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51. Under the Blood-Red Sun (2014)

Not Rated | 99 min | Drama, Family, History

December 7, 1941 - On a Sunday morning, TOMIKAZU (TOMI) NAKAJI and his best friend BILLY DAVIS are playing baseball in a field near their homes in Hawaii when the Japanese launch a surprise... See full summary »

Director: Tim Savage | Stars: Kyler Ki Sakamoto, Kalama Epstein, Dann Seki, Autumn Ogawa

Votes: 125

52. December 7th (1943)

Unrated | 82 min | Documentary, Action, Drama

"Docudrama" about the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941 and its results, the recovering of the ships, the improving of defense in Hawaii and the US efforts to beat back the Japanese reinforcements.

Directors: John Ford, Gregg Toland | Stars: Walter Huston, Harry Davenport, Dana Andrews, Paul Hurst

Votes: 1,012

53. Medal of Honor (2008 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 86 min | Documentary, History, War

The story of the Medal of Honor - the highest U.S. award for valor in combat - is told through personal accounts of bravery and daring.

Director: Roger Sherman | Stars: Stephen Lang, Alfre Woodard

Votes: 110

54. Remember Pearl Harbor (1942)

Approved | 75 min | Drama, Romance, War

On 16 November, 1941 at the La Dessa U. S. army post in the Philippines, a Japanese carrier ship off the coast transmits a coded message to the contraband radio of Nazi spies. The spies ... See full summary »

Director: Joseph Santley | Stars: Don 'Red' Barry, Alan Curtis, Fay McKenzie, Sig Ruman

Votes: 74

55. Taiheiyô no arashi (1960)

118 min | Drama, History, War

Lt. Koji Kitami is a navigator-bombardier in Japan's Naval Air Force. He participates in the Japanese raid on the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor in 1941 and is welcomed with pride in his ... See full summary »

Directors: Shûe Matsubayashi, Hugo Grimaldi | Stars: Yôsuke Natsuki, Toshirô Mifune, Kôji Tsuruta, Makoto Satô

Votes: 229

56. The Unknown Known (2013)

PG-13 | 103 min | Documentary, Biography, History

Former United States Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, discusses his career in Washington D.C. from his days as a congressman in the early 1960s to planning the invasion of Iraq in 2003.

Director: Errol Morris | Stars: Donald Rumsfeld, Errol Morris

Votes: 4,297 | Gross: $0.28M

57. Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault (2004 Video Game)

T | Action, Adventure, War

You play through the eyes of soldiers in various engagements of the Pacific Theatre of World War II.

Directors: Mo Davoudian, Ali Donovan | Stars: Dave Wittenberg, Will Friedle, Bart Tangredi, Chris Cox

Votes: 1,286

58. Ike: The War Years (1979)

Biography, Drama, War

Dramatization of the World War II years of Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Directors: Boris Sagal, Melville Shavelson | Stars: Robert Duvall, Lee Remick, Dana Andrews, J.D. Cannon

Votes: 190

59. The Little House (2014)

136 min | Drama, Romance

A woman looks back on her family's life in Tokyo before and during WWII. A maid arrives from the countryside to work for an upper middle class family. She fits in well, but everyone's emotions are stirred up with the arrival of a student.

Director: Yôji Yamada | Stars: Takako Matsu, Haru Kuroki, Isao Hashizume, Kazuko Yoshiyuki

Votes: 1,456

60. Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years (1977 TV Movie)

155 min | Biography, Drama

The story of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt during their 12-year stay at the White House.

Director: Daniel Petrie | Stars: Jane Alexander, Edward Herrmann, Priscilla Pointer, Walter McGinn

Votes: 344

61. WWII from Space (2012 TV Movie)

Documentary, History, War

The events of World War II from 1941 onward are depicted from the perspective of space.

Director: Simon George | Stars: Corey Johnson, Kevin Farrell, Geoffrey Wawro, Conrad Crane

Votes: 497

62. Medal of Honor: Rising Sun (2003 Video Game)

T | Action, Adventure, War

When the Japanese declare war on the United States of America with the attack on Pearl Harbour, Corporal Joseph D. "Joe" Griffin fights through the Pacific whilst on a mission to rescue his captured brother.

