Films: Second World War

Director(s): Powell, Michael, Mankiewicz, Joseph L., Gorter, Jessica, Granier-Deferre, Denys, Ferraz, Vicente, Genfa, Wang, Pressburger, Emeric, Milestone, Lewis
Year: 1941
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This British-propaganda film from Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger presents the Battle of the Atlantic in World War II as an imminent threat to the United States. In the early days of World...

Director(s): Powell, Michael, Mankiewicz, Joseph L., Gorter, Jessica, Granier-Deferre, Denys, Ferraz, Vicente, Genfa, Wang, Pressburger, Emeric, Milestone, Lewis
Year: 1952
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Based on the 1950 book Operation Cicero by Ludwig Carl Moyzisch, Nazi commercial attaché at the German Embassy in Ankara (1943–44), this World War II film-noir reveals the duplicity of...

Director(s): Powell, Michael, Mankiewicz, Joseph L., Gorter, Jessica, Granier-Deferre, Denys, Ferraz, Vicente, Genfa, Wang, Pressburger, Emeric, Milestone, Lewis
Year: 2011
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A documentary that explores the myths and realities of the Siege of Leningrad during World War II, when the Germans and Russians fought for two-and-a-half years. It led to the death of one million...

Director(s): Powell, Michael, Mankiewicz, Joseph L., Gorter, Jessica, Granier-Deferre, Denys, Ferraz, Vicente, Genfa, Wang, Pressburger, Emeric, Milestone, Lewis
Year: 2004
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In German-occupied France during World War II, the Carlingue (the French Gestapo) recruited low level criminals to spy on those suspected of supporting the Resistance. One must choose to work for...

Director(s): Powell, Michael, Mankiewicz, Joseph L., Gorter, Jessica, Granier-Deferre, Denys, Ferraz, Vicente, Genfa, Wang, Pressburger, Emeric, Milestone, Lewis
Year: 2013
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The first film to dramatize Brazil's involvement in World War II, A Estrada 47 explores frailty and courage through a group of soldiers tasked with clearing landmines in northern Italy...

Director(s): Powell, Michael, Mankiewicz, Joseph L., Gorter, Jessica, Granier-Deferre, Denys, Ferraz, Vicente, Genfa, Wang, Pressburger, Emeric, Milestone, Lewis
Year: 2010
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An animated feature documents the experience of Jewish refugees in Japanese-occupied Shanghai during World War II. Two young refugees and an orphan explore the city as various wars and politics...

Director(s): Powell, Michael, Mankiewicz, Joseph L., Gorter, Jessica, Granier-Deferre, Denys, Ferraz, Vicente, Genfa, Wang, Pressburger, Emeric, Milestone, Lewis
Year: 1947
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This British fantasy-romance film explores life and death during World War II. British Air Force pilot Peter Carter (David Niven) is on his way home to England from a World War II bombing mission...

Director(s): Powell, Michael, Mankiewicz, Joseph L., Gorter, Jessica, Granier-Deferre, Denys, Ferraz, Vicente, Genfa, Wang, Pressburger, Emeric, Milestone, Lewis
Year: 1945
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A Walk in the Sun is a 1945 American war film based on the novel by Harry Brown, who was a writer for Yank, the Army Weekly based in England. The book was serialized in ...

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