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In reply to the discussion: War and war impact movies you think every one should see [View all]appalachiablue
(41,102 posts)- October, Ten Days That Shook the World (1928), Sergei Eisenstein. Soviet, silent celebratory and historical film about the October 1917 Revolution ten years after the event in Russia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October:_Ten_Days_That_Shook_the_World
- A Farewell to Arms (1932), Gary Cooper, Helen Hayes based on the Ernest Hemingway story. An American ambulance driver and a British nurse fall in love during the First World War in Europe.
- For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943) Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman. Based on the Ernest Hemingway novel of 1940. The story of an American adventurer allied with Republican guerilla forces during the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s. He falls in love and manages to carry out a dangerous mission to blow up a strategic bridge in Segovia in southern Spain.
- The Great Dictator, (1940) American political satire comedy-drama film written, directed, produced, scored by, and starring British comedian Charlie Chaplin, following the tradition of many of his other films. Chaplin's film advanced a stirring condemnation of Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, fascism, antisemitism, and the Nazis. At the time of its first release, the United States was still formally at peace with Nazi Germany. Chaplin plays both leading roles: a ruthless fascist dictator and a persecuted Jewish barber..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Dictator