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Directed by Lewis MilestoneOrigin USAGenres Drama,
War,
ActionThemes Seafaring films,
Prison films,
Transport films,
Aviation films,
Documentary films about war,
Documentary films about historical events,
Political films,
Films about capital punishment,
Documentary films about World War II,
Children's films,
Disaster films,
Films about aviation accidents or incidents,
United States Armed Forces in filmsActors Dana Andrews,
Richard Conte,
Farley Granger,
Don "Red" Barry,
Trudy Marshall,
Sam LeveneRating64%
In April 1942, after a raid on Japan, eight American aircrew made up of the crews from two North American B-25 Mitchell bombers, are captured. Capt. Harvey Ross (Dana Andrews), becomes the leader of the captives. Initially, the men are picked up by a local government official who is a Chinese collaborator in a Wang Jingwei controlled section of China. The Chinese official delivers the Americans to the Imperial Japanese Army to be put on trial at the Shanghai Police Headquarters. Although international observers and correspondents are allowed to witness the trial, the commanding officer, General Mitsubi (Richard Loo) refuses to allow Karl Kappel (Torben Meyer), the Swiss Consul to contact Washington., 1h37
Directed by Nicholas RayOrigin USAGenres Drama,
War,
ActionThemes Seafaring films,
Transport films,
Aviation films,
Political films,
United States Armed Forces in filmsActors John Wayne,
Robert Ryan,
Don Taylor,
Jay C. Flippen,
Milburn Stone,
Janis CarterRating62%
Major Dan Kirby (John Wayne) arrives at VMF-247 ("Wildcats") as the new commander when everybody in the unit was expecting Captain Carl "Grif" Griffin (Robert Ryan) to take over. Kirby is strict and makes this understood from day one. Assigned to the Cactus Air Force during the Guadalcanal campaign, Kirby has few planes available and a lot to accomplish with a field attacked daily by the Japanese. His pilots are young and behave like "kids," sometimes disobeying orders and foolishly losing precious pilots and precious planes. Kirby is requiring maximum effort, and Captain Griffin is not as tough as Kirby wants. Griffin stays closer to his young pilots, one of them his own brother-in-law, Vern "Cowboy" Blithe (Don Taylor)., 2h12
Directed by Jack SmightOrigin USAGenres Drama,
War,
Action,
Adventure,
HistoricalThemes Seafaring films,
Transport films,
Aviation films,
Political films,
United States Armed Forces in filmsActors Charlton Heston,
Henry Fonda,
James Coburn,
Glenn Ford,
Hal Holbrook,
Toshiro MifuneRating66%
The film chronicles the Battle of Midway, a turning point in World War II in the Pacific. The Imperial Japanese Navy had been undefeated until that time and out-numbered the American naval forces by four to one., 2h34
Directed by Steven SpielbergOrigin USAGenres Drama,
War,
HistoricalThemes Films about children,
Seafaring films,
Prison films,
Transport films,
Aviation films,
Political filmsActors Christian Bale,
John Malkovich,
Miranda Richardson,
Nigel Havers,
Joe Pantoliano,
Leslie PhillipsRating76%
Japan had been at war with China since 1937 before declaring war on the United States and the United Kingdom. Amidst the war, Jamie Graham, a British upper middle class schoolboy fascinated with Japanese planes and pilots, is enjoying a privileged and spoiled life in the Shanghai International Settlement. At a costume party he attends with his parents, he wanders off and encounters a Japanese airplane that had been shot down. Nearby he finds a camp full of Japanese troops in a trench and is taken aback. Jamie's father finds him and forces him to leave, Jamie not realizing the impending danger. After the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, the Japanese begin to occupy the Shanghai International Settlement and in the ensuing chaos to escape the city and catch the next ferry out of Shanghai, Jamie is separated from his parents in the crowds of panicking people. Over the crowds of people Jamie's mother shouts at him to wait for them back at their house and promises that they will come back for him. He spends some time living in his deserted house, occupying his time by waiting and eating remnants of food but eventually he ventures out into the city and finds it bustling with Japanese troops., 1h49
Directed by Michael CurtizOrigin USAGenres Drama,
War,
Adventure,
HistoricalThemes Seafaring films,
Prison films,
La provence,
Transport films,
Aviation films,
Political filmsActors Humphrey Bogart,
Michèle Morgan,
Claude Rains,
Peter Lorre,
Sydney Greenstreet,
Helmut DantineRating67%
In 1942, journalist Manning (John Loder) arrives at an English air base to learn about the Free French who are fighting the Germans. Along with Captain Freycinet (Claude Rains), he watches as French bomber crews prepare for a raid. Manning's interest focuses on Jean Matrac (Humphrey Bogart), a gunner, and Freycinet describes Matrac's story:, 1h39
Directed by Alejandro Gómez MonteverdeOrigin USAGenres Drama,
War,
ComedyThemes Seafaring films,
Transport films,
Aviation films,
Political filmsActors David Henrie,
Kevin James,
Emily Watson,
Ted Levine,
Michael Rapaport,
Tom WilkinsonRating72%
