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War

Women at War

Women at War

October 2, 1943

Three young women arrive at the Women's Army Corps facility in Fort Des Moines for varied reasons and with different goals. Mary Savage is a war widow who wants to become an officer, farm girl Stormy Hart wants to become involved in motor transport, and Lorna Travis seeks to win the approval of her father, a major general, who has very chauvinist views on the role of women in the military. Intensive training and guidance prepares the three to make a contribution to the success of the upcoming war games conducted by General Travis and validate the value of the WACS to the war effort.

The Adventures of Tartu

The Adventures of Tartu

October 1, 1943

British Captain Terence Stevenson (Robert Donat) accepts an assignment even more dangerous than his everyday job of defusing unexploded bombs. Fluent in Romanian and German and having studied chemical engineering, he is parachuted into Romania to assume the identity of Captain Jan Tartu, a member of the fascist Iron Guard. He makes his way to Czechoslovakia to steal the formula of a new Nazi poison gas and sabotage the factory where it is being manufactured.

Corvette K-225

Corvette K-225

September 29, 1943

The story of a Canadian WWII naval vessel, with a dramatic subplot concerning her first captain.

Adventure in Iraq

Adventure in Iraq

September 27, 1943

Three Allied soldiers in an airplane flying to Egypt crash-land in Iraq. They are taken in by a local sheik, but soon begin to suspect that he may not be quite as friendly as he appears to be.

Deutsche Wochenschau Nr. 681/40/1943

September 22, 1943

News of the Week: German Troops Capture Rome; Heavy Fighting at Allied Beachhead at Salerno; Mussolini Rescued in Abruzzi Mountains; SS Captain Skorzeny Shown With Mussolini.

Submarine T-9

Submarine T-9

September 22, 1943

The Great Patriotic War. The Soviet submarine T-9, passing through the minefields of the North Sea, penetrates the enemy port. Sailors drown enemy transport ships, but soon find out that they are late - enemy troops and weapons are already unloaded and sent to the front. Captain Kostrov finds himself in a situation where a combat mission is almost impossible, but he must fulfill it - for him it is a matter of honor or dishonor.

Mexicanos al Grito de Guerra

Mexicanos al Grito de Guerra

September 16, 1943

In times of the French Intervention, a student of Nunó, author of the Mexican National Anthem, falls in love with the niece of the French Ambassador, which causes quite amusing complications.

Our Planes Fly South

Our Planes Fly South

September 10, 1943

The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler

The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler

September 10, 1943

Austrian actor Franz Huber, known for his impressions, is captured by the Gestapo and forced into plastic surgery to become Hitler's body double. Their plan is to poison Hitler and use Huber to take control of the Reich. Meanwhile, Huber's wife Anna sees her life coming undone as her husband has disappeared and her two sons are indoctrinated into the Hitler Youth.

The Last Will and Testament of Tom Smith

The Last Will and Testament of Tom Smith

September 9, 1943

Tom Smith, an American pilot, is shot down and captured by the Japanese. While imprisoned and awaiting execution, he recalls his life at home in the USA.

So Proudly We Hail

So Proudly We Hail

September 9, 1943

During the start of the Pacific campaign in World War II, Lieutenant Janet Davidson is the head of a group of U.S. military nurses who are trapped behind enemy lines in the Philippines. Davidson tries to keep up the spirits of her staff, which includes Lieutenants Joan O'Doul and Olivia D'Arcy. They all seek to maintain a sense of normal life, including dating, while under constant danger as they tend to wounded soldiers.

Adventures of the Flying Cadets

Adventures of the Flying Cadets

September 7, 1943

Four youthful cadets are implicated in a series of murders, and must attempt to clear themselves of suspicion.

The Flemish Farm

The Flemish Farm

September 6, 1943

Wartime commando story based on fact. Allied airman risks return (on the ground) to occupied France for the honour of his regiment.

Salute to the Marines

Salute to the Marines

September 2, 1943

It is a comic book propaganda film which has Beery as a retired USMC NCO who, when the Japanese invade the Philippines, leads a heroic defense, first by strangling a Nazi agent, and then dying in his dress blues uniform while blowing up a bridge.

Sahara

Sahara

September 22, 1943

In Libya, an American tank commander, along with a handful of Allied soldiers, tries to defend an isolated well with a limited supply of water from a German Afrika Korps battalion during the Western Desert Campaign of World War II.

Przysięgamy ziemi polskiej

Przysięgamy ziemi polskiej

September 1, 1943

Headin' for God's Country

Headin' for God's Country

August 26, 1943

In this anti-Japanese WW II propaganda film, Japanese invaders attempt to raid Alaska and are totally obliterated. The trouble begins when a stranger visits a small town and tells them that the U.S. is going to be taken over by a powerful country. The story turns out to be true when the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor. The town then rises up and slaughters a Japanese raiding party.

Seeds of Freedom

August 24, 1943

Archive footage from Potemkin (1925), with English dialogue dubbed in by American actors, is combined with new footage to tie together the brave stand of Odessa Russian guerrilla bands of the 1940's against German forces with the similar situation of 1905 when Odessa citizens aided in the revolt against the Czar as depicted in Eisenstein's classic Potemkin (1925).

There Burns a Fire

There Burns a Fire

August 23, 1943

An allegory of Germany's WWII occupation of Norway. Members of a theater ensemble join the resistance.

Белорусские новеллы

Белорусские новеллы

August 20, 1943