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51. The Secret Glory (2001)
90 min | Documentary, Mystery, Drama
The story of SS officer Otto Rahn and his search for the Holy Grail.
Director: Richard Stanley | Stars: Heinrich Himmler, Paul A. Ladame, Hans-Jürgen Lange, Otto Rahn
Votes: 259
52. No Pressure (2010)
4 min | Short, Comedy, Horror
A variety of men, women, and children in everyday situations are graphically blown to pieces for failing to be sufficiently enthusiastic about the 10:10 campaign to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.
Director: Dougal Wilson | Stars: Hayley Elizabeth Carson, Gillian Anderson, Peter Crouch, David Ginola
Votes: 98
53. Under the Bombs (2007)
TV-14 | 98 min | Drama, Romance, War
In the wake of Israel's 2006 bombardment of Lebanon, a determined woman finds her way into the country convincing a taxi cab driver to take a risky journey around the scarred region in search of her sister and her son.
Director: Philippe Aractingi | Stars: Nada Abou Farhat, Georges Khabbaz, Rawia Elchab, Bshara Atallah
Votes: 1,770
54. First Strike (1979 TV Movie)
40 min | Documentary
An interesting Cold War film that starts with showing a hypothetical Soviet nuclear first strike scenario leading to a U.S. surrender, followed by a United States Air Force "sales pitch" for more defense spending.
Director: Fleming E. Fuller | Stars: Richard H. Ellis, William R. Graham, Francis P. Hoeber, Edward N. Luttwak
Votes: 44
55. The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malay (1942)
116 min | Drama, History, War
When a boy who is in the navy college returns home for vacation he meets his young cousin who also wants to join in order to become a pilot. However, the younger man's mother is ... See full summary »
Director: Kajirô Yamamoto | Stars: Denjirô Ôkôchi, Yatarô Kurokawa, Setsuko Hara, Kaoru Itô
Votes: 131
56. Don't Be a Sucker (1943)
Approved | 18 min | Short, History, War
Propaganda short film depicting the rise of Nazism in Germany and how political propaganda is similarly used in the United States to recruit Nazi sympathizers from the ranks of American racists.
Stars: Lloyd Nolan, Robert Adler, Richard Alexander, Robert Bailey
Votes: 350
57. The Spirit of '43 (1943)
Approved | 6 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Donald Duck deals with income taxes and their benefit to the American war effort in this inspirational documentary short animated film.
Director: Jack King | Stars: Clarence Nash, Fred Shields
Votes: 615
58. In the Name of the Emperor (1998)
50 min | Documentary, War
A matter-of-fact documentary of the massacre of over 300,000 Chinese civilians by the Japanese in the so-called 'Rape of Nanjing' in 1937. In the name of the Japanese emperor Hirohito, the ... See full summary »
Directors: Christine Choy, Nancy Tong | Stars: Robin Brentano, Ted Hannon, Matthew Myers, Lamar Sanders
Votes: 30
59. A State of Mind (2004)
Not Rated | 93 min | Documentary
A British documentary that follows two young North Korean girls as they prepare for the Mass Games, the world's largest choreographed gymnastics performance.
Director: Daniel Gordon | Stars: Daniel Gordon, Hyon Sun Pak, Song Yun Kim, Jong-Il Kim
Votes: 1,059 | Gross: $0.04M
60. The Winged Scourge (1943)
Not Rated | 10 min | Documentary, Animation, Short
The Seven Dwarves learn about the menace of mosquito borne malaria and the necessary precautions to control it.
Directors: Bill Justice, Bill Roberts | Star: Art Baker
Votes: 235
61. Kid Dynamite (1943)
Passed | 66 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
When gamblers kidnap Muggs to throw a fight, friend Danny steps in and wins the scheduled boxing bout, leaving Mugs jealous, resentful and wrongfully suspicious.
Director: Wallace Fox | Stars: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bobby Jordan, Gabriel Dell
Votes: 610
62. Momotarô's Sea Eagles (1943)
37 min | Animation, Short, Fantasy
Featuring the "Peach Boy", character of Japanese folklore, the film is aimed at children, telling the story of a naval unit consisting of the human Momotarô and several animal species ... See full summary »
Director: Mitsuyo Seo
Votes: 93
63. The New Spirit (1942)
Approved | 7 min | Documentary, Animation, Short
Animated documentary promoting timely filing and payment of Federal income taxes, demonstrated by Donald Duck's difficulties with his tax return.
