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The Legend of Tank Commander Nishizumi. Nishizumi senshacho-den (西住戦車長伝) Kōzaburō Yoshimura. Japanese tank commander fights in the Sino-Japanese War and dies in the Battle of Nanking. United Kingdom. Ten Days in Paris. Jeremy Brown. Comedy mystery. United States.
Why We Fight is a series of seven propaganda films produced by the US Department of War from 1942 to 1945, during World War II.It was originally written for American soldiers to help them understand why the United States was involved in the war, but US President Franklin Roosevelt ordered distribution for public viewing.
The year 1939 in film is widely considered the greatest year in film history. The ten films nominated for Best Picture at the 12th Academy Awards (which honored the best in film for 1939)—Dark Victory, Gone with the Wind, Goodbye, Mr. Chips, Love Affair, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Ninotchka, Of Mice and Men, Stagecoach, The Wizard of Oz, and Wuthering Heights—range in genre and are ...
Millennium Challenge 2002 (MC02) was a major war game exercise conducted by the United States Armed Forces under JFCOM in mid-2002, running from 24 July to 15 August. The exercise involved both live exercises and computer simulations , costing US$250 million (equivalent to about $423M in 2023), the most expensive war game in US military history ...
White House. Design date. 2003. The United States twenty-dollar bill (US$20) is a denomination of U.S. currency. A portrait of Andrew Jackson, the seventh U.S. president (1829–1837), has been featured on the obverse of the bill since 1928; the White House is featured on the reverse. As of December 2018, the average life of a $20 bill in ...
James Stewart in Winning Your Wings (1942). During World War II and immediately after it, in addition to the many private films created to help the war effort, many Allied countries had governmental or semi-governmental agencies commission propaganda and training films for home and foreign consumption.
Netherlands. The Forgotten Battle. De Slag om de Schelde. Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. Dutch World War II film that depicts the Battle of the Scheldt in 1944. The film follows a Dutch Axis soldier, an English Allied pilot, and a resistance girl from Zeeland . 2021.
Graveyard of the Fireflies (1988) Rocks in My Pockets (2004) - partially set during World War II but also includes scenes set both before and after the war. Valiant (2005) Earlier war cartoons. The Sinking of the Lusitania (1918) China in Flames (1925) – Soviet cartoon about the Chinese Civil War.