War Movies
Last of the Buccaneers (1950)
Swashbuckler about the adventures of pirate Jean Lafitte after he helped save New Orleans from a British invasion during the War of 1812.
The Wooden Horse (1950)
True story of three British POWs and their attempt to escape from Nazi Germany
Two Flags West (1950)
A group of confedarate prisoners is sent to a unionist fort in the west to help the local garrison to fight the indians.
The Black Rose (1950)
In the 13th century, Walter of Gurnie, a disinherited Saxon youth, is forced to flee England. With his friend, Tristram, he falls in with the army of the fierce but…
Captain Carey U.S.A. (1950)
Near the end of World War II, a secret American raid on an enemy transportation hub goes very wrong when a turncoat warns the enemy. Led by Capt. Webster Carey,…
Chain Lightning (1950)
Former World War II flying ace Matt Brennan takes a position as a test pilot for a commercial aircraft corporation and bumps into his old girlfriend, Jo Holloway, who now…
When Willie Comes Marching Home (1950)
When Willie leaves home to join the war effort he is all ready to become a hero, but he is only frustrated when his posting ends up to be in…
The Red Danube (1949)
A Russian ballerina in Vienna tries to flee KGB agents and defect.
The Hasty Heart (1949)
In the final days of World War II, in a MASH unit in Burma, a severely wounded corporal watches in dismay as fellow soldiers pack-up to return home but a…
Home of the Brave (1949)
A sensitive, educated black man’s World War II-time problems. This is essentially the duplicate of his peace-time problems which are pointed up in a flashback of his life, and primarily…
The Small Back Room (1949)
At the height of World War II, the Germans begin dropping a new type of booby-trapped bomb on England. Highly skilled but haunted bomb disposal officer Sammy Rice must overcome…
Elizabeth of Ladymead (1948)
Four generations of a British family live through their experiences in the Crimean War, Boer War, WWI and WWII.
Tap Roots (1948)
Set at the beginning of the Civil War, Tap Roots is all about a county in Mississippi which chooses to secede from the state rather than enter the conflict. The…
A Southern Yankee (1948)
Red Skelton plays Aubrey Filmore, a feather-brained but lovable bellboy who dreams of becoming an agent for the Union’s secret service during the Civil War.
On Our Own Land (1948)
Set in a Slovenian coastal town in WW2, the film tells a story about villagers who help partisans to get rid of Italian, and later German authorities that ruled the…
Homecoming (1948)
Self-absorbed Dr. Lee Johnson enlists with the Army medical corps during World War II, more out of a feeling that it’s “the thing to do” rather than deep-seated patriotism. On…
Against the Wind (1948)
A disparate group of volunteers are trained as saboteurs and parachuted into Belgium to blow up an office containing important Nazi records and to rescue a prominent S.O.E. agent, who…
Desire Me (1947)
A war widow falls in love with the man who informed her of her husband’s death.
Frieda (1947)
An RAF pilot who was shot down during WWII returns home to his English village with his new bride. The trouble is that she is the German lady who helped…
High Barbaree (1947)
After his plane is downed in the South Pacific, a Navy flier recounts his life to a co-pilot while awaiting rescue.
13 Rue Madeleine (1947)
Bob Sharkey, an instructor of would-be spies for the Allied Office of Strategic Services, becomes suspicious of one of the latest batch of students, Bill O’Connell, who is too good…
School for Secrets (1946)
Wartime tale of a group of British scientists efforts to develop the first radar system. They did it just in time for it to be used in the Battle of…
A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
When a young RAF pilot miraculously survives bailing out of his aeroplane without a parachute, he falls in love with an American radio operator. But the officials in the other…
Cloak and Dagger (1946)
Italian partisans help a professor sent by the OSS to find an atomic scientist held by Nazis.
Piccadilly Incident (1946)
A newly married WREN, presumed drowned when her ship is torpedoed, spends three years on a tropical island before returning to England to find her husband remarried with a baby…
Till the End of Time (1946)
Three former marines have a hard time readjusting to civilian life. Perry can’t deal with the loss of the use of his legs. William is in trouble with bad debts….
I See a Dark Stranger (1946)
Proud Irishwoman Bridie Quilty journeys to Dublin while World War II rages across Europe. During her travels, she encounters J. Miller, who recruits her as a Nazi spy. She acquires…
O.S.S. (1946)
The (O)ffice of (S)trategic (S)ervices’ Cmdr. Brady (Patric Knowles) forms Operation “Applejack” (based on a composite of actual incidents during WWII) and sends Lt. (j.g.) Philip Masson, U.S.N.R. aka John…
From This Day Forward (1946)
A young American soldier, with an honorable discharge, returns home from World War II to his bride, whom he married after a short courtship and has not seen for several…
A Walk in the Sun (1945)
In the 1943 invasion of Italy, one American platoon lands, digs in, then makes its way inland to attempt to take a fortified farmhouse, as tension and casualties mount.
Johnny Frenchman (1945)
The fisherman from a Cornish village have a friendly rivalry with the fishermen (and one formidable woman) from a French port. Then war comes and they must all rethink their…
Journey Together (1945)
Two Englishmen (Richard Attenborough, Jack Watling) train with the Royal Air Force, ending with a bombing raid on Berlin.
Pride of the Marines (1945)
Marine hero Al Schmid is blinded in battle and returns home to be rehabilitated. He readjusts to his civilian life with the help of his soon to be wife.
The Fleet That Came to Stay (1945)
A propaganda short film produced by the US Navy in 1945 about the naval engagements of the invasion of Okinawa.