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Atomic U.S.A. Page at Spirit of America
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"L'Armée des Ombres" aka "Army of Shadows"
[France 1969; USA April 2006]
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A leader of the French resistance is betrayed to the Germans and sent to an internment camp; he escapes and exacts revenge on the traitor.
Written & directed by Jean-Pierre Melville [1917-73], based on Joseph Kessel's novel; starring Lino Ventura, Simone Signoret, Paul Meurisse, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Claude Mann, Paul Crauchet & Christian Barbier
Criterion widescreen color DVD [5/2007] for $35.99 full credits from IMDb official movie site |
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"L'Armée des Ombres" [1943 novel] by Joseph Kessel
French & European Publns pb [10/86] for $16.95 Pocket French-language pb [5/2001] out of print/rare |
"Barefoot Gen 1 & 2" [Japan]
The tale of a child surviving the bombing of Hiroshima in 1945; the manga books are important anti-war works,
and the film is a landmark in animé art. The sequel takes place three years later.
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"Barefoot Gen" aka 'Hadashi no gen' [1983] Directed by Mori Masaki; written & produced by Keiji Nakazawa Image Ent. bilingual color DVD [4/99] out of stock/used Orion Home Video color VHS [7/95] out of stock/used full credits from IMDb |
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"Barefoot Gen 2" aka 'Hadashi no gen 2' [1986]
Co-directed by Toshio Hirata & Akio Sakai; written by Keiji Nakazawa video not available; full credits from IMDb |
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"Barefoot Gen" aka 'Hadashi no gen' [1973] classic manga novels by Keiji Nakazawa first serialized in 1972-73 in the 'Shukan Shonen Jampu' comic weekly Volume 1: A Cartoon Story of Hiroshima - Last Gasp 8¼x6 pb [10/2004] for $14.95 Volume 2: The Day After - Last Gasp 8¼x6 pb [10/2004] for $14.95 Volume 3: Life After The Bomb - Last Gasp pb [5/2005] for $10.17 Volume 4: Out of The Ashes - Last Gasp pb [5/2005] for $10.17 |
"Battle Cry" [Warner Bros. Feb 1955]
Produced & directed by Raoul Walsh; script by Leon Uris from his novel; starring Van Heflin, Aldo Ray, Mona Freeman,
Nancy Olson, James Whitmore, Raymond Massey, Tab Hunter, Dorothy Malone, Anne Francis, William Campbell, John
Lupton, L.Q. Jones, Perry Lopez, Fess Parker, Jonas Applegarth, Felix Noriego, Susan Morrow, Carleton Young,
Rhys Williams & Allyn Ann McLerie; full credits at IMDb
"The Battle of Britain" [1969]
full credits at IMDb
"Battle of the Bulge" [Cinerama 1965]
Starring Henry Fonda, Robert Shaw, Robert Ryan, Dana Andrews,
George Montgomery, Charles Bronson & James MacArthur; full credits at IMDb
"The Best Years of Our Lives" [1946]
Directed by William Wyler; won 8 Oscars;
videos & DVDs •
full credits at IMDb
"The Big Red One" [1980]
Written & directed by Samuel Fuller; starring Lee Marvin; full credits at IMDb
"The Bridge On The River Kwai" [Columbia Dec 1957]
"The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial"
Pulitzer-winning 1954 Broadway play: credits at IBDb
1954 film directed by Edward Dmytryk
Starring Humphrey Bogart, José Ferrer, Van Johnson, Fred MacMurray & E.G. Marshall;
full credits at IMDb
Sony-Columbia/CBS tv movie [May 1988]
Directed by Robert Altman [1925-2006]; teleplay by Herman Wouk, from his classic play;
full credits at IMDb
"Catch-22" [Filmways/Paramount June 1970]
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Based on the best-selling Joseph Heller novel. Captain Yossarian (Alan Arkin) tries deperately to get grounded so he will not have to fly any more bombing missions over Hitler's Europe: anyone who goes to war is crazy, but if he asks to be grounded for being crazy, then he's not crazy anymore and he has to keep flying – catch 22. A gut-wrenching satire.
