“Casablanca,” directed by Michael Curtiz, is regarded as one of Hollywood’s greatest films. It is set in the French-occupied Moroccan city of Casablanca, where countless World War II refugees traveled ...

Film historians are divided on whether or not the 1942 classic Casablanca technically counts as a film noir. Does it fit into the genre or not?

It played on a classic theater in downtown Fayetteville on Feb. 6, 1943 — almost 80 years ago. But Casablanca was more than a movie during WWII.

From 1963 this American film directed by John Sturges is based on Paul Brickhill 's 1950 nonfiction book which is a firsthand account of the mass escape by British prisoners from German POW camp.