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Railway Spine
Railway Spine
Michael Delucca, a Vietnam veteran broken by his struggle with post-traumatic stress, recollects his violent postwar life in a raw and touching memoir for the son he never knew.
Railway Spine 2016
One Hundredth of a Second
One Hundredth of a Second
Kate is a talented photojournalist. She risks her life to deliver powerful images to the waiting world until a photograph of a Girl changes her life forever.
One Hundredth of a Second 2006
Long Live the Republic
Long Live the Republic
Oldrich is the runt of his village, beaten by his father, bullied by the other boys. But he has imagination on his side, and a wiry toughness they can’t defeat. The village is in turmoil, because the Nazi occupiers have just retreated and the Red Army is advancing. Oldrich dodges amid the mayhem and panic, taking his share of blows but always managing to stay one step ahead. Beautifully shot and darkly ironic, Karel Kachyna’s forgotten masterpiece jumbles reality, memory and fantasy to capture the intensity and confusion of childhood in a war zone.
Long Live the Republic 1965
The Edelweiss Pirates
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The Edelweiss Pirates
Cologne towards the end of the Second World War. The city is in ruins, everyone is afraid, many are dead. It is a time of great inhumanity. Cologne’s young Edelweiss Pirates refuse to submit to the pressure of the Nazi regime. They fight with the Hitler Youth and scrawl anti-war propaganda on walls. Karl is an Edelweiss Pirate; his younger brother, Peter, is in the Hitler Youth movement. The two young men have been alone ever since their mother’s death in a bombing raid; their father is serving at the front, and their older brother, Otto, has been killed in action. Otto’s financée, Cilly, is doing her best to survive the war with her children. Carl is trying to help her.
The Edelweiss Pirates 2004
Somewhere In France
Somewhere In France
Based on the true story of Melbourne Johns, an aircraft factory foreman sent to France to prevent the Nazis getting hold of some vital equipment.
Somewhere In France 1942
The Blood Road
The Blood Road
Yugoslav Partizans, captured by Nazis, are sent to concentration camps in distant Norway. The local population help some Partizans survive or flee to neutral Sweden.
The Blood Road 1955
Deserter
Deserter
During the Yugoslav break-up, Federal Army officer is fed up with war and takes some leave in Belgrade. However, it turns out that he is less haunted by war horrors than with some sentimental skeletons in the closet. He meets his former comrade and best friend who is AWOL, but can't report him because he had an affair with his wife.
Deserter 1992
Delta Force One: The Lost Patrol
Delta Force One: The Lost Patrol
An elite commando unit must rescue a captured peacekeeping force from a ruthless international arms dealer.
Delta Force One: The Lost Patrol 2000
Bouboulina
Bouboulina
The life and action of Laskarina Bouboulina. Captain Lascarina decides to organize the revolution in Spetses and to participate herself, despite her double widowhood. In the struggle for the liberation of Greece, she gives all her property and fighting along with her lads.
Bouboulina 1959
Young Veteran
Young Veteran
The first months of WWII as experienced by the new young recruits - the 'young Berts' - of the British Army.
Young Veteran 1940
The Last Guest
The Last Guest
The last Guest in Roblox tries to survive in a harsh world, where the Roblox army pits its forces against an army of corrupt and dangerous Bacon haired soldiers, driven to cleanse the world of noobs and guests and establish a new world order. This truly shows the horrors of war.
The Last Guest 2017
Moscow Strikes Back
Moscow Strikes Back
Soviet documentary about the defeat of the Nazis near Moscow. Warning - graphic images. Edward G. Robinson narrates the English language version.
Moscow Strikes Back 1942
For the Sake of a Few Lines
For the Sake of a Few Lines
The Carpathians, 1944. The truck with the employees of the divisional newspaper was blown up by a mine. Everyone was alive, but the font was scattered by the blast wave — and now, under the bullets of the enemy, the newspapermen must collect the material of the next issue of the newspaper literally in fragments...
For the Sake of a Few Lines 1986
The War Devils
The War Devils
A German Captain and an American Captain help each other survive the North African desert during WWII. They meet again a year later during combat operations in France.
