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World War II, 1939-45
My father's war. Our side won.
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First Motion Picture Unit of the U.S. Army Air Forces
Atomic U.S.A. Pages at Spirit of America Bookstore
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AS's 'World At War: From Versailles To The Cold War' website
World War 2 History Info website
'United States Army Air Forces in World War II' tribute site
weekly 'Roundup' newspaper of the China-Burma-India Theater in WW2
untitled U.S.S. Indianapolis Project [Warner Bros. - in development] 
Announced 8/2011: Warner Bros. and Robert & Susan Downey are tackling the sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis
during World War II. Warners has picked up the life rights to Hunter Scott, the 11-year old boy who worked to exonerate
the court-martialed captain of the Indianapolis, blamed for the deaths of hundreds of men in a horrifying shark ordeal.
Robert Schenkkan was set to write the script for Warners-based Team Downey •
latest info at IMDb
"A Hidden Life" [Fox Searchlight Pictures Dec 2019]
 | Working title: "Radegund"; filmed in the summer of 2016 at Studio Babelsberg in Potsdam, Germany and in parts of northern Italy, such as Brixen, South Tyrol, and the small mountain village of Sappada, with some interior sequences filmed in Berlin; depicts the life of Austria's Franz Jägerstätter, a conscientious objector during World War II who was put to death at the age of 36 for undermining military actions, and was later declared a martyr and beatified by the Catholic Church • Written & directed by Terrence Malick; starring August Diehl & Valerie Pachner; also starring Michael Nyqvist, Matthias Schoenaerts, Jürgen Prochnow, Bruno Ganz, Alexander Fehling, Ulrich Matthes, Karl Markovics, Franz Rogowski, Tobias Moretti, Martin Wuttke, Max Mauff, Johan Leysen, Dimo Alexiev, Joel Basman, Leo Baumgartner, Sarah Born, Ulrich Brandhoff, Dominik Hermanns, Walter de Winter, Konrad Hochgruber, Moritz Katzmair, Waldemar Kobus, Johannes Krisch, Leonard Kunz, Franziska Lang, Jasmin Barbara Mairhofer, Max Malatesta, Thomas Mraz, Thomas Nash, Karin Neuhäuser, Johannes Nussbaum, Thomas Prenn, Alexander Radszun, Nicholas Reinke, Sophie Rois, Felix Römer, Andro Sarishvili, Peter Schorn, Florian Schwienbacher, Ermin Sijamija, Maria Simon, Benno Steinegger, Chris Theisinger; won two prizes at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2019
DVD/Blu-ray not yet available • full credits at IMDb • official movie site • movie entry at Wikipedia watch 8/2019 official trailer [2:11] at YouTube Historical note: Franz was born in the village of Sankt Radegund near the Austrian border with Bavaria; his widow died there at age 100 in 2013 |
"A Newsreel History of The Third Reich" [2005-2011]
 | Compiled from German newsreels which were made under the influence of Goebbels and the Ministry of Propaganda, these are by no means accurate histories but display the 'news' as received by the German people.
• not listed on IMDb
Volumes 1-5: From the End of The Great War To The Assault On The Mediterranean Arts Magic b&w DVD set [7/2005] 5 disks for $35.99 Volumes 6-10: From The War With The Soviet Union To The Bombing of Paris, Part 1 Arts Magic b&w DVD set [6/2010] 5 disks for $35.99 Volumes 11-15: From The War With The Soviet Union To The Bombing of Paris, Part 2 Arts Magic b&w DVD set [3/2011] 5 disks for $26.49 Volumes 16-20: From The Hitler Youth Training School To The Final Days of WWII Arts Magic b&w DVD set DVD [8/2011] 5 disks for $37.49 |
"L'Armée des Ombres" aka "Army of Shadows"
[France 1969; USA April 2006]
 | A leader of the French resistance is betrayed to the Germans and sent to an internment camp; he escapes and exacts revenge on the traitor • Written & directed by Jean-Pierre Melville [1917-73], based on Joseph Kessel's novel; starring Lino Ventura, Simone Signoret, Paul Meurisse, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Claude Mann, Paul Crauchet & Christian Barbier
Criterion widescreen color DVD [5/2007] for $35.99 full credits from IMDb • official movie site |
 | "L'Armée des Ombres" [1943 novel] by Joseph Kessel
French & European Publns pb [10/86] for $16.95 Pocket French-language pb [5/2001] out of print/rare |
"Barefoot Gen 1 & 2" [Japan]
The tale of a child surviving the bombing of Hiroshima in 1945; the manga books are important anti-war works,
and the film is a landmark in animé art. The sequel takes place three years later.
