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War

Montecassino nel cerchio di fuoco

Montecassino nel cerchio di fuoco

November 20, 1946

Directed by Arturo Gemmiti

The Fighting First

November 8, 1946

A history of the U.S. Army's First Infantry Division, known as "The Fighting First" and also as "The Big Red One" for the soldiers' distinctive shoulder patch.

Carrying the Load: British Railways at War

November 6, 1946

This vintage railway film was produced by the London, Midland and Scottish railway in 1946, on behalf of all the British railways to portray all the work the British railway industry accomplished during World War II.

Outcry

Outcry

November 6, 1946

A neorealist tribute to the Italian resistance fighters of World War II.

The Sixth of June at Dawn

The Sixth of June at Dawn

November 28, 1947

The film starts by a visit to bucolic Normandy before the events. This peaceful atmosphere is shattered by Operation Overlord, minutely described in the second part of the documentary. The landing on D-Day and the ensuing battles and bombings martyr the peaceful area giving the earth thousands of body instead of seeds. In the last part, the dreadful aftermath of the steel storm is shown both with sympathy for the victims and hope for the future, since all these sacrifices, whether military or civilians, have not been in vain.

A Matter of Life and Death

A Matter of Life and Death

December 15, 1946

When a young RAF pilot miraculously survives bailing out of his aeroplane without a parachute, he falls in love with an American radio operator. But the officials in the other world realise their mistake and dispatch an angel to collect him.

In the Mountains of Yugoslavia

In the Mountains of Yugoslavia

October 31, 1946

Yugoslav farmer-turned-partisan Slavko Babić starts an uprising against the fascist Germans and their allies.

Men Without Wings

Men Without Wings

October 25, 1946

After an attack against the guard of the Third Reich, Nazi repression intensifies, and the Czechoslovakian resistance's organized sabotage in an aircraft factory leads to Gestapo shootings.

Hurrah! For Freedom

Hurrah! For Freedom

October 22, 1946

Hurrah! For Freedom (aka Viva Freedom) is a 1946 Korean film directed by Choi In-kyu. It was the first film made in the country after achieving independence from Japan. During the country's occupation Choi was only allowed to make Japan-friendly films, but the plot of Hurrah! For Freedom is distinctly different, telling the story of a Korean resistance fighter in 1945.

Son of the Regiment

Son of the Regiment

October 16, 1946

During the war years, russian soldiers pick up an orphaned boy. He refuses to go to the rear and becomes a scout, and then remains with the artillery battery. When the calculation of the battery dies in battle with the German tanks that have broken through, Vanya is sent to the Suvorov School, whose students participate in a military parade on Red Square.

The Murderers Are Among Us

The Murderers Are Among Us

October 15, 1946

After returning from a concentration camp, Susanne finds an ex-soldier living in her apartment. Together the two try to move past their experiences during WWII.

Guerilyera

Guerilyera

October 13, 1946

Carmen Rosales plays herself in this dramatization of her time as a guerilla fighter.

Theirs Is the Glory

Theirs Is the Glory

October 13, 1946

Re-enactment of World War 2 Battle of Arnhem using the survivors from the battle.

Before Him All Rome Trembled

Before Him All Rome Trembled

October 2, 1946

An opera singer hides an American soldier in his house in Nazi-occupied Rome.

Paisan

Paisan

December 10, 1946

During the Allied invasion of Italy in World War II, six stories unfold in various regions, from Sicily to the northern Po Valley. These tales follow the interactions between American soldiers and Italian civilians as they navigate their way through language barriers and cultural differences.

Pian delle stelle

September 17, 1946

Italian fugitives from German war camps unite to form "Lupo", a partisan brigade which uses their knowledge of the countryside to wage their own personal war on the Germans.

This Man Is Mine

September 12, 1946

One wartime Christmas the well-to-do Ferguson family extends a festive welcome to various strays, with comic results.

Cloak and Dagger

Cloak and Dagger

September 28, 1946

Italian partisans help a professor sent by the OSS to find an atomic scientist held by Nazis.

Meet the Navy

September 2, 1946

During World War II, the Canadian Navy gathered a troupe of diverse performers (dancers, comedians, singers, musicians) from its ranks and sent them off to entertain their shipmates, and the show/revue ultimately played London's Hioopodrome. The acceptance was based more on wartime-London's appreciation of the gallantry of Britain's sons and daughters from over the seas than it was on the artistic value of the show or the talent of the performers. The film is a fictional/fact mixture of the adventures of the troupe members, and the ending, only part filmed in Technicolor, is primarily the Revue as seen at the Hippodrome.

Piccadilly Incident

Piccadilly Incident

August 24, 1946

A newly married WREN, presumed drowned when her ship is torpedoed, spends three years on a tropical island before returning to England to find her husband remarried with a baby son.