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Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam is a 1987 American documentary film inspired by the anthology of the same title, directed by Bill Couturié. The film's narration consists of real letters written by American soldiers, which are read by actors, including Robert De Niro and Martin Sheen.
1917 is a 2019 British war film directed and produced by Sam Mendes, who co-wrote it with Krysty Wilson-Cairns.Partially inspired by stories told to Mendes by his paternal grandfather Alfred about his service during World War I, [6] the film takes place after the German retreat to the Hindenburg Line during Operation Alberich, and follows two British soldiers, Will Schofield (George MacKay ...
How German soldiers struggle with life in post-war Germany. D 1938 US The Shopworn Angel: H. C. Potter: Shortly after the United States enters World War I in 1917, a Broadway actress agrees to let a naive soldier court her in order to impress his friends, but a real romance soon begins. D, R S 1938 US Alexander's Ragtime Band: Henry King: A, M ...
Sergeant York is a 1941 American biographical film about the life of Alvin C. York, one of the most decorated American soldiers of World War I.Directed by Howard Hawks and starring Gary Cooper in the title role, the film was a critical and commercial success, and became the highest-grossing film of 1941.
The film was shot with two cameras side by side, with one negative edited as a sound film and the other edited as an "International Sound Version" for distribution in non-English speaking areas. A great number of German Army veterans were living in Los Angeles at the time of filming, and many were recruited to work on the film as bit players ...
Cut off from Allied troops and supplies, and surrounded by the enemy, the battalion, nicknamed "The Lost Battalion," withstands six days without food or water. When the German commander asks for their surrender, Whittlesey replies, "Tell them to go to hell!" The Chinese rivals fight bravely side-by-side, while the burglar dies heroically.
Three hundred love letters written during WWII were discovered in a trunk and tell the story of a forbidden love between two gay men. ... The secret romance between a World War II soldier and his ...
Gallipoli is a 1981 Australian war drama film directed by Peter Weir and produced by Patricia Lovell and Robert Stigwood, starring Mel Gibson and Mark Lee.The film revolves around several young men from Western Australia who enlist in the Australian Army during World War I.