The War Devils 1969
Front Without Flanks
Front Without Flanks
A first episode in the trilogy about the Russian partisan's resistance against the Nazi occupation of Russia during WWII. The film is set in August of 1941, when the Nazi forces invaded and occupied the European part of Russia. Major Mlynsky is in charge of the special group of partisans. His group is absorbing other small groups of Russian soldiers, who managed to survive from the attacks of the overwhelming Nazi forces. The Nazi Armies are advancing to Moscow. Major Mlynsky is organizing the Russian partisan's resistance against the Nazis, behind the enemy lines.
Front Without Flanks 1974
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
Lucy married at the turn of the last century, when she was fifteen and her husband was fifty. If Colonel William Marsden was a veteran of the "War for Southern Independence", Lucy became a "veteran of the veteran" with a unique perspective on Southern history and Southern manhood. Her story encompasses everything from the tragic death of a Confederate boy soldier to the feisty narrator's daily battles in the Home--complete with visits from a mohawk-coiffed candy-striper.
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All 1994
Area 88 Act III: Burning Mirage
Area 88 Act III: Burning Mirage
Shin Kazama, tricked and forced into flying for the remote country of Aslan, can only escape the hell of war by earning money for shooting down enemy planes or die trying. Through the course of the series, Shin must deal with the consequences of killing and friends dying around him as tries to keep his mind on freeing himself from this nightmare.
Area 88 Act III: Burning Mirage 1986
Simple People
Simple People
A 1945 Soviet war film which, along with the second part of Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible was harshly criticized by Andrei Zhdanov and banned. A version of the film, released in 1956 during the Khrushchev Thaw, was disowned by director Grigori Kozintsev because the reediting was done without his participation.
Simple People 1945
Boško Buha
Boško Buha
The movie is based on the true story about a group of children, barely teenagers, who joined Yugoslav Partizans after losing their families in WW2. At first, Partizans want to get rid of them, but later they are joining combat ranks. Among them, Bosko Buha would become a legend because of his skill in destroying enemy bunkers.
Boško Buha 1978
Sea Wife
Sea Wife
In 1942, a cargo ship jammed with British evacuees from Singapore is sunk by a Japanese sub. A small lifeboat carries a beautiful woman, an army officer, a bigoted administrator, and a black seaman. Only the seaman knows the woman is a nun. The men reveal their true selves under the hardships of survival. Told in a too-long flashback frame.
Sea Wife 1957
Embun
Embun
Set in Malaya during the Japanese occupation in the 1940s, this film tells the story of a girl, Embun, who's thrown into the forefront of the struggle against the Japanese when her freedom-fighter brother, Bayu, and father are detained by the Japanese. In the midst of it all, she's also attracted to the Japanese army public relations man, Koishi, who is assigned to explain the Japanese propaganda to the Malays and win their support. Koishi also has a personal mission to fulfil in Malaya to find the Malay man who married his mother (in other words, his father) when she served as a Japanese spy prior to the occupation.
Embun 2002
Effugium
Effugium
A soldier has just escaped from a POW camp, and is in the middle of war and a crazy clown dressed killer.
Effugium 2024
Animals in the Great War
Animals in the Great War
In the First World War, alongside the men fought an army of animals. Mules, oxen, dogs, horses, pigs, pigeons were used for moving units and materials, communications, and for the support of the troops. The forced cohabitation with men closer to each other in a possible fate of death and suffering: officers and enlisted men had the opportunity to give and receive affection, but also to deal with beings weak and completely dependent on their . Animals in the Great War offers an unconventional story of dramatic conflict, through letters, diaries and photographs taken by the fighters, and collected in the book that Lucio Fabi has derived from his research, The good soldier mule (ed. MURSIA). A documentary rebuild memories, stories, episodes of real life relationship, in and out of the trench, between humans and animals, including incredible moments of absolute serenity and tenderness, alternating the background of one of the most tragic periods in modern history.
Animals in the Great War 2015
My Grandmother Ironed the King's Shirts
My Grandmother Ironed the King's Shirts
A personal interpretation of Norwegian history - starring a grandmother who during the Second World War loses her job ironing the King's shirts. Instead she gains access to the enemy's uniforms, and inspires her own brand of resistance fighters, the "Shirt Guerillas".
My Grandmother Ironed the King's Shirts 1999
Ikkis
Ikkis
Set against the backdrop of the 1971 war, follows the life of second Lieutenant Arun Khetrapal.
Ikkis 2025
Bouquet of the South Seas
Bouquet of the South Seas
Bouquet of the South Seas 1942
Storm Over Georgia
Storm Over Georgia
In the middle of Sherman's March, in eastern Georgia, Confederate infantry, cavalry, and artillery make a bold stand against the overwhelming numbers of the Union army as it tears across Georgia.
