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War

Auschwitz

Auschwitz

February 11, 2011

Auschwitz is a hard-hitting war film which shows life as it really was at the death camp.

Jeanne Devère

Jeanne Devère

February 10, 2011

Jeanne writes during WW II for a French clandestine journal. She is engaged to resistant leader Victor Devère but has a love affair with the young resistant Marc Hétier. But is Marc really trustworthy?

Silent Sonata

Silent Sonata

February 8, 2011

A man stays alone with his children in a half demolished house in the middle of a desolate field. His wife has just been killed by a grenade in a military battle. He is expecting a new attack. Instead a wandering caravan called Circus Fantasticus stops by the house. They bring along the dying director of the circus. Is it possible for anything beautiful to happen in a landscape of war and death? Can life go on? Is it possible to realize that death does not exist?

Balkan Knights

Balkan Knights

January 30, 2011

A small group of soldiers separated from their unit is trying to orientate and reach the sea.

Beyond the Border

Beyond the Border

January 28, 2011

December 1942. Two young soldiers leave their posts at checkpoint 83 in North Värmland, Sweden and make their way through the ice cold winter night towards the Nazi-occupied Norwegian border. Sweden stands on the brink of invasion and they want to see the enemy everybody's talking about. But the adventure ends in disaster and soon thereafter Lieutenant Aron Stenström finds out that his brother Sven is one of the missing soldiers. With the odds stacked against him he is forced to go behind enemy lines on a secret rescue mission. Deep inside the Norwegian forests Aron realizes that a completely different kind of line must be crossed if they're to come out alive.

Sonny Boy

Sonny Boy

January 27, 2011

Waldemar Nods, a young man from Suriname, meets the older Dutch woman Rika van der Lans and they fall in love. In pre-WWII Netherlands they could not be more different. The one black, the other white, 17 years between them and on top of that Rika already has four children with another man. They love each other, but then Rika appears to be pregnant.

Valley of the Wolves: Palestine

Valley of the Wolves: Palestine

January 27, 2011

After the Freedom Flotilla attempts to bring humanitarian assistance to Gaza refuses to turn back, it is attacked by the Israeli military. In a dramatic battle scene, activists resist and are killed by the Israeli soldiers. A Turkish commando team led by Polat Alemdar (Necati Şaşmaz) travels to West Bank in Palestine, where they launch a campaign against Israeli military personnel in an attempt to track down and eliminate an Israeli general, leader Moşe Ben Eliyezer (Erdal Beşikçioğlu), who is the responsible for the flotilla raid.

Battlefield Heroes

Battlefield Heroes

January 27, 2011

This story unfolds 8 years after 'Battle of Hwangsanbeol', which destroyed Baekjae, when Silla-Tang Dynasty union attacks Goguryeo.

A Quiet Outpost

A Quiet Outpost

January 20, 2011

On the edge of Dushanbe, in the Republic of Tajikistan, a quiet border checkpoint under Russian control is attacked by Afghans and Tajiks who want it under their control.

Pathfinders: In the Company of Strangers

Pathfinders: In the Company of Strangers

January 11, 2011

Untold and lost history. A true story of the American Pathfinders, the volunteer paratroopers whose deadly mission was to land 30 minutes before the Normandy invasion, locate and mark strategic "drop zones" and set up the top-secret navigation equipment needed to guide the main airborne assault on D-Day.

Eroi per caso

Eroi per caso

January 10, 2011

In 1918 Cesare Magnozzi, a roman photographer, is drafted and together with Don Silvano they escort a soldier to the trench.

15 Lads

15 Lads

January 5, 2011

Summer 1944, France. Racine is a carefree 19-year-old first-aid worker, his secret desire is to be able to sleep with Isabelle, the girl he's in love with. One evening they are about to take the plunge, but a resistance fighter comes to ask for help. Racine goes up to the maquis to impress the young girl and joins a group of fifteen immature boys. But up there, nothing goes as planned. The war catches up with them, brutally marking the end of an innocence and Racine finds himself caught in the crossfire.

Goering's Last Secret: Revealed

Goering's Last Secret: Revealed

January 4, 2011

Documentary following the efforts of a historian to clear the name of Albert Goering, brother of Herman. Albert strived to save Jews while his brother masterminded plans to exterminate them. Through eyewitness accounts and the historian's findings, the film explores the notion that Albert's deeds may not have been possible without the help of his brother.

5,000 Feet Is the Best

5,000 Feet Is the Best

January 3, 2011

5000 Feet is the Best is a film based on two conversations that artist Omer Fast conducted in the fall of 2010 with a former Predator Drone aerial vehicle operator-turned Las Vegas casino security guard. The interviews are the seedbed from which Fast has pulled themes of remote warfare and the psychological effects of it on the Drone pilot, suggesting the implications of these things on current culture at large. Fast’s film sutures together reality and fiction and deflects any pat or partisan readings.

Nhamo

January 1, 2011

The Blood of Hero

The Blood of Hero

January 1, 2011

In the spring of 1937, a small group of Japanese troops was stationed in Fuwang Town in the Japanese-occupied area of ​​Central China. On the surface, they are controlling the Chinese civilians, but in fact strictly guarding the safety of a secret underground arms depot, warehouse 103, waiting for the arms support response from their larger army. After the Communist Army learned about this, they sent an intelligence agent to sneak into the Japanese army in Fuwang Town to explore the information of Warehouse 103.

History Rediscovered: The Memphis Belle

History Rediscovered: The Memphis Belle

January 1, 2011

History Rediscovered: The Memphis Belle features a restored version of the most famous documentary to emerge from WWII plus three other non-fiction, WWII films. Originally filmed in 1943 and directed by Academy Award winner William Wyler, "The Memphis Belle" chronicles the 25th and final mission of an Eighth Air Force B-17 in the skies over Axis-occupied Europe.

Peace Pox

Peace Pox

January 1, 2011

Based on the Christmas Truce of 1914. Soldiers call a truce on Christmas day and discover that they are neighbors and have been used as pawns in the politician's war.

Afghánistán bez obalu

January 1, 2011

Acosta Ñu

Acosta Ñu

January 1, 2011