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La colina de los pequeños diablos

La colina de los pequeños diablos

August 16, 1965

The Brigand of Kandahar

The Brigand of Kandahar

August 9, 1965

1880. British India. Robert Case, a half-caste lieutenant, is unjustly discharged from the British Army. He joins the rebel Bengali tribesmen offensive against the colonial enemy. They capture a foreign journalist and Case recounts his story of false accusation on trumped-up charges, instigated by the bigotry and racism of his commanding officers. Following a successful attack by the British against the rebels Case is brutally shot by Colonel Drewe, his accuser. The journalist returns home determined to report the true story of The Brigand of Kandahar.

胜利在望

胜利在望

August 7, 1965

Mother Courage and Her Children - A chronicle from the Thirty Years' War

Mother Courage and Her Children - A chronicle from the Thirty Years' War

July 24, 1965

A recording of the 1939 play "Mother Courage and Her Children" for German TV.

Córeczka

July 22, 1965

A Soviet soldier stays with a Polish family.

War and Peace, Part II: Natasha Rostova

War and Peace, Part II: Natasha Rostova

July 20, 1966

In the end of 1809, Natasha attends her first ball. Andrei falls in love with her and intends to marry her, but her father demands they wait. The prince travels abroad, and Natasha desperately longs for him. But she then meets Anatol Kuragin and forgets of Andrei. At the last minute, she regrets and abandons her plans to elope with Anatol. Bolkonsky hears of this and declares their betrothal is over. Pierre, trying to calm her down, suddenly announces he loves her.

War and Peace, Part I: Andrei Bolkonsky

War and Peace, Part I: Andrei Bolkonsky

March 14, 1966

The first film of a four-part adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s 1869 novel. In St. Petersburg of 1805, Pierre Bezukhov, the illegitimate son of a rich nobleman, is introduced to high society. His friend, Prince Andrei Bolkonsky, joins the Imperial Russian Army as aide-de-camp of General Mikhail Kutuzov in the War of the Third Coalition against Napoleon.

The Camp Followers

The Camp Followers

July 17, 1965

In WWII, Lieut. Martino and his men are assigned to lead a group of prostitutes through the mountainous ways to serve in brothels for Italian soldiers in Albania.

Aayirathil Oruvan

Aayirathil Oruvan

July 9, 1965

Enslaved convicts for treason plan escape but get caught by pirates and work for them before gaining their support and fighting back their country's authoritarian rule.

The Retreat from Kiska

The Retreat from Kiska

July 4, 1965

In 1943, the Aleutian island of Kiska was fortified by a small contingent of Japanese soldiers. When word arrived of an impending attack by an overwhelming force of Americans, the Japanese Navy attempted one of the most daring and unlikely evacuations in military history. This is that story.

Εγκατάλειψη

Εγκατάλειψη

June 25, 1965

Seisaku's Wife

Seisaku's Wife

June 25, 1965

On the eve of the Russo-Japanese war at the beginning of the 20th century, small-town girl Okane has married an old wealthy man to escape a life of poverty.

Von Ryan's Express

Von Ryan's Express

June 23, 1965

Von Ryan's Express stars Frank Sinatra as a POW colonel who leads a daring escape from WWII Italy by taking over a freight train, but he has to win over the British soldiers he finds himself commanding.

I See the Sun

I See the Sun

June 20, 1965

In Georgia during WWII Zurikela, an orphan boy, meets Khatia, a blind girl, and vows to help her to see again.

Shenandoah

Shenandoah

June 3, 1965

Charlie Anderson, a farmer in Shenandoah, Virginia, finds himself and his family in the middle of the Civil War he wants nothing to do with. When his youngest boy is taken prisoner by the North, the Civil War is forced upon him.

How Do I Call You Now?..

How Do I Call You Now?..

June 1, 1965

A story about a brave Soviet spy working behind the enemy lines during WWII.

Thomas the Impostor

Thomas the Impostor

June 1, 1965

In the First World War, when Paris is expected to fall to the Germans, the attractive widow, Princesse de Bormes, organises a convoy of cars to evacuate the wounded from the front, and bring them back to her villa in Paris to recuperate. The authorities will not give them passes until an innocent 16-year-old boy, Guillaume Thomas de Fontenoy, joins them and is mistaken as the nephew of the popular General de Fontenoy. The Princess is enraptured by Thomas and her daughter, Henriette, falls in love with him. However Thomas feels impelled to see more of the action of the war.

While Defending the Front Line

While Defending the Front Line

May 31, 1965

Volkhov Front in 1942. The young political instructor of the counter-propaganda department of the headquarters of the division Rusanov is torn to the forefront. Together with an experienced warrior — captain Shaternikov — the hero gets to the forefront and transmits from the sound transmission programs addressed to German soldiers. And in the hours of calm passes several kilometers in order to see Katya, the signal woman of a neighboring sector of the front.

Up from the Beach

Up from the Beach

May 25, 1965

After the D-Day landings in June 1944, a US squadron liberates a small village in Normandy from German occupation.

The Hill

The Hill

June 17, 1965

North Africa, World War II. British soldiers on the brink of collapse push beyond endurance to struggle up a brutal incline. It's not a military objective. It's The Hill, a manmade instrument of torture, a tower of sand seared by a white-hot sun. And the troops' tormentors are not the enemy, but their own comrades-at-arms.