
15 Oct 1940

The Great Dictator
Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.
The Devil works with Adolf Hitler to cause inflation in the United States.
The Devil
Joe Smith
Mrs. Smith
Devil's Assistant
Clothing Store Manager (uncredited)
Woman in Close-Out Sale Montage (uncredited)
Next Door Neighbor Who Begins Hoarding (uncredited)
Salesman (uncredited)
Radio Store Proprietor (uncredited)
Fred (uncredited)
Paymaster (uncredited)
Radio Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
Jerry the Man Wanting to Buy Car (uncredited)
Joe's Co-worker (uncredited)
Worker in Pay Line (uncredited)
15 Oct 1940
Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.
19 Jan 1942
Wartime propaganda piece reporting on the success of the economic blockade of Germany in the early years of the war.
07 Jul 1939
Nazi propaganda film about the Condor Legion, a unit of German "volunteers" who fought in the Spanish Civil War on the side of eventual dictator Francisco Franco against the elected government of Spain.
26 Jun 1987
A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.
27 Sep 1941
Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is then called to serve his country and despite deep religious and moral objections to fighting becomes one of the most celebrated American heroes of WWI.
17 Jun 1943
The true story of the massacre of a small Czech village by the Nazis is retold as if it happened in Wales.
21 Aug 1944
Three modern-day pilgrims investigate a bizarre crime in a small town while on their way to Canterbury.
11 Mar 1947
No overview found
27 May 1945
In this propaganda film, a courageous group of Chinese children risk their lives to assist downed American pilots escape the ruthless Japanese oppressors.
11 Mar 1943
No overview found
01 Jan 1941
Part of BFI boxset Ration Books and Rabbit Pies: Films from the Home Front.
21 Jul 1931
Celebrity endorsement: Stanley Baldwin introduces George Arliss playing the legendary PM.
01 Nov 1943
German film about Luftwaffe pilots. It depicts a love triangle involving two of them being overcome by their participation in battle together.
10 Jul 1945
Originally made with a German soundtrack for screening in occupied Germany and Austria, this film was the first documentary to show what the Allies found when they liberated the Nazi extermination camps: the survivors, the conditions, and the evidence of mass murder. The film includes accounts of the economic aspects of the camps' operation, the interrogation of captured camp personnel, and the enforced visits of the inhabitants of neighboring towns, who, along with the rest of their compatriots, are blamed for complicity in the Nazi crimes - one of the few such condemnations in the Allied war records.
25 Mar 1944
This patriotic short film promotes America's war effort at home. The story looks at a fictional small town's main street, seeing where additional workforce, for increased production of materials needed by the military, might come from.
01 Jan 1946
Oscar winning postwar propaganda film in support of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. Strident but poignant, focusing on children. The film surveys the Nazi/Japanese atrocities, post-war devastation and the early relief efforts. This film was responsible for raising over $200,000,000, making it a top moneymaking film. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2005.
30 Mar 2012
The film on the Khojaly tragedy, tells the story of a young officer, unfolding against the backdrop of the terrible events of February 1992.
07 Nov 1942
This short film in support of the war effort focuses on the training and missions of Army Air Corps Captain Hewitt T. Wheless just after the U.S. entry into World War II.
15 Nov 1945
A short animated War Office commissioned health education film, showing the fate of each of the 6 jungle soldiers.
20 Aug 1943
During World War Two, Daffy Duck owns a junkyard which collects scrap metal to use in building weapons to continue the Allied fight against the Axis powers. Hitler reads about Daffy's scrap pile and about Daffy's stated intent to win the war with junk and, after throwing a fit and chewing a carpet like a mad dog, orders Daffy's scrap pile destroyed.