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51. Falling Hare (1943)
Approved | 8 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
Bugs encounters wartime sabotage and takes to the air to do battle.
Director: Robert Clampett | Stars: Mel Blanc, Robert Clampett
Votes: 1,484
52. Yankee Buccaneer (1952)
Approved | 86 min | Adventure, History, Romance
Captain David Porter of the fledgling American Navy receives orders to masquerade as a privateer in order to corral some Caribbean pirates.
Director: Frederick De Cordova | Stars: Jeff Chandler, Scott Brady, Suzan Ball, Joseph Calleia
Votes: 366
53. Bert & Dickie (2012)
TV-PG | 89 min | Biography, Drama, History
Thrown together just five weeks before the final of the 1948 London Olympics, Bert Bushnell and Dickie Burnell row together in the the double sculls.
Director: David Blair | Stars: Matt Smith, Sam Hoare, James Frain, Douglas Hodge
Votes: 380
54. Gildersleeve on Broadway (1943)
Passed | 65 min | Comedy
On a mission to New York, two women pursue Gildersleeve...then his fiancée shows up.
Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: Harold Peary, Billie Burke, Claire Carleton, Richard LeGrand
Votes: 320
55. The Count of the Old Town (1935)
Not Rated | 83 min | Comedy, Romance
In one of the narrow streets of the Old town of Stockholm lies hotel City. It's inhabited by mysterious characters such as 'Greven', 'Blomman' and others. The police inspector Göransson is chasing a jewel thief, 'Diamond-Lasse'.
Directors: Edvin Adolphson, Sigurd Wallén | Stars: Valdemar Dalquist, Julia Cæsar, Sigurd Wallén, Tollie Zellman
Votes: 402
56. Cinderella Jones (1946)
Passed | 90 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
Judy Jones, sings with a band and also works at an aircraft plant. She takes part in a "missing heirs" radio program and is discovered to be an heiress to a fortune. But the will provides ... See full summary »
Director: Busby Berkeley | Stars: Joan Leslie, Robert Alda, Julie Bishop, William Prince
Votes: 299
57. Heatwave! (1974 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
The residents of an isolated mountain town must band together to survive during a devastating heat wave.
Director: Jerry Jameson | Stars: Ben Murphy, Bonnie Bedelia, Lew Ayres, David Huddleston
Votes: 208
58. X Marks the Spot (1942)
Approved | 55 min | Action, Crime, Mystery
In 1942, rubber is a valuable commodity during WWII. Eddie Delaney is a second lieutenant in the Army, but also a private detective. Eddie swings into action, when his father, ... See full summary »
Director: George Sherman | Stars: Dick Purcell, Helen Parrish, Neil Hamilton, Jack La Rue
Votes: 292
59. Girl Trouble (1942)
Approved | 81 min | Comedy, Romance
A South American in New York rents the apartment of a socialite who pretends to be his maid.
Director: Harold D. Schuster | Stars: Don Ameche, Joan Bennett, Billie Burke, Frank Craven
Votes: 172
60. Rationing (1944)
Passed | 93 min | Comedy, Romance, War
A village butcher bickers with the postmistress in charge of World War II ration stamps.
Director: Willis Goldbeck | Stars: Wallace Beery, Marjorie Main, Donald Meek, Dorothy Morris
Votes: 274
61. Eden (2016–2017)
Reality-TV
Reality series filmed over the course of a year on an isolated Scottish peninsula that has been cut off from the rest of the country. 23 men and women try to build a new life and a new society from scratch.
Stars: Katie Tunn, Louisa Harland, Paul McGann, Anton Wright
Votes: 63
62. Moonlight in Vermont (1943)
Approved | 62 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
A poor country girl from Vermont travels to New York City to attend a theatrical school.
Director: Edward C. Lilley | Stars: Gloria Jean, Ray Malone, George Dolenz, Fay Helm
Votes: 53
63. Rubber Racketeers (1942)
Approved | 67 min | Drama
Gilin, is just released from prison and now that the government has clamped down on the sale of tires, decides to enter the tire-stealing-for-resell racket. Driving home, he has a car wreck... See full summary »
Director: Harold Young | Stars: Ricardo Cortez, Rochelle Hudson, William Henry, Barbara Read
Votes: 108
64. An Itch in Time (1943)
Approved | 8 min | Family, Animation, Short
Elmer threatens to give his dog a bath if he doesn't stop scratching, but the poor pooch is the victim of a hungry flea whose tools of the trade include pickaxes and dynamite.
