War

Fragments of War: The Story of Damien Parer

October 19, 1988

The life story of Damien Parer, the acclaimed World War II photographer, who spent most of the war on the frontline.

哗变

哗变

October 18, 1988

Mandoukhai the Wise: Episode 4

Mandoukhai the Wise: Episode 4

October 18, 1988

Set in the 15th century after the collapse of Genghis Khan's empire, and follows Mandoukhai from her youth when she's forced to marry the new ruler to her violent death after unifying the vast Mongolian empire.

Generał Berling

October 12, 1988

Zygmunt Berling (27 April 1896 – 11 July 1980) was a Polish general who fought for the independence of Poland in the early 20th century.

Goodbye My Friend

Goodbye My Friend

October 5, 1988

Goodbye My Friend is a Hong Kong Crime-Drama starring Chow Yun-Fat.

Tjoet Nja' Dhien

Tjoet Nja' Dhien

October 1, 1988

Set in 1896, "Tjoet Nja' Dhien" celebrates one of Indonesia's great heroes who fought for independence from the Dutch. The pious Muslim people of Aceh, a city that had flourished since ancient times as a trade port, enter into a fierce war with the Dutch. Tjoet Nja' Dhien, the widow of a rebel leader operating in Aceh in Sumatra, assumes the leadership when her husband Teuku Uma is killed in an ambush. Dhien's charismatic presence and power of survival motivate the locals to join and later continue their opposition to the Dutch. Despite personal obstacles, she remained in the thick of the struggle for ten years.

Platoon Leader

Platoon Leader

October 1, 1988

West Point graduate lieutenant Jeff Knight meets cynicism when taking command of sergeant Michael McNamara's tour veterans platoon in a Vietnamese trench camp. Unlike his predecessor, who hid till the end of his tour, Jeff takes charge, experiences the manual doesn't allow coping with all realities and gets wounded. He returns, now fully respect by men and superiors. Besides the Vietcong, the platoon wrestles with the inscrutable villagers, which the G.I.'s officially protect, but also fear as some collaborate with them, other covertly with the Cong, either way subject to bloody reprisals.

Straight for the Heart

Straight for the Heart

September 30, 1988

Pierre is a Montreal photojournalist who returns from Nicaragua to find that his ten-year menage a trois is over. Haunted by his mid-life crisis, he becomes obsessed with trying to find out why his two lovers, Sarah and David, have left him.

Cobra Mission 2

Cobra Mission 2

February 9, 1989

A Vietnam vet who specializes in freeing POWs goes behind enemy lines on a rescue mission with a group of mercenaries.

Thanks Girls and Goodbye

Thanks Girls and Goodbye

September 22, 1988

Documentary using archival footage, newsreels and contemporary interviews with women of the WW2 Australian Women's Land Army.

The Raggedy Rawney

The Raggedy Rawney

September 20, 1988

During WWII a youth deserts his country's army after a combat experience, but not before wounding his commanding officer with a knife in order to escape. The young man, now very emotionally distraught, dresses in women's clothes and eventually joins a passing gypsy caravan, who think him a young girl... as well as a kind of seer, or 'rawney'. In time, however, he regains some composure and becomes attracted to one of the gypsy girls, which only leads to problems within the gypsy band, especially when the wounded commanding officer finds him.

La boca del lobo

La boca del lobo

December 8, 1988

The military anti-terrorist army takes control of "Chuspi", an unknown and faraway small village, isolated by the terrorist group "Sendero Luminoso" (Shining Path). A soldier called Vitin Luna, and other young soldiers face an invisible, perhaps superior force. Their unit is commanded by a brutal lieutenant who declares the entire village guilty of treason. In the face of this crisis, Vitin must choose between blind obedience and his own conscience.

Celebration

September 19, 1988

A young man decides to sell a family gem and set forth to America in quest of a new life. The man’s father resents this resolve, but finally he also gets inspired by the American Dream.

Another Way: D-Kikan-Joho

Another Way: D-Kikan-Joho

September 17, 1988

Raining Fire

Raining Fire

September 15, 1988

The year is 1945. Everything as usual in the Fukuoka city. Some places in Japan have already been scorched by the fire of war, but here it is relatively peaceful and calm. The school still working, and the boys play war in their spare time. Daichi and his friend are the commanders of rival squads. One day a newcomer appears in the class - Yoriko, a girl evacuated from Tokyo. Yoriko takes life very seriously, she has good reasons - her childhood ended after the loss of loved ones in the bombing. Children get to know each other and become friends. They, as the rest of the city, do not yet know that on June 19 their life will be divided into "before" and "after".

The Beast of War

The Beast of War

September 14, 1988

During the war in Afghanistan a Soviet tank crew commanded by a tyrannical officer find themselves lost and in a struggle against a band of Mujahadeen guerrillas in the mountains.

Camp de Thiaroye

Camp de Thiaroye

September 6, 1988

A Senegalese platoon of soldiers from the French Free Army are returned from combat in France and held for a temporary time in a military encampment with barbed wire fences and guard towers in the desert. Among their numbers are Sergeant Diatta, the charismatic leader of the troop who was educated in Paris and has a French wife and child, and Pays, a Senegalese soldier left in a state of shock from the war and concentration camps and who can only speak in guttural screams and grunts.

Kumander Dante

Kumander Dante

September 1, 1988

This action drama depicts the political development of one of the most celebrated leaders of the New People's Army "Ka Dante" or Bernabe Buscayno, who availed of the Aquino goverment's political amnesty program.

Those Whom Death Refused

Those Whom Death Refused

August 29, 1988

The story of a woman who searches through the country for her husband, a resistant, while the war for independence is raging. She finds him at last and saves his life. When peace finally arrives, they have to learn how to be together again and start living in a destroyed land.

Steal the Sky

Steal the Sky

August 26, 1988

An Israeli agent entices an Iraqi jet pilot to defect with his MIG fighter.