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20th-century films of Hungary: · 1900s · 1910s · 1920s · 1930s · 1940s · 1950s · 1960s · 1970s · 1980s · 1990s · . Subcategories. This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total. 1940 films of Hungary (2 C) 1941 films of Hungary (3 C) 1942 films of Hungary (1 C) 1943 films of Hungary (2 C, 1 F) Európa nem válaszol (1 F)
Louis I, also Louis the Great ( Hungarian: Nagy Lajos; Croatian: Ludovik Veliki; Slovak: Ľudovít Veľký) or Louis the Hungarian ( Polish: Ludwik Węgierski; 5 March 1326 – 10 September 1382), was King of Hungary and Croatia from 1342 and King of Poland from 1370. He was the first child of Charles I of Hungary and his wife, Elizabeth of ...
1940s. 1941. 1942. 1943. 1944. 1945. 1946. 1947. References. External links. List of Hungarian films 1901–1947. This is a list collecting the most notable films produced in Hungary and in the Hungarian language during 1901–1948.
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A. 1940s action films (11 C, 57 P) 1940s adventure films (19 C, 10 P) 1940s animated films (19 C, 1 P) 1940s avant-garde and experimental films (11 P)
- 13 Sands of Iwo Jima
- 12 Captains of The Clouds
- 11 Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
- 10 The Mortal Storm
- 9 They Were Expendable
- 8 Twelve O'Clock High
- 7 The Great Dictator
- 6 The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
- 5 The Best Years of Our Lives
- 4 to Have and Have Not
John Wayne earned an Oscar nomination for his commanding performance as a tough-as-nails Marine Sergeant during the Battle of Iwo Jima in the 1949 war drama Sands of Iwo Jima, which tells the story of the respected American leader as he implements harsh training methods to prepare his men for the battlefield, culminating in the violent and major sh...
James Cagney starred as a brash and unruly Canadian bush pilot determined to earn the respect of his fellow men in 1942's Captains of the Clouds, which follows Brian MacLean as he becomes inspired to join the Royal Canadian Air Force alongside his buddies after hearing Winston Churchill's rousing "We shall fight on the beaches" speech, only to lear...
Released in 1944, Thirty Seconds Over Tokyois based on a book of the same name published a year earlier by Captain Ted W. Lawson. It tells the story of the Doolittle Raid when America first retaliated with an air strike against Japan for their attack on Pearl Harbor. Captain Lawson was in the raid himself, and as the book told his story, so does th...
Legendary cinema star James Stewart appeared opposite Margaret Sullavan in 1940's The Mortal Storm, an engrossing picture that details the profound effect Hitler's rise to power as chancellor of Germany in 1933 had on its citizens as the Nazis took control of the country, resulting in widespread fear and uncertainty. The gripping film focuses on th...
Touting an impressive cast led by John Wayne, Robert Montgomery, and Donna Reed, the 1945 war drama They Were Expendable is based on the William Lindsay White novel of the same name and depicts the efforts of Lieutenants "Rusty" Ryan (Wayne) and John "Brick" Brickley (Montgomery) to prove the worthiness and power of U.S. Navy PT boats during World ...
Another Air Force bombing movie, Twelve O’Clock High,was released in 1949 and focuses on the Air Force that bombed Germany and occupied France at the beginning of America’s involvement in WWII. Though not specifically based on any one moment of the war, it does draw on a lot of elements in the Black Thursday strike against Schweinfurt. After morale...
The Great Dictatoris actually an anti-war satire released in 1940 before America became involved in WWII. Written, directed, produced, scored, and starring Charlie Chaplin, he plays an antisemitic dictator named Hynkel, along with a Jewish barber who looks almost identical to him. Clearly supposed to be a parody of Hitler, Hynkel tries to amass an ...
The British romantic drama The Life and Death of Colonel Blimppulls its title from a comic strip but uses its own story. The film follows the life of fictional Major-General Clive Candy and the several wars he has been involved in and lived through. During the Boer War, he receives a letter from Edith Hunter in Berlin, complaining about a German sp...
The Best Years of Our Lives is a drama that actually isn’t about the war itself, but what comes after. Three veterans meet on a flight back to their Midwestern hometown, and the story shows us how they struggle to adjust to their normal lives now that they’re back home. Fred worked at a drugstore before and goes back since he can’t find a better jo...
Iconic classic Hollywood couple Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall were sensational in Howard Hawks' 1944 romantic war adventure To Have and Have Not, appearing as a disenchanted fishing boat captain and fiery lounge singer who get caught up aiding the French Resistance in 1940 France amid their burgeoning romance. The phenomenal picture was an adap...
Elizabeth of Poland. Louis I the Great Croatian: Ludovik I) (March 5, 1326, Visegrád – September 10, 1382, Nagyszombat/Trnava) was King of Hungary, King of Croatia, Dalmatia, Jerusalem and Sicily from 1342 and of King of Poland from 1370. Louis was the head of the senior branch of the Angevin dynasty. He was one of Hungary 's most active and ...
Louis I, also Louis the Great or Louis the Hungarian, was King of Hungary and Croatia from 1342 and King of Poland from 1370. He was the first child of Charles I of Hungary and his wife, Elizabeth of Poland, to survive infancy. A 1338 treaty between his father and Casimir III of Poland, Louis's maternal uncle, confirmed Louis's right to inherit the Kingdom of Poland if his uncle died without a ...
