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Some Kind of Hero
April 2, 1982
A Vietnam vet (Richard Pryor) returns home from a prisoner of war camp and is greeted as a hero, but is quickly forgotten and soon discovers how tough survival is in his own country.
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Das Boot
February 10, 1982
It is 1942 and the German submarine fleet is heavily engaged in the so called "Battle of the Atlantic" to harass and destroy English shipping. With better escorts of the Destroyer Class, however, German U-Boats have begun to take heavy losses. Das Boot is the story of one such U-Boat crew, with the film examining how these submariners maintained their professionalism as soldiers, attempted to accomplish impossible missions, while all the time attempting to understand and obey the ideology of the government under which they served. (Sony Pictures)
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Gallipoli
August 28, 1981
Two Australian sprinters (Gibson & Lee) leave their dreams of competing to sign up for World War I. They are sent to Gallipoli, where they fight in vain against the larger Turkish army.
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Victory
July 31, 1981
As allied POWs prepare for a soccer game against the German National Team to be played in Nazi-occupied Paris, the French Resistance and British officers are making plans for the team's escape.
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Eye of the Needle
July 24, 1981
A ruthless German spy (Donald Sutherland), trying to get out of Britain with vital information about D-Day, must spend time with a young woman and her crippled husband.
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Stripes
June 26, 1981
Two old friends who are dissatisfied with their lives decide to join the army to mix things up.
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Breaker Morant
October 15, 1980
Three Australian lieutenants are court martialed for executing prisoners as a way of deflecting attention from war crimes committed by their superior officers.
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Private Benjamin
October 10, 1980
A sheltered young high society woman joins the United States Army on a whim and finds herself in a more difficult situation than she ever expected.
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Kagemusha
October 10, 1980
A petty thief with an utter resemblance to a samurai warlord is hired as the lord's double. When the warlord later dies the thief is forced to take up arms in his place.
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The Big Red One
July 18, 1980
World War I veteran Sergeant Possum (Lee Marvin) wants to get the job done and to get himself and his squad of green recruits out alive. It's just a job: Kill the enemy before they kill you. And through the seemingly endless bloodshed from North Africa, to Sicily, the Normandy Invasion and the push into Germany, his now-veteran squad—Gruff (Mark Hamill), Zab (Robert Carradine), Vinci (Bobby CiCicco) and Johnson (Kelly Ward)—learns both the brutal horror of war and to never become emotionally close with a new recruit.
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The Tin Drum
April 11, 1980
In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of stairs and stops growing. In 1939, World War II breaks out.
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Cuba
December 21, 1979
A British mercenary arrives in pre-Revolution Cuba to help train General Batista's Army against Castro's guerrillas while he also romances a former lover now married to an unscrupulous plantation owner.
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1941
December 14, 1979
Pandemonium erupts in Los Angeles after the WWII attack on Pearl Harbor in the wartime spoof, 1941. This epic comedy soufflé features lavish special effects and screwball characters in an all-star extravaganza set on the streets of Hollywood. As hysterical Californians prepare for an imagined Japanese invasion, a motley crew of defenders attempt to guard their beloved palm-tree-lined coast. [Universal Pictures]
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Yanks
September 19, 1979
Joining WWII, USA ships soldiers to UK. Matt and John arrive in 1942. Each see a local woman - married or to be engaged with soldiers serving faraway.
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Hanover Street
September 13, 1979
Margaret (Lesley-Anne Down) is a nurse in England during WW2, and married to a secret agent. Things get complicated when she falls for David (Harrison Ford), an American pilot.
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Apocalypse Now
August 15, 1979
During the Vietnam War, Captain Willard is sent on a dangerous mission into Cambodia to assassinate a renegade colonel who has set himself up as a god among a local tribe.
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More American Graffiti
August 3, 1979
College graduates deal with Vietnam and other issues of the late 1960s.
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The Passage
March 9, 1979
During World War II, a Basque shepherd is approached by the underground, who wants him to lead a scientist and his family across the Pyrenees while being pursued by a sadistic German.
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Force 10 from Navarone
December 8, 1978
During World War II, several oddly assorted military experts are teamed in a mission to raid and destroy a bridge vital to enemy strategy.
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The Deer Hunter
December 8, 1978
The Deer Hunter tracks a group of steelworker pals from a Pennsylvania blast furnace to the cool hunting grounds of the Alleghenies to the lethal cauldron of Vietnam. Robert De Niro gives an outstanding performance as Michael, the natural leader of the group. The Deer Hunter is a searing drama of friendship and courage - and what happens to these qualities under hardship. [Universal]
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Who'll Stop the Rain
August 2, 1978
Vietnam veteran Ray Hicks gets conned into helping his buddy John Converse smuggle some heroin, only to wind up on the lam with John's wife when the deal goes sour.
