War

Liberation: The Break Through

Liberation: The Break Through

May 8, 1969

A grandiose military film epic, which does not know analogues in world cinema: the history of the Great Patriotic War from the Battle of the Kursk Bulge to the installation of the Banner of Victory over the Reichstag - "Liberation".

Good Times, Bad Times

May 4, 1969

Combat footage and old photographs from extant BBC documentary footage from the First and Second World Wars is intercut with contemporary footage of First World War veterans recalling their experiences at Royal Canadian Legion halls, memorial day commemorations and veterans' hospitals.

Lena Kostenetskaya

Lena Kostenetskaya

May 1, 1969

The civil war separated families on opposite sides of the barricades. How to understand this situation for a young girl who is being raised by a rich aunt, while her father leads a partisan detachment.

Commandant of Lauterburg

Commandant of Lauterburg

May 1, 1969

Follows the service of Lieutenant Colonel Lubentsov as commandant of the German city of Lauterburg in the first days after the end of the Great Patriotic War.

Sveaborg

Sveaborg

May 1, 1969

In May 1808, the fortress, renamed Sveaborg, surrendered to Russian troops and, together with the fleet and fortifications, went to the Russian Empire.

Low Tide

Low Tide

April 22, 1969

A remote village in Serbia in 1941. Through the fate of rural residents and the destiny of a partisan detachment reflected is the horror and absurdity of war in Serbia during World War II. On one hand, ordinary people and partisans; the Germans and the Chetniks on the other.

The Battle of the Damned

The Battle of the Damned

April 17, 1969

A small band of misfit American commandos are assigned to head across the North African desert to blow up a huge German fuel depot.

Osmanlı Kartalı

Osmanlı Kartalı

April 1, 1969

The film depicts the Russian Empire and Islam Bey, one of the commanders of Haji Murat, a Caucasian leader of Avar origin who did not want to come under Russian protection, and Islam Bey's brother, İmamoğlu Deli Ahmet, who was sent as a spy to the Russian fortress disguised as a priest, distracting the Russian army and ultimately defeating it..

Colonel Wolodyjowski

Colonel Wolodyjowski

March 28, 1969

In 1668 Polish colonel Michał Wołodyjowski, who recently retired to a monastery, is recalled to active duty and takes charge of Poland's eastern frontier defenses against invading Tatar hordes and Ottoman armies.

100 Rifles

100 Rifles

March 26, 1969

When half-breed Indian Yaqui Joe robs an Arizona bank, he is pursued by dogged lawman Lyedecker. Fleeing to Mexico, Joe is imprisoned by General Verdugo, who is waging a war against the Yaqui Indians. When Lyedecker attempts to intervene, he is thrown into prison as well. Working together, the two escape and take refuge in the hills, where Lyedecker meets beautiful Yaqui freedom fighter Sarita and begins to question his allegiances.

The Seven Red Berets

The Seven Red Berets

March 20, 1969

Deep in the African Congo, revolution rages and explosive documents have fallen into the hands of nationalist guerillas. The Red Berets are the government's only hope of retrieving papers which could change the course of the war.

First Girl

First Girl

March 10, 1969

Based on the story of the same name by Nikolai Bogdanov. Summer 1919. After the sons of the kulaks deserted and went into the woods, in the remote Russian village of Potma there was only the old Bolshevik Matvei and a small Komsomol cell led by Sanya Yermakova. A fierce struggle begins between the Komsomol's and deserters...

Oh! What a Lovely War

Oh! What a Lovely War

March 10, 1969

The working-class Smiths change their initially sunny views on World War I after the three boys of the family witness the harsh reality of trench warfare.

A Bullet for Rommel

A Bullet for Rommel

March 7, 1969

During World War II, a tough officer organizes a commando raid into Germany.

Funeral Feast

Funeral Feast

March 3, 1969

The first days of war in Ljubljana. The young hero Niko experiences the bloody and violent transition from childhood to manhood. Based on the novel by Beno Zupancic.

Samurai Banners

Samurai Banners

March 1, 1969

Kansuke Yamamoto is a samurai who dreams of a country united, peaceful from sea to sea. He enters the service of Takeda, the lord of Kai domain. He convinces Takeda to kill the lord of neighboring Suwa and take his wife as a concubine. He then convinces the widow, Princess Yu, to accept this arrangement and to bear Takeda a son. He pledges them his life. He then spends years using treachery, poetic sensibility, military and political strategy to expand Takeda's realm, advance the claim of Yu's son as the heir, and prepare for an ultimate battle with the forces of Echigo. Has Kansuke overreached? Are his dreams, blinded by love, too big?

In the Year of the Pig

In the Year of the Pig

February 26, 1969

Both sober and sobering, producer-director Emile de Antonio’s In the Year of the Pig is a powerful and, no doubt for many, controversial documentary about the Vietnam War.

At War as at War

At War as at War

February 23, 1969

The film tells about the fighting everyday life of the crew of self-propelled guns during the liberation of Right-Bank Ukraine. Junior Lieutenant Maleshkin, an unshooted graduate of the school, commands the crew of the self-propelled gun SU-100. All the subordinates of Maleshkin are older than him and much more experienced. The authority of the young commander is tested at every step, he quarrels, then reconciles with his crew. In addition, Maleshkin is very dissatisfied with the battery commander, he now and then threatens to remove the sluggish young officer from the command. In the crew of Maleshkin, various troubles constantly occur: either the driver will catch the commandant’s eyes in an untidy, grimy look, then a combat grenade with a dropped check will be discovered in the car, or a breakdown will occur just at the moment the regiment enters the march. Ending in a sprawling battle against German forces.

We Are Taking All The Fire

We Are Taking All The Fire

February 18, 1969

Mini-series set in times of WW II about Soviet underground fighters led by brave Anna Morozova. They are establishing connection with Polish people who work on German airfield. And even small victories cost a lot sometimes.

La battaglia del Sinai

La battaglia del Sinai

February 6, 1969