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1. Radio Days (1987)
PG | 88 min | Comedy
A nostalgic look at radio's golden age focusing on one ordinary family and the various performers in the medium.
Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Mia Farrow, Dianne Wiest, Mike Starr, Paul Herman
Votes: 36,317 | Gross: $14.79M
2. Homefront (1991–1993)
60 min | Drama, History, Romance
World War II is over and the boys from the town of River Run, Ohio, are coming home. It seems that life is slowly going back to normal, but war has changed everything and they will never be the same again.
Stars: Kyle Chandler, Sammi Davis, Ken Jenkins, Mimi Kennedy
Votes: 1,405
3. The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain (1995)
PG | 99 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
When an English cartographer must tell a Welsh village that their mountain is only a hill, the offended community sets out to change that.
Director: Christopher Monger | Stars: Hugh Grant, Tara Fitzgerald, Colm Meaney, Ian McNeice
Votes: 18,704 | Gross: $10.90M
4. 1969 (1988)
R | 95 min | Drama, War
Two friends living in a small town during the 1960s, run away to enjoy their freedom during the Vietnam War, thus disappointing the father of one of them. When they return to town, they realize the importance of family unity.
Director: Ernest Thompson | Stars: Robert Downey Jr., Kiefer Sutherland, Bruce Dern, Mariette Hartley
Votes: 3,997 | Gross: $5.98M
5. The War (2007)
TV-14 | 124 min | Documentary, History, War
A seven-part series focusing on the many ways in which the Second World War impacted the lives of American families.
Stars: Keith David, Katharine Phillips, Tom Hanks, Paul Fussell
Votes: 5,666
6. Ballad of a Soldier (1959)
Not Rated | 88 min | Drama, Romance, War
Young Russian soldier Alyosha earns a medal, but asks to visit his mother instead. His journey recounts various kinds of love during wartime.
Director: Grigoriy Chukhray | Stars: Vladimir Ivashov, Zhanna Prokhorenko, Antonina Maksimova, Nikolay Kryuchkov
Votes: 11,286
7. Molly: An American Girl on the Home Front (2006 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 85 min | Drama, Family, War
Molly is a girl living in the year 1943 and WWII has brought many changes to Molly's life. An English girl comes to live with Molly's family to escape the bombings. They slowly become good friends.
Director: Joyce Chopra | Stars: Maya Ritter, David Aaron Baker, Tory Green, Sarah Manninen
Votes: 984
8. Follow the Boys (1944)
Approved | 122 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
During World War II, all the studios put out "all-star" vehicles which featured virtually every star on the lot--often playing themselves--in musical numbers and comedy skits, and were ... See full summary »
Directors: A. Edward Sutherland, John Rawlins | Stars: George Raft, Vera Zorina, Grace McDonald, Charley Grapewin
Votes: 502
9. Dear Ruth (1947)
Approved | 95 min | Comedy, Romance
A family is befuddled when a World War II serviceman shows up to meet and marry his pen pal sweetheart. Everyone's in the dark about the romance by mail. Then they discover Ruth's younger sister was the culprit.
Director: William D. Russell | Stars: Joan Caulfield, William Holden, Mona Freeman, Edward Arnold
Votes: 715
10. Goodtime Girls (1980)
30 min | Comedy
Four young women share a Washington, D.C. apartment during World War II.
Stars: Annie Potts, Lorna Patterson, Georgia Engel, Francine Tacker
Votes: 55
11. Air Raid Wardens (1943)
Passed | 67 min | Comedy
Two bumblers, failures as businessmen and air raid wardens, stumble across a nest of Nazi saboteurs bent on blowing up the local magnesium plant.
Director: Edward Sedgwick | Stars: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Edgar Kennedy, Jacqueline White
Votes: 1,222
12. Little Red Riding Rabbit (1944)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
Bugs, the Wolf and bobby-soxer Red chase each other around while Grandma is off working at Lockheed aircraft.
Director: Friz Freleng | Stars: Mel Blanc, Bea Benaderet, Billy Bletcher
Votes: 2,066
13. The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter (1980)
65 min | Documentary, History, War
Documentary about women working in factories during WWII and resultant loss of jobs after the war. Five women tell their stories. Fascinating clips of racist, sexist propaganda of the era.
Director: Connie Field | Stars: Lola Weixel, Margaret Wright, Lyn Childs, Gladys Belcher
Votes: 338
14. Germany Pale Mother (1980)
152 min | Drama, History, War
Germany 1939. Hans and Lene marry the day before the war breaks out, and Hans is sent to the Eastern front. During a bombing raid their daughter Anna is born. The house is destroyed and ... See full summary »
Director: Helma Sanders-Brahms | Stars: Eva Mattes, Ernst Jacobi, Elisabeth Stepanek, Angelika Thomas
Votes: 846
15. Tender Comrade (1943)
Passed | 102 min | Drama, Romance, War
Jo Jones, a young defense plant worker whose husband is in the military during World War II, shares a house with three other women in the same situation.
