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Primitive War
Primitive War
Based on the book series by Ethan Pettus.
Primitive War 1
Corregidor
Corregidor
A doctor and his staff in a hospital on the Philippine island of Corregidor shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor try to treat the sick, injured and wounded as American and Filipino troops desperately try to beat back a ferocious Japanese attack.
Corregidor 1943
Decisive Engagement: The PingJin Campaign
Decisive Engagement: The PingJin Campaign
Winner of the Golden Rooster for Best Film in 1992
Decisive Engagement: The PingJin Campaign 1992
Defence of Sevastopol
Defence of Sevastopol
First film ever that was shot by two cameras. Set in 1854-1855, in Sevastopol and Yalta during the Crimean War. Admirals Kornilov (Mozzhukhin) and Nakhimov (Gromov) organize the defense during the siege of Sevastopol. Both admirals are killed during the battle, and the city of Sevastopol is taken by the alliance of British, French, Sardinian, and Turkish troops. The legendary feat of Sailor Koshka (Semenov) was staged at original location. The 100 minute-long film was premiered in 1911 at the Livadia, Yalta, palace for the Tsar Nicholas II.
Defence of Sevastopol 1911
The Fortress: By Shield and Sword
The Fortress: By Shield and Sword
In the war-torn countryside, an orphan and his young friend use all their skills to defend their home and people from opposing forces.
The Fortress: By Shield and Sword 2015
Our Northern Neighbour
Our Northern Neighbour
A look at Soviet foreign policy and the value of the Soviet Union as an ally.
Our Northern Neighbour 1944
Hitler's Forgotten Victims
Hitler's Forgotten Victims
The story of black and mixed race people in Nazi Germany who were sterilised, experimented upon, tortured and exterminated in the Nazi concentration camps. It also explores the history of German racism and examines the treatment of Black prisoners-of-war. The film uses interviews with survivors and their families as well as archival material to document the Black German Holocaust experience.
Hitler's Forgotten Victims 1997
Remember the Day
Remember the Day
Elderly schoolteacher Nora Trinell, waiting to meet presidential nominee Dewey Roberts, recalls him as her student back in 1916 and his relation to Dan Hopkins, the man she married and lost.
Remember the Day 1941
Arnhem: The Story of an Escape
Arnhem: The Story of an Escape
Arnhem: The Story of an Escape 1976
Ukrainian Rhapsody
Ukrainian Rhapsody
Singer Oksana has lost her beloved in the war. Everyone thinks he perished, but actually he was taken prisoner, then ran away, hid, fell into American hands, and… Finally, he returns to his village, and meets Oksana. —Yerevan International Film Festival
Ukrainian Rhapsody 1961
Operation Star
Operation Star
It is the winter of 1943. Somewhere in central Greece. A captain and a sergeant of the Greek army are the only survivors of a failed sabotage attempt against a German target during World War II. The two men are forced to flee to a village. They are pursued by a platoon of unwanted German army soldiers led by a tough German lieutenant. In the midst of war, a love is born that will change everyone's lives.
Operation Star 2024
Plane Daffy
Plane Daffy
Daffy Duck is a message courier bird delivering a military secret that a femme fatale Nazi spy is determined to get.
Plane Daffy 1944
The Wife Takes a Flyer
The Wife Takes a Flyer
Christopher Reynolds, an American flying with the R.A.F, is shot down over German-occupied Holland and is given shelter by a Dutch family. Posing as the insane husband of the daughter of the house, Anita Wolverman, Reynolds convinces the German officer quartered there, Major Zellfritz, with the necessity for her divorce decree to be granted. After the court-hearing, Anita, goes to manage a home for retired ladies and, persuaded by Reynolds, tries to gain military information from the German Officer. When her former husband escapes from the insane-asylum his exploits are blamed on Reynolds. With the help of the old ladies and Anita, who "remarries" him, Reynolds escapes to England in a stolen German airplane.
The Wife Takes a Flyer 1942
Wings of Steel
Wings of Steel
A football hero joins the Army Air Corps.
Wings of Steel 1941
The Dance of Shiva
The Dance of Shiva
In the trenches of the Western Front in 1915, a British army chaplain is forced to question his faith as he witnesses hundreds of Hindu soldiers risking their lives daily for the Empire.
The Dance of Shiva 1998
Legionario
Legionario
Legionario 2017
Summer Solstice
Summer Solstice
Coming of Age Drama in rural Poland in the summer of 1943.
Summer Solstice 2015
The Burmese Harp
The Burmese Harp
In the War's closing days, when a conscience-driven Japanese soldier fails to get his countrymen to surrender to overwhelming force, he adopts the lifestyle of a Buddhist monk.
The Burmese Harp 1985
Bal-Can-Can
Bal-Can-Can
A Macedonian military deserter and his Italian blood-brother are searching for a dead grandmother wrapped up in a stolen carpet, all over the Balkan's criminal underworld.
Bal-Can-Can 2005
PQ17: An Arctic Convoy Disaster
PQ17: An Arctic Convoy Disaster
Jeremy Clarkson tells the dramatic story of the Arctic convoys of the Second World War, from Russia to the freezing Arctic Ocean.
PQ17: An Arctic Convoy Disaster 2014
Caught by Night
Caught by Night
A communist journalist from Prague is sent to Ravensbruck concentration camp.
Caught by Night 2019
The Witness
The Witness
Daniel Cohen, a virtuoso violinist from Belgium, considers himself a citizen of the world, believes in goodness and justice. At the end of February 2022, he comes on tour to Kiev, and this trip changes his life forever. The events of the Special Military Operation lead the musician to the Ukrainian village of Semidveri, where he witnesses inhuman crimes and bloody provocations. Now his main goal is not just to survive, but to convey the truth to the whole world. Truth is stronger than fear.
