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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 250 films · Page 4.
Drama, independent film, propaganda film
Annie O'Farrell (based on Anne McDonald) is a 13-year-old girl with athetoid cerebral palsy who is unable to communicate and has been living in a government institution from an early age. Jessica Hathaway (based on Rosemary Crossley) is a …
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War Film, drama film, war film
Officers of the U.S. Army Air Corps debate the importance of bombardiers at a staff meeting in Washington, D.C., in 1941. Major "Chick" Davis argues that a bombardier, using the top secret American bombsight will be the "spearhead of our s…
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propaganda film
The Lion Has Wings is recounted in various 'chapters' with a linking story revolving around a senior Royal Air Force (RAF) officer, played by Ralph Richardson, his wife and his family. thumb|275px|left|A RAF Vickers Wellington bomber sets …
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Documentation, War Film, documentary film, drama film, propaganda film, war film
drama film, propaganda film
Kurt Franken returns from his time at the front, minus an arm but still the fervent, patriotic Nazi that he was when he left. His brother, Eric, is high up in the resistance and regularly broadcasts on a secret radio. They argue, at first,…
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Political Documentary, propaganda film
Secret Agent, propaganda film, spy film
During World War I, Franz Strendler, a master German spy has cost the British dearly. In desperation, they send for their best agent, currently undercover in Germany. Pilot Frank Bennett is sent to pick him up, but the Germans are forewarn…
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Romance Film, War Film, drama film, melodrama, propaganda film, silent film, war film
Two families live next to one another in a French village on the eve of World War I. The Boy in one of the families falls for the only daughter in the other family. As they make preparations for marriage, World War I breaks out, and, altho…
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Crime, drama film, film noir, propaganda film
Information comes to light of a Communist spy ring infiltrating the Lakeview Laboratory of Nuclear Physics, a southern California atomic research center. Federal Bureau of Investigation agent Dan O'Hara teams up with Scotland Yard detectiv…
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Film Noir, drama film, film noir, propaganda film
Brad Collins, a San Francisco shipping executive, has recently married Nan Lowry after a whirlwind one-week courtship. During their honeymoon the couple meets Christine Norman, an old flame of Brad's whom Nan immediately dislikes. Brad had…
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Adventure, action film, adventure film, propaganda film
Tarzan receives a request from Jane, who is helping out on the British home front in World War II, to locate a rare plant-derived serum that can save the lives of many service members. He sets off into the Sahara, which is the shortest rou…
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drama film, propaganda film, war film
Frankie Davis, Allan Ross, and "Pinky" Scariano join the U.S. Army Air Forces with hopes of becoming pilots. In training, they befriend Irving Miller and Bobby Crills.
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Komödie, propaganda film
During the Second World War, Jimmy Bancroft, a fighter pilot just released from hospital and his nurse (now his girlfriend) Hazel Broome are on a walking tour through the countryside. They arrive at the (fictional) village of Lipsbury Lea,…
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Documentation, War Film, propaganda film
The early part of the film is an idealized version of American history, which mentions the first settlements, the American Revolutionary War (omitting the American Civil War), and the ethnic diversity of America. It lists 22 immigrant nati…
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Film Noir, crime film, drama film, propaganda film
John Emmett, an American everyman, is on a fishing and hunting trip when his car breaks down. He is offered a ride by a stranger, Ann Nicholson, who is driving to Santa Fe. She asks him to take turns behind the wheel.
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drama film, propaganda film
A successful, yet naive American woman, art critic Carol Cabbott, is married to German Eric Hoffman. They have a seven-year-old son, Ricky. They travel to pre-World War II Nazi Germany during the occupation of Austria and invasion of Czech…
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documentary film, propaganda film
Film Noir, drama film, film noir, propaganda film
Communist agents in Canada are spying on Dr. Carl Macklin, an atomic physicist whose knowledge they want to steal. To kidnap him, Eric Hartman, the party's top man in Montreal, offers $100,000 to deported American criminal Joe Victor.
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Documentation, documentary film, propaganda film
Documentation, War Film, documentary film, propaganda film
propaganda film
The film begins with a text preamble which states that the Japanese in America valiantly fought for America because they stood for values like "freedom" and "liberty" and in accordance with the preamble, the rest of the film does not portr…
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War Film, action film, drama film, propaganda film, war film
In 1940, American-built North American Harvard training aircraft are flown to the border with Canada, where they are towed across the frontier for use by Britain. (The procedure is necessary to avoid violating the Neutrality Acts, as the U…
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propaganda film
An American radio correspondent is reporting from within Nazi Germany. His principal source of information is an elderly philatelist. His reports prove so embarrassing to the regime that Captain von Rau sends his own fiancée, Karen Hauen, …
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Conspiracy theory film, documentary film, war film