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1. Passage to Marseille (1944)
Passed | 109 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
Five patriotic convicts are helped to escape imprisonment in Devil's Island so they can fight for occupied Free French forces against the Nazis.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Claude Rains, Michèle Morgan, Philip Dorn
Votes: 5,047
2. Task Force (1949)
Approved | 116 min | Drama, War
As he is retiring, Jonathan L. Scott "Scotty" reminisces about his long Navy career and the development of the role of the aircraft carrier from the early 20s.
Director: Delmer Daves | Stars: Gary Cooper, Jane Wyatt, Wayne Morris, Walter Brennan
Votes: 1,191
3. Days of Glory (1944)
Approved | 86 min | Drama, Romance, War
A heroic guerrilla group fights back against impossible odds during the 1941 German invasion of the Soviet Union.
Director: Jacques Tourneur | Stars: Gregory Peck, Tamara Toumanova, Alan Reed, Maria Palmer
Votes: 1,443
4. Der Fuehrer's Face (1942)
Approved | 8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Donald Duck has a nightmare that he lives in Germany slaving under the Nazi regime.
Directors: Jack Kinney, Ben Sharpsteen | Stars: Pinto Colvig, Charles Judels, Billy Bletcher, Clarence Nash
Votes: 4,634
5. Reunion in France (1942)
Passed | 104 min | Drama, Romance, War
In German-occupied Paris, a Frenchwoman tries to help smuggle a downed RAF pilot into Portugal despite strict surveillance by suspicious Gestapo officers.
Director: Jules Dassin | Stars: Joan Crawford, John Wayne, Philip Dorn, Reginald Owen
Votes: 1,893
6. Why We Fight (1942)
Not Rated | 52 min | Documentary, War
The official World War II US Government film statement defining the various enemies of the Allies and why they must be fought.
Directors: Frank Capra, Anatole Litvak | Stars: Walter Huston, Victor Bulwer-Lytton, Kai-Shek Chiang, Walter Darré
Votes: 2,413
7. Spy Smasher (1942)
Passed | 215 min | Action, Adventure, Family
Alan Armstrong, aka Spy Smasher, battles a Nazi villain known as The Mask, who heads a gang of saboteurs determined to spread destruction across America.
Director: William Witney | Stars: Kane Richmond, Marguerite Chapman, Sam Flint, Hans Schumm
Votes: 414
8. Yellow Canary (1943)
Approved | 84 min | Drama, Thriller
A woman wrongfully accused of being a Nazi sympathizer is forced to move to Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Director: Herbert Wilcox | Stars: Anna Neagle, Richard Greene, Nova Pilbeam, Albert Lieven
Votes: 745
9. So Ends Our Night (1941)
TV-PG | 117 min | Drama, War
Story about three German refugees during World War II who are always hiding, always in fear of deportation.
Director: John Cromwell | Stars: Fredric March, Margaret Sullavan, Frances Dee, Glenn Ford
Votes: 650
10. A German Life (2016)
107 min | Documentary, Biography
Brunhilde Pomsel describes herself as an "apolitical girl" and a "figure on the margins," but she got closer to one of the worst criminals in world history than anyone else left alive. ... See full summary »
Directors: Christian Krönes, Olaf S. Müller, Roland Schrotthofer, Florian Weigensamer | Star: Brunhilde Pomsel
Votes: 452
11. Gangway for Tomorrow (1943)
Approved | 69 min | Drama
On the way to work, five defence workers contemplate their pasts and their own reasons for working.
Director: John H. Auer | Stars: Margo, John Carradine, Robert Ryan, Amelita Ward
Votes: 305
12. Nazi Agent (1942)
Approved | 83 min | Crime, Drama
A story of German-born identical twins (both played by Conrad Veidt), one a loyal American, and the other, a Nazi official.
Director: Jules Dassin | Stars: Conrad Veidt, Ann Ayars, Frank Reicher, Dorothy Tree
Votes: 804
13. Manila Calling (1942)
Approved | 81 min | Drama, War
During the Japanese invasion of the Philippines, a few Americans and a Filipino guerrilla unit seize a Japanese jungle base and use the radio transmitter to broadcast anti-Japanese propaganda, prompting retaliatory Japanese attacks.
Director: Herbert I. Leeds | Stars: Lloyd Nolan, Carole Landis, Cornel Wilde, James Gleason
Votes: 181
14. Three Hearts for Julia (1943)
Approved | 83 min | Comedy, War
World War II home front romantic comedy in which a war correspondent's wife wants a divorce along with his help in choosing her next husband.
Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Ann Sothern, Melvyn Douglas, Lee Bowman, Richard Ainley
Votes: 262
15. Atlantic Convoy (1942)
Approved | 66 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
German agents infiltrate an Iceland port used by the US Navy for anti-sub patrols protecting convoys. Their goal is to block the harbor and trap the patrols. The officers in charge must stop the plot before the subs are left unchecked.
Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Bruce Bennett, Virginia Field, John Beal, Clifford Severn
Votes: 113
16. Counter-Espionage (1942)
Approved | 73 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
The Lone Wolf tracks down German spies in London during the German bombing.
Director: Edward Dmytryk | Stars: Warren William, Eric Blore, Hillary Brooke, Thurston Hall
Votes: 370
17. Don't Be a Sucker (1943)
Approved | 18 min | Short, History, War
Propaganda short film depicting the rise of Nazism in Germany and how political propaganda is similarly used in the United States to recruit Nazi sympathizers from the ranks of American racists.
Stars: Lloyd Nolan, Robert Adler, Richard Alexander, Robert Bailey
Votes: 352
18. This England (1941)
Approved | 84 min | Drama, History, Romance
A visiting American woman is shown how the people of an English village responded to invasions and threats through four historical vignettes.
Director: David MacDonald | Stars: Emlyn Williams, John Clements, Constance Cummings, Frank Pettingell
Votes: 91
19. Kampfgeschwader Lützow (1941)
97 min | War
German propaganda film, telling a story of a bomber crew, taking part in invasion on Poland and attacks on the British shipping.
Director: Hans Bertram | Stars: Christian Kayßler, Hermann Braun, Heinz Welzel, Hannes Keppler
Votes: 39
20. The Prime Minister (1941)
Approved | 94 min | Biography, Drama, History
A biopic of the legendary Benjamin Disraeli, his rise from a foppish young novelist to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and confidante of Queen Victoria.
Director: Thorold Dickinson | Stars: John Gielgud, Diana Wynyard, Will Fyffe, Owen Nares
Votes: 303
21. War Brides of Japan, a docu*memory: The Culture (2019)
58 min | Documentary
"The Culture" is the 4th of 5 films that make up "War Brides of Japan, a docu*memory". M. Fumie, Diana and Sophia (Yoshi), discuss their Japanese heritages. Michelle, Stephanie, and Hannah talk about being 3rd generation "quapa".
Director: Yayoi Winfrey | Stars: Yoshi Childs, M. Fumie Craig, Michelle Craig, Hannah Martinez
22. War Brides of Japan, a docu*memory: Herstory (2019)
22 min | Documentary, Short
"Herstory" is the 1st of 5 films that make up "War Brides of Japan, a docu*memory". Two historians discuss WWII Japanese war brides, how they survived the bombing of Japan, and met and married their former enemies during the US Occupation.
Director: Yayoi Winfrey | Stars: Regina F. Lark, Lily Anne Yumi Welty Tamai
23. In the Name of the Motherland (1943)
94 min | Drama
The film deals with a Russian battalion under siege by the Germans during the Second World War.
Directors: Vsevolod Pudovkin, Dmitriy Vasilev | Stars: Nikolay Kryuchkov, Elena Tyapkina, Mikhail Zharov, Maria Pastukhova
Votes: 72
24. War Brides of Japan, a docu*memory: BFF's; Buddhist Friends Forever (2019)
34 min | Documentary, Short
"BFF's: Buddhist Friends Forever" is the 5th of 5 films that make up "War Brides of Japan, a docu*memory". Two families and the daughter of a Japanese war bride are all linked through their Buddhist religion.
Director: Yayoi Winfrey | Stars: William Michael Factory Jr., Doris Factory, Kim Farrison, Mihoko Yoshihara Farrison
25. War Brides of Japan, a docu*memory: The Brides (2019)
54 min | Documentary
"The Brides" is the 2nd of 5 films that make up "War Brides of Japan, a docu*memory". Asako-san ("The Best Ambassador") married a white GI while Fumiko-san ("Kitchens and a Priest") married a black one.
Director: Yayoi Winfrey | Stars: Fumiko Kiyamura Caine Alderman, Myokei Caine-Barrett, Asako Sakaguchi Miller Kimes, Diane Caine Shirey
26. War Brides of Japan, a docu*memory: The Kids (2019)
49 min | Documentary
"The Kids" is the 3rd of 5 films that make up "War Brides of Japan, a docu*memory". Roleta, Andy, Elaine, Naomi, Joan and Jean are all adult children of Japanese war brides, but each has their own unique story about growing up mixed-race.
Director: Yayoi Winfrey | Stars: Elaine Ambrose, Andy Campbell, Naomi M. Herrera, Jean H. Lahn
27.
The South Bank Show (1978– )
Episode:
Michael Powell
(1986)
54 min | Documentary
Fresh from the writing of his autobiography, the director is characterized as challenging the usual ideas of what British Cinema should be.
Director: David Hinton | Stars: Melvyn Bragg, Michael Powell
Votes: 18