The story centers on a 7-year-old boy, Pepper Flynt Busbee (Jakob Salvati), who is devastated when his father enlists in the army during World War II. The title is a reference to Little Boy, the code name for the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima as well as a reference to Pepper's height. Pepper has an extremely close relationship with his loving father. It begins from the very moment he is born when his father cradles him in his arms and mentions how small he is. When Pepper is examined by a doctor the physician is asked if the child is a midget. However, the doctor says that the term is offensive and suggests that he is just a "little boy." However, when World War II begins, Pepper's older brother is declared ineligible for military service because of flat feet and his father joins in his place. Not long after his father leaves for war, Pepper hears the Bible verse, "Truly I tell you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move" (Mt. 17:20), he becomes determined to get enough faith to bring his father home. Nevertheless, as his friend and mentor Father Oliver tells him, faith is useless to anyone who harbors hatred. The film highlights the tremendous hatred against Japanese-Americans that was rampant in America at this time. Father Oliver tells Pepper to befriend a Japanese man named Hashimoto. At first, the racism Pepper has internalized from society makes him hesitant to follow this advice, but as he gets to know Hashimoto, he begins to value their friendship and learns from Hashimoto to stand up to those who bully him about his height. The plot then takes a turn when Pepper's father is reported missing in action. Pepper's mother (Emily Watson) struggles to keep her family together in the face of these overwhelming hardships., 2h22
Directed by Raoul WalshOrigin USAGenres Drama,
War,
Action,
AdventureThemes Seafaring films,
Transport films,
Aviation films,
Political filmsActors Errol Flynn,
James Brown,
James Brown,
George Tyne,
George Tobias,
William PrinceRating72%
A group of United States Army paratroopers led by Captain Nelson (Errol Flynn) are dropped into Burma to locate and destroy a camouflaged Japanese Army radar station that is detecting Allied aircraft flying into China. For their mission, they are assigned Gurkha guides, a Chinese Army Captain and an older war correspondent (Henry Hull) whose character is used to explain various procedures to the audience., 1h38
Directed by Michael AndersonOrigin USAGenres Drama,
War,
Action,
Adventure,
RomanceThemes Seafaring films,
Transport films,
Aviation films,
Political films,
Disaster films,
Films about seafaring accidents or incidentsActors Yul Brynner,
Richard Widmark,
George Chakiris,
Suzy Parker,
Shirley Knight,
Danièle GaubertRating53%
The movie centers on three flight crew members of a USAF Air Rescue Service HU-16 Albatross and various experiences in their collective pasts, told in flashback. Some have considered the flashbacks as tedious and boring, but the aircraft sequences are generally considered quite good, especially for fans of the Grumman Albatross. Richard Widmark plays Colonel Stevenson (the pilot in command); Yul Brynner portrays Master Sergeant Mike Takashima (the Pararescue specialist) and George Chakiris portrays the co-pilot, Lieutenant Gregg., 1h52
Directed by Norman TaurogOrigin USAGenres Drama,
War,
Biography,
Documentary,
HistoricalThemes Seafaring films,
Transport films,
Aviation films,
Political films,
Arme nucléaireActors Brian Donlevy,
Hume Cronyn,
Robert Walker,
Audrey Totter,
Tom Drake,
Hurd HatfieldRating65%
In 1945, physicist and atomic scientist Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer (Hume Cronyn) praises the discovery of atomic energy, but also warns of its dangers. American scientists such as Matt Cochran (Tom Drake), working under the guidance of Dr. Enrico Fermi (Joseph Calleia) and Dr. Marré (Victor Francen), have split the atom, and essentially beaten the Germans in the race to create an atomic bomb. With the assistance of Albert Einstein (Ludwig Stössel), they inform President Franklin D. Roosevelt (Godfrey Tearle) that a monumental discovery has been made., 2h3
Directed by Shōhei ImamuraOrigin JaponGenres Drama,
War,
HistoricalThemes Seafaring films,
Transport films,
Aviation films,
Political films,
Arme nucléaireActors Yoshiko Tanaka,
Etsuko Ichihara,
Keisuke Ishida,
Taiji Tonoyama,
Akiji Kobayashi,
Kenjirō IshimaruRating77%
The film moves between Shizuma Shigematsu's journal entries about Hiroshima in 1945, following the dropping of the atomic bomb, and the present, 1950, when Shigematsu and his wife Shigeko are the guardians for their niece Yasuko and charged with finding her a husband (she has been declined three times due to concerns over her having been in the "black rain" fallout). As the story progresses, Shigematsu sees more and more fellow hibakusha, his friends and family, succumbing to radiation sickness and Yasuko's prospects for marriage become more and more unlikely, as she forms a bond with a poor man named Yuichi, who carves jizo and suffers a form of post-traumatic stress disorder where he attacks passing motor vehicles as "tanks."