The Witness 2023
Bomber Harris
Bomber Harris
Biography of Arthur Harris (aka "Bomber Harris") of RAF Bomber Command, during WW2 - in particular his strategy of heavy bomber "Millenium Raids" on German cities.
Bomber Harris 1989
Song of Russia
Song of Russia
American conductor John Meredith and his manager, Hank Higgins, go to Russia shortly before the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. Meredith falls in love with beautiful Soviet pianist Nadya Stepanova while they travel throughout the country on a 40-city tour. Along the way, they see happy, healthy, smiling, free Soviet citizens, blissfully living the Communist dream. This bliss is destroyed by the German invasion.
Song of Russia 1944
Adama: The World of Wind
Adama: The World of Wind
12 year-­old Adama lives in a remote village in West Africa, sheltered by the cliffs. Out beyond lies "the world of wind," the kingdom of wicked spirits hungry for war. When his elder brother Samba suddenly vanishes from the village, Adama decides to set off in search of him, crossing into a Europe in the grip of World War I.
Adama: The World of Wind 2015
Go for Broke!
Prime Video
Go for Broke!
A tribute to the U.S. 442nd Regimental Combat Team, formed in 1943 by Presidential permission with Japanese-American volunteers. We follow the training of a platoon under the rueful command of Lt. Mike Grayson who shares common prejudices of the time. The 442nd serve in Italy, then France, distinguishing themselves in skirmishes and battles; gradually and naturally, Grayson's prejudices evaporate with dawning realization that his men are better soldiers than he is.
Go for Broke! 1951
God Is My Co-Pilot
God Is My Co-Pilot
Robert L. Scott has dreamed his whole life of being a fighter pilot, but when war comes he finds himself flying transport planes over The Hump into China. In China, he persuades General Chennault to let him fly with the famed Flying Tigers, the heroic band of airmen who'd been fighting the Japanese long before Pearl Harbor. Scott gets his chance to fight, ultimately engaging in combat with the deadly Japanese pilot known as Tokyo Joe.
God Is My Co-Pilot 1945
Frontier Rangers
Frontier Rangers
A pastiche of three episodes from the 1958 TV series Northwest Passage, stitched together as a feature and released theatrically in Europe.
Frontier Rangers 1959
The Boys from St. Petri
The Boys from St. Petri
A group of school-mates form a resistance group in nazi-occupied Denmark.
The Boys from St. Petri 1991
Game of Aces
Game of Aces
A rescue attempt of a German traitor during World War I has unexpected consequences and sets off an adventure across the Arabian desert.
Game of Aces 2016
Against All
Against All
After the battle of Sudoměř the Hussite teaching spreads through the whole country and people start leaving their homes to help build the fortification of Tábor. Prague citizens request help against the army of Zikmund. The Hussite army with Jan Žižka in the lead make their way towards Prague. They fortify themselves on the mountain Vítkov and engage in a bloody battle with Zikmund’s huge army.
Against All 1957
Operation Bikini
Operation Bikini
The film takes place aboard an American submarine in the Pacific during World War II. The sub's commander is ordered to stop and pick up an underwater demolition team led by Lt. Hayes, whose mission is to locate and destroy a US submarine sunken in a lagoon off Bikini Atoll before the Japanese are able to raise it and capture the advanced radar system on board.
Operation Bikini 1963
The Unknown Soldier
The Unknown Soldier
Second silver screen adaption of the Finnish war book by Väinö Linna. The story is based on Linna's experiences as an infantry man in the Finnish army during the so called "Continuation War" (1941-1944).
The Unknown Soldier 1985
The Last Cartridges
The Last Cartridges
An incident of the Franco-Prussian War. It shows the bombardment of a house at Bazeille. It is the animated reproduction of de Neuville's celebrated painting.
The Last Cartridges 1897
Liberated Earth
Liberated Earth
After the liberation of the Kuban by the Soviet Army troops, farmers return home and begin to restore the destroyed economy. Under the leadership of the young chairman, Nadiezdha Pritulyak, growers are working with great enthusiasm.
Liberated Earth 1946
The Cornered Beast
The Cornered Beast
A man who pretends to be a Dutch immigrant, is discovered by the Israelite Secret Service that he is a German Nazi War Criminal who escaped to Mexico.
The Cornered Beast 1975
Branded
Branded
A woman struggles with the isolation of being confined as a prisoner in a war-torn country.
Branded 2024
Kurukshetra
Kurukshetra
As intense battles rage between Indian and Pakistani forces in the Kargil district of Kashmir, Indian Col. Mahadeva (Mohanlal) leads his brave troops on a dangerous mission to capture the rocky Kargil territory. This Malayalam-language war drama -- directed by Major Ravi, a former Indian Army officer -- also stars Cochin Hanifa, Bineesh Kodiyeri, Manikuttan, Biju Menon and Siddique, and features songs by Sidhharth Bipin.
Kurukshetra 2008
Reflection
Reflection
The film centers on Ukrainian surgeon Serhiy, who is captured by the Russian military forces in the conflict zone in Eastern Ukraine, and while in captivity, he is exposed to horrifying scenes of humiliation, violence and indifference toward human life. After his release, he returns to his comfortable middle-class apartment and tries to find a purpose in life by rebuilding his relationship with his daughter and ex-wife. He learns how to be a human being again, how to be a father and help his daughter, who needs his love and support.
Reflection 2022
Ten Italians for One German
Ten Italians for One German
A cinematographic account of the reprisal ordered by the ruthless Austrian colonel Kappler in 1944 in Rome. In Via Rasella (Rasella Street) ten Italian civilians were sentenced to death for each German soldier killed in a partisan attempt.
Ten Italians for One German 1961