War

After decades of devastating war in Iraq, the horrors are still fresh in the minds of different generations. Their disturbing stories are filmed in a poetic style that also cautiously opens a door to beauty and contemplation.

A withdrawn war veteran seen as peculiar by the local villagers lives and brings up his child, the only thing that gives his life meaning.

The film tells the story of the battlefield against the Japanese in southern Hunan in 1944. After The Kuomintang (Nationalist) ordered the army to withdraw, the last nine members of a Sichuan army company led by Qin Hao Zhong stayed behind themselves to cover the retreat of the rest of the troops.

Ypres, 1917. Two soldiers from opposing sides, one British and one German, confront one another after becoming trapped in a Belgian barn during World War I. With heavy resent and a language barrier dividing them, the two try to find common ground whilst biding their time.

Four outnumbered hungarian soldiers hold a stand in the woods, against the soviet army, near the end of the second world war.

In 1974, a soldier, having now returned home, is haunted by shadows from the past, but are they just in his mind?

Hidden events that changed the course of World War II. This episode features the less-celebrated heroes who made Dunkirk, the Battle Of Britain and D-Day possible.

Marking the 75th Anniversary of the end of WWII, the documentary features the first-hand accounts of the Canadians who fought in the worst war in human history. Raw and personal experiences of the terror, pride, horror, excitement, friendship and loss – told through the eyes of the people who fought it.

A group of Afghanistan veterans struggle to find meaning from their sacrifices in a war that doesn't end when they come back home.

Discovering Paris under the German occupation through the story of an SS soldier and more generally of Wehrmacht soldiers allows us to follow the daily life on the German side. These soldiers enjoyed privileged status, during their stay, they were led to believe that they belong to a social elite, a status unreachable back in Germany during peacetime. And who better than a German who has led such lifestyle to serve as a common thread and tell this story?

April 1945, the Second World War is coming to an end. 6,800 Jewish prisoners are about to be deported to Bergen Belsen concentration camp, Czech Republic. The first of three trains depart with 2,500 prisoners. It will never reach its destination.

In the chaotic world of the Three Kingdoms, Zhao Yun, who should have been living in peace, is drawn into the chaos of the war.

Lt. Robert Cappa and his platoon of 2nd Infantry Division soldiers must defend a vital supply depot from being captured by attacking German soldiers.

In the city of Guelma, which was once called Heliopolis in ancient times, the daily life of an Algerian family takes its usual course. But on May 8, 1945, the day the end of World War II was announced, demonstrations by the Algerian people against the French colonial power and for the country's independence took place, which were bloodily suppressed by the French army and French settler militias. The event went down in history as the Sétif and Guelma massacre.

The story of the Podolsk cadets’ heroic stand outside Moscow in October 1941. Cadets were sent to the Ilyinsky line, fighting alongside units from the Soviet 43rd Army to hold back the German advance until reinforcements arrived. Hopelessly outnumbered, young men laid down their lives in a battle lasting almost two weeks to obstruct the far superior German forces advancing towards Moscow. Around 3,500 cadets and their commanding officers were sent to hold up the last line of defense outside Moscow. Most of them remained there for eternity.

Following the First World War, some 100,000 French soldiers were sent to Germany to occupy the Rhineland. Around 20,000 of them came from the French colonies, notably Tunisia and Morocco. These men were soon the target of a smear campaign that made headlines around the world under the slogan "La honte noire" ("Black Shame")...

1918. World War I rages in Europe while Erna Jensen tends to her ordinary life at home in Bramstrup, with her simple-minded son, Kalle. One day the village constable comes to enlist Kalle for military service for the German Empire – of which Southern Jutland is a part. If Erna is to save Kalle from certain death, she must follow him through thick and thin. Upon a chance meeting with a deserting solder she trades identities. Now disguised as Private Julius Rasmussen, Erna heads for the front. In her encounters with the other soldiers and in the presence of the war, unknown sides of Erna are awoken. This is the story of a woman who won’t let a war prevent her from fighting for what she loves.