Get Cracking is a 1943 British comedy war film, directed by Marcel Varnel and starring Dinah Sheridan, Ronald Shiner and George Formby. It was produced by Marcel Varnel, Ben Henry and Columbia (British) Productions. This comedy explores the wayward rivalry between mechanic and Home Guard Lance Corporal George Singleton (George Formby) and an adversary also in the Home Guard (Ronald Shiner). When the rival Home Guard units of Major Wallop and Minor Wallop are sent on battle manoeuvres, George Singleton (Formby) launches his own unique style of commando raid against neighbouring Major Wallop to steal a Vickers machine gun. The raid fails and Singleton loses his Lance Corporal's stripe, so he and a little evacuee girl named Irene (Vera Frances) decide to fall back on 'Plan B' - to build their very own tank.
In the winter of 1936-1937, in the Biscayan-Alevan front, militiamen of the CNT arrive in the village of Meroño with the aim of reinforcing the defenses against the imminent advance of the columns of requetés; Carlist soldiers adept at the cause of the rebels. Alicia, an anarchist militiaman, will establish a close relationship with Rosarito, a girl from the village, who will try to survive a war that will change her way of life forever.
Events are unfolding in one of the hot spots of the Russia. The heroes of the film returned from the war. They are winners and losers, because they have forgotten how to live in peace. The war is over, but it is close and still kills. And they want to live so passionately. But how?
Reserve Second Lieutenant Christos Kladis is absent without leave from his unit when he learns that his girlfriend has become engaged to someone else. At the court martial, he refuses to explain himself and is sentenced to dismissal from the army and two years' imprisonment. His father, a retired officer, disowns him. After his release from prison, Christos changes his name and leaves to work as a sailor on ships under the name Grigoris Staridis. When war is declared, he returns to Greece and fights on the front lines.
A story of true love set during the WWII.
Captain Alexis Komninos manages to escape from the Germans, with the help of the abbot Prudence arrives in Middle East headquarters in Cairo. Assumes office and connected to the beautiful Maria, from which does not hide that he is married. Meanwhile, his wife Anna and Synesios captured by the Germans on charges that reported in Cairo information for the departure of a German convoy. Komninos, along with a team of commandos, landed in occupied Greece and liberate the imprisoned patriots apart from the Synesius already performed. But while trying to escape, Anna was fatally injured. After the war, Komninos apologizes by Governor Raidis whom he considers lover of his wife, and with Mary, visited the grave of Anna.
Just after the end of the WW II, Kirill Poletayev manages to escape from a train full of prisoners, which gets stuck in a snowdrift. After a strenuous escape through the winter forest, completely frozen and weakened, finally reaches his native village. This situation forces people to take a stand.
A look at Soviet foreign policy and the value of the Soviet Union as an ally.
This animated short from Norman McLaren features a human skull cautioning Canadians to “keep their mouths shut” in an effort to end gossiping during World War II.
The film is based on the novel by Vyacheslav Kondratyev "Vacation by Wound." The story of the few weeks that young lieutenant Volodya spent in Moscow in the summer of 1942 after treatment at the hospital. Directly from the Rzhev Front with a bandaged hand, in a bloodstained padded jacket and tattered boots, he goes on vacation to his mother in the capital. Here, at the height of the war, almost peaceful life is going on - lines for vodka and beer, restaurants for the aristocracy of nomenclature, parties, girls... It’s another month for Volodya to live an ordinary life in Moscow, in a peaceful city in which everything is alien to him.
The story of Zeinal, a man who after 20 years of being a POW, tries to clear up his past.
In the thick of World War I, Allied forces attempt the daring feat of planting over a million pounds of explosives beneath enemy lines.
In Autumn of 1941, the German army, determined to put down a Communist-led uprising in Serbia, is conducting a policy of killing 100 hostages for any German soldier killed. The city of Kraljevo is the site of one of those massacres, portrayed in this movie.
After The Ceasefire, the war must go on. Killers are hired to assassinated high value targets and survive. But some may not.
The Special Air Service is the world's most famous combat unit, with the motto 'Who Dares Wins', but the story of how it came into existence has been, until now, a closely guarded secret. For the first time, the SAS has agreed to open up its archive and allow Ben Macintyre to reveal the true story of their formation during the darkest days of World War Two. With unprecedented access to the SAS secret files, unseen footage and exclusive interviews with its founder members, this series tells the remarkable story behind an extraordinary fighting force.
A bombing mission over Germany by the American Eighth Air Force, from the initial planning for the mission through final completion, with all of its intricacies from beginning to end.
Steven and Abdel, two young Belgians, leave for Syria. One as a journalist, the other as a fighter. Yet they have more in common than you might think.
The legendary spy obtained as much secret information as no one else could. For this, he paid with his own life.
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