Movie War
American soldiers undertake a mission to capture a Japanese admiral who has survived an air crash in China during WWII.
Edmond O'Brien Barry Sullivan Jocelyn Brando Leo Gordon Lee Strasberg Richard Loo Dayton Lummis Leon Askin Dabbs Greer Alvy Moore Wong Artarne Philip Ahn James Anderson George Chan David Chow Kei Thin Chung Dick Crockett Todd Karns Eddie Lee Freddie Letuli Edo Mita Rollin Moriyama Lane Nakano Walter Ng
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Women of Valor
A group of American Army nurses are captured by the Japanese in April 1942 and spend three years in a prisoner-of-war camp in Bataan. Lt Margaret Ann Jessup, the head army nurse, survives the camp and testifies against the Japanese in front of the United States Congressional subcommittee years later as a colonel.
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Panic arises among Allied POWs aboard a Japanese freighter when they learn that the ship is actually a decoy target for American submarines on night patrol. The prisoners unite and attack their Japanese captors just as an American sub surfaces and, not knowing the prisoners are aboard, prepares to torpedo the ship.
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Hogan's Heroes is an American television sitcom that ran for 168 episodes from September 17, 1965, to July 4, 1971, on the CBS network. The show was set in a German prisoner of war camp during World War II. Bob Crane starred as Colonel Robert E. Hogan, coordinating an international crew of Allied prisoners running a Special Operations group from the camp. Werner Klemperer played Colonel Wilhelm Klink, the commandant of the camp, and John Banner was the inept sergeant-of-the-guard, Hans Schultz. The series was popular during its six-season run. In 2013, creators Bernard Fein through his estate and Albert S. Ruddy acquired the sequel and other separate rights to Hogan's Heroes from Mark Cuban through arbitration and a movie based on the show has been planned.
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We Dive at Dawn
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