Directed by Mike Nichols; screenplay by Buck Henry; all-star cast including Orson Welles Paramount color VHS [8/2001] for $9.95 Paramount widescreen DVD [5/2001] for $17.99 full credits from IMDb |
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book by Joseph Heller [1961] listed on Time Magazine's All-TIME 100 Novels (10/2005) Scribner 8x5¼ pb [9/96] for $9.60 S&S Classic 9½x6¾ hardcover [10/99] for $18.20 DH Audio ABR [3/99] out of print/used BooksOnTape audio [1980] out of print/used |
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the sequel to 'Catch-22': "Closing Time: A Novel" [1994] Scribner 9x5¾ pb [9/95] for $10.40 S&S 9½x6½ hardcover [10/94] out of print/used S&S ABR audio [11/94] out of print/used BooksOnTape audio [1/94] out of print/used |
"Come See The Paradise"
[Fox Dec 1990]
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An American union organizer falls in love with a Japanese girl in pre-war Los Angeles, and they escape local prejudice by eloping to Seattle; but soon after Pearl Harbor, all Japanese on the West Coast are herded into concentration camps, and the young man is drafted.
Written & directed by Alan Parker; starring Dennis Quaid, Tamlyn Tomita, Sab Shimono, Shizuko Hoshi, Colm Meaney & Becky Ann Baker
Fox widescreen color DVD [6/2006] for $12.99 Fox color VHS [3/92] out of prodn/many used Varese Sarabande soundtrack CD [12/90] out of prodn/used full credits from IMDb |
"Confidential & Restricted Films of World War II"
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"Confidential Films of World War II" [2007]
Films released thru the Freedom of Information Act: battle footage from late 1943 to mid-1944. Timeless Media Group b&w/color DVD [3/2007] 2 disks for $9.98 "Restricted Films of World War II" [2007] Films released thru the Freedom of Information Act: battle footage from mid-1944 to mid-1945. Timeless Media Group b&w/color DVD [3/2007] 2 disks for $9.98 neither set is listed at IMDb |
"Cross of Iron" [Avco/EMI 1976]
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Death, horror & futility – Peckinpah's anti-war film from the German Army point of view, as they retreat from the debacle of Stalingrad. And do not miss the very last freeze-frame, which is what makes Peckinpah's only war movie an existential masterpiece. Directed by Sam Peckinpah [1925-84], adapted from Heinrich's novel (below); starring James Coburn, Maximilian Schell, James Mason & David Warner
Hen's Tooth Video color DVD [2/2000] for $25.49 Hen's Tooth Video color VHS [10/98] for $29.99 full credits from IMDb based on the novel "The Willing Flesh" by Willi Heinrich Noontide hardcover [5/88] out of print/used Bantam pb [3/81] out of print/used |
"Das Boot" [1981]: full credits at IMDb
"The Devil's Brigade" [1968]
Directed by Andrew V. McLaglen; starring William Holden & Cliff Robertson; full credits at IMDb
"Fat Man and Little Boy"
[Paramount Oct 1989]
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A re-enactment of the tensions inside the Manhattan Project, the secret research & design operation at Los Alamos, NM that designed & built the atomic bombs used to end World War II.
Co-written & directed by Roland Joffé; co-written by Bruce Robinson; starring Paul Newman, Dwight Schultz, Bonnie Bedelia, John Cusack, Laura Dern & Natasha Richardson
Paramount color DVD [4/2004] for $9.99 Paramount color VHS [5/92] out of stock/used full credits from IMDb |
"Flags of Our Fathers"
[Malpaso/DreamWorks/Warner Oct 2006]
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"[These two films] stand as a monumental achievement and an enduring one." — reviewer Stuart Klawans Three of the U.S. Marines in the classic photo of the flag-raising on Iwo Jima are ordered back to America to be used in wartime propaganda. Directed by Clint Eastwood; script by William Broyles Jr. & Paul Haggis, based on the book {below}; starring Ryan Phillippe, Jesse Bradford, Adam Beach & John Benjamin Hickey Paramount widescreen color DVD [2/2007] for $16.99 Paramount color DVD [2/2007] for $16.99 full credits from IMDb official movie site {requires Flash} |
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"Flags of Our Fathers: Heroes of Iwo Jima" [2000] by James Bradley, with Ron Powers tribute book by the son of one participant Bantam mass pb [5/2006] for $7.99 Bantam 9x6 pb [10/2001] for $11.20 Bantam 9x6¼ hardcover [5/2000] for $17.82 |
"Letters From Iwo Jima"
[Malpaso/DreamWorks/Warner Dec 2006]
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The battle for Iwo Jima in February 1945, from the viewpoint of Japan's soldiers making a last stand against U.S. forces, centered on a general and a conscripted baker.
Directed by Clint Eastwood; written by Iris Yamashita & Paul Haggis; starring Ken Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Ryo Kase & Shido Nakamura; Oscar nominated for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Script & Best Sound video/DVD not yet released; full credits from IMDb official movie site {requires Flash} |
"Flying Tigers" [1942]
Starring John Wayne
full credits at IMDb
"For the Boys" [1991]
Starring Bette Midler & James Caan;
full credits at IMDb
"Government Girl" [R.K.O. Jan 1944]
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A comedy that covers the issues in play toward the end of WWII: optimism, women in the workforce, housing & other shortages, production of war materiel, and the frenzy of wartime politics in Washington, DC. A bungling, naive lobbyist from Detroit is forced to rely on his pretty secretary to maneuver thru the federal bureaucracy to convert factories for building bombers.