Director: Robert Clampett | Stars: Sara Berner, Mel Blanc, Arthur Q. Bryan
Votes: 668
65. Blondie for Victory (1942)
Passed | 71 min | Comedy, Family, War
Blondie organizes Housewives of America to perform homefront wartime duties, including guarding the local dam. Dagwood and the other husbands don't care to be left home doing the cooking ... See full summary »
Director: Frank R. Strayer | Stars: Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake, Larry Simms, Daisy
Votes: 211
66. Thumbs Up (1943)
Approved | 67 min | Musical
A young American girl sings in an American style night club in London. She's about to quit when she hears about a West End show to be made up of talent culled from war factory workers. She ... See full summary »
Director: Joseph Santley | Stars: Brenda Joyce, Richard Fraser, Elsa Lanchester, Arthur Margetson
Votes: 78
67. Lentävä kalakukko (1953)
66 min | Comedy, Crime, Musical
Robbers try to escape using a train from Helsinki to Kuopio.
Director: Ville Salminen | Stars: Esa Pakarinen, Mai-Brit Heljo, Siiri Angerkoski, Kullervo Kalske
Votes: 236
68. The Boss of Big Town (1942)
Approved | 62 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A criminal plot to control produce and dairy products during the wartime emergency is foiled by a courageous undercover city market official.
Director: Arthur Dreifuss | Stars: John Litel, Florence Rice, H.B. Warner, John Miljan
Votes: 117
69. Three Little Sisters (1944)
Approved | 69 min | Comedy, Romance, War
One loved a soldier. One loved a sailor and one...loved a Marine.
Director: Joseph Santley | Stars: Mary Lee, Ruth Terry, Cheryl Walker, William Terry
Votes: 22
70. Sea Salts (1949)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
An elderly beetle recalls his long partnership with sea captain Donald, beginning with their time shipwrecked on a desert island.
Director: Jack Hannah | Stars: Clarence Nash, Dink Trout
Votes: 401
71. Land and Live in the Desert (1945)
Not Rated | 35 min | Short, War
Documentary short film depicting the correct methods of surviving the crash landing of a military aircraft in the desert. Methods of conserving water, providing shelter, and signaling for help are depicted.
Stars: John Beal, Wally Cassell, Robert Foulk, Van Heflin
Votes: 37
72. And Then They Forgot God (1971 TV Movie)
29 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
"And Then They Forgot God" is set in a dystopian future, one in which the environment has suffered and people must navigate extremely bureaucratic and rigid rules and procedures.
Directors: Taylor Byars, Sy Salkowitz | Stars: Joseph Campanella, Beverly Garland, Johnny Seven, Howard Morris
Votes: 18
73. Vi mötte stormen (1943)
77 min | Drama, War
News reel film sequences from September 1938 until the end of 1942, integrated with the fictive Swedish family Söderberg in their everyday life at home and the changes, because of the escalating war, that are brought upon them.
Director: Bengt Janzon | Stars: Stig Järrel, Emy Hagman, Anna-Lisa Baude, Hampe Faustman
Votes: 43
74. Priorities on Parade (1942)
Approved | 79 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Troupers (Ann Miller, Johnnie Johnston, Jerry Colonna) put on a swing show in a World War II aircraft plant.
Director: Albert S. Rogell | Stars: Ann Miller, Johnny Johnston, Jerry Colonna, Betty Jane Rhodes
Votes: 39
75. Hi, Neighbor (1942)
Passed | 72 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
On graduation day at the Hattie Greenfield Agricultural College, crabby Hattie, who donated the land and buildings for the college twenty-one years previously, is angered by the students' ... See full synopsis »
Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Jean Parker, John Archer, Janet Beecher, Marilyn Hare
Votes: 10
76. What a Blonde (1945)
Passed | 71 min | Comedy, Romance
Lingerie tycoon F. Farrington Fowler is in a spot as he has ran out of gas-ration coupons. He enlists his butler, Pomeroy, to drum up riders so that he can get extra coupons from the ration... See full summary »
Director: Leslie Goodwins | Stars: Leon Errol, Richard Lane, Michael St. Angel, Elaine Riley
Votes: 108
77. Ration Fer the Duration (1943)
8 min | Animation, Comedy, Short
Popeye's planting a victory garden while his nephews are collecting worms for fishing. He berates them for wasting time, and tells them the story of Jack and the Beanstalk, which inspires ... See full summary »
Directors: Seymour Kneitel, Dave Tendlar | Star: Jack Mercer
Votes: 139
78. Point Rationing of Foods (1943)
6 min | Documentary, Animation, Short
Animated documentary short film demonstrating the reasons and methods of the point system of wartime food rationing.
Director: Chuck Jones | Star: Robert C. Bruce
Votes: 151
79. Love's Gonna Be Rationed (1943)
3 min | Short, Music
War-time song that likens hugs, kisses and love to other commodities (e.g., gasoline, tires) that were rationed during WWII.
Director: William Forest Crouch | Star: The Song Spinners
Votes: 23
80. Behind the Tunes: Looney Tunes Go to War! (2005 Video)
10 min | Documentary, Animation, Short
A documentary about the Looney Tunes war cartoons.