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Coming Home
February 15, 1978
A woman whose husband is fighting in Vietnam falls in love with another man who suffered a paralyzing combat injury there.
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The Boys in Company C
February 2, 1978
In 1967, five young men undergo boot camp training before being shipped out to Vietnam. Once they get there, the experience proves worse than they could have imagined.
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The Duellists
January 13, 1978
A small feud between two Napoleonic officers evolves into a decades-long series of duels.
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A Bridge Too Far
June 15, 1977
Operation Market Garden, September 1944: The Allies attempt to capture several strategically important bridges in the Netherlands in the hope of breaking the German lines.
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Cross of Iron
May 20, 1977
German commander Hauptmann Stransky (Maximilian Schell) places a squad in extreme danger after Sergeant Rolf Steiner (James Coburn) refuses to lie for him.
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The Eagle Has Landed
April 2, 1977
A German plot to kidnap Winston Churchill unfolds at the height of World War II.
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Voyage of the Damned
December 22, 1976
The tragic 1939 voyage of SS St. Louis carrying hundreds of German Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany that seemingly no nation is willing to save from certain doom.
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Midway
June 18, 1976
A dramatization of the battle that was widely heralded as a turning point of the Pacific Theatre of World War II.
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Barry Lyndon
December 18, 1975
An Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband's aristocratic position in 18th-century England.
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Love and Death
August 28, 1975
In czarist Russia, a neurotic soldier and his distant cousin formulate a plot to assassinate Napoleon.
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Lancelot of the Lake
June 9, 1975
From renowned French director Robert Bresson comes this spare and haunting version of the legend of Camelot. The story begins as the Knights of the Round Table return to Camelot after their futile search for the blessed Holy Grail. Lancelot (Luc Simon), the leader of the quest, is reunited with Queen Guinevere (Laura Duke Condominas), who begs him to become her lover. Convinced that his impure thoughts are the reason for his recent misfortune, Lancelot assures Guinevere that he will neither cease his search nor become her lover. However, when the jealousy of another knight, Mordred (Patrick Bernard), spurs rebellion in the land, Lancelot decides to remain in Camelot and fight until death for King Arthur (Vladimir Antolek-Oresek). Along the way, he accidentally murders his best friend, Gawain (Humbert Balsan), giving Mordred an added edge in their battle. [New Yorker Films]
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Duck, You Sucker
June 1, 1972
Sergio Leone's 1972 Western, set during the Mexican Revolution.
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Slaughterhouse-Five
March 15, 1972
A man named Billy Pilgrim tells the story of how he became unstuck in time and was abducted by aliens.
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Nicholas and Alexandra
December 13, 1971
Tsar Nicholas II, the inept last monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overthrown and exiled to Siberia with his family.
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Johnny Got His Gun
August 4, 1971
A World War I soldier, rendered blind, deaf, limbless, and mute by a horrific artillery shell attack, finds a unique way of communicating with his doctors.
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Little Big Man
December 23, 1970
The 121-year old sole survivor of Custer's Last Stand tells about everything from his adoption by Cheyenne Indians to his marriages and friendship with Wild Bill Hickok. (Paramount Pictures)
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Rio Lobo
December 18, 1970
After the Civil War, Cord McNally searches for the traitor whose treachery caused the defeat of McNally's unit and the loss of a close friend.
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Tora! Tora! Tora!
September 23, 1970
In 1941, following months of economic embargo, Japan prepares to open its war against the United States with a preventive strike on the US naval base at Pearl Harbor.
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Catch-22
June 24, 1970
A man is trying desperately to be certified insane during World War II, so he can stop flying missions.
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Kelly's Heroes
June 23, 1970
A group of U.S. soldiers sneaks across enemy lines to get their hands on a secret stash of Nazi treasure.
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Two Mules for Sister Sara
June 16, 1970
Nun Sara is on the run in Mexico and is saved from cowboys by Hogan, who is preparing for a future mission to capture a French fort. The pair become good friends, but Sara never does tell him the true reason behind her being outlawed.
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Patton
February 18, 1970
This Academy Award-winning biography of American General George S. Patton chronicles the general's wartime activities and accomplishments, beginning with his entry into the North African campaign and ending with his removal from command after his outspoken criticism of US post-war military strategy.
