War

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Short film about war actions and poetry of Karl Destovnik (1922-1944), a Slovenian poet, translator, resistance fighter, and Yugoslav people’s hero.

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.

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.

These film reels had vanished for decades and no one knew about the secret passion of Hitler's second man Hermann Goering. This footage from his private collection shows for the first time how he preferred to see himself: at the height of his power, acclaimed by the masses - as in the annexation of Austria in 1938, as Commander-in-Chief of the Luftwaffe.

Dálvaro José de Oliveira survived the German attack that sank two Brazilian ships in 1942.

They are the ultimate swashbuckler-soldiers who rely on courage as much as anything else. Airborne assault troops are deployed in only the most dire of situations. From World War II through the Gulf War, the lightly armed and outnumbered soldiers of airborne assault forces have been played pivotal roles.Trace the history of this tactic, from the idea hatched by noted strategist Billy Mitchell in World War I to the present day. This special presentation also features rare film from Britain, the U.S. and France which captures the stirring past of Allied Forces.

The Supermarine Spitfire - one of the most legendary aircraft of World War Two. Before World War Two the Germans had boasted that the Messerschmitt ME109 was the world's fastest fighter, but the Supermarine company set out to prove them wrong. Designed by R. J. Mitchell, the Spitfire was poised to replace the Bristol Bulldog fighter. Coupled with the development of the Merlin engine by Rolls Royce, the first Spitfire was delivered to the Royal Air Force in 1938. It was only the advent of jet powered planes that made the Spitfire obsolete, but it remains an iconic statement of design and engineering.

In the trenches of WWI, soldiers let off steam by cobbling together musical instruments.

In the year 1965, Louisa, a young housewife, finds herself fighting for her husband's love against his preoccupation with the Vietnam War and his wish to become a military hero. To deter her husband from leaving, Louisa desperately tries to remind him of the excitement of their early marriage. As Louisa reaches for what she thinks she wants, she discovers that what she needs is to be independent, albeit alone.

At the beginning of the war in Croatia, Vjera refuses to leave the ruins of her home on the front line . Her husband flees town while their son goes to battlefield. Working as an interpreter she starts her path of self-discovery.