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Title | Author | Year of Publication | Country | Abstract |
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Lifeboat | Hitchcock, Alfred | 1944 | United States |
An Alfred Hitchcock adaptation of a John Steinbeck novella, Lifeboat captures the tension and drama of World War II through the survivors of a torpedoed vessel. American and British civilians who have survived the sinking of their ship... |
To Have and Have Not | Hawks, Howard | 1944 | United States |
Loosely based on an Ernest Hemingway novel of the same title, initially published in 1937, To Have and Have Not is a classic Hollywood film centered on the romance between a freelancing fisherman in Martinique and a beautiful American... |
Dragon Seed | Conway, Jack | 1944 | United States |
Dragon Seed is a 1944 war drama film starring Katharine Hepburn. Based on a best-selling book by Pearl S. Buck, the film portrays a peaceful village in China that has been invaded by the Imperial Japanese Army during the Second Sino-... |
Rikugun / Army | Kinoshita, Keisuke | 1944 | Japan |
An epic film spanning from the Meiji Restoration (1868–1889) to the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945), director Keisuke Kinoshita portrays the decline and rise of militarism in one family over three generations in Japan. The first generation's... |
Zoya (1944) | Arnshtam, Lev | 1944 | Soviet Union |
The film depicts the short life of a Moscow schoolgirl Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya (1923-1941) who at the beginning of the Great Patriotic War became a partisan-infiltrator and was executed by the Germans in November 1941 near Moscow in the village... |
Two Thousand Women | Launder, Frank | 1944 | United Kingdom |
Two Thousand Women is a 1944 British comedy-drama war film about a German internment camp in Occupied France which holds British women who have been resident in the country. Three RAF aircrewmen, whose bomber has been shot down, enter... |
Hangmen Also Die! | Lang, Fritz | 1943 | United States |
Hangmen Also Die! is a 1943 noir war film directed by the Austrian director Fritz Lang, based on a story by Bertolt Brecht. The film is loosely based on the 1942 assassination of Reinhard Heydrich (1904–1942), the Nazi Reich Protector of... |
The More the Merrier | Stevens, George | 1943 | United States |
Due to a housing shortage in Washington, D.C., during World War II, Connie Milligan (Jean Arthur) agrees to rent part of her apartment to wealthy retiree Benjamin Dingle (Charles Coburn) and soldier Joe Carter (Joel McCrea). Although Connie is... |
For Whom the Bell Tolls | Wood, Sam | 1943 | United States |
Based on the 1940 novel of the same title by Ernest Hemingway, this film follows a volunteer of the American International Brigade who sacrifices his life for the Republican cause in the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939). Tasked with blowing up a... |
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp | Powell, Michael | 1943 | United Kingdom |
Widely considered a masterpiece, directors Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger explore the changing notions of modern warfare against the tradition of British military systems from the Boer War (1899–1902) to World War II. General Candy (Roger... |