Search results for "1943"
Momotaro’s Sea Eagles

Momotaro’s Sea Eagles

Momotaro’s Sea Eagles
IMDb: 5.9
37

Considered the first animated feature film from Japan. Although it’s short, it was billed as a main attraction. This government funded propaganda film features the classic folklore character Momotaro and…

Genre: Fantasy
Hemp for Victory

Hemp for Victory

Hemp for Victory
IMDb: 6.3
15

An informational film produced to encourage farmers to grow hemp for the war effort during WW2. The film details the many industrial uses of hemp, including cloth and cordage, as…

Genre: Documentary
The Autobiography of a ‘Jeep’

The Autobiography of a ‘Jeep’

The Autobiography of a ‘Jeep’
IMDb: 6.2
10

The invention and use of a jeep are described, from the viewpoint of one of the vehicles.

Genre: Documentary
Vautrin the Thief

Vautrin the Thief

Vautrin the Thief
IMDb: 6.8
120

A famous convict Jacques Collin, alias Trompe la mort, or abbot Carlos Herrera, also called Vautrin, escapes from prison. Chance makes him meet Lucien de Rubempré, an impetuous and eternal…

Genre: Uncategorized
Why We Fight: The Nazis Strike

Why We Fight: The Nazis Strike

Why We Fight: The Nazis Strike
IMDb: 7
42

The second film of Frank Capra’s Why We Fight propaganda film series. It introduces Germany as a nation whose aggressive ambitions began in 1863 with Otto von Bismarck and the…

Genre: Documentary, War
The Spider and the Tulip

The Spider and the Tulip

The Spider and the Tulip
IMDb: 6.7
16

A ladybird is being chased by a black-faced spider.

Genre: Adventure
Picpus

Picpus

Picpus
IMDb: 6.1
95

Picpus is a street and a subway stop where a number of murders have been committed. Maigret tries to find the killer.

Genre: Crime, Mystery
Secrets of a Ballerina

Secrets of a Ballerina

Secrets of a Ballerina
IMDb: 5.9
98

In 1860s France, a couple who have recently acquired a dilapidated country house in Vendôme discover within it the secret of a passionate love affaire that once took a macabre…

Genre: Uncategorized
Coming!! Snafu

Coming!! Snafu

Coming!! Snafu
IMDb: 5.5
3

Introducing Private Snafu, the nation’s worst soldier and his various versions in different branches of the armed forces. The cartoon, ironic and humorous in tone, was created during World War…

Genre: Uncategorized
The Marry-Go-Round

The Marry-Go-Round

The Marry-Go-Round
IMDb: 6.6
8

Popeye wants to propose to Olive, but can’t work up the nerve. His fellow sailor, Shorty, helps him.

Genre: Uncategorized
Her Honor, the Mare

Her Honor, the Mare

Her Honor, the Mare
IMDb: 6.2
7

Popeye’s nephews happen by just as the glue factory is rejecting a sorry looking horse and decide to take it home. They want to treat it as a house pet,…

Genre: Uncategorized
The Silent Village

The Silent Village

The Silent Village
IMDb: 7
36

The true story of the massacre of a small Czech village by the Nazis is retold as if it happened in Wales.

San Demetrio London

San Demetrio London

San Demetrio London
IMDb: 6.7
97

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…

Genre: War
Warn That Man

Warn That Man

Warn That Man
IMDb: 5.7
82

At the height of World War II, the Germans discover that a certain British personage is to stay at the country house of Lord Buckley. They devise a plan whereby…

Genre: Comedy, War
There’s Something About a Soldier

There’s Something About a Soldier

There’s Something About a Soldier
IMDb: 5.9
81

Five officer candidates fight to prove their mettle during training.

Genre: War
Swing Fever

Swing Fever

Swing Fever
IMDb: 5.9
79

Comedy about a bandleader with hypnotic powers.

Genre: Comedy, Music
The Spider Woman

The Spider Woman

The Spider Woman
IMDb: 7
63

Sherlock Holmes investigates a series of so-called “pajama suicides”. He knows the female villain behind them is as cunning as Moriarty and as venomous as a spider. Based on “The…

Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery
The Return of the Vampire

The Return of the Vampire

The Return of the Vampire
IMDb: 6.2
69

In 1918, an English family is terrorized by a vampire, until they learn how to deal with it. They think their troubles are over, but German bombs in WWII free…

Genre: Horror
Romeo y Julieta

Romeo y Julieta

Romeo y Julieta
IMDb: 7.1
100

Verona’s peace is disturbed by the rivalry between noble families: the Montesco and the Capuleto, irreconcilable enemies. The two families have continued fighting to make life unbearable in the Italian…

Genre: Comedy
Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre
IMDb: 7.5
97

After a harsh childhood, orphan Jane Eyre is hired by Edward Rochester, the brooding lord of a mysterious manor house to care for his young daughter.