Director: Edward Dmytryk | Stars: Ginger Rogers, Robert Ryan, Ruth Hussey, Patricia Collinge
Votes: 973
16. Gents Without Cents (1944)
Approved | 19 min | Short, Comedy, Music
The stooges are three small time actors looking for a job. They meet three girl dancers in the situation and get a small part in a big producers show at the shipyard. When the rest of the ... See full summary »
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Lindsay Bourquin
Votes: 646
17. Pojat (1962)
106 min | Comedy, Drama, War
A group of mischievous Finnish boys experience the ups and downs of life during World War 2.
Director: Mikko Niskanen | Stars: Pentti Tarkiainen, Vesa-Matti Loiri, Uti Saurio, Hannu Vironmäki
Votes: 976
18. I'll Be Home for Christmas (1988 TV Movie)
96 min | Drama
The Bundy family try to have a good family Christmas, despite World War 2.
Director: Marvin J. Chomsky | Stars: Hal Holbrook, Eva Marie Saint, Nancy Travis, Peter Gallagher
Votes: 307
19. 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
20. Rosie the Riveter (1944)
Passed | 75 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
In wartime 1944 in California, defense plant workers Rosalind "Rosie" Warren and her friend Vera Watson must share, on a rotating schedule, the town's last available rental room with ... See full summary »
Director: Joseph Santley | Stars: Jane Frazee, Frank Albertson, Barbara Jo Allen, Frank Jenks
Votes: 87
21. Sunday Dinner for a Soldier (1944)
Approved | 85 min | Drama, Romance, War
A poor family in Florida saves all the money they can in order to plan something special for the soldier they've invited to Sunday dinner. They don't realize that their request to invite ... See full summary »
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Anne Baxter, Charles Winninger, John Hodiak, Anne Revere
Votes: 365
22. Blondie for Victory (1942)
Passed | 71 min | Comedy, Family, War
Blondie organizes Housewives of America to perform homefront wartime duties, including guarding the local dam. Dagwood and the other husbands don't care to be left home doing the cooking ... See full summary »
Director: Frank R. Strayer | Stars: Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake, Larry Simms, Daisy
Votes: 210
23. A Tale of Two Kitties (1942)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
Babbit and Catstello, take-offs on Bud Abbott and Lou Costello try to catch the little Tweety bird, using everything from stilts to dynamite. Trouble is, the tiny bird has a vicious streak in him.
Director: Robert Clampett | Stars: Mel Blanc, Tedd Pierce
Votes: 1,140
24. Youth Runs Wild (1944)
Passed | 67 min | Drama
The teens of a defense-plant town hop on the road to juvenile delinquency while their parents are busy with the war.
Director: Mark Robson | Stars: Bonita Granville, Kent Smith, Jean Brooks, Glen Vernon
Votes: 466
25. Bedside Manner (1945)
Approved | 72 min | Comedy
Macho pilot is treated by a woman doctor. Complications ensue.
Director: Andrew L. Stone | Stars: John Carroll, Ruth Hussey, Charles Ruggles, Ann Rutherford
Votes: 237
26. The War Against Mrs. Hadley (1942)
Passed | 86 min | Drama
A Washington official courts a society matron who is trying to ignore the effects of World War II.
Director: Harold S. Bucquet | Stars: Edward Arnold, Fay Bainter, Richard Ney, Jean Rogers
Votes: 491
27. The Impatient Years (1944)
Approved | 91 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
To rekindle their love, a divorce judge orders a couple whose marriage is on the rocks to re-enact their four-day breakneck courtship.
Director: Irving Cummings | Stars: Jean Arthur, Lee Bowman, Charles Coburn, Edgar Buchanan
Votes: 434
28. The Eve of St. Mark (1944)
Passed | 96 min | Drama, War
Hometown boy Quizz West (William Eythe) is one of fewer than 19,000 draftees in 1940. After being familiarized with his fiancée Janet and him, we find Quizz at a gun position fighting off ... See full summary »
Directors: John M. Stahl, Irving Pichel | Stars: Anne Baxter, William Eythe, Michael O'Shea, Vincent Price
Votes: 249
29. The Yoke's on Me (1944)
Approved | 16 min | Comedy, Short
Rejected by the armed services, the stooges decide to "do their bit" by becoming farmers. For $1000 plus the car, the boys buy a run down farm with no livestock. They acquire an escaped ostrich that eats gunpowder and lays explosive eggs.
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Emmett Lynn
Votes: 453
30. Allotment Wives (1945)
Passed | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Story of women who marry GIs just so they can receive the soldiers' pay and their life insurance if they are killed in action.