Stars: Dale Dye, Nick Jameson, Yuri Lowenthal, Mako

Votes: 1,187

63. I Was an American Spy (1951)

Approved | 85 min | Biography, Drama, War

During World War II, an American woman posing as an Italian cabaret owner spies on the Japanese in Manila but becomes the target of a suspicious Japanese intelligence officer.

Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Ann Dvorak, Gene Evans, Douglas Kennedy, Richard Loo

Votes: 280

64. Pearl Harbor, le monde s'embrase (2021 TV Movie)

90 min | Documentary, History, War

On December 7, 1941 at 7:53 A.M., a Japanese air squadron attacked the American fleet anchored in the waters of Pearl Harbor. The United States and its defensive strategy were struck right ... See full summary »

Director: David Korn-Brzoza | Star: Vincent Lindon

Votes: 61

65. World War II: Witness to War (2017)

TV-14 | Documentary, War

Stories of the men and women who survived World War II.

Stars: Liam Teeling, Sönke Neitzel, Lynette Nusbacher, Robert Tombs

Votes: 63

66. Design for Death (1947)

Approved | 48 min | Documentary

An Academy Award winner for best documentary, the film opens with a notice that..."Exhibition of confiscated Japanese film material authorized by permission of the Alien Property Custodian ... See full summary »

Director: Richard Fleischer | Stars: Kent Smith, Hans Conried

Votes: 48

67. Victory at Sea (1954)

Approved | 98 min | Documentary, War

A feature-length condensed version of the documentary TV series Victory at Sea (1952).

Director: Isaac Kleinerman | Stars: Alexander Scourby, Harold Alexander, Alan Brooke, Winston Churchill

Votes: 177

68. Minesweeper (1943)

Passed | 67 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

After deserting from the U.S. Navy in the 1930s, an officer re-enlists under a fake name after Pearl Harbor and serves on a minesweeper.

Director: William Berke | Stars: Richard Arlen, Jean Parker, Russell Hayden, Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams

Votes: 424

69. Fighting Coast Guard (1951)

Approved | 86 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

Story of how the Coast Guard trained to help win World War II.

Director: Joseph Kane | Stars: Brian Donlevy, Forrest Tucker, Ella Raines, John Russell

Votes: 127

70. The Navy Comes Through (1942)

Approved | 82 min | Drama, War

A U.S. Navy crew aboard a merchant marine ship battle Nazis.

Director: A. Edward Sutherland | Stars: Pat O'Brien, George Murphy, Jane Wyatt, Jackie Cooper

Votes: 406

71. Two Homelands (2019 TV Movie)

History

Kenji Amo is a 2nd generation Japanese-American. He was born in America but went to school in Japan. He returned to America to study at UCLA. Now, Kenji Amo works as a reporter for a newspaper in the Little Tokyo area of Los Angeles.

Director: Hideta Takahata | Stars: Robert Anderson, Antonio Angelov, Yumi Asô, Thane Camus

Votes: 72

72. Careful, Soft Shoulders (1942)

Approved | 69 min | Comedy, Romance, War

At a December 7, 1941 Washington cocktail party, Connie Mathew is not amused by the romantic advances of playboy Tommy Aldrich, son of an important Navy consultant. The party is shocked by ... See full summary »

Director: Oliver H.P. Garrett | Stars: Virginia Bruce, James Ellison, Aubrey Mather, Sheila Ryan

Votes: 57

73. We've Never Been Licked (1943)

Approved | 103 min | Action, Drama, Romance

WWII morale film for Texas A&M graduates fighting overseas. Young Brad Craig (Langton) enters the military school with a chip on his shoulder which Mitchum and other upperclassmen quickly ... See full summary »

Director: John Rawlins | Stars: Richard Quine, Anne Gwynne, Martha O'Driscoll, Noah Beery Jr.

Votes: 192

74. When Hell Broke Loose (1958)

Approved | 78 min | Drama, War

In 1945, a GI falls in love with a German woman while elite German troops in U.S.uniforms carry out sabotage and assassinations behind American lines.

Director: Kenneth G. Crane | Stars: Charles Bronson, Richard Jaeckel, Violet Rensing, Robert Easton

Votes: 324

75. First Yank Into Tokyo (1945)

Approved | 82 min | Action, Drama, Romance

An American agent undergoes plastic surgery to make him look Japanese so he can infiltrate Japan and help to free an American POW.

Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: Tom Neal, Barbara Hale, Marc Cramer, Richard Loo

Votes: 271

76. All This and World War II (1976)

PG | 88 min | Documentary, History, Music

WWII newsreel footage intercut with Beatles songs performed by other artists like Helen Reddy and Rod Stewart, juxtaposing the music with war imagery.

Director: Susan Winslow | Stars: Milton Berle, Humphrey Bogart, William C. Bullitt, Winston Churchill

Votes: 217

77. Price for Peace (2002)

Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary, History, War

This powerful and thought provoking film chronicles the compelling events in the Pacific Theater of WWII, from the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941 to the American occupation of Japan in ... See full summary »

Director: James Moll | Stars: Zenji Abe, Stephen Ambrose, Hal Braun, Jeanne Doll Dolan

Votes: 312

78. Taiheiyô no washi (1953)

119 min | Drama, History, War

Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his grave misgivings about leading Japan's navy into war with the United States. He ... See full summary »

Director: Ishirô Honda | Stars: Denjirô Ôkôchi, Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi, Masao Shimizu, Eijirô Yanagi

Votes: 124

79. City Without Men (1943)

Approved | 75 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A young woman's husband has been imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit. In order to be near him to try to help him get his sentence overturned, she moves into a boardinghouse near the prison whose residents are the wives of inmates.

Director: Sidney Salkow | Stars: Linda Darnell, Edgar Buchanan, Michael Duane, Sara Allgood

Votes: 175

80. Wake Island: Alamo of the Pacific (2003 TV Movie)

TV-G | 105 min | Documentary, History, War

This documentary is a captivating account of the defense of Wake Island by a small contingent of United States Marines and civilian contractors. From December 8th until December 23rd, 1941 ... See full summary »

Director: Craig Haffner | Stars: Brad Borman, John R. Dale, Robert F. Haidinger, Ralph J. Holewinski

Votes: 70

81. Vietnam: A Television History (1983– )

660 min | Documentary, History, War

An in-depth look at the Vietnam War.

Stars: Will Lyman, Henry Kissinger, William C. Westmoreland, Dean Rusk

Votes: 335

82. Submarine Raider (1942)

Approved | 64 min | Drama, War

An American yacht is sunk by a Japanese submarine on its way to Pearl Harbour, and when the single survivor is picked up by a US submarine, the commander tries desperately to warn the mainland of the imminent attack.

Directors: Lew Landers, Budd Boetticher | Stars: John Howard, Marguerite Chapman, Bruce Bennett, Warren Ashe

Votes: 207

83. Doolittle's Raiders: A Final Toast (2015 Video)

TV-PG | 60 min | Documentary

A detailed look at the Doolittle Raid, and the final official public reunion of the surviving Raiders.

Director: Tim Gray | Stars: Tom Kane, Buzz Aldrin, Henry H. Arnold, Richard E. Cole

Votes: 16

84. Puraido: Unmei no toki (1998)

161 min | Drama, History, War

In 1946, Prime Minister Hideki Tojo and twenty-seven other Japanese officials stood trial for war crimes at the Tokyo Trial. This is their story.

Director: Shun'ya Itô | Stars: Masahiko Tsugawa, Scott Wilson, Ronny Cox, Gitan Ôtsuru

Votes: 102

85. Unsung Heroes of Pearl Harbor (2001 TV Movie)

48 min | Documentary, War

Documentary of the little-known Americans who defended Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

Director: Sammy Jackson | Stars: Fritz Weaver, Joseph Alexander, Edward L. Beach, Arthur Kent

Votes: 50

86. Texas to Bataan (1942)

Approved | 56 min | Drama, War, Western

In the 17th of the 24 films in Monogram's "Range Buster" series, Texas ranch owner Conroy returns from Washington with an order for horses to be shipped to the Philippines. The Range ... See full summary »

Director: Robert Emmett Tansey | Stars: John 'Dusty' King, David Sharpe, Max Terhune, Elmer

Votes: 111

87. Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years (1997 TV Movie)

TV-G | 150 min | Documentary

The first half century of Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation from its beginnings under Hungarian immigrant William Fox to it emergence as a major studio.

Director: Kevin Burns | Stars: James Coburn, Julie Andrews, David Brown, Red Buttons

Votes: 141

88. Tora Tora Tora: The Real Story of Pearl Harbor (2000 TV Movie)

Documentary, History, War

An examination of the 1941 air raid on the US naval base.

