War

In 1930, director Lewis Milestone won an Academy Award * for his eloquent anti-war masterpiece, All Quiet on the Western Front. But with Edge of Darkness, made in 1943 during the dark days of the German blitzkrieg, Milestone displays no such pacifist sentiments. Indeed,...

<p>The world's most famous swashbuckler, Errol Flynn, dons a Canadian police uniform in this "slickly done drama" (Leonard Maltin's Movie and Video Guide) also starring Julie Bishop and Helmut Dantine. Flynn (The Adventures of Robin Hood) is Steve Wagner, a Canadian Mountie of German...

<p>In one of the best performances of his career, Errol Flynn (The Charge of the Light Brigade) plays an escaped criminal whose fate is changed not by the detective who has apprehended him but by the Nazis who have taken hostages in war-torn France....

<p>Acting luminary Charles Laughton stars as stalwart Anzac soldier Jocko Wilson in this saga set between the World Wars. The bighearted Jocko impulsively adopts a pair of war orphans in the closing days of World War I, intending to raise them with his singing...

<p>Forged in the fiery skies of World War I, a squadron of American fliers is connected by unbreakable bonds of loyalty, blood and grief. Going their separate ways after the war, these debonair daredevils of the air find civilian life somewhat lacking. Jobs, girls...

Homemade bombs rain from rooftops onto the street. Rifle fire erupts from windows. Jewish men and women of Warsaw, Poland, are fighting back against their oppressors. History's largest campaign of armed Jewish resistance to Nazi tyranny during World War II is in its full...

<p>Humphrey Bogart reunites with director Michael Curtiz and other key Casablanca personnel (including costars Claude Rains, Peter Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet) for a tension-swept Passage to Marseille. Bogart plays Jean Matrac, a World War II French patriot who escapes Devil's Island, survives a dangerous...

<p>Alberta Marlow isn't looking for wealth. "I can do without it," she says. "You stick around with me and you're going to get plenty of practice," Rick Leland replies. She also gets danger and intrigue, because Humphrey Bogart plays U.S. counterspy Rick in this...

<p>A fugitive from the resistance hides in the cellar. Nazi High Commanders conspire to bring their poison to America. A hotel "hostess" entertains majors and generals, willing to do anything for a new pair of shoes. A general faces his doom, fallout from a...

<p>A chance meeting on a foggy London street presages the sundering of an inseparable bond during World War One in this pre-Code wartime romance. Jack Ingleside (Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.) is on his way to meet his literal brother-in-arms Tom Ingleside (Anthony Bushell) in a...

<p>This fast-paced medieval funfest centers on two headstrong characters: Gerrando (Tony Curtis), a stubborn feudal lord determined to bend a woman to his will, and Boccadoro (Monica Vitti), a spitfire who wants to bestow her ample favors out of love, not obedience. Gerrando, recently...

<p>The Nun's Story is an unforgettable revelation of the seldom-seen world behind convent walls. A radiant Audrey Hepburn portrays a nun whose life journey takes her from the staff of a mental asylum to a much-desired position as a surgical nurse in the Belgian...

<p>A guitar-picking good ol' boy. A clean-cut all-American. A Navajo. A bookworm. A lumberjack. A slum kid. All enter Marine boot camp to be trained, hardened and ready to answer their country's Battle Cry. Scripted by Leon M. Uris from his own novel, directed...

<p>During World War II, U.S. studios released numerous films lauding the nation's allies. Greer Garson persevered in the Battle of Britain in Mrs. Miniver, Humphrey Bogart fought with the Free French in Passage to Marseille, Robert Taylor saluted Soviet allies in Song of Russia....

<p>German naval officer Karl Ehrlich loves his country but hates Hitler. Busted to the command of a lowly freighter docked in Australia as World War II erupts, Ehrlich must choose: be interned by the British or sail to Germany so his men can determine...

<p>"Into the valley of Death rode the six hundred." Inspired by history and Tennyson's poem, The Charge of the Light Brigade tells the tale of a band of British Lancers who challenge an army of 25,000 Russians. The film's highlight: the charge itself, a...

<p>It's why the tropics are hot. In the early days of World War II, Marine Sgt. James O'Hearn brawls his way from China to a palm-fringed isle, from barroom to brig, from romance with a beautiful gal to rivalry with a leatherneck pal, and...

