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- Fanny's father dies in a fight. Her family runs a brothel. Her real father is a politician. She falls for his advisor Harry. Lord Manderstoke's interference causes conflicts between classes. Tragic events occur due to the Lord's schemes.
- World War II drama that follows a group of British draftees, starting with their rigorous basic training, and ending with their deployment in North Africa.
- The story of how a great Russian prince led a ragtag army to battle an invading force of Teutonic Knights.
- During the early part of his reign, Ivan the Terrible faces betrayal from the aristocracy and even his closest friends as he seeks to unite the Russian people.
- On the South Pacific island of Bora Bora, a young couple's love is threatened when the tribal chief declares the girl a sacred virgin.
- A small village rejoices at the arrival of a new baker. But when his young wife runs off with another man, he is unable to keep baking and the village is thrown into disarray.
- This black and white movie is based on Rudyard Kipling's "Toomai, of the Elephants", in which a small native lad claims he knows the congregating place of the elephant hordes.
- A story of infantry soldiers on the Leningrad front during the German invasion of Russia in WWII, which stresses the importance of friendship between combatants from different regions and ethnicities.
- A British secret agent in Germany takes a job as the assistant to an elderly lighthouse keeper, planning to make his escape with some valuable documents when a British boat arrives to pick them up.
- During WW2, a Royal Navy Commander stumbles upon a murdered woman and discovers a network of Nazi spies and Fifth-Columnists.
- Stalingrad is a 1943 Soviet documentary. The film illustrates the famous battle of the Red Army with the Germans for Stalingrad.
- The younger brother from the common people intends to fight for a salvation of the exiled princess, suffering from a dark magic curse.
- Primarily a biographical documentary about the military career of Alexander Vasilvich Suvorov, who was Field Marshal of the armies of Catherine the Great and Czar Paul I. After many military successes during the reign of Catherine, General Suvorov broke with her successor, Paul I, the Mad Emperor, over questions regarding army policy. He went into retirement and wrote "The Science of Victory," containing maxims such as "Swiftness of movement accompanies victory," and "the real general is he who defeats the enemy before reaching him." The czar recalled Suvorov to become the leader of the joint armies of Rissia and Austria against Napoleon.
- The Allied campaign to drive Germany and Italy from North Africa is analysed, with the major portion of the film examining the battles at El Alamein, including a re-enactment.
- Petty bourgeois Zhigalovs, whose daughter-in-law Dasha is being extradited, find out to their horror that the official Aplombov (Erast Garin), who had lunch with them daily and proved himself to be a fiance, is not going to marry at all. With great difficulty, Dasha's father managed to persuade an ambitious groom to make an offer. The groom agreed, stipulating that the general attend the wedding.
- Hitler's greatest military victory - the conquest of Holland, Belgium and France in the spring of 1940 - is graphically documented in this special Nazi feature.
- A popular high school valedictorian and star athlete becomes a pariah when it's discovered that his father is a former bootlegger.
- A schoolteacher comes to a new town and finds herself caught up in the town's problems and disputes.
- An elderly Jew travels from Britain to pre-war Nazi Germany to find out what's really going on.
- Andre Roosevelt, a cousin to US President Theodore Roosevelt, could afford to trot the globe filming safari and hunting expeditions, and footage from his travels and exploration was combined with some crudely-staged shots,in Hollywood, of him rescuing a ship captain---his sailing-ship captain E. Erskine Loch---and a woman from a cultish native tribe. Andre and Captain Benson (Erskine Loch) go into a Caribbean jungle with Rita de le Vega, whose dad was an explorer who lost his life among the savage Penitentes tribe, but left behind information concerning a treasure. They encounter the tribe who put on a voodoo ceremony by hanging a tribesman on a cross as a sacrifice under the supervision of the voodoo witch doctor. Using underwater diving equipment, Andre & Company find the lost pirate treasure in a stone idol, and head for their yacht with the savages in hot pursuit. Originally released in 1936, under the copyright title of "Beyond the Caribbean," and re-released in 1938, in a shortened 51-minute version, called "Man Hunters of the Caribbean."
- While on a longer business trip, a wannabe poet urges his beautiful but more simple wife to answer his overly swollen love letters. With no idea how to respond she forwards the letters to a new young school teacher to use his answers instead...
- In Bern above Junkerngasse 54 the caretaker has died - the old Hutzli. On the day on which he was buried, it's started again, this howling in the middle of the night - scary. Since then, no one dares to live there.
- Inept Secret Agent on a job in the South of France is followed by his suspicious wife. She masquerades as a maid and chaos ensues.