Tag Archives: wwii

Bad Day at Black Rock

IMDB Rating: 7.90
4384 votes

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John J. Macreedy doesn't know it, but when he steps off the train at the jerkwater town of Black Rock, he will soon find himself the object of fear, hatred, and even a murder plot! The altruistic Macreedy came to Black Rock to hand over a posthumous military award to a local man whose son had died gallantly in the Second World War. What Macreedy couldn't know when he stepped off of that train was that the town had a shameful secret, one that must be kept at all costs.
Actors
John J. MacreedySpencer Tracy
Reno SmithRobert Ryan
Liz WirthAnne Francis
Also posted in 1955, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller, Western | Comments (0)

Atonement

IMDB Rating: 8.20
4525 votes

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In the summer of 1935, 13-year-old Briony Tallis observes a flirtation between a servant's son, Robbie, and her older sister, Cecilia, that she childishly misconstrues. Briony's misunderstanding leads to a terrible crime whose consequences follow them through World War II.
Actors
Briony Tallis, aged 13Saoirse Ronan
Grace TurnerBrenda Blethyn
BettyJulia West
Also posted in 2007, Drama, High IMDB rating, Romance, War | Comments (1)

Force 10 from Navarone

IMDB Rating: 6.00
3912 votes

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In the darkest days of World War II, Hitler's armies are storming through Europe, annihilating all opposition in their path. But U.S. Colonel Barnsby (Ford) plots to strike a crippling blow to the brutal Nazi forces. To succeed, he'll need the help of the most skilled and lethal soldiers in the world: the Force 10 squad, fresh from its triumphant mission at Navarone. But when the team's plan goes awry in a firestorm of blistering battles, Barnsby and the squad's hard-driving Major Mallory (Shaw) are forced to devise a new and even more dangerous scheme to attack the Nazi war machine . . . or risk losing the rest of Europe to its awesome, destructive power.
Actors
Lieutenant Colonel Mike BarnsbyHarrison Ford
Maj. Keith MalloryRobert Shaw
Maritza PetrovichBarbara Bach
Also posted in 1978, Action, War | Comments (0)

The Notebook

IMDB Rating: 8.00
42857 votes

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An old man in a nursing home reads a story to an old woman each day. The story he reads follows two young lovers named Allie Hamilton and Noah Calhoun. They met one evening at a carnival many years ago. Allie's parents separate Noah and Allie. They disapprove of Noah's lack of wealth, and move Allie away. After waiting for Noah to write her for several years, Allie meets and becomes engaged to a handsome young soldier named Lon. In a local newspaper, Noah's picture catches Allie's eye. He is standing in front of a fully restored, 200 year old home. The article is filled with praise for his accomplishments. Allie's heart nearly bursts. The last time she saw this house it was a rotted decaying shamble. She stood enfolded in Noah's arms in the great entryway and listened to his plans to buy and restore this house. Just the way she wanted it. With her love for Noah still alive, the picture pulls at her heart. She has to go back, see if Noah is okay, and tell him about her marriage. They both think the echo deep in their hearts, the one that has lasted all these years, is not shared by the other. The cry they could not stifle. It wasn't over for me.
Actors
RowerTim Ivey
Allie CalhounGena Rowlands
Nurse EstherStarletta DuPois
Also posted in 2004, Drama, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (9)

The Others

IMDB Rating: 7.70
53473 votes

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A woman named Grace (Kidman) is living with her two children Anne and Nicholas (Mann and Bentley) on an almost empty island in their huge mansion. Grace's husband is a soldier in WWII and Grace has given her husband up for dead. Everything seems peaceful for her, but when three mysterious servants are given jobs at the house, terrifying secrets are unlocked that even Grace cannot handle.
Actors
Grace StewartNicole Kidman
Mrs. Bertha MillsFionnula Flanagan
Charles StewartChristopher Eccleston
Also posted in 2001, Drama, High IMDB rating, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | Comments (27)

