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The Human Condition I
The Human Condition I (人間の條件 第1・2部, No Greater Love) is Masaki Kobayashi's 1959 Shochiku war drama, first of six parts adapted from Junpei Gomikawa's novel, starring Tatsuya Nakadai as Kaji, a labor manager in wartime Manchuria; it won Venice's San Giorgio and Pasinetti prizes.
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (人間の條件 第1部純愛篇/第2部激怒篇)
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (人間の條件 第1部純愛篇/第2部激怒篇) is Masaki Kobayashi's 1959 Shochiku film, first installment of the six-part antiwar epic adapted from Junpei Gomikawa's novel, starring Tatsuya Nakadai as Kaji, a Manchurian mine labor supervisor conscripted after defying a military execution.
The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity
The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity (人間の条件 第三・四部) is Masaki Kobayashi's 1959 second installment of his six-part adaptation of Gomikawa Junpei's novel, following Kaji (Tatsuya Nakadai) through army brutality in Manchuria; 178 minutes, released 20 November 1959.
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp is a 1943 British Technicolor film by Powell and Pressburger (The Archers), starring Roger Livesey, Anton Walbrook, and Deborah Kerr, about General Clive Wynne-Candy; Churchill tried to suppress it, and it is now ranked among the greatest British films.
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer is a 1935 Paramount adventure film directed by Henry Hathaway, starring Gary Cooper, Franchot Tone, and Richard Cromwell as British officers in colonial India; seven Oscar nominations, one win.
The Longest Day (film)
The Longest Day (1962), Darryl F. Zanuck's black-and-white D-Day epic based on Cornelius Ryan's book, directed by Annakin, Marton, and Wicki, starring John Wayne; two Oscars, biggest hit of 1962.
The Lost Patrol
The Lost Patrol (1934) is John Ford's RKO pre-Code war film, remaking Philip MacDonald's novel Patrol, starring Victor McLaglen and Boris Karloff, with a Max Steiner score later reused in Casablanca.
The Purple Heart
The Purple Heart is a 1944 Twentieth Century-Fox war drama directed by Lewis Milestone, starring Dana Andrews, dramatizing the fictional trial of captured Doolittle Raid fliers, made against a War Department atrocity-film ban.
The Red Detachment of Women (红色娘子军)
The Red Detachment of Women (红色娘子军) is a 1961 color feature by director Xie Jin, written by Liang Xin for Tianma Film Studio, starring Zhu Xijuan as Wu Qionghua; it won the first Hundred Flowers Best Feature Film award and inspired the 1964 model ballet.
The Steel Helmet
The Steel Helmet (1951) is Samuel Fuller's Korean War film, the first American feature about that war, made for $104,000 in ten days, starring Gene Evans and James Edwards, and controversial for its treatment of racism and war crimes.
The Story of G.I. Joe
The Story of G.I. Joe (1945), also released as G.I. Joe, is William Wellman's war drama based on Ernie Pyle's Here Is Your War and Brave Men, starring Burgess Meredith and Robert Mitchum, a four-time Oscar nominee and 2009 National Film Registry selection.
The Sullivans (1944 film)
The Sullivans, retitled The Fighting Sullivans, is Lloyd Bacon's 1944 Twentieth Century-Fox drama about the five Sullivan brothers killed aboard USS Juneau at Guadalcanal, which changed Navy sibling-assignment policy and inspired Saving Private Ryan.
The Way Ahead
The Way Ahead (1944), aka The Immortal Battalion, is a Carol Reed British war film starring David Niven, written by Eric Ambler and Peter Ustinov, expanded from the Army training film The New Lot, following conscripts trained and deployed to North Africa.
The Way to the Stars
The Way to the Stars (1945), also released as Johnny in the Clouds, is a British war drama directed by Anthony Asquith from a Terence Rattigan screenplay, starring Michael Redgrave and John Mills at an RAF bomber base from 1940 onward.
The Wooden Horse
The Wooden Horse (1950) is a British black-and-white POW escape film directed by Jack Lee, adapted by Eric Williams from his novel about the real Stalag Luft III tunnel escape hidden under a vaulting horse, starring Leo Genn, David Tomlinson, and Anthony Steel.
The Young Lions
The Young Lions (1958) is Edward Dmytryk's Twentieth Century-Fox WWII drama adapted from Irwin Shaw's 1948 novel, starring Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, and Dean Martin as three soldiers, one German and two Americans, converging at a concentration camp.
They Were Expendable
They Were Expendable: 1945 John Ford MGM war film, from William L. White's book, starring Robert Montgomery, John Wayne, Donna Reed as PT-boat crews defending the Philippines, 1941-1942.
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo is MGM's 1944 Mervyn LeRoy war drama starring Spencer Tracy and Van Johnson, adapted from Doolittle Raider Ted Lawson's book, with a Special Effects Oscar and Dalton Trumbo screenplay.
To Hell and Back (film)
To Hell and Back (1955) is a Universal biographical war film directed by Jesse Hibbs in which Audie Murphy plays himself, based on his 1949 autobiography; it was Universal's most profitable release until Jaws (1975).
Tunes of Glory
Tunes of Glory is a 1960 Ronald Neame drama adapted by James Kennaway from his 1956 novel, starring Alec Guinness as Jock Sinclair and John Mills as Basil Barrow in a peacetime Scottish regimental power struggle, Oscar-nominated for screenplay and York's film debut.
Vámonos con Pancho Villa!
¡Vámonos con Pancho Villa! (Let's Go with Pancho Villa!) is Fernando de Fuentes's 1935 Mexican film, third of his Revolution Trilogy, about peasants who join Villa's División del Norte and are destroyed, with a censored ending restored in 1973.
Wake Island (1942 film)
Wake Island (1942) is a John Farrow Paramount war film with Brian Donlevy, Robert Preston, and William Bendix, dramatizing the December 1941 defense of Wake Atoll; it earned four Oscar nominations and founded the WWII combat film genre.
Yesterday's Enemy
Yesterday's Enemy (昨日の敵) is a 1959 Hammer war film directed by Val Guest, starring Stanley Baker as Captain Langford, who executes hostages in Burma to extract intelligence, and was nominated for four BAFTAs.