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War

Στέγνωσαν τα δάκρυα μας

Στέγνωσαν τα δάκρυα μας

January 1, 1961

For We All Have Sinned

January 1, 1961

A worthy attempt to illustrate the futility of war, and of racism in particular.

Kanonada

Kanonada

August 27, 1961

A lithuanian village just after the end of the second World War: Neither German nor Russian its inhabitants must, despite their wounds, find new craft to dream of a better future ahead of them.

Водил поезда машинист

Водил поезда машинист

January 1, 1961

Soldiers without Uniform

Soldiers without Uniform

January 1, 1961

An engine driver is taken prisoner in 1944 and ends up in a camp behind enemy lines. He escapes together with a soviet prisoner and a professor and make their way back to Romania.

Sawt Echaâb

Sawt Echaâb

January 1, 1961

“La Voix du Peuple,” composed of archival photographs by René Vauthier and others, exposes the root causes of the armed conflict of the Algerian resistance. Participating in a war of real images against French colonial propaganda, these images aimed to show the images that the occupier had censored or distorted, by showing the extortions of the French occupation army: torture, arrests and arbitrary executions, napalm bombings, roundabout fires, erasing entire villages from the map, etc. This is what the French media described as a “pacification campaign”.

Break Through the Wu River

Break Through the Wu River

January 1, 1961

Story of the leading regiment of the First Branch of the Chinese Red Army for Workers and Peasants who defeats a brigade of enemy on the Wu River and conquers the river by 3 days of intelligent combat.

Gestapo contre maquisards

Gestapo contre maquisards

January 1, 1961

Red Guards on Honghu Lake

Red Guards on Honghu Lake

January 1, 1961

Revolutionary Chinese opera in six acts depicting the struggle between Communist guerrillas and a KMT landlord for control of a village.

Square of Violence

Square of Violence

January 1, 1961

Set in Italy, the story takes place in this very country, during WW2, where German occupation army ruled everything, just before the allied forces came, in 1944. Crawford plays here a doctor whose son has been shot by the Germans. Of course he has no more taste in life. He continues his work as a German officers' physician. One day, he throws a bomb just in the middle of German troops. Many soldiers and officers are killed. Some time later, the lead officer of the Nazis troops suspects the doctor to be the responsible of the explosion. He lets him know that he himself knows...

The Forgotten Faces

The Forgotten Faces

January 1, 1961

“The Forgotten Faces (1961), a film reconstruction of the Hungarian revolution of 1956, won Watkins another amateur Oscar, and to this day, the film is praised in England as "one of the most memorable amateur films ever made".

Fabrik der Offiziere

Fabrik der Offiziere

December 29, 1960

The Wackiest Ship in the Army

The Wackiest Ship in the Army

December 29, 1960

Lieutenant Rip Crandall is hoodwinked into taking command of the "Wackiest Ship in the Navy" – a real garbage scow with a crew of misfits who don't know a jib from a jigger. What none of them knows, including Crandall, is that this ship has a very important top-secret mission to complete in waters patrolled by the Japanese fleet. Their mission will save hundreds of allied lives – if only they can get there in one piece.

Fortress on Wheels

Fortress on Wheels

December 28, 1960

A story about an armored train, number 56, and its actions during WWII.

Two Women

Two Women

December 22, 1960

A young widow flees from Rome during WWII and takes her lonely twelve-year-old-daughter to her rural hometown but the horrors of war soon catch up with them.

عمالقة البحار

عمالقة البحار

December 18, 1960

A story about some Arab soldiers takes place after The Tripartite Aggression

Exodus

Exodus

December 15, 1960

Ari Ben Canaan, a passionate member of the Jewish paramilitary group Haganah, attempts to transport 600 Jewish refugees on a dangerous voyage from Cyprus to Palestine on a ship named the Exodus. He faces obstruction from British forces, who will not grant the ship passage to its destination.

Let It Shine!

Let It Shine!

December 1, 1960

White troops are approaching the village. A small garrison of Red Army soldiers decides to evacuate civilians and a wounded soldier to safety. This important task is entrusted to the young Komsomol member Efimka. The carts leave the village and travel along forest roads, but lose their way. At night, at a rest stop, Efimka, his mother and Verka talk about the future, about a forty-story house with a tower, a star and a spotlight - let it shine!..

The Hunchback

The Hunchback

November 30, 1960

Alvaro Cosenza, also known as the Hunchback from Quarticciolo, during Rome's occupation by Nazis in 1943, decides to revolt.

Signal Over the City

Signal Over the City

November 23, 1960

The movie is based on true events that occured in Croatian city of Karlovac in 1941. In order to save the imprisoned high ranking member of the resistance movement, the group of Partizans are conducting daring raid in the very center of the enemy stronghold.