Genre: Uncategorized
Higher and Higher

Higher and Higher

Higher and Higher
IMDb: 6
90

A valet to a bankrupt millionaire plans to rebuild his boss’s fortune by passing a scullery maid off as a high-society debutante.

Genre: Comedy, Music
The Desert Song

The Desert Song

The Desert Song
IMDb: 5.8
95

Paul Hudson, leads a group of desert bandits against some Nazis, who want to use them as cheap labor for their railroad.

Genre: Music
Boss of Rawhide

Boss of Rawhide

Boss of Rawhide
IMDb: 5.6
58

Texas Rangers Tex Wyatt, Jim Steele and Panhandle Perkins are sent to the district of Rawhide to investigate the killings of several ranchers. Tex enters the town posing as a…

Genre: Western
Why We Fight: The Battle of Russia

Why We Fight: The Battle of Russia

Why We Fight: The Battle of Russia
IMDb: 7.1
83

The fifth film of Frank Capra’s Why We Fight propaganda film series, revealing the nature and process of the fight between the Soviet Union and Germany in the Second World…

Genre: Documentary, War
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
IMDb: 6.3
87

Orphaned as a young child and adopted by a band of notorious thieves, now-grown Ali Baba sets out to avenge his father’s murder, reclaim the royal throne, and rescue his…

Young and Willing

Young and Willing

Young and Willing
IMDb: 5.7
83

For those, if any, who have wondered why so many Paramount contractees appeared in United Artists’ films during the war years, this is another one of the Paramount productions that…

Genre: Uncategorized
Women in Bondage

Women in Bondage

Women in Bondage
IMDb: 5.9
72

Women in Bondage is a 1943 World War II film about conditions for women under Hitler’s regime. The plot involves two women imprisoned for speaking out against the government. It…

Genre: War
Who Killed Who?

Who Killed Who?

Who Killed Who?
IMDb: 7.4
8

A murder has occurred at Gruesome Gables, and the dog detective trying to find the killer has to deal with some suspicious suspects and a haunted house.

Genre: Comedy, Mystery
What’s Buzzin’ Buzzard?

What’s Buzzin’ Buzzard?

What’s Buzzin’ Buzzard?
IMDb: 7.2
8

Two buzzards suffer from acute food shortage and make up for it by cooking each other, or at least trying to.

Genre: Comedy, Family
Where Are Your Children?

Where Are Your Children?

Where Are Your Children?
IMDb: 5.5
73

Judy Wilson (Gale Storm), feeling neglected because both of her parents are working in defense plants, meets and falls in love with Danny Chester (Jackie Cooper), who enlists in the…

Genre: Crime
White Savage

White Savage

White Savage
IMDb: 5.8
76

A native boy plays Cupid for a shark fisherman and a South Sea Islands princess.

Genre: Adventure
Day of Wrath

Day of Wrath

Day of Wrath
IMDb: 8.1
97

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…

Genre: History
Watch on the Rhine

Watch on the Rhine

Watch on the Rhine
IMDb: 7.1
114

On the eve of World War II, the German Kurt Müller, his American-born wife Sara, and their three children, having lived in Europe for years, visit Sara’s wealthy mother near…

Genre: Uncategorized
We Dive at Dawn

We Dive at Dawn

We Dive at Dawn
IMDb: 6.7
98

A gripping tale of WWII naval warfare in the Baltics, starring John Mills as Lt. Freddie Taylor, a British submarine Captain. The crew of the Sea Tiger are summoned from…

Genre: War
Truck Busters

Truck Busters

Truck Busters
IMDb: 5.9
58

An independent truck driver organizes his fellow truckers to resist the efforts of a crooked trucking company exec to bring all drivers under his control. When the trucker’s brother dies…

Genre: Uncategorized
Undercover

Undercover

Undercover
IMDb: 6.1
80

Occupied Yugoslavia. With organised resistance shattered by the Nazi onslaught it is only the activity of small guerrilla bands that bring fresh hope to the people. But quislings and infiltrators…

Genre: War
The Underground World

The Underground World

The Underground World
IMDb: 6.7
8

Superman has to save Lois Lane from a cult of hawk-people in an homage to Edgar Rice Burroughs’s “At the Earth’s Core”.

Titanic

Titanic

Titanic
IMDb: 6.1
85

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…

Genre: History
Tonight We Raid Calais

Tonight We Raid Calais

Tonight We Raid Calais
IMDb: 6.2
80

A British commando is on a one-man raid to destroy a bomb factory in Nazi-occupied France. He must enlist the aid of French farmers to complete his mission.

Genre: History, War
This Is the Army

This Is the Army

This Is the Army
IMDb: 5.8
121

In WW I dancer Jerry Jones stages an all-soldier show on Broadway, called Yip Yip Yaphank. Wounded in the War, he becomes a producer. In WW II his son Johnny…

Genre: Comedy, Music, War