Directors: Wilfred Jackson, Ben Sharpsteen | Stars: Cliff Edwards, Clarence Nash, Fred Shields, The Sportsmen Quartet
Votes: 443
64. Sekigun-P.F.L.P: Sekai sensô sengen (1971)
69 min | Documentary
It was a milestone of film as activism, cinema as movement in Japan's context. Adachi and Wakamatsu went to Beirut on the way back from the Cannes Film Festival. There, in collaboration ... See full summary »
Directors: Masao Adachi, Kôji Wakamatsu | Stars: Mustafa Abu Ali, Masao Adachi, George Habash, Susumu Iwabuchi
Votes: 166
66. The Battle of Henry Johnson
90 min | War | Post-production
WW1 African American war hero, Henry Johnson, fights a platoon of German stormtroppin, to protect fellow combatant, 15 year old Needham Roberts. An exploration of masculine roles, as well ... See full summary »
Director: Harrison Stengle | Stars: Brandon Tabb, Alfred Abu Jr., Carter J Underwood, Hyzeem Brown
67. Gilgamesh (2014)
Not Rated | 103 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A military expedition in Siberia gone wrong. The existence of humanity is in peril as Inanna, Sumerian goddess of lust and war has summoned a giant meteor to destroy the planet, after being accidentally set free from her ancient prison.
Director: Richard Chandler | Stars: Joshua Davis, Melantha Blackthorne, Joseph R. Gannascoli, Emily Coleman
Votes: 140
68. Thunder Rock (1942)
Unrated | 90 min | Drama, Fantasy, War
Cynical, embittered newspaperman David Charleston (Michael Redgrave) is tormented, then inspired, by visions he keeps having of people who have drowned.
Director: Roy Boulting | Stars: Michael Redgrave, James Mason, Barbara Mullen, Lilli Palmer
Votes: 808
69. Stukas (1941)
101 min | Drama, War
This German propaganda film details the exploits of a group of Luftwaffe pilots flying Junkers Ju 87 "Stukas"--dive bombers--in the Battle of France in the early days of World War II.
Director: Karl Ritter | Stars: Carl Raddatz, Hannes Stelzer, Ernst von Klipstein, Albert Hehn
Votes: 189
70. Heimkehr (1941)
94 min | Drama
This Nazi propaganda film attempts to justify the invasion of Poland--and thus the start of World War II--by "showing" how the ethnic Germans in Poland were discriminated against and ... See full summary »
Director: Gustav Ucicky | Stars: Paula Wessely, Peter Petersen, Attila Hörbiger, Ruth Hellberg
Votes: 118
71. Marihuana (II) (1936)
90 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
An agent of the anti-drug brigade is captured and ends up addicted to marijuana, which causes him to enter the mafia. One of many propaganda films made in the 1930s to warn of the use of this drug.
Director: José Bohr | Stars: José Bohr, Lupita Tovar, Barry Norton, René Cardona
Votes: 33
72. Ohm Krüger (1941)
124 min | Biography, War
Rousing biopic of Paul Kruger, the Boer guerilla fighter turned statesman and first president of South Africa.
Directors: Hans Steinhoff, Karl Anton, Herbert Maisch | Stars: Emil Jannings, Lucie Höflich, Werner Hinz, Ernst Schröder
Votes: 286
73. Frontier (1935)
82 min | Drama
A Russian outpost in Eastern Siberia comes under threat of attack by the Japanese. Aerograd is a new town with a strategically located airfield of vital interest to the government.
Director: Aleksandr Dovzhenko | Stars: Stepan Shagaida, Sergey Stolyarov, Stepan Shkurat, G. Tsoi
Votes: 482
74. Children of the Revolution (2010)
TV-14 | 92 min | Documentary
Inspired by the student revolutions of 1968, two women in Germany and Japan set out to plot world revolution as leaders of the Baader Meinhof Group and the Japanese Red Army. What were they fighting for and what have we learned?
Director: Shane O'Sullivan | Stars: Ulrike Meinhof, Fusako Shigenobu, Mei Shigenobu, Bettina Röhl
Votes: 73
75. Make Mine Freedom (1948)
9 min | Animation, Short
A snake oil salesman try to sell the American people 'happiness', exchange for their freedom, while one man stand up, against him.