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"Barefoot Gen" aka 'Hadashi no gen' [1983] Directed by Mori Masaki; written & produced by Keiji Nakazawa Image Ent. bilingual color DVD [4/99] out of stock/used Orion Home Video color VHS [7/95] out of stock/used full credits from IMDb |
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"Barefoot Gen 2" aka 'Hadashi no gen 2' [1986]
Co-directed by Toshio Hirata & Akio Sakai; written by Keiji Nakazawa video not available; full credits from IMDb |
 | "Barefoot Gen" aka 'Hadashi no gen' [1973] classic manga novels by Keiji Nakazawa first serialized in 1972-73 in the 'Shukan Shonen Jampu' comic weekly Volume 1: A Cartoon Story of Hiroshima - Last Gasp 8¼x6 pb [10/2004] for $14.95 Volume 2: The Day After - Last Gasp 8¼x6 pb [10/2004] for $14.95 Volume 3: Life After The Bomb - Last Gasp pb [5/2005] for $10.17 Volume 4: Out of The Ashes - Last Gasp pb [5/2005] for $10.17 |
"Battle Cry" [Warner Bros. Feb 1955]
Produced & directed by Raoul Walsh; script by Leon Uris from his novel; starring Van Heflin, Aldo Ray, Mona Freeman,
Nancy Olson, James Whitmore, Raymond Massey, Tab Hunter, Dorothy Malone, Anne Francis, William Campbell, John
Lupton, L.Q. Jones, Perry Lopez, Fess Parker, Jonas Applegarth, Felix Noriego, Susan Morrow, Carleton Young,
Rhys Williams & Allyn Ann McLerie; full credits at IMDb
"The Battle of Britain" [1969]
full credits at IMDb
"Battle of The Bulge" [Cinerama 1965]
Starring Henry Fonda, Robert Shaw, Robert Ryan, Dana Andrews,
George Montgomery, Charles Bronson & James MacArthur; full credits at IMDb
"The Battle of The Rails" (La Bataille du Rail)
[France Feb 1946, USA Dec 1949]
 | French railroad workers risked their lives to assist France's organized resistance during the German occupation of World War II (as did the film crew in the making of this film!) • Written & directed by René Clément; dialogue by Colette Audry; narrated by Charles Boyer; cast of amateur actors; won Intl. Jury Prize at the first Cannes Film Festival; also won the inaugural Prix Méliès from the French Syndicate of Cinema Critics
FACETS b&w subtitled DVD [1/2006] for $19.99 full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia watch opening 7½ minutes [4/2010 upload; 7:29] online at YouTube |
"The Best Years of Our Lives" [1946]
Directed by William Wyler; won 8 Oscars;
videos & DVDs •
full credits at IMDb
"The Big Red One" [1980]
Written & directed by Samuel Fuller; starring Lee Marvin; full credits at IMDb
"Bombardier" [R.K.O. Radio Pictures May 1943]
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Mostly filmed at Kirtland Army Air Base in Albuquerque, New Mexico; the U.S. Army sets up a school to teach precision high-altitude bombing;
directed by Richard Wallace & Lambert Hillyer; written by John Twist & Martin Rackin; starring Pat O'Brien, Randolph Scott, Anne Shirley, Eddie Albert, BrigGen. Eugene L. Eubank, Robert Ryan, Barton MacLane, Walter Reed, Richard Martin, Hugh Beaumont & Paul Fix
