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London Can Take It!
England The 1940sA tribute to the courage and resiliency of Britons during the darkest days of the London Blitz.
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Women in War
EnglandThe Emotional Big Parade of Today! — A "good-time girl", raised by her somewhat lax divorced father, finds herself involved in an accidental death, and the only way she's able to get out of it is to volunteer--albeit reluctantly--to be a nurse in the war effort. She travels to England and is assigned to a hospital under a very strict matron. What the girl doesn't know is that the matron is the mother she has never seen.
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The Man from Dakota
The 19th CenturyA frontier scout, a Boston officer and a Russian girl escape with a map past Confederates.
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Wunschkonzert
🇪🇸 Spain 🇩🇪 Germany Atlantic Ocean The 1930sGerman propaganda film spinning a story around the popular radio broadcast "Wunschkonzert".
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Days of Hope
🇪🇸 Spain The 1930sSpanish Civil War, 1937. A platoon of Republican soldiers plans to stop the advance of the rebel troops by bombing a bridge on the road to Zaragoza, near the city of Linás. With the close collaboration of the peasants of the area, the soldiers try to overcome the continuous bombardments and endure the harsh and tireless opposition of the powerful enemy…
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The King of the White Elephant
🇹🇭 Thailand The 16th CenturySet in the Ayutthaya Kingdom of the 16th century, King Chakra is going about his usual palace duties, granting audiences to his advisers, including his Lord Chamberlain, who is keen to see the king fulfill his royal duty of taking 366 wives, including, hopefully among them, the chamberlain's own daughter. Based on a novel and produced by Pridi Banomyong and released before Thailand's involvement in World War II, the English-language film carried a propaganda message from anti-war interests in Thailand, that Thailand should remain neutral, and only go to war to defend its sovereignty against foreign invaders.
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Ski Patrol
🇫🇮 Finland 🇩🇪 Germany The 1930sIn 1939, a group of Finnish soldiers defend the border from Russian invaders.
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Menaces...
The 1930s"Menaces" deals with the months before WW2 in a hotel :t he fear of the impending war never leaves the guests of an hotel in Paris.
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The Siege of the Alcazar
🇪🇸 Spain The 1930sSet during the Spanish civil war, the story of a commander of a fort Alcazar in Toledo, faithful to general Franco.
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Rewi's Last Stand
🇳🇿 New Zealand The 1860sIf men can die, the women and children can die also. — Star-crossed lovers, Robert and Ariana, are caught up in the New Zealand wars of the 1860s. Ariana is claimed by the Maniapoto people as one of their own and, despite Robert's chivalrous defence, is taken by them and must help them prepare for war. Robert likewise must do his patriotic duty and enlists to fight on the other side. He volunteers to ride despatch, thinking it may give him an opportunity to see Ariana again, which it does, but their joy is short-lived; Maniapoto women fight beside their men, and furthermore she is a Rangitira (noble) and will not let her people down. The climax is the siege of Oraku Pa where 300 Maori hold off 2000 troops for three days. The Maniapoto are defeated, but Ariana, although wounded, survives to be reunited with Robert.
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Gone with the Wind
Georgia England The 1870s The 1860sThe greatest romance of all time! — The spoiled daughter of a well-to-do plantation owner is forced to use every means at her disposal to claw her way out of poverty, following Maj. Gen. William Sherman's destructive "March to the Sea,” during the American Civil War.
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The Four Feathers
🇸🇩 Sudan The 1890sThey made him a hero by branding him a coward... the story of a man who conquered fear. — A disgraced officer risks his life to help his childhood friends in battle.
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The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
🇫🇷 France The 1910sIn 1911, minor stage comic, Vernon Castle meets the stage-struck Irene Foote. A few misadventures later, they marry and then abandon comedy to attempt a dancing career together. While they're performing in Paris, an agent sees them rehearse and starts them on their brilliant career as the world's foremost ballroom dancers. However, at the height of their fame, World War I begins.
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The Flying Deuces
🇫🇷 FranceThey dish out the dizziest rib-ride of the year! — Ollie is in love with a woman. When he discovers that she is already married, he tries to kill himself. Of course, the suicide is avoided and the boys join the Foreign Legion to get away from their troubles. Finally, they are arrested for trying to desert the Legion and to escape the firing squad by stealing a plane.
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Gunga Din
The 1880sBritish army sergeants Ballantine, Cutter and MacChesney serve in India during the 1880s, along with their native water-bearer, Gunga Din. While completing a dangerous telegraph-repair mission, they unearth evidence of the suppressed Thuggee cult. When Gunga Din tells the sergeants about a secret temple made of gold, the fortune-hunting Cutter is captured by the Thuggees, and it's up to his friends to rescue him.
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The Lion Has Wings
The 1940sThis early, influential propaganda film blends documentary and studio footage to show the valiant efforts of the Royal Air Force to defend the British people against the Nazis.
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Drums Along the Mohawk
New York The 18th CenturyThrilling! Stirring! Spectacular! — Albany, New York, 1776. After marrying, Gil and Lana travel north to settle on a small farm in the Mohawk River Valley, but soon their growing prosperity and happiness are threatened by the sinister sound of drums that announce dark times of revolution and war.
