Keep Your Powder Dry (1945)

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.

Un capitán de los servicios de contraespionaje francés se ve obligado a disfrazarse de mujer para convertirse en la esposa de un teniente americano.

After four long years apart, there are so many things returning World War II soldier John Lawrence wants to tell his sweetheart, Mary McKinley. That he loves her. That he's missed her. And that he's married.

Jim Sterling, un soldado norteamericano destinado a Corea, se enamora de una sencilla muchacha japonesa y se casa con ella. Los problemas de la pareja comienzan cuando regresan a los Estados Unidos: enseguida, numerosos detalles de la vida cotidiana, casi imperceptibles, ponen de manifiesto el fuerte rechazo de la familia Sterling hacia la joven extranjera. (FILMAFFINITY)

Tras obtener el permiso para marcharse del Ejército en Alemania, Harry va en busca de su mujer a Inglaterra, donde tiene un trabajo como conductor de camiones. Pronto su jefe intentará involucrarlo en una operación de contrabando. Al principio se resiste, pero Harry le ofrece a la bellísima Lynn a cambio.

During World War II, a Cockney woman marries a Canadian soldier and adjusts to life in Alberta.

Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945). Mientras su marido lucha en la guerra, Anne Hilton intenta superar los problemas económicos y el racionamiento alquilando una habitación al Coronel Smollet. Lo malo es que su hija Jane tiene un aventura con el nieto de Smollet. (FILMAFFINITY)

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.

Ginger Rogers es una joven que trabaja en una fábrica cuyo marido se encuentra en el ejército sirviendo en la 2ª Guerra Mundial y que comparte su casa con tres mujeres que se encuentran en su misma situación.

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.

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.

Borneo, 1941, durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Cuando los japoneses ocupan la isla, la escritora estadounidense Agnes Newton Keith es separada de su marido e internada con su hijo en un campo de prisioneros dirigido por el enigmático coronel Suga.

Edwin Boyd es un padre de familia veterano de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Su sueño de ser una estrella de Hollywood le termina llevando por un camino muy peligroso abocándole a la tragedia.

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.

A multi-studio effort to show the newsreel audience the progress of the Hollywood war effort.

A WW-II defense plant worker gets knocked out and dreams about helping the war effort in various ways, including solving a crime.

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.

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)

Set in working class Newcastle, the Stott family fight their private battles against the backdrop of the conflict of World War II. Helen Stott, over thirty and with a limp, is resigned to being left on the shelf until she meets and falls in love with Norman, a serviceman from London. In contrast, her younger sister Joyce has quite a way with men, and finds herself a little too popular with the troops, especially when her husband pops up on leave from his regiment.