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After being blinded in WW1, a man disappears and becomes a famous author. Thinking he's dead, the girl he loves marries his cousin. D, R P 1935 US The Last Outpost: Charles Barton Louis J. Gasnier: A 1935 US Rendezvous: William K. Howard: Espionage D 1936 UK Secret Agent: Alfred Hitchcock: Espionage D 1936 US Sons O' Guns: Lloyd Bacon
Meanwhile, the situation has become so desperate that BEF commander General Gort ignores orders to counterattack and instead positions his units for evacuation from Dunkirk. In England, Vice-Admiral Ramsay directs Operation Dynamo; the Admiralty begins commandeering all suitable civilian boats, including those owned by Foreman and Holden, to ...
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.
Cast Genre Notes 1959: The 39 Steps: Ralph Thomas: Kenneth More, Taina Elg, Barry Jones: Thriller: Remake of the 1935 film: Alive and Kicking: Cyril Frankel: Sybil Thorndike, Kathleen Harrison, Stanley Holloway: Comedy: The Bandit of Zhobe: John Gilling: Victor Mature, Anne Aubrey, Anthony Newley: Adventure: The Battle of the Sexes: Charles ...
British Intelligence is a 1940 spy film set in World War I.It was directed by Terry O. Morse and stars Boris Karloff and Margaret Lindsay.The film, also known as Enemy Agent, was released in the United States in January 1940.
The Dunkirk evacuation, codenamed Operation Dynamo and also known as the Miracle of Dunkirk, or just Dunkirk, was the evacuation of more than 338,000 Allied soldiers during the Second World War from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk, in the north of France, between 26 May and 4 June 1940.
Also noted were the accurate depictions of how a small boat evaded aerial attack, and of how soldiers returning to England saw a civilian population largely unaware of or unaffected by the war. [ 190 ] [ 191 ] British officers did initially refuse to evacuate French soldiers, although Churchill later insisted that the French be evacuated ...
Kenneth Morgan argues that, "the overwhelming mass of the Welsh people cast aside their political and industrial divisions and threw themselves into the war with gusto." Intellectuals and ministers actively promoted the war spirit. [166] Initially, early recruitment rates were somewhat lower than in urban areas of England with smaller ...