This is a list of American films that were released in 1945 . In that year, the film The Lost Weekend won Best Picture at the Academy Awards.
This is a list of American films that were released in 1945 . In that year, the film The Lost Weekend won Best Picture at the Academy Awards.
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yolanda and the Thief | Vincente Minnelli | Fred Astaire, Lucille Bremer, Frank Morgan | Musical comedy | MGM |
| You Came Along | John Farrow | Lizabeth Scott, Robert Cummings, Julie Bishop | Comedy | Paramount. Screenplay by Ayn Rand |
| Youth on Trial | Budd Boetticher | Cora Sue Collins, Robert B. Williams, John Calvert | Drama | Columbia |
| Ziegfeld Follies | Vincente Minnelli | Fred Astaire, Lucille Ball, Judy Garland | Musical revue | MGM |
| Zombies on Broadway | Gordon Douglas | Wally Brown, Bela Lugosi, Anne Jeffreys | Horror comedy | RKO |
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6th Marine Division on Okinawa | Harlon Block | Documentary | Oscar-nominated film on Battle of Okinawa | |
| Appointment in Tokyo | Jack Hively | Documentary | produced by Army Pictorial Service, Signal Corps | |
| The Battle of San Pietro | John Huston | Mark W. Clark, John Huston (narrator) | Documentary | Short subject |
| Death Mills | Billy Wilder | Documentary | ||
| Fury in the Pacific | Documentary | U.S. Armed Forces | ||
| Here Is Germany | Frank Capra | Documentary | U.S. military propaganda | |
| The House I Live In | Mervyn LeRoy | Frank Sinatra | Documentary | 10 minutes |
| The Last Bomb | Documentary | U.S. military propaganda | ||
| Mom and Dad | Documentary | Hygiene film | ||
| Mr. and Mrs. America | Documentary | produced by U.S. Treasury | ||
| The Nazi Plan | George Stevens | Documentary | ||
| Saga of the Franklin | War, Documentary | U.S. Navy production | ||
| Target Invisible | Documentary | U.S. Treasury film | ||
| To the Shores of Iwo Jima | War Documentary | |||
| Topaz | War documentary | |||
| The True Glory | Carol Reed | War documentary | ||
| War Comes to America | War documentary | |||
| Your Job In Germany | War, Documentary | |||
World War II or the Second World War was a global conflict between two major alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers. The vast majority of the world's countries, including all the great powers, fought as part of these military alliances. Many participating countries invested all available economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities into this total war, blurring the distinction between civilian and military resources. Aircraft played a major role, enabling the strategic bombing of population centres and delivery of the only two nuclear weapons ever used in war. It was by far the deadliest conflict in history, resulting in 70–85 million fatalities. Millions died due to genocides, including the Holocaust, as well as starvation, massacres, and disease. In the wake of Axis defeat, Germany, Austria, and Japan were occupied, and war crime tribunals were conducted against German and Japanese leaders.
The 1940s was a decade that began on January 1, 1940, and ended on December 31, 1949.
Spellbound is a 1945 American psychological thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and starring Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, and Michael Chekhov. It follows a psychoanalyst who falls in love with the new head of the Vermont hospital in which she works, only to find that he is an imposter suffering dissociative amnesia, and potentially, a murderer. The film is based on the 1927 novel The House of Dr. Edwardes by Hilary Saint George Saunders and John Palmer.
Operation Paperclip was a secret United States intelligence program in which more than 1,600 German scientists, engineers, and technicians were taken from the former Nazi Germany to the U.S. for government employment after the end of World War II in Europe, between 1945–59. Some were former members and leaders of the Nazi Party.
The final battles of the European theatre of World War II continued after the definitive surrender of Nazi Germany to the Allies, signed by Field marshal Wilhelm Keitel on 8 May 1945 in Karlshorst, Berlin. After German leader Adolf Hitler's suicide and handing over of power to grand admiral Karl Dönitz on the last day of April 1945, Soviet troops conquered Berlin and accepted surrender of the Dönitz-led government. The last battles were fought on the Eastern Front which ended in the total surrender of all of Nazi Germany’s remaining armed forces such as in the Courland Pocket in western Latvia from Army Group Courland in the Baltics surrendering on 10 May 1945 and in Czechoslovakia during the Prague offensive on 11 May 1945.
