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War

Bread & Roses

Bread & Roses

July 18, 1993

Based upon the life of activist and trade unionist (and later MP) Sonja Davies. The film covers her life up to 1956, when, at age 33, she was elected to the Nelson Hospital Board. During this period she develops strong socialist beliefs, marries and divorces, at age 17 trains as a nurse, has a romance (and a child) with an American marine who is killed in WWII action. She battles tuberculosis and marries a former boyfriend when he returns from the war. She becomes part of a women's ill-fated campaign to save the Nelson railway line from closure and begins to be elected to political bodies.

Una questione privata

July 16, 1993

Enchanted

Enchanted

June 30, 1993

Stories of 12 gay and lesbian survivors of Nazism and the Holocaust.

The Last P.O.W.? The Bobby Garwood Story

The Last P.O.W.? The Bobby Garwood Story

June 28, 1993

Marine Private First Class Robert Garwood spent fourteen harrowing years as a Vietnam P.O.W. only to finally be released and immediately arrested by the U.S. Marine Corps on charges of collaboration with the enemy. He is found guilty on the strength of the testimony from those P.O.W.s he tried to take care of so many years before and is branded a traitor.

Going Home

Going Home

June 10, 1993

Johan Ten Berghe joins the Dutch army when the Dutch East Indies unilaterally declare independence as Indonesia. He initiates his naive driver Twan in life in the East, having grown up there as son of colonial official Hendrik, now missing. Their adventures intertwine with Johan's childhood memories, especially concerning his native best friend, Oeroeg, who joined the rebellion, as well as their nanny and later de facto stepmother. Conflicting loyalties become tangible in extreme situations

Angels of Death

Angels of Death

June 6, 1993

A tragic love story set during WWII.

The Puppetmaster

The Puppetmaster

December 8, 1993

Master puppeteer Li Tien-lu recalls his life in Japanese-occupied Taiwan during the first half of the 20th century.

National Geographic: The Lost Fleet of Guadalcanal

National Geographic: The Lost Fleet of Guadalcanal

May 23, 1993

Explorer follows Bob Ballard and veterans from both America and Japan as they search for ships that were sunk during the Battle of Guadalcanal.

Hot Shots! Part Deux

Hot Shots! Part Deux

May 21, 1993

Topper Harley is found to be working as an odd-job-man in a monastery. The CIA want him to lead a rescue mission into Iraq, to rescue the last rescue team, who went in to rescue the last rescue team—who went in to rescue hostages left behind after Desert Storm.

Sharpe's Eagle

Sharpe's Eagle

May 12, 1993

Sharpe is a Captain saddled with the South Essex, a battalion run by incompetents and filled with soldiers who have never been in battle. When the South Essex loses its colours (its regimental flag), Sharpe vows to save the honor of the regiment by capturing a French Imperial standard: an eagle.

Friend of War

Friend of War

May 5, 1993

The film is set during World War II in a German-occupied European country. In a covered truck on a snow-covered road, the Germans are transporting a group of civilians. Thoughts of imminent death inevitably visit the passengers of the van. The Catholic priest accompanying the arrested, among whom there is a boy, prepares the companions to leave for another world. A complex psychological conflict arises between the priest and the boy. Circumstances develop in such a way that the boy manages to escape.

Pétain

Pétain

May 5, 1993

During second world war,Philippe Pétain gets absolute powers.The war ends with the arrival of allied forces by Petainism has not been put on trial.

Sharpe's Rifles

Sharpe's Rifles

May 5, 1993

During the Peninsular War in Spain against the French, Sergeant Richard Sharpe saves the life of Arthur Wellesley, the future Duke of Wellington and is promoted to Lieutenant. In order to pay the troops Wellesley needs a money draft from the banker Rothschild, but fears he has been captured by the French and sends Sharpe behind enemy lines to find him. Sharpe is given command of a platoon of crack riflemen, led by the surly Irishman Harper and including Hagman and Harris, who resent Sharpe as not being a 'proper officer'.

Autumn Harvest Uprising

Autumn Harvest Uprising

May 1, 1993

Les goumiers marocains

Les goumiers marocains

April 15, 1993

This film recounts through archival documents and eyewitness accounts, the history of "The Moroccan Goumiers" during the two world wars and the Indo-china war. A story that starts from the beginning of the French protectorate in Morocco.

Hail, Sarajevo

Hail, Sarajevo

April 13, 1993

A short two-minute rumination on the once volatile situation during the period of the Bosnian War presented in the form of a photo-montage with accompanying text.

Wiatraki z Ranley

April 12, 1993

During World War II, a Polish correspondent goes to South Scotland, where he learns about the history of a Polish pilot.

Sotapoika

Sotapoika

April 12, 1993

During the Continuation War, mother Kaarina and son Erkki live at home in a small town while father has been sent to the front. One day the family's life is turned upside down when the father returns home as a deserter from the front .

Fire in the Harvest

Fire in the Harvest

April 1, 1993

At the first days of the Iran-Iraq war, Taleb, the lord of the Malekieh village, helps the Iraqi army to enter the village. Rahman, a twelve-year old teenage who is a shepherd working for Taleb, is the only one allowed to commute in the area. Jaseb, Rahman's friend, who is recently finished his military service escapes from the village and has to kill an Iraqi soldier. He is also injured and hides in a barn. Rahman finds out about him and tries to help him ...

Louis, the Child King

Louis, the Child King

November 4, 1993

January 1649: Since the death of his father, the young Louis XIV must undergo the hard apprenticeship of royal power. He must face the intrigues of the great ones of the kingdom who lead La Fronde, the agreements and the betrayals of those close to him. He is helped in this by his mother Anne of Austria and by the Cardinal Mazarin.