Subgenre Sampler
War: 952 Films to Buy & Rent
We Dive at Dawn (1943)
- Dir. Anthony Asquith
Feat. John Mills, Eric Portman, Niall MacGinnis
- Sturdy WWII actioner has a British sub sent out to sink a heavily–armed Nazi battleship with the help of three German sailors, but getting into…
Why We Fight (Prelude to War, Tunisian Victory, Know Your Enemy: Japan, War Comes to America, Battle of China, Battle of Britain, Divide and Conquer) (1943-1945)
- Dir. Frank Capra
- Old boy Frank Capra directed seven raging propaganda films between ARSENIC AND OLD LACE and IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE for the rhetorically–dubbed…
WWII - The John Huston Documents (Let There Be Light; The Battle of San Pietro) (1943-1947)
- Dir. John Huston
- Two legendary war documentaries from John Huston (THE MALTESE FALCON) who participated in WWII as a combat filmmaker yet whose films are the…
Day Will Dawn, The (1942)
- Dir. Harold French
Feat. Hugh Williams, Griffith Jones, Deborah Kerr…
- Propaganda fuelled WW2 drama about a foreign journalist reporting on German U–Boats attacking Norwegian ships who finds himself up against the…
Desperate Journey (1942)
- Dir. Raoul Walsh
Feat. Errol Flynn, Ronald Reagan
- Errol Flynn and Ronald Reagan are stranded Allied pilots who flee the clutches of the Nazis in Boy's Own WW2 propaganda film.
First of the Few (Spitfire) (1942)
- Dir. Leslie Howard
Feat. Leslie Howard, David Niven, Rosamund John…
- Rousing true life tale of aircraft designer R.J. Mitchell and his streamlined monoplane that led to the devolpment of the spitfire.
Released with…
Goose Steps Out, The (1942)
- Dir. Basil Dearden, Will Hay
Feat. Will Hay, Frank Pettingell, Charles Hawtrey…
- British war comedy with Hay as a bumbling teacher conveniently turns out to be the double of a German general. In the true spirit of wartime…
In Which We Serve (1942)
- Dir. David Lean
Feat. Sir Noel Coward, John Mills, Bernard Miles…
- WW2 drama contrasts the service lives of a destroyer crew with their memories of back home. Powerful film won an Oscar for writer, director and star…
Journey into Fear (1942)
- Dir. Norman Foster
Feat. Joseph Cotten, Dolores Del Rio, Orson Welles…
- Hitchcockian suspenser set around an American engineer's adventures in WW2 Turkey.
Loaded down with a maze–like plot (written by star Joseph…
Mrs. Miniver (1942)
- Dir. William Wyler
Feat. Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon
- An unabashed patriotic war drama, so effective in that capacity it garnered political commendation as well as six Oscars, including Best Picture and…