War

Inchon

Inchon

May 4, 1981

Gen. Douglas MacArthur leads a Korean War campaign, and the war tests a married couple's relationship.

All Things Pass

All Things Pass

May 3, 1981

During World War II in the Netherlands, resistance-leader Arie is shot by the Dutch SS-man Niels. Arie's comrades pledge to avenge his death. 35 years later one of them, Ab, is confronted with Niels again. He decides to round up his old friends to kill him. He finds out though, that they think this is useless or are not capable of doing so anymore. Only the former communist Gerben has not forgotten his pledge and is talked into joining the execution.

Jamal's Tree

Jamal's Tree

May 2, 1981

Story of Jamal, a Turkmen woman who is left to tend to the farm when her husband goes off to fight in WW2.

You Should Survive

You Should Survive

May 1, 1981

1945, an attack aviation regiment is based at the field airfield, which is served by a team of young girls. The last days of the war are coming... In one of the battles, Lieutenant Volynin’s attack aircraft, damaged by a shell fragment, landed in territory occupied by the Germans. Air gunner Shchepov carried the wounded commander out of the burning plane. With the help of the Polish teacher Anna, they managed to get to theirs. And everyday life at the front began again. A few days before the Victory, Dima Shchepov died. Volynin took the death of his friend seriously. But it was even harder for him to learn about the death of Anna, whom he loved and whom he promised to find after the war...

Incident ​at Vichy

Incident ​at Vichy

April 26, 1981

In the streets of Vichy, France, during World War II, the Germans apprehend nine men and a boy. Among them are a painter, a businessman, an electrician, a waiter, an army doctor, an actor, a prince, a gypsy, and a Jew. Confined without explanation, they can only speculate about their fate.

Women in Arms

Women in Arms

April 9, 1981

Interviews with key military woman guerrilla leaders, and young girls and old women who took part baring arms or making artisanal bombs, against the regime of General Somoza.

Au bon beurre

Au bon beurre

April 8, 1981

The Private History of a Campaign That Failed

The Private History of a Campaign That Failed

April 6, 1981

Mark Twain tale of cowardly Confederate soldiers.

Broad Are the Leaves

Broad Are the Leaves

April 2, 1981

The action takes place in 1943 and today, and a Partisan school in Srem is in the center of action. A young journalist gets appointed to shoot a film report about the participants in the Liberation War from this area. In Srem village she meets common, simple people. She discovers that a free territory and a Partisan school was there. She also finds out that everybody acted as one. Deply going through all of those events, young reporter grows mature, identifying herself with the revolution participants.

When the Greeks

When the Greeks

April 1, 1981

At the turn of the twentieth century a young merchant is abducted by a group of brigands who are sheltered in a remote mountainous area of Greece aiming to extract ransom from his wealthy family. The young man develops a kind of sympathy to the arch-brigand and realizes that the underground life and moral code of his kidnappers actually represent a more genuine expression of “New Hellenism” than his bourgeois well-being.

Pugowitza

Pugowitza

March 26, 1981

World War II is over and Heinrich, a young German boy, influenced by the Russians, starts to act according to Communist principles in a small German village.

Commander's Daughter

Commander's Daughter

March 6, 1981

Operation Inchon

Operation Inchon

March 6, 1981

Recounts the so-called 'Battle of Inchon', an episode at the end of World War II during the amphibious invasion of Korea, resulting in a decisive victory and a strategic reversal in favor of the Allied forces.

The Boy Soldier

The Boy Soldier

March 4, 1981

In the 1930s a young fellow, Simon Chalumet, is sent to a military school by his overbearing father, an ex-soldier who has little sympathy for his son's more gentle temperament, or for his interest in films.

South Pacific 1942

South Pacific 1942

March 1, 1981

Follows the crew of a Canadian submarine in World War Two and their fight against the Japanese Imperial Navy.

Mercedes Runs Away from the Chase

Mercedes Runs Away from the Chase

March 1, 1981

The film is set during World War II. After capturing the "trophy" Mercedes, a group of scouts, disguised as German officers commits a daring raid behind enemy lines (the 116th Motorized Division) on roads controlled by the enemy.

The Last Train

The Last Train

February 28, 1981

With the failure of Linggarjati Agreement as the background, a heroic and also a love story are interwoven. The army headquarters in Yogja decides to withdraw all existing trains to Yogya.

General Shubnikov's Corps

General Shubnikov's Corps

February 27, 1981

Charlotte

Charlotte

February 26, 1981

In 1939, Charlotte Salomon leaves Berlin to seek refuge at her grandparents' villa in the south of France. A little later, war breaks out, and Charlotte must, besides forgetting all she left behind, deal with her grandmother's depression, and her mother's suicide. To fight despair, Charlotte starts to paint, producing over one thousand images. "Is my life real, or is it theater?" This is the title she gives her body of work, which highlights her former life in Berlin. She finds herself though her art, but in 1943 is deported to Germany and Auschwitz.

From Bug to Vistula

From Bug to Vistula

February 12, 1981

The Soviet war film tells the story of the last raid by the Ukrainian partisan division named after S. A. Kovpak, led by P. P. Vershigora, into enemy territory in 1943-1944, its advance to the state border between the USSR and Poland, and its international assistance to the Polish people in their liberation from the fascist invaders.