My Favs 50's

During Word War II, American author Agnes Newton Keith is imprisoned by the Japanese in various POW camps in North Borneo and Sarawak.

Willie Kluggs enters the service with hopes of going overseas, but his uncanny marksmanship keeps him at home as a shooting instructor... much to his embarrassment.

Based on the 1947 book "I.G. Farben", by American author Richard Sasuly, and records from the Nuremberg Trial of the chemical giant I.G. Farben, Council of the Gods is a story about the collaboration between international corporations and German scientists, whose research contributed to the death of millions. Featuring music by Hanns Eisler, electronic sound by Oskar Sala (Hitchcocks's "The Birds") and a script by Friedrich Wolf, the film is powerful in its depiction of the moral dilemmas and lessons of the war, as well as of Cold War propaganda. Chemist Dr. Hans Scholz lives through a tortuous political transformation and maturation process. Finally, he becomes wrapped up in his political neutrality and closes his eyes to the fact that poison is being produced in his factory. Standing before the judges at the Nuremberg trials he has to face the fact that he was partly responsible for the deaths of millions in the gas chambers of the extermination camps.

The story of men in the Guards Armoured Division in WWII, from basic training through to battle.

American soldiers stranded in the Philippines after the Japanese invasion form guerrilla bands to fight back.

During WW2, a French woman living in England volunteers to work for British Intelligence in Nazi-occupied France.

A company of Marines races against the clock to find a Japanese rocket base.

Major Kirby leads The Wildcats squadron into the historic WWII battle of Guadalcanal.

During WWII, a submarine's second in command inherits the problem of torpedoes that don't explode. When on shore, he is eager to win back his ex-wife.

An American infantry unit, from its pre-invasion training to combat in Europe.

When a new commander is assigned to a submarine chaser with an experimental engine, he finds the entire crew has as little experience as he does.

In 1944, an American bomber squadron is tense and discontented from too many missions over France. Luck runs out for Capt. Stevens and his crew; they must bail out and are promptly taken prisoner. Their wily German captors, sensing that they have valuable information unknown even to themselves, use every form of velvet-glove trickery to worm it out of them. Will Stevens discover the danger? If so, what can he do about it? The fate of 100 planes depends on the answer.

Based on the famed World War II cartoons, lowbrow G.I.s Willie and Joe, on the Italian front, are good soldiers in combat, but meet the antics of gung-ho Captain Johnson and other military SNAFUs with a barrage of wry comments. On a 3-day pass in Naples, Joe's penchant for wine and women involves the pair with luscious Emi Rosso and her moonshiner father, whose tangled affairs land them in ever deeper trouble.

During World War II, an American woman posing as an Italian cabaret owner spies on the Japanese in Manila but becomes the target of a suspicious Japanese intelligence officer.

The story of Japanese-American soldiers who fought in Europe during World War II.

The story of the final years of the respected World War II German general, Erwin Rommel.

In 1943, an American fishing boat has a fateful encounter with a seriously damaged Danish schooner off of Canada's Atlantic coast.

Story of how the Coast Guard trained to help win World War II.

The new commander of a Navy Underwater Demolition Team--nicknamed "Frogmen"--must earn the respect of the men in his unit, who are still grieving over the death of their former commander and resentful of the new one.

In World War II, desert hotel proprietors Emad and Yasmin are caught between the warring armies and have to constantly shift their political allegiance to whichever army happens to control the area.

A French singer is captured by the Germans and made to broadcast for them.

During World War II in Italy, an American sergeant and WAC lieutenant take time out for romance.

A singing trio entertaining wounded American soldiers during World War II encourages a mutilated solder in his love for a nurse.

German scientist murders his fiancée during World War II when he learns that she has been selling the results of his secret research to the enemy.

As the US Army approaches Nazi Germany, they recruit German prisoners of war to spy behind German lines.