Mr. Winkle Goes to War

Inflation

January 1942 •English

The Devil works with Adolf Hitler to cause inflation in the United States.

Main Street Today

March 1944 •English

This patriotic short film promotes America's war effort at home. The story looks at a fictional small town's main street, seeing where additional workforce, for increased production of materials needed by the military, might come from.

Birthday Girl

September 2001 •English

John is a mild-mannered banker who has never been lucky in love. Fed up with waiting for the right girl to come along, John takes a chance on a Russian mail-order bride arranged via the Internet, where he is introduced to Nadia. John's fondness for Nadia grows... until the sudden arrival of Nadia's gregarious cousins makes John realize that he's in over his head.

Black Friday, Dark Dawn

January 2012 •English

This is how the US Marine Corps turns raw recruits into certified members of world’s most lethal fighting machine.

A Skinny and a Fatty Go to Camp Nonsan

February 1959 •Korean

A Skinny and a Fatty go to Nonsan army training camp, but they soon find camp life is too hard for them. A nonsensical comedy filled with funny episodes that will make you smile broadly.

The Rookie Bear

November 1941 •English

In a humorous report, "Strife" magazine follows a bear who gets drafted and goes through the rigors of Army basic training.

7 Wrekers

June 2020 •Dutch

Meet John Doughboy

July 1941 •English

Porky introduces a newsreel of wartime spot gags, including a spoof of the RKO Pictures logo, and caricatures of Jack Benny and Rochester.

A Canterbury Tale

August 1944 •English

Three modern day pilgrims investigate a bizarre crime in a small town on the way to Canterbury.

Biloxi Blues

March 1988 •English

Eugene, an aspiring writer from Brooklyn, is drafted into the US Army during the final months of World War II. For his basic training, the Army sends him to Camp Shelby in Mississippi, where toil, bad food, and antisemitic jibes await. Eugene takes refuge in his sense of humor and in his diary, but they won't protect him in a battle of wills with an unstable drill sergeant.

Two Women

December 1960 •Italian

A young widow flees from Rome during WWII and takes her lonely twelve-year-old-daughter to her rural hometown but the horrors of war soon catch up with them.

Charlotte: A Royal at War

March 2008 •English

The untold story of a Royal "propagandist in pearls" whose wartime friendship with President Roosevelt became a vital catalyst to win back freedom for her tiny occupied country.

Innertube Antics

January 1944 •English

A donkey, putting a small pile of rubber out for wartime recycling, is dismayed by the much larger piles his neighbors have put out. He goes into the backyard and finds, in his lawn, a huge buried inner tube - but it has a mind of its own.

Jack-Wabbit and the Beanstalk

June 1943 •English

Bugs Bunny encounters the legendary giant.

Full Metal Jacket

June 1987 •English

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.

All Quiet on the Western Front

April 1930 •English

When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during the Great War, they are assigned to the Western Front, where their patriotism is destroyed by the harsh realities of combat.

For Me and My Gal

October 1942 •English

Two vaudeville performers fall in love, but find their relationship tested by the arrival of WWI.

The Lavender Hill Mob

June 1951 •English

A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipments of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country.

Astrapogiannos

September 1970 •Greek

The battle-scarred hero of the Greek Revolution, Giannos "Astrapogiannos", returns home after the end of the blood-soaked War of Independence, only to find himself in a new conflict, as he locks horns with a ruthless local Kodjabashis.

Der Fuehrer's Face

January 1943 •English

A marching band of Germans, Italians, and Japanese march through the streets of swastika-motif Nutziland, serenading "Der Fuehrer's Face." Donald Duck, not living in the region by choice, struggles to make do with disgusting Nazi food rations and then with his day of toil at a Nazi artillery factory. After a nervous breakdown, Donald awakens to find that his experience was in fact a nightmare.