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The Spy in Black
Scotland The 1910sToday's U-boat terror makes this the year's timeliest picture! — A German submarine is sent to the Orkney Isles in 1917 to sink the British fleet.
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Confessions of a Nazi Spy
New York ScotlandTrapped! — FBI agent Ed Renard investigates the pre-War espionage activities of the German-American Bund.
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The Real Glory
🇵🇭 Philippines The 1900sAlways outnumbered. Never outfought. — In the wake of the Spanish-American war, military doctor Bill Canavan (Cooper) arrives at a war-torn Filipino outpost. Infested with cholera and under attack from a vicious local Moro chieftain, the troops are terrified and their commanding officer has all but given up hope. Outnumbered and out of supplies, Canavan decides to trade his scalpel for a rifle and rally the few remaining troops into one last stand before the outpost and everyone inside becomes just another footnote in history.
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Disputed Passage
🇨🇳 China The 1930s The 1940s"Love...marriage...give them up...they're not for we men of science! " — A doctor's medical studies are threatened by his infatuation with a Chinese girl. The girl returns to China, but complications ensue when she runs into him in Nanking during a Japanese bombing raid.
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Nurse Edith Cavell
🇧🇪 Belgium The 1910sBritish nurse Edith Cavell (Anna Neagle) is stationed at a hospital in Brussels during World War I. When the son of a former patient escapes from a German prisoner-of-war camp, she helps him flee to Holland. Outraged at the number of soldiers detained in the camps, Edith, along with a group of sympathizers, devises a plan to help the prisoners escape. As the group works to free the soldiers, Edith must keep her activities secret from the Germans
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Barricade
🇨🇳 China 🇲🇳 MongoliaIn China, a singer and a journalist meet while traveling on a train attacked by bandits.
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Pack Up Your Troubles
🇫🇷 France The 1910sThe Cockeyed World will laugh itself silly! — Three American soldiers help a young girl deliver a secret message across enemy lines.
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Das Gewehr über
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Friends
🇷🇺 RussiaThe Soviet classic based on the biography of one of the main October Revolution leaders - Sergey Kirov.
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Mulan Joins the Army
🇨🇳 China The 6th CenturyThis movie is based on the famous Chinese folklore that is more than one and a half millennium old. The same folklore was what the Disney animation Mulan is based on, and similarly, it was what many Chinese movies/operas/plays based on.
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The Mad Empress
🇲🇽 Mexico 🇺🇸 United States of America The 1860sThe Mad Empress is a 1939 American historical drama film depicting the 3-year reign of Maximilian I of Mexico and his struggles against Benito Juarez.
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Alexander Nevsky
🇷🇺 Russia The 13th CenturyThe mighty epic of 13th Century Russia...of the "Battle on the Ice" when the invading German hordes led by the Teutonic Knights were driven from the soil of Russia - forever. — When German knights invade Russia, Prince Alexander Nevsky must rally his people to resist the formidable force. After the Teutonic soldiers take over an eastern Russian city, Alexander stages his stand at Novgorod, where a major battle is fought on the ice of frozen Lake Chudskoe. While Alexander leads his outnumbered troops, two of their number, Vasili and Gavrilo, begin a contest of bravery to win the hand of a local maiden.
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Block-Heads
🇫🇷 France The 1910s90 Minutes of Happiness and Hi-Jinks — It's 1938, but Stan doesn't know the war is over; he's still patrolling the trenches in France, and shoots down a French aviator. Oliver sees his old chum's picture in the paper and goes to visit Stan who has now been returned to the States and invites him back to his home.
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The Shopworn Angel
New York The 1910sDuring WWI Bill Pettigrew, a naive young Texan soldier is sent to New York for basic training. He meets worldly wise actress Daisy Heath when her car nearly runs him over.
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I Accuse
🇫🇷 France The 1910sAfter serving in the trenches of World War I, Jean Diaz recoils with such horror that he renounces love and personal pleasure to immerse himself in scientific research, seeking a machine to prevent war. He thinks he has succeeded, but the government subverts his discovery, and Europe slides with seeming inevitability toward World War II. In desperation, Diaz summons the ghosts of the war dead from the graves and fields of France to give silent, accusing protest.
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Blockade
🇪🇸 Spain The 1930sRomance under fire! — A simple peasant is forced to take up arms to defend his farm during the Spanish Civil War. Along the way he falls in love with a Russian girl whose father is involved in espionage.
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Comrades at Sea
🇪🇸 Spain The 1930s1936: Fahnrich Peter serves on a torpedo boat. Peter loves Carmita, the pretty sister of a fellow seaman. But then his superior officer falls in love with her, too, who offers to marry Carmita and who accepts. Disappointed, Peter's relationship to his superior turns sour, but eventually improves after recognition of his heroic behaviour handling a fire on board his ship. Later on, his unit is sent off to fight in Spain against the Reds. In those same waters, Carmita and her father are taken prisoner by the Communists when they commandeer their cruise ship. Peter's commander receives the order not to take action against the Spanish communist pirates, but Peter and his buddies take it upon themselves to take the situation in hand. However, Peter and his buddies find themselves prisoners of the Commies, too and now his superior must decide what to do about it.
