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| 1 |  | Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, The (1943) |  3.2647 13 reviews | NA | Drama, War, Romance |
$27.95
| Clive Candy V.C. has fought in the Boer War and the first world war. He still believes he can win ...more about Life and Death of Colonel Blimp starring John Laurie and Jan Van Loewen |
| 2 |  | To Be or Not to Be (1942) |  3.1971 29 reviews | NA | Drama, War, Comedy |
$8.68
| In occupied Poland during WWII, a troupe of ham stage actors (led by Joseph Tura and his wife ...more about To Be or Not to Be starring Carole Lombard and Jack Benny |
| 3 |  | Chronicle History of King Henry the Fift with His Battell Fought at Agincourt in France, The (1944) | 3.1757 12 reviews | NA | Drama, History, War |
$27.95
| Based on one the most popular historical plays by Shakespeare and made in order to boost moral of ...more about Chronicle History of King Henry the Fift with His Battell Fought at Agincourt in France starring Leslie Banks and Felix Aylmer |
| 4 |  | Sergeant York (1941) | 3.1492 21 reviews | NA | Drama, War, Biography |
$10.00
| A hillbilly sharpshooter becomes one of the most celebrated American heroes of WWI when he ...more about Sergeant York starring Gary Cooper and Walter Brennan |
| 5 |  | To Have and Have Not (1944) | 3.1222 21 reviews | NA | Adventure, War, Thriller, Romance |
$12.71
| Harry Morgan and his alcoholic sidekick, Eddie, are based on the island of Martinique and crew a ...more about To Have and Have Not starring Humphrey Bogart and Walter Brennan |
| 6 |  | Story of G.I. Joe (1945) | 2.9569 5 reviews | NA | Drama, War, Biography |
$21.99
| War correspondent Ernie Pyle joins Company C, 18th Infantry as this American army unit fights its ...more about Story of G.I. Joe starring Freddie Steele and Wally Cassell |
| 7 |  | They Were Expendable (1945) | 2.9542 19 reviews | NA | Drama, War |
$6.62
| The fall of the Phillippines to the Japanese in World War II, and the heroism and tragedy of the ...more about They Were Expendable starring John Wayne and Donna Reed |
| 8 |  | Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944) | 2.9379 10 reviews | NA | Drama, War | N/A | The amazingly detailed true story of "The Doolittle Raid" based on the novel of the same name. ...more about Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo starring Van Johnson and Robert Walker |
| 9 |  | Mrs. Miniver (1942) | 2.8713 31 reviews | NA | Drama, War, Romance |
$7.99
| The Minivers, an English "middle-class" family experience life in the first months of World War II. ...more about Mrs. Miniver starring Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon |
| 10 |  | Canterbury Tale, A (1944) | 2.8644 27 reviews | NA | Drama, History, War, Mystery |
$27.95
| A 'Land Girl', an American GI, and a British soldier find themselves together in a small Kent town ...more about Canterbury Tale starring Eric Portman and Sheila Sim |
| 11 |  | They Died with Their Boots On (1941) | 2.8136 15 reviews | NA | Drama, War, Western, Biography, Romance |
$8.68
| This is the story of General Custer from the time he enters West Point military academy, through ...more about They Died with Their Boots On starring Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland |
| 12 |  | That Hamilton Woman (1941) | 2.7792 7 reviews | NA | Adventure, Drama, History, War | N/A | Sir William Hamilton, a widower of mature years, is British ambassador to the Court of Naples. Emma ...more about That Hamilton Woman starring Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier |
| 13 |  | Days of Glory (1944) | 2.7784 32 reviews | NA | Drama, War, Romance | N/A | In late 1941, with the Nazi invasion of Russia still advancing, the Red Army leaves bands of ...more about Days of Glory starring Gregory Peck and Alan Reed |
| 14 |  | Crash Dive (1943) | 2.7500 8 reviews | NA | Drama, War, Romance |
$8.97
| Against his personal preference, PT boat commander Ward Stewart is made executive officer of the ...more about Crash Dive starring Tyrone Power and Anne Baxter |
| 15 |  | Long Voyage Home, The (1940) |  2.7457 11 reviews | NA | Drama, War |
$19.99
| Aboard the freighter Glencairn, the lives of the crew are lived out in fear, loneliness, suspicion ...more about Long Voyage Home starring John Wayne and Ian Hunter |
