Victory Over Death

In early 1960s Northern England, Frank Machin is mean, tough and ambitious enough to become an immediate star in the rugby league team run by local employer Weaver.

Runtime

2h 14m

Director

Lindsay Anderson

Cast

Richard Harris, Rachel Roberts, Alan Badel

The story of the breakout of the German battleship Bismarck—accompanied by the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen—during the early days of World War II. The Bismarck and her sister ship, Tirpitz, were the most powerful battleships in the European theater of World War II. The British Navy must find and destroy Bismarck before it can escape into ...

Runtime

1h 37m

Director

Lewis Gilbert

Cast

Kenneth More, Dana Wynter, Carl Möhner

In Libya, an American tank commander, along with a handful of Allied soldiers, tries to defend an isolated well with a limited supply of water from a German Afrika Korps battalion during the Western Desert Campaign of World War II.

Runtime

1h 37m

Director

Zoltan Korda

Cast

Humphrey Bogart, Bruce Bennett, J. Carrol Naish

The captain of a submarine sunk by the Japanese during WWII is finally given a chance to skipper another sub after a year of working a desk job. His singleminded determination for revenge against the destroyer that sunk his previous vessel puts his new crew in unneccessary danger.

Runtime

1h 33m

Director

Robert Wise

Cast

Clark Gable, Burt Lancaster, Jack Warden

Rick Leland makes no secret of the fact that he has no loyalty to his home country after he is court-martialed out of the army and boards a Japanese ship for the Orient in late 1941. But has Leland really been booted out, or is there some other motive for his getting close to fellow passenger Doctor Lorenz?

Runtime

1h 37m

Director

John Huston

Cast

Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Sydney Greenstreet