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51. Strictly G.I. (1943)
Approved | 20 min | Short, Comedy, Music
A filmed broadcast of the Command Performance radio programs in which various Hollywood stars appeared and performed in accordance with letter requests from American service men stationed ... See full summary »
Stars: Bob Hope, Betty Hutton, Lana Turner, Judy Garland
Votes: 133
52. Suomisen Olli rakastuu (1944)
84 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Director: Orvo Saarikivi | Stars: Lasse Pöysti, Ansa Ikonen, Regina Keso, Maire Suvanto
Votes: 121
53. Kuudes käsky (1947)
95 min | Drama, Romance
Director: Orvo Saarikivi | Stars: Ghedi Lönnberg, Tapio Rautavaara, Esko Vettenranta, Siiri Angerkoski
Votes: 36
54. Niin paljon parempi mies (2002)
149 min | Drama
Stars: Milka Ahlroth, Eero Junttila, Anna Haukka, Ismo Mäkinen
Votes: 7
55. Life Goes to War: Hollywood and the Home Front (1977)
Not Rated | 120 min | Documentary, History, War
A retrospective on Hollywood's role in the war effort in World War II.
Director: Jack Haley Jr. | Stars: Johnny Carson, Hedy Lamarr
Votes: 42
56. The Home Guard (1941)
7 min | Animation, Short
Gandy Goose joins the home guard, a ramshackle bunch of barnyard creatures that mostly march and drill. At one point, Gandy is menaced by a fifth columnist, who travels in a literal fifth column from a porch.
Director: Mannie Davis | Star: Tom Morrison
Votes: 24
57. The Week We Went to War (2009– )
44 min | Documentary, War
Katherine Jenkins and Michael Asepel look at people's memories of the Second World War and the heroes of the Home Front.
Stars: Katherine Jenkins, Michael Aspel, Tim Wonnacott, Leslie Phillips
58. Britain's Home Front: When the Lights Go on Again (2004)
84 min | Documentary, History, War
Life at home in England during World War 2 was anything but a normal life at home in England. Women by the 1,000's in the workforce, making do with everything to avoid waste and getting by without. War arrived at the home front.
Director: Bryan Wolfe | Stars: Tonie Holt, Valmai Holt
Votes: 8
59. A Jolly Good Furlough (1943)
7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Popeye is doing a great job of sinking Japanese ships (complete with toilet-flush sound effect). A carrier pigeon brings him notice that he's been granted a month furlough, which he plans ... See full summary »
Directors: Dan Gordon, Joseph Oriolo | Stars: Margie Hines, Jack Mercer
Votes: 183
60. The Truck That Flew (1943)
Approved | 9 min | Animation, Short
A young boy is tired of hearing fairy tales as bedtime stories. He decides that he'd rather think about the everyday items he likes, particularly trucks. He dreams that his bed turns into a... See full summary »
Director: George Pal | Star: Sara Berner
Votes: 7
61. 1943 elokuu (1990 TV Movie)
43 min | Drama, War
Director: Veikko Aaltonen | Stars: Eeva-Maija Haukinen, Juuso Hirvikangas, Santeri Kinnunen, Oiva Lohtander
Votes: 6
62. Prices Unlimited (1944)
10 min | Short, War
Two young women, frustrated by war rationing, have a dream illustrating the likely results on prices in America should the measure were prematurely lifted.
Director: Erle C. Kenton | Stars: Leon Errol, Martha O'Driscoll, Lois Collier, Milburn Stone
Votes: 11
64. Churchill: Behind the Scenes Featurette (2017 Video)
22 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
Stars: Brian Cox, Bartholomew Cariss, Austin Compson-Bradford, Richard Durden
Votes: 13
65. Paramount-Bray Pictographs, No. 71 (1917)
Documentary, Short
Subjects may include: "Soldiers of the Soil", Traveling Forts (1917), "Repairing a Sub-Sea Cable", and the cartoon Evolution of the Dachshund (1917).
Director: P.D. Hugon
66. Paramount-Bray Pictographs, No. 67 (1917)
Documentary, Short
Subjects include: The Submarine Mine-Layer (1917), "Modern Farming", "Women Patriots", and Picto Puzzles (1917).
