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.

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."

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.

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.

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Based on J. G. Ballard's autobiographical novel, tells the story of a boy, James Graham, whose privileged life is upturned by the Japanese invasion of Shanghai, December 8, 1941. Separated from his parents, he is eventually captured, and taken to Soo Chow confinement camp, next to a captured Chinese airfield. Amidst the sickness and food shortages in the camp, Jim attempts to reconstruct his former life, all the while bringing spirit and dignity to those around him.

Fat man and little boy were the names given to the first 2 atomic bombs built by "The Manhattan Project". This film is the true story of their creation, and the fascinating people involved.

Contributors: Bonnie Bedelia (Actor); John Cusack (Actor); Laura Dern (Actor); Tony Garnett (Producer); Roland Joffé (Director, Author of screenplay); John C. McGinley (Actor); Paul Newman (Actor); Bruce Robinson (Author of screenplay, Author); Dwight Schultz (Actor).

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.

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This strikingly realistic film follows a devoted platoon of Marines through the terrors of war in the South Pacific.

Contributors: William Bendix (Actor); Jerry Cady (Adapter); Richard Conte (Actor); Preston Foster (Actor); Bryan Foy (Producer); Lloyd Nolan (Actor); Anthony Quinn (Actor); Lewis Seiler (Director); Richard Tregaskis (Author); Lamar Trotti (Author of screenplay).

Dramatic personal stories of the men who fought the courageous battle that was to be the Pacific turning point for the United States.

Contributors: James Coburn (Actor); Henry Fonda (Actor); Charlton Heston (Actor); Walter Mirisch (Producer); Donald S. Sanford (Author of screenplay); Jack Smight (Director); John Williams (Composer).

A group of men parachute into Japanese-occupied Burma with a dangerous and important mission: to locate and blow up a radar station. They accomplish this well enough, but when they try to rendezvous at an old air-strip to be taken back to their base, they find Japanese waiting for them, and they must make a long, difficult walk back through enemy-occupied jungle.

The captain of a submarine sunk by the Japanese during WWII is finally given a chance to skipper another sub after a year of working a desk job. His singleminded determination for revenge against the destroyer that sunk his previous vessel puts his new crew in unneccessary danger.

Contributors: Buddy Adler (Producer); Robert Russell Bennett (Arranger); Rossano Brazzi (Performer); Russ Brown (Performer); Ken Clark (Performer); Mitzi Gaynor (Performer); Juanita Hall (Performer); Oscar Hammerstein (Lyricist); John Kerr (Performer); Joshua Logan (Adapter, Director); James A. Michener (Author); Jack Mullaney (Performer); Alfred Newman (Conductor); France Nuyen (Performer); Paul Osborn (Author of screenplay); Edward B. Powell (Arranger); Richard Rodgers (Composer); Giorgio Tozzi (Performer); Ray Walston (Performer).

In World War II, the outcome of the battle of Guadalcanal will strongly influence the Japanese's advance into the pacific. A group of young soldiers is brought in as a relief for the battle-weary Marine units. The exhausting fight for a key-positioned airfield that allows control over a 1000-mile radius puts the men of the Army Rifle company C-for-Charlie through hell. The horrors of war forms the soldiers into a tight-knit group, their emotions develop into bonds of love and even family. The reasons for this war get further away as the world for the men gets smaller and smaller until their fighting is for mere survival and the life of the other men with them.

Based on the real life heroics of Lieutenants John Bulkeley (Brickley) and Robert Kelly (Ryan), the movie accurately depicts the defense of the Philippines by American PT Boats from December 1941 through April 1942 for which Lieutenant (later Vice Admiral) Bulkeley was awarded the Medal of Honor and Lieutenant Kelly the Navy Cross.

The amazingly detailed true story of "The Doolittle Raid" based on the novel of the same name. Stunned by Pearl Harbor and a string of defeats, America needed a victory - badly. To that end, Colonel Jimmy Dolittle, a former air racer and stunt pilot, devises a plan for a daring raid on the heart of Japan itself. To do this, he must train army bomber pilots to to something no one ever dreamed possible - launch 16 fully load bombers from an aircraft carrier! This movie is remarkable in it's accuracy and even uses film footage from the actual raid.

The commander of an American submarine during World War II sets out to destroy the Japanese Aircraft carrier which launched the attack on Pearl Harbour. His wife and child have been captured by the Japanese and they are using them and other prisoners of war as human shields for the carrier.

Lieutenant Braden discovers that Sally, the woman he's been falling in love with, has actually been checking out his qualifications to be a U.S. Navy frogman. He must put his personal life behind him after being assigned to be smuggled into a Japanese-held island via submarine to photograph radio codes.

In the close quarters and brutal fighting of the World War II Pacific Theater, the U.S. Intelligence services desperately seek a fool-proof encryption code, immune to the code breakers of the Japanese. The answer is soon discovered in the ancient language of the Navajo. Enlisted into the Marine Corps are several "Windtalkers" who are deployed to frontline areas in the Pacific, to use their language as an impossible-to-crack secret code. A drawback, however, is that the U.S. military soon puts forth a directive that the Windtalkers must never be captured alive by the enemy, so additional Marines are assigned to make certian that this directive is carried out to the letter.