War Effort Movies
- 1942

Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon
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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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- 1945

Keep Your Powder Dry
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A debutante, a serviceman's bride and a girl from a military family join the Women's Army Corps.
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- 1949

The Small Back Room
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As the Germans drop explosive booby-traps on 1943 Britain, the embittered expert who'll have to disarm them fights a private battle with alcohol.
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- 1944

Since You Went Away
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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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- 2019

The Phoney War
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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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- 1942

Eyes in the Night
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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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- 1944

Sweethearts of the U.S.A.
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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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- 1943

Seeing Hands
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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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- 1941

Horse
Horse5.81941HD
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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- 1944

Meet the People
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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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- 1943

Show-Business at War
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A multi-studio effort to show the newsreel audience the progress of the Hollywood war effort.
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- 1950

Three Came Home
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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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- 1944

The Very Thought of You
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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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- 1943

Scrap Happy Daffy
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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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- 1944

You Can't Ration Love
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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

The Tree in a Test Tube
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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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- 1999

Rosies of the North
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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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- 1942

Inflation
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The Devil works with Adolf Hitler to cause inflation in the United States.
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- 1943

Calling All Kids
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An Our Gang salute to the armed forces finds the gang performing a revue honoring the U.S. military. Amidst such highlights as a "recruiting office"...
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- 2016

Asunder
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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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