Film Snail

War

Olympic Fire

Olympic Fire

February 10, 1970

During World War 2 Polish skiers take up a fight against the Germans and become couriers, delivering mail to Budapest.

The Challenge

The Challenge

February 10, 1970

All-out war between the United States and an Asian country is averted when the two sides agree to settle their differences by each choosing a single soldier as champion and having the two men fight to the death on an isolated island.

Five Day Rest

Five Day Rest

February 9, 1970

Ο τελευταίος των κομιτατζήδων

Ο τελευταίος των κομιτατζήδων

February 7, 1970

In eastern Macedonia, the Bulgarians receive from the Germans the conquered Greek lands. Bulgarian Major Antoine Paiko is appointed governor of the area he had destroyed in 1918, shortly before he retreated. He secretly seizes Gregory and puts in place his twin brother Ivan Simeonov, whom the Bulgarians have kidnapped and raised as theirs. The "savior" fools the villagers, but not Gregory's fiancé.

Mission: Iron Castle

Mission: Iron Castle

February 7, 1970

The Shinobi-no-Mono series was so successful that Daiei Studios dipped into the well one more time, making the best 60′s B&W ninja movie ever seen in the otherwise color-dominated year of 1970. Issei Mori directs Hiroki Matsukata as the reluctant leader of a small band of spies charged with kidnapping a noblewoman from a heavily ninja-proofed castle. The finality of the air slowly began to fill like smoke, and in all that had become dark the loyalty of the Ninja who dared to go shone like light as they entered a world shrouded in mystery. Things do not go as planned in what is possibly the darkest and most fatalistic of the already noir-ish 60′s fare. Both the decade and it’s distinctive style of shinobi cinema went out on a high note with Mission Iron Castle.

Wang-geon, the Great

Wang-geon, the Great

February 6, 1970

General Wang-gun marches on the capitol and overthrows the usurper Ku-jin who had slain the last king of the Shilla Dynasty. Wang-gun becomes king and begins a new era in Korean History--the Koryo Dynasty.

Too Little for Such a Big War

Too Little for Such a Big War

February 3, 1970

A young boy becomes callous to the deaths and battles that rage on during World War II. He and his friends follow a peasant soldier of a Rumanian troop as they march to join the Russians in fighting the Nazis. He watches as one of his friends dies after destroying a German machine gun nest. He is slapped by a Rumanian soldier who is livid over the boy's nonchalance of his friend's death. He becomes a mascot of the advancing unit as they proceed to a castle in Czechoslovakia. When the men dress in armor for a group picture, they are killed by the Nazis. The boy returns to find the men have been wiped out and he is taken prisoner by a German soldier. The Nazi falls victim to marauding peasants seeking revenge. They rescue the young warrior and escort him back to his home in Rumania.

Duma about Brytanka

Duma about Brytanka

February 2, 1970

The film tells about the brutal class struggle during the civil war in the villages of southern Ukraine.

The Taste of the Black Earth

The Taste of the Black Earth

March 6, 1970

During the 1920 Silesian uprising, seven brothers take part in the struggle with the Germans to keep the region in the Polish hands.

Prem Pujari

Prem Pujari

January 28, 1970

Ramdev Bakshi is the only son of widower and former Indian Army General Durgaprasad, who has been decorated several times with various medals for bravery shown in the line of duty. Alas this did leave him crippled, after he lost a leg during the war with Pakistan. Ramdev is also enlisted in the army, but he is peace-loving and detests war. He has a sweetheart in village belle Suman Mehra, and both hope to get married soon. He does answer the call from the army and joins active duty, only to be arrested and court-martial-ed for disobeying orders. After being dishonorably discharged, he disappears from Suman and his father's lives. Years later, Suman enters a beauty contest and is crowned Miss India. She travels with her mom to Britain, where she meets with Ramdev.

Carter's Army

Carter's Army

May 25, 1975

A racist officer is put in charge of an all-black squad of troops charged with the mission of blowing up an important hydro-dam in Nazi Germany. Their failure would delay the Allies' advance into Germany, thus prolonging the war.

Tora! Tora! Tora!

Tora! Tora! Tora!

January 26, 1970

In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. "Tora! Tora! Tora!", named after the code words used by the lead Japanese pilot to indicate they had surprised the Americans, covers the days leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor, which plunged America into the Second World War.

Patton

Patton

January 25, 1970

"Patton" tells the tale of General George S. Patton, famous tank commander of World War II. The film begins with Patton's career in North Africa and progresses through the invasion of Germany and the fall of the Third Reich. Side plots also speak of Patton's numerous faults such his temper and habit towards insubordination.

M*A*S*H

M*A*S*H

February 18, 1970

The staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor and hijinks to keep their sanity in the face of the horror of war.

Surprise Attack

Surprise Attack

January 22, 1970

1938 at the battlefront along the river Ebro, Spain. It is the Spanish Civil War, and this movie depicts the attack of a group of commandos whose job it is to blow up the bridge spanning the river.

Red Rowan

Red Rowan

January 17, 1970

The Polish Army fights to liberate Kołobrzeg from the Germans in the final months of World War 2.

La guerra sul fronte Est

La guerra sul fronte Est

January 1, 1970

Η λιτανεία των ηρώων

Η λιτανεία των ηρώων

January 1, 1970

I Am 11-17

I Am 11-17

January 1, 1970

Strieborný Neptún

January 1, 1970