Classic War
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Contraband
Set in England during the early days of WW II, CONTRABAND stars Conrad Veidt and Valerie Hobson as a Danish sea captain and his enigmatic passenger who are kidnapped by a cell of Nazi spies operating from a basement in London's Soho. In evocatively Hitchcockian fashion, the plot progresses as a chase that puts the characters...Start your free trial to watch -
Four in a Jeep
Intrigue and danger follow the International Police on their rounds in post-WWII Vienna in this suspenseful made-on-location drama. The city is divided between the U.S., England, France and (oh-oh!) Russia. Each Jeep patrol is comprised of one sergeant from each country. The beautiful Franziska (Viveca Lindfors) wants to...Start your free trial to watch -
Go for Broke!
They were the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, a squad of loyal Japanese-Americans who had to battle prejudice as well as the Axis enemy. Van Johnson stars as their contemptuous top-kick, whose bigotry gives way to respect in the crucible of war. Supporting Johnson is a cast of veterans, all former members of the highly...Start your free trial to watch
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Guerrilla Girl
The story opens in German-occupied Athens during the darkest hours of the war. Civilians are not allowed on the streets after dark. Helmut Dantine plays Demetri Alexander and the first time he appears on screen he is garbed in a Nazi uniform. It is midnight and Demetri prowls the streets of the city. He comes upon a shocking...Start your free trial to watch -
Jungle Patrol
Machine-gun action and suspense are the backdrop of a love story in this tense tale of eight young United States Air Force flyers stationed in World War II New Guinea. Their orders: to intercept Japanese bombers headed for Australian objectives. Their record: An amazing 100 percent. But with a heavy formation of Japanese...Start your free trial to watch -
The Raiders of Leyte Gulf
This rugged location-shot war actioner dramatizes events leading up to one of the key Pacific battles between Allied and Japanese forces. U.S. Army intelligence officer Major Wilson (played by Jennings Sturgeon, an expat painter, actor and former U.S. military officer who died the year after making this...Start your free trial to watch
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The Rats of Tobruk
One of very few Australian features made during World War II, this 1944 film memorializes a great triumph of the nation's troops three years earlier. That was a standoff (alongside British and Indian soldiers) against overwhelming odds defending a Libyan port from Axis forces. These “men who stopped...Start your free trial to watch -
The Ravagers
It's WWII in the Philippines and the last of the Filipino guerrillas take a stand against the Japanese forces on their island. Soldiers sent by the Japanese Imperial High Command to retrieve a great treasure of gold from its hiding place, take over the island and torture the residents, including the members of a convent.Start your free trial to watch -
The Walls of Hell
This gritty, atmospheric war movie dramatizes a chapter of World War II history in which 10,000 Japanese soldiers, fearing execution if they surrendered, disobeyed their own superiors' orders and barricaded themselves in Manila's Intramuros section along with a thousand or so unfortunate civilians. The...Start your free trial to watch




