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War

Ils ont libéré Paris !

Ils ont libéré Paris !

June 14, 2014

Stray Dog

Stray Dog

June 13, 2014

A portrait of Ron "Stray Dog" Hall, an aging biker and RV park manager from southern Missouri. A man who has been permanently altered by his tours of duty in Vietnam, who has come to terms with himself and acquired a rare wisdom and patience in the process, and who is now dedicated to helping his friends, his loved ones, and his fellow vets.

Hors champ

Hors champ

June 11, 2014

The events of the first world war seen through the lens of an amateur cameraman

Gisela: Herskerinne av Victoria Terrasse

June 10, 2014

The year is 1943. An all-female and top-secret department of the SS, run by the notorious Gisela Nussbaum in a secret Gestapo headquarters, conducts medical and biotechnolocical experiments with blood from Norwegian resistance fighters, which is said to hold the key to the Norwegians' unwavering unity and courage.

The Science of D-Day

The Science of D-Day

June 7, 2014

Seventy years ago one of the greatest amphibious assaults in history was launched from here on the south coast of England. And within a matter of hours, 7000 vessels had landed 156,000 troops on the beaches of Normandy. It was a manoeuvre that changed the course of the war and tested innovations in science and engineering for the first time. On this programme, engineer Rob Bell looks at the nuts and bolts which made such a staggering invasion possible. From giant troop carrying gliders to tanks that could drive on water. How necessity really did become the mother of invention. Like all new inventions - not all of them worked and resulted in devastating consequences. We find out why. This is the science of D-Day.

Normandy '44: The Battle Beyond D-Day

Normandy '44: The Battle Beyond D-Day

June 6, 2014

James Holland moves beyond the D-Day beaches to reassess the brutal 77-day Battle for Normandy that followed the invasion. Challenging some of the many myths that have grown up around this vital campaign, Holland argues that we have become too comfortable in our understanding of events, developing shorthand to tell this famous story that does great injustice to those that saw action in France across the summer of 1944.

The Light of Dawn: The Normandy Landings

The Light of Dawn: The Normandy Landings

June 6, 2014

The Normandy landings of 6 June 1944 were pivotal to the outcome of WW2. We learn when Churchill and Roosevelt first proposed the operation and how preparations started—finishing with the key events of D-Day and the far-reaching effects of its outcome.

Exercise Tiger

Exercise Tiger

June 1, 2014

The Hunt For Hitler's Missing Millions

The Hunt For Hitler's Missing Millions

June 1, 2014

In one of the most astonishing untold stories of the 20th century, Channel 5 reveals how a team of British intelligence officers found Hitler’s will and examines the subsequent quest to uncover the extent of the Führer’s wealth and to find his money. For the first time on television, Hermann Rothman recounts his part in the story. A German Jew now in his 90s, Rothman fled Hitler’s tyranny just before the war started and was assigned to the British Counter Intelligence Corps for the duration. http://www.channel5.com/shows/the-hunt-for-hitlers-missing-millions

If I Don't Come Home: Letters from D-Day

June 1, 2014

A partly dramatised account of the lives of four Allied servicemen ahead of D-Day, the programme told their story through their final letters home before the assault.

New Minesweepers Warfare : Courageous boy

New Minesweepers Warfare : Courageous boy

May 30, 2014

After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the Japanese army has been advancing, killing and looting our compatriots, the people hated to the bone, but unfortunately, the lone army is weak and the invaders can not. The Japanese army advanced into the Central Plains, the vanguard came to the necessary fortress: Maijia Village.

Zhen Hai Battle

Zhen Hai Battle

May 30, 2014

Korengal

Korengal

May 30, 2014

Korengal picks up where Restrepo left off; the same men, the same valley, the same commanders, but a very different look at the experience of war.

King Naresuan Part: 5

King Naresuan Part: 5

May 29, 2014

In the year 2129 the Department of the Red God was incensed to the crushing defeat of King Naresuan. Both have to face the hosts and glory. So then wreak vengeance to the Lord Supangkanlaya. HRH on Dlamini's father was a sadness with the realization that the fate of the daughter and invading the Ayutthaya done it, because he defected to the enemy side. Nordstrom will finally died King Naresuan's went up succeed to the throne of Ayudhya dominate the successor of his father.

D-Day 360

D-Day 360

May 27, 2014

From PBS - Focusing on the most important strip of Omaha beach that day - the exit at Vierville-sur-Mer - D-DAY 360 strips D-Day back to its raw data to reveal how the odds of victory, in the greatest gamble of World War II, swung on what happened over a five-hour period on a five mile stretch of French coastline. Data gathered though forensic laser scanning, 3D computer modeling, and eye-witness accounts bring the battlefield to life as never before.

D-Day's Sunken Secrets

D-Day's Sunken Secrets

May 19, 2014

June 6 1944 saw the world’s biggest amphibious assault, one of the most important military campaigns in history and a pivotal moment in the Second World War. For generations, historians, archaeologists and other experts, in their attempts to reconstruct the events of the day, have scoured every battlefield – except one. Just off the coast of Normandy is a lost graveyard, where hundreds of objects lie on the sea bed.

Crackerman

May 19, 2014

From the makers behind Kenny Crackerman, Alex Crackerman, Mystery Crackerman, and Kenny Crackerman 4 Part 1 and Part 2 comes "Crackerman", an epic retelling of the Kenny Crackerman's original tale. A reimagining of Kenny's supernatural abilities sets his brother Alex and Grandpa Crackerman on an quest to save Kenny from a dangerous enemy: himself.

Children of War

Children of War

May 18, 2014

Children of War is a movie based on the true events of the 1971 Genocide. Can we, in search of power, become animals? A genocide; neglected! The first use of rape as a weapon of war; undocumented! The lives of millions; unaccounted! The culprits; unpunished!

Up, Down, Around

May 16, 2014

A student film comprising entirely of found footage, constructed to challenge the viewer's perception and induce a struggle between processing the images, keeping track of their sequence and interpreting the allegorical layers within the film. The screen is broken up into eight more or less equal squares of which, at any one moment, a scene fragment may flickeringly appear in only one frame-corner at a time. As the film moves forward in time and patterns on screen become more complex, the viewer must choose what to focus on.

Timbuktu

Timbuktu

December 10, 2014

Just outside of the Malian city of Timbuktu, now occupied by militant Islamic rebels who impose the Sharia on civilians and inconvenience their daily life, a cattleman kills a fisherman.