Pilot #5
A small group of Allied soldiers and airmen on Java are being bombed by Japanese ‘planes daily. With only one working fighter of their own, and five pilots anxious to…
Millions Like Us
Millions Like Us is a 1943 British propaganda film, showing life in a wartime aircraft factory in documentary detail. It stars Patricia Roc, Eric Portman, Megs Jenkins, and Anne Crawford,…
December 7th
“Docudrama” about the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941 and its results, the recovering of the ships, the improving of defense in Hawaii and the US efforts to…
San Demetrio London
British drama documentary from 1943, based on the true story of the 1940 rescue of the tanker MV San Demetrio by parts of her own crew after she had been…
Corvette K-225
The story of a Canadian WWII naval vessel, with a dramatic subplot concerning her first captain.
The Moon Is Down
The story of a small town in Norway that resists German occupation during World War II. Based on a John Steinbeck novel.
Cry ‘Havoc’
The Army nurses on Bataan need help badly, but when it arrives, it sure isn’t what they expected. A motley crew, including a Southern belle, a waitress, and a stripper,…
The Desperadoes
Popular mailcoach driver Uncle Willie is in fact in league with the town’s crooked banker. They plan to have the bank robbed after emptying it, and when Willie’s choice for…
Five Graves to Cairo
The British Army, retreating ahead of victorious Rommel, leaves a lone survivor on the Egyptian border who finds refuge at a remote desert hotel. He is helped by the hotel’s…
Fires Were Started
British film written and directed by Humphrey Jennings, filmed in documentary style showing the lives of firefighters through the Blitz in World War II.
Another Dawn
This Mexican crime melodrama was released in English-speaking communities as Another Dawn. Latin film favorite Pedro Armendariz stars as smooth-talking Octavio, chief henchman to a slain labor leader. On behalf…
Heaven Can Wait
Spoiled playboy Henry van Cleve dies and arrives at the entrance to Hell, a final destination he is sure he deserves after living a life of profligacy. The devil, however,…
A Lady Takes a Chance
A city girl on a bus tour of the West encounters a handsome rodeo cowboy who helps her forget her simpy city suitors.
The Leopard Man
When a leopard escapes during a publicity stunt, it triggers a series of murders.
Titanic
This little-known German film retells the true story of the British ocean liner that met a tragic fate. Ernst Fritz Fürbringer plays the president of the White Star Line, who…
Phantom of the Opera
Pit violinist Claudin hopelessly loves rising operatic soprano Christine Dubois (as do baritone Anatole and police inspector Raoul) and secretly aids her career. But Claudin loses both his touch and…
Raiders of San Joaquin
In this western, two cowboys ride to the rescue of ranchers who are fighting to keep a land-grabber from taking their land and selling it to the railroad
Day of Wrath
In a Danish village in the early 1600s, a young woman named Anne, whose mother was thought to be a witch, develops sympathy toward an old woman, Marte, who is…
Old Acquaintance
Two writers, friends since childhood, fight over their books and lives.
Power of the Press
Although he’s credited only for story, the dialogue has Fuller’s headline punch, and of course newspapering was an alternative universe he knew inside out. A publisher whose once-honest New York…
It Happened at the Inn
An old woman living in an inn is killed and her family members seem like the likely culprits.
The Dancing Masters
The Dancing Masters is a 1943 Laurel and Hardy feature film. The plot involves the team running a ballet school, and getting involved with an inventor. A young Robert Mitchum…
Son of Dracula
Carpathian Count Alucard is invited to the U.S. by a young heiress. Her boyfriend and local officials are suspicious of the newcomer, who is interested in the “virile” soil of…
Edge of Darkness
The film pivots around the local doctor and his family. The doctor’s wife (Ruth Gordon) wants to hold on to the pretence of gracious living and ignore the occupiers. The…
The Song of Bernadette
In 1858 France, Bernadette, an adolescent peasant girl, has a vision of “a beautiful lady” in the city dump. She never claims it to be anything other than this, but…
Aerial Gunner
Old rivals are pitted against each other in basic training and fight for the same woman.
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
General Candy, who’s overseeing an English squad in 1943, is a veteran leader who doesn’t have the respect of the men he’s training and is considered out-of-touch with what’s needed…
Captive Wild Woman
An insane scientist doing experimentation in glandular research becomes obsessed with transforming a female gorilla into a human…even though it costs human life.
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man
Shadow of a Doubt
A weary teen residing in Santa Rosa, California, Charlotte “Charlie” Newton, is frustrated because nothing appears to be occurring in her own life and that of her loved ones. Subsequently,…
Bombardier
Lassie Come Home
Bataan
Throughout Japan’s invasion of the Philippines at 1942, Capt. Henry Lassiter, Sgt. Bill Dane along with a varied set of American soldiers have been ordered to ruin and maintain a…
The Seventh Victim
A young girl searches for her lost sister that, unknown to her, is now involved with a group of Satan worshippers at Greenwich Village.