Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "air-raid-warden"

1. The Time Machine (1960)

G | 103 min | Adventure, Romance, Sci-Fi

A man's vision for a utopian society is disillusioned when travelling forward into time reveals a dark and dangerous society.

Director: George Pal | Stars: Rod Taylor, Alan Young, Yvette Mimieux, Sebastian Cabot

Votes: 44,797

2. Dad's Army (1968–1977)

30 min | Comedy, War

A ragtag group of Home Guard volunteers prepare for an imminent German invasion during World War II.

Stars: Arthur Lowe, John Le Mesurier, Clive Dunn, John Laurie

Votes: 7,218

3. Their Finest (2016)

R | 117 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A former secretary, newly appointed as a scriptwriter for propaganda films, joins the cast and crew of a major production while the Blitz rages around them.

Director: Lone Scherfig | Stars: Gemma Arterton, Sam Claflin, Bill Nighy, Richard E. Grant

Votes: 21,276 | Gross: $3.60M

4. The Blob (1958)

Approved | 86 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

An alien lifeform consumes everything in its path as it grows and grows.

Directors: Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr., Russell S. Doughten Jr. | Stars: Steve McQueen, Aneta Corsaut, Earl Rowe, Olin Howland

Votes: 29,349

5. Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985)

R | 120 min | Biography, Drama

A fictionalized account in four chapters of the life of celebrated Japanese writer Yukio Mishima.

Director: Paul Schrader | Stars: Ken Ogata, Masayuki Shionoya, Hiroshi Mikami, Junya Fukuda

Votes: 13,724 | Gross: $0.44M

6. Landfall (1949)

86 min | Drama, War

During WW2, an RAF pilot from coastal command is accused of sinking a British submarine that he mistook for a German one.

Director: Ken Annakin | Stars: Michael Denison, Patricia Plunkett, Edith Sharpe, Margaret Barton

Votes: 240

7. Star Spangled Rhythm (1942)

Approved | 99 min | Comedy, Music

A Paramount Studios security guard who was a major actor during the silent film era must carry out the illusion that he is still a big deal when his sailor son comes to visit.

Directors: George Marshall, A. Edward Sutherland | Stars: Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Fred MacMurray, Franchot Tone

Votes: 668 | Gross: $0.60M

8. The Locket (1946)

Approved | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Just before a wedding, the bridegroom hears a complex tale painting his lovely bride as devilish and unbalanced.

Director: John Brahm | Stars: Laraine Day, Robert Mitchum, Brian Aherne, Gene Raymond

Votes: 3,060

9. Air Raid Wardens (1943)

Passed | 67 min | Comedy

Two bumblers, failures as businessmen and air raid wardens, stumble across a nest of Nazi saboteurs bent on blowing up the local magnesium plant.

Director: Edward Sedgwick | Stars: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Edgar Kennedy, Jacqueline White

Votes: 1,223

10. So Well Remembered (1947)

Passed | 114 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

Mayor George Boswell recalls events of the previous 25 years in his home town of Browdley. As councilman and newspaper editor George has fought hard to better working and living conditions in the bleak Lancashire mill town.

Director: Edward Dmytryk | Stars: John Mills, Martha Scott, Patricia Roc, Trevor Howard

Votes: 581

11. The Falcon's Brother (1942)

Approved | 63 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Tom Lawrence, Gay's brother, takes over for his injured sibling in a case which involves Nazi espionage and political assassination.

Director: Stanley Logan | Stars: George Sanders, Tom Conway, Jane Randolph, Don Barclay

Votes: 970

12. The Heavenly Body (1944)

Passed | 95 min | Comedy, Romance

The neglected wife of a tweedy astronomer becomes convinced that her astrologer's prediction of a new dream man in her life will come true.

Directors: Alexander Hall, Vincente Minnelli | Stars: William Powell, Hedy Lamarr, James Craig, Fay Bainter

Votes: 1,033

13. Private's Progress (1956)

102 min | Comedy, War

In World War II, a failed British officer is selected by his uncle, a brigadier with the War Office, to participate in a secret operation to recover looted artwork from the Germans.

Director: John Boulting | Stars: Ian Carmichael, Ronald Adam, Henry B. Longhurst, Peter Jones

Votes: 903

14. The Masked Marvel (1943)

Passed | 197 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A mysterious detective called The Masked Marvel battles Japanese saboteurs intent on blowing up America.

Director: Spencer Gordon Bennet | Stars: William Forrest, Louise Currie, Johnny Arthur, Rod Bacon

Votes: 206

15. A Tale of Two Kitties (1942)

Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Adventure

Babbit and Catstello, take-offs on Bud Abbott and Lou Costello try to catch the little Tweety bird, using everything from stilts to dynamite. Trouble is, the tiny bird has a vicious streak in him.

