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63
7.5
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73
/61/
65
/51/
3.5
/2231/
77
/13/
79
/77/

Since You Went Away (1944)
In 1943, several people enter, re-enter, and exit the difficult life of a Midwestern family whose patriarch has been called up to war, leaving behind his wife and two teen daughters.
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Criterion Channel
73
61
7.1
/3683/
67
/64/
66
/73/
3.7
/5819/
92
/12/
72
/29/

The Small Back Room (1949)
As the Germans drop explosive booby-traps on 1943 Britain, the embittered expert who'll have to disarm them fights a private battle with alcohol.
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Amazon Prime Video
61
57
6.5
/7259/
66
/240/
64
/135/
3.1
/3653/
53
/2657/

Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1942)
In the midst of World War II, Sherlock Holmes rescues the Swiss inventor of a new bomb-sight from the Gestapo and brings him to England, where he quickly falls into the clutches of the evil Professor Moriarty.
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Amazon Prime Video
73
47
7.3
/2365/
65
/27/
66
/25/
3.5
/588/
100
/8/
68
/33/

Three Came Home (1950)
Borneo, 1941, during World War II. When the Japanese occupy the island, American writer Agnes Newton Keith is separated from her husband and imprisoned with her son in a prison camp run by the enigmatic Colonel Suga.
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The Roku Channel
61
28
6.7
/2162/
70
/24/
59
/34/
3.3
/835/
43
/8/

Eyes in the Night (1942)
Blind detective Duncan Maclain gets mixed up with enemy agents and murder when he tries to help an old friend with a rebellious stepdaughter.
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71
25
7.0
/811/
77
/7/
62
/9/
3.4
/281/
78
/68/

The Very Thought of You (1944)
Army sergeants Dave and "Fixit" spend a three-day pass in Pasadena, where they meet Janet and Cora, two young women who work in a parachute factory.
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64
24
6.8
/688/
58
/18/
65
/26/
3.4
/836/

Scrap Happy Daffy (1943)
During World War Two, Daffy Duck owns a junkyard which collects scrap metal to use in building weapons to continue the Allied fight against the Axis powers. Hitler reads about Daffy's scrap pile and about Daffy's stated intent to win the war with junk and, after throwing a fit and chewing a carpet like a mad dog, orders Daffy's scrap pile destroyed.
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45
9
4.6
/566/
56
/9/
49
/17/
2.9
/282/
18
/13/

The Tree in a Test Tube (1942)
Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy are stopped by narrator Pete Smith for the purpose of showing the audience how much wood and wood by-products the average person carries.
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20
/1/

Rosies of the North (1999)
They raised children, baked cakes... and built world-class fighter planes. Sixty years ago, thousands of women from Thunder Bay and the Prairies donned trousers, packed lunch pails and took up rivet guns to participate in the greatest industrial war effort in Canadian history. Like many other factories across the country from 1939 to 1945, the shop floor at Fort William's Canadian Car and Foundry was transformed from an all-male workforce to one with forty percent female workers.
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?
6.5
/16/

You Can't Ration Love (1944)
In this WW II musical, a group of lovely college co-eds, realizing that there is a shortage of single young men, decide to begin rationing their dates so that all of them can have some fun. This is beneficial for the campus wimp who suddenly finds himself the hottest property on campus.
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?
5.9
/97/
53
/3/
60
/2/

Calling All Kids (1943)
An Our Gang salute to the armed forces finds the gang performing a revue honoring the U.S. military. Amidst such highlights as a "recruiting office" sketch featuring the duo of Mickey and Froggy, and a closing ensemble piece with lyrics that rhyme "Taxes" with "Axis," the film features an extended celebrity-impression routine, with Buckwheat imitating Eddie "Rochester" Anderson and other kids posing as Judy Garland, Eleanor Powell, Fred Astaire, Carmen Miranda, and Virginia O'Brien.
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66
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6.8
/203/
70
/1/
60
/7/

Seeing Hands (1943)
This serious Pete Smith Specialty series entry encourages industry to hire people with disabilities to help with the war effort. As a boy, Ben Helwig was blinded in an accident while playing baseball. He eventually acquired a guide dog and now works in a defense plant.
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70
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7.2
/402/
70
/1/
70
/3/

Show-Business at War (1943)
A multi-studio effort to show the newsreel audience the progress of the Hollywood war effort.
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7.4
/20/
70
/1/
80
/3/

The Phoney War (2019)
September 3rd, 1939. Britain and France declare war on Nazi Germany, only two days after the Wehrmacht invades Poland. This day, the sad date when the fate of the world changed forever, the Phoney War began: eight months of uncertainty, preparations, evacuations and skirmishes.
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58
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6.4
/335/
60
/2/
50
/1/

Inflation (1942)
The Devil works with Adolf Hitler to cause inflation in the United States.
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64
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6.4
/633/
51
/6/
59
/7/
3.4
/286/
80
/2/

Keep Your Powder Dry (1945)
A debutante, a serviceman's bride and a girl from a military family join the Women's Army Corps.
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45
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5.1
/107/
40
/2/

Sweethearts of the U.S.A. (1944)
A WW-II defense plant worker gets knocked out and dreams about helping the war effort in various ways, including solving a crime.
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46
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5.7
/507/
60
/1/
50
/4/
20
/9/

Meet the People (1944)
A idealistic shipyard worker interests a beautiful Hollywood star in staging a musical tribute to the war industry, but they disagree on some important issues.
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62
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6.1
/250/
70
/1/
58
/4/
3.3
/228/

Horse (1941)
Ine Onoda, the eldest daughter of a poor family of farmers, raises a colt from birth and comes to love the horse dearly. When the horse is grown, the government orders it auctioned and sold to the army. Ine struggles to prevent the sale.
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Asunder (2016)
Esther Johnson’s film uses local archive footage to convey the story of Sunderland's involvement in the First World War, from the men who fought in the fields to those who stayed behind to work in the region’s shipyards and munitions factories.
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Women’s Munition Work (1917)
This early public information film puts out an appeal for more women to take up munitions work - showing training centres, opportunities for work in the aircraft industry as well as the tempting prospect of a fun social life. (source: British Film Institute)


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