War

Level Five

Level Five

February 19, 1997

Laura, a French programmer, inherits the task of creating a game about the World War II Battle of Okinawa. Her research and interviews with Japanese experts and witnesses prompt her to reflect on life, humanity, and the lasting influence of history and memories.

The Truce

The Truce

February 14, 1997

After the liberation of Auschwitz, an Italian prisoner of War begins a torturous voyage home to Turin, through a Europe caught between war and peace.

Paradise Road

Paradise Road

February 11, 1997

A group of English, American, Dutch and Australian women creates a vocal orchestra while being imprisoned in a Japanese POW camp on Sumatra during World War II.

The Sentence

January 21, 1997

A beat-up camper approaches a snow-covered mountain military check point. A pale sun is rising as a prelude to a chilly morning. The passengers are two old people who are trying to avoid the national draft of their grandson. They hide the kid in a coffin, pretending he's dead. But the commander discovers the young deserter.

Goodbye America

Goodbye America

January 6, 1997

It is November 1992 and the US Navy is preparing to surrender its largest overseas facility at Subic Bay, Philippines, after almost a century. For both countries, and for the navy, it is a time of change. Violence erupts shortly after the U.S. Navy announces plans to withdraw from a Philippine base in 1992.

Marco Polo: Haperek Ha'aharon

Marco Polo: Haperek Ha'aharon

January 2, 1997

In the midst of a war between Venice and Genoa, Marco Polo, a citizen of Venice, is imprisoned by the inquisition and is charged with heresy.

My Native Land

January 1, 1997

It shows how the Chinese nationalistic landowners made evil plots with the intention of inheriting Manchu's imperial rights to Mongolia, and how the people of Darganga entered the path of freedom and happiness as a result of the victory of the people's revolution.

Peacekeepers

Peacekeepers

January 1, 1997

A Canadian Army unit with the United Nations peacekeeping force in the former Yugoslavia is tasked with keeping the peace in a dangerous Croatian town named Krasna.

Witnessed

January 1, 1997

Witnessed is inspired from the dance piece Courtyard choreographed by Allen Kaeja. Allen delves into the times his family lived through during the Holocaust of WW II, by exploring the relationships of five individuals after months of forced confinement inside the Ghetto walls. The story of Witnessed is one of displacement, unrelenting fear and community support in a time of crisis.

Soldier's Bride

January 1, 1997

An explicit anti-rape film.

报告班长5:女兵报到

报告班长5:女兵报到

January 1, 1997

Meensel-Kiezegem 44

Meensel-Kiezegem 44

January 1, 1997

Docu drama of a true story from august 1944 about belgians who worked for the germans nicknamed as de zwarten the blacks who tortuered en killed habitans of a village called Meensel Kiezegem.

The Great Military March Forward: Pursue and Wipe Out in the South

The Great Military March Forward: Pursue and Wipe Out in the South

January 1, 1997

The Spitfire Story

The Spitfire Story

January 1, 1997

The Spitfire was the plane no-one wanted - government, industry and even the Royal Air Force turned it down. Only the faith of its brilliant designer, R.J. Mitchell, kept the Spitfire project moving forward and into service - just in time to become the symbol of British pride and power as a "killer fighter" during the Battle of Britain.

Partigiani

Partigiani

January 1, 1997

Đồng Lộc Junction

Đồng Lộc Junction

January 1, 1997

Based on a true story of 10 young women, who volunteered to help with logistic activities at Đồng Lộc junction, a strategic junction of Ho Chi Minh trail during the Vietnam War.

Canavar Balası

January 1, 1997

Azerbaijanian family has found Armenian boy in the forest and raised him. But years after he betrays his country during the war.

The Third Woman

The Third Woman

January 1, 1997

In the Autumn of 1991 Croatia is fighting for independence and the capital Zagreb is plagued by air raid alerts and blackouts. Hela Martinic is a reporter, who returns to her home town from Australia, called by her old friend Vera Kralj. Soon after arrival, she is told her friend was killed in a traffic accident. At the funeral she meets some people who Vera was involved in some sinister activities and she begins her own investigation.

We Lived for Estonia

January 1, 1997

During June 1941, Nazi forces occupied Estonia. By 1944, when the Soviet-Nazi frontline was drawing towards the Estonian border from the East, Alfred Käärmann was conscripted into the German military. By September 1944 the Red Army had again occupied Estonia. Alfred was forced to make a decision: whether to stay in Estonia or retreat with the Germans. He chose the former, However he risked arrest and deportation by the Soviets.

Beyond Barbed Wire

January 1, 1997

World War II documentary narrated by Pat Morita