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Pub. Date
c2007
Description
The film tells the story of the failure of Operation Market Garden during World War II. The operation was intended to allow the Allies to break through German lines and seize several bridges in the occupied Netherlands, including one at Arnhem, with the main objective of outflanking German defences in order to end the war by Christmas of 1944.
5) Classic war collection: Wake Island [plus] To hell and back [plus] Battle hymn [plus] Gray lady down
Pub. Date
2011.
Description
Wake Island: ominated for four Academy Awards, this hard-hitting film was the first realistic American film made about World War II. Based on the incredible true story of a handful of U.S. Marines holding out against an overwhelming Japanese air, land and sea assault, the film stars Brian Donlevy, MacDonald Carey, Robert Preston and William Bendix as the brave men who battled their way to glory and into the pages of history.
To hell and back: Audie...
Pub. Date
2008.
Description
A World War II Marine sergeant and a Roman Catholic nun are both marooned together on a South Pacific island, hemmed in by surrounding Japanese troops. The sergeant does his best to make the nun's ordeal less painful, but is torn by his growing love for her. The nun is equally fond of the sergeant, but refuses to renounce her vows. Their unrealized ardor mellows into mutual respect as they struggle to survive before help arrives.
Pub. Date
1998
Description
The film tells the story of the failure of Operation Market Garden during World War II. The operation was intended to allow the Allies to break through German lines and seize several bridges in the occupied Netherlands, including one at Arnhem, with the main objective of outflanking German defences in order to end the war by Christmas of 1944.
8) War pigs
Pub. Date
2015
Description
A World War II Army captain is given a chance for redemption when he is asked to lead a band of soldiers into enemy territory to steal a Nazi weapon.
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
August 1944. With the American Eighth Air Force poised to strike over Nazi Germany, British Intelligence learns that they could be flying into a deadly trap. With only hours to spare, Flight Lieutenant Edward Barnes must fly a life and death mission over Berlin in his unarmed Spitfire to obtain photographic evidence and save the lives of 1200 men
12) Jojo Rabbit
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Writer/director Taika Waititi brings his signature style of humor and pathos to his latest film, Jojo Rabbit, a World War II satire that follows a lonely German boy (Roman Griffin Davis as Jojo) whose world view is turned upside down when he discovers his single mother (Scarlett Johansson) is hiding a young Jewish girl (Thomasin McKenzie) in their attic. In spite of his idiotic imaginary friend, Adolf Hitler (Waititi), Jojo confronts his blind nationalism....
13) Fury
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
During the last month of the European Theater of World War II, a U.S. Army sergeant commands a tank called "Fury" and its all-veteran crew.
17) Greyhound attack
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
U.S. Army Air Corp pilots hunt the skies of World War II Europe for the most dangerous weapon the Germans have in the air, the Me262, the first operational jet fighter. Two brothers, one a Thunderbolt pilot and one a B-17 tail gunner, face off against their nemesis on the German side, the first jet ace in history who just might have had a hand in the death of their father in the First World War.
18) Spoils of war
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Greed overtakes five American soldiers on a mission in Nazi-occupied territory to destroy millions of counterfeit American dollars.
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