Films: Second World War

Director(s): Curtiz, Michael, Alexandre Arcady, Cech, Vladimir, Armstrong, Gillian, Okamoto, Kihachi, Satsuki Ina, Borzage, Frank, Attenborough, Richard, Dong, Arthur, Peckinpah, Sam, Feng, Xiao
Year: 1942
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This 1942 romantic drama by Michael Curtiz won an Oscar for Best Picture. It is based on Murray Burnett and Joan Alison's unproduced stage play, Everybody Comes to Rick's, and stars...

Director(s): Curtiz, Michael, Alexandre Arcady, Cech, Vladimir, Armstrong, Gillian, Okamoto, Kihachi, Satsuki Ina, Borzage, Frank, Attenborough, Richard, Dong, Arthur, Peckinpah, Sam, Feng, Xiao
Year: 2012
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Algeria under French colonization, in the 1930s. Younes is 9 years old when he is put in the care of his uncle, a pharmacist in the city of Oran. Rebaptized Jonas, he grows up among the kids of...

Director(s): Curtiz, Michael, Alexandre Arcady, Cech, Vladimir, Armstrong, Gillian, Okamoto, Kihachi, Satsuki Ina, Borzage, Frank, Attenborough, Richard, Dong, Arthur, Peckinpah, Sam, Feng, Xiao
Year: 1958
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This film is the story of young Czech Václav Malý (Jaroslav Mares) who, having survived a concentration camp during the Holocaust and the deaths of his father and sister, joins the French Foreign...

Director(s): Curtiz, Michael, Alexandre Arcady, Cech, Vladimir, Armstrong, Gillian, Okamoto, Kihachi, Satsuki Ina, Borzage, Frank, Attenborough, Richard, Dong, Arthur, Peckinpah, Sam, Feng, Xiao
Year: 2001
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Based on a novel of the same name by Sebastian Faulks, this fictional story points to the true and heroic contributions of British women spies in France during World War II. Charlotte has been...

Director(s): Curtiz, Michael, Alexandre Arcady, Cech, Vladimir, Armstrong, Gillian, Okamoto, Kihachi, Satsuki Ina, Borzage, Frank, Attenborough, Richard, Dong, Arthur, Peckinpah, Sam, Feng, Xiao
Year: 1965
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Towards the end of the Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945), a decorated yet rebellious young sergeant must repent for his numerous acts of insubordination. Kosugi leads a group of inexperienced soldiers...

Director(s): Curtiz, Michael, Alexandre Arcady, Cech, Vladimir, Armstrong, Gillian, Okamoto, Kihachi, Satsuki Ina, Borzage, Frank, Attenborough, Richard, Dong, Arthur, Peckinpah, Sam, Feng, Xiao
Year: 1999
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More than 120,000 Japanese Americans were interned behind barbed wire during World War II - over half were children. This documentary captures the experiences of six Americans of Japanese ancestry...

Director(s): Curtiz, Michael, Alexandre Arcady, Cech, Vladimir, Armstrong, Gillian, Okamoto, Kihachi, Satsuki Ina, Borzage, Frank, Attenborough, Richard, Dong, Arthur, Peckinpah, Sam, Feng, Xiao
Year: 1958
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After a decade's absence in filmmaking, two-time Oscar-winning director Frank Borzage returned with China Doll. Set in the China Burma India theatre during World War II, Pilot Cliff...

Director(s): Curtiz, Michael, Alexandre Arcady, Cech, Vladimir, Armstrong, Gillian, Okamoto, Kihachi, Satsuki Ina, Borzage, Frank, Attenborough, Richard, Dong, Arthur, Peckinpah, Sam, Feng, Xiao
Year: 2007
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World War II. On June 1, 1944, a United States bomber pilot crashes onto the Cave Hill just outside of Belfast in Northern Ireland. He lives long enough to give a ring to a stranger and asks that...

Director(s): Curtiz, Michael, Alexandre Arcady, Cech, Vladimir, Armstrong, Gillian, Okamoto, Kihachi, Satsuki Ina, Borzage, Frank, Attenborough, Richard, Dong, Arthur, Peckinpah, Sam, Feng, Xiao
Year: 1994
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This Peabody Award-winning documentary reveals the experiences of gays and lesbians in the American military during World War II. It is based on the 1990 book Coming Out Under Fire by...

Director(s): Curtiz, Michael, Alexandre Arcady, Cech, Vladimir, Armstrong, Gillian, Okamoto, Kihachi, Satsuki Ina, Borzage, Frank, Attenborough, Richard, Dong, Arthur, Peckinpah, Sam, Feng, Xiao
Year: 1977
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Class conflict, greed, and blackmail characterize this film about German troops on the eastern front during World War II, directed by Sam Peckinpash. Stransky (Maximilian Schell), an aristocratic...

Director(s): Curtiz, Michael, Alexandre Arcady, Cech, Vladimir, Armstrong, Gillian, Okamoto, Kihachi, Satsuki Ina, Borzage, Frank, Attenborough, Richard, Dong, Arthur, Peckinpah, Sam, Feng, Xiao
Year: 2018
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This Chinese action war drama film directed by Xiao Feng about the massive Japanese bombing of the Chinese city Chongqing, capital of General Chiang Kai-shek's provisional government, from...

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