Heinrich Zille. In Somewhere in Berlin-his first postwar film, made just months after the cessation of hostilities-he portrays the people of the shattered city with precision and psychological realism.
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Men without Wings
🇨🇿 Czechia The 1940sAfter an attack against the guard of the Third Reich, Nazi repression intensifies, and the Czechoslovakian resistance's organized sabotage in an aircraft factory leads to Gestapo shootings.
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A Day in the Life
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Desire
🇮🇹 Italy The 1940sThere's a girl like her in every town! — Paola, a Milan call girl, returns home to her village in the Abruzzi mountains in an attempt to go straight. Rejected by her father, blackmailed by a former lover, and lusted after by her brother-in-law, she turns to her beloved sister for support. Denied succor, like so many of Rossellini’s isolated figures, Paola awaits the arrival of her fiancé, who has offered her a new start, but instead decides that life is untenable.
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Jéricho
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A Defeated People
🇩🇪 Germany The 1940sA Defeated People is a 1946 British documentary short film made by the Crown Film Unit, directed by Humphrey Jennings and narrated by William Hartnell. The film depicts the shattered state of Germany, both physically and as a society, in the immediate aftermath of World War II. The narration explains what is being done – and what needs to be done – both by the occupying Allied forces and the German people themselves to build a better Germany from the ruins.
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The Searching Wind
District of Columbia 🇫🇷 France 🇩🇪 Germany 🇮🇹 Italy The 1940s The 1930s The 1920sWith a screenplay adapted by Lillian Hellman from her own play, director William Dieterle's 1946 drama stars Robert Young as a U.S. ambassador in Europe in the years before WW2.
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Rome: Free City
The 1940sIn a post-war Rome (1946) a cat burglar inadvertently saves the life of a would-be suicide man who returns from the war to find that he has been betrayed by his fiancée while fighting in the war. From that moment the thief takes the ex-soldier under his wing. They leave house together for a night full of misadventures. In a streets of Rome they meet the struggling typist who can’t pay her rent and opts to street life; a wandering amnesiac who lost his memory and keeps asking everyone “Do you recognize me?”. Thieves, gamblers, hookers, policemen, soldiers and endless chain of cigarette-smoking and alcohol/espresso-drinking.
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A Friend Will Come Tonight
🇫🇷 France The 1940sCommander Gerard and his band of guerrillas have found the ideal hideout: a nursing home in the Alps where, along with the mentally ill, are also hiding a Jewish girl and a Swiss doctor who might be a spy for the Germans ...
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Dharti Ke Lal
🇮🇳 India The 1940sBased on plays by Bhattacharya and the story Annadata by Krishan Chander
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Dr. Kotnis Ki Amar Kahani
🇨🇳 China The 1930s The 1940sDuring the Japanese invasion of China, a young Indian doctor joins the Chinese resistance, meets and courts a Chinese girl, cures a virulent plague, and is captured by a Japanese platoon...
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Les Clandestins
🇫🇷 France The 1940sA resistance leader is wounded when the Germans raid his underground print shop. He escapes to the home of a German-friendly Parisian and is helped by her son and daughter. A Jewish doctor also aids him. They all join him in his efforts against the Nazis and derail a munitions train.
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Before Him All Rome Trembled
🇮🇹 Italy The 1940sAn opera singer hides an American soldier in his house in Nazi-occupied Rome.
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Rome, Open City
🇮🇹 Italy The 1940sPowerful Portrayal of Dignity and Courage — A realistic portrayal of the underground resistance in Italy in 1945. The film has strong impacting imagery with its mix of fiction and reality that strengthened Italian Neo-realism and the film industry.
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They Were Expendable
🇵🇭 Philippines The 1940sA Tribute to Those Who Did So Much... With So Little! — Shortly after Pearl Harbor, a squadron of PT-boat crews in the Philippines must battle the Navy brass between skirmishes with the Japanese. The title says it all about the Navy's attitude towards the PT-boats and their crews.
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To Have and Have Not
The 1940sTALK ABOUT T.N.T! THIS is IT! — A Martinique charter boat skipper gets mixed up with the underground French resistance operatives during WWII.
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The House on 92nd Street
New York 🇩🇪 Germany The 1940s The 1930sThe F.B.I.'s own tense, terrific story behind the protection of the ATOMIC BOMB! — The US Government tries to track down embedded Nazi agents in the States.
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A Walk in the Sun
The 1940sTHEY FOUGHT BEST WHEN IT WAS HOPELESS! — In the 1943 invasion of Italy, one American platoon lands, digs in, then makes its way inland to attempt to take a fortified farmhouse, as tension and casualties mount. Unusually realistic picture of war as long quiet stretches of talk, punctuated by sharp, random bursts of violent action whose relevance to the big picture is often unknown to the soldiers.
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Objective, Burma!
🇲🇲 Myanmar The 1940sAn American platoon parachutes into Burma to take out a strategic Japanese outpost — A group of men parachute into Japanese-occupied Burma with a dangerous and important mission: to locate and blow up a radar station. They accomplish this well enough, but when they try to rendezvous at an old air-strip to be taken back to their base, they find Japanese waiting for them, and they must make a long, difficult walk back through enemy-occupied jungle.
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Thrill of a Romance
California The 1940sMusical bliss with every kiss! — A soldier falls in love with a newly-married woman after her husband abandons her for a business meeting on their honeymoon.
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Tonight and Every Night
England The 1940sThe screen's first dramatic musical — An American girl falls for an RAF pilot while performing at a British music hall.
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Ernie Pyle's Story of G.I. Joe
The 1940sThe mightiest action drama ever filmed ! — War correspondent Ernie Pyle joins Company C, 18th Infantry as this American army unit fights its way across North Africa in World War II. He comes to know the soldiers and finds much human interest material for his readers back in the States.
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The True Glory
The 1940sThe story of YOUR victory... told by YOUR guys who won it! — A documentary account of the allied invasion of Europe during World War II compiled from the footage shot by nearly 1400 cameramen. It opens as the assembled allied forces plan and train for the D-Day invasion at bases in Great Britain and covers all the major events of the war in Europe from the Normandy landings to the fall of Berlin.
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To the Shores of Iwo Jima
The 1940sDocumentary short film depicting the American assault on the Japanese-held island of Iwo Jima and the massive battle that raged on that key island in the Allied advance on Japan. Four cameramen died bringing this footage to the public
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Blood on the Sun
🇯🇵 Japan The 1940sHaving a wonderful time In Tokyo! — Nick Condon, an American journalist in 1945 Tokyo, publishes the Japanese master plan for world domination. Reaction from the understandably upset Japanese provides the action, but this is overshadowed by the propaganda of the time.
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San Pietro
The 1940sThis documentary movie is about the battle of San Pietro, a small village in Italy. Over 1,100 US soldiers were killed while trying to take this location, that blocked the way for the Allied forces from the Germans.
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Red Meadows
🇩🇪 Germany The 1940sA suspense tale revolving around the memories of a Danish saboteur as he awaits his execution in a German war-time prison.
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China Sky
🇨🇳 China The 1930s The 1940sIn a hill city of war-torn China, the American mission hospital is run by Dr. Gray Thompson and Dr. Sara Durand, who secretly loves him. Then Gray comes back from the USA with new equipment ...and new wife Louise, who is jealous of Sara, shows herself a coward in the first Japanese air raid, and wants to take Gray back to the States. Others have similar troubles; and Japanese prisoner Colonel Yasuda manipulates them for his own ends.
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