Warner Archive Collection b&w DVD [6/2011] for $18.89 Eurpac b&w VHS [5/93] out of prodn/used Turner Home Ent. b&w VHS [undated] out of prodn/used 27"x40" poster from Amazon for $16.95 full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia |
"The Bridge On The River Kwai" [Columbia Dec 1957]
"The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial"
Pulitzer-winning "The Caine Mutiny" [1951 novel] by Herman Wouk
1953 stage play: Broadway credits at IBDb
1954 film directed by Edward Dmytryk
Starring Humphrey Bogart, José Ferrer, Van Johnson, Fred MacMurray & E.G. Marshall;
full credits at IMDb
Sony-Columbia/CBS tv movie [May 1988]
Directed by Robert Altman [1925-2006]; teleplay by Herman Wouk, from his classic play; full credits at IMDb
"Catch-22" [Filmways/Paramount June 1970]
 | Based on the best-selling Joseph Heller novel. Captain Yossarian (Alan Arkin) tries deperately to get grounded so he will not have to fly any more bombing missions over Hitler's Europe: anyone who goes to war is crazy, but if he asks to be grounded for being crazy, then he's not crazy anymore and he has to keep flying – catch 22. A gut-wrenching satire. Directed by Mike Nichols; screenplay by Buck Henry; all-star cast including Orson Welles Paramount color VHS [8/2001] for $9.95 Paramount widescreen DVD [5/2001] for $17.99 full credits from IMDb |
 |      novel by Joseph Heller [1961]
Scribner 8x5¼ pb [9/96] for $9.60 S&S Classic 9½x6¾ hardcover [10/99] for $18.20 DH Audio ABR [3/99] out of print/used BooksOnTape audio [1980] out of print/used |
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the sequel to 'Catch-22': "Closing Time: A Novel" [1994]
Scribner 9x5¾ pb [9/95] for $10.40 S&S 9½x6½ hardcover [10/94] out of print/used S&S ABR audio [11/94] out of print/used BooksOnTape audio [1/94] out of print/used |
"Colditz" TV series [BBC/Universal 1972-74]
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068059/
"Colditz" mini-series [Granada TV March 2005]
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0415407/
Colditz: The Complete 2-Part Miniseries /B000HC2PLS
"Combat America" [U.S.A.A.F. Sept 1944]
 | 62-minute Technicolor documentary made by then-Lieutenant Clark Gable featuring the men of the U.S.A.A.F. 351st Bombardment Group between combat missions over Germany from an R.A.F. base in England. Post-production was done by Gable on assignment at F.M.P.U. / Fort Roach.
Produced, directed & narrated by and starring 1Lt. Clark Gable; cameos by Gen. 'Hap' Arnold & Bob Hope
Alpha Video 102-min. DVD [6/2009] for $7.98 Periscope Film 110-min. Deluxe Edition DVD [4/2007] for $24.99 Good Times Video b&w DVD [5/2001] out of prodn/used full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia hour-long online version at Google Video |
"Come See The Paradise"
[Fox Dec 1990]
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An American union organizer falls in love with a Japanese girl in pre-war Los Angeles, and they escape local prejudice by eloping to Seattle; but soon after Pearl Harbor, all Japanese on the West Coast are herded into concentration camps, and the young man is drafted.
