Using newsreel footage and maps, this documentary outlines Hitler's tactic in overtaking Europe. We watch the Nazis occupy Denmark and Norway, puch back the British Army, and force France into humiliating surrender.
In this documentary you'll learn the history of the population's shifting opinion towards siding with the Allies, until the attack on Pearl Harbor which brought America into full-scale involvement in the war.
Narrated by Ronald Reagan, this WWII documentary focuses on the Stilwell Road, named after American General Joseph Stilwell. The film starts in India, cuts through the almost impenetrable jungles of Burma, and ends in China.
"The Fighting Lady," directed by William Wyler, provides a portrait of life on a World War II aircraft carrier, a vessel that is "enormous, wonderful, and strange to us." After profiling the various activities of the soldiers' day and following the ship's voyage through the Panama Canal, the film takes the audience through a litany of actual combat engagements. The Fighting Lady participates in a strike on the Marcus Islands, then defends itself against a surprise nighttime raid by Japanese fighters. Some of the photography comes from cameras set up in the cockpits of American planes, showing first hand what it's like to be diving through enemy anti-aircraft fire. The film culminates in a major confrontation with the Imperial Japanese Battle Fleet. In this massive operation, later dubbed the "Marianas Turkey Shoot," American pilots downed almost four hundred Japanese Zeros, while incurring only twenty-two losses themselves.
Moe and Ken are the only survivors of their battalion, and they must learn to pull together as they discover that the war has ended and the island they're hiding on is targeted for an atomic bomb test.
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One Of Our Aircraft Is Missing (1942, Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
Classic war film from P&P. Not one of their absolute best but still one that should be appreciated.
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