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13 Rue Madeleine (1947)

Henry Hathaway

During the later years of WWII, Bob Sharkey has the job of training spies in the American Strategic Services. His boss informs him that one of his latest recruits, Bill O’Connell, is a Nazi agent. The plan is to allow O’Connell to take part in a bogus mission, so that he will feed false information to the Germans ahead of an allied invasion... [More...]

7th Heaven (1927)

Frank Borzage

Paris, 1914. Chico, an atheistic loner, has grown tired of toiling in the sewers and hopes that one day he will become a street washer like his neighbour Gobin. Meanwhile, sisters Diane and Nana receive an unexpected visit from their wealthy relatives, who offer them the prospect of a better life. When Diane admits to being a prostitute, her relatives turn their back on her and her sister... [More...]

A Bridge Too Far (1977)

Richard Attenborough

September, 1944. D-Day has come and gone but the allied advance has slowed to a crawl owing to over-extended supply lines. Field Marshal Montgomery and General Paton are both confident that they can win the war with one more decisive push. U.S. President Eisenhower backs Montgomery’s plan – codenamed Operation Market Garden - to land 35,000 paratroops behind enemy lines to secure half a dozen bridges in Holland... [More...]

A Farewell to Arms (1932)

Frank Borzage

During World War I, a young American, Frederick Henry, enlists as an ambulance driver in the Italian army. He meets and falls in love with a young English nurse, Catherine Barkley. Badly injured in a bombardment, Henry ends up in a hospital in Milan, where he is cared for by his beloved Catherine. As Henry recovers, he and Catherine pursue an idyllic romance, which ends all to soon when Henry is sent back to the Front... [More...]

The African Queen (1951)

John Huston

In 1914, Rose Sayer assists her brother, the Reverend Samuel Sayer, in leading a missionary village in German East Africa. Their supplies are brought to them by Canadian Charlie Allnut on his steam-driven barge, The African Queen. The Sayers disregard Charlie’s advice to leave the village now that Germany is at war with England and decide to stay on... [More...]

All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)

Lewis Milestone

At the outbreak of World War I in 1914, a German schoolmaster is urging his class of idealistic youths to enlist and do their bit to save the Fatherland. Unable to resist the call that beckons, Paul Bäumer and his fellow classmates sign up and find themselves in a training camp where their former postmaster, Himmelstoss, is determined to knock them into shape... [More...]

And the Violins Stopped Playing (1988)

Alexander Ramati

Poland, 1942. Dymitr Mirga is a Romani gypsy whose skills as a violin player are very much appreciated by German officers. But when he learns that Polish Jews have been cleared from the ghettos, Dymitr suspects that the gypsies will be the Nazis’ next target. Fearful of what may lie ahead, he urges his leader to order an evacuation to Hungary, a country that has so far avoided the scourge of Nazi occupation... [More...]

Apocalypse Now (1979)

Francis Ford Coppola

Vietnam, 1969. Captain Willard, an American special operations agent, is in Saigon recuperating after a successful mission when intelligence officers approach him with a new assignment. He must travel up the Nung River into a remote region of the Cambodian jungle, to track down and kill Colonel Kurtz, a former Green Beret who has set himself up as a local deity... [More...]

Arch of Triumph (1948)

Lewis Milestone

Paris, 1938. As Europe rushes towards war, the French capital is flooded with illegal immigrants hoping to escape persecution and imprisonment in their own countries. One such man is Dr Ravic, a fugitive from the Germans who practices medicine illegally. One evening, he talks a young woman, Joan Madou, out of committing suicide... [More...]

The Big Noise (1944)

Malcolm St. Clair

Alva P. Hartley believes that with his new invention, the most powerful bomb in history, he can shorten the length of the war by years. Fearful that the formidable weapon may fall into enemy hands, he hires a pair of private detectives to guard it until he can deliver it to the war office. Hartley is blissfully unaware of the fact that the two men he engages for this crucial job are not detectives but janitors who work for a detective agency... [More...]