Director: Laura Verklan | Stars: Yoshio Shiga, John Finn, Donald Stratton, Richard Fiske

Votes: 55

89. Peace, War and 9/11 (2023)

TV-14 | 93 min | Documentary, History

In a wide-ranging interview filmed six months before his passing, eminent scholar and lifelong peace activist Graeme MacQueen shares his final words on 9/11 and the 2001 anthrax attacks.

Directors: Richard Heap, Ted Walter | Stars: George W. Bush, Wesley Clark, John Gross, Richard Hamburger

Votes: 35

90. Return to Hardwick (2019)

PG | 73 min | Documentary, History, War

Sons, daughters and grandchildren of the greatest generation travel to England to uncover the history of a disappearing World War II air base.

Director: Michael Sellers | Stars: Michael Cudlitz, Jim Adams, Sherman Alpert, John Archer

Votes: 36

91. Secret Agent of Japan (1942)

Passed | 72 min | Mystery, Romance, Thriller

Kay Murdock (Lynn Bari) strolls into the Dixie Bar in Shanghai on November 1, 1941 and asks the bartender for a letter addressed to Captain Larsen, and is referred to Roy Bonnell (Preston ... See full summary »

Director: Irving Pichel | Stars: Preston Foster, Lynn Bari, Noel Madison, Victor Sen Yung

Votes: 121

92. Battle of Midway: The True Story (2019 TV Special)

50 min | Documentary, History, War

It was one of the largest naval engagements ever and a turning point in WWII. The Battle of Midway changed the face of warfare and made victory in the Pacific possible.

Stars: Timothy Orr, Hill Goodspeed, Ian W. Toll, Laura Lawfer Orr

Votes: 16

93. False Alarm (2021)

53 min | Documentary

The surreal, traumatic, and revelatory fallout from the morning when everyone on Hawai'i thought a nuclear missile strike was imminent.

Director: Nick Lyell

Votes: 12

94. The Bataan Death March (2021)

15 min | Documentary, Short

Within hours of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, bombs rained down on U.S. and Filipino forces in the Philippines. After months of vicious fighting allied forces surrendered on the ... See full summary »

Director: Jesse Collier Sutterley | Stars: Maria Botista Cervantes, Cecilia Gaerlan, Trevor Getz, Robert Hudson

95. Momotarô's Sea Eagles (1943)

37 min | Animation, Short, Fantasy

Featuring the "Peach Boy", character of Japanese folklore, the film is aimed at children, telling the story of a naval unit consisting of the human Momotarô and several animal species ... See full summary »

Director: Mitsuyo Seo

Votes: 94

96. Small Town Conspiracy (2002)

91 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

When a young Japanese woman is found murdered outside a small Florida town in December of 1941, hard-drinking police chief John Haleran sets out to unravel the mystery. A trail of cryptic ... See full summary »

Director: Ralph Clemente | Stars: Zen Gesner, Jeannetta Arnette, William Morgan Sheppard, James Bates Jr.

Votes: 127

97. Black Fox: The True Story of Adolf Hitler (1962)

89 min | Documentary, Biography, History

The rise and fall of Nazi Germany in part through the use of classical allegory.

Director: Louis Clyde Stoumen | Stars: Marlene Dietrich, Adolf Hitler

Votes: 211

98. Drain the Ocean: WWII (2016 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 44 min | Documentary, History

World War II left the greatest-ever number of ships and submarines hidden beneath the waves. Now, as the oceans drain, each vessel reveals its secrets through new data-based 3D ... See full summary »

Director: Mike Slee | Stars: Russell Boulter, James Delgado, Herbert Weatherwax, Scott Pawlowski

Votes: 194

99. Pearl Harbor: Death of the Arizona (2001 TV Movie)

60 min | Documentary, History, War

Documentary about events at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

Director: Erik Nelson | Star: Stockard Channing

Votes: 20

100. Untold Stories of World War II (1998 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 53 min | Documentary, History, War

Showcases 3 major events during World War 2 involving both the Europeans & Pacific conflicts. The Raids to destroy Nazi Germany's heavy water production based in Norway, plus the final ... See full summary »

Director: Stephen Burns | Stars: Ron David, James Delgado, Knut Haugland, Claus Helberg

Votes: 59