Produced, co-written & directed by Dudley Nichols; co-written by Budd Schulberg, from a story by Adela Rogers St. Johns; starring Olivia de Havilland, Sonny Tufts, Anne Shirley, Jess Barker, James Dunn, Paul Stewart & Agnes Moorehead
video/DVD not available; full credits from IMDb |
"The Great Dictator"
[United Artists Oct 1940]
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Chaplin's first talkie; an amnesiac Jewish barber (Chaplin) is released from hospital unaware of a resemblance to his country's new dictator, Adenoid Hynkle (also Chaplin). Temporary favor-itism of the Jews is soon replaced with shipment to concentration camps; the barber and a sympathetic officer escape and are cap-tured by enemy forces, who believe the barber to be the dictator. The bogus dictator then delivers a lyrical six-minute radio speech advocating peace.
Written, directed & starring Charles Chaplin [1889-1977]; co-starring Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie, Reginald Gardiner, Henry Daniell & Billy Gilbert; Oscar nominated for Best Picture, Best Original Script, Best Actor (CC), Best Supporting Actor (JO), Best Original Score; listed on the National Film Registry in 1997
Warner special edition DVD [7/2003] 2 disks for $26.99 Image Ent b&w DVD [4/2000] out of stock/used Creative Design Limited Edition DVD [7/2003] for $53.99 Playhouse b&w VHS [year?] out of stock/rare full credits from IMDb; official movie site |
"The Great Escape" [Mirisch/U.A. 1963]
Directed by John Sturges; script by James Clavell & W.R. Burnett [1899-1982], based on the 1950 book
by Paul Brickhill; starring Steve McQueen, James Garner & Charles Bronson:
full credits at IMDb
"The Great Raid" [2005]: full credits at IMDb
"Hail The Conquering Hero"
[Paramount Aug 1944]
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A Marine recruit discharged for his hayfever condition is encouraged by fellow soldiers to wear unearned medals and return home as a hero. The town gets carried away, making plans to build a statue of him and asking him to run for mayor, and when he tries to tell the truth nobody will believe him.
Co-produced, written & directed by Preston Sturges [1898-1959]; starring Eddie Bracken, Ella Raines, Raymond Walburn, William Demarest, Franklin Pangborn, Elizabeth Patterson, Georgia Caine, Al Bridge, Freddie Steele, Bill Edwards, Harry Hayden, Jimmy Conlin, Jimmie Dundee & Chester Conklin; Oscar nomination for Best Screenplay
Universal b&w VHS [3/92] out of prodn/used full credits from IMDb DVD as part of the Preston Sturges Collection box set Universal DVD box set [11/2006] 7 disks for $41.99 |
"Hell Is For Heroes" [1962]
Directed by Don Siegel; starring Steve McQueen, Bobby Darin & Fess Parker;
full credits at IMDb
"Hell To Eternity"
[Allied Artists Sept 1960]
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True life story of Guy Gabaldon [1926-2006], a Hispanic boy raised in Los Angeles by a Japanese-American foster family. During World War II, his foster parents were sent to an internment camp, and he enlisted in the U.S. Marines. His ability to speak Japanese was useful during the bloody capture of the island of Saipan: he convinced 800+ Japanese soldiers & civilians to surrender after their general commited suicide. Gabaldon was awarded the Navy Cross & the Congressional Medal of Honor. Directed by Phil Karlson; starring Jeffrey Hunter (as PFC Gabaldon), David Janssen, Vic Damone, Patricia Owens, Sessue Hayakawa & Miiko Taka
Fox b&w VHS [11/91] out of prodn/used full credits at IMDb novelization by Edward S. Aarons Fawcett Gold Medal mass pb [1960] out of print |
"Idiot's Delight" [M.G.M. Jan 1939]
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As war tensions build in Europe, an American song-and-dance troupe is stranded in a mountain resort, along with a German doctor, an English couple, a French pacifist, an Italian military officer, and a munitions manufacturer & his beautiful travelling companion. {Two different endings were filmed.)
