Films: Second World War

Director(s): Wisbar, Frank, Launder, Frank, Hawks, Howard, Thompson, J. Lee, Denis, Jean-Pierre, Klimov, Elem, Dunne, Philip, Lean, David, Coward, Noel, Bouchareb, Rachid
Year: 1959
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This West German film uses the Battle of Stalingrad (August 1942 – February1943) in World War II to convey an anti-war and anti-Nazi message. A young and idealistic lieutenant of the German army...

Director(s): Wisbar, Frank, Launder, Frank, Hawks, Howard, Thompson, J. Lee, Denis, Jean-Pierre, Klimov, Elem, Dunne, Philip, Lean, David, Coward, Noel, Bouchareb, Rachid
Year: 1946
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Proud Irishwoman Bridie Quilty (Deborah Kerr) journeys to Dublin while World War II rages across Europe. During her travels she encounters J. Miller (Raymond Huntley), who recruits her as a Nazi...

Director(s): Wisbar, Frank, Launder, Frank, Hawks, Howard, Thompson, J. Lee, Denis, Jean-Pierre, Klimov, Elem, Dunne, Philip, Lean, David, Coward, Noel, Bouchareb, Rachid
Year: 1949
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The film was based on I Was an Alien Spouse of Female Military Personnel Enroute to the United States Under Pubic Law 271 of the Congress, a biography of Henri Rochard, a Belgian who...

Director(s): Wisbar, Frank, Launder, Frank, Hawks, Howard, Thompson, J. Lee, Denis, Jean-Pierre, Klimov, Elem, Dunne, Philip, Lean, David, Coward, Noel, Bouchareb, Rachid
Year: 1958
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Ice Cold in Alex is a 1958 British war film set during the Western Desert campaign of World War II based on the 1957 novel of the same name by Christopher Landon. A group of British...

Director(s): Wisbar, Frank, Launder, Frank, Hawks, Howard, Thompson, J. Lee, Denis, Jean-Pierre, Klimov, Elem, Dunne, Philip, Lean, David, Coward, Noel, Bouchareb, Rachid
Year: 2012
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Loosely based on the true story of Sister Marie-Philomène, this film reveals the precarious role women occupied in World War II. Sister Luce, a nun and nurse, falls in love with a French...

Director(s): Wisbar, Frank, Launder, Frank, Hawks, Howard, Thompson, J. Lee, Denis, Jean-Pierre, Klimov, Elem, Dunne, Philip, Lean, David, Coward, Noel, Bouchareb, Rachid
Year: 1985
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Come and See is a 1985 Soviet anti-war film, whose screenplay is based on the 1978 book I Am from the Fiery Village by three Belarusian writers, Ales Adamovich, Janka Bryl, and...

Director(s): Wisbar, Frank, Launder, Frank, Hawks, Howard, Thompson, J. Lee, Denis, Jean-Pierre, Klimov, Elem, Dunne, Philip, Lean, David, Coward, Noel, Bouchareb, Rachid
Year: 1958
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This film is based on the 1957 novel The Big War by Anton Myrer, who was a former Marine wounded during the Second Battle of Guam in 1944. The film follows three Marines who have shore...

Director(s): Wisbar, Frank, Launder, Frank, Hawks, Howard, Thompson, J. Lee, Denis, Jean-Pierre, Klimov, Elem, Dunne, Philip, Lean, David, Coward, Noel, Bouchareb, Rachid
Year: 1942
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Inspired by the destruction of the HMS Kelly during the Battle of Crete in May 1941, this British war propaganda film made with the assistance of the Ministry of Information in the midst of the...

Director(s): Wisbar, Frank, Launder, Frank, Hawks, Howard, Thompson, J. Lee, Denis, Jean-Pierre, Klimov, Elem, Dunne, Philip, Lean, David, Coward, Noel, Bouchareb, Rachid
Year: 2006
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Rachid Bouchareb's powerful film chronicles the journey of four North African soldiers who join the French army to help liberate France from Nazi occupation during World War II, thereby...

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