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On a Wing and a Prayer: World War II Dramas
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Arch of Triumph Milestone, Lewis 2008-10 - Lions Gate Home Entertainment 0017153100044 Check our catalog
A refugee doctor saves a singer from the Seine and hunts a Nazi thug in Paris. Directed by Lewis Milestone. …More |
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Battle Cry Walsh, Raoul 2006-02 - Warner Home Video 0085392432820 Check our catalog
Marines stop for romance in World War II New Zealand. Directed by Raoul Walsh. From the Leon Uris novel. …More |
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Bridge on the River Kwai Lean, David 2005-09 - Sony Pictures 0767858735 Check our catalog
British WWII prisoners of war are forced by the Japanese to build a railway bridge in the ruthless Asian jungle, unaware that the allied forces plan to blow it up. …More |
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The Caine Mutiny Dmytryk, Edward 2010-05 - Sony Pictures Home Ent 9781424829897 Check our catalog
A World War II Navy officer is court-martialed for relieving paranoid Capt. Queeg in a typhoon. Directed by Edward Dmytryk. …More |
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Casablanca Curtiz, Michael 2004-02 - Warner Studios BL07049DVD Check our catalog
Set in World War II, a bitter nightclub owner helps his former lover and her Resistance-hero husband escape from the Nazis. Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman star in this romantic film that won the Academy Award for best picture in 1943. …More |
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Command Decision Wood, Sam 2007-06 - Warner Home Video 9781419849220 Check our catalog
A U.S. general and his superior take heat for sending bombers to Germany to destroy aircraft plants. Directed by Sam Wood. …More |
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Cross of Iron Peckinpah, Sam 2006-04 - Hen's Tooth Video 0759731410229 Check our catalog
A German sergeant, a Prussian captain and a German colonel man the 1943 Russian front. Directed by Sam Peckinpah. …More |
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The Desert Fox Hathaway, Henry 2009-05 - Twentieth Century-Fox 0024543071990 Check our catalog
Field Marshal Rommel leads his tanks and joins a doctor's plot to kill Hitler. Directed by Henry Hathaway. …More |
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Empire of the Sun Spielberg, Steven 2001-11 - Warner Home Video BL07922DVD000 Check our catalog
The story of a small British boy in a World War II Japanese internment camp. …More |
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The Fighting Sullivans Bacon, Lloyd 2005-11 - VCI Home Video 0089859844027 Check our catalog
The Iowa Sullivans raise five sons who join the Navy and are killed on the Juneau in World War II. …More |
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From Here to Eternity Zinnemann, Fred 2001-10 - Sony Pictures BL11920DVD000 Check our catalog
Drama about life in the Army in the days prior to World War II. Shows the effect of Army discipline on an individualistic former boxing champion who defies the attempts of officers and men to break him when he refuses to fight on the company's boxing team. Includes actual scenes of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor …More |
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Heaven Knows Mr. Allison Huston, John 2003-05 - Fox Home Entertainment BL01989DVD Check our catalog
A Marine sergeant and an Irish nun are stranded on an island overrun by Japanese troops, hiding out from the soldiers by day, and searching for food at night. …More |
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King Rat Forbes, Bryan 2008-05 - Sony Pictures Home Ent 9781404905658 Check our catalog
A U.S. corporal runs a rat-meat black market in a Japanese prison camp. From the James Clavell novel. …More |
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Lifeboat Hitchcock, Alfred 2007-09 - Twentieth Century-Fox 0024543172260 Check our catalog
A chic writer, a stoker and others drift with the U-boat captain who has sunk their ship. …More |
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A Midnight Clear Gordon, Keith 2004-12 - Sony Pictures Home Ent 9780767896610 Check our catalog
A small army intelligence platoon on a dangerous mission to the German front discovers a small band of frightened soldiers in a Nazi camp. |
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Paradise Road Beresford, Bruce 2008-04 - Twentieth Century-Fox 0024543012184 Check our catalog
Based on a true story, a diverse group of women are held prisoner by the Japanese during World War II. These women unite to form a vocal orchestra, creating a symphony of human voices and the strength to survive under trying conditions. …More |
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Sink the Bismarck! Gilbert, Lewis 2008-05 - Twentieth Century-Fox 0024543072133 Check our catalog
A British captain and his Wren aide lead the 1941 pursuit of the sinister German battleship. …More |
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So Proudly We Hail Sandrich, Mark 2007-05 - Universal BL05900DVD000 Check our catalog
True story of the lives of three war-front nurses and their heroism under fire during WWII. …More |
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They Were Expendable Ford, John 2007-05 - Warner Home Video 9781419853821 Check our catalog
Heroic PT boat captains fight Japanese ships in the World War II Philippines. Directed by John Ford. …More |
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Three Came Home Negulesco, Jean 2005-01 - Gaiam Americas 0018713504210 Check our catalog
A U.S. writer and her British husband endure a Japanese colonel's prison camp. Directed by Jean Negulesco. …More |
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The Tuskegee Airmen Markowitz, Robert 2009-05 - HBO Home Video 0026359128523 Check our catalog
Grueling training and racist officers challenge African-American recruits in the Army Air Corps during World War II. …More |
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Twelve O'Clock High King, Henry 2007-01 - Twentieth Century-Fox 0024543030065 Check our catalog
An Allied flight commander and his successor run daylight bombing raids out of England. Directed by Henry King. Best supporting Oscar for Jagger. …More |
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The Young Lions 2008-05 - Twentieth Century-Fox 0024543025412 Check our catalog
Two U.S. soldiers and a Nazi meet amid World War II inhumanity. Directed by Edward Dmytryk. From the Irwin Shaw novel. …More |