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War

Gramps Is in the Resistance

Gramps Is in the Resistance

October 26, 1983

It is 1943 in Paris. Like so many others, the Bourbelle family's home has been taken over by the Germans and they now live in their cellar. Little do they know that the son, Guy-Hubert Bourdelle, is far from being the cowardly hairdresser he pretends. He is in truth the Germans’ most feared opponent: le super-résistant!

Under Fire

Under Fire

October 21, 1983

Three U.S. journalists get too close to one another and their work in 1979 Nicaragua.

For Those I Loved

For Those I Loved

October 12, 1983

Polish Martin Gray recalls the Holocaust, New York prosperity, and losing his wife and family.

When the Mountains Tremble

When the Mountains Tremble

September 30, 1983

A documentary on the war between the Guatemalan military and the Mayan population, with first hand accounts by Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchú.

Lover, Come Back to Me

Lover, Come Back to Me

September 23, 1983

Ken Ota is a Japanese-American GI. He comes to Hiroshima after WW2 looking for his big sister, but finds Keiko, a bomb victim with a keloid scar on her shoulder.

Last Plane Out

Last Plane Out

September 23, 1983

An American journalist covering the civil war in Nicaragua falls in love with a beautiful Sandinista rebel.

Anak ng Sultan

September 22, 1983

A 1983 Filipino action film about the Bangsamoro struggle and Mindanao.

Surge of Tenderness

Surge of Tenderness

September 19, 1983

The end of World War II. The Bulgarian army is fighting the German one. Private Peycho Peychev known as Peychina is also at the frontier - a sensitive and timid person forced to witness the horrors of the war. His commanding officer keeps saying that at the end of a war the world is swept by a 'surge of tenderness'. After a serious injury, Peychina goes back to his birth place. The new ruling powers in the village try to win him over to their side but what he is really good at is holding the chisel, not the gun. He carves an image of Elena, a woman that he falls in love with. Yet, the surge of tenderness in the world seems to be canceled. Peychina comes to be responsible for the death of an anarchist and helps capture his commanding officer, who fights against the new rule. When the mayor hands him a gun again, he refuses to take it.

Na odsiecz Wiedniowi

September 12, 1983

Film about the famous Battle of Vienna and the events surrounding it.

G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero

G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero

September 12, 1983

A Real American Hero is the first G.I. Joe miniseries, in it the G.I. Joe Special Missions Force must contend with COBRA who, after the successful theft of a special broadcast satellite now threaten the world with a teleportation machine called the M.A.S.S. Device. G.I. Joe tracks down the original designer who advises that the only way to counter the weapon is to build a M.A.S.S. Device of their own. However to power the device properly three rare catalytic elements are needed. Now it's a race around the world and against the clock as G.I. Joe and COBRA go M.A.S.S. to M.A.S.S.

It Was the Fourth Year of the War

It Was the Fourth Year of the War

September 12, 1983

A group of Russian spies are trying to gather an important information about the German forces before the attack of the Soviet Army in this action movie set during WWII.

The Geisha

The Geisha

September 10, 1983

Yokiro was the most successful Geisha house in Western Japan during the first half of the 20th century and remains open to this day. At its peak, it was home to over 200 geisha, however behind the fabulous facade, there were many battles - between family members, men and women, and with the Yakuza. Momokawa was sold to Yokiro at age 12, and despite being the top geisha, her many complicated relationships provide unending challenges throughout her glamorous but turbulent life.

Streamers

Streamers

September 5, 1983

Four young recruits about to be sent to Vietnam confront their prejudicial feelings toward one another when it's learned one of them is gay.

Upside Down

Upside Down

September 1, 1983

With the Nazi occupation of Poland, several children in a village there become very unhappy and then get in deep trouble for a drawing of the Nazi Führer hanged from a tree.

Kalabaliken i Bender

Kalabaliken i Bender

August 26, 1983

The famous Swedish Karoliner army has suffered its biggest defeat ever at Poltava in 1709. The Swedish king Karl XII is waiting in the small village of Bender for the Turkish sulton to help him defeat his arch enemy, the czar of Russia, Peter the Great. But the Turks think he's an expensive guest and want him out of Turkey. However, he refuses. The sultan then decides to send Karl XII a princess to marry him, to get him out of the country (a bride for a bribe). The two Swedish soldiers Lagercrona and Kruus are to escort the princess. They experience many different adventures on their way to Bender, namely because other Swedish soldiers and agents try to stop them from ever reaching the village, because they don't want Karl XII to leave Turkey. After their long adventure to get there and a few misunderstandings, the famous "kalabalik" of Bender, where the Turks decide to drive Karl XII out of Turkey by force, begins.

The Women Warriors of Kingmen

August 20, 1983

Action-war from Taiwan.

Commander's Day

Commander's Day

August 8, 1983

One day in a life of a general during the fights of 1941...

Torpedo Bombers

Torpedo Bombers

August 1, 1983

In 1944 a Soviet marine air force unit stationed near Murmansk is fighting off the German bombers attacking the British navy convoys supplying the Soviet Union with war materials under the lend-lease agreement.

Barefoot Gen

Barefoot Gen

July 21, 1983

A story about the effect of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on a boy's life and the lives of the Japanese people.

Palace Hotel

Palace Hotel

July 15, 1983

The finder of a suitcase stolen in 1939 from the French embassy in Warsaw tries to reach its owner.