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War correspondent Ernie Pyle joins Company C, 18th Infantry as this American army unit fights its way across North Africa in World War II. He comes to know the soldiers and finds much human interest material for his readers back in the States. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation in 2000.
Burgess Meredith
Ernie Pyle
Robert Mitchum
Bill Walker
Freddie Steele
Sgt. Steve Warnicki
Wally Cassell
Pvt. Dondaro
Jimmy Lloyd
Pvt. Spencer
John R. Reilly
Pvt. Robert 'Wingless' Murphy
William Murphy
Private Mew
Dorothy Coonan Wellman
Nurse Lt. Elizabeth 'Red' Murphy (uncredited)
William Benedict
Pvt. Whitey (uncredited)
War correspondent Ernie Pyle joins Company C, 18th Infantry as this American army unit fights its way across North Africa in World War II. He comes to know the soldiers and finds much human interest material for his readers back in the States. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation in 2000.
A little like Australian wartime reporter Damien Parer, this story of a renowned American equivalent is also something that makes us realise just how perilous the job of correspondent really was. This film focuses on the segment of Ernie Pyle’s career when he (Burgess Meredith) joins an American company moving from North Africa to be at the vanguard of the invasion of Italy. He is paired up with Lt. Walker (Robert Mitchum) and across those gruesome theatres of war he reports honestly to his readers at home whilst befriending many of the war-weary soldiers. The production is interspersed with actuality which adds a richness to the engaging characterisations that illustrate really effectively just how ordinary these soldiers were, and therefore just how they reacted - each to their strengths and vulnerabilities - to the relentless onslaught and deprivations of war. These men are fighting tenaciously through the sand or the snow for every inch they can obtain, and this film doesn’t shy away from showing us the personal costs of war. Their enemies are well entrenched, well armed and ready for what is coming. Meredith himself fought in the war and presents a considered and personable performance of a brave and often sickened man, and he works well with an authentic looking Mitchum and a solid and small cast of supporters with whom Pyle became good friends. It’s not without it’s optimism, and there’s even a tiny bit of romance, but essentially it’s a grim indictment of a modern and indiscriminate conflict.
In the 1943 invasion of Italy, one American platoon lands, digs in, then makes its way inland to attempt to take a fortified farmhouse, as tension and casualties mount.
ในช่วงสงครามโลกครั้งที่ 2 หน่วยรบพิเศษได้ก่อตั้งขึ้นโดยประกอบด้วยหน่วยรบพิเศษของกองทัพแคนาดาและหน่วยรบพิเศษของกองทัพสหรัฐฯ ที่เคยถูกคุมขังในเรือนจำทหารมาก่อน หลังจากช่วงแรกของความขัดแย้งระหว่างทั้งสองกลุ่ม ความเป็นศัตรูก็เปลี่ยนมาเป็นความเคารพและมิตรภาพ และหน่วยรบพิเศษนี้ถูกส่งไปที่อิตาลีเพื่อปฏิบัติภารกิจอันตรายที่ก่อนหน้านี้ถือว่าเป็นไปไม่ได้ที่จะทำได้
In September 1942, the German Afrika Korps under Rommel have successfully pushed the Allies back into Egypt. A counter-attack is planned, for which the fuel dumps at Tobruk are a critical impediment. In order to aid the attack, a group of British commandos and German Jews make their way undercover through 800 miles of desert, to destroy the fuel dumps starving the Germans of fuel.
A mismatched collection of conscripted civilians find training tough under Lieutenant Jim Perry and Sergeant Ned Fletcher when they are called up to replace an infantry battalion that had suffered casualties at Dunkirk.
The lives of three young men, a German and two Americans, during WWII.
A team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers.
สมาชิกของกองพลทหารอากาศที่ 101 ของกองทัพบกสหรัฐกำลังต่อสู้เพื่อประเทศของตนท่ามกลางภูมิประเทศที่ขรุขระของเมืองบาสโทญ ประเทศเบลเยียม ในเดือนธันวาคม พ.ศ. 2487 ฮอลลีย์และเพื่อนร่วมชาติชาวอเมริกันของเขาได้เห็นโรเดอริกส์ สมาชิกของพวกเขาเสียชีวิตจากการโจมตีของศัตรูไปแล้ว ทหารเหล่านี้พยายามตอบโต้การโจมตีของนาซีชุดใหม่ แต่สิ่งที่พวกเขาต้องการจริงๆ คือการเปลี่ยนแปลงสภาพอากาศ หากไม่มีท้องฟ้าที่แจ่มใส พวกเขาจะไม่มีวันได้รับการสนับสนุนทางอากาศที่ต้องการ
During the harrows of WWII, Jo, a young shepherd along with the help of the widow Horcada, helps to smuggle Jewish children across the border from southern France into Spain.
During World War II, a small group of survivors is stranded in a lifeboat together after the ship they were traveling on is destroyed by a German U-boat.
North Africa, World War II. British soldiers on the brink of collapse push beyond endurance to struggle up a brutal incline. It's not a military objective. It's The Hill, a manmade instrument of torture, a tower of sand seared by a white-hot sun. And the troops' tormentors are not the enemy, but their own comrades-at-arms.