Written & directed by Alan Parker; starring Dennis Quaid, Tamlyn Tomita, Sab Shimono, Shizuko Hoshi, Colm Meaney & Becky Ann Baker
Fox widescreen color DVD [6/2006] for $12.99 Fox color VHS [3/92] out of prodn/many used Varese Sarabande soundtrack CD [12/90] out of prodn/used full credits from IMDb |
"Confidential & Restricted Films of World War II"
 | "Confidential Films of World War II" [2007]
Films released thru the Freedom of Information Act: battle footage from late 1943 to mid-1944. Timeless Media Group b&w/color DVD [3/2007] 2 disks for $9.98 "Restricted Films of World War II" [2007] Films released thru the Freedom of Information Act: battle footage from mid-1944 to mid-1945. Timeless Media Group b&w/color DVD [3/2007] 2 disks for $9.98 neither set is listed at IMDb |
"Cross of Iron" [Avco/EMI 1976]
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Death, horror & futility – Peckinpah's anti-war film from the German Army point of view, as they retreat from the debacle of Stalingrad. And do not miss the very last freeze-frame, which is what makes Peckinpah's only war movie an existential masterpiece. Directed by Sam Peckinpah [1925-84], adapted from Heinrich's novel (below); starring James Coburn, Maximilian Schell, James Mason & David Warner
Hen's Tooth Video color DVD [2/2000] for $25.49 Hen's Tooth Video color VHS [10/98] for $29.99 full credits from IMDb based on the novel "The Willing Flesh" by Willi Heinrich Noontide hardcover [5/88] out of print/used Bantam pb [3/81] out of print/used |
"Das Boot" [Germany 1981]: full credits at IMDb
"The Devil's Brigade" [1968]
Directed by Andrew V. McLaglen; starring William Holden & Cliff Robertson •
full credits at IMDb
"Dunkirk" [Warner Bros. July 2017]
Co-produced, written & directed by Christopher Nolan; music by Hans Zimmer; starring Tom Hardy, Fionn Whitehead,
Mark Rylance, Harry Styles •
full credits at IMDb
watch 8/2016 official trailer with guitar music [1:19] online at YouTube
watch 8/2016 official teaser trailer [1:06] online at YouTube
"Emperor" [LionsGate USA March 2013, Shochiku Japan July 2013]
 | Filmed in New Zealand & Japan; after the Japanese surrender in August 1946, General Douglas MacArthur assumes control of the country; one of his first concerns is whether to prosecute the Emperor for 'war crimes', so he assigns young Gen. Fellers to investigate; Fellers's personal mission is to find the Japanese beauty that he met and fell in love with before the war.
Directed by Peter Webber; screenplay by Vera Blasi & David Klass, based on a book by Shiro Okamoto; starring Tommy Lee Jones {as MacArthur}, Matthew Fox {as Fellers}, Eriko Hatsune, Kaori Momoi, Aaron Jackson, Takatarô Kataoka (as the Emperor}, Toshiyuki Nishida, William Wallace, Masatô Ibu, Isao Natsuyagi, Nic Sampson, Colin Moy, Shôhei Hino, Masayoshi Haneda & Masatoshi Nakamura
DVD/Blu-ray not yet available full credits at IMDb • official movie site • watch trailer [1:59] at IMDb |
"Fat Man and Little Boy"
[Paramount Oct 1989]
 | A re-enactment of the tensions inside the Manhattan Project, the secret research & design operation at Los Alamos, NM that designed & built the atomic bombs used to end World War II.
Co-written & directed by Roland Joffé; co-written by Bruce Robinson; starring Paul Newman, Dwight Schultz, Bonnie Bedelia, John Cusack, Laura Dern & Natasha Richardson
Paramount color DVD [4/2004] for $9.99 Paramount color VHS [5/92] out of stock/used full credits from IMDb |
"Flags of Our Fathers"
[Malpaso/DreamWorks/Warner Oct 2006]
 | "[These two films] stand as a monumental achievement and an enduring one." — reviewer Stuart Klawans Three of the U.S. Marines in the classic photo of the flag-raising on Iwo Jima are ordered back to America to be used in wartime propaganda. Directed by Clint Eastwood; script by William Broyles Jr. & Paul Haggis, based on the book {below}; starring Ryan Phillippe, Jesse Bradford, Adam Beach & John Benjamin Hickey Paramount widescreen color DVD [2/2007] for $16.99 Paramount color DVD [2/2007] for $16.99 full credits from IMDb official movie site {requires Flash} |
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"Flags of Our Fathers: Heroes of Iwo Jima" [2000] by James Bradley, with Ron Powers tribute book by the son of one participant Bantam mass pb [5/2006] for $7.99 Bantam 9x6 pb [10/2001] for $11.20 Bantam 9x6¼ hardcover [5/2000] for $17.82 |
"Letters From Iwo Jima"
[Malpaso/DreamWorks/Warner Dec 2006]
 | The battle for Iwo Jima in February 1945, from the viewpoint of Japan's soldiers making a last stand against U.S. forces, centered on a general and a conscripted baker.
