Ernie Pyle was a war correspondent during the Second World War whose accounts of that time happened to earn him the Pulitzer Prize. It was not simply relating what went on during […]
On the Front Lines – The Story of G.I. Joe (1945)
Not a One Man Army – Screaming Eagles (1956)
Sometimes a person cannot help but have a bad attitude. Maybe it was because kids picked on them in school or they had bad parents or whatever but somewhere, life along the […]
Tempered By War – Away All Boats (1956)
Away All Boats is the story of the Belinda and the men who sail her, a ship fresh off the line with a crew just as new. For Captain Jebediah Hawks, it […]
Men On a Mission – Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944)
A group of men, all volunteers and all of them pilots or men that work on planes are gathered together for a secret mission by Spencer Tracy. As they get to know […]
On the Run – The Sea Chase (1955)
Finding himself on the run, John Wayne has to take his old steam freighter back home to Germany before war fully breaks out and as he does so, finds himself being chased […]
From Loss to Love – My Reputation (1946)
My Reputation, released in 1946, may not be a war picture per se but it is war adjacent and as such when it did come out, it was shown to the Armed […]
When Life Takes a Turn – Crime of Passion (1957)
Going against one’s nature can either lead to unexpected good things or very foreseeable bad things and in this film, Barbara Stanwyck’s character Kathy does just that to marry the man she […]
A Muse and Her Man – Down to Earth (1947)
Terpsichore, one of the nine muses of Greek mythology, the goddess of dance and chorus, has heard about a Broadway musical being put on about her life by producer Danny Miller. Of […]
When You Know You Know – B.F.’s Daughter (1948)
With Van Heflin and Barbara Stanwyck in the lead, B.F.’s Daughter turns out to be a pleasing drama that sees the two in and out of love with each other, the former […]
And the Band Played On – Titanic (1953)
There are those that will view this film and think about nothing about what may or may not have been historically accurate and those that will compare it to the version before […]