<p>On a body-strewn Pacific hell, nine Japanese surrender to American troops. Then another handful. Then another. Soon, hundreds give up, urged by a lone warrior fighting tough and speaking their language. But the warrior isn't a countryman. He's Marine Guy Gabaldon, a non-Asian kid...

<p>It's 1950. Maj. Jefferson Pike is in an Allied military hospital, under the care of an American doctor. Pike is an amnesiac, and if he could recount the details of D-Day, his last memory, perhaps it would unlock his mind. Only it's really 1944,...

<p>"You could be a perfectly wonderful dancer if you wanted to," Irene tells the vaudeville second banana who will someday be her husband. They were even more wonderful together. Vernon and Irene Castle became King and Queen of the Ballroom, creating the Castle Walk,...

It's 1950. Maj. Jefferson Pike is in an Allied military hospital, under the care of an American doctor. Pike is an amnesiac, and if he could recount the details of D-Day, his last memory, perhaps it would unlock his mind. Only it's really 1944,...

<p>Frank Sinatra told the director to give the newcomer a break. John Sturges (The Great Escape) obliged, providing favorable camera angles for Sinatra's young costar. In his first big-budget film, Steve McQueen was ready to grab the movie world's attention. McQueen plays Bill Ringa,...

<p>Who knows what American journalist Jake Geismer (George Clooney) expected to find in postwar Berlin? Peace, maybe. Or at least a story. But certainly not Lena (Cate Blanchett), his embittered one-time love. And not the trail of secrecy and deception that leads from Lena...

<p>Separated from the rest of his retreating regiment, Tarasconi (Umberto Orsini), a private with the Italian forces during World War I, comes across an Austrian general (Rod Steiger) and captures him. Dreaming of the riches he will receive from the authorities as a reward...

<p>December 1944. A civilian victim of the Battle of Bastogne scrounges through garbage to find a scrap of food. "I don't even see those things," a war-numbed GI says. "I want to remember them!" his buddy snaps. Bastogne veteran Robert Pirosh remembers with his...

<p>In an era when James Stewart had his Winchester '73, Gary Cooper took aim at the box office with a Springfield Rifle, the film that followed his Academy Award -winning* performance in High Noon. Few actors personified the West like the Montana-born screen legend....

<p>A shot rings out, the captain falls, and with him dies the knowledge of his unit's mission. Now a stalwart sergeant takes charge as he and his men try to escape the surrounding, unseen snipers who felled their captain. They hole up at an...

<p>Arrows rain death. Soldiers clamber up stone walls. Swords clang, fires rage. Yet the waves of combatants storming Troy are repelled. To defeat the undefeatable ultimately requires brains more than brawn. Feigning retreat, the Greeks offer a gift: a mammoth wooden horse secretly housing...

<p>Help the Free French? Not world-weary Harry Morgan (Humphrey Bogart). But he changes his mind when a sultry siren named Marie asks, "Anybody got a match?" That red-hot match is Bogart and 19-year-old Lauren Bacall in her acting debut. Full of intrigue and racy...

<p>Supplies are dwindling. Troops are hopelessly outnumbered. But even in defeat there is victory. The defenders of the Philippines -- including PT-boat skippers John Brickley (Robert Montgomery) and Rusty Ryan (John Wayne) -- will give the U.S. war effort time to regroup after the...

<p>Ida Lupino and Paul Henreid fall in love while Poland falls to the Nazis in this stirring wartime drama directed by Vincent Sherman and costarring silent-screen and stage legend Alla Nazimova. In March 1939, English tourist Jenny Whittredge (Lupino) travels to Warsaw to buy...

<p>America was at war, and many a seagoing vessel got called to duty, like the rickety Merchant Marine freighter whose crew serves with distinction, destroying Nazi bombers and U-boats in a rousing adventure adapted from a Saturday Evening Post story by future Red River...

<p>The fight for Guadalcanal is intense, but Marine Raiders led by Maj. Steve Lockhart (Pat O'Brien) and Paramarines under Capt. Dan Craig (Robert Ryan) repulse the Japanese with vigor and valor, despite a reckless moment in which impulsive Craig takes on a sniper pocket...

