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Cannon Fodder
Cannon Fodder
In a walled city perpetually at war, everyone's livelihood depends upon maintaining and firing the enormous cannons that make up most of the city. Nearly every building in the city is equipped with cannons of varying size, able to fire huge artillery shells over the city walls. The story is centered on a young boy and his father, who works as a lowly cannon-loader.
Cannon Fodder 1995
Entrevista
Entrevista
Entrevista 2014
WWI: Hidden Traces
WWI: Hidden Traces
The First World War: soldiers from at least 20 countries were plunged in the hell of trenches… caught under a deluge of bombs. A century later, archaeologists help bring to light the daily life of the soldiers fighting on the French Eastern Front and reveal unexpected aspects of life on the front.
WWI: Hidden Traces 2014
Himeyuri
Himeyuri
The 30-minute film centers around a group of high school students who became nurses called Himeyuri and served during the Battle of Okinawa during World War II. The Himeyuri Alumnae Incorporated Foundation, which runs the Himeyuri Peace Museum in Okinawa, produced the film with the aim to convey the experiences of those high school students, many of whom lost their lives during the battle, to children.
Himeyuri 2012
The Talking Bird
The Talking Bird
A Vietnamese short anti-American propaganda animation.
The Talking Bird 1967
Alteration
Alteration
Rustam is a Soviet soldier from Uzbekistan who has been drafted for the Afghanistan war. In the war, he experiences the harsh reality of being unable to categorize the friendly and enemy forces into good and evil.
Alteration 2022
Nakam
Nakam
Ukraine during the German occupation in 1943. 12-year-old orphan Mitka earns a living in a tavern under a false name by playing music every night for the mainly German guests. He is accompanied in his playing on the violin by the pianist Yegor. Even beyond the music, he tries to be a friend and mentor to the boy. Mitka, however, finds it difficult to accept the budding friendship. This is because none of the people involved has any idea that Mitka belongs to a Jewish partisan movement.
Nakam 2022
Pacification en Algérie
Pacification en Algérie
Where does submission to authority end? Where does individual responsibility begin? Each person confronted with violence asks themselves these questions. Through the testimonies of conscripts but also of Algerian activists, a memory of this war is constructed. The atrocities of the Algerian war are known. However, conscripts were pressured not to speak out upon their return. General de Bollardière was punished for opposing torture. Guy Mollet, President of the Council, denied any shameful practice before Parliament…
Pacification en Algérie 2002
Tank Commandos
Tank Commandos
A demolition squad searches for how the Germans are getting tanks across a river. An Italian boy leads them to a bridge under the surface of the water.
Tank Commandos 1959
Two Soldiers
Two Soldiers
A story about the friendship between two young men, two soldiers - Arkady from Odessa and Sasha from Ural.
Two Soldiers 1943
Sea Dreams
Sea Dreams
First World War animated propaganda short, extolling Britain's naval history and mocking the German navy.
Sea Dreams 1914
兵临绝境
兵临绝境
兵临绝境 1990
בראול סטארס בחיים האמיתיים-אלון קאט
בראול סטארס בחיים האמיתיים-אלון קאט
בראול סטארס בחיים האמיתיים-אלון קאט 1800
El agujero
El agujero
El agujero 2014
El retorno
El retorno
El retorno 2014
Ten Thousand Li Ahead
Ten Thousand Li Ahead
Driver Ko Wah (Lee Ching) refuses to transport ammunitions for the enemy, and is sent to jail after a scuffle with his traitorous boss. Although down and out, Ko takes in Siu-fung (Yung Siu-yi), an unwilling erotic dancer who has fled the war to Hong Kong. They may lead destitute lives, but their conscience remains intact. Director Cai Chusheng co-founded the National Salvation Association of Cinema. When Ko makes a uproar at the dance parlour and rips apart his friend's zombie costume, it represents Cai's criticism on the muddling-along attitude of Hong Kong society at the time. The characters' decision to return to the mainland to join the resistance effort also foretells Cai's decision to do the same in real-life.
Ten Thousand Li Ahead 1941
The General and the Tyrant
The General and the Tyrant
Upon becoming Prince Regent, the bellicose Lord Biu of Wu sends commander-general Si Ching-wan to rage wars between the Zhao and Chen Kingdoms. A small state that is long on literary excellence but short on military might, Chen is defenceless against the invading forces. The compassionate general answers the pleading of the Chen princess, Fung-ming, to sign a treaty of peace. In his speech to the lord, Deputy General Lau Mo-yeung accuses Si of treason so as to lay claim to Chen. The lord dispatches the valiant fighter Lui Chen-sing to Chen on an assassination mission, but the assassin is vanquished. Si prevails on Lui of his patriotism. Lord Biu fights Chen. In a dire attempt to redeem Chen, Si surrenders to the Wu camp. Lui pretends to have blinded Si to extricate him. The duo ally with a band of chivalrous fighters to overturn the corrupt regime. Dispossessed of his throne, Biu commits suicide. Si returns to his land to serve as an aide to the young king and marry Fung-ming.
The General and the Tyrant 1961
Green Years
Green Years
World War II. The Germans enter Sosnowiec, which complicates the relationship between the three friendly children.
