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- In July 1944, the Germans discover a link between a small country barracks of the Arma dei Carabinieri Reali and the Resistance and one of the carabinieri, Sebastiano Pandolfo, and a young partisan are shot. Three other carabinieri (Alberto La Rocca, Vittorio Marandola, and Fulvio Sbarretti) manage to escape and try to join the Resistance, but the Germans take ten civilians hostage and threaten to kill them if the carabinieri do not surrender. Upon hearing the news, just before they reach the partisans, the three carabinieri choose to surrender to honor the role of the carabinieri as guarantors of legality and justice, thus saving the lives of the ten hostages.
- The lower-middle-class Munich postal inspector Anton Sittinger only reads philosophical books like Nietzsche and Schopenhauer and considers himself apolitical. The good civil servant and his wife Malwine stay out of all the political turmoil. They even flee to the countryside before the fighting of the revolution, but here too, the ideology of the National Socialists becomes widespread during the days of the Weimar Republic. In order to be "on the right side", Malwine secretly has her husband registered as a NSDAP member.
- A tender love story intertwines with the Allied conquest of Sicily during World War II, where the US Army has to gain support from the locals.
- Two best friends, former partisans, face new challenges after the war.
- The Partisans is inspired by the curious events that took place in the North Limburg forests during World War II. In view of the liberation, a group of resistance fighters makes more than thirty Germans prisoners of war. When the Gestapo learns of their venture, they are forced to flee from hideout to hideout with the prisoners.
- Tank commander Corporal Tessen does not believe that his crew can become a successful team and requests a transfer. Ultimately he withdraws his request because of a little boy to whom he carelessly promised a tank model, but this would first have to be made by the crew members. New difficulties arise, even though everyone agrees on upholding the soldier's word of honor. The spell is only broken when the tank gets into a dangerous situation during an underwater journey and the four of them have to prove themselves together.
- Roman Empire looks at the end of the reign of Caligula. His sisters Agrippina and Livilla plot against him after he marries. He later has them shipped to exile on an island in the Mediterranean. The derange emperor becomes even more debauched and begins to spend large amounts of money on monuments to himself. To raise money seizes property after accusing senators of treason and raises taxes. He later orders the invasion of Britain, but his distrustful soldiers refuse to go. Eventually, he is assassinated by the Praetorian Guard and his uncle Claudius is made Emperor.
- By 1941, Adolf Hitler had taken personal command of the German military apparatus. His initial successes made this seem like a good idea at the time, but by 1944, after an unparalleled series of military defeats that Hitler refused even to acknowledge, a group of high-ranking military and political figures in Germany decided to assassinate him and take over the government. Unfortunately for them, their assassination attempt failed, and the knives were out to find all the people involved in the attempt. The most wanted person in the coup was Carl Gördeler (Dieter Schaad), a respected figure in German public life for many decades. Twenty years earlier, a girl by the name of Helene Schwärzel (Katherina Thalbach) met Gördeler. After the coup attempt, during the nationwide manhunt, Helene recognized him and notified the authorities. In addition to receiving a huge reward, she became the focus of a nationwide propaganda campaign, and was widely resented for her "success."
- Polish resistance and Soviet partisans in Poland, 1944.
- In 1939, at a Paris café, six friends of various nationalities vow to meet again at the same spot after the end of WW2.
- Olga, a Russian refuge from Bolshevik terror has joined the Soviet secret police, the G.P.U. to find the man who killed her parents. Meanwhile a young Baltic couple are caught up in the schemes of the evil communists. Very obviously a propaganda film from wartime Nazi Germany.
- In the spring of 1945, the commanding officer of the National Armed Forces in Mazowsze and older brother of 20-year-old Mieczyslaw Dziemieszkiewicz, is assassinated by Soviet soldiers. Mieczyslaw then joins the National Military Union. He becomes the commander of a partisan unit fighting for the next six years to free Poland from Soviet tyranny by terrorizing the UB and its collaborators. Communist authorities will do whatever it takes to track down the "enemy of the people's power."
- Stefan is a Polish fighter pilot flying for the RAF in the 306th Division. He meets the attractive Angelica Margaret Hill, whose previous boyfriend was also an RAF pilot and was killed in action. Stefan ends up being shot down twice. The first time, he swims to a buoy and is rescued. The second time he is saved by members of the French resistance. Margaret tries to convince Stefan to take a safe job as a flight instructor, but he can't give up fighting, especially when his friends are getting killed.
