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The Little American
UNITED STATES · 1917

The Little American

Cecil B. DeMille
World War I German U-boats American patriotism war atrocities survival
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Synopsis

A young American has her ship torpedoed by a German U-boat but makes it back to her ancestral home in France, where she witnesses German brutality firsthand.

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