Film Snail

War

The Sky Above Us

The Sky Above Us

January 28, 2015

Belgrade, 1999. People go in and out of cafés, and lively conversation echoes all around. As if no one expects the NATO bombings. As if they never even started. But there is tension nonetheless, behind the eyes of people who suppress their fear at any cost. It is in this time and place that Ana, Sloba and Bojan construct their own sense of normality in order to retain their sanity. Three ways to deal with fear. One random sky above.

Les Évadés du troisième Reich

Les Évadés du troisième Reich

January 25, 2015

Picket 43

Picket 43

January 23, 2015

The film dealt with the story of an Indian army officer guarding a picket alone in Kashmir, and his friendship with a Pakistani soldier.

Battles

Battles

January 22, 2015

How do Europeans deal with their recent dark history (the wars, dictatorships and occupations)? What traces are etched?

An Unknown Country: The Jewish Exiles of Ecuador

An Unknown Country: The Jewish Exiles of Ecuador

January 21, 2015

Story of European Jews who fled Europe escaping the Nazi terror to find refuge in an unlikely destination: Ecuador -- barely known at the time.

Voices of Midway

Voices of Midway

January 16, 2015

A multimedia original film production commissioned by the USS Midway Museum in San Diego, focusing on the young men who sailed and flew into the teeth of the Japanese Navy.

Shoah, les oubliés de l'histoire

Shoah, les oubliés de l'histoire

January 2, 2015

The implacable machine of Nazi destruction took away three million Jews in the USSR. Unveiling evidence filmed by the Soviets this shocking documentary reveals a hidden memory.

Before the Fall

Before the Fall

January 2, 2015

Cambodia 1975: The capital Phnom Penh is a city under siege. Only the presence of the last remaining US troops is keeping Khmer Rouge guerrilla forces from overrunning the town's fragile defenses. Inside this dark, dystopian setting a stunning nightclub singer engages in a battle of wits and deception with two lovers in a bid to escape the doomed metropolis.

Slaget i Lyngør 6. juli 1812

Slaget i Lyngør 6. juli 1812

January 1, 2015

Starheim

Starheim

January 1, 2015

The Undercover Knight

The Undercover Knight

January 1, 2015

Beacon Fires Along The Great Wall

Beacon Fires Along The Great Wall

January 1, 2015

One Minute

One Minute

January 1, 2015

Gallipoli 1915

Gallipoli 1915

January 1, 2015

The six months of the war that was fought on the Gallipoli peninsula was the culmination of months of British errors. The transferal of Imperial prejudices to military planning ended up costing thousands of their lives and showed the incompetence of British generals.

Granite & Chalk

Granite & Chalk

January 1, 2015

As rebels planned Ireland’s 1916 Easter Rising, they were watched by two spies code-named Granite and Chalk. This documentary delves into British intelligence to tell their story, one century on. Funded by Bord Scannán na hÉireann/the Irish Film Board, After ’16 is a creative response by Irish filmmakers to the events of Easter 1916. This collection of nine short films is a mixture of live-action, animation and documentary, telling stories from the eve of the Rising all the way to the Troubles in 1970s Northern Ireland and beyond.

No Soldier

No Soldier

January 1, 2015

An untrained soldier is forced to protect his countries borders as his childhood friends try to cross for a better life.

Bal Can

Bal Can

January 1, 2015

Kosovo 1988. Two young boys, a Serbian and an Albanian, raised together in a small town of Kosovo. As they grow up they find themselves in a war between two countries and on different fronts.

Hiroshima: Hidden Traces

Hiroshima: Hidden Traces

January 1, 2015

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.

Waterloo: Hidden Traces

Waterloo: Hidden Traces

January 1, 2015

Using new archeological findings, first hand accounts of the battle, expert interviews and CGI and 3D animations this program helps us understand the dynamic elements of strategy and weather that led to Napoleon's historic defeat by the Duke of Wellington on the fields of Waterloo.

Games on the Battlefield

Games on the Battlefield

January 1, 2015

Built on archive footage – much of it previously unseen – this film reveals one of the most unexpected legacies of the First World War -- popular participation in sports, once the realm of the elite. For four years, sport represented a welcome respite from the killing fields of Europe.