Keyword War Effort
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1942
Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon
Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon6.30 1942 HD
In the midst of World War II, Sherlock Holmes rescues the Swiss inventor of a new bomb-sight from the Gestapo and brings him to England, where he...
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1944
Since You Went Away
Since You Went Away6.40 1944 HD
In 1943, several people enter, re-enter, and exit the difficult life of a Midwestern family whose patriarch has been called up to war, leaving behind...
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1950
Three Came Home
Three Came Home6.70 1950 HD
Borneo, 1941, during World War II. When the Japanese occupy the island, American writer Agnes Newton Keith is separated from her husband and...
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1945
Keep Your Powder Dry
Keep Your Powder Dry5.90 1945 HD
A debutante, a serviceman's bride and a girl from a military family join the Women's Army Corps.
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1943
Show-Business at War
Show-Business at War7.00 1943 HD
A multi-studio effort to show the newsreel audience the progress of the Hollywood war effort.
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1943
Scrap Happy Daffy
Scrap Happy Daffy6.60 1943 HD
During World War Two, Daffy Duck owns a junkyard which collects scrap metal to use in building weapons to continue the Allied fight against the Axis...
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1943
Seeing Hands
Seeing Hands5.30 1943 HD
This serious Pete Smith Specialty series entry encourages industry to hire people with disabilities to help with the war effort. As a boy, Ben Helwig...
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1944
Meet the People
Meet the People5.00 1944 HD
A idealistic shipyard worker interests a beautiful Hollywood star in staging a musical tribute to the war industry, but they disagree on some...
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1999
Rosies of the North
Rosies of the North1 1999 HD
They raised children, baked cakes... and built world-class fighter planes. Sixty years ago, thousands of women from Thunder Bay and the Prairies...
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1944
You Can't Ration Love
You Can't Ration Love1 1944 HD
In this WW II musical, a group of lovely college co-eds, realizing that there is a shortage of single young men, decide to begin rationing their...
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1942
Eyes in the Night
Eyes in the Night6.00 1942 HD
Blind detective Duncan Maclain gets mixed up with enemy agents and murder when he tries to help an old friend with a rebellious stepdaughter.
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1941
Horse
Horse5.80 1941 HD
Ine Onoda, the eldest daughter of a poor family of farmers, raises a colt from birth and comes to love the horse dearly. When the horse is grown, the...
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2019
The Phoney War
The Phoney War8.00 2019 HD
September 3rd, 1939. Britain and France declare war on Nazi Germany, only two days after the Wehrmacht invades Poland. This day, the sad date when...
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1944
The Very Thought of You
The Very Thought of You6.20 1944 HD
Army sergeants Dave and "Fixit" spend a three-day pass in Pasadena, where they meet Janet and Cora, two young women who work in a parachute factory.
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2016
Asunder
Asunder1 2016 HD
Esther Johnson’s film uses local archive footage to convey the story of Sunderland's involvement in the First World War, from the men who...
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1942
The Tree in a Test Tube
The Tree in a Test Tube4.90 1942 HD
Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy are stopped by narrator Pete Smith for the purpose of showing the audience how much wood and wood by-products the...
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1942
Inflation
Inflation5.00 1942 HD
The Devil works with Adolf Hitler to cause inflation in the United States.
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1944
Sweethearts of the U.S.A.
Sweethearts of the U.S.A.4.00 1944 HD
A WW-II defense plant worker gets knocked out and dreams about helping the war effort in various ways, including solving a crime.
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1917
Women’s Munition Work
Women’s Munition Work1 1917 HD
This early public information film puts out an appeal for more women to take up munitions work - showing training centres, opportunities for work in...
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2021
How The Nazis Lost The War
How The Nazis Lost The War7.50 2021 HD
The decline of Hitler’s empire from the inside out by exploring the decline of the Nazis through the perspective of Hitler's bumbling generals...