The Big Trees (1952): Kirk Douglas plays Jim Fallon, a hard-nosed lumberjack intent on making his fortune from California's famous giant redwood trees.
The territory he has designs on though is inhabited by a God-faring colony that beg him not to strip their land of the mighty sequoias. Initially undeterred he ignores their pleas but soon discovers that there are others, even more ruthless than himself, who also want to oust the settlers.
With violent confrontation inevitable, Fallen slowly comes to question his own unscrupulous nature, and finally makes an unexpected alliance.

The Big Lift (1950): This film is one of the best true-life adaptations of an historical event - The Berlin Airlift. It was made on location in Berlin with the full cooperation of the US Military who actually played the minor acting roles with star Montgomery Clift. The Big Lift does a good job of showing how ordinary soldiers and people can have divided loyalties and wrestle with the adverse situation that befell them in Berlin at the time.
Truly a time capsule of Postwar Berlin