60's WWII Movies
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- DirectorMartin RittStarsVan HeflinSilvana ManganoJeanne MoreauFive Yugoslav women who consorted with the German occupiers are publicly humiliated and banished by the Yugoslav partisans but they take up arms to fend for themselves.
- DirectorVladimir VengerovStarsPyotr GlebovVsevolod PlatovInna KondratevaIn this continuation of the 2 part epic about the air defense of Leningrad during WWII, conditions have improved but there will still be two years left in the struggle.
- DirectorJoel RappStarsRichard DevonRon GansRoger CormanTwo American GIs are the only survivors of a unit wiped out in a battle with Japanese troops on an isolated island. The two, who don't like each other, find try to put aside their differences in order to evade the Japanese and survive.
- DirectorGerd OswaldStarsCurd JürgensClaire BloomHansjörg FelmyIn 1938 Austria shortly after the Nazi occupation, a prominent Viennese intellectual, Werner von Basil, is arrested for smuggling art treatures out of the country and imprisoned by the Gestapo in a hotel room without any mental sustence of any kind to break him down to make him talk while a young ballerina, named Irene Adreny whom is the lover of the SS officer Berger playing mind games on von Basil, tries to intervene and help the poor intellectual keep his mind intact.
- DirectorJack LeeStarsSuzy ParkerBradford DillmanHarry AndrewsUnbeknownst to him, a soldier is sent on a doomed mission because of the high likelihood of him divulging secrets if captured and tortured.
- DirectorRalph ThomasStarsLilli PalmerSylvia SymsYvonne MitchellCatholic nuns risk their lives to help Jewish children in an Italian internment camp escape to Palestine during World War II.
- DirectorGeorge ShermanStarsVan JohnsonJean-Pierre AumontDany CarrelAn American OSS agent and the French underground attempt to rescue a Nazi general, who is awaiting execution by the Germans, and help him escape to London.
- DirectorRoberto RosselliniStarsLeo GennGiovanna RalliSergey BondarchukDuring the Second World War three allied prisoners: a Soviet, an American, and an Englishman, attempt to escape Rome with the help of a young couple who are residents of the city.
- DirectorJohn Llewellyn MoxeyStarsJames Robertson JusticeAdrian HovenNiall MacGinnisA German Agent in Libya is allowed to get back to Rommel with false information.
- DirectorRobert MontgomeryStarsJames CagneyDennis WeaverWard CostelloA semi-documentary dramatization of five weeks in the life of Vice Admiral William F. "Bull" Halsey, Jr., from his assignment to command the U.S. naval operations in the South Pacific to the Allied victory at Guadalcanal.
- DirectorShûe MatsubayashiHugo GrimaldiStarsYôsuke NatsukiToshirô MifuneKôji TsurutaLt. Koji Kitami is a navigator-bombardier in Japan's Naval Air Force. He participates in the Japanese raid on the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor in 1941 and is welcomed with pride in his hometown on his return. As Japan racks up victory after victory in the Pacific War, Kitami is caught up in the emotion of the time and fights courageously for the standard of Japanese honor. But his assuredness of his government's righteousness is shaken after the Japanese navy is defeated in the debacle of Midway.
- DirectorPhil KarlsonStarsJeffrey HunterDavid JanssenVic DamoneWhen his adoptive Japanese-American family is sent to Manzanar after Pearl Harbor, a young Chicano enlists in the marines to become a hero in the Battle of Saipan.
- DirectorGerald ShepardStarsErika PetersScott BorlandRobert GetzEight American soldiers, commanded by Lt. Eason, are chosen to infiltrate the Ploesti oil field in order to set signal fires to guide Allied bombers to Germany's most closely guarded target of the war. When landing in Roumania, they are supposed to be met by a partisan as their guide, but he has been killed by an Allied air-raid, and they are met instead by his daughter Nitza, who is very hostile to the Americans as she blames them for the death of her father. As they make their way to the oil field, Nitza and Manjack fall in love. He is killed in a skirmish with German troops and, as a dying wish, asks Nitza to continue with the group and help them with their mission. She does, the signal fires are set and Ploesti is destroyed.
- DirectorCarlo LizzaniStarsGérard BlainAnna Maria FerreroBernard BlierAlvaro Cosenza, also known as the Hunchback from Quarticciolo (Il Gobbo del Quarticciolo), during Rome's occupation by Nazis in 1943, decides to revolt. He starts his career of rebel like a partisan against the German occupants, fighting for freedom. The war goes on, and after the Nazis the Allied enter Roma as liberators. Now the Hunchback, like all the Rome's inhabitants, is finally a free man. But he doesn't leave the renegade life style as expected. In fact the Hunchback becomes one of the most well known bandits of the city, representing a problem for the new "occupants": the Allied.
- DirectorFlorestano VanciniStarsBelinda LeeGabriele FerzettiEnrico Maria SalernoIn 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.
- DirectorGillo PontecorvoStarsSusan StrasbergLaurent TerzieffEmmanuelle RivaA young Jewish girl leads an escape attempt from a concentration camp.
- DirectorFrank DunlopAnker SørensenEdvin TiemrothStarsTony BrittonDieter EpplerJohn WittigDuring the latter part of WW2, The Danish resistance is taking care of an English agent after getting hurt on his arrival by plane. The agent's goal is a sabotage action, but a traitor is among them.AKA: The Last Winter
- DirectorDaniel MannStarsJames StewartLisa LuGlenn CorbettA US Army Major stationed in East China in 1944 is ordered to blow up military installations in order to slow down the advancing Japanese Army.
- DirectorFrance StiglicStarsDusica ZegaracBoris DvornikBranko TaticIn order to save Jewish girl from the Nazis and their colaborators, Croatian family arranges her to be wed to their young son. Young man is displeased with sudden end to his careless youth and he doesn't seem to like the girl or the whole idea. However, when she gets caught in a street raid, it is too late - he must face the fact that he loves her. Young man starts looking for her, even if it means hat he would go to the very center of concentration camp - the Ninth Circle.
- DirectorKarel KachynaStarsMichal KoblicMarienka MagdolenovaVladimír HlavatýA young Czech boy is freed from a concentration camp and ends up working for the army against the Germans.
- DirectorLewis GilbertStarsKenneth MoreDana WynterCarl MöhnerThe World War II story of the Royal Navy's effort to defeat Nazi Germany's most powerful warship.
- DirectorRoger CormanStarsMichael ForestFrank WolffWally CampoAn American patrol has to cross behind enemy lines by skis in order to blow up an important railroad bridge. The task is made harder by conflicts between the platoon's veteran sergeant and its inexperienced lieutenant and by constant attacks by pursuing German troops.
- DirectorHarald PhilippStarsWerner PetersKurd PieritzHeinz WeissOn the Eastern Front in World War II, a German battalion fights Russian and Partisan soldiers.
- DirectorVittorio De SicaStarsSophia LorenJean-Paul BelmondoRaf ValloneIn WWII Italy, a widow and her lonely daughter seek distance between themselves and the horrors of war.
- DirectorRichard MurphyStarsJack LemmonRicky NelsonJohn LundDuring WW2, Lt. Rip Crandall, who was a yachtsman before the war, takes command of the USS Echo, a sailing ship, for a secret mission in waters patrolled by Japanese warships.