Director: Robert Clampett | Stars: Mel Blanc, Tedd Pierce

Votes: 1,138

16. The Falcon in Danger (1943)

Approved | 69 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery

After a passenger plane crash lands at a local airport, the rescue crew is shocked to find there is no one aboard.

Director: William Clemens | Stars: Tom Conway, Jean Brooks, Elaine Shepard, Amelita Ward

Votes: 792

17. Quiet Please: Murder (1942)

Approved | 70 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Book thief/forger sells a fake book to a Nazi through a female agent. A detective tries to uncover who the forger is and gets in the middle of a three way struggle for rare books and revenge in a public library.

Director: John Francis Larkin | Stars: George Sanders, Gail Patrick, Richard Denning, Lynne Roberts

Votes: 419

18. Passport to Destiny (1944)

Passed | 65 min | Comedy, War

A British cleaning woman believes a glass eye has magical powers that will protect her from harm. She travels from London to Berlin and manages to obtain a job as a cleaning woman at Hitler's headquarters. However, her assassination plan is foiled. But, she and other secret agents manage to escape to London during RAF bombing raid of the Reich Chancery.

Director: Ray McCarey | Stars: Elsa Lanchester, Gordon Oliver, Lenore Aubert, Lionel Royce

Votes: 361

19. The Screwy Truant (1945)

Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

Screwy Squirrel is pursued by a truant officer.

Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Sara Berner, Billy Bletcher, Pinto Colvig, William Hanna

Votes: 563

20. The French Way (1940)

90 min | Comedy, Romance

Cabaret star Zazu intervenes when young lovers are sundered by their parents' feud.

Director: Jacques de Baroncelli | Stars: Lucien Baroux, Micheline Presle, Saturnin Fabre, Gabrielle Dorziat

Votes: 121

21. International Squadron (1941)

Passed | 85 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

In 1941, an American flyer volunteers for the British RAF but must learn to be an obedient team player rather than a risky thrill-seeking individualist.

Directors: Lothar Mendes, Lewis Seiler | Stars: Ronald Reagan, Olympe Bradna, James Stephenson, William Lundigan

Votes: 116

22. After Midnight with Boston Blackie (1943)

Approved | 65 min | Mystery

Blackie is arrested when retrieving stolen gems from a safety deposit box for a friend.

Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Chester Morris, Ann Savage, George E. Stone, Richard Lane

Votes: 396

23. Counter-Espionage (1942)

Approved | 73 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery

The Lone Wolf tracks down German spies in London during the German bombing.

Director: Edward Dmytryk | Stars: Warren William, Eric Blore, Hillary Brooke, Thurston Hall

Votes: 366

24. Priorities on Parade (1942)

Approved | 79 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

Troupers (Ann Miller, Johnnie Johnston, Jerry Colonna) put on a swing show in a World War II aircraft plant.

Director: Albert S. Rogell | Stars: Ann Miller, Johnny Johnston, Jerry Colonna, Betty Jane Rhodes

Votes: 37

25. Pacific Blackout (1941)

Passed | 76 min | Mystery

While bombers roar overhead during a practice blackout in a large American West coast city, Robert Draper, is among the prisoners in a police van. The inventor of a new range finder for ... See full summary »

Director: Ralph Murphy | Stars: Robert Preston, Martha O'Driscoll, Philip Merivale, Eva Gabor

Votes: 77

26. Hiss and Make Up (1943)

8 min | Family, Animation, Short

A cat, a dog and bird living in one house can't stop fighting each other.

Director: Friz Freleng | Stars: Mel Blanc, Bea Benaderet

Votes: 151

27. The Weakly Reporter (1944)

7 min | Animation, Family, Short

A newsreel spoof with WWII homefront gags, including rationing, air raid drills and women filling in men's jobs.

Director: Chuck Jones | Stars: Mel Blanc, Bea Benaderet, Frank Graham

Votes: 288

28. A Jolly Good Furlough (1943)

7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

Popeye is doing a great job of sinking Japanese ships (complete with toilet-flush sound effect). A carrier pigeon brings him notice that he's been granted a month furlough, which he plans ... See full summary »

Directors: Dan Gordon, Joseph Oriolo | Stars: Margie Hines, Jack Mercer

Votes: 183

29. Jack-Wabbit and the Beanstalk (1943)

7 min | Family, Animation, Short

Bugs fights the legendary giant. In the historical context of World War II much fun is made of the giant's claimed superiority over the more clever and fun-loving rabbit.