Directed by Clint Eastwood; written by Iris Yamashita & Paul Haggis; starring Ken Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Ryo Kase & Shido Nakamura; Oscar nominated for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Script & Best Sound video/DVD not yet released; full credits from IMDb official movie site {requires Flash} |
"Flying Tigers" [1942]
Starring John Wayne;
full credits at IMDb
"For The Boys" [1991]
Starring Bette Midler & James Caan;
full credits at IMDb
"Government Girl" [R.K.O. Jan 1944]
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A comedy that covers the issues in play toward the end of WWII: optimism, women in the workforce, housing & other shortages, production of war materiel, and the frenzy of wartime politics in Washington, DC. A bungling, naive lobbyist from Detroit is forced to rely on his pretty secretary to maneuver thru the federal bureaucracy to convert factories for building bombers.
Produced, co-written & directed by Dudley Nichols; co-written by Budd Schulberg, from a story by Adela Rogers St. Johns; starring Olivia de Havilland, Sonny Tufts, Anne Shirley, Jess Barker, James Dunn, Paul Stewart & Agnes Moorehead
video/DVD not available; full credits from IMDb |
"Grave of The Fireflies (Hotaru no Haka)"
[Toho Japan April 1988, GKIDS USA 2013?]
 | Studio Ghibli made the film on contract to publisher Shinchosha, based on the semi-autobiographical novel by Akiyuki Nosaka; it was released on a double bill in 1988 with "My Neighbor Totoro". Roger Ebert and other critics consider the film a classic anti-war movie. Flashbacks tell of the destruction of Japan at the end of World War II, thru an orphaned brother and sister. GKIDS acquired North American rights from Toho in late 2012, for a 25th Anniversary theatrical release in 2013. Adapted & directed by Isao Takahata; Japanese voices by Tsutomu Tatsumi, Ayano Shiraishi, Yoshiko Shinohara, Akemi Yamaguchi
Section 23 subtitled widescreen color Blu-ray [11/2012] for $16.99 Section 23 subtitled color DVD [3/2012] for $14.93 Section 23 English-dubbed color DVD set [7/2009] 2 disks for $54.27 Central Park Media subtitled widescreen color DVD [10/98] for $30.38 Central Park Media dubbed/subtitled color DVD set [10/2002] 2 disks - out of prodn/used full credits at IMDb • official Japanese-language movie site • movie entry at Wikipedia |
"The Great Dictator" [United Artists Oct 1940]
 | Chaplin's first talkie; an amnesiac Jewish barber (Chaplin) is released from hospital unaware of a resemblance to his country's new dictator, Adenoid Hynkle (also Chaplin). Temporary favoritism of the Jews is soon replaced with shipment to concentration camps; the barber and a sympathetic officer escape and are captured by enemy forces, who believe the barber to be the dictator. The bogus dictator then delivers a lyrical four-minute radio speech advocating peace. Written, directed & starring Charles Chaplin [1889-1977]; co-starring Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie, Reginald Gardiner, Henry Daniell & Billy Gilbert; Oscar nominated for Best Picture, Best Original Script, Best Actor (CC), Best Supporting Actor (JO), Best Original Score; listed on the National Film Registry in 1997
Warner special edition DVD [7/2003] 2 disks for $26.99 Image Ent b&w DVD [4/2000] out of stock/used Creative Design Limited Edition DVD [7/2003] for $53.99 Playhouse b&w VHS [year?] out of prodn/rare full credits from IMDb • official movie site |
Chaplin's "The Greatest Speech Ever Made" excerpted from "The Great Dictator" [1940]
watch video [4:38] on YouTube
"The Great Escape" [Mirisch/U.A. 1963]
Directed by John Sturges; script by James Clavell & W.R. Burnett [1899-1982], based on the 1950 book
by Paul Brickhill; starring Steve McQueen, James Garner & Charles Bronson • full credits at IMDb
"The Great Raid" [2005]: full credits at IMDb
"Hacksaw Ridge" [2016]: full credits at IMDb
"Hail The Conquering Hero"
[Paramount Aug 1944]
 | A Marine recruit discharged for his hayfever condition is encouraged by fellow soldiers to wear unearned medals and return home as a hero. The town gets carried away, making plans to build a statue of him and asking him to run for mayor, and when he tries to tell the truth nobody will believe him.
