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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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Reunion in France
🇫🇷 France The 1940sThe Picture Of The Hour! France In Open Revolt! Leaping From The Headlines! The Underground Of Paris! — 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.
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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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Journey for Margaret
England The 1940sIt's a dramatic BOMBSHELL when a world-famous correspondent meets MARGARET during the blitz! — An American newspaperman and his wife, end up in London after several retreats in the opening days of WWII. After a shrapnel wound and loss of her baby she returns to America. War weary, he is forced to do a story about war orphans, where he meets Margaret.
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One of Our Aircraft Is Missing
🇳🇱 Netherlands The 1940s1942's first blast of screen dynamite — During the Allied Bombing offensive of World War II the public was often informed that "A raid took place last night over ..., One (or often more) of Our Aircraft Is Missing". Behind these sombre words hid tales of death, destruction and derring-do. This is the story of one such bomber crew who were shot down and the brave Dutch patriots who helped them home.
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Wake Island
The 1940sLeathernecks... writing another glorious chapter of purposeful courage in America's history! — In November 1941, Major Caton takes command of the small Marine garrison on Wake Island. His tendency toward spit and polish upsets the men's tropical lassitude, but Pearl Harbor changes everything. Soon the island is attacked and the Marines pull together day by day; but how long can they hold out?
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Joan of Paris
🇫🇷 France The 1940sLured By Love Into The Relentless Grip Of The World's Most Dreaded TERROR! — An RAF squadron is brought down over occupied France. The flyers get to Paris in spite of the fact that the youngest, Baby, is injured. He must be hidden and his wounds cared for. The Gestapo has already issued orders for their arrest.
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Desperate Journey
England 🇩🇪 Germany The 1940sMan alive, Just picture this excitement! — During WWII, when an allied bomber is shot down over Germany, the five surviving crew are captured but cleverly escape detention after learning German secret information and knocking out a Nazi major. With the angry major in hot pursuit, aided by military personnel, Gestapo agents and Hitler-loyal citizens, the five wend their way across perilous Germany, intent on reaching the UK with the secrets they have learned.
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To the Shores of Tripoli
🇱🇾 Libya The 1940sROMANCE...COMEDY...THRILLS...with Uncle Sam's fighting — Chronicle of a spoiled rich boy who joins the Marines with an off-handed attitude and finally becomes a battle-wise soldier. Academy Award Nominations: Best (Color) Cinematography.
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Unpublished Story
England The 1940sMorale-boosting story released in the middle of World War II. A journalist uncovers a peace organisation at the centre of disreputable dealings.
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The Pied Piper
🇫🇷 France The 1940sIt's all heart and thrills! — Englishman Mr Howard is on a fishing holiday in eastern France when the Germans invade in 1940. Setting off to try and get back home he is persuaded to take along the two Cavanaugh children, and as his journey progresses his family keeps growing in size. Once in German-occupied northern France a new problem arises - the risk of being heard speaking English.
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Listen to Britain
England The 1940sA depiction of life in wartime England during the Second World War. Director Humphrey Jennings visits many aspects of civilian life and of the turmoil and privation caused by the war, all without narration.
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The Gay Sisters
New York The 1940sAnother great novel... another Warner Bros. hit! — The eldest (Barbara Stanwyck) of three sisters protects their Fifth Avenue mansion from a developer (George Brent) she once married.
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Eagle Squadron
England The 1940sDEVILS OF THE SKIES! Uncle Sam's Boys in the EAGLE SQUADRON — An American joins the British Royal Air Force just before Pearl Harbor is attacked, and falls in love with a beautiful English girl.
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Her Cardboard Lover
The 1940sPlaying with love is risky- but such fun! — A flirt tries to make her fiancée jealous by hiring a gigolo.
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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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Wings for the Eagle
California The 1940sIt's Time-and-a-Half for Uncle Sam...and the Rest of the Time is for Love! — Aircraft workers during during World War II become involved in a love triangle.
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Battle of Hawaii
The 1940sA Japanese wartime propaganda drama made nearly a year after the attack on Pearl Harbor to celebrate the victory.
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The Man Who Wouldn't Die
The 1940sAn Empty Grave... A Cunning, Gunning Ghost... And Michael Shane! — A man believed to be dead and buried escapes from his grave and returns to the scene of the crime seeking revenge.
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This Above All
England The 1940sHe's lost his belief in everything but love. — In 1940 England, aristocratic Prudence Cathaway alarms her snobbish parents by joining the WAF service branch. She soon meets and falls in love with the brooding Clive Briggs, despite his prejudice against the upper classes, and agrees to spend a week with him at a Dover hotel. When Clive's soldier friend, Monty, arrives to retrieve him, Prudence learns that Clive went AWOL after Dunkirk, and urges him to recall why England must fight the war.
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The Foreman Went to France
🇫🇷 France The 1940sBased on the true story of Melbourne Johns, an aircraft factory foreman sent to France to prevent the Nazis getting hold of some vital equipment.
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Hitler- Dead or Alive
🇩🇪 Germany The 1940sWill Hitler Escape This Time? — A team of ex-con bounty hunters go to Germany in search of Hitler. If they can find him, a million dollar reward is to be paid to them.
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The Black Sheep of Whitehall
England The 1940sA professor teaching at a correspondence school discovers that a Nazi agent is trying to prevent a trade treaty being signed between England and South America.
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The Goose Steps Out
England 🇩🇪 Germany The 1940sSchoolteacher William Potts is the double of a captured German spy, so he is sent to Germany by British Intelligence to obtain the plans of a new secret weapon, causing chaos in a Hitler Youth school in the process.