| 16 |  | Air Force (1943) | 2.7359 8 reviews | NA | Action, Drama, History, War | N/A | The Mary Ann, a B-17 Flying Fortress, takes off from California for Hawaii on a routine training ...more about Air Force starring John Ridgely and Gig Young |
| 17 |  | Sands of Iwo Jima (1949) | 2.7252 17 reviews | NA | Action, Drama, War, Romance |
$7.99
| Marine sergeant John Stryker seems a martinet and a bully as he trains young Marines for combat in ...more about Sands of Iwo Jima starring John Wayne and John Agar |
| 18 |  | Yank in the R.A.F., A (1941) | 2.7213 6 reviews | NA | War, Romance |
$5.99
| Tyrone Power is a pilots' pilot, but he doesn't believe in anything beyond his own abilities. He ...more about Yank in the R.A.F. starring Tyrone Power and Betty Grable |
| 19 |  | Invisible Agent (1942) | 2.7031 5 reviews | NA | Adventure, War, Thriller, Horror, Sci-Fi, Comedy |
$19.60
| Frank Raymond, grandson of the original Invisible Man, still has the old formula but considers it ...more about Invisible Agent starring Peter Lorre and Cedric Hardwicke |
| 20 |  | For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943) | 2.7000 10 reviews | NA | Adventure, Drama, War, Romance |
$5.95
| Spain in the 1930s is the place to be for a man of action like Robert Jordan. There is a civil war ...more about For Whom the Bell Tolls starring Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman |
| 21 |  | In Which We Serve (1942) | 2.6939 12 reviews | NA | Drama, War |
$7.99
| ...more about In Which We Serve starring Noel Coward and Celia Johnson |
| 22 | | Wake Island (1942) | 2.6711 9 reviews | NA | Drama, War |
$8.89
| In November 1941, Major Caton takes command of the small Marine garrison on Wake Island. His ...more about Wake Island starring Brian Donlevy and Robert Preston |
| 23 |  | Across the Pacific (1942) | 2.6468 9 reviews | NA | Adventure, War, Romance |
$39.98
| Rick Leland makes no secret of the fact he has no loyalty to his home country after he is ...more about Across the Pacific starring Humphrey Bogart and Mary Astor |
| 24 |  | 49th Parallel (1941) | 2.6369 21 reviews | PG | Drama, War, Thriller |
$24.99
| A damaged U-boat is stranded in a Canadian bay in the early years of World War II. The Fanatical ...more about 49th Parallel starring Richard George and Raymond Lovell |
| 25 | | Journey Into Fear (1943) | 2.6323 5 reviews | NA | Drama, War, Film-Noir | N/A | A US Navy engineer, returning to the US with his wife from a conference, finds himself pursued by ...more about Journey Into Fear starring Joseph Cotten and Dolores del Rio |
| 26 | | Small Back Room, The (1949) | 2.6245 11 reviews | NA | Drama, War, Thriller, Film-Noir | N/A | The best bomb disposal officer during World War II was badly injured and is in frequent pain. He ...more about Small Back Room starring David Farrar and Kathleen Byron |
| 27 |  | Blood on the Sun (1945) | 2.5844 16 reviews | NA | Action, Drama, War, Thriller, Romance |
$5.84
| Nick Condon is a newspaper reporter working in Tokyo who refuses to toe the Japanese line on the ...more about Blood on the Sun starring James Cagney and Sylvia Sidney |
| 28 |  | Guadalcanal Diary (1943) | 2.5802 14 reviews | NA | Action, Drama, War |
$10.59
| Concentrating on the personal lives of those involved, a war correspondent takes us through the ...more about Guadalcanal Diary starring Preston Foster and Lionel Stander |
| 29 | | Search, The (1948) | 2.5767 13 reviews | NA | Drama, War | N/A | A silent nine-year-old Czech boy, a survivor of Auschwitz, flees a refugee center in postwar ...more about Search starring Montgomery Clift and Aline MacMahon |
| 30 |  | Waterloo Bridge (1940) | 2.5661 4 reviews | NA | Drama, War, Romance | N/A | On the eve of World War II, a British officer revisits Waterloo Bridge and recalls the young man he ...more about Waterloo Bridge starring Vivien Leigh and Robert Taylor |
| 31 |  | Against the Wind (1948) | 2.5615 4 reviews | NA | Action, Drama, War | N/A | Philip Elliot, refugee Belgian priest, reports to a secret school in London for spies and saboteurs ...more about Against the Wind starring Robert Beatty and Simone Signoret |
| 32 |  | Battleground (1949) | 2.5579 13 reviews | NA | Action, Drama, War |
$6.13
| We follow a band of American soldiers as they engage the Germans in a snowy, foggy winter near ...more about Battleground starring Van Johnson and John Hodiak |
| 33 | | Night Train to Munich (1940) | 2.5433 7 reviews | NA | War, Thriller | N/A | When the Germans march into Prague, armour-plating inventor Dr Bomasch flees to England. His ...more about Night Train to Munich starring Margaret Lockwood and Rex Harrison |