Green Years 1980
Black Dragon
Black Dragon
Vietnam, 1968. A rogue American colonel attempts to cover up an atrocity he led his platoon to carry out, only to meet his match in the form of a young village girl with very strange powers…
Black Dragon 2022
Taiheiyō Sensō-shi: Seiki no tsumeato
Taiheiyō Sensō-shi: Seiki no tsumeato
History of the Pacific War from the invasion of Manchuria to the Tokyo trials
Taiheiyō Sensō-shi: Seiki no tsumeato 1967
Dear Soldier
Dear Soldier
Two Korean conscripts undergo Imperial Japanese Army training, much to the pleasure of their families.
Dear Soldier 1944
Soldiers
Soldiers
Set in Russia during the Battle of Stalingrad in the Second World War. The war is shown through the eyes of simple soldiers, who are dreaming about love and being loved in a peaceful life, which most of them will never have.
Soldiers 1956
Şimal Yıldızı
Şimal Yıldızı
Şimal Yıldızı 1954
A Lonely Hero's Journey
A Lonely Hero's Journey
A Lonely Hero's Journey 1
Kıbrıs Şehitleri
Kıbrıs Şehitleri
Kıbrıs Şehitleri 1959
Homeland
Homeland
1948 War. Lolek, a young Holocaust survivor ,arrives in Israel and thrown
 in the middle of the desert.
A stranger to the language and the new identity he is given, he is assigned in an isolated post under a brutal commander and the burning sun.
 Afflicted by homesickness and the heat, he sets out to look for some shade
Homeland 2008
The Enclave
The Enclave
Commissioned for the Irish representation at the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013, The Enclave is an immersive, six-screen video art installation by Irish contemporary artist Richard Mosse. Partly inspired by Joseph Conrad’s modernist literary masterpiece Heart of Darkness, the visceral and moving work was filmed in the Democratic Republic of Congo using 16mm colour infra-red film, which captures otherwise invisible parts of the spectrum. The resulting imagery in Mosse’s work is hallucinatory and dream-like with the usual greens of jungle and forest replaced by shimmering violet. The Enclave depicts a complicated, strife-ridden place in a way that reflects its complexity, using a strategy of beauty and transfixion to combat the wider invisibility of a conflict that has claimed so many.
The Enclave 2013
Behind the Peace
Behind the Peace
The story of the desire, love and harmony of a young man dreaming of becoming a pilot
Behind the Peace 2018
Lửa Rừng
Lửa Rừng
Lửa Rừng 1966
Soldier of Victory
Soldier of Victory
Two-part biopic about General Karol Świerczewski, living embodiment of the party line, and the group of party members from his hometown fighting the fascist forces towards the socialist state of affairs.
Soldier of Victory 1953
Córeczka
Córeczka
A Soviet soldier stays with a Polish family.
Córeczka 1965
Nad Odrą
Nad Odrą
The former owner, a German, shows up on a farm belonging to the Poles settled there.
Nad Odrą 1966
Chechnya
Chechnya
The story of Radio Radicale journalist Antonio Russo
Chechnya 2004
Bolibar
Bolibar
Hessian officers' flirtations with an artist's daughter accidentally give signals to the attacking English.
Bolibar 1928
Всего одна жизнь
Всего одна жизнь
Всего одна жизнь 1
Bloody Destinies
Bloody Destinies
As Major General Helmy and his son Sa'ad take part in the first Palestine War, his wife Horeya cheats on him with Kamal. When Helmy returns and finds out, he dies from the shock and his daughter Alia vows revenge on her mother.
Bloody Destinies 1982
Octopus Cafe
Octopus Cafe
Comic stories of Varsovians living under the Nazi occupation and struggling with the enemy.
Octopus Cafe 1959
Histoire du caporal
Histoire du caporal
A quiet French peasant has spent three years as a corporal on the front lines in World War I, and one day he cannot take it anymore and goes AWOL, escaping into the Alps in the southeast of France. He first takes leave of his wife before heading into the mountains and manages to survive in the breathtaking, vast landscape while using all the knowledge and wiles under his command. Even though the area around him is fairly isolated, another deserter arrives on the scene -- but he cannot take the solitude and leaves. As the peasant diligently works at his own survival, the police from the region know he is hiding out somewhere within their jurisdiction, and so his future is anything but secure. This subdued, pacifist film strives for distance rather than emotional involvement, so as to present a pacifist cause as reasonably as possible, but as a consequence, the routine of the deserter's existence verges on a grinding boredom.
Histoire du caporal 1984
Fighting Norway
Fighting Norway
During World War II Norwegian patriots struck at Germany from the rear, linking Canada, the United States and Britain with Soviet Russia. Norwegian resources around the world were mobilized, and at Canadian training stations Norwegian airmen forged a lasting friendship between the two countries. Includes footage from the British film All for Norway.
Fighting Norway 1943
Bombardment of Port Arthur
Bombardment of Port Arthur
A realistic representation of the bombardment of Port Arthur by the Japanese. The great iron clad monsters of the deep are seen to glide in and out firing at the Russians, who are inland. The water effect is grand, and the mines are seen to explode, throwing thousands of tons of water high into the air; ships are seen to burst into flame and sink from sight, leaving the crew to fight their way to shore, some of them being shot by the Russians from the fort.
Bombardment of Port Arthur 1904