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Rental > War: 67 Films to Rent on VHS

 
PaisaPaisa (1946) Recommended
Dir. Roberto Rossellini
Feat. Carmela Sazio, Robert Van Loon, Benjamin Emmanuel
Six short films focusing on the minor victories and losses of ordinary folk during WW2. Pioneering the now–familiar use of documentary footage,…
Fighting Sullivans, The (1944)
Dir. Lloyd Bacon
Feat. Anne Baxter, Edward Ryan
Early telling of the true story that inspired SAVING PRIVATE RYAN about five brothers who served in WWII (in reality, at Guadacanal).
Passage to Marseille (1944)
Dir. Michael Curtiz
Feat. Humphrey Bogart, Claude Rains, Peter Lorre
Distinguished by the use of flashbacks within flashbacks, this WW2 propaganda piece re–unites the director with CASABLANCA alumnae.
Thirty Seconds Over TokyoThirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944)
Dir. Mervyn LeRoy
Feat. Spencer Tracy, Robert Mitchum, Robert Walker
True life WW2 story about the first American air raids on Japan with Spencer Tracy and Robert Mitchum in his leading debut.
Uncertain GloryUncertain Glory (1944)
Dir. Raoul Walsh
Feat. Errol Flynn, Paul Lukas, Lucile Watson
Wartime romance with Flynn playing French criminal Jean Picard who vows to make the ultimate sacrifice, only to fall in love.
White Cliffs of Dover, TheWhite Cliffs of Dover, The (1944)
Dir. Clarence Brown
Feat. Elizabeth Taylor, Roddy McDowall, Irene Dunne…
Patriotic sentiment up full–bore, this extended saga of English–American fraternising over both World Wars, has Irene Dunne and family…
Air ForceAir Force (1943)
Dir. Howard Hawks
Feat. John Garfield
Persuasive propaganda piece focusing on the crew of a B–17 bomber, quite thrilling in the hands of director Hawks.
Edge of DarknessEdge of Darkness (1943)
Dir. Lewis Milestone
Feat. Errol Flynn, Ann Sheridan, Walter Huston…
Taut account of Resistance activities in Norway during WWII, has extra–good camerawork of Erroll Flynn, Ann Sheridan and Walter Huston in some…
Desperate JourneyDesperate 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.
Journey into FearJourney 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…

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