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Title | Author | Year of Publication | Country | Abstract |
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Listen to Britain | Jennings, Humphrey | 1942 | United Kingdom |
An American-funded propaganda film documenting life and work in Great Britain at the beginning of World War II. Its focus on women underscores the new roles they occupied during the war. |
Thunder Rock | Boulting, Roy | 1942 | United Kingdom |
Thunder Rock is a 1942 British drama film directed by Roy Boulting, based on Robert Ardrey's 1939 play of the same title. As the 1940s approach, British reporter David Charleston (Michael Redgrave) tries to alert the public to... |
To Be or Not to Be | Lubitsch, Ernst | 1942 | United States |
In this brilliant dark comedy, an acting troupe becomes entangled in espionage and the Polish resistance during World War II. Acting couple Joseph (Jack Benny) and Maria Tura (Carole Lombard) are managing a theatrical troupe when the Nazis invade... |
Went the Day Well? | Cavalcanti, Alberto | 1942 | United Kingdom |
Went the Day Well? is a 1942 British war film adapted from a story by Graham Greene titled "The Lieutenant Died Last," and directed by Alberto Cavalcanti. It was produced by Michael Balcon of Ealing Studios and served as unofficial... |
In Which We Serve | Lean, David | 1942 | United Kingdom |
Inspired by the destruction of the HMS Kelly during the Battle of Crete in May 1941, this British war propaganda film made with the assistance of the Ministry of Information in the midst of the Second World War highlights and encourages national... |
Der große König | Harlan, Veit | 1942 | Germany |
Filmed at the height of Nazi Germany's triumph in late 1940 and early 1941, Der große König was Germany's most ambitious film to date. Both Joseph Goebbels and Adolf Hitler were fascinated by Frederick the Great (1712–1786), and invoked... |
Across the Pacific | Huston, John | 1942 | United States |
Across the Pacific is a 1942 American spy film set on the eve of the entry of the United States into World War II. The film was directed first by John Huston, then by Vincent Sherman after Huston joined the United States Army Signal... |
Noi vivi / We the Living | Alessandrini, Goffredo | 1942 | Italy |
This film, set during the Russian Revolution, is based on We the Living, a semi-autobiographical novel by Ayn Rand first published in 1936. Originally meant to be two films, Noi vivi and Addio Kira, this film is a two-... |
Le voile bleu / The Blue Veil | Stelli, Jean | 1942 | France |
This Vichy-era film celebrates maternalism, traditional values, and a homogenous French identity. After Louise loses her husband and her newborn child during World War I, she dedicates her life to caring for other children and following her... |
Mrs. Miniver | Wyler, William | 1942 | United States |
Mrs. Miniver is a 1942 American romantic war drama directed by William Wyler and starring Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon. Inspired by the 1940 novel, Mrs. Miniver, by Jan Struther, the film shows how the life of an unassuming... |
Un garibaldino al convento / A Garibaldian in the Convent | De Sica, Vittorio | 1942 | Italy |
A subversive film made during World War II, director Vittorio de Sica hides a message of resistance within a comedic drama about the Italian Wars of Unification. A woman looks back on her youth, when she and another girl fell for a Garibaldian... |