Director: P.D. Hugon
67. Sotamies Jokisen vihkiloma (1981 TV Movie)
89 min | Comedy, Drama, War
Director: Pauli Virtanen | Stars: Tom Pöysti, Martti Tschokkinen, Jyrki Kovaleff, Hannu Huuska
Votes: 11
68. Blitz on Berlin (2014 Video)
56 min | Documentary, History, War
A detailed account of the allied bombing raids on the city of Berlin in World War Two.
Director: Stanley Joseph | Stars: Barbara Von Rimscha, Anne-Marie Von Mutius, Adolf Hitler, Kaiser Wilhelm II
Votes: 6
69. Moments of Truth with Stephen Ambrose (2001 TV Movie)
92 min | Documentary, History, War
World War II veterans, and others who were alive then, reminisce about their wartime "moments of truth".
Director: Chris Harty | Stars: Harry Smith, Stephen Ambrose, Paul Tibbets
Votes: 7
70. Sotapoika (1993 TV Movie)
118 min | Drama, War
Director: Markku Onttonen | Stars: Mari Rantasila, Hannu Kivioja, Joonas Kuokkanen, Rauli Suomela
Votes: 13
71. The Home Front (1943)
4 min | Animation, Short
A homesick Pvt. Snafu learns that his family are almost as commited to the war efforts as himself.
Director: Frank Tashlin | Star: Mel Blanc
Votes: 317
72. Sotamies Jokisen vihkiloma (2000 TV Movie)
Comedy, Drama, War
Director: Veli-Matti Saikkonen | Stars: Juha Varis, Henrika Andersson, Outi Hurme, Mira Kivilä
Votes: 7
73.
Thirtysomething (1987–1991)
Episode:
We'll Meet Again
(1988)
TV-14 | 49 min | Drama, Romance
While cleaning out the house, Hope comes across the World War II era diary of the house's previous owner: a young nurse who was waiting for her husband to return from the war.
Director: Scott Winant | Stars: Timothy Busfield, Polly Draper, Mel Harris, Peter Horton
Votes: 90
74.
The Twentieth Century (1957–1968)
Episode:
Over Here
(1960)
Documentary, History
Star: Walter Cronkite
75.
ToonHeads (1992–2003)
Episode:
A ToonHeads Special: The Wartime Cartoons
(2001)
TV-G | 49 min | Documentary, Animation, Family
A look at animated shorts produced during World War II with Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Superman, Porky Pig, Popeye and more.
Directors: George A. Klein, Tex Avery, Joseph Barbera, Robert Clampett, Arthur Davis, Friz Freleng, Dan Gordon, George Gordon, William Hanna, Chuck Jones, Seymour Kneitel, Norm McCabe, Robert McKimson, Izzy Sparber, Frank Tashlin | Stars: Leslie Fram, Hirohito, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini
76.
The War (2007)
Episode:
Pride of Our Nation: June 1944 - August 1944
(2007)
TV-14 | 137 min | Documentary, History, War
On June 6, 1944, D-Day, 1.5 million Allied troops take part in the greatest invasion in history, but then bog down in the Norman hedgerows for weeks. Saipan proves the costliest Pacific ... See full summary »
Directors: Ken Burns, Lynn Novick | Stars: Keith David, Quentin Aanenson, Joseph Vaghi, Paul Fussell
Votes: 198
77.
The World at War (1973–1974)
Episode:
Inside the Reich: Germany - 1940-1944
(1974)
TV-PG | 52 min | Documentary, History, War
Germany is jubilant after the surrender of France. Then the unsuccessful expansion of the war to include Russia and England gradually turns German morale from joy to fatalism. Even der ... See full summary »
Stars: Laurence Olivier, Marlene Tucking, Hans Kehrl, Christabel Bielenberg
Votes: 388
78.
Battlefield (1995–2004)
Episode:
Campaign in the Balkans
(2004)
105 min | Documentary, History, War
We examine the course of savage fighting in the Balkans in the latter half of the conflict in World War 2 where after the uprising by the Romanians, the Soviet Army moved swiftly to capture Bucharest.
Stars: Jonathan Booth, Ion Antonescu, Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, Ernst Busch
Votes: 12
79.
