The 17th Academy Awards ceremony, held on March 15, 1945, was the first in which the Best Picture category was restricted to five films, a tradition that lasted until 2010. The movies vying for the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. World War II was still raging in May 1944. The allied invasion of Normandy — aka D-Day — was just around the corner on June 6th.

It was the last days of June 1942. The fascist troops were tearing towards Sevastopol, and fighting was already going on in the city itself. Ships of the Black Sea Fleet had already broken through to ...

Released in 1944, the Bing Crosby classic blends faith and humor into a film whose appeal has only deepened with time. Bing Crosby as Father Chuck O’Malley and Barry Fitzgerald as Father Fitzgibbon in ...

New York City’s 16 daily-newspaper film critics last week announced their annual awards for cinema excellence. Best picture of 1944: Going My Way. Best actor: Barry Fitzgerald, for his performance in ...