
12 Feb 1942

Captains of the Clouds
Inspired by Churchill's Dunkirk speech, brash, undisciplined Canadian bush pilot Brian MacLean and three friends enlist in the RCAF.

Fire Scenes That Scorch the Screen in a 5-Alarm Thriller!
Comedian Tommy Trinder plays it straight in this tribute to the wartime AFS (Auxiliary Fire Service). The dedicated band who kept the fires of London under control during the blitz and fire bombings of WWII.

Tommy Turk

Ted Robbins

Bob

Sam

Brookes

District Officer McFarlane
Nan
Susie

Ma Turk
Pa Robbins

Ma Robbins
Lou Freeman
P.C. O'Brien
Peters
Barman

June

Vicar
Verger

Milkman

Off-Screen Narrator (uncredited)

12 Feb 1942

Inspired by Churchill's Dunkirk speech, brash, undisciplined Canadian bush pilot Brian MacLean and three friends enlist in the RCAF.

04 Oct 1941

Educational short about the status of battle tanks and tank training in the U.S. Army in pre-War 1941, featuring a comical Army trainee from the Bronx.

11 Nov 1976

A recently-married woman who has been labeled as mentally unstable, begins to suspect that someone close to her is the culprit in a sudden string of murders.
01 Jan 1981
No overview found

21 Jan 1956

In Burma during the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier separated from his unit disguises himself as a Buddhist monk to escape imprisonment as a POW.

09 May 1961

During World War II, French Commandos join forces with a German officer in order to survive the African desert.

15 Jun 1962

Just after WW2, a romance between an innkeeper and a man with tuberculosis unravels near a thermal spring.

07 Nov 2014

Set in the backdrop of the picturesque Munnar, it tells the story of Iyob, a slave-turned-master.

22 Nov 2014

A WWII pilot, bombardier, and radioman find themselves adrift on a lifeboat without food or water after being forced to ditch their plane during a scouting mission.

04 Nov 2001

In the Warsaw ghetto in 1943, Jews rise against the Nazis.

15 Jul 1977

The film portrays MacArthur's life from 1942, before the Battle of Bataan, to 1952, the time after he had been removed from his Korean War command by President Truman for insubordination, and is recounted in flashback as he visits West Point.

31 May 2004

The story of the senior-level preparations for the D-Day invasion on June 6, 1944 from the time of Dwight D. Eisenhower's appointment as the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, to the establishment of the beachhead in Normandy.

03 Nov 2006

A boy's Bar Mitzvah looks set to be a disaster when it coincides with the 1966 World Cup Final.
10 Oct 1941
A Nazi propaganda film which aims to justify the invasion of Poland by portraying the plight of ethnic Germans in Poland who were discriminated against and oppressed by the Poles, and how they were saved by the intervention of the German army.

01 Jan 2010

This High Definition, PBS miniseries uses letters, diaries, speeches, journalistic accounts, historical text and military records to document and acknowledge the sacrifices and accomplishments of African-American service men and women since the earliest days of the republic.

11 May 1973

During World War II, dogs were trained in special centres for guard duty in concentration camps. However, one of the prisoners domesticates a female German Shepherd, which saves his life during his escape.

30 Jul 2019

One famous day. Five heroes. Five key turning points that changed the course of World War II during the D-Day landings, told through the eyes of the people who made a difference. Using rarely seen archival footage dramatic reconstruction and written accounts from eye witnesses, and personal testimony from five heroes, this is D-Day as never seen before.
20 Jun 1985
No overview found

07 May 1965

A lyrical fourfold perspective on WWII through the eyes of a young partisan couple, a town photographer and a German officer.

24 Jul 1998

As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fourth trapped behind enemy lines. Ranger captain John Miller and seven men are tasked with penetrating German-held territory and bringing the boy home.