Directors: Joseph Barbera, William Hanna, George Gordon | Stars: Billy Bletcher, John Brown, Stan Freberg, John Hiestand
Votes: 329
76. Shock Troop (1934)
118 min | Drama, War
This Nazi propaganda film focuses on the plight of a German unit in World War I that finds itself surrounded by British and French forces.
Directors: Ludwig Schmid-Wildy, Hans Zöberlein | Stars: Ludwig Schmid-Wildy, Beppo Brem, Max Zankl, Hans Pössenbacher
Votes: 130
77. Carl Peters (1941)
110 min | Biography, Drama, History
Film about the exploits of famed German explorer Dr. Carl Peters.
Director: Herbert Selpin | Stars: Hans Albers, Karl Dannemann, Fritz Odemar, Herbert Hübner
Votes: 62
78. Flüchtlinge (1933)
87 min | Adventure, Drama, War
Propaganda film detailing the plight of ethnic Germans, known as "Volga Germans", in the Soviet province of Manchuria.
Director: Gustav Ucicky | Stars: Hans Albers, Käthe von Nagy, Eugen Klöpfer, Ida Wüst
Votes: 66
79. Erbkrank (1936)
25 min | Documentary, Short
This Nazi propaganda film attempts to justify and extols the "benefits" of euthanasia.
Director: Herbert Gerdes
Votes: 21
80. Report from the Aleutians (1943)
Not Rated | 47 min | Documentary, History, War
Filmmaker John Huston narrates this Oscar-nominated World War II-era film about life among the U.S. soldiers protecting Alaska's Aleutian Islands.
Director: John Huston | Stars: John Huston, Walter Huston, Milton Ashkin, Lyle A. Bean
Votes: 773
81. Stranger Fruit (2017)
TV-14 | 95 min | Documentary
What really happened on August 9th, 2014 in Ferguson, Missouri? That afternoon, Officer Darren Wilson killed 18-year-old Michael Brown. 'Stranger Fruit' is the unraveling of what took place, told through the eyes of Mike Brown's family.
Director: Jason Pollock | Stars: Michael Brown Sr., Maxine Brown, Michael Brown, Benjamin Crump
Votes: 548
83. Junge Adler (1944)
107 min | Drama
Propagandist coming-of-age drama from Nazi Germany. The head of an aircraft factory sends his irresponsible son Theo, who crashed his car, to the factory's apprentice school, where he bonds with fellow student Baumchen and teacher Roth.
Director: Alfred Weidenmann | Stars: Willy Fritsch, Herbert Hübner, Dietmar Schönherr, Gerta Böttcher
Votes: 53
84. Jugend der Welt. Der Film von den IV. Olympischen Winterspielen in Garmisch-Partenkirchen (1936)
Not Rated | 38 min | Documentary, Short, Sport
This Nazi propaganda film covers the 1936 Winter Olympics that were held in Germany.
Directors: Herbert Brieger, Carl Junghans | Star: Adolf Hitler
Votes: 153
85. Campaign in Poland (1940)
60 min | Documentary, Animation, History
The first blitzkrieg, Hitler's invasion of Poland, is traced in this original Nazi propaganda film from 1940.
Directors: Fritz Hippler, Leni Riefenstahl | Stars: Édouard Daladier, Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Halifax Edward Wood, Adolf Hitler
Votes: 100
86. Not My Responsibility (2020)
4 min | Short, Comedy, Crime
A short film originally produced for and seen on tour made by Billie Eilish.
Star: Billie Eilish
Votes: 104
87. Ano hata o ute (1944)
108 min | Action, Drama, War
Directors: Yutaka Abe, Gerardo de Leon | Stars: Denjirô Ôkôchi, Seizaburô Kawazu, Ichirô Tsukida, Haruo Tanaka
Votes: 15
88. Star Power: The Creation of United Artists (1998 Video)
Not Rated | 55 min | Documentary, Biography
The careers of D.W. Griffith, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and Charlie Chaplin are chronicled culminating in the formation of United Artists and 1919.
