Films: Second World War

Director(s): Brown, Clarence, Ford, John, Renoir, Jean, Boulting, Roy, Lubitsch, Ernst, Hawks, Howard, Kobayashi, Masaki, Erickson, LeAnn, Fleischer, Richard, Masuda, Toshio, Fukasaku, Kinji
Year: 1941
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They Met in Bombay is a classic 1940s romantic comedy and heist film with strong leading roles for Clark Gable and Rosalind Russell, who portray rivals in the theft of a valuable gem as...

Director(s): Brown, Clarence, Ford, John, Renoir, Jean, Boulting, Roy, Lubitsch, Ernst, Hawks, Howard, Kobayashi, Masaki, Erickson, LeAnn, Fleischer, Richard, Masuda, Toshio, Fukasaku, Kinji
Year: 1945
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They Were Expendable is a 1945 American war film directed by John Ford, starring Robert Montgomery and John Wayne, and featuring Donna Reed. The film is based on the 1942 book by William...

Director(s): Brown, Clarence, Ford, John, Renoir, Jean, Boulting, Roy, Lubitsch, Ernst, Hawks, Howard, Kobayashi, Masaki, Erickson, LeAnn, Fleischer, Richard, Masuda, Toshio, Fukasaku, Kinji
Year: 1943
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This war propaganda film by director Jean Renoir offered American audiences a simplistic story of French resistance during World War II. In a Nazi-occupied European nation that appears similar to...

Director(s): Brown, Clarence, Ford, John, Renoir, Jean, Boulting, Roy, Lubitsch, Ernst, Hawks, Howard, Kobayashi, Masaki, Erickson, LeAnn, Fleischer, Richard, Masuda, Toshio, Fukasaku, Kinji
Year: 1942
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Thunder Rock is a 1942 British drama film directed by Roy Boulting, based on Robert Ardrey's 1939 play of the same titleAs the 1940s approach, British reporter David Charleston...

Director(s): Brown, Clarence, Ford, John, Renoir, Jean, Boulting, Roy, Lubitsch, Ernst, Hawks, Howard, Kobayashi, Masaki, Erickson, LeAnn, Fleischer, Richard, Masuda, Toshio, Fukasaku, Kinji
Year: 1942
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In this brilliant dark comedy, an acting troupe becomes entangled in espionage and the Polish resistance during World War II. Acting couple Joseph (Jack Benny) and Maria Tura (Carole Lombard) are...

Director(s): Brown, Clarence, Ford, John, Renoir, Jean, Boulting, Roy, Lubitsch, Ernst, Hawks, Howard, Kobayashi, Masaki, Erickson, LeAnn, Fleischer, Richard, Masuda, Toshio, Fukasaku, Kinji
Year: 1944
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Loosely based on an Ernest Hemingway novel of the same title, initially published in 1937, To Have and Have Not is a classic Hollywood film centered on the romance between a freelancing...

Director(s): Brown, Clarence, Ford, John, Renoir, Jean, Boulting, Roy, Lubitsch, Ernst, Hawks, Howard, Kobayashi, Masaki, Erickson, LeAnn, Fleischer, Richard, Masuda, Toshio, Fukasaku, Kinji
Year: 1983
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This epic documentary focuses on the International Military Tribunal for the Far East to invesigate and adjudicate on Japanese war crimes during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945) and World...

Director(s): Brown, Clarence, Ford, John, Renoir, Jean, Boulting, Roy, Lubitsch, Ernst, Hawks, Howard, Kobayashi, Masaki, Erickson, LeAnn, Fleischer, Richard, Masuda, Toshio, Fukasaku, Kinji
Year: 2010
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This documentary chronicles four American women mathematicians who worked as human computers at the University of Pennsylvania during World War II. Their work calculating ballistic analysis helped...

Director(s): Brown, Clarence, Ford, John, Renoir, Jean, Boulting, Roy, Lubitsch, Ernst, Hawks, Howard, Kobayashi, Masaki, Erickson, LeAnn, Fleischer, Richard, Masuda, Toshio, Fukasaku, Kinji
Year: 1970
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Tora! Tora! Tora! presents the American and Japanese perspectives on the days leading up to the bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941, which precipitated the entry of the United States...

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