Director: William Nigh | Stars: Kay Francis, Paul Kelly, Otto Kruger, Gertrude Michael
Votes: 569
31. Remember When (1974 TV Movie)
100 min | Drama
Nostalgic story of a family with four sons in the service during WorldWar ll .USO dances, boy-girl relationships and dealing with food and gas rationing. Interesting Uncle who works at the ... See full summary »
Director: Buzz Kulik | Stars: Jack Warden, William Schallert, Jamie Smith-Jackson, Robby Benson
Votes: 59
32. Home Defense (1943)
Approved | 7 min | Family, Animation, Short
Donald is manning a listening post and falls asleep; he blows trumpet calls in his sleep and wakes his nephews. For their revenge, they send up a model airplane filled with gingerbread men ... See full summary »
Director: Jack King | Star: Clarence Nash
Votes: 557
33. Bride by Mistake (1944)
Approved | 81 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Norah is very rich, owns her own shipyard and has Sylvia double for her at all outside functions. But Sylvia is now married and wants to go to Washington with her new husband while Norah's ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Wallace | Stars: Alan Marshal, Laraine Day, Marsha Hunt, Allyn Joslyn
Votes: 333
34. Churchill: Behind the Scenes Featurette (2017 Video)
22 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
Stars: Brian Cox, Bartholomew Cariss, Austin Compson-Bradford, Richard Durden
Votes: 12
35. The Screwy Truant (1945)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Screwy Squirrel is pursued by a truant officer.
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Sara Berner, Billy Bletcher, Pinto Colvig, William Hanna
Votes: 565
36. 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
37. Innertube Antics (1944)
G | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A donkey, putting a small pile of rubber out for wartime recycling, is dismayed by the much larger piles his neighbors have put out. He goes into the back yard and finds a huge buried inner tube, but that inner tube has a mind of its own.
Director: George Gordon | Star: Pinto Colvig
Votes: 156
38. 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
39. The Battle of Gallipoli (1931)
75 min | Drama, War
Two friends enlist in the British army during World War 1 and take part in the Gallipoli campaign.
Directors: Anthony Asquith, Geoffrey Barkas | Stars: Fay Compton, Tony Bruce, Carl Harbord, Dennis Hoey
Votes: 90
40. Wild Honey, or, How to Get Along Without a Ration Book (1942)
8 min | Animation, Family, Comedy
Barney sets off in search of honey, but his various gadgets don't always work out they way they should.
Director: Rudolf Ising
Votes: 112
41. Barney Bear's Victory Garden (1942)
7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Barney Bear grows a victory garden that a gopher is only too happy to gobble up.
Director: Rudolf Ising | Star: Frank Bingman
Votes: 145
42. Sodan ja rauhan miehet (1978–1979)
700 min | Drama, History, War
Stars: Johan Nykopp, Helge Seppälä, Keijo Komppa, Erkki Saksa
Votes: 31
43. Bear Raid Warden (1944)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Barney takes his air-raid warden post too seriously, telling first an owl (shining eyes) and then a firefly to put their lights out. The firefly isn't at all happy and keeps pestering ... See full summary »
Director: George Gordon | Star: Billy Bletcher
Votes: 145
44. 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
45. Mess Production (1945)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Olive Oyl, a regular Rosie the Riveter, receives a blow to the head from a swinging grappling hook, sending her into a sleepwalking state. Popeye and Bluto, two rival factory workers, fight each other for privilege of saving her life.
Directors: Seymour Kneitel, Graham Place | Stars: Jackson Beck, Jack Mercer, Mae Questel
Votes: 157
46. Behind the Tunes: Looney Tunes Go to War! (2005 Video)
10 min | Documentary, Animation, Short
A documentary about the Looney Tunes war cartoons.
Directors: Robert Clampett, Friz Freleng, Chuck Jones, Frank Tashlin | Stars: Leonard Maltin, Paul Dini, Jerry Beck, Mark Kausler
Votes: 51
47. Sotapoika (1993 TV Movie)
118 min | Drama, War
Director: Markku Onttonen | Stars: Mari Rantasila, Hannu Kivioja, Joonas Kuokkanen, Rauli Suomela
Votes: 13
48. 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
49. Victory Song (1945)
80 min | Drama
Directors: Masahiro Makino, Kenji Mizoguchi, Hiroshi Shimizu, Tomotaka Tasaka, Tatsuo Ôsone | Stars: Reikichi Kawamura, Isamu Kosugi, Kôji Mitsui, Hiroyuki Nagato
Votes: 64
50. Suomisen Olli rakastuu (1944)
84 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Director: Orvo Saarikivi | Stars: Lasse Pöysti, Ansa Ikonen, Regina Keso, Maire Suvanto
Votes: 121