A official documentary movie about the misson of the US forces on an island of the Aleutians, from which US bombers are attacking the Japanese occupied island Kiska.
From PBS and American Experience - In the summer of 1868, paleontologist Othniel Charles Marsh boarded a Union Pacific train for a sightseeing excursion through the heart of the newly opened American West. While most passengers simply saw magnificent landscapes, Marsh soon realized he was traveling through the greatest dinosaur burial ground of all time.
This remake of West of Zanzibar (1928) made four years later tries to outdo the Lon Chaney original in morbidity. From a wheelchair a handicapped white man rules an area of Africa as a living god. He rules the local natives through superstition and stage magic and he rules the few white people through sadism, keeping them virtual prisoners. He lives for the day he can avenge hi...
As the Great War breaks out, Ann Vickers, a serious, independent and forthright woman, falls for an officer who jilts her before she can tell him she's pregnant. After an abortion, she throws herself into social work, stirring things up at a woman's prison and writing a best-seller about the experience. Back in Manhattan, she runs a halfway house for paroled women and meets an ...
Dick Heldar, a London artist, is gradually losing his sight. He struggles to complete his masterpiece, the portrait of Bessie Broke, a cockney girl, before his eyesight fails him.
The Leeds family is thrown right in the middle of a war between the cops and gangland when they are the only witnesses to two murders committed by gang kingpin Maxey Campos. Initially positive in their identification of the murderer, their attitudes change when young Donny Leeds is kidnapped by Campos' boys. No amount of threatening with perjury by D.A. Whitlock can get them to...
Much to the disapproval of his snooty children, a wealthy widowed attorney takes up with a beautiful but "lower-class" woman.
A driven newspaperman misses out on the joys and sorrows of ordinary life.
Using diagrams, cartoons and film footage, the film examines Japan's social structure and presents a geographical and historical basis for understanding Japan's and the United States' involvement in the war. A written prologue to the documentary acknowledges the honorable and loyal service of the Nisei (Japanese-Americans) during World War II. Scenes of Japanese ceremonies, ind...
In this episode of the Why We Fight propaganda series, the events from the English and French declarations of war against Nazi Germany to the conquest of France by the Nazi. In detail, we learn of how a combination of innovative Nazi military tactics and the work of traitors allowed the conquest of much of Central Europe.
为了完成元帅交代的任务，卡普拉觉得必须马上学习与纪录片有关的东西。他首先要求陆军部让他观看里芬斯塔尔的《意志的胜利》，这部影片使他感到不寒而栗。他越是思考自己对这部影片的反应，越感到认真研究此片是解决自己面临的问题的关键。如果美国士兵观看了这部影片，他们就会更加明白为什么自己要进行战斗。当卡普拉发现美国还有几百部德国、意大利、日本拍摄的战争新闻片和纪录片时，就设法将这些影片调集到了自己手中，后来他还觉得有必要从美国的盟国那里获得有关的电影资料，于是就跟苏联大使馆以及其他国家的驻美使馆进行交涉。在这个过程中，他还走过一段弯路。一天，他被出其不意地传唤到陆军部的保安局，坐在一个戴眼镜的上校对面，一个脸上无表情的男速记员拿过来一份调查表，上校宣称卡普拉因违反军纪将被逮捕，并且要接受调查。上校取出一张照片，卡普拉一看便知，那是自己站在苏联大使馆门前的照片：“...
