By the time the film was released we were three million dollars over-spent, war was imminent and the public apparently had forgotten all about Mother Cabrini.

* In the 2004 epic war film Troy, Agamemnon is depicted as a ruthless power-mad king played by Brian Cox.

Skyjacked ( film ) is a 1972 film about a crazed Vietnam war veteran hijacking a Boeing 747 and demanding to be taken to Russia by the captain, Charlton Heston.

* In the film and book City of Ember, the principal city is either the last or one of several underground cities used to escape a devastating war.

However, his next films, The Great Dictator ( 1940 ), a parody on Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini that ended in a dramatic speech criticising the blind following patriotic nationalism, and Monsieur Verdoux ( 1947 ), which criticised war and capitalism, as well as his first European film A King in New York ( 1957 ), which ridiculed the U. S. House Un-American Activities Committee, were more clearly political and caused controversy.

The black comedy film deals with normally taboo subjects, including, death, murder, sexual relations, suicide and war, in a satirical manner.

The World War II-era Department of Agriculture film Hemp for Victory, encouraging the growing of hemp for war uses, has achieved a similar cult status.

The film includes footage of the war, from both sides, as well as anti-war protests in New York and Paris and other anti-war activities.

His films include To Hell and Back, the autobiography of Audie Murphy, who is considered the most decorated soldier in the military history of the United States ; John Wayne's war film The Green Berets ( 1968 ), and opposite Gregory Peck in the space story Marooned about three stranded astronauts.

In Nagisa Oshima's film the same year, Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, based on Laurens van der Post's novel The Seed and the Sower, Bowie played Major Jack Celliers, a prisoner of war in a Japanese internment camp.

The novel provides motivation and backstory to Snake and Hauk — both disillusioned war veterans — deepening their relationship that was only hinted at it in the film.

In Which We Serve was a British patriotic war film directed by David Lean and Noël Coward, and inspired by the sinking of Kelly.

The Motion Picture Theatre Owners of America and the Independent Producers ' Association declared war in 1925 on what they termed a common enemy — the " film trust " of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Paramount, and First National, which they claimed dominated the industry by not only producing and distributing motion pictures, but by entering into exhibition as well.

Roger Ebert considers it to be the finest film on the Vietnam war and included it on his list for the 2002 Sight and Sound poll for the greatest movie of all time.

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film 3 stars, praising the film for being " boldly operatic, involving family drama, secrets, generations at war, melodrama, romance and violence ".

The 08 / 15 film trilogy of 1954 – 55 concerns a sensitive young German soldier who rather be playing the piano who fights on the Eastern Front without understanding why, and no mention is made of genocidal aspects of Germany's war in East.

Bartov wrote no German film of the 1950s showed the deep commitment felt by many German soldiers to National Socialism, the utter ruthless way the German Army fought the war and the mindless nihilist brutality of the later Wehrmacht.

In France, film production and exhibition closed down as its personnel became part of the general military mobilization of the country at the beginning of the war.

Italian film production held up during the war, with long features already established as the main form.

The German film industry was seriously weakened by the war, though with the major companies continuing as before.

The most important of the new film producers at the time was Joe May, who made a series of thrillers and adventure films through the war years, but Ernst Lubitsch also came into prominence with a series of very successful comedies and dramas.

The desire for wartime propaganda created a renaissance in the film industry in Britain, with realistic war dramas like 49th Parallel ( 1941 ), Went the Day Well?

Soldiers returning from the war would provide the inspiration for films like The Best Years of Our Lives, and many of those in the film industry had served in some capacity during the war.

In 1946 Capp created a special full-color comic book, Al Capp by Li ' l Abner, to be distributed by the Red Cross to encourage the thousands of amputee veterans returning from the war.

Working as a nurse for the Red Cross during the war, Margarete was appointed supervisor in Military District III ( Berlin-Brandenburg ).

From 1942 to 1997, civilians serving or closely affiliated with the armed forces — as government employees, Red Cross workers, war correspondents and the like — were eligible to receive the Purple Heart.

Lines from the play are quoted at the end of Cross of Iron, a 1977 drama war film directed by Sam Peckinpah:

As, Pujol was, on 29 July 1944, awarded the Iron Cross Second Class for his services to the German war effort.

The Iron Cross was presented via radio, and he received the physical medal from one of his German handlers after the war had ended.

By the time the war ended, $ 20 million in war bonds were purchased through the studio, the Red Cross collected 5, 200 pints of plasma from studio employees, and 763 of the studio's employees served in the armed forces, including Harry Warner's son-in-law Milton Sperling and Jack's son Jack Warner Jr.

At the beginning of the Franco-Prussian War, in 1870, she assisted the grand duchess of Baden in the preparation of military hospitals, and gave the Red Cross society much aid during the war.

When she began work on this project in 1873, most Americans thought the U. S. would never again face a calamity like the Civil War, but Barton finally succeeded during the administration of President Chester Arthur, using the argument that the new American Red Cross could respond to crises other than war.

Shortly after the declaration of war, The Queen's Book of the Red Cross was conceived.

The river was first surfed by WWII veteran Jack Churchill, a Military Cross recipient renowned both for carrying a claymore, and for being the only Allied soldier to kill an enemy with a longbow during the war.

Under the peace treaty, the Byzantines regained all their lost territories, their captured soldiers, a war indemnity, and of great spiritual significance, the True Cross and other relics that were lost in Jerusalem in 614.

Because of his bumbling actions in the war, he ironically claims he was awarded the Iron Cross, which was an award given by the Germans.

He saw this war as a new crusade declaring it, " a just, great and sacred struggle of the Cross against the Crescent.

Norman Cross was intended to be a model depot providing the most humane treatment of prisoners of war.

The squadron became one of the premier RFC / RAF fighter units in 1918 and by the end of the war Douglas had been awarded a Military Cross and a Distinguished Flying Cross.

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At the end of the war, Dorie Miller becomes the first African American to be awarded the Navy Cross and Rafe is discharged from the Army.

The International Committee of the Red Cross 1958 Commentary on 1949 Geneva Convention IV Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War states: " Every person in enemy hands must have some status under international law: he is either a prisoner of war and, as such, covered by the Third Convention, a civilian covered by the Fourth Convention, or again, a member of the medical personnel of the armed forces who is covered by the First Convention.

Modern laws of war, such as the 1949 Geneva Conventions, also include prohibitions on attacking doctors, ambulances or hospital ships displaying a Red Cross, a Red Crescent or other emblem related to the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.

In either case, persons protected by the Red Cross / Crescent or white flag are expected to maintain neutrality, and may not engage in warlike acts ; in fact, engaging in war activities under a protected symbol is itself a violation of the laws of war known as perfidy.