| 34 |  | 13 Rue Madeleine (1947) | 2.5346 9 reviews | NA | War, Thriller |
$4.91
| Documentary-style prologue follows training of O.S.S. agents for WWII work behind enemy lines. One ...more about 13 Rue Madeleine starring James Cagney and Annabella (I) |
| 35 |  | Action in the North Atlantic (1943) | 2.5332 5 reviews | NA | Drama, War, Romance |
$39.98
| Lieutenant Joe Rossi is 1st Officer on a Liberty Ship in a great convoy bound from Halifax to ...more about Action in the North Atlantic starring Humphrey Bogart and Raymond Massey |
| 36 | | Five Graves to Cairo (1943) | 2.5314 8 reviews | NA | War, Thriller | N/A | June, 1942. The British Army, retreating ahead of victorious Rommel, leaves a lone survivor on the ...more about Five Graves to Cairo starring Franchot Tone and Anne Baxter |
| 37 | | Cornered (1945) | 2.5143 5 reviews | NA | Drama, War, Thriller, Film-Noir | N/A | On being demobbed at the end of the war, Canadian flyer Laurence Gerard returns to France to ...more about Cornered starring Dick Powell and Walter Slezak |
| 38 | | Edge of Darkness (1943) | 2.5067 4 reviews | NA | Drama, War | N/A | It's two years after the Nazi's invasion of Norway and in a small fishing village that is ...more about Edge of Darkness starring Errol Flynn and Ann Sheridan |
| 39 |  | Guy Named Joe, A (1943) | 2.4900 4 reviews | NA | Drama, War, Fantasy, Romance | N/A | A sentimental, patriotic (if not propagandistic) Hollywood fantasy about a dead World War II bomber ...more about Guy Named Joe starring Spencer Tracy and Irene Dunne |
| 40 | | Cross of Lorraine, The (1943) | 2.4862 5 reviews | NA | Drama, War | N/A | ...more about Cross of Lorraine starring Jean-Pierre Aumont and Gene Kelly |
| 41 |  | Destination Tokyo (1943) | 2.4824 9 reviews | NA | Adventure, History, War |
$8.63
| Made during World War II, this chronicles a voyage of a U.S. submarine on a secret mission to the ...more about Destination Tokyo starring Cary Grant and John Garfield |
| 42 |  | Flying Tigers (1942) | 2.4748 5 reviews | NA | Action, Drama, War, Romance |
$4.02
| Jim Gordon commands a unit of the famed Flying Tigers, the American Volunteer Group which fought ...more about Flying Tigers starring John Wayne and John Carroll |
| 43 |  | Fighting Seabees, The (1944) | 2.4687 7 reviews | NA | Action, Drama, War, Romance |
$9.99
| Construction workers in World War II in the Pacific are needed to build military sites, but the ...more about Fighting Seabees starring John Wayne and Susan Hayward |
| 44 | | Sunday Dinner for a Soldier (1944) | 2.4656 1 reviews | NA | Drama, War | N/A | A poor family in Florida saves all the money they can in order to plan something special for the ...more about Sunday Dinner for a Soldier starring Anne Baxter and John Hodiak |
| 45 |  | Sahara (1943/I) | 2.4504 13 reviews | NA | Drama, War |
$13.34
| Sergeant Joe Gunn and his tank crew pick up five British soldiers, a Frenchman and a Sudanese man ...more about Sahara starring Humphrey Bogart and Bruce Bennett |
| 46 |  | Caught in the Draft (1941) | 2.4108 3 reviews | NA | War, Romance, Comedy |
$5.86
| Don Bolton is a movie star who can't stand loud noises. To evade the draft, he decides to get ...more about Caught in the Draft starring Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour |
| 47 |  | Command Decision (1948) | 2.3774 7 reviews | NA | Drama, War | N/A | General Dennis of the US Force in England in World War II finds that he must order his planes ...more about Command Decision starring Clark Gable and Walter Pidgeon |
| 48 |  | Captains of the Clouds (1942) | 2.3652 4 reviews | NA | Drama, War |
$8.68
| Brian McLean is a ruthless bush-pilot in Canada. He offers some other pilots an opportunity of ...more about Captains of the Clouds starring James Cagney and Brenda Marshall |
| 49 |  | December 7th (1943) | 2.3515 4 reviews | NA | History, War, Short |
$2.99
| Documentary about the bombing of Pearl Habour on December 7th, 1941 and its results, the recovering ...more about December 7th starring Walter Huston and Harry Davenport |
| 50 |  | Cloak and Dagger (1946) | 2.3223 15 reviews | NA | Adventure, War, Thriller, Romance |
$9.99
| Near the end of World War II, the Allies must find out how much the Axis knows about building ...more about Cloak and Dagger starring Gary Cooper and Lilli Palmer |
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