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, 2h23
Directed by Nils MalmrosOrigin DanemarkGenres Drama,
RomanceThemes Seafaring films,
Transport filmsActors Anneke von der Lippe,
Birgitte Federspiel,
Lars Simonsen,
Jesper Christensen,
Jens Dyhr Okking,
Ove SprogøeRating60%




The aptly named ship Fortuna arrives in Tórshavn, bringing Poul (Lars Simonsen), the new pastor for the parish of Vágar, and the populace has gathered for the event. Among them is Barbara (Anneke von der Lippe), the widow of two former pastors for whose untimely deaths she is blamed by many. Pastor Poul is warned about her but falls for her charms, despite the fact that when three French ships come to port she follows the example of most of the other women in the town and allows herself to be seduced by a French sailor. As the widow of the parish, she has a house of her own on Vágar, and she and Poul leave for their respective homes there. Inevitably, they marry, but when in Tórshavn on a subsequent visit, Barbara meets and falls for the foppish Andreas Heyde (Peter Reichhardt), on a research trip from Copenhagen. Poul persuades Barbara to leave with him; however, when Christmas approaches he feels duty-bound to visit the outlying island of Mykines, despite Barbara's entreaties that he not do so. Andreas has now arrived nearby to spend Christmas at the home of the chief magistrate of the island. Despite his misgivings, Poul answers the call of duty, hoping to return almost immediately, but he is delayed by the weather for eleven days, and on his return he discovers that Barbara has left for Tórshavn with Andreas. After a confrontation between Poul and Andreas, instigated by Gabriel, Andreas is finally persuaded to leave for Copenhagen, without Barbara, and she makes a desperate and futile attempt to reach his ship, once more the Fortuna, as it leaves.
, 1h36
Directed by Richard Rosson,
Howard HawksOrigin USAGenres Drama,
WarThemes Seafaring films,
Transport films,
Political filmsActors Randolph Scott,
Ella Raines,
Barry Fitzgerald,
Andy Devine,
James Brown,
Fuzzy KnightRating64%




In 1943, Lt Cdr McLain (Scott) has just lost his ship as well as two-thirds of his crew due to enemy action. He is allocated a new ship and while waiting for it to be built, befriends the sister of one of his dead officers. Things become somewhat complicated when one of the replacement officers turns out to be another brother. The brand new HMCS Donnacona is assigned to accompany a convoy of ships from Nova Scotia to England. Along the way the ship encounters many of the trials of war.
, 1h55
Directed by Ralph ThomasOrigin United-kingdomGenres Drama,
War,
Melodrama,
RomanceThemes Seafaring films,
Transport films,
Political filmsActors Dirk Bogarde,
Yoko Tani,
Ronald Lewis,
John Fraser,
Anthony Bushell,
Marne MaitlandRating61%




The film takes place in Burma and India during World War II.
A British officer falls in love with his Japanese instructor at a military language school. They start a romance, but she is regarded as the enemy and is not accepted by his countrymen. Later he is captured by the Japanese army when he is patrolling with a brigadier and an Indian driver in a Japanese-controlled zone. He escapes and returns to his own lines, only to discover that his fiancée is suffering from a brain tumor and dies.
, 2h6
Directed by Mark SandrichOrigin USAGenres Drama,
War,
RomanceThemes Seafaring films,
Transport films,
Political filmsActors Claudette Colbert,
Paulette Goddard,
Veronica Lake,
Cora Witherspoon,
George Reeves,
Barbara BrittonRating73%




The story covers many day-to-day events and contrasts the brutality of war against the sometimes futile efforts of the nurses to provide medical aid and comfort. Each of the nurses has a past or present love story with a soldier, with the longest-term one between the characters played by Colbert and George Reeves. Flashback narration and a sequence where the nurses and injured soldiers are stranded in Malinta Tunnel pinned down by aircraft fire are two notable aspects of the film.
, 1h46
Directed by Otto Brower,
Archie MayoOrigin USAGenres Drama,
War,
Thriller,
Action,
Adventure,
RomanceThemes Seafaring films,
Transport films,
La bataille de l'Atlantique,
Underwater action films,
Submarine films,
Political films,
Children's filmsActors Tyrone Power,
Anne Baxter,
Dana Andrews,
James Gleason,
May Whitty,
Harry MorganRating62%




A US Navy submarine, the USS Corsair, is operating in the North Atlantic, hunting German merchant raiders that are preying on Allied shipping. Its new executive officer, Lt. Ward Stewart (Tyrone Power), has been transferred back into submarines after commanding his own PT boat. At the submarine base in New London, Connecticut, he asks his new captain, Lt. Cmdr. Dewey Connors (Dana Andrews), for a weekend leave to settle his affairs before taking up his new assignment. On a train bound for Washington D.C., Stewart accidentally encounters New London school teacher Jean Hewlett (Anne Baxter) and her students. Despite her initial resistance to his efforts, he charms her and they fall in love.
, 2h45
Directed by Otto PremingerOrigin USAGenres Drama,
War,
Action,
AdventureThemes Seafaring films,
Transport films,
Political films,
United States Armed Forces in filmsActors John Wayne,
Kirk Douglas,
Henry Fonda,
Patricia Neal,
Brandon deWilde,
Tom TryonRating72%




John Wayne stars as U.S. Navy Captain Rockwell "Rock" Torrey, a divorced "second generation Navy" son of a career Chief Petty Officer. A Naval Academy graduate and career officer, Torrey is removed from command of his heavy cruiser for "throwing away the book" when pursuing the enemy and then being torpedoed by a Japanese submarine shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Kirk Douglas portrays Torrey's executive officer, Commander (later Captain) Paul Eddington, a wayward sort of career officer who has resigned as a naval aviator and returned to the surface navy because of an unhappy marriage. His wife's numerous affairs and drunken escapades have become the talk of Honolulu and her death during the Pearl Harbor attack—in the company of an Army Air Corps Officer (Hugh O'Brian), with whom she had just had a wild fling on a local beach—drives Eddington into a bar brawl with a group of other Army Air Corps officers, a subsequent stint in the Pearl Harbor brig, and exile as the "... officer in charge of piers and warehouses ..." in what he calls a "backwater island purgatory.
, 1h26
Directed by Paul WendkosOrigin USAGenres Drama,
War,
RomanceThemes Seafaring films,
Prison films,
Transport films,
Underwater action films,
Submarine films,
Political filmsActors Cliff Robertson,
Gia Scala,
Teru Shimada,
Patricia Cutts,
Gene Blakely,
Robin HughesRating56%




The crew of an American submarine are on a reconnaissance mission photographing Japanese installations through a periscope camera. When attacked by the Japanese (with similarities to the USS Perch) the submarine is scuttled and the crew is captured. Tortured by the Japanese, with the help of British and Australian prisoners the crew makes an escape bid to get their information to the Allies. The film ends with footage of the Battle of the Coral Sea that according to the film was made possible through the information brought back by the submariners.
Directed by Richard EyreGenres Drama,
War,
DocumentaryThemes Seafaring films,
Transport films,
Political filmsActors Colin Firth,
David Calder,
Paul Rhys,
Barbara Leigh-Hunt,
Sophie Thompson,
Roddy Maude-RoxbyRating71%




The film centres on the experiences of Robert Lawrence MC (played by Colin Firth), an officer of the Scots Guards during the Falklands War of 1982. While fighting at the Battle of Mount Tumbledown, Lawrence is shot in the head by an Argentine sniper, and left paralysed on his left side. He then must learn to adjust to his new disability.