Popular War Movies - Page 211
Main Street Today
1944
Main Street Today
1944
star 6.2This patriotic short film promotes America's war effort at home. The story looks at a fictional small town's main street, seeing where additional workforce, for increased production of materials needed by the military, might come from.Bashu, the Little Stranger
1991
star 7.4During the Iran-Iraq War, Bashu, a young boy loses his house and all his family. Scared, he sneaks into a truck that is leaving the area. He gets off the truck in the Northern part of the country, where everything from landscape to language is different. He meets Naii, who is trying to raise her two young children on a farm, while her husband is away. Despite cultural differences, and the fact that they do not speak the same language, Bashu and Naii slowly form a strong bond.Hasenjagd - Vor lauter Feigheit gibt es kein Erbarmen
1994
star 5.6This film is based on the actual events referred to as the "Mühlviertler Hasenjagd" (Hare-hunt in the Mühlviertel) which occurred in February 1945 around the Mauthausen concentration camp. 500 Soviet officers form death block 20 attempt to escape, but only 150 of them actually succeed. Following the tally-ho of the SS, a barbaric manhunt begins. Only very few fugitives survive. With a lot of good luck, the two young officers Michail and Nikolai reach the Karner family's farm. Frau Karner persuades her husband to hide the two escapees.The Battle of Stalingrad
1949
star 3.4A 1949 two-part Soviet epic war film about the Battle of Stalingrad, directed by Vladimir Petrov. The script was written by Nikolai Virta.Springman and the SS
1946
Springman and the SS
1946
star 5.7The first animated picture made by Jiří Trnka for adults. It is a comic story of a legendary chimney-cleaner who, with the help of a spring from an old lounge-chair, became the terror of the Prague-occupying SS troops in World War II.Go for Broke
2017
Go for Broke
2017
star 6During the tumultuous year after the attack on Pearl Harbor, a group of University of Hawaii ROTC students navigate wartime Hawaii and fight discrimination.Assignment Dragon No. 3
1967
star 7In late 1940 the Japanese were anxious to conclude peace in China and to that end sent Colonel Hidaka to inaugurate negotiations. He was mysteriously assassinated, however, when his car was blown up. The General Staff Headquarters in Japan, sends Lieutenant Shiina, a graduate of the famed Nakano School of Spies inaugurated by Colonel Kusanagi, to investigate the matter. Arriving in Shanghai, he disguises himself as a Chinese coolie and sets out to watch for developments, the only clue being a silver dollar found beside what was left of the victim.Cloaks over Barbed Wire
1977
A film about the Italian troops leaving Vlora and Albanian partisans finally entering the enemy camp.We're Going Separate Ways
1957
star 5A group of partisan illegals entangled in a love triangle during Ustasha reign in Nazi-occupied Zagreb.The Longest Night
1983
The Longest Night
1983
Taiwanese war film based on a small-scale battle between the invading People's Liberation Army and the resisting Republic of China Armed Forces on a few small islands (including Dadan Island) in the Taiwan Strait in late July 1950.Jungle Rats
1988
Jungle Rats
1988
star 5The American army sets up a special force to free two American officers who were captured by the Vietcong in Vietnam in 1976.Baltic Skies
1960
Baltic Skies
1960
star 5.4Based on the novel of the same name by Nikolai Chukovsky. The end of August 1941. At night, a truck rushes along the last road not yet occupied by the enemy to Leningrad. In the back of two — civil aviation pilot Lunin and commissar of the air division Uvarov. Lunin, a man no longer young, experienced, but had not yet been in battle, was sent to the legendary squadron of fighter pilots under the command of Captain Rassokhin. This squadron fought from the first day of the war and has already lost most of its composition. The story of the harsh everyday life of the defenders of Leningrad, full of heroism and tragedy; about the heavy share of city residents who fell into the ring of an enemy blockade. In the center of the story is the fate of military pilots who had to fight in the sky over Leningrad and the Baltic.Women Aren't Angels
1943
Women Aren't Angels
1943
Alfred Bandle and Wilmer Popday are partners in business and, somewhat timorously on Popday's part, in pleasure. When their wives join the A.T.S., the men are left unattended and dangerously bored. The trouble starts when Bandle is late for an end-of-leave party after giving a girlfriend a lift; Popday promises the wives he ll restrain his wayward friend when they return to duty, but Bandle evidently thinks otherwise.Connected by Time
2010
Connected by Time
2010
star 8An unbelievable story about love which survived the horrors of WWII and a time abyss of 67 years.The White Squadron
1944
The White Squadron
1944
star 6Inspired by the activity of the medical squadrons, piloted exclusively by female nurses on the Russian front of the Second World War.Flying in the Air
1957
Flying in the Air
1957
The movie depicts the youth of kamikaze pilots who scattered young lives in the sky.A Secret Walk in the Woods
1985
star 4.3Niyole, a Red Army spy is sent behind the enemy lines in order to hunt German general.