Director: Friz Freleng | Star: Mel Blanc

Votes: 433

30. Young America (1942)

Passed | 73 min | Adventure, Drama

Spoiled city girl Jane Campbell is furious when her widower father sends her to the rural town of Button Willow Valley to live with her grandmother, Nora Campbell. Jane and her Black ... See full synopsis »

Director: Louis King | Stars: Jane Withers, Jane Darwell, Lynne Roberts, Robert Cornell

Votes: 24

31. You, John Jones! (1943)

Unrated | 11 min | Short, Drama, War

John Jones' (James Cagney) daughter is rehearsing the Gettysburg Address in preparation for a school elocution when he is called away by an air raid alarm. He sits alone in the evening and ... See full summary »

Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: James Cagney, Ann Sothern, Margaret O'Brien, Carey Wilson

Votes: 368

32. Bear Raid Warden (1944)

Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

Barney takes his air-raid warden post too seriously, telling first an owl (shining eyes) and then a firefly to put their lights out. The firefly isn't at all happy and keeps pestering ... See full summary »

Director: George Gordon | Star: Billy Bletcher

Votes: 144

33. No Place for a Lady (1943)

Approved | 66 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Private detective Jess Arno and his real estate agent fiance June try to solve the murder when a tire magnate's body is found at a beach house.

Director: James P. Hogan | Stars: William Gargan, Margaret Lindsay, Phyllis Brooks, Dick Purcell

Votes: 83

34. He Hired the Boss (1943)

Approved | 72 min | Action, Comedy

A bookkeeper who wants to marry the company's secretary, is strapped for cash, and gets fired after persuading the boss's son to elope with his sweetheart, ultimately uncovers a crime and discovers that he owns property worth $100,000.

Director: Thomas Z. Loring | Stars: Stuart Erwin, Evelyn Venable, Thurston Hall, Vivian Blaine

Votes: 50

35. Magoo's Private War (1957)

Approved | 6 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

The near-sighted Mr. McGoo takes his duties as an Air Raid Warden, in the civil-defense, cold-war/iron curtain days of the 1950s, seriously. When he stumbles across the premiere of a new ... See full summary »

Director: Rudy Larriva | Stars: Jim Backus, Daws Butler

Votes: 42

36. Old Blackout Joe (1942)

6 min | Animation, Comedy, Short

An air-raid warden in Harlem; everyone turns out their lights willingly. All except for one: A lantern, whose flame refuses to go out. Joe plays cat-and-mouse with the flame a while, ... See full summary »

Directors: John Hubley, Paul Sommer, Frank Tashlin | Star: Harry Lang

Votes: 23

37. Malice in Slumberland (1942)

6 min | Animation, Short

A dog who works as an air raid warden is all prepared for a good night's sleep. He is just starting to doze when the "dripping" noise of a leaky kitchen faucet awakens him. At first, he ... See full summary »

Directors: Alec Geiss, Frank Tashlin | Star: Harry Lang

Votes: 21

38. The Adventures of Dr. Fu Manchu (1956)
Episode: Dr. Fu Manchu's Raid (1956)

Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Underwater divers discover documents that link Dr. Fu Manchu to a plot to extort a diplomat.

Director: William Witney | Stars: Glen Gordon, Lester Matthews, Clark Howat, Carla Balenda

39. Foyle's War (2002–2015)
Episode: A War of Nerves (2004)

TV-14 | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

June 1941: A.C. Rose orders Foyle to delegate his investigation of black marketing ring and personally look into the possibly seditious acts of a Socialist activist.

Director: Gavin Millar | Stars: Samuel Oatley, David Alexander, Eamon Geoghegan, Honeysuckle Weeks

Votes: 612

40. ToonHeads (1992– )
Episode: A ToonHeads Special: The Wartime Cartoons (2001)

TV-G | 49 min | Documentary, Animation, Family

A look at animated shorts produced during World War II with Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Superman, Porky Pig, Popeye and more.

Directors: George A. Klein, Tex Avery, Joseph Barbera, Robert Clampett, Arthur Davis, Friz Freleng, Dan Gordon, George Gordon, William Hanna, Chuck Jones, Seymour Kneitel, Norm McCabe, Robert McKimson, Izzy Sparber, Frank Tashlin | Stars: Leslie Fram, Hirohito, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini

41. My Grandparents' War (2019– )
Episode: Helena Bonham Carter (2019)

47 min | Documentary, Biography, History

Helena Bonham Carter goes in search of the truth behind her relatives' involvement in World War II. Both sets of her grandparents, one pair in France the other in England, were unconventional war heroes.

Director: Francis Hanly | Stars: Helena Bonham Carter, Caroline Catz

Votes: 62

42. A House Through Time (2018– )
Episode: Episode #4.4 (2021)

59 min | Documentary, Biography, History

WWII puts residents of Number 5 in danger. Leeds is a shock to a Greek war bride with a tragic past. The post-war period sees No. 5 home to a film critic and his wife. There is a return for students who lived here at the Millennium.

Director: Nicola Seare | Star: David Olusoga

Votes: 7