January 1, 2005
On the 60th anniversary of World War II, Boku Films presents 1942, a suspenseful horror movie set against an unforgettable war. The year is 1942. The setting - Malaya.
January 1, 2005
Based on David Maraniss' book, They Marched into Sunlight, the film tells the story of two seemingly unconnected events in October 1967 that changed the course of the Vietnam War.
January 1, 2005
Pip, a street kid just turning 18, receives his grandfather's World War II-era memoirs and discovers parallels to his own life.
December 25, 2004
Inya, a heroine of the Philippine resistance against the Japanese during World War II, recalls events involving her husband Edilberto and their childhood friend Ignacio, a transvestite who, masquerading as a woman also named Inya, becomes the lover of the local Japanese commander, Ichiru, and is caught between a duty to be a spy for his country and friends and his reluctant but growing love for Ichiru.
December 24, 2004
The film tells the story of a (somehow) love-triangle set in Bohol during World War II; though the main underlying themes deals with Filipino nationalism and the legacies of colonialism.
December 24, 2004
All Maj. Amarjeet Singh wants is for his grandson Kunal to be as noble and brave as Amarjeet and the boy's father, Vikramjeet. But Kunal has other plans and does not wish to follow in his father's and grandfather's military legacies. Reluctantly, Kunal gives in and joins the army and ends up falling for Shweta, the widow of a fallen soldier. When the man later turns up alive, will Shweta return to him or stay with her new love?
December 15, 2004
An Army Ranger quick reaction force attempts to rescue a patrol pinned down on a mountaintop in southeast Afghanistan. They have no idea that within twelve hours five of them will lie dead in the mountain snow after an intense and deadly battle.
December 12, 2004
Based on the novel of the same name by Nikolai Cherginets. The film begins in the spring of 1941 and ends with the first months after the liberation of Belarus. In the center of the plot of the film – the story of three brothers Kuprevich. Police Lieutenant Alexei Kuprevich receives an appointment as an operative in one of the districts of Western Belarus. His task – to neutralize the rampant gang there "forest brothers". War begins. Alex and his brother, senior police Lieutenant Peter Kuprevich receive the first combat mission: to destroy the landed settlements under the German assault...
December 10, 2004
A German Jewish industrialist is forced to hand over his business to the Nazis in order to ensure his family's safe passage out of Germany.
December 3, 2004
It's a satirical comedy that chronicles 3 young Canadian film makers from Yellowknife as they travel from northern Canada to the middle east just as the Iraq war is erupting. As well as being very funny, it is also quite thought provoking. The trio travels through Canada, Turkey, Israel, Jordan and finally Washington DC interviewing "regular people" for their comments on the impending war. This film won best documentary at the 2003 Whistler Film Festival in Canada.
December 3, 2004
A group of American executives making a film about World War II decide that since their lead is rather unglamorous, they will draft in an American G.I. to play the part of Winston Churchill. Their take on the war depicts a handsome Churchill falling in love with Princess Elizabeth, who is herself involved in the war as an undercover agent.
December 1, 2004
November 26, 2004
A boy's experience as a fresh military recruit stationed at the North-South border in the late 1970s.
November 19, 2004
In the mid-18th Century, as England and France battle over control of Canada, an epic romance between a peasant woman and a trapper unfurls
November 21, 2004
Alexander, the King of Macedonia, leads his legions against the giant Persian Empire. After defeating the Persians, he leads his army across the then known world, venturing farther than any westerner had ever gone, all the way to India.
November 15, 2004
November 15, 2004
During the Bangladeshi war for independence in 1971, a group of people flee from their villages towards a safe border.
November 11, 2004
Ten families read letters from their loved ones killed during Operation Iraqi Freedom in this powerful and moving HBO documentary by Oscar and Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Bill Couturie (Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam). Photos of the soldiers in military and civilian life are shown as family members read the final correspondence received from Iraq and share their thoughts and memories about the fallen troops and the realities of war.
November 11, 2004
An ailing communist reflects on a young boy childhood in Stalinist Yugoslavia.
November 2, 2004
The Last Day of WWI: 11th Month, 11th Day, 11th Hour