The American Civil War: A Pictorial History Through the Photographs of Mathew B. Brady (1959)
Episode:
Home Front
(1959)
Documentary, History, War
Star: Allyn Edwards
80.
Longines Chronoscope (1951–1955)
Episode:
Episode dated 26 October 1951
(1951)
News, Talk-Show
Huie and Henry Steeger, the editor of Argosy magazine, interview U.S. Senator Harry P. Cain, a Republican representing the state of Washington. Topics include the Chinese Air Force and ... See full summary »
Director: Ted Estabrook | Stars: Harry P. Cain, William Bradford Huie, Frank Knight, Henry Steeger
81.
The Buildings That Fought Hitler (2021– )
Episode:
Keep the Home Fires Burning
(2021)
44 min | Documentary, History
With the blitz taking its toll, Britain had to keep it's manufacturing going. Shadow factories were born and were crucial in the production of ammunition.
Director: Nick Watts | Star: Rob Bell
82.
Rise of the Nazis (2019–2023)
Episode:
The Home Front
(2022)
Documentary, History
Facing defeat on the Eastern Front, Hitler retreats. Deep rifts emerge, and his inner circle vies for power. The resistance gets a student voice, and an enemy within plots to kill Hitler.
Director: Julian Jones | Stars: Richard John Evans, Pablo de Orellana, Afua Hirsch, Christian Goeschel
Votes: 65
83.
Trail of History (2016– )
Episode:
Charlotte on the Homefront
(2016)
26 min | History
The Charlotte region's connection to the Allied victory during World War II is explored through the voices of local veterans who served during the war and civilians on the home front who contributed to the war effort.
Stars: Tony Zeiss, Gary Ritter, Jack Clay, David Erdman
84.
Warthog Defense (2020– )
Episode:
See the most Advanced Ukranian Tank on the Battlefield - T-84U OPLOT
(2020)
7 min | Documentary, News, War
Russian claims about the T-84U-Oplot Tank. It's very fast in reverse.
85.
How to Lose a War (2023)
Episode:
The Right Tools
(2023)
Documentary, History, War
Victory in war doesn't just require sound military strategy, vital resources and equipment are also critical. Discover how the Axis powers failed in this regard.
Director: Tim Bosanquet | Stars: Richard Hammond, Giuseppe Finaldi, Alexander Henry, Charles Schencking
86.
How to Lose a War (2023)
Episode:
The Homefront
(2023)
Documentary, History, War
In our final episode, we examine how each Axis Power had troubles on their own home front, leading to disaster in the final days of the war.
Director: Tim Bosanquet | Stars: Alexander Henry, Giuseppe Finaldi, Russell A. Hart, Guy Walters
87.
Britain at War (1995)
Episode:
The Long Years: 1942 - 1944
(1995)
Documentary, History, War
As the war entered its third year, fear of the Blitz receded. A period of retrenchment began with rationing, digging for victory, land girls and home guard exercises becoming part of everyday life.
Director: Sasha Upton | Stars: William Rushton, Eddie Cain, Justine Hodgkinson, Kit Nairne
88.
Britain at War (1995)
Episode:
The Victory Years: 1944 - 1945
(1995)
Documentary, History, War
The closing years of World War Two, where the D-Day invasion of Normandy brought victory one step closer while on the Home Front, people continued to endure rationing and German bombing.
Director: Sasha Upton | Stars: William Rushton, Eddie Cain, Justine Hodgkinson, Kit Nairne
89.
Against the Odds (2014– )
Episode:
The Battle for Sugar Loaf
(2016)
TV-PG | 44 min | Documentary, History, War
Taking an otherwise nondescript hill on the embattled island of Okinawa proved to be one of the most incredible battles of WWII. The young weary marines of Charlie Company strained against ... See full summary »
Director: Sammy Jackson | Stars: Bill Pierce, Dick Whitaker, Don Honis, Jack W. Houston
90.
The Great War in Numbers (2017)
Episode:
The Home Front
(2017)
45 min | Documentary, History, War
The state of the Home Fronts of the belligerents of World War I is explored.
Stars: John Heffernan, Sascha Auerbach, Sarah Badcock, Alexandra Churchill