Subgenre Sampler
War: 954 Films to Buy & Rent
Air Force (1943)
- Dir. Howard Hawks
Feat. John Garfield
- Persuasive propaganda piece focusing on the crew of a B–17 bomber, quite thrilling in the hands of director Hawks.
Crash Dive (1943)
- Dir. Archie Mayo
Feat. Tyrone Power, Anne Baxter, Dana Andrews
- A submarine lieutenant and his commander fall in love with the same girl in this thrilling propaganda piece that won the 1943 Oscar for best special…
Destination Tokyo (1943)
- Dir. Delmer Daves
Feat. Cary Grant
- Suspenseful Cary Grant war melodrama set aboard a U.S sub encroaching Japanese waters.
Edge of Darkness (1943)
- Dir. Lewis Milestone
Feat. Errol Flynn, Ann Sheridan, Walter Huston…
- Taut account of Resistance activities in Norway during WWII, has extra–good camerawork of Erroll Flynn, Ann Sheridan and Walter Huston in some…
Five Graves to Cairo (1943)
- Dir. Billy Wilder
Feat. Franchot Tone, Anne Baxter, Erich von Stroheim…
- Rousing early outing for Billy Wilder; a nimble, well–executed piece of WWII propaganda exaggerating the exploits of a British corporal officer…
Flemish Farm, The (1943)
- Dir. Jeffrey Dell
Feat. Clive Brook, Clifford Evans, Jane Baxter
- Low budget WW2 aviation drama focused on a regiment of Belgian pilots who use a Flemish farm as an airstrip with one of the injured men becoming…
For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)
- Dir. Sam Wood
Feat. Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman
- Splendidly mounted Spanish civil–war drama, in which International Brigade–er Gary Cooper leads local guerillas, including Ingrid…
Guadalcanal Diary (1943)
- Dir. Lewis Seiler
Feat. Anthony Quinn, Lloyd Nolan, Preston Foster…
- Filmed just after US victory in the Solomon Islands during WW2, this standard issue war–film is a reasonably solid account of a grueling…
Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, The (1943)
- Dir. Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Feat. Roger Livesey, Deborah Kerr, Anton Walbrook
- The numerous off–beat adventures of a British soldier are chronicled over a period of three wars, with Deborah Kerr playing all three of the…
Millions Like Us (1943)
- Dir. Sidney Gilliat
Feat. Patricia Roc, Gordon Jackson, Anne Crawford…
- Honest dramatization of the British "home front" during the second World War focuses on a factory worker struggling to overcome her grief after the…