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Directed by Luis Armando Roche,
Peter YatesOrigin United-kingdomGenres Drama,
War,
Action,
AdventureThemes Seafaring films,
Transport films,
Aviation films,
La bataille de l'Atlantique,
Underwater action films,
Submarine films,
Political filmsActors Peter O'Toole,
Siân Phillips,
Philippe Noiret,
Horst Janson,
John Hallam,
Harry FielderRating67%
In the closing days of World War II, Irishman Murphy (Peter O'Toole) is the sole survivor of the crew of a merchant ship, Mount Kyle, which has been sunk by a German U-boat, which then machine-gunned the survivors in the water. Murphy makes it ashore (to a missionary settlement on the Orinoco in Venezuela) where he is treated by a pacifist Quaker doctor, Dr Hayden (Siân Phillips)., 1h42
Directed by David MillerOrigin USAGenres Drama,
War,
Action,
HistoricalThemes Seafaring films,
Transport films,
Aviation films,
Political filmsActors John Wayne,
John Carroll,
Anna Lee,
Gordon Jones,
Paul Kelly,
Mae ClarkeRating66%
Jim Gordon (John Wayne in his first war film) leads the Flying Tigers, a squadron of freelance American pilots who fly Curtiss P-40 fighters against Japanese aircraft in the skies over China. The pilots are a mixed bunch, motivated by money (they receive a bounty for each aircraft shot down), or just the thrill of aerial combat., 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.", 1h55
Directed by John MiliusOrigin USAGenres Drama,
War,
Thriller,
Action,
AdventureThemes Seafaring films,
Politique,
Transport films,
Aviation films,
Political films,
Disaster films,
Films about aviation accidents or incidents,
United States Armed Forces in filmsActors Danny Glover,
Willem Dafoe,
Brad Johnson,
Rosanna Arquette,
Tom Sizemore,
Ving RhamesRating57%
Lieutenant Jake "Cool Hand" Grafton (Brad Johnson) and his bombardier/navigator and best friend Lieutenant Morgan "Morg" McPhearson (Christopher Rich) are flying a Grumman A-6 Intruder over the Gulf of Tonkin towards North Vietnam. They hit their target, a suspected truck park which actually turns out to be trees. Morg is fatally shot in the neck by a Vietnamese peasant. Landing on the USS Independence with Morg dead, a disturbed Jake, covered in blood, walks into a debriefing with Commander Frank Camparelli (Danny Glover) and Executive Officer, Commander "Cowboy" Parker (J. Kenneth Campbell). Camparelli tells Jake to put Morgan's death behind him and to write a letter to Sharon, Morg's wife. New pilot Jack Barlow (Jared Chandler), nicknamed "Razor" because of his youthful appearance, is then introduced., 2h3
Directed by Michael PowellOrigin United-kingdomGenres Drama,
War,
Thriller,
AdventureThemes Seafaring films,
Politique,
Prison films,
Transport films,
Aviation films,
La bataille de l'Atlantique,
Documentary films about war,
Documentary films about historical events,
Political films,
Documentary films about World War IIActors Leslie Howard,
Laurence Olivier,
Raymond Massey,
Raymond Lovell,
Niall MacGinnis,
Anton WalbrookRating72%
Early in the Second World War, U-37, a German U-boat, makes its way to Canadian waters and participates in the Battle of the St. Lawrence. It succeeds in evading an RCAF patrol and moves north. While a raiding party of six Nazi sailors is put ashore in an attempt to obtain supplies, the U-boat is sunk in Hudson Bay. The six attempt to evade capture by traveling across Canada to the still-neutral United States., 1h40
Directed by William A. WellmanOrigin USAGenres Drama,
War,
AdventureThemes Seafaring films,
Transport films,
Aviation films,
Political films,
United States Armed Forces in filmsActors Wallace Beery,
Tom Drake,
James Gleason,
Jan Clayton,
Selena Royle,
Noah Beery Sr.Rating62%
During World War II, Chief Aviation Pilot Ned Trumpet (Wallace Beery) is in charge of a dirigible at Lakehurst, New Jersey naval base. "Old Gas Bag" brags about his "son" and realizes that he will need someone to impersonate his fictional son. Trumpet finds Jess Weaver (Tom Drake), a young disabled man, arranging for an operation to fix his legs, injured in a riding accident. Afterward, Weaver goes along with the deception and soon earns his Navy wings and commission as an Ensign. While on a submarine patrol mission, his "father" orders an unauthorized and premature attack on a German submarine, (orders have been sent to break off the attack, the "father" does not convey the orders) but the youngster's bomb misses and the submarine fires back, hitting the airship. Trumpet takes over the controls and sinks the submarine, but Weaver faces a court-martial for disobeying orders but the older man takes the blame for his actions. Young Weaver is awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, he gives the DFC ribbon to his "father." Leaving Lakehurst, young Weaver attends pilots training at NAS Pensacola., 1h53
Directed by Richard AttenboroughOrigin CanadaGenres Drama,
War,
RomanceThemes Seafaring films,
Films about terrorism,
Transport films,
Aviation films,
La bataille de l'Atlantique,
Political filmsActors Shirley MacLaine,
Christopher Plummer,
Mischa Barton,
Stephen Amell,
Neve Campbell,
Pete PostlethwaiteRating64%
The film opens in 1991, with the funeral of a World War II veteran. The man's daughter Marie (Neve Campbell) delivers the eulogy to a church full of veterans who knew and loved her father, while her mother Ethel Ann (Shirley MacLaine) is sitting out on the church porch, smoking and nursing a hangover. When Ethel Ann begins acting strangely, only her friend Jack (Christopher Plummer) seems to understand why. It quickly emerges that there is a lot Marie does not know about her mother's past and the true story of her love life., 2h24
Directed by Richard Fleischer,
Kinji Fukasaku,
Toshio MasudaOrigin USAGenres Drama,
War,
Action,
Adventure,
HistoricalThemes Seafaring films,
Transport films,
Aviation films,
Political films,
United States Armed Forces in filmsActors Martin Balsam,
Joseph Cotten,
Sō Yamamura,
E. G. Marshall,
James Whitmore,
Jason RobardsRating74%
In 1941, the newly appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto (Sō Yamamura) and his predecessor, Zengo Yoshida (Junya Usami), discuss America's embargo that starves Japan of raw materials. While both agree that a war with the United States would be a complete disaster, army hotheads and politicians push through an alliance with Germany and start planning for war. With the U.S. Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor, Yamamoto orders the planning of a preventive strike, believing Japan's only hope is to annihilate the American Pacific fleet at the outset of hostilities., 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., 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.