The Victors

Nov 22, 1963

2h 55m

★ 6.4

A Shattering Entertainment Experience!

Overview

Intercutting dramatic vignettes with newsreel footage, the story follows the characters from an infantry squad as they make their way from Sicily to Germany during the end of World War II.

Genres

Drama

War

Production Companies

Highroad Productions

Columbia Pictures

Open Road Films

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Cast

Sgt. Craig

Eli Wallach

Trower

George Hamilton

Cpl. Chase

George Peppard

French Woman

Jeanne Moreau

Regine

Romy Schneider

French Lieutenant

Maurice Ronet

Weaver

Peter Fonda

Russian Soldier

Albert Finney

Baker

Vince Edwards

Magda

Melina Mercouri

Maria

Rosanna Schiaffino

Helga

Elke Sommer

The true life-story of Sara Góralnik, a 13 year-old Polish Jew whose entire family was killed by Nazis in September of 1942. After a grueling escape to the Ukrainian countryside, Sara steals her Christian best friend’s identity and finds refuge in a small village, where she is taken in by a farmer and his young wife. She soon discovers the dark secrets of her employers’ marriage, compounding the greatest secret she must strive to protect, her true identity.

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Storm over the Alps

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Walk the Blue Fields

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7.0

Churchill's Darkest Decision

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The background to, events of and consequences of the Battle of Mers-El-Kebir on 3 July 1940. In that battle, Royal Navy ships fired on the French Fleet in order to prevent it from falling into German hands. A French battleship was sunk and several other ships damaged. Nearly 1,300 French sailors were killed.

7.0

Prisoners of Propaganda

Dec 1, 1987

In 1943, the Imperial Japanese Secret Service made a film called Calling Australia! to show the "exemplary conditions" under which prisoners of war were kept, and to "soften up" the Australian public for the anticipated occupation of their country by Japanese forces. Prisoners of Propaganda tells why the film was made, and how it came to be forgotten.

7.2

Free City

Sep 1, 1958

The heroic struggle of Polish post office workers in Gdańsk on the first day of World War II.

6.2

Biloxi Blues

Mar 25, 1988

A Jewish teenager sets three goals: lose his virginity, become a writer, and survive World War II.

7.2

The Garden

Dec 6, 1968

Frank visits his friend Josef, who introduces him to his pedigree rabbits and his wife Mary. Frank is more interested in the slightly unsettling fact that Josef and Mary's garden fence is entirely made up of living people holding hands.

7.2

The Duellists

Aug 31, 1977

In 1800, as Napoleon Bonaparte rises to power in France, a rivalry erupts between Armand and Gabriel, two lieutenants in the French Army, over a perceived insult. For over a decade, they engage in a series of duels amidst larger conflicts, including the failed French invasion of Russia in 1812, and shifts in the political and social systems of Europe.

7.2

Sahara

Sep 22, 1943

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6.4

The Ninth Configuration

Feb 29, 1980

Army psychiatrist Colonel Kane is posted to a secluded gothic castle housing a military asylum. With a reserved calm, he indulges the inmates' delusions, allowing them free rein to express their fantasies.

6.9

Run Silent, Run Deep

Mar 27, 1958

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.

6.6

Across the Pacific

Sep 4, 1942

Rick Leland makes no secret of the fact 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? Any motive for getting close to attractive traveler Alberta Marlow would however seem pretty obvious.

7.0

Up Front

Mar 5, 1951

Military comedy set during WWII, inspired by Bill Mauldin's popular newspaper cartoons of soldiers "Willie" and "Joe".

6.1

Back to Bataan

May 30, 1945

An Army colonel leads a guerrilla campaign against the Japanese in the Philippines.

5.6

Swing Shift

Apr 13, 1984

In 1941 America, Kay and her husband are happy enough until he enlists after Pearl Harbor. Against his wishes, she takes a job at the local aircraft plant where she meets Hazel, the singer from across the way. The two soon become firm friends and with the other girls become increasingly expert workers. As the war drags on, Kay finally dates her trumpet-playing foreman and life gets more complicated.

6.2

Fugitive Pieces

May 9, 2008

A child escapes from Poland during World War II and first heads to Greece before coming of age in Canada.

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De Bevrijding van Den Haag

Jan 1, 2010

No overview available.

7.4

Gun Crazy

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Bart Tare is an ex-Army man who has a lifelong fixation with guns, he meets a kindred spirit in sharpshooter Annie Starr and goes to work at a carnival. After upsetting the carnival owner who lusts after Starr, they both get fired. Soon, on Starr's behest, they embark on a crime spree for cash.

6.7

Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo

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In the wake of Pearl Harbor, a young lieutenant leaves his expectant wife to volunteer for a secret bombing mission which will take the war to the Japanese homeland.