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MASH
January 25, 1970
Though highly skilled and deeply dedicated, three Korean War Army surgeons adopt a hilarious, lunatic lifestyle as an antidote to the tragedies of their Mobile Army Surgical Hospital, and in the process infuriate Army bureaucrats. [Twentieth Century Fox]
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Battle of Britain
October 24, 1969
In 1940, the British Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle to prevent the Luftwaffe from gaining air superiority over the English Channel as a prelude to a possible Axis invasion of the U.K.
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Where Eagles Dare
March 12, 1969
Allied agents stage a daring raid on a castle where the Nazis are holding an American General prisoner... but that's not all that's really going on.
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The Dirty Dozen
June 15, 1967
During World War II, a rebellious U.S. Army Major is assigned a dozen convicted murderers to train and lead them into a mass assassination mission of German officers.
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Chimes at Midnight
March 17, 1967
The career of Shakespeare's Sir John Falstaff (Orson Welles) as a roistering companion to young Prince Hal (Keith Baxter), circa 1400 to 1413.
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Beau Geste
September 7, 1966
In 1906, two American brothers join the French Foreign Legion and, led by a sadistic Sergeant-Major, they defend a fort against Berber and Tuareg attack.
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The Russians Are Coming the Russians Are Coming
May 25, 1966
Without hostile intent, a Soviet submarine runs aground off New England. Men are sent for a boat, but many villagers go into a tizzy, risking bloodshed.
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Doctor Zhivago
December 31, 1965
The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during the First World War and then the October Revolution.
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King & Country
November 30, 1965
During World War I, Army Private Arthur James Hamp is accused of desertion during battle. The officer assigned to defend him at his court-martial, Captain Hargreaves, finds out there is more to the case than meets the eye.
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The Hill
October 3, 1965
In a North African military prison during World War II, five new prisoners struggle to survive in the face of brutal punishment and sadistic guards.
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Operation Crossbow
April 1, 1965
Allied agents attempt to infiltrate the Nazis' rocket research site.
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The Train
March 7, 1965
In 1944, a German colonel loads a train with French art treasures to send to Germany. The Resistance must stop it without damaging the cargo.
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None But the Brave
February 24, 1965
During WW2, a platoon of Marines crash-lands on a tiny Pacific island occupied by a small Japanese unit.
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36 Hours
February 19, 1965
Germans kidnap an American major and try to convince him that World War II is over, so that they can get details about the Allied invasion of Europe out of him.
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The Americanization of Emily
October 27, 1964
An American naval officer's talent for living the good life in wartime is challenged when he falls in love and is sent on a dangerous mission.
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Zulu
June 17, 1964
Outnumbered British soldiers do battle with Zulu warriors at Rorke's Drift.
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The Great Escape
July 4, 1963
Allied prisoners of war plan for several hundred of their number to escape from a German camp during World War II.
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The Longest Day
October 4, 1962
The events of D-Day, told on a grand scale from both the Allied and German points of view.
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Hell Is for Heroes
June 26, 1962
Small squad must hold off German attack.
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Judgment at Nuremberg
December 18, 1961
In 1948, an American court in occupied Germany tries four Nazi judges for war crimes.
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El Cid
December 14, 1961
The fabled Spanish hero Rodrigo Diaz (a.k.a. El Cid) overcomes a family vendetta and court intrigue to defend Christian Spain against the Moors.
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The Guns of Navarone
June 22, 1961
A team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers.
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Exodus
December 15, 1960
The State of Israel is created in 1948, resulting in war with its Arab neighbors.
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Spartacus
October 19, 1960
The slave Spartacus (Kirk Douglas) leads a violent revolt against the decadent Roman Republic.
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The Cranes Are Flying
March 21, 1960
Veronica plans a rendezvous with her lover, Boris, at the bank of river, only for him to be drafted into World War II shortly thereafter.
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Ben-Hur
November 18, 1959
When a Jewish prince is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend, he regains his freedom and comes back for revenge.
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The Diary of Anne Frank
March 18, 1959
During World War II, a teenage Jewish girl named Anne Frank and her family are forced into hiding in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands.
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The One That Got Away
April 22, 1958
A cocky German fighter pilot is shot down over England in 1940 and makes numerous attempts to escape to fight again.
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Run Silent Run Deep
March 27, 1958
A U.S. sub commander, obsessed with sinking a certain Japanese ship, butts heads with his first officer and crew.