- An Italian lieutenant is wounded on the Eastern Front, in Russia. While he is on a hospital train, the man remembers the love story that made him a father. During the journey an air alert forces the train to stop in the lieutenant's hometown, where his old love and the son he's never met still live.
- In the midst of World War II, the story of the affair of a young woman married to a man in a wheelchair, with a deserter from the Italian army, intertwines with that of the power grab of a fanatical local fascist leader who gets the hold with a massacre of Pacific opposition, among them the young deserter's father. Oppressive fog covers both dramas as a reminder of how values such as courage, love, and truth are fading.
- Tells the story of General Wladyslaw Sikorski from September 1939 to his tragic and controversial death on July 4, 1943. During the Second World War, Sikorski became prime minister of the Polish government in exile, commander-in-chief of the Polish armed forces, and a vigorous advocate of the Polish cause in the diplomatic sphere.
- A war drama illustrating the racial purity law established by Hitler, prohibiting foreign workers from any contact with Germans. Polish forced laborers in Nazi Germany and German citizens both faced death, imprisonment, or stigmatization for coming into close contact with each other.
- In 1933 Nuremberg, Leo Katzenberger is a successful Jewish businessman and a devoted family man. As the climate in Germany grows increasingly dangerous, bombshell Irene moves to the neighborhood and everything changes.
- During World War II, five miles above the ground and behind enemy lines, ten men inside an aluminum bomber known as a "Flying Fortress" battle antiaircraft fire and unrelenting flocks of German fighters.
- "Mein Kampf" presents the rise and fall of the Third Reich, showing mainly the destruction of Poland and the life of Hitler, from when he was a mediocre student and frustrated aspirant of art living in the slums of Austria and Germany, until his suicide in 1945 after being responsible for the deaths of millions of people and the destruction of Europe. All of the footage is real and was in a secret file of Göbbels, including many poignant scenes filmed by Göbbels himself.
- Live-action adaptation of the popular Yugoslav comic book about two young Partisan couriers in World War II. The story takes place in Serbia in 1941 during World War II, when only children remain in a village after a German punitive expedition, but they too find a way to oppose the occupier and join the partisans.
- In 1942, in Bavaria, Eva Braun is alone when Adolf Hitler arrives with Dr. Josef Göbbels and his wife Magda Göbbels and Martin Bormann to spend a couple of days without talking politics.
- Vietnam War veteran Sam Wood is a survivor of a vicious prison camp where he was brutally and painfully tortured before finally managing to escape. Then he returns to rescue his friends.
- A speechless stranger comes to a poor family tearing by partisan's and government's interests.
- Raymond Lovell plays a Dutch farmer. A strong opponent of the occupying German regime, Lovell does his patriotic duty by hiding resistance leaders in his barn. His activities are threatened by his own son, an avaricious type who threatens to notify the German authorities if Lovell doesn't fork over the resistance members' valuables. While most of the cast is English, But Not in Vain is convincingly Dutch in atmosphere and point of view. The film also incorporates authentic wartime footage filmed by members of the Dutch resistance. The Dutch version of the film was the first Dutch production of a feature film after the war.
- The Italian spy agency's (SIM) Agent Ludovic tries to infiltrate the ranks of the city's guerrilla units. The aim is to discover and destroy the leaders and all resistance operatives. Agent Ludovic is discovered and the Fascist plan fails.
- The capital of Estonia is occupied by the Germans. Three local boys plan to blow up the cinema where German soldiers often spend time. However, their plans change when they accidentally meet a mysterious stranger. A complicated and dangerous game begins where the rules are not set by the schoolkids.
- The French army's 7th Company experiences a severe setback during World War II when it gets separated from other units of its army. They disguise themselves as officers to escape death when they are taken prisoner by the Germans.
- In the second half of April 1945, the 1st Polish Army takes part in the Battle of Berlin. Some Polish units, including the 3rd Platoon of the 1st Company of the 1st Prague Infantry Regiment, were sent into combat in the capital of the Third Reich.
- During World War 2, a young lad's called up and, with increasing sense of foreboding, undertakes his army training for D-day.
