War Films
(1890 – 2010)
Aerial Gunner (1943) – 78 minutes
Buddies Chester Morris and Richard Arlen fight over a girl in basic training.
Battle of Blood Island (1960) – 71 minutes, Richard Devon, Ron Kennedy
Two American GIs are the only survivors of a unit wiped out in a battle with Japanese troops on an isolated island.
The Black Brigade (1970) -- Color, TV Movie, 70 minutes, Stephen Boyd, Moses Gunn, Richard Pryor
A redneck officer is put in charge of a squad of black troops charged with taking an important bridge from the Nazis.
Commandos (1968) – Italy, Color, 98 minutes, Lee Van Cleef, Jack Kelly
Sgt. Sullivan puts together a group of Italian-Americans in disguise as Italian soldiers in order to infiltrate a North African camp held by the Italians.
Corregidor (1943) – 73 minutes, Otto Kruger, Elissa Landi, Donald Woods
A hospital treats the wounded as troops try to beat back a ferocious Japanese attack.
The Dawn Express (1942) – 54 minutes, Anne Nagel, Michael Whalen
A Nazi spy ring is after a chemical formula that increases the power of ordinary gasoline for U.S. Army aviation use.
Bombs Over Burma (1943) – 65 minutes, Anna May Wong
Chinese girl risks her life on espionage mission against Japanese in World War 2.
Desert Commandos (1977) – Italy, Color, 96 minutes, Ken Clark, Horst Frank, Jeanne Valerie
Eagle in a Cage (1971) – Britain, Color, 98 minutes, John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson, Billie Whitelaw
In 1815 a soldier becomes the governor of St. Helena and jailer of Napoleon.
Escape from Sobibor (1987) – France, Color, 120 minutes
During WWII, the death camp at Treblinka had an escape, causing the Commandant at a similar camp in Sobibor to vow that his camp would never experience the same thing.
Exile Express (1939) – 71 minutes, Anna Sten, Alan Marshal
Spies will not stop at murder in their attempts to wrest a secret formula for a deadly poison away from American scientists.
A Farewell to Arms (1932) – 80 minutes
WW I romance with Gary Cooper, Helen Hayes.
Go For Broke (1951) – 92 minutes
Van Johnson leads a Japanese-American unit fighting in Europe.
Gung Ho! (1943) – 88 minutes
Marines led by Randolph Scott invade Japanese island.
Hell in Normandy (1968) – Italy, Color, 90 minutes, Guy Madison
A special parachute unit is sent to destroy a German flame thrower installation on Omaha Beach.
Hitler- Dead or Alive (1942) – 70 minutes, Ward Bond
A team of ex-con bounty hunters go to Germany in search of Hitler -- to earn a million dollar reward!
Hitler's SS: A Portrait in Evil (1985) -- Color, TV movie, 135 minutes
John Shea, Bill Nighy in Hitler's SS.
Iron Angel (1964) – 70 minutes, Jim Davis, Don 'Red' Berry
Sent behind enemy lines to knock out a North Korean gun emplacement, a squad of GI's walk right into a Commie ambush!
Lady from Chungking (1942) – 66 minutes, Anna May Wong
After the Japanese invade China in WW 2, a young woman leads a band of partisans against the occupying troops.
The Marines are Coming (1930) – 71 minutes
William Haines, Conrad Nagel in Latin American insurrection.
Minesweeper (1943) – 67 minutes, Richard Arlen, Russell Hayden
A naval officer who had deserted several years earlier is drawn back to the Navy when World War II begins.
Mutiny (1952) -- Color, 77 minutes, Angela Lansbury
Early in the War of 1812, Captain James Marshall is commissioned to run the British blockade and fetch an unofficial war loan from France.
The Navy Way (1944) – 74 minutes, Robert Lowery, Jean Parker
The experiences of a disparate group of young men as they make their way through Navy boot camp.
The North Star (1943) – 108 minutes, Dana Andrews, Anne Baxter, Walter Huston
Ukrainian village vs. Nazis.
The Steel Claw (1961) -- Color, 96 minutes
George Montgomery is called back into service to rescue a general held by Filipino guerrillas behind Japanese lines.
Submarine Alert (1943) – 66 minutes, Richard Arlen, Wendy Barrie
Nazi spies use a stolen shortwave transmitter prototype to broadcast top secret shipping info to an offshore Japanese sub.
Submarine Base (1943) – 65 minutes, John Litel, Alan Baxter
American gangster supplies German U-boats with torpedoes that explode at sea.
Sundown (1941) – 90 minutes, Gene Tierney
Englishmen fighting Nazis in Africa discover an exotic mystery woman living among the natives and enlist her aid in overcoming the Germans.
Three Came Home (1950) – 106 minutes, Claudette Colbert
The true story of one woman's confinement in a WW II Japanese prison camp.
Underground (1941) – 95 minutes
A World War II Hollywood propaganda film detailing the dark underside of Nazism and the Third Reich set between two brothers who are SS officers in the Nazi party.
A Yank in Libya (1942) – 67 minutes, H.B. Warner, Walter Woolf King
American correspondent Mike Malone uncovers a Nazi plot for an uprising of the Arab tribes in Libya.
