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1. Young Widow (1946)

Passed | 100 min | Drama, Romance

A grieving war widow meets a young Lieutenant but spurns him for trying too hard to gain her affection. Will she give him a second chance when they meet again?

Director: Edwin L. Marin | Stars: Jane Russell, Louis Hayward, Faith Domergue, Marie Wilson

Votes: 340

2. Rationing (1944)

Passed | 93 min | Comedy, Romance, War

A village butcher bickers with the postmistress in charge of World War II ration stamps.

Director: Willis Goldbeck | Stars: Wallace Beery, Marjorie Main, Donald Meek, Dorothy Morris

Votes: 273

3. Victory Vehicles (1943)

Approved | 8 min | Animation, Comedy, Family

To combat the wartime shortages in gas and tires, a number of fanciful forms of transportation are demonstrated by various versions of Goofy. Finally, we see the ultimate solution: the pogo stick.

Director: Jack Kinney | Stars: Jack Bailey, Pinto Colvig, James MacDonald, Clarence Nash

Votes: 479

4. Home Maid (1944)

10 min | Comedy, Short

Wartime housekeeping tips by a home-economics pro who comes to the aid of a bumbling, vertically challenged husband and his statuesque bride.

Director: Will Jason | Stars: Polly Patterson, Pete Smith

5. Flour from Potatoes (1918)

Documentary, Short

With wheat hard to come by during wartime, Americans have turned to potato flour as an alternative.

6. Paramount-Bray Pictographs, No. 102 (1918)

Documentary, Short

Subjects include: "Evolution of the Dance", "Flour From Potatoes", and "The Panama Canal".

Director: P.D. Hugon

7. A Nero Wolfe Mystery (2001–2002)
Episode: Before I Die (2002)

TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Drama, Mystery

A notorious gangster hires Wolfe to protect his real daughter, who is unaware of who her father is, and stop the woman impersonating his daughter from blackmailing him.

Director: John L'Ecuyer | Stars: Timothy Hutton, Maury Chaykin, Colin Fox, Bill Smitrovich

Votes: 107

8. Upstairs, Downstairs (1971–1975)
Episode: The Beastly Hun (1974)

TV-14 | 52 min | Drama

The sinking of the Lusitania has Hudson on a tirade and his anti-German fervor pervade the servants hall. Upstairs, Richard is made Civil Lord of the Admiralty in the newly-formed coalition government.

Director: Bill Bain | Stars: Gordon Jackson, Lesley-Anne Down, Meg Wynn Owen, Jean Marsh

Votes: 89

9. The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem (2021– )
Episode: Episode #1.20 (2022)

TV-MA | Drama

As Luna and Victoria await news about David, Gavriel learns that his poor decisions bore unexpected fruit.

Director: Oded Davidoff | Stars: Michael Aloni, Yoalah Brinson, Omer Dror, Michael Givati

Votes: 21