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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
January 1, 1997
An explicit anti-rape film.
January 1, 1997
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.
January 1, 1997
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.
January 1, 1997
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.
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.
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.
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.
January 1, 1997
World War II documentary narrated by Pat Morita