Strange Holiday
Genres
Overview
An American businessman returns from a hunting trip to find fascists have overrun the country in this propaganda film.
Details
Budget
$0
Revenue
$0
Runtime
61 min
Release Date
1945-10-19
Status
Released
Original Language
English
Vote Count
5
Vote Average
6.4
Claude Rains
John Stevenson
Bob Stebbins
John Stevenson Jr.
Barbara Bates
Peggy Lee Stevenson
Paul Hilton
Woodrow Stevenson Jr
Gloria Holden
Mrs. Jean Stevenson
Milton Kibbee
Sam Morgan
Walter White Jr.
Farmer
Wally Maher
Truck Driver
Tommy Cook
Tommy, the Newsboy
Griff Barnett
Regan
Edwin Max
First Detective
Paul Dubov
Paul Dubov
Helen Mack
Miss Sims, Secretary
Martin Kosleck
Examiner
Charles McAvoy
Leonard, the Guard
Priscilla Lyons
Betty
David Bradford
Joe Andrews, Betty's Boy Friend
Albert Bassermann
School Principal
Thaddeus Jones
Black Cellmate
0.0
Skirmish on the Home Front
Promotional short extolling the virtues of the American government's wartime Economic Stabilization Plan.
1944-05-11 | en
5.0
Sea Dreams
First World War animated propaganda short, extolling Britain's naval history and mocking the German navy.
1914-12-10 | xx
6.9
49th Parallel
In the early days of World War II, a German U-boat is sunk in Canada's Hudson Bay. Hoping to evade capture, a small band of German soldiers led by commanding officer Lieutenant Hirth attempts to cross the border into the United States, which has not yet entered the war and is officially neutral. Along the way, the German soldiers encounter brave men such as a French-Canadian fur trapper, Johnnie, a leader of a Hutterite farming community, Peter, an author, Philip and a soldier, Andy Brock.
1941-11-24 | en
5.5
Pulgasari
In feudal Korea, a group of starving villagers grow weary of the orders handed down to them by their controlling king and set out to use a deadly monster under their control to push his armies back.
1985-12-01 | ko
6.9
Stolz der Nation
Director Quentin Tarantino tasked Eli Roth to craft a mini-movie called Stolz der Nation (Nation's Pride) that will be included in the theatrical cut of Inglourious Basterds. To help promote Inglourious Basterds via the film-within-a-film, Roth has slapped together a trailer for Nation's Pride blending black and white photography with modern multi-layered camera effects.
2009-08-21 | en
8.3
The Great Dictator
Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.
1940-10-15 | en
8.1
Full Metal Jacket
A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.
1987-06-26 | en
5.7
My Führer
Hitler no longer believes in himself, and can barely see himself as an equal to even his sheep dog. But to seize the helm of the war he would have to create one of his famous fiery speeches to mobilize the masses. Goebbels therefore brings a Jewish acting teacher Grünbaum and his family from the camps in order to train the leader in rhetoric. Grünbaum is torn, but starts Hitler in his therapy ...
2007-01-11 | de
0.0
Etopirika: A Bird That Spins Thoughts
A girl is sent back in time to the Soviet invasion of the Kuril Islands
2022-04-19 | ja
7.1
Hotsunlight
Propaganda movie about the fictional Novozhilov family, by chance, which finds itself in the thick of events in Lugansk. Vlad Novozhilov is a former participant in the invasion of Afghanistan. In a situation, he sees only one way out - to leave the country, but the border is already closed. To save his family, he will have to make difficult moral choices.
2021-08-11 | ru
5.7
Victory Through Air Power
Based on the book by Major Alexander de Seversky's about his theories of the practical uses of long range strategic bombing. Using a combination of animation humorously telling about the development of air warfare, the film shows de Seversky illustrating his ideas of how air power could win World War II for the Allies.
1943-07-17 | en
0.0
How to Use Dianetics
In this sprawling 33-part epic, Dianetics therapy and the effects it has on human minds are explored.
2009-01-01 | en
6.2
The Lion Has Wings
This early, influential propaganda film blends documentary and studio footage to show the valiant efforts of the Royal Air Force to defend the British people against the Nazis.
1939-11-03 | en
0.0
The Great Victory, Wilson or the Kaiser? The Fall of the Hohenzollerns
After a prologue where we are shown the backgrounds of Wilhelm II and Woodrow Wilson, we see the story of Conrad Le Brett from Alsace-Lorraine. Forced to fight for Germany Conrad, sees soldiers taking girls into a church to rape them and kills one who murders a baby. Shot in the encounter he is taken to a Brussels hospital run by nurse Edith Cavell where he falls in love with American nurse, Amy Gordon. After Edith Cavell assassination and the murder of Conrad’s sister Vilma by the evil Lieutenant Ober Conrad honors her dying request that he go to America and defend Alsace-Lorraine's reputation. Once there he convinces President Wilson that Alsatians should be allowed to enlist. Fighting with the "doughboys," Conrad kills Ober, and after the armistice, returns to Amy.
1919-01-01 | en
6.0
The Battle of San Pietro
This documentary movie is about the battle of San Pietro, a small village in Italy. Over 1,100 US soldiers were killed while trying to take this location, that blocked the way for the Allied forces from the Germans. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2005.
1945-05-03 | en
0.0
Nagrody i odznaczenia
1944. Three wounded officers from both sides of political conflict meet in the hospital where the staff is politically divided too.
1974-03-29 | pl
4.5
A Letter From Bataan
An American soldier pleads to the folks at home to conserve scarce wartime resources.
1942-09-15 | en
5.3
Jew Suss: Rise and Fall
This intricate historical drama tells the story of actor Ferdinand Marian (Tobias Moretti), who is ordered by Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels to star in the 1940 anti-Semitic film Jew Suss. Despite his cooperation, Ferdinand's actions have unexpected costs. Ferdinand's Jewish wife, Anna (Martina Gedeck), is sent to a concentration camp, and as World War II intensifies, he rebels against the Nazis, leading to the destruction of his career.
2010-09-23 | de
4.9
The Spirit of '43
Donald Duck deals with income taxes and their benefit to the American war effort in this inspirational documentary short animated film.
1943-01-07 | en
5.4
The White Ship
Although released anonymously, as was the custom with all films produced by the Italian Navy, La Nave Bianca is the first feature-length effort directed by Roberto Rossellini; it is also very much the work of its co-writer and supervisor Francesco De Robertis. The film combines a documentary look at the Italian Navy during World War II with newsreel combat footage and a scripted love story performed by non-professional actors.
1941-10-03 | it