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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.
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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]
The Loves of Queen Elizabeth (French: Les Amours de la reine Élisabeth) (1912) – French silent drama film based on the love affair between Elizabeth I of England and the Earl of Essex [37] Richard III (1912) – French-American silent drama film depicting the Machiavellian rise to power and subsequent short reign of King Richard III of ...
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
Appointment with Venus is a 1951 British war drama film, a film adaptation of the 1951 Jerrard Tickell novel of the same name.It was directed by Ralph Thomas, produced by Betty E. Box and its screenplay was written by the novelist Nicholas Phipps.
The Dunkirk Jack, flown only by civilian ships that participated in the Dunkirk evacuation. The Little Ships of Dunkirk were about 850 private boats [1] that sailed from Ramsgate in England to Dunkirk in northern France between 26 May and 4 June 1940 as part of Operation Dynamo, helping to rescue more than 336,000 British, French, and other Allied soldiers who were trapped on the beaches at ...