Files tagged with WWII

Private Snafu - Booby Traps
1944 - 4 mins

Private Snafu learns about the hazards of enemy booby traps in the middle east the hard way. This is one of 26 Private SNAFU cartoons made by the US Army Signal Corps during WWII to educate and boost the morale the troops. Unfortunatly these humours lessons on avoiding booby traps would appear to just as relevent to US forces today in Iraq - only we know them as IED's. »

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Sherlock Holmes And The Secret Weapon
1943 - 68 mins

Based on the short story "Dancing Men" from volume "The Return of Sherlock Holmes" by Arthur Conan Doyle. The Victorian Sleuth, Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) and his trusty assistant Dr. Watson (Nigel Bruce), are transplanted to WWII europe and help protect a scientist and his invention from the Nazis. »

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The Battle Of Midway
1942 - 28 mins

Academy Award winning documentary on the pivotal naval battle of the war in the Pacific. Filmed while the attack on Midway Island was underway, director John Ford was actually injured during filming. Ford weaves voiceover and music into the real footage of the battle, shaping the material to show the conflict as he saw it, and moulding these elements into a narrative »

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Memphis Belle
1944 - 45 mins

This Oscar winning film is a war documentary produced by one of the Hollywood Colonels, William Wyler, who joined the Air Force Film unit and recorded the sights and sounds of the 25th and last bombing mission of a B 17 bomber known as the Memphis Belle, named after the girlfriend of the pilot. The Memphis Belle takes part in a great bombing raid on sub-pens in Wilhelmshafen, Germany. The dramatic 16 mm color film of actual battles was made by cinematographer First Lieutenant Harold J. Tannenbaum. »

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Two Women (La Ciociara)
1960 - 100 mins

Two Women (Original title La Ciociara, literally translated as The Woman from Ciociaria) is a 1960 Academy Award-winning Italian language film which tells the story of a woman trying to protect her teenaged daughter from the horrors of war. The film stars Sophia Loren, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Eleonora Brown, Carlo Ninchi and Andrea Checchi and was directed by Vittorio De Sica. »

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Hitler Dead or Alive
1942 - 70 mins

A wealthy man offers a million dollars to whoever captures Adolf Hitler dead or alive. A group of gangsters take him up on this offer and after hijacking a Canadian Air Force plane are dropped into Germany. Their delusions about Hitler being just another cheap crook are shattered when they discover that knocking off Hitler wouldn't necessarily bring about the end of the war and they must decide what's more important: lining their pocketbooks or letting the military do their job. »

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Why We Fight - The Nazis Strike
1943 - 41 mins

The Nazis Strike (1943) was the second film of Frank Capras Why We Fight propaganda film series. The film introduces Germany as a nation whose aggressive ambitions began in 1863 with Otto von Bismarck and with the Nazis as their latest incarnation. Hitlers war machine sweeps into Austria, Czechoslovakia and Poland. A disturbing look at the relentless enslavement of a continent by the forces of fascism. »

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Why We Fight - Divide and Conquer
1943 - 57 mins

Divide and Conquer (1943) was the third film of Frank Capra's Why We Fight propaganda film series. The film begins immediately after the fall of Poland and dealing with the Nazi conquest of Western Europe in 1940. The film covers the Nazi capture of Denmark and Norway, steps necessary to mount a future attack on Britain, then describes in detail Hitler's strategy as he conquers Luxembourg, Belgium and the Netherlands. »

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Why We Fight - The Battle Of Britain
1943 - 54 mins

The Battle of Britain was the fourth of Frank Capra's Why We Fight series. It was released in 1943 and concentrated on the German bombardment of the United Kingdom in anticipation of Operation Sealion during the Second World War. Once firmly in control of the parts of France and Norway closest to Great Britain, the Nazis commence their massive air assault on the British isles. »

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Why We Fight - The Battle Of Russia
1943 - 83 mins

The Battle of Russia (1943) was the fifth film of Frank Capra's Why We Fight propaganda film series. It is the longest film of the series, beginning with an overview of previous failed attempts to conquer Russia: by the Teutonic Knights in 1212 (footage from Sergei Eisenstein's film Alexander Nevsky is used here), by Charles XII of Sweden in 1704, by Napoleon I in 1812 and by Imperial Germany in World War I. »

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The Green Glove
1952 - 89 mins

The Green Glove is an action adventure film starring Glenn Ford, directed by Rudolph Mate. Glenn Ford stars as an American paratrooper who travels to France after the end of World War II to try and recover a jewel encrusted glove that had been stolen from a country church during the war. His quest leads him to a beautiful young tour guide (Geraldine Brooks), and a Nazi collaborator (George Macready) whom he had fought during the war. »

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Supmarine Alert
1943 - 66 mins

Nazi spies use a stolen shortwave transmitter prototype to broadcast top secret shipping info to an offshore Japanese sub. To nab the spy ring, the Government has the West Coast's top radio engineers fired and shadowed to see if the Nazis recruit them to complete work on the prototype radio. »

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