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A group of Army personnel and nurses attempt a dangerous and arduous trek across the desert of North Africa during World War II. The leader of the team dreams of his ice cold beer when he reaches Alexandria, but the problems just won’t go away.Read More »
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J. Lee Thompson – Ice Cold in Alex AKA Desert Attack (1958)
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Val Guest – The Camp on Blood Island (1958)
1951-1960DramaHammer FilmsUSAVal GuestWarPlot Synopsis:
An intensely stoic Andre Morell leads a group of POWs, interned under the sadistic rule of Commander Yamamitsu, who has vowed to massacre them all and raze the camp to the ground should Japan surrender to the Allies. When the British prisoners find out via their radio that this has indeed happened, they must keep the news from their captors at all costs. Their task is made even more difficult when the Japanese capture an American pilot, who they are determined to strip of any useful information. The POW’s must find a way to escape before it’s too late.Read More » -
Aigars Grauba – Rigas sargi AKA Defenders of Riga (2007)
2001-2010Aigars GraubaDramaLatviaWarThe film dramatizes November 11, 1919- a crucial date in the battle for Latvian independence. A year after the end of the official hostilities of WWI, a renegade German general and troops remain outside the Latvian capital. Latvian riflemen, most of them inexperienced volunteers, somehow managed to defeat a larger, better-armed force of German and Russian mercenaries.Read More »
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Konrad Wolf – Mama, ich lebe AKA Mama, I’m Alive (1977)
1971-1980ArthouseGermanyKonrad WolfWarFour young Germans in a Soviet POW camp decide to join the Red Army to hasten the end of the war. Their new identities elicit different reactions from Germans and Russians and are difficult to live up to when they are sent behind German lines.
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A POW camp in the Soviet Union. Four young Germans exchange their uniforms to fight alongside the former enemy for a quicker end to the war. In Soviet uniform they drive with their caregiver on the train to the front. The fellow traveler does not hide long that they are German. It is not easy for them to cope with the new identity. Read More » -
Samuel Fuller – Hell and High Water (1954)
1951-1960AdventureSamuel FullerUSAWarSynopsis:
During the Cold War, a scientific team refits a Japanese submarine and hires an ex-Navy officer to find a secret Chinese atomic island base and prevent a Communist plot against America that could trigger WW3.Read More » -
Bailu Feng – Bai yi zhan shi AKA Soldier in White (1949)
1941-1950Bailu FengChinaChinese cinema under MaoDramaWarA heroic People’s Liberation Army nurse continues caring for wounded and getting them safely to hospital even though she has been wounded.Read More »
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John Frankenheimer & Arthur Penn – The Train (1964)
1961-1970ActionArthur PennFranceJohn FrankenheimerWarIn 1944, a German colonel loads a train with French art treasures to send to Germany. The Resistance must stop it without damaging the cargo.Read More »
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Samuel Fuller – Verboten! (1959)
1951-1960ActionSamuel FullerUSAWarSynopsis:
A young American serviceman, stationed in Germany after the fall of the Third Reich, jeopardises his position with the Marshall Plan relief effort by breaking the non-fraternisatiom rule and falling in love with a young German woman. He uses his position to obtain food and luxuries for her that are in short supply, and all seems to be going well for the couple. What he doesn’t realise is that the Werewolves, the Nazi guerrilla movement, have plans in which he features heavily.Read More » -
Aleksandr Gordon – Sergey Lazo (1968)
1961-1970Aleksandr GordonUSSRWar“A movie about the life and activities of the civil war hero Sergey Lazo (1894-1920), a poet, a publicist, a war strategist, a party activist, a diplomat fluent in several languages, a direct descendant of a noble Moldavian family, the son of a land-owner, a former student of the Moscow University and an officer of the tsarist army who determinately crossed over to the revolutionaries and headed the partisan movement during the struggle against the Japanese intervention in the Far East. At the age of 26 Lazo literally burnt in the revolutionary fire. The enemies threw him into the boiler of a steam locomotive and burnt him alive.Read More »