- Penne Nere is set in Italy during the last crucial two years of World War II, after the Badoglio government signed an armistice with the Allies. Throughout the nation the original Fascist army is disbanded and soldiers are pretty much on their own. One such soldier is Pietro (Marcello Mastroianni), who is on his way to his home village of Stella and his beloved Gemma. Once in the village, he gets involved with other soldiers and the villagers in an action to prevent a battalion of Germans from blowing up their dam.
- Soldiers of the Polish National Army (underground resistance) prepare to break into a prison to release their comrade who's imprisoned by the Gestapo. The story focuses on their attempt to attempt to acquire weapons, but the plot is not going according to the plan.
- After four years of war, they are just a stone's throw from Berlin. They are left with the hardest, most deadly - last battle. Fighter Vedemeyev, nicknamed the Witch, barely left the hospital after being seriously wounded. He does not fight for the party, does not fight for Stalin, does not fight for Communism. He fights for himself, his family, and his fellow soldiers.
- A Universal Army enlistment promotion, produced as a musical showcase for Harry James, the Andrews Sisters, Joe E. Lewis, and Donald O'Connor and Peggy Ryan. The film's thin plot has James drafted and joining him is the band's lead vocalist Lon Prentice (Dick Foran), who doesn't believe that Army training and regulations are necessary for anyone of his skill and fame. Shemp Howard of the Three Stooges gets a solo turn as First Sergeant Snavely and is effectively teamed with Mary Wickes as his shrewish fiancée, trying desperately to keep her away from the attentions of nightclub comic and USO performer Lancelot Pringle McBiff (Joe E. Lewis).
- During World War II in German-occupied Poland, SD agents enter a Warsaw apartment, the rooms of which are occupied by various inhabitants. The residents do not like the unannounced inspection. The Germans conduct a search in each of the rooms, and one of the tenants - due to her knowledge of German - serves as an interpreter, witnessing the tenants' different reactions in the face of danger.
- The Czechoslovak battalion led by Captain Hlousek captures a Slovak foothills village two days before Christmas Eve in 1944. Christmas and classical music is heard from nearby German positions. Soldiers get approval from their commanders for Christmas celebrations. The only opposition is the austere Second Lieutenant Jílek, about whose past there are various rumors and whom the soldiers do not trust. Captain Hlousek decides to survey the enemy positions, which despite a minor incident goes off without a hitch. The holidays of calm and peace can begin both with ours and with the enemies.
- A highly fictionalized real-life adventure of an Italian soldier who escapes a British prisoner-of-war camp to climb the challenging 17,000-foot Mt. Kenya and plant the Italian flag on the summit. The obsessive British camp commander pursues him, and the two men are locked in a battle of wills, fueled by honor and their love for the same woman.
- World War II drama about the 1943 battle around the Neretva River between Axis forces and Yugoslav partisan units.
- A U.S. Navy crew aboard a merchant marine ship battle Nazis.
- The Intelligence Directorate of the Red Army is beginning to receive information about the Germans conducting successful tests of the latest scientific developments - vertical take-off aircraft - disc planes. One of the likely areas for the location of a German secret plant is a forested area in the mountains of western Bohemia.
- The film focuses on the circumstances of a young Lieutenant in the Red Army, Grigori Anokhin, played by Yuri Tarasov, who is stuck in a sanatorium but eager to return to the front in order "to kill the Fascists", as he says. Traumatized by witnessing the massacre of his comrades, he has taken to drink, and he is ready to exact revenge. His attempts to return to the front, however, are frustrated, when he is assigned a different mission. With a team of soldiers unfit for duty at the front, he is ordered to take a group of fifteen German prisoners and their commanding officer to the remote village of Polumgla to construct a radio tower for use as an airplane beacon. With the ability to communicate only in rudimentary phrases and left to their own devices far away from the war, the villagers, soldiers, and the German prisoners slowly begin to coexist peacefully. The film ends with a detachment of NKVD soldiers arriving and declaring that the war is over, and that the radio tower the German prisoners of war have been working on for a year is no longer of any use. All of the German prisoners of war, many of whom have become intimate with the village women, are marched off into the woods and executed.
- End of February 1945, Poland. Lieutenant Colonel Kaszyba is sent to the front in Pomerania. His wife recently died and he is completely devoted to his work. The Polish army must prepare for a final battle with the Germans and do so partly with tanks, but also partly on horseback.
- Based on the true story of Franciszek Klos, a policeman who collaborated with the Germans. Klos not only catches criminals, but also tracks down Polish conspirators and hiding Jews.