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Never So Few
(1959) [PG]

Frank Sinatra told the director to give the newcomer a break. John Sturges (The Great Escape) obliged, providing favorable camera angles for Sinatra's young co-star. In his first big-budget film, Steve McQueen was ready to grab the movie world's attention. McQueen plays Bill Ringa, one of the...  More

Too Late the Hero
(1970) [M]

Lawson (Cliff Robertson), an American naval officer specialising in Asiatic languages, is sent to the Pacific to assist a group of British soldiers (Michael Caine, Denholm Elliott, and Harry Andrews) in a seemingly simple mission to knock out the enemy’s key transmitter. The allied soldiers...  More

The Day Will Dawn
(1952) [G]

Horse race tipster and journalist Metcalfe is picked for the job of foreign correspondent in Norway when Hitler invades Poland. On the way to Norway his boat is attacked by a German U-Boat, however when he tells the navy about it they don't believe him and, to make matters worse, he is removed...  More

Operation Amsterdam
(1959) [G]

During WW II, British commandos visit occupied Holland to help the Dutch underground keep a fortune in diamonds out of Nazi hands. Tense action follows as Anna, Jan and their colleagues play cat and mouse with the Gestapo, knowing that one of their number may be a traitor.  More

Soft Beds, Hard Battles
(1974) [PG]

Peter Sellers plays multiple characters in this romp set in World War II. Madame Grenier is the head of a famous Parisian brothel. After most of her French clients go off to war (characters played by Sellers), she tells her girls that they are to be equally attentive to the arriving German...  More

Secret Mission
(1942) [PG]

A behind-the-lines adventure with four British Intelligence Officers parachuting into occupied France. The mission that follows takes them into the heart of the Nazi headquarters in France.  More

The Cowra Breakout (2 Disc Set)
(1984) [M]

In August 1944, 1104 Japanese prisoners of war at the Australian POW camp at Cowra stage a mass breakout. Four guards are killed in the escape, and 231 prisoners die by wounds sustained or suicide, while 334 prisoners are recaptured over the subsequent nine days.  More

Hellcats of the Navy
(1957) [G]

Former U.S. President Ronald Reagan and former First Lady Nancy Davis – in their only screen appearance together - headline the cast in this taut WWII submarine thriller that chronicles the true story of a daring mission into hostile enemy waters. Based on a novel by Vice-Admiral Charles A....  More

The Lost Command
(1966) [PG]

Academy Award® winner Anthony Quinn gives one of his best performances as Lieutenant Colonel Pierre Raspeguy, a hardheaded officer determined to become a hero at any cost in this dramatic war saga. After Lt. Col. Raspeguy leads his defeated and humiliated French army out of Indochina, he learns...  More

The War Lover
(1962) [PG]

Steve McQueen fights his own private battle as a volatile "war lover" in this gripping story based on a novel by John Hersey. Stationed in England during World War II, Buzz Rickson (McQueen) is the bravest Air Force pilot in his squadron - and the most reckless. His maniacal quest for thrills...  More