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War

Missing in Action 2: The Beginning

Missing in Action 2: The Beginning

March 1, 1985

Prequel to the first Missing In Action, set in the early 1980s it shows the capture of Colonel Braddock during the Vietnam war in the 1970s, and his captivity with other American POWs in a brutal prison camp, and his plans to escape.

Latino

Latino

February 28, 1985

The fighting between the Sandinista government in Nicaragua and the Contra rebels backed by U.S. money and expertise is the focus of this pro-Sandinista film by Haskell Wexler. On a secret mission to help the U.S. Special Forces train Contra rebels in the jungles of Nicaragua, American soldier Eddie Guerrero begins to question the morality of the task at hand and consider how his actions may influence the fate of a nation.

Orchestra of One Youthhood

Orchestra of One Youthhood

February 27, 1985

True story about the brass band of a fire brigade during WW2.

Batallions Ask for Fire

Batallions Ask for Fire

February 18, 1985

A story of a several days of intense fighting on the Eastern Front during one of the Soviet offensives in WWII.

Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil

Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil

February 17, 1985

The two-part TV movie Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil crystallizes that evil by concentrating on two Berlin brothers. In 1931, Helmut Hoffman a brilliant student and self-styled opportunist, joins Hitler's SS. At the same time, his younger brother Karl, a top athlete and idealist, becomes a chauffeur for the "S.A.".

Mama, I'm Alive

Mama, I'm Alive

February 12, 1985

In 1943 a group of children are forced to join the partisan detachment in the forests of Belarus.

Privates

Privates

February 9, 1985

The action takes place shortly before the Victory in the ruins of Berlin. But it is not the military actions that are at the center of what is happening, but the fate of people, their sorrows and hopes. A young first-year Dandelion, drafted in the last days of the war, suffers completely childishly from the fact that he will not get military glory. His older friend, Dervoed, in front of whom his wife and son died, is suffering unable to cope with the mental pain. In contrast, the Rebel, who was taken to the military enlistment office right from his own wedding, is nervous and fierce. A real "war dog", he only knows how to kill. What to do when the war is over, where to put yourself?

Bitter Spring

Bitter Spring

February 8, 1985

At the center of the film is a patriot photographer, who sees how the city moves on the eve of invasion by focusing his camera at the heroic resistance of the people.

Area 88 Act I: The Blue Skies of Betrayal

Area 88 Act I: The Blue Skies of Betrayal

February 5, 1985

Shin Kazama, tricked and forced into flying for the remote country of Aslan, can only escape the hell of war by earning money for shooting down enemy planes or die trying. Through the course of the series, Shin must deal with the consequences of killing and friends dying around him as tries to keep his mind on freeing himself from this nightmare.

The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission

The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission

February 4, 1985

Major Reisman is "volunteered" to lead another mission using convicted army soldiers, sentenced to either death or long prison terms. This time their mission is to kill a Nazi general who plans to assassinate Hitler.

The Woman and the Stranger

The Woman and the Stranger

January 31, 1985

Based on a switched identity, in circumstances that are found in real life as well as fiction, this drama tells the story of two soldiers fighting together in World War I. Karl (Joachim Latsch) and Richard (Hans-Use Bauer) become close friends while serving time in a German POW camp. One day Karl manages a successful escape and goes to Richard's home where he seeks refuge posing as Richard. But Richard's wife Anna (Kathrin Waligura) has never given up hope that her husband is still alive -- a possibility that would shatter Karl's proposed new life. In fact, Richard did not die in the POW camp. This film shared the Grand Prix award at the 1985 Berlin Film Festival.

Charlie Grant's War

Charlie Grant's War

January 27, 1985

A Canadian artist turned diamond merchant in Vienna, Austria risks his life to smuggle Jews out of the Third Reich.

Unfinished Business

Unfinished Business

January 26, 1985

1985 documentary film about Min Yasui, an attorney from Oregon, Gordon Hirabayashi, a Quaker college student in Washington, and Fred Korematsu, a San Francisco welder and how their lives were affected by Japanese American internment during World War II.

Private Resistance

Private Resistance

January 24, 1985

Otto, a Jewish refugee who managed to escape from Berlin in the early days of WW2, is now the owner of an Amsterdam ice cream parlor. Otto's place soon becomes a microcosm of the city with its German invaders, Dutch collaborators and anti-fascist resistance groups.

Palace

Palace

January 23, 1985

1944. Lucien, a fighter in the Free French Forces, is taken prisoner by the Germans. He is sent to a prison camp and then becomes a pianist in a palace.

Virgin Forest

Virgin Forest

January 22, 1985

A story set in the Philippine Republic in the 1900s where a lass, a Spanish mestizo, and a fisherman are caught up by Macabebe soldiers who are trying to capture Emilio Aguinaldo.

Application to Go to the Front

Application to Go to the Front

January 16, 1985

In showing the friendship of the people of Mongolia and Russia, it was strengthened even more during the difficult times of the homeland war, and it is told that the ordinary Mongolian herdsman made a proposal to go to the front to fight in person, and by giving gifts to the front, he made his goal.

The Epic of Cheikh Bouamama

The Epic of Cheikh Bouamama

January 7, 1985

The story of the film revolves around the epic of Sheikh Bouamama, a leader of the national resistance in Algeria during the French colonial era. The events are taking place in southwestern Algeria. The film also tells about different stages of the resistance, especially about one of the uprisings of the Algerian people, namely "the battle of the sons of Sidi Sheikh Bouamama", in which French General Leuti was appointed to try to suppress and end this resistance.

Contact

Contact

January 6, 1985

A platoon of British paratroopers on border patrol in South Armagh face a series of tense encounters.

Strike Swiftly

Strike Swiftly

January 1, 1985

A look at the history of Australia's 1 Commando Regiment during the period in which commandos were all members of the Australian Army Reserve, rather than full-time soldiers.