War

What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?

What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?

August 31, 1966

A by-the-book Captain is ordered to capture a strategic village in Italy. The Italian soldiers are willing to surrender, if they can have a festival first. The lieutenant convinces the Captain this is the only way. Because of aerial reconnaissance, they must look like they are fighting. To sort this out an intelligence officer is sent in. Meanwhile the festival gets complicated with the Mayors daughter.

The Battle of Algiers

The Battle of Algiers

September 8, 1966

Tracing the struggle of the Algerian Front de Liberation Nationale to gain freedom from French colonial rule as seen through the eyes of Ali from his start as a petty thief to his rise to prominence in the organisation and capture by the French in 1957. The film traces the rebels' struggle and the increasingly extreme measures taken by the French government to quell the revolt.

Thaaye Unakkaga

August 26, 1966

1966 Tamil remake of "Ballad of a Soldier".

There is a Way

August 15, 1966

A US Air Force produced film that follows a group of F-105 pilots as they pass their hundredth mission during the Vietnam War.

The Postman Goes to War

The Postman Goes to War

August 10, 1966

The unsuspecting Parisian postman Thibon accepts a transfer as army mailman in Indochina. In the hospital, after his mail van is blown up by a mine, he falls in love with his Indochinese nurse Vang.

Buty

July 21, 1966

During the war, a nurse finds footwear belonging to a Soviet soldier. The discovery haunts her.

The Blue and the Black 2

The Blue and the Black 2

July 20, 1966

Part two of the wartime love story

Clay Pigeon

Clay Pigeon

July 17, 1966

The martyrdom of two workers who fall into the hands of the Gestapo during the occupation of Sarajevo.

The Dream

The Dream

July 14, 1966

In the whirlpool of WW2, two peaceful towns that have already tasted peace are once again attacked by the Germans. Casualties are high, but the dream of a boy and a girl about their liberated towns cannot be destroyed.

Zero Fighter

Zero Fighter

July 13, 1966

Manuela

Manuela

June 30, 1966

A young girl joins the guerrilla

The Blue and the Black

The Blue and the Black

June 29, 1966

It's a powerful melodrama about a thwarted romance in 1930s Tientsin, China, during the Japanese occupation, and it stars Linda Lin Dai, one of the era's most popular stars. It was part of Golden Horse's 100 Greatest Chinese-Language Films.

The Blue Max

The Blue Max

June 21, 1966

A young pilot in the German air force of 1918, disliked as lower-class and unchivalrous, tries ambitiously to earn the medal offered for 20 kills.

Someone Else's Name

Someone Else's Name

June 20, 1966

Olga and Butkevich, the head of the convoy, meet at a roadside cafe. They hadn't seen each other since the beginning of the war. During the conversation, it turns out that a man with the surname of Olga's first husband, whom she considers dead, is working in the convoy. Butkevich arranges a meeting for them. Olga does not recognize him.

Με Τη Λάμψη Στα Μάτια

Με Τη Λάμψη Στα Μάτια

June 14, 1966

During the German occupation, the Nazis plan to execute 30 men in retaliation for the death of a German soldier at the hands of the partisans. Among the men are three brothers (Giorgos Fountas, Anestis Vlachos and Giannis Fertis). The villagers ask the German officer (Zoras Tsapelis) to spare the life of one of the brothers. He accepts on the condition that their father (Lavrentis Dianellos) selects the one to remain alive.

Lebende Ware

Lebende Ware

June 10, 1966

In 1944, SS-Obersturmbannführer Becher arrives in Budapest in order to obtain material for the Waffen-SS. At the same time, he starts to gather private property by offering an insidious choice to the corporation′s Jewish majority shareholder, Dr. Chorin: Either Chorin assigns the company to Becker "on his own free will" – thereby obtaining the permission to travel abroad - or he his family will end up in an extermination camp.

Khartoum

Khartoum

June 9, 1966

English General Charles George Gordon is appointed military governor of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan by the Prime Minister. Ordered to evacuate Egyptians from the Sudan, Gordon stays on to protect the people of Khartoum, who are under threat of being conquered by a Muslim army.

The School of Spies

The School of Spies

June 4, 1966

Nakano Institution is the so-called ‘Spy School’ where many young men are trained to be excellent spies. They erase their names, families, even lovers to bury themselves in training. Jiro, one of the cadets, successfully seize the secret code of English army to pass the final exam. However, he reaches the crossroad when his fiancee Yukiko turns out to be a spy of the enemy.

Don't Forget... Lugovaya Station

Don't Forget... Lugovaya Station

June 1, 1966

During WWII a troop train is stuck at a small railway station. A young lieutenant gets close to a local girl, then the war separates them. Twenty years later he happens to arrive at the same station and finds out that she'd waited for him for many years.

Nad Odrą

May 25, 1966

The former owner, a German, shows up on a farm belonging to the Poles settled there.