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UK Brown on Resolution: Walter Forde Anthony Asquith: Story of heroism in the Navy during World War I. A captain's illegitimate son holds a German cruiser at bay with a rifle. D 1935 US The Dark Angel: Sidney A. Franklin: After being blinded in WW1, a man disappears and becomes a famous author. Thinking he's dead, the girl he loves marries his ...
These are depictions of diverse aspects of war in film and television, including but not limited to documentaries, TV mini-series, drama serials, and propaganda film.The list starts before World War I, followed by the Roaring Twenties, and then the Great Depression, which eventually saw the outbreak of World War II in 1939, which ended in 1945.
A group of Italian aspiring young pilots construct a glider and then volunteer for service in the Spanish Civil War 1941 Spain Because i saw you cry: Porque te vi llorar: Juan de Orduña: Drama. 1941 Spain The Cruiser Baleares: El crucero Baleares: Enrique del Campo War. Spanish cruiser Baleares, Battle of Cape Palos (1938) 1941 Spain The ...
Evacuees fleeing Hurricane Rita in Texas, United States. This list of mass evacuations includes emergency evacuations of a large number of people in a short period of time. An emergency evacuation is the movement of persons from a dangerous place due to the threat or occurrence of a disastrous event whether from natural or man made causes, or as the result of war
Dunkirk is a 1958 British war film directed by Leslie Norman that depicts the Dunkirk evacuation of World War II, and starring John Mills, Richard Attenborough, and Bernard Lee. [4] [5] The film is based on the novels The Big Pick-Up by Elleston Trevor and Dunkirk co-authored by Lt Col Ewan Butler and Major J. S. Bradford. [6]
Boys Town (1938) – biographical drama film based on Father Edward J. Flanagan's work with a group of underprivileged boys in a home/educational complex that he founded and named "Boys Town" in Nebraska [416] The Buccaneer (1938) – biographical adventure film based on Jean Lafitte and the Battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812 [417]
The islands were seriously in debt, with the island governments owing over £10,000,000, [70]: 200 having had to pay for the evacuation ships, the costs incurred by evacuees in the UK, the cost of the "occupation forces", being wages, food, accommodation and transport as well as the cost of providing domestics for the Germans, providing ...
The civilian death rate exceeded the prewar level by 292,000, which included 109,000 deaths due to food shortages and 183,577 from Spanish flu. [11] The 1922 War Office report detailed the deaths of 1,260 civilians and 310 military personnel due to air and sea bombardment the home islands. [179]