A look at Charles de Gaulle, Adolf Hitler, Winston Churchill, and Marshal Petain, and the roles they play in the Great War of 1914 to 1918.
Ten survivors from the nazi camps speak about their struggle.
The Battle of Shanghai has been described as the last battle of World War I, and the first battle of World War II. It was a warning to the world, a warning that was ignored. And it was the place where the destiny of modern China was set in motion. Based on the book “Shanghai 1937: Stalingrad on the Yangtze” by Danish author Peter Harmsen, this film introduces key figures in the conflict, chronicles how the battle unfolded over the course of three months, and explores the aftermath and years of war that followed.
White Van Stories is a documentary feature on enforced disappearances following seven characters from the families of the disappeared in North, East and South Provinces of Sri Lanka.
Gone for the Moment (2019) is a short war film directed and edited by Josiah Dunjey. The film stars Peter Sullivan as Charles Seymour among other notable cast members such as Lachlan Macritchie (Private Bridges) and Carla da Silva (Lily Blackwood). Produced and written by Peter Sullivan, the film follows Charles Seymour (Peter Sullivan) throughout his Italian campaign as an Australian in WW2. Charles feels it is necessary for him to go and fight in the war although his wife Lily Blackwood (Carla da Silva) thinks otherwise.
A strikingly realized puppet tale, based on an old folk ballad of a maiden who sets out to search for her lost fiancé in the turmoils of war. The beloved is found in a stationary hospital where the Grim Reaper is preparing for his gloomy task. It was inspired by the poem The Legend of the Dead Soldier by Bertolt Brecht.
Take an in-depth look at the battle for Okinawa and the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki through the eyes of archeologists and historians. Objects found in excavations of sites in Okinawa and Honshu lead us to understand the lives of soldiers and of the civilians caught up in World War II.
In 1992, a group of Croatian guerrilla fighters go on the occupied territory in the area of Gospic, in order to save imprisoned Croatian soldiers from the Serbian camp. During the action of release and its aftermath, the group encounters a number of obstacles...
A group of Australian World War II diggers, veterans of the Kokoda campaign in Papua New Guinea, return to the battle site at Isurava 56 years later, to say a final farewell to the mates they left behind.
Somewhere in a bombed city: transvestite heads show beautiful ladies hats. We see the latest fashion and hear cheerful music while the war continues.
A documentary retracing the years of the WWI. The starting point is a collection of mostly unpublished period stereophotographs.
The story of this model work unfolds during the Anti-Japanese War and takes place in the market town of Shajiabang (沙家浜), by Lake Yangcheng in Jiangsu Province. Shajiabang has become a center of guerrilla warfare against the Japanese after its liberation by the New Fourth Army. The company political instructor Guo Jianguang and seventeen other sick and wounded soldiers are recuperating in the town from their wounds. The Japanese troops, however, are bent on exterminating all New Fourth Army personnel from the area. Guo and his men have taken refuge in the nearby marshes.
This shows successful operations by the Finnish Air Force in the Winter War and the Continuation War of 1939-1945. The DVD consists mainly of films which have been shot by war-time photographers. A significant part of the material has not been published before.
A look at a day in the life of two people at opposite ends of the social strata.
On May 17th. 1943 the Royal Air Force carried out one of the most remarkable bombing raids ever undertaken by a handful of skilled aircrew prepared to risk their lives attacking a seemingly impossible target.
Constructed from the private photo album of a Gestapo officer, this short documentary juxtaposes his everyday snapshots with the captions he himself wrote. Through these images and notes, the film reveals the chilling banality of Nazi perpetrators’ lives while exposing the brutality they oversaw.
A former soldier experiences nightly trauma that forces him to re-live harrowing memories.
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