Co-produced, written & directed by Preston Sturges [1898-1959]; starring Eddie Bracken, Ella Raines, Raymond Walburn, William Demarest, Franklin Pangborn, Elizabeth Patterson, Georgia Caine, Al Bridge, Freddie Steele, Bill Edwards, Harry Hayden, Jimmy Conlin, Jimmie Dundee & Chester Conklin; Oscar nomination for Best Screenplay
Universal b&w VHS [3/92] out of prodn/used full credits from IMDb DVD as part of the Preston Sturges Collection box set Universal DVD box set [11/2006] 7 disks for $41.99 |
"Hell Is For Heroes" [1962]
Directed by Don Siegel; starring Steve McQueen, Bobby Darin & Fess Parker;
full credits at IMDb
"Hell To Eternity" [Allied Artists Sept 1960]
 | True life story of Guy Gabaldon [1926-2006], a Hispanic boy raised in Los Angeles by a Japanese-American foster family. During World War II, his foster parents were sent to an internment camp, and he enlisted in the U.S. Marines. His ability to speak Japanese was useful during the bloody capture of the island of Saipan: he convinced 1,500 Japanese soldiers & civilians to surrender after their general committed suicide. Gabaldon was awarded the Navy Cross & the Congressional Medal of Honor. Directed by Phil Karlson; starring Jeffrey Hunter (as PFC Gabaldon), David Janssen, Vic Damone, Patricia Owens, Sessue Hayakawa & Miiko Taka
Warner Home Video b&w DVD [6/2007] for $15.99 Fox b&w VHS [11/91] out of prodn/used full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia novelization by Edward S. Aarons Fawcett Gold Medal mass pb [1960] out of print |
"Idiot's Delight" [M.G.M. Jan 1939]
 | As war tensions build in Europe, an American song-and-dance troupe is stranded in a mountain resort, along with a German doctor, an English couple, a French pacifist, an Italian military officer, and a munitions manufacturer & his beautiful travelling companion. {Two different endings were filmed.)
Directed by Clarence Brown; adapted by Robert E. Sherwood from his Pulitzer Prize-winning 1936 Broadway play (starring Lunt & Fontanne); starring Clark Gable, Norma Shearer, Edward Arnold, Charles Coburn, Joseph Schildkraut & Burgess Meredith
M.G.M. b&w VHS [12/91] out of prodn/used full credits from IMDb; credits at Internet Broadway Database playscript [Scribner's 1936] Dramatists Play Service pb [1964] out of print/used Scribner's hardcover [1936] out of print/used |
"Japan's Longest Day"
[Toho Japan Aug 1967, USA March 1968]
 | This is the true story of 15 August 1945, as Japan's government considered surrender to the Allies; the 2-hour 40-minute film is broadcast in Japan every year on the anniversary of the surrender. After the atomic bombings of Hiroshima & Nagasaki, Japan's Army Minister Anami proposed to fight on, even to the death of every Japanese citizen. Emperor Hirohito and his other ministers considered the unthinkable – the peaceful surrender of Japan. When Anami learned of a military plot to overthrow the Emperor's civilian government, he faced the choice between his desires and his loyalty to the Emperor. Directed by Kihachi Okamoto; adapted by Shinobu Hashimoto from the 1965 book; starring Toshirô Mifune, Koshiro Matsumoto {as Emperor Hirohito}, Sô Yamamura, Chishu Ryu, Seiji Miyaguchi, Takashi Shimura, Toshio Kurosawa, Shogo Shimada, Susumu Fujita, Rokko Toura, Yûnosuke Itô, Daisuke Katô, Etsushi Takahashi, Jun Tazaki, Takao Inoue & Nobuo Nakamura; won Kinema Junpo Award for Best Script
