This Website has an impressive amount of information about Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. Especially of interest is the hypertext link titled "This Month in New Deal History". This link serves as a chronology of important people and events during the Roosevelt era.

More Bob Wills!

A forerunner to Texas Swing and Texas Blues, Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys fiddled a commercial brand of down home favorites. 

After the fall of the Phillipines in WWII, colonel Joseph Maden of the U.S. Army stays on to organize guerrilla fighters against the conquerors.

Bataan realistically shows the tensions, the ugly hardships and the ultimate heroism of a small patrol of American and Filipino fighting men in 1942. Their task is to destroy a strategic bridge in a last-ditch battle against Japan's capture of the Philippines. No run-of-the-military war movie, Bataan is a stirring tribute to all who believe, in the words of one of the heroes, that "it doesn't matter where a man dies so long as he dies for freedom."

Nazi Panzer forces stage a last-ditch Belgian front offensive that could turn the tide of WWII. A spectacular recreation of a crucial campaign. Henry Fonda...

Marco, a young loyalist peasant-soldier, falls in love with Norma, a rebel spy, during the Spanish Civil War. They struggle against a powerful enemy blockade that is preventing the delivery of food in a battle that could change the course of the war.

Set in World War II Morocco within a city filled with European refugees. A bitter nightclub owner helps his former lover and her Resistance-hero husband escape from the Nazis. Bogart and Bacall - steaming!!!

This Website contains a detailed chronology of international events from March 1938 to December 1941.

It's World War II. Major Dan Kirby (John Wayne) is hard on his marines. His subordinate Captain Carl Griffin thinks the Major is overdoing it, but Kirby proves that there is a method to his madness after all.

Howard Hughs production!

A reporter sent to Europe to cover a peace conference falls in love with a diplomat's daughter, but discovers that her father is the head of a Nazi spy ring.

Drama about life in the Army in the days prior to World War II. Shows the effect of Army discipline on an individualistic former boxing champion who defies the attempts of officers and men to break him when he refuses to fight on the company's boxing team. Includes actual scenes of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. And Burt at the beach.

Col. Paul W. Tibbets, Jr. is a distinguished officer in the U.S. Air Force with a brilliant track record in the North African campaign of WWII. But his greatest achievement is yet to come. After successfully testing and modifying the new B-29, he is chosen to command the unit that will deliver an atomic bomb over an enemy target! For months, Paul and his team work in virtual secrecy as the scientists of the Manhattan Project race to complete the bomb. The personal toll exacted by the work is so great that even Pual's wife Lucey is not immune from its effects.

After the Pearl Harbor Attack in 1941, 100,000 Japanese living in the United States were forced to move to concentration camps. With family stories and some documentaries, videomaker Tajiri describes the haunting impacts of this ordeal on American Japanese for generations thereafter.

Epic treatment of the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the attack on the naval base. And Patricia Neal!

Rollicking wartime story of a romance between a soldier headed off to WWII and a hostess at New York City's fabled canteen.

And Kate Hepburn too...

 

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Whether horrific or humorous, fabricated or true, countless stories accompanied enlisted Americans back home. While not all of them were appropriate dinner table topics, many provided colorful conversation pieces or, as this post-war radio broadcast demonstrates, inspiration for a song. Billed as "The Most Colorful Hillbilly Band In America," the Maddox Brothers and Rose were no strangers to radio, building a strong reputation on the airwaves before the outbreak of World War II. Like many bands, though, the family act went on hiatus for Uncle Sam before reforming after the war with a renewed vigor and, no doubt, plenty of tales to tell. On "Whoa Sailor," bassist Fred Maddox has storytelling honors for this amusingly trite account of shore leave dawdling.

 

British soldiers captured by the Japanese during World War II are forced to construct a strategic railroad bridge which a commando team is instructed by the British High Command to destroy.

Great music...if you like whistling...

Stars Charlie Chaplin in two totally opposite roles: a Jewish barber facing the constant threat of storm troopers and religious persecution; the other, the dictator, Adenoid Hynkel.

A World War II melodrama about the escape of British and American flyers from a maximum-security German prison camp.

Notes: Based on the book by Paul Brickhill.
Aspect ratio 2.35:1.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1963.
"A commemorative 2 disc collector's set."--Container.
Special features include: disc 1. Audio commentary by director John Sturges; trivia track. Disc 2. Documentaries "The great escape: the untold story" and "The real Virgil Hilts: a man called Jones"; featurettes: "Return to the Great escape", "Preparations for freedom", "A standing ovation", "Bringing fact to fiction", and "The flight to freedom"; photo gallery; original theatrical trailer.

Cooler King!

Boogie Woogie Bugle Boys

Interestingly enough, the demise of wartime music programs did not coincide with the end of World War II. The popular V-Disc record lasted until May 1949, while the Armed Forces Radio Service persevered through the Korean War, the rise of television and rock 'n' roll, and the start of the Vietnam conflict before folding in the late 1960's. Moreover, the atomic bomb, new military terminology, and shore leave exploits provided plenty of additional inspiration for post-war songs. For some Americans, the Japanese surrender indicated a definite closure and return to normalcy; but for others, the ways of war and the music that got them through it proved tough to purge from their systems.

The six songs presented here come from the 78 rpm and LP disc collections and the Armed Forces Radio and Television Service collection in the Marr Sound Archives.

A dramatization which chronicles the bombing of Pearl Harbor from both the Japanese and American points of view.

This Website, from the University of San Diego and developed by Dr. Steven Schoenherr, has maps of Germany after the Treaty of Versailles, Europe in the 1930s, a map of China in 1937 and additional maps chronicling the World after WWI and before WWII.