During World War II, the US Army's only all-Black, all-women battalion takes on an impossible mission: sorting through a three-year backlog of 17 million pieces of mail that hadn't been delivered to American soldiers and finish within six months.
This film continues the story of radio operator Ludwig Bartuschek from “The Sailor’s Song”. Near the end of the Weimar Republic, Bartuschek (Erwin Geschonneck) is working as a mechanic in the Sperber airplane plant.
A WWII pilot, bombardier, and radioman find themselves adrift on a lifeboat without food or water after being forced to ditch their plane during a scouting mission.
During a freezing WWII winter, two Soviet partisans on a mission to gather food contend with the temperature, the occupying Germans, and their own psyches.
A dramatic reconstruction of the July 1944 attempt by German Army Officers to assassinate Hitler with a bomb and end the war before Germany was totally destroyed.
1943, the Japanese Army is falling back to the Pacific, leaving only collaborationist troops. Commissar Yang Xiaodong is sent to inflitrate the provincial capital.
Captain Foster plans on raiding German-occupied Tobruk with hand- picked commandos, but a mixup leaves him with a medical unit led by a Quaker conscientious objector.
It's May 1943, and two Italian American soldiers, Joe and Frank, are searching the North African desert for a Nazi general called Von Kassler.
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The Cockleshell Heroes - Trailer
During World War II a group of volunteers are trained secretly for over a year. Their mission is to blow up a giant battleship in an enemy-held French port.
The Cockleshell Heroes - Trailer
During World War II a group of volunteers are trained secretly for over a year. Their mission is to blow up a giant battleship in an enemy-held French port.
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Theme song to the 1955 war movie "The Cockleshell Heroes"
The Cockleshell Heroes
Scene from the 1955 film showing The Four Horseshoes in Chobham.
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joined 34 serving retired and injured Royal Marines (13+) in a recreation of Operation Frankton a daring commando raid into occupied France during WWII ...
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