Storm Over Georgia 2023
Boy Mestnogo Znacheniya
Boy Mestnogo Znacheniya
Конец 1943 года. Подразделение советских солдат во главе с молодым, ещё не нюхавшим войны, младшим лейтенантом останавливается в глухой деревеньке, стоящей в стороне от главных дорог. Её жители за всё время войны ни разу не видели немцев, поэтому внезапное появление здесь отборных диверсантов СС стало для всех полной неожиданностью.
Boy Mestnogo Znacheniya 2008
The Everlasting Glory
The Everlasting Glory
A most touching and consistently heart-gripping war drama depicts the heroic deeds of General Chang Tsu-chung who was even held in high esteem and dubbed as “Mars of China” by his Japanese counterpart, General Itagaki during Sino-Japanese war.
The Everlasting Glory 1976
The Spymasters: CIA in the Crosshairs
The Spymasters: CIA in the Crosshairs
Documentary revealing the inner workings of the world's most powerful intelligence organization, with unprecedented access to America's spy network, all 12 living CIA directors and top agency operatives, who talk candidly about torture, secret prisons, drone warfare, alleged assassinations and the constant threat of attack, which begs the question: how far should America go to keep us safe?
The Spymasters: CIA in the Crosshairs 2015
Torpedo Boat
Torpedo Boat
Richard Arlen and Phil Terry star as Skimmer and Tommy, two lifelong buddies who've invented a lightweight, high-speed torpedo boat (hence the title). Their copacetic business relationship is strained when nightclub singer Grace Holman (Jean Parker), having been jilted by Skimmer, marries Tommy on the rebound.
Torpedo Boat 1942
Long Forgotten Fields
Long Forgotten Fields
On Sam's return from military service, Lily sets her heart on revitalising their relationship, but with Sam's worsening PTSD isolating him from friends, family and the community, she too is drawn deeper into his post-war world.
Long Forgotten Fields 2017
Advance Patrol
Advance Patrol
In 1905, Japan was seriously threatened in the Russo-Japanese War. Japan determined a decisive attack on Russia to end the war. A reconnaissance troop was organized to penetrate into the supreme headquarter of Russia in Tieling Mountain of China to find out the enemy's situation...
Advance Patrol 1957
La negra Angustias
La negra Angustias
When her father dies, a young Afro-Mexican woman joins the Revolution, the way he was planning to do, and becomes the leader of a Zapatista battalion.
La negra Angustias 1950
Kadet 1947
Kadet 1947
When the Dutch initiates an aggression against Indonesia to regain its rule post World War II, a group of inexperienced cadets need to defend the last remaining airbase so they may have a chance to help the Republic win the revolutionary war and to protect what they have come to care for.
Kadet 1947 2021
Pearl Harbor, le monde s'embrase
Pearl Harbor, le monde s'embrase
Hawaii, Pacific Ocean. In this heavenly place, one of the most memorable battles of the Second World War took place 80 years ago. On December 7, 1941, at 7:53 am, a Japanese air squadron struck the American fleet which anchored in the waters of Pearl Harbor. The United States were struck at the heart of their defensive system and entered the conflict the very next day. How Pearl Harbor changed the face of World War II and therefore the face of the world? What are the diplomatic undersides of Pearl Harbor? Was the attack really a surprise attack? Is it really a Japanese victory?
Pearl Harbor, le monde s'embrase 2021
V for Victory
V for Victory
This animated short by Norman McLaren is a publicity message for a war bond campaign. Symbols, a stick man and lettering are drawn directly on 35mm film stock and synchronized with a brass band rendition of Sousa's march "The Thunderer."
V for Victory 1941
The Tanks of El Alamein
The Tanks of El Alamein
Italian move on the battle of El Alamein
The Tanks of El Alamein 1957
Wyklęty
Wyklęty
In the 1940s, a small band of underground paramilitaries attempt to fight back against the Soviet-backed security ministry in post-war Poland. Determined to fight for their country's future, the group goes to extreme lengths to make their voice heard.
Wyklęty 2017
The Underdog
The Underdog
During WWII, a strong-willed 12-year-old boy tries to steer his vocationally and maritally confused father straight, at the same time striving to keep his honor while the gang in his new neighborhood bully him.
The Underdog 1943