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In Which We Serve
(1942) [G]

This is the story of a Royal Navy destroyer - based on Lord Louis Mountbatten's sailing career during the war - which is dive-bombed in the battle of Crete. As survivors cling to the life rafts, the story of the ship and its crew unfolds from the perspective of the Captain (Noel Coward), Petty...  More

The Way Ahead
(1944) [G]

A mismatched collection of conscripted civilians finds training tough. Carol Reed's semi-documentary feature film was one of many flag-waving movies intended to bolster morale during World War II, but the compassion and realism of The Way Ahead (scripted by Eric Ambler and Peter Ustinov) ensures...  More

Carve Her Name With Pride
(1958) [PG]

Carve Her Name With Pride is the inspiring true life story of Violette Szabo. During World War II, Violette (Virgina McKenna) volunteers to parachute into France as a secret agent to aid a Resistance group. Her mission successful, she joins the Resistance, where she stays until captured by the...  More

The Riddle Of The Sands
(1979) [G]

The year is 1901. Englishman Arthur Davies (Simon McCorkindale) is enjoying a single-handed sailing holiday through the islands off the North Sea Coast of Germany. A fateful encounter with a mysterious German yachtsman and his beautiful daughter (Jenny Agutter) arouses Davies' suspicions, and...  More

Love And Death
(1975) [PG]

When Napoleon threatens to invade the Russian Empire, the coward Boris Grushenko is forced to enlist to save his country. He actually captures a group of enemy officers, but the French Army is too strong and soon Napoleon reaches Moscow. Boris thinks that this should put an end to the war, but...  More

The Demi Paradise
(1943) [G]

Good example of the type of movies made in England during the war, to keep spirits up. The Brits never seem to engage in gung-ho war stuff: which makes for more pleasant viewing.  More

Mrs. Miniver
(1942) [G]

The Wartime Classic Of A Nation's Darkest - Yet Finest - Hour. Kay Miniver doesn't fly a Spitfire in dogfights over London or ply the North Sea in a battleship, but she's doing her all for wartime England. And she does it so well that Winston Churchill would say Mrs. Miniver was more vital to the...  More

The Night Of Shooting Stars
(1982) [M]

This magical film by the Taviani Brothers is set on the night of the Feast of St. Lawrence during the last days of World War II. A woman recalls her beloved and a night years ago when, on another such night, a group of peasants fled through the Tuscan countryside amid exploding shells lighting up...  More

The Nun's Story
(1959) [PG]

Deliberately paced character portrait of nun questioning her calling while serving in WWII African hospital. Critics praised strong performances. Thought-provoking film that pleases both classic buffs and modern drama fans.  More

Christabel
(1988) [PG]

An English girl marries a German lawyer in the 1930s and they try to live as normal a life as they can in Hitler's Germany. When Allied bombs start falling on German cities, Christabel takes her two young sons to a village in the mountains. Then she learns that her husband and some of his friends...  More