<p>Discover Michael Collins' inspirational journey from respected statesman to political martyr. One hundred years ago, the heroic leader of the Irish Republican Army fought a violent civil rights battle for Ireland's independence from Britain with a combination of espionage and urban guerrilla warfare. Neil...

<p>"Gary Cooper is wonderful" (Los Angeles Herald-Examiner) alongside Andrea Leeds and screen legend David Niven in this epic-scale thriller that delivers "excellent action scenes (Leonard Maltin) and is "exciting as all hell" (New York World-Telegram). In the wake of the Spanish-American war, military doctor...

<p>Richard Widmark turns callow young men into fighting machines in this engaging boot- camp drama costarring Karl Malden and directed by Richard Brooks. As war rages in Korea, a new crop of U.S. Army recruits reports for basic training, where drill sergeants Ryan (Widmark)...

<p>Ida Lupino could make a meal out of fiery dramas (They Drive by Night, High Sierra) and handily deliver a song (Thank Your Lucky Stars), and would later direct acclaimed thrillers in the 1950s. But only once did the multitalented marvel tackle romantic comedy,...

<p>Douglas Sirk (All That Heaven Allows) makes his American directorial debut in this powerful wartime thriller starring John Carradine, Alan Curtis and Patricia Morison. Parachuting near the occupied village of Lidice, Czech soldier Karel Vavra (Curtis) recruits saboteurs in the fight against the Nazis....

<p>Colley Dawson (Ray Milland) leads a daring double life. On weekdays, he's an expert -- and entirely law-abiding -- locksmith with unequaled skills at designing impregnable safes and lives in a drab London flat with his mother. Come the weekends, collaborating with a shady...

<p>When M-G-M proposed a film about the development of the atom bomb and its inherent dangers, President Harry Truman provided the title himself, advising producer Samuel Marx to make a good picture and "tell the people of this nation that for them it is...

<p>Wallace Beery takes on saboteurs, the Army and Marjorie Main in this patriotic war drama, costarring Lewis Stone and Oscar -winner* Donna Reed in one of her earliest roles. When the 19th Cavalry Regiment trades in its horses for tanks, no one is more...

<p>North Africa, World War II. British soldiers on the brink of collapse push beyond endurance to struggle up a brutal incline. It's not a military objective. It's The Hill, a manmade instrument of torture, a tower of sand seared by a white-hot sun. And...

<p>On the eve of the Normandy Invasion, 15 American paratroopers board a transport plane to France. Their order: Secure the bridge that leads to Utah Beach. Overshooting the drop zone, the platoon must cross 20 miles of occupied territory held by 300 German soldiers...

<p>Michael Collins, the man and the movie, stands tall. The man is a hero whose fighting tactics became a model for other 20th-century struggles, a statesman who negotiated Ireland's break with England, a political martyr slain for the great cause he lived and breathed....

<p>Errol Flynn, Fred MacMurray and Alexis Smith star in this dramatic tale of two men who must choose between love of country and the love of a woman during the desperate early days of World War II and the often-lethal development of the Dive...

<p>Academy Award winner James Cagney leads an all-star cast in a story of cowardice and courage based on the true-life experiences of Catholic priest Father Duffy assigned to a scrappy unit of Irish Americans--The Fighting 69th. World War I. Cocky, streetwise tough Jerry Plunkett...

<p>Kirk Douglas must choose between orders and conscience in this intense psychological drama costarring Nick Adams and Robert Walker, jr. in his screen debut. As the Korean War winds down, Sgt. Briscoe (Douglas) and his men (Adams and Walker, jr.) capture an enemy pilot...

<p>Julie Andrews and James Garner star in a black comedy about honor, cowardice and unexpected heroism written by Paddy Chayefsky. Stationed in London during World War II, American Lieutenant Commander Charles E. Madison (Garner) has become an expert in avoiding hazardous duty. But he...

<p>Glenn Ford averts a general disaster in the World War II action-comedy Imitation General, costarring Red Buttons and Taina Elg. Surrounded by the Germans and with commanding officer General Lane dead, Sgt. Savage (Ford) and Corp. Derby (Buttons) wonder what to do next. So...

<p>Based on events published in The Saturday Evening Post - James A. Michener's The Forgotten Heroes of Korea and Commander Harry Burns' The Case of the Blind Pilot - Men of the Fighting Lady vividly depicts the unforgettable men caught up in the quagmire...