The Birth of a Nation (1915)

D.W. Griffith

In the early 1860s, the Stonemans, an affluent family from the Northern States, visit their friends, the Camerons, in the South. Austin Stoneman, a congressman who supports the abolition of slavery, is unaware that his daughter Elsie is idolised by Ben, the oldest of the three Cameron boys. This will be the last time either family will know such peace and unity, for within a few months the whole country is at war... [More...]

The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933)

Frank Capra

When Megan Davis arrives in Shanghai to marry her fiancé, a missionary worker named Robert Strike, the country is in the midst of a bloody civil war. Whilst attempting to rescue orphans trapped in a battle zone, Megan is separated from her fiancé and is knocked unconscious. When she awakes she finds herself in the palace of General Yen, one of the most notorious leaders of the warring factions... [More...]

The Black Watch (1929)

John Ford

In 1914, Donald King is a captain in the Black Watch regiment of the British Army. Just as his comrades are about to be sent over to France to fight in the First World War his superiors assign him to a secret mission in India. Now that British troops have been withdrawn from India to support the European war effort, the locals are preparing an uprising... [More...]

The Bridge at Remagen (1969)

John Guillermin

March 1945. The war in Europe has entered its final phase, with German troops retreating eastwards, driven back by a relentless Allied assault. Determined to prevent the Allies from gaining a foothold in Germany, Hitler issues orders for all bridges across the River Rhine to be blown up. Major Paul Krüger is charged with the destruction of the last bridge, at the small town of Remagen... [More...]

The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

David Lean

During WWII, a contingent of British prisoners march into a Japanese camp run by the ruthless Colonel Saito, who intends using them to construct a railway bridge across the River Kwai. The bridge is vital to the Japanese war effort, since it will enable men and supplies to be transported between military centres in Bangkok and Rangoon... [More...]

The Caine Mutiny (1954)

Edward Dmytryk

In 1943, naval college graduate Willie Keith is eager to begin his service in the U.S. Navy, even if it means leaving behind his anxious mother and his girlfriend. His first assignment is Ensign on the Destroyer-Mine Sweeper Caine, and he is dismayed by what he first sees. The ship’s commander DeVriess has a relaxed view on navy discipline, so his crew are slovenly and the ship a mess... [More...]

Casablanca (1942)

Michael Curtiz

In 1942, the French-controlled Moroccan town of Casablanca is a transit point for people fleeing to America from Nazi persecution. Rick Blaine, an American expatriate and one-time freedom fighter, is the owner of a popular nightclub which is frequented by refugees, Nazis, crooks and gamblers. One day, the notorious Czech resistance leader Victor Laszlo arrives with his wife, Ilsa... [More...]

The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936)

Michael Curtiz

In the early 1850s, Geoffrey Vickers and his brother Perry are British officers in the 27th Lancers, a regiment stationed in the Indian city of Chukoti. Both men are in love with the same woman, Elsa, but whilst she is engaged to Geoffrey, it is Perry who has won her heart. When Geoffrey learns of his brother’s treachery, he is distraught, but he soon has weightier matters to deal with... [More...]

Cloak and Dagger (1946)

Fritz Lang

One day, in the latter years of WWII, Alvah Jesper, a physics professor at an American university, receives an unexpected visit from a secret services official. Jesper is currently engaged on a project to develop a nuclear weapon for the American military and is hardly surprised when he learns that the Germans have a similar objective and are close to a break through... [More...]

Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939)

Anatole Litvak

1938, a decisive year in the history of man. Under the leadership of Adolf Hitler, the Nazis have committed themselves to a fascist dream that will make Germany the centre of a new world empire. It will be a Modern Utopia in which everyone will share the same thoughts and values, purged of the free-thinkers and deviants that have prevented mankind from achieving his true potential... [More...]

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