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Pages in category "World War II films based on actual events" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 327 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Films about McCarthyism, the political repression and persecution of left-wing individuals and a campaign spreading fear of alleged communist and socialist influence on American institutions and of Soviet espionage in the United States during the late 1940s through the 1950s.
The Japanese surrender of World War II scene aboard USS Missouri (BB-63) shows the battleship's 40 mm quad guns covered (mothballed) during the movie. When MacArthur and his aides are planning the U.N. landing at Inchon in 1950, they review a map of the Korean peninsula which shows the current armistice line dividing the two Koreas. That line ...
A Bridge Too Far is a 1977 epic war film directed by Richard Attenborough.It depicts Operation Market Garden, a failed Allied operation in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II; the film's screenplay, by William Goldman, is based on a book of the same title by historian Cornelius Ryan. [5]
Where Eagles Dare is a 1968 action adventure war thriller spy film directed by Brian G. Hutton and starring Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood and Mary Ure.Set during World War II, it follows a Special Operations Executive team charged with saving a captured American General from the fictional Schloß Adler fortress, except the mission turns out not to be as it seems.
Although it is largely fictional, the movie does touch on the main aspects of the operation, which was geared to thwart the German long-range weapons programme in the final years of World War II. The story alternates between Nazi Germany 's development of the V-1 flying bomb and V-2 rocket, and the efforts of British Intelligence and its agents ...
Spoiler alert! The following story contains major plot details about “Blitz” (now streaming on Apple TV+). NEW YORK – Saoirse Ronan had no desire to make another World War II drama. But that ...
While the United States was engaged in World War II and allied with the Soviet Union, the issue of anti-communism was largely muted. With the end of World War II, the Cold War began almost immediately, as the Soviet Union installed communist puppet régimes in areas it had occupied across Central and Eastern Europe. In a March 1947 address to ...