Audie Leon Murphy was an American soldier, actor, and songwriter. He was widely celebrated as the most decorated American combat soldier of World War II, and has been described as the most highly decorated soldier in U.S. history. He received every military combat award for valor available from the United States Army, as well as French and Belgian awards for heroism. Murphy received the Medal of Honor for valor that he demonstrated at the age of 19 for single-handedly holding off a company of German soldiers for an hour at the Colmar Pocket in France in January 1945, before leading a successful counterattack while wounded and out of ammunition.
USS Redfish (SS/AGSS-395), a Balao-class submarine, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the redfish. In addition to her naval career, which included sinking the Japanese aircraft carrier Unryū, she made several film appearances in the 1950s.
Sixth Army is a theater army of the United States Army. The Army service component command of United States Southern Command, its area of responsibility includes 31 countries and 15 areas of special sovereignty in Central and South America and the Caribbean. It is headquartered at Fort Sam Houston.
The Fletcher class was a class of destroyers built by the United States during World War II. The class was designed in 1939, as a result of dissatisfaction with the earlier destroyer leader types of the Porter and Somers classes. Some went on to serve during the Korean War and into the Vietnam War.
USS Becuna (SS/AGSS-319), a Balao-class submarine in commission from 1944 to 1969, was a submarine of the United States Navy named for the becuna, a pike-like fish of Europe. During World War II, she conducted five war patrols between August 23, 1944 and July 27, 1945, operating in the Philippine Islands, South China Sea, and Java Sea. She is credited with sinking two Japanese tankers totaling 3,888 gross register tons.
The United States Office of War Information (OWI) was a United States government agency created during World War II. The OWI operated from June 1942 until September 1945. Through radio broadcasts, newspapers, posters, photographs, films and other forms of media, the OWI was the connection between the battlefront and civilian communities. The office also established several overseas branches, which launched a large-scale information and propaganda campaign abroad. From 1942 to 1945, the OWI revised or discarded any film scripts reviewed by them that portrayed the United States in a negative light, including anti-war material.
The War Production Board (WPB) was an agency of the United States government that supervised war production during World War II. President Franklin D. Roosevelt established it in January 1942, with Executive Order 9024. The WPB replaced the Supply Priorities and Allocations Board and the Office of Production Management.
The Allies, formally referred to as the United Nations from 1942, were an international military coalition formed during World War II (1939–1945) to oppose the Axis powers. Its principal members by the end of 1941 were the "Big Four" – United Kingdom, United States, Soviet Union, and China.
Blood on the Sun is a 1945 American spy thriller film directed by Frank Lloyd and starring James Cagney, Sylvia Sidney and Porter Hall. The film is based on a fictional history behind the Tanaka Memorial document.
Albert McDonald Cole was a U.S. Representative from Kansas.
USS LST-70 was an LST-1-class tank landing ship in the United States Navy. Like many of her class, she was not named and is properly referred to by her hull designation. LST-70 was manned by a United States Coast Guard crew throughout the Second World War.
Americanization or Americanisation is the influence of the American culture and economy on other countries outside the United States, including their media, cuisine, business practices, popular culture, technology and political techniques. Some observers have described Americanization as synonymous with progress and innovation.
The 40th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 9 to 20 February 1990. The festival opened with Steel Magnolias by Herbert Ross, which was shown out of competition. The Golden Bear was awarded ex aequo to the American film Music Box directed by Costa-Gavras and Czechoslovak film Skřivánci na niti directed by Jiří Menzel. The retrospective of this edition included two programs: The Year 1945, dedicated to international productions released in 1945, and 40 Years Berlinale, dedicated to some of the most significant films presented during the past editions of the festival.
Paul John Weatherwax was an American film editor, and two-time winner of the Academy Award for Best Film Editing.
