 | Battleground
Buy used from: $2.61 ***** - Director William Wellman's takes a weary-realistic approach to good effect in this story of the Battle of the Bulge.
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 | The Bedford Incident
Buy new: $15.49 / Used from: $26.98 ***** - Smart and gripping Cold War story of obsessed US destroyer commander Richard Widmark stalking an elusive Soviet sub.
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![Castle Keep [Region 2]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51NPMG2R87L._SL75_.jpg) | Castle Keep [Region 2]
Buy used from: $6.42 ** - WWII Battle of the Bulge movie with a late-60's anti-Vietnam war attitude. Pretentious and unbearable.
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 | Cloak and Dagger
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $6.34 *** - Fritz Lang's stylish WWII espionage thriller never quite clicks into gear, gets hijacked by Gary Cooper/Lilli Palmer second half romance.
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 | Cross of Iron (Full Screen)
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $13.65 **** - Sam Peckinpah's gritty, ragged and powerful take on heroism told from the German point of view.
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 | The Eagle Has Landed
Buy new: $6.49 / Used from: $1.93 **** - Michael Caine, Robert Duvall & Donald Sutherland conspire to kidnap Churchill in this entertaining speculative movie.
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 | Enemy at the Gates
Buy new: $8.49 / Used from: $1.49 ***** - Engrossing tale of the Battle of Stalingrad as played out by a top Russian sniper (Jude Law) and his coldly efficient adversary (Ed Harris.)
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 | The Fighting Lady
Buy new: $4.98 / Used from: $5.08 **** - William Wyler directed WWII documentary from an aircraft carrier somewhere in the Pacific Theater. Exciting Technicolor footage, offscreen narration by Robert Taylor.
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 | Flying Tigers
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $2.14 **** - Great special effects and the duke make this otherwise predictable story of fly boys over China a bit of fun.
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 | Foyle's War: Set 1 (The German Woman / The White Feather / A Lesson In Murder / Eagle Day)
Buy new: $47.99 / Used from: $36.69 **** - Well acted, well written British series about a crime investigator hunting criminals in war-torn Britain. Should appeal equally to msytery and war story lovers.
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 | Hollywood Goes to War: How Politics, Profits and Propaganda Shaped World War II Movies by Clayton R. Koppes
Buy new: $24.04 / Used from: $4.62 **** - This history of the federal government's Office of War Information is solid, and includes some surprising censorship battles of WWII.
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 | It Happened Here
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $18.50 *** - Low budget 'what if' story have the Germans conquering England in WWII. Owes a lot to Italian Neo-Realism. Ragged, uneven, and interesting.
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 | The Man Who Never Was
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $7.22 ***** - Clifton Webb is ideally cast as the British naval commander who throws some disinformation on the Axis in WWII. Light on action, heavy on detail, a great caper movie.
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 | NOVA: Medieval Siege
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $8.99 **** - Stacy Keach narrates this episode of PBS's Nova from 2000 as two teams race to build a 13th-century castle busting device.
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 | The Red Badge of Courage
Buy new: $19.49 / Used from: $2.73 ***** - Crap shoot casting of WWII hero Audie Murphy works wonderfully for John Huston in this reflective gem.
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 | Since You Went Away
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $8.55 *** - Plucky Claudette Colbert and brood try to survive when husband enlists in WWII. Sincere weepie a little too manipulative for my taste.
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 | Sink the Bismarck!
Buy new: $12.49 / Used from: $4.98 ***** - Great special effects, a devotion to realism and understated acting make this classic one of the best sea battle movies out there.
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 | Sundown
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $1.94 *** - Romance and jungle fantasy dominate this okay war flick set in British East Africa in the opening days of WWII. Gene Tierney is beautiful enough as the exotic trader goddess.
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 | To the Shores of Tripoli
Buy used from: $1.47 **** - Light-hearted early (1942) recruitment film has playboy John Payne wooing nurse Maureen O'Hara & battling sergeant Randolph Scott. DVD is b/w, although originally released in color.
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 | The Young Lions
Buy used from: $4.35 *** - Sprawling, rambling WWII story tracing the careers of German officer Brando, and American boot campers Martin and Clift. A lot of wasted potential in this one.
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