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The Battle of San Pietro
War, Documentary
The Battle of San Pietro
Release date: 1945
Cast: Mark W. Clark, John Huston
This documentary movie is about the battle of San Pietro, a small village in Italy. Over 1,100 US soldiers were killed while trying to take this location, that blocked the way for the Allied forces...
The Memphis Belle
Documentary, War
The Memphis Belle
Release date: 1944
Cast: Vince Evans, Jacob L. Devers, Ira C. Eaker, Haywood Hansell, Robert J. Hanson
This WW2 documentary centers on the crew of the American B-17 Flying Fortress Memphis Belle as it prepares to execute a strategic bombing raid on Nazi submarine pens in Wilhelmshaven, Germany....
The Volunteer
War, Documentary, Drama
The Volunteer
Release date: 1944
Cast: Ralph Richardson, Pat McGrath, Anna Neagle, Laurence Olivier, Michael Powell
After a masterful Shakespearean performance in a London theater, Ralph Richardson is sought for an autograph by Fred, his dresser. Later, Fred has joined the Fleet Air Arm (Fly Navy) and become a...
The Autobiography of a 'Jeep'
Documentary
The Autobiography of a 'Jeep'
Genre: Documentary
Release date: 1943
Cast: Robert Sloan
The invention and use of a jeep are described, from the viewpoint of one of the vehicles....
Why We Fight: The Battle of Russia
Documentary, War
Why We Fight: The Battle of Russia
Release date: 1943
Cast: Anthony Veiller, Ion Antonescu, Nikolai Cherkasov, Miklós Horthy, Alfred Jodl
The fifth film of Frank Capra's Why We Fight propaganda film series, revealing the nature and process of the fight between the Soviet Union and Germany in the Second World War....
The Silent Village
Documentary, Drama, History, War
The Silent Village
Release date: 1943
Cast: Arwel Michael
The true story of the massacre of a small Czech village by the Nazis is retold as if it happened in Wales....
Why We Fight: Divide and Conquer
Documentary, War
Why We Fight: Divide and Conquer
Release date: 1943
Cast: Knox Manning, Murray Alper, General Bergeret, Monte Blue, Karl Brandt
The third film of Frank Capra's 'Why We Fight" propaganda film series, dealing with the Nazi conquest of Western Europe in 1940....
Undercover: How to Operate Behind Enemy Lines
Documentary, War
Undercover: How to Operate Behind Enemy Lines
Release date: 1943
Cast: John Ford, Eddie Foster, Martín Garralaga, Cyril Ring, Pierre Watkin
A training film for OSS agents who are to be dropped behind enemy lines....
The Tree in a Test Tube
Documentary
The Tree in a Test Tube
Genre: Documentary
Release date: 1942
Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Lee Vickers, Pete Smith
Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy are stopped by narrator Pete Smith for the purpose of showing the audience how much wood and wood by-products the average person carries....
Why We Fight: Prelude to War
Documentary, War
Why We Fight: Prelude to War
Release date: 1942
Cast: Walter Huston, Max Schmeling, Adolf Hitler
Prelude to War was the first film of Frank Capra's Why We Fight propaganda film series, commissioned by the Pentagon and George C. Marshall. It was made to convince American troops of the necessity...
The Lion Has Wings
Documentary, War
The Lion Has Wings
Release date: 1939
Cast: Merle Oberon, Ralph Richardson, June Duprez, Flora Robson, Robert Douglas
This early, influential propaganda film blends documentary and studio footage to show the valiant efforts of the Royal Air Force to defend the British people against the Nazis....
The 400 Million
Documentary
The 400 Million
Genre: Documentary
Release date: 1939
Cast: Fredric March, Morris Carnovsky, Sidney Lumet, Robert Q. Lewis, Alfred Ryder
Joris Ivens’s wartime documentary of China’s resistance to the Japanese invasion, cross-cutting civilian exodus and bombing with the Nationalist state’s mobilization—schools, industry, dispersed war...
Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations
Documentary
Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations
Genre: Documentary
Release date: 1938
Cast: David Albritton, Arvo Askola, Jack Beresford, Erwin Blask, Sulo Bärlund
Starting with a long and lyrical overture, evoking the origins of the Olympic Games in ancient Greece, Riefenstahl covers twenty-one athletic events in the first half of this two-part love letter to...
Making Fashion
Documentary
Making Fashion
Genre: Documentary
Release date: 1938
Cast: Norman Hartnell
Documentary short by Humphrey Jennings...
The Spanish Earth
Documentary
The Spanish Earth
Genre: Documentary
Release date: 1937
Cast: Manuel Azaña, José Díaz, Dolores Ibárruri, Enrique Lister, Commander Martinez de Aragón
Joris Ivens’s advocacy documentary for the Republican cause intercuts a besieged Madrid with a nearby village digging an irrigation canal, linking the war to bread, land, and survival. Produced by...
Night Mail
Documentary
Night Mail
Genre: Documentary
Release date: 1936
Cast: Arthur Clark, John Grierson, Stuart Legg, Robert Rae
This documentary short examines the special train on which mail is sorted, dropped and collected on the run, and delivered in Scotland on the overnight run from Euston, London to Glasgow....
Day of Freedom
Documentary
Day of Freedom
Genre: Documentary
Release date: 1935
Cast: Adolf Hitler, Rudolf Hess, Werner von Blomberg, Werner von Fritsch, Hermann Göring
The armed forces of the Third Reich, particularly the German army, are presented as an efficient system of bodies and machines at the seventh Nazi Party Rally that occurred in Nuremberg in 1935....
Man of Aran
Documentary
Man of Aran
Genre: Documentary
Release date: 1934
Cast: Colman 'Tiger' King, Maggie Dirrane, Michael Dirrane, Pat Mullin of Aran, Patch 'Red Beard' Ruadh
A documentary on the life of the people of the Aran Islands, who were believed to contain the essence of the ancient Irish life, represented by a pure uncorrupted peasant existence centred around the...
90° South
Documentary
90° South
Genre: Documentary
Release date: 1933
Cast: Herbert G. Ponting, E.R.G.R. Evans, Edward Leicester Atkinson, Albert Balson, Alfred B. Cheetham
This is a documentary of Captain R.F. Scott's second Antarctic expedition, begun in 1910. The British, under Scott, attempted to reach the South Pole before Roald Amundsen's Norwegians. Scott's...
Man with a Movie Camera
Documentary
Man with a Movie Camera
Genre: Documentary
Release date: 1929
Cast: Mikhail Kaufman
A cameraman wanders around with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling inventiveness....