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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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Texas to Bataan
🇵🇭 Philippines The 1940sBlasting their way to fame and glory on dangerous bataan!!! — In the 17th of the 24 films in Monogram's "Range Buster" series, Texas ranch owner Conroy returns from Washington with an order for horses to be shipped to the Philippines. The Range Busters, Dusty, Davy and Alibi, are selected to take the horses there but, before leaving, they capture three spies who are trying to steal the horses and also learn that the ranch cook, Cookie, is a Japanese spy, but he manages to escape. In the Philippines, they go to a café for dinner and see Cookie and Miller, a German spy. Eavesdropping, they learn that Ken Richards, a neighboring Texas rancher, is the Axis contact back in the states. They capture Cookie and break up the spy ring in the Phillipines, and then return to Texas intent on settling matters with Richards. They do so and are honored by the U.S. Government just as the radio blares forth the December 7, 1941 announcement of the Pearl Harbor bombing. They head for the nearest enlistment station.
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Go to Blazes
The 1940sMinistry of Information-sponsored comedy short showing wartime audiences how to deal with the threat of incendiary bombs.
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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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Remember Pearl Harbor
🇵🇭 Philippines Hawaii The 1940sAmerica's Stiring War Cry!...Ringing Across The Oceans...Striking Fear Into The Heart Of A Sneaking Foe Who Dared To Stab Uncle Sam In The Back! — A man tries to redeem himself after ducking out on his comrades before the fatal attack.
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Miss V from Moscow
🇫🇷 France The 1940sAmerican Ace Meets Russian Spy! — Set in the shadows of wartime Paris, this 1940s drama directed by Albert Herman stars Lola Lane, Noel Madison and Howard Banks. When a Soviet secret agent discovers her uncanny resemblance to a dead Nazi spy, she infiltrates the enemy and works to save U.S. ships from German submarines. Assisting her on her mission are French underground agents, along with an American serving in the British armed forces.
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Bengasi
🇱🇾 Libya The 1940sThe film is set in 1941 during the Second World War, when the city of Benghazi in Italian-ruled Libya was occupied by British forces. Italian inhabitants of Benghazi work to resist the British and discover their military plans. One man, Captain Enrico Berti, appears to be collaborating with the British but is in fact working undercover for Italian intelligence. The film ends with the city being recaptured by Italian troops and their Nazi German allies.
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Secret Agent of Japan
Shanghai Hawaii The 1940sNow! The First, Inside Story Behind The "Stab In The Back"! — World War II espionage drama, starring Preston Foster and Lynn Bari.
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Dover
England The 1940sDocumentary short featuring a visit by American newsman Edward R. Murrow to the English town of Dover during the Second World War.
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Uncensored
🇧🇪 Belgium The 1940sDuring the Nazi occupation of Belgium during World War II, a Belgian resistance group revives the newspaper "La Libre Belgique" to expose and counter Nazi propaganda efforts to deceive the people. They are so effective that the Nazis offer a reward for the capture of the paper's staff, although they don't know their identities. One of them is a well-known entertainer, and when his jealous partner hears of the reward, he turns him in. The paper's publishers escape capture, but their staff doesn't. The paper's founders must find not only a way to keep from getting captured by the Nazis but keep their newspaper going and get their staff released.
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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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Dumbo
Florida The 1940sThe One...The Only...The FABULOUS... — Dumbo is a baby elephant born with over-sized ears and a supreme lack of confidence. But thanks to his even more diminutive buddy Timothy the Mouse, the pint-sized pachyderm learns to surmount all obstacles.
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Mr. & Mrs. Smith
New York The 1940sLombard and Montgomery Get Hitched As They're Getting Unhitched ! — Happily married for three years, Ann and David Smith live in New York. One morning Ann asks David if he had to do it over again, would he marry her? To her shock, he answers, "No". Later that day, they separately discover that, due to a legal complication, they are not legally married.
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A Yank in the R.A.F.
England The 1940sROLLICKING ROMANCE! GLORIOUS ADVENTURE! — An American pilot impulsively joins His Majesty's Royal Air Force in Britain in an attempt to impress his ex-girlfriend.
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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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Cottage to Let
Scotland England The 1940sAllied spies and Nazi Agents insinuate themselves at a Scottish cottage (converted to a wartime hospital) with interests on an inventor's nearly perfected bomb sight.
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Dangerous Moonlight
England The 1940sStefan Radetzky, a Polish pilot and famous concert pianist, is hospitalised in England from injuries sustained while in combat, and having lost his memory. As Radetzky plays the piano in a trance-like state, the story moves back in time to war-torn Warsaw. During an air-raid, Radetzky meets American journalist Carole, and there is a mutual attraction. Following the fall of Poland, Radetzky and Irish pilot, Mike, escape to Rumania and then on to America. Radetzky continues his musical career in America and meets up again with Carole.
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International Squadron
England The 1940sA WARNER BROS. HIT starring RONALD REAGAN as the Yankee daredevil air-devil! — The true story of the exploits of the RAF's (Royal Air Force) foreign legion battling the German Luftwaffe (Nazi Germany's Air Force) during the early months of 1941 during WWII before America officially entered the war at the end of the year when Pearl Harbor was attacked by Japan and Hitler declared war on the United States. The United States then drafted all of their airmen and fighter pilot aces into the United States Air Force for their own combat missions against the Luftwaffe
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Confirm or Deny
England The 1940sNewsman Mitch and teletype operator Jennifer, whose job is to see he doesn't send inappropriate stuff out of the country, dodge bombs during the blitz of London while falling in love.
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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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