Directors: Robert Clampett, Friz Freleng, Chuck Jones, Frank Tashlin | Stars: Leonard Maltin, Paul Dini, Jerry Beck, Mark Kausler
Votes: 52
81. Country Town (1945)
17 min | Documentary, Short
Life and industry in a Lincolnshire town.
Director: Julian Wintle | Star: Philip Robinson
Votes: 6
82. The Friendship Train (1948)
14 min | Documentary, Short, Family
Two years after the end of World War II, many people in France and Italy were still ill-fed. Washington newspaper columnist Drew Pearson decided to launch a program that would help feed ... See full summary »
Stars: Eddie Cantor, Harry M. Warner, Charles Luckman, Earl Warren
Votes: 72
83. London 1942 (1943)
14 min | Documentary, Short
Propaganda short about the capital's efforts to adapt to the third year of war.
Director: Ken Annakin | Stars: Robert Speaight, Bill Owen
Votes: 9
84. Fresh Laid Plans (1951)
9 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A comedy of errors befalls a chicken community as a result of trying an owl-professor's "crackpot" ideas on price guarantees, farm payment, consumer subsidies, rationing, black market policing and taxation to pay the costs.
Director: George Gordon | Stars: Bea Benaderet, Daws Butler, Pinto Colvig, Joseph Kearns
Votes: 17
85. My Tomato (1943)
Approved | 8 min | Comedy, Short
Joe Doakes is lamenting to his wife the lack of variety in his meals. In particular, he misses eating stewed tomatoes, the fruit which he believes incorrectly is being rationed as a war ... See full summary »
Director: Will Jason | Stars: Robert Benchley, John Butler, Monte Collins, John Dilson
Votes: 155
86. Strictly G.I. (1943)
Approved | 20 min | Short, Comedy, Music
A filmed broadcast of the Command Performance radio programs in which various Hollywood stars appeared and performed in accordance with letter requests from American service men stationed ... See full summary »
Stars: Bob Hope, Betty Hutton, Lana Turner, Judy Garland
Votes: 133
87. Royal Family at War (1995 TV Movie)
90 min | Documentary
Directors: Andrew Barr, Paul Slater | Stars: Peter Williams, Nick Curtis, Sir Jeffrey Darell, Cyril Dickman
Votes: 13
88. Yhteinen vaimomme (1956)
88 min | Comedy
Director: Valentin Vaala | Stars: Marjatta Kallio, Kosti Klemelä, Eero Eloranta, Anneli Haahdenmaa
Votes: 57
90. Prices Unlimited (1944)
10 min | Short, War
Two young women, frustrated by war rationing, have a dream illustrating the likely results on prices in America should the measure were prematurely lifted.
Director: Erle C. Kenton | Stars: Leon Errol, Martha O'Driscoll, Lois Collier, Milburn Stone
Votes: 11
91. Hallitus - kansan palvelija (1949)
11 min | Documentary, Short
Director: Topo Leistelä | Stars: Karl-August Fagerholm, Onni Toivonen, Matti Lepistö, Uuno Takki
92. C-V News: Filming Greed (1923)
Not Rated | 4 min | Short, News
C-V News follows the cast and crew of "Greed" (1925) into Death Valley while filming the infamous closing scenes in 150+ degree heat in 1923 at the height of the summer.
Stars: Eve Bessette, William H. Daniels, Gibson Gowland, Jean Hersholt
Votes: 40
94. Food and Magic (1943)
10 min | Documentary, Short
A sideshow barker uses magic and visual aids to alert the public that proper food management is both a resource and a weapon that could be to America's advantage if conserved properly in winning the then current World War.
Director: Jean Negulesco | Stars: Jack Carson, Faye Emerson, Fred Kelsey, Bill Kennedy
Votes: 51
95. The Old Homestead (1942)
Approved | 67 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Another in the series of films Republic made from 1939 to 1944 headlining the rustic family musical group known as "The Weaver Brothers and Elviry." In real life, June Weaver (Elviry) was ... See full summary »
Director: Frank McDonald | Stars: Leon Weaver, Frank Weaver, June Weaver, Dick Purcell
96. It's Up to You (1942)
10 min | Documentary, Short
As an overworked farmer insists that wartime food demands be managed, a woman is confronted by her conscience about the need to obey the food rationing rules.
Director: Henwar Rodakiewicz
97. Wellington Bomber (2010 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 59 min | Documentary, War
Archival footage and interviews with Flt. Lt. Rupert "Tiny" Cooling distinguish this fascinating documentary special on the preeminent British bomber of the Second World War: the Wellington.
Director: Peter Williams
Votes: 10
98. Wartime Nutrition (1943)
10 min | Documentary, Short
World War II American propaganda film emphasizing the importance of nutrition and following wartime rationing.
Star: Thomas Parran
Votes: 5
100. Rationing in Britain (1945)
11 min | Documentary, Short
An explanation for American audiences of what rationing means to ordinary British families.
Director: Graham Cutts | Stars: Mary Welsh Monks, Moore Marriott