1940s films
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DramaStand by for action
War / Drama1942 / 109 minutesRating: 6/10 When the US entered World War II in December of ’41, they needed every ship they could get…
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DramaCitizen Kane
Drama 1941 / 119 minutes Rating: 7/10 It’s a mystery with a moral. Often called the greatest film ever made, Citizen Kane is a story told…
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DramaSands of Iwo Jima
Drama / War 1949 / 100 minutes RATING: 7/10 John Wayne stars in this loosely accurate recounting of the lead-up to, and battle for, Iwo…
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DramaThey were expendable
Drama / War 1945 / 135 minutes RATING: 7/10 John Wayne stars as one of the WWII naval officers intent on proving that small, fast…
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FamilyThe Black Arrow
Drama / Family 1948 / 76 minutes Rating: 7/10 Sir Richard Shelton is a young knight returning from three years away fighting in the latest…
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DramaAdam’s Rib
Courtroom Drama 1949 / 101 minutes RATING: 8/10 There are two types of feminism: one demands equal respect for women the other demands identical outcomes…
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FamilyLassie come home
Drama 1943 / 89 minuytes RATING: 8/10 No boy has ever had a more loyal and loving dog than young Joe Carraclough – each day…
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DramaSaboteur
Drama / Mystery 1942 / 109 minutes RATING: 7/10 This is World War II as seen from the other side of the ocean. Barry Kane…
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DramaThe Shop Around the Corner
Drama/Romance 99 min / 1940 Rating: 9/10 While Jimmy Stewart is best known for his other Christmas movie, It’s a Wonderful Life, this is the…
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FamilyMy friend Flicka
Family 1943 / 89 minutes Rating: 7/10 All Ken wants is a colt of his own, and seeing as his dad raises horses, that doesn’t…
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DramaThe Great Dictator
Drama / War / Black and White 1940 / 125 minutes Rating: 8/10 Long before Hitler adopted it, Charlie Chaplin made the “toothbrush mustache” famous….
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DramaTwelve O’Clock High
Drama / War 1949 / 132 minutes RATING: 8/10 When the Americans first entered WWII they did so with a small air force – it…
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DramaCasablanca
Drama 103 min / 1943 Rating: 10/10 When Ilsa Lund hears that the Nazis have killed her husband she is inconsolable…until she meets Rick Blaine….
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DramaForeign Correspondent
Thriller / Mystery / Drama 1940 / 120 minutes RATING: 7/10 In 1939 rumors of war were constant, but real news, the real facts, were hard to…
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DramaBasil Rathbone’s classic 14-film (1939-1946) go as Sherlock Holmes
If there’s any one film that deserves credit as the inspiration for the innumerable cinematic Holmesian interpretations that followed, it’d be Basil Rathbone’s 1939 performance…
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DramaMeet John Doe
Drama 1941 / 122 min Rating: 7/10 Director Frank Capra is probably best known for It’s a Wonderful Life, but that only became his best-known…
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DramaDesperate Journey
Black and White / War / Drama 107 minutes / 1942 RATING: 8/10 Ronald Reagan and Errol Flynn are two members of an Allied bombing…
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DramaThe Silver Fleet
Drama / Black and White / War 1943 / 88 minutes RATING: 7/10 This is a well-done, almost unknown World War II film told from…
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DramaBataan
Drama / Black and White / War 1943 / 114 minutes RATING: 8/10 This is a movie unlike any other you will ever see. In…
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DramaFlying Tigers
Drama / War / Black and White 104 minutes / 1942 RATING: 7/10 On January 3, 1942, just one month after Japan’s sneak attack on…
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DramaSahara
Drama / War 1943 / 98 minutes Rating: 8/10 Tanks need gas and people need water, and American tank commander Joe Gunn (Humphrey Bogart) needs…
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DramaThe Seahawk
Drama / Action 109 minutes / 1940 RATING: 8/10 While The Seahawk is set in 1585, and pitches Spain against England, this film was all…