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Paths of Glory
December 25, 1957
When soldiers in World War I refuse to continue with an impossible attack, their superior officers decide to make an example of them.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai
December 14, 1957
After settling his differences with a Japanese PoW camp commander, a British colonel co-operates to oversee his men's construction of a railway bridge for their captors - while oblivious to a plan by the Allies to destroy it.
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Time Limit
October 23, 1957
During the Korean War former prisoner of war, Major Harry Cargill admits to having collaborated with the enemy but military investigator Colonel William Edwards wants the details.
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Richard III
March 11, 1956
Shakespeare's powerful tale of the wicked deformed King and his conquests, both on the battlefield and in the boudoir.
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The Burmese Harp
January 21, 1956
A conscience-driven Japanese soldier traumatized by the events of WWII adopts the lifestyle of a Buddhist monk.
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Mister Roberts
July 30, 1955
In the waning days of World War II, the United States Navy cargo ship Reluctant and her crew are stationed in the "backwater" areas of the Pacific Ocean. Trouble ensues when the crew members are granted liberty.
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The Caine Mutiny
June 24, 1954
When a U.S. Naval captain shows signs of mental instability that jeopardizes the ship, the first officer relieves him of command and faces court martial for mutiny.
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Hondo
November 27, 1953
Army dispatch rider Hondo Lane discovers a woman and young son living in the midst of warring Apaches and becomes their protector.
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From Here to Eternity
August 28, 1953
This 1953 classic portrays the loves, hopes and dreams of the soldiers in a close-knit Army barracks in Hawaii shortly before the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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Stalag 17
June 6, 1953
When two escaping American World War II prisoners are killed, the German P.O.W. camp barracks black marketeer, J.J. Sefton, is suspected of being an informer.
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The Snows of Kilimanjaro
September 17, 1952
Writer Harry Street reflects on his life as he lies dying from an infection while on safari in the shadow of Mount Kilamanjaro.
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The African Queen
March 21, 1952
In Africa during World War I, a gin-swilling riverboat captain is persuaded by a strait-laced missionary to use his boat to attack an enemy warship.
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Flying Leathernecks
August 28, 1951
Major Kirby leads The Wildcats squadron into the historic WWII battle of Guadalcanal.
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Sands of Iwo Jima
March 1, 1950
A dramatization of the World War II Battle of Iwo Jima.
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A Canterbury Tale
January 21, 1949
Three modern-day pilgrims investigate a bizarre crime in a small town while on their way to Canterbury.
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The Search
March 26, 1948
In post-war Berlin, an American private helps a lost Czech boy find his mother.
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The Best Years of Our Lives
December 25, 1946
Three World War II veterans return home to small-town America to discover that they and their families have been irreparably changed.
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Till the End of Time
July 23, 1946
Drama about former WW2 Marines readjusting to civilian life and dealing with their mental and physical traumas.
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They Were Expendable
December 31, 1945
The PT boat unit Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron Three defends the Philippines from Japanese invasion during World War II.
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Anchors Aweigh
August 1, 1945
Two sailors, one naive, the other experienced in the ways of the world, a musical set in Los Angeles.
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The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1945)
May 4, 1945
The passions and pitfalls of a lifetime in the military are dramatized in Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s magnificent epic, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp. The film follows the exploits of pristine British soldier Clive Candy as he battles to maintain his honor and proud gentlemanly conduct through romance, three wars, and a changing world. Vibrant and controversial, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp is at once a romantic portrait of a career soldier and a pointed investigation into the nature of aging, friendship, and obsolescence. (The Criterion Collection)
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Objective, Burma!
February 17, 1945
A platoon of special ops are tasked to parachute into the remote Burmese jungle and destroy a strategic Japanese radar station, but getting out isn't as easy.
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To Have and Have Not
January 20, 1945
During World War II, American expatriate Harry Morgan helps transport a French Resistance leader and his beautiful wife to Martinique while romancing a sensuous lounge singer.
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Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
November 1, 1944
In the wake of Pearl Harbor, a young lieutenant leaves his expectant wife to volunteer for a secret bombing mission which will take the war to the Japanese homeland.
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The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
February 1, 1944
After an all-night send-off party for the troops, a small-town girl wakes up to find herself married and pregnant, but with no memory of her husband's identity.
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Lifeboat
January 28, 1944
Several survivors of a torpedoed ship find themselves in the same boat with one of the men who sunk it.
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Destination Tokyo
December 31, 1943
In order to provide information for the first air raid over Tokyo, a U.S. submarine sneaks into Tokyo Bay and places a spy team ashore.
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
July 16, 1943
During the Spanish Civil War, an American allied with the Republicans finds romance during a desperate mission to blow up a strategically important bridge.
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