Directed by Clarence Brown; adapted by Robert E. Sherwood from his Pulitzer Prize-winning 1936 Broadway play (starring Lunt & Fontanne); starring Clark Gable, Norma Shearer, Edward Arnold, Charles Coburn, Joseph Schildkraut & Burgess Meredith
M.G.M. b&w VHS [12/91] out of prodn/used full credits from IMDb; credits at Internet Broadway Database playscript [Scribner's 1936] Dramatists Play Service pb [1964] out of print/used Scribner's hardcover [1936] out of print/used |
"Japan's Longest Day"
[Toho Japan Aug 1967, USA March 1968]
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This is the true story of 15 August 1945, as Japan's government considered surrender to the Allies; the 2-hour 40-minute film is broadcast in Japan every year on the anniversary of the surrender.
After the atomic bombings of Hiroshima & Nagasaki, Japan's Army Minister Anami proposed to fight on, even to the death of every Japanese citizen. Emperor Hirohito and his other ministers considered the unthinkable – the peaceful surrender of Japan. When Anami learned of a military plot to overthrow the Emperor's civilian government, he faced the choice between his desires and his loyalty to the Emperor. Directed by Kihachi Okamoto; adapted by Shinobu Hashimoto from the 1965 book; starring Toshirô Mifune, Koshiro Matsumoto {as Emperor Hirohito}, Sô Yamamura, Chishu Ryu, Seiji Miyaguchi, Takashi Shimura, Toshio Kurosawa, Shogo Shimada, Susumu Fujita, Rokko Toura, Yûnosuke Itô, Daisuke Katô, Etsushi Takahashi, Jun Tazaki, Takao Inoue & Nobuo Nakamura; won Kinema Junpo Award for Best Script Animeigo widescreen b&w/color DVD [9/2006] for $26.99 full credits from IMDb |
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based on the renowned history “Nihon no Ichiban Nagai Hi” [1965] by The Pacific War Research Society & Soichi Oya Kodansha Intl. 7½x5¼ pb [9/2002] for $13.57 Ballantine Books mass pb [9/93] out of print/used |
"Jeux Interdits" aka 'Forbidden Games' [France 1952]
Directed by René Clément; starring Brigitte Fossey;
full credits at IMDb
"King Rat" [1965]: full credits at IMDb
"La Neige était Sale" aka "Dirty Snow"
[France 1952, USA Oct 1956]
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A teenaged petty criminal living in an occupied city tempts Fate, committing crimes of escalating violence, and betraying the girl who loves him; Fate retaliates in the end.
Co-written & directed by Luis Saslavsky, adapted from a Georges Simenon novel; starring Daniel Gélin, Daniel Ivernel, Marie Mansart, Véra Norman, Nadine Basile, Antoine Balpêtré & Valentine Tessier video not available; full credits from IMDb |
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"Dirty Snow" [1948 novel, translated 1951] by Georges Simenon [1903-89] Random House/N.Y.R.B. 8x4¾ pb [9/2003] for $10.78 |
"The Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress"
[Produced by F.M.P.U. of the U.S.A.A.F.; Paramount theatrical release April 1944]
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Directed by William Wyler; cinematography by 1Lt. Harold J. Tannenbaum; listed by National Film Directory 2001
Platinum color DVD [11/2001] for $6.99 Timeless color VHS [3/2000] for $12.99 Tapeworm color VHS [12/99] out of stock/used Tapeworm color VHS [11/90] out of stock/used full credits at IMDb • movie fansite |
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1990 remake [Warner Bros.] Directed by Michael Caton-Jones; script by Monte Merrick; starring Matthew Modine, Eric Stoltz, Tate Donovan, D.B. Sweeney, Harry Connick Jr., David Strathairn & John Lithgow Warner color DVD [5/98] for $9.88 Warner color VHS [5/95] out of prodn/many used Varese soundtrack CD [10/90] for $16.98 full credits at IMDb |
Memphis Belle B-17 Flying Fortress official website
restored Liberty Belle B-17 Flying Fortress of Atlanta, GA
"Military Intelligence and You!"
[Pax Americana Pictures 2006]
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A parody of WWII training films, such as those made by the U.S. Army's First Motion Picture Unit, constructed by combining 60-year-old government footage with modern high-definition video.
Co-produced, written & directed by Dale Kutzera; starring Patrick Muldoon, Elizabeth Bennett, Mackenzie Astin, John Rixey Moore, Eric Jungmann, with archival footage of William Holden, Alan Ladd, Arthur Kennedy & Ronald Reagan.
Echo Bridge Home Ent. b&w DVD [5/2008] for $12.99 
full credits from IMDb • official movie site |
"Mister Roberts"
1948 Broadway play: credits at IBDb
1955 movie by John Ford [1894- 1973]: full credits at IMDb
1984 tv movie: full credits at IMDb
feature sequel "Ensign Pulver" [1964]: full credits at IMDb
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