War Movies of 1949

Battleground

Incoming MGM production head Dore Schary ramrodded Battleground into the ... [ War movie - 1949 ]

The Small Back Room

Few British films were run on American TV in 1950s with such frequency as The Small Back Room (U.S. title: Hour of Glory). A typically multilayered effort ... [ War movie - 1949 ]

Sands of Iwo Jima

From director Allan Dwan, Sands of Iwo Jima is a drama set during the Second World War and follows John Stryker (John Wayne), a relentlessly tough Marine sergeant as he trains a squad of naïve, rebellious recruits at a New ... [ War movie - 1949 ]

Twelve O'Clock High

How much can a man give? When the U.S. 8th Army Air Force 918th Bombardment group is ordered on their fourth harrowing mission ... [ War movie - 1949 ]

State Department File 649

Those scurrilous Chinese communists are up to their old tricks in the 1949 flagwaver State Department - File 649. William Lundigan plays Ken, an operative of the U.S. Foreign Service ... [ War movie - 1949 ]