Animeigo widescreen b&w/color DVD [9/2006] for $26.99 full credits from IMDb |
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based on the renowned history “Nihon no Ichiban Nagai Hi” [1965] by The Pacific War Research Society & Soichi Oya Kodansha Intl. 7½x5¼ pb [9/2002] for $13.57 Ballantine Books mass pb [9/93] out of print/used |
"Jeux Interdits" aka 'Forbidden Games' [France 1952]
Directed by René Clément; starring Brigitte Fossey;
full credits at IMDb
"Journey Together" [U.K. 1945] /tt0038663/
British WWII propaganda film; co-written & directed by John Boulting; co-written by Terence Rattigan; with Edward G. Robinson
"King Rat" [1965]: full credits at IMDb
"La Neige était Sale" aka "Dirty Snow"
[France 1952, USA Oct 1956]
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A teenaged petty criminal living in an occupied city tempts Fate, committing crimes of escalating violence, and betraying the girl who loves him; Fate retaliates in the end. Co-written & directed by Luis Saslavsky, adapted from a Georges Simenon novel; starring Daniel Gélin, Daniel Ivernel, Marie Mansart, Véra Norman, Nadine Basile, Antoine Balpêtré & Valentine Tessier video not available; full credits from IMDb |
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"Dirty Snow" [1948 novel, translated 1951] by Georges Simenon [1903-89] Random House/N.Y.R.B. 8x4¾ pb [9/2003] for $10.78 |
"The Memphis Belle: A Story of A Flying Fortress"
[Produced by F.M.P.U. of the U.S.A.A.F.; Paramount theatrical release April 1944]
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Directed by William Wyler; cinematography by 1Lt. Harold J. Tannenbaum; listed by National Film Directory 2001
Platinum color DVD [11/2001] for $6.99 Timeless color VHS [3/2000] for $12.99 Tapeworm color VHS [12/99] out of stock/used Tapeworm color VHS [11/90] out of stock/used full credits at IMDb • movie fansite |
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1990 remake [Warner Bros.] Directed by Michael Caton-Jones; script by Monte Merrick; starring Matthew Modine, Eric Stoltz, Tate Donovan, D.B. Sweeney, Harry Connick Jr., David Strathairn & John Lithgow Warner color DVD [5/98] for $9.88 Warner color VHS [5/95] out of prodn/many used Varese soundtrack CD [10/90] for $16.98 full credits at IMDb |
Memphis Belle B-17 Flying Fortress official website
restored Liberty Belle B-17 Flying Fortress of Atlanta, GA
"Military Intelligence and You!"
[Pax Americana Pictures 2006]
 | A parody of WWII training films, such as those made by the U.S. Army's First Motion Picture Unit, constructed by combining 60-year-old government footage with modern high-definition video. Co-produced, written & directed by Dale Kutzera; starring Patrick Muldoon, Elizabeth Bennett, Mackenzie Astin, John Rixey Moore, Eric Jungmann, with archival footage of William Holden, Alan Ladd, Arthur Kennedy & Ronald Reagan • full credits from IMDb Echo Bridge Home Ent. b&w DVD [5/2008] for $12.99 official movie site {broken 2014} • watch official trailer [2:51] at YouTube |
"Mister Roberts"
1948 Broadway play: credits at IBDb
1955 movie by John Ford [1894- 1973]: full credits at IMDb
1984 tv movie: full credits at IMDb
feature sequel "Ensign Pulver" [1964]: full credits at IMDb
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