Director: Hugh Munro Neely | Stars: Roddy McDowall, Marc Wanamaker, Christopher Sanders, Joy Noe
Votes: 28
89. Nazi Titanic (2012 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 120 min | Documentary, History, War
Nazi Titanic is the amazing and unknown story of one of the most bizarre chapters of WWII. In the middle of the war, Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, who was fascinated by the ... See full summary »
Director: Oscar Chan | Stars: Lee Williams, Adolf Hitler, Steve Luckert, Andy Webb
Votes: 109
90. Die Degenhardts (1944)
93 min | Drama
A stuffy old civil servant is forced to retire during World War II, but when his son, a Navy submariner, is lost at sea and his city is heavily bombed by English bombers, his old patriotism... See full summary »
Director: Werner Klingler | Stars: Heinrich George, Walter Bechmann, Robert Forsch, Herwart Grosse
Votes: 29
91. D III 88 (1939)
103 min | Action, Drama, War
Flashbacks portray the heroics of two German fighter pilots in WWI and then the two are shown heading out to attack the British navy at the start of WWII.
Directors: Herbert Maisch, Hans Bertram | Stars: Christian Kayßler, Otto Wernicke, Heinz Welzel, Hermann Braun
Votes: 54
92. A Hitch in Time (1955)
6 min | Animation, Short
A US Air Force pilot, about to be discharged, talks with a gremlin about the reasons for either re-entering civilian life, or extending their terms of service.
Director: Chuck Jones | Stars: Mel Blanc, Robert C. Bruce
Votes: 132
93. Bashing (2005)
82 min | Drama
Yuko volunteered to be an aid worker in Iraq and was taken hostage there. When freed she returned to Japan, but after being home six months she is still the ongoing object of harassment ... See full summary »
Director: Masahiro Kobayashi | Stars: Fusako Urabe, Nene Ôtsuka, Takayuki Katô, Kikujirô Honda
Votes: 515
94. Festliches Nürnberg (1937)
21 min | Documentary, Short, History
Said to pick up where "Triumph of the Will" left off, this film showcases highlights of the Nazi Party rallies in Nüremberg in 1936 and 1937. The main focus of the film begins with extended... See full summary »
Director: Hans Weidemann | Star: Adolf Hitler
Votes: 36
95. Mondo Mod (1967)
Not Rated | 89 min | Documentary, Music
A look at the "mod" culture of the, visiting the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood, going from discotheques to dirt bike competitions, surfing, karate, go-carting, political protests and pot parties.
Director: Peter Perry Jr. | Stars: Sam the Soul and The Inspirations, The Group, Humble Harve Miller, Midget Farrelly
Votes: 184
96. Germanin - Die Geschichte einer kolonialen Tat (1943)
92 min | Drama
Story of German medical missionaries helping the natives in Africa.
Director: Max W. Kimmich | Stars: Peter Petersen, Luis Trenker, Lotte Koch, Albert Lippert
Votes: 36
97. Besatzung Dora (1943)
91 min | Drama, History, War
Luftwaffe pilots Joachim and Franz both love Marianne - their jealousy threatens to compromise the vital teamwork aboard their recon plane. Sergeant Otto, a farm boy, loses his love Mathilde when she discovers she hates agricultural work.
Director: Karl Ritter | Stars: Hannes Stelzer, Hubert Kiurina, Josef Dahmen, Georg Thomalla
Votes: 61
98. New Monuments Men (2019)
TV-PG | 53 min | Documentary, History
ISIS is waging a merciless war against Culture in portions of Iraq, Syria, Libya, and Egypt with the goal of creating a new world order by destroying centuries-old libraries and archaeological sites, places that conserve our heritage.
Director: Jean-Luc Raynaud | Stars: Maamoun Abdulkarim, Mustafa Ahmad, Cheikhmous Ali, Christiane Amanpour
99. La bonne absinthe (1899)
Not Rated | 1 min | Short
A customer places an order at a cafe. While reading his newspaper he doesn't pay attention to the bottles brought by the waiter.
Director: Alice Guy
Votes: 302
100. Out of the Frying Pan Into the Firing Line (1942)
3 min | Animation, Short, Family
Documentary short film demonstrating the process by which waste fats from the kitchens of American homes can be transformed into the raw materials for explosives for the war effort.
Directors: Ben Sharpsteen, Jack King | Stars: Thelma Boardman, Pinto Colvig, Art Gilmore, James MacDonald
Votes: 290