During World War II, one small band of brave soldiers is on a covert mission deep behind enemy lines in Nazi-occupied France. Their mission is to take out a secret Axis radar installation and pave the way for an all-out Allied air strike. Against harrowing odds, the resilient heroes will stop at nothing to complete their mission. This independent war drama from Kenneth W. Richardson stars James E. McLarty, Jim Westbrook and Robert Stolper.
Military service in Israel is compulsive for all able-bodied Jewish men and women. Once their years of service is up they are granted a bonus which many use to travel to India to wind down and recover from their experiences. About 90% of them will use drugs during their travels and every year about two thousand of them will require professional help to recover from this drug use. The extreme psychotic break these people experience is commonly referred to as "flipping out".
A young actress dreams of getting the chance to prove herself on the big screen. Hit by rejection after rejection she finally gives up, only to put her fate into her own hands, when the director of her lastest casting gets in her taxi.
A documentary looking at Operation Anthropoid during World War II.
In the last days of the Korean War, Mil-ryeo and Chang-su, two secret agents from North Korea, are ordered to defect to the south to carry out 'Special Mission 8'.
Bakur (North) is a documentary that invites its audience to reflect on a war that has been continuing for decades and gives an insightful look on its main subject, the PKK. The film follows the lives of the guerilla in three different camps on the Kurdish region (north) that lies within Turkish borders.
Gilberte Montavon was a legend in her own lifetime. As a young woman, she was confidante to hundreds of thousands of Swiss-German speaking soldiers during the First World War, and remembered most of their names. She was still a teenager when the war began, and was immortalised by a song written during the war years by the Swiss-German bard and lute player, Hans Inn der Gand.
A reconstruction of Lord Allenby's Palestinian campaign.
An Australia propaganda war film documenting the Battle of the Bismarck Sea. Nominated for the Academy Award.
Captain Michos Floros returns to Samarina to gather more men and lead them to Messolonghi, joining General Makris's existing forces. Thus, with the help of his friend Elias Manakas and 25 other men, they set off on a long journey to meet Zisis Hatzimati and the rest of their compatriots in Messolonghi. On March 31, 1826, they began their difficult journey through the mountains. At the same time, the women in the village tried to learn from Eleni Florou the real reason for their men's sudden departure. Ibrahim Pasha and the Turkish commander of Arta, Nihat Servan, prepare their final attack on Messolonghi.
The film documents a debate about early 20th century films, mainly 1910 to 1920, from short news reels to excerpts from full-length movies. At Amsterdam's Film Museum, film directors, students, and film researchers and archivists look at the moving images and discuss their meaning, in the social and technical contexts. Moody live music was added to the edited film.
A captain and lieutenant of the Russian army are buried in the basement of the Przemysl Fortress during the First World War.
Set during the war between Dutch/Allied troops and the people of Cibening Cakung in 1945, the story begins when a young man captures 22 Indian soldiers and four British crew members who land on Rawa Gatel. Based on real events, the factual protagonists are KH Noer Ali, leader of Laskar Hizbullah, who is also an ulama (religious leader) who founded the Islamic boarding school; Luke Kustaryo from the Indonesian People's Army; Bang Jole, a local fighter; and Hussein Kamali, an intellectual. Among the fictional characters are H Komar and his wife, who are executed by the Dutch, in front of their children. Then there are also Mahfud and Hafid, members of Hizbullah, who are opponents but who reconcile when they are about to die.
During World War II, during a misty morning, near a fishermen's village, four children come across two RAF pilots ejected from a plane that crashed in the sea.
A band of American soldiers are directed to venture behind enemy lines to rescue a platoon missing soldiers.
Ascent of Evil: The Story of Mein Kampf is an autobiographical manifesto written by Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler while imprisoned following his 1923 failed coup attempt in Munich. In Mein Kampf, Hitler outlined his political ideology and goals for Germany. Today, Mein Kampf is still available in libraries, on the Internet, at universities and even at bookstores worldwide. Yet much of the history of this 720-page, two-volume screed is now forgotten. Using historical footage, photographs and interviews with scholars, Ascent of Evil plunges deep into the infamous blueprint for evil’s dark secrets and reveals how this book came to be written and its impact on world.
In 1925, with the cooperation of the War Office, British Instructional Films set out to make a dramatic, feature-length reconstruction of the five Ypres battles in which 1.7 million soldiers lost their lives. Directed by William Summers, the result is a silent classic. Unlike the famous 1916 documentary The Battle of the Somme, the Ypres footage is entirely ”faked” and the film shares some of Somme‘s propagandist approach. Regardless, the film is no less fascinating as an artistic endeavour of its time and it features some stunning images. A degree of authenticity is provided by real soldiers taking part and by the filming having taken place in the actual Ypres trenches.
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