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Pour le Mérite
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Ultimatum
🇦🇹 Austria 🇷🇸 Serbia The 1910sAbout the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the beginning of the First World War. Focuses on the relationship between a Serbian officer and his Austrian-born wife and their involvement in espionage between the countries.
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Who Goes Next?
EnglandDuring the First World War, a number of captured British officers attempt to escape a prisoner-of-war camp.
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Sable Cicada
🇨🇳 China The 2nd CenturyDiaochan (aka Diau Charn and Sable Cicada), one of the Four Beauties of China, is supposed to be so stunningly lovely that the moon was shamed to hide behind clouds. Despite being the only Beauty among the four who is not a real historical figure but one conjured by storytelling imagination and embellished by public fascination, her story was nonetheless incorporated by author Luo Guangzhong into his popular and influential novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Her tale is one of Machiavellian intrigue, in which she schemes with her godfather Wang Yun to restore moral order to the land, sowing discord between the corrupt Minister Dong Zhuo and his adopted son Lu Bu, a man of martial and military prowess.
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The Eight Hundred Heroes
Shanghai The 1930s The 1940s800 Chinese soldiers guard the important warehouse district against the invading Japanese Army. Re-imagination of a famous (bordering on legendary) episode from the battle of Shanghai: 800 soldiers of the 88th regiment against what feels like the whole of Japan’s Imperial Army - think Thermopylae, Chinese version. A splendid, visually amazing gem which, in its own way, is also a last stand: of silent cinema, Shanghai style. (iffr)
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Zangezur
🇦🇲 Armenia The 1920sThe film is about the civil war in the Zangezur (Syunik) province of Armenia in the early 1920s. The last Dashnak battalions headed by Sparapet Nzhdeh still opposed both the incursion of Red Army and the local Bolshevik partisans.
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Grand Illusion
🇩🇪 Germany The 1910sA Great Drama of Human Emotions — A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieutenant Maréchal, grapple with their own class differences after being captured and held in a World War I German prison camp. When the men are transferred to a high-security fortress, they must concoct a plan to escape beneath the watchful eye of aristocratic German officer von Rauffenstein, who has formed an unexpected bond with de Boeldieu.
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Fire Over England
England 🇪🇸 Spain The 16th Century. . . A truly brilliant producer brings you a thrilling tale of love and danger that will live in your memory as long as there is romance in your heart ! — The film is a historical drama set during the reign of Elizabeth I (Flora Robson), focusing on the English defeat of the Spanish Armada, whence the title. In 1588, relations between Spain and England are at the breaking point. With the support of Queen Elizabeth I, British sea raiders such as Sir Francis Drake regularly capture Spanish merchantmen bringing gold from the New World.
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The Toast of New York
New York The 1860sThe terror of Wall Street was a chump for this girl! — After the American Civil War, Jim Fisk, a former peddler and cotton smuggler, arrives in New York, along with his partners Nick and Luke, where he struggles to make his way through the treacherous world of Wall Street's financial markets.
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The Soldier and the Lady
🇷🇺 Russia The 19th CenturyIn the face of rebellion in Russia, Czar Alexander II sends soldier Michael Strogoff 2,000 miles away, with a critical message for Grand Duke Vladimir. On the train journey, Michael befriends a traveler and comes into contact with a mysterious spy, who both unexpectedly aid him in his quest. Once behind enemy lines, Michael is near his hometown and his mother, whom he must avoid in order to fulfill his mission.
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Lady Killer
🇫🇷 France The 1930sLucien Bourrache, a good looking non-commissioned officer at the Spahis, is used to charm many women. He met Madeleine Courtois at Cannes. She is beautiful and lives in luxury. He lends her a large amount of money, which she loses gambling. Then she drops him. But Lucien is now in love, and once demobilized, he goes to Paris to find her again. But he's not so sexy without his uniform, and Madeleine and him do not belong to the same milieu.
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Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal
🇹🇳 Tunisia 🇮🇹 Italy The 3rd Century BCFacist Italy's 1937 Spectacular Epic — A story of the Second Punic Wars, beginning with Scipio's futile pleas to the Roman Senate to build an army to battle Hannibal, that climaxes with the battle of Zama.
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The Spanish Earth
🇪🇸 Spain The 1930sA propaganda film made during the Spanish Civil War in support of the Republican government against the rebellion by Gen. Francisco Franco's forces who were backed by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. The film would have been seen by those making it as a documentary.
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Love Under Fire
🇪🇸 Spain The 1930sA supense-thriller-comedy set against the backdrop of the Spanish Civil War.
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The Road Back
🇩🇪 Germany The 1920s The 1910sFAREWELL WESTERN FRONT - HAIL YOUTH...AND LOVE! — After the First World War a group of German soldiers try to readjust to civilian life. A sequel to 'All Quiet on the Western Front'.
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