The Bridge on the River Kwai

IMDB Rating: 8.40
33567 votes

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The film deals with the situation of British prisoners of war during World War II who are ordered to build a bridge to accommodate the Burma-Siam railway. Their instinct is to sabotage the bridge but, under the leadership of Colonel Nicholson (Alec Guinness), they are persuaded that the bridge should be constructed as a symbol of British morale, spirit and dignity in adverse circumstances. At first, the prisoners admire Nicholson when he bravely endures torture rather than compromise his principles for the benefit of the Japanese commandant Saito (Sessue Hayakawa). He is an honorable but arrogant man, who is slowly revealed to be a deluded obsessive. He convinces himself that the bridge is a monument to British character, but actually is a monument to himself, and his insistence on its construction becomes a subtle form of collaboration with the enemy. Unknown to him, the Allies have sent a mission into the jungle, led by Warden (Jack Hawkins) and an American, Shears (William Holden), to blow up the bridge.
Actors
Cmdr. ShearsWilliam Holden
Maj. WardenJack Hawkins
Col. NicholsonAlec Guinness
Also posted in 1957, Adventure, Drama, High IMDB rating, War | Comments (1)

To Hell and Back

IMDB Rating: 7.50
1251 votes

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True-life account of the military career of Audie Murphy, the most decorated soldier in WWII. Native of Texas, he was placed in charge of his many younger siblings on the death of his mother and decided to join the military at the age of 18 to provide for them. His many acts of bravery and heroism during the US military advance through Italy, France and into Germany earn him increasing rank and responsibility as well as the respect of his comrades in arms. Eventually he receives two dozen of the highest medals the US and France can bestow, culminating in the awarding of the Congressional Medal of Honor.
Actors
Audie MurphyAudie Murphy
JohnsonMarshall Thompson
BrandonCharles Drake
Also posted in 1955, Action, Biography, Drama, High IMDB rating, War | Comments (0)

Where Eagles Dare

IMDB Rating: 7.60
8681 votes

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In 1944, an American General is shot down over a heavily defended German fortress and imprisoned within. A rescue attempt is at once launched by British Intellegence, since the General must be liberated before being made to reveal Allied plans for an invasion of France. As the mission unfolds, however, double and triple agents begin to appear in the ranks of the rescue team with the added mystery of an American Lieutenant assigned to the mission for reasons unknown.
Actors
Maj. Jonathan Smith, MCRichard Burton
Lt. Morris SchafferClint Eastwood
Mary ElisonMary Ure
Also posted in 1968, Action, Adventure, Drama, High IMDB rating, War | Comments (0)

Kelly’s Heroes

IMDB Rating: 7.40
8411 votes

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During World War II, Lieutenant Kelly learns of a German bank located behind enemy lines containing 16 million dollars in gold bars. His platoon, led by Big Joe, has three days of R&R coming, so, with the aid of hustler Crapgame, anachronistic hippie Oddball, three Sherman tanks and a touch of irreverence, Kelly leads his men deep into French territory to steal the gold for themselves.
Actors
Pvt. KellyClint Eastwood
MSgt. Big JoeTelly Savalas
SSgt. CrapgameDon Rickles
Also posted in 1970, Action, Comedy, High IMDB rating, War | Comments (0)

The Guns of Navarone

IMDB Rating: 7.50
8247 votes

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1943. With the battle of Stalingrad turning the war against them, the Germans are attempting to bully neutral Turkey into joining the Axis; to this end they have trapped 2,000 British soldiers on Kiros, an island in the Aegean, with only one sea route for evacuation, a sea route commanded by two gigantic German antiship batteries deployed in a massive cliffside bunker on the island of Navarone. Immune to air attack and too much for Allied battleships to suppress, the British muster Keith Mallory, a commando officer who has been working on occupied Crete for nearly two years and who is an expert mountaineer, to ferry a team of British commandos to the only area of Navarone that is not monitored by the Germans, a 400-foot cliff. Greek resistance is to meet the team inland and guide them around German patrols to the area of the German guns. However, the commanding officer of the British team suffers grave injury in the climb and Mallory must take control of the mission, despite clashes with explosives expert John Anthony Miller, who upon the arrival of the night of the raid finds his equipment has been sabotaged, thus exposing a traitor in the team's ranks.
Actors
Capt. Keith MalloryGregory Peck
Cpl. MillerDavid Niven
Col. Andrea StavrosAnthony Quinn
Also posted in 1961, Action, Adventure, Drama, High IMDB rating, War | Comments (0)
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