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War

Promise at Dawn

Promise at Dawn

December 20, 2017

From his childhood in Poland to his adolescence in Nice to his years as a student in Paris and his tough training as a pilot during World War II, this tragi-comedy tells the romantic story of Romain Gary, one of the most famous French novelists and sole writer to have won the Goncourt Prize for French literature two times.

The Harlem Hellfighters' Great War

The Harlem Hellfighters' Great War

December 13, 2017

Nicknamed the "Harlem Hellfighters", these African-Americans wanted to become ordinary citizens like everyone else. They saw fighting heroically in the trenches as their chance to achieve this. In 1918, the 15th New York National Guard Regiment became the most highly decorated unit of the First World War.

Scars Of Nanking

Scars Of Nanking

December 12, 2017

During the brutal invasion of China in 1937 by Imperial Japanese forces, tens of thousands of civilians and prisoners of war are murdered and women raped in what is known simply as "The Rape of Nanking." This docudrama is a stirring account of a small band of courageous American missionaries who choose to stay in Nanking to try and protect a quarter million vulnerable Chinese civilians who are trapped in a city ruled by a savage, out of control army. Their stories are brought vividly to life through actual real-time letters and diaries as they bear witness to one of the worst wartime atrocities in history.

Satan's bastard

Satan's bastard

December 11, 2017

The main character, Eszter Tóth, raped by five Russian soldiers in Transcarpathia in 1944 , gives birth to a baby : the bastard of the devil. The story shows the vibrations of the wounded soul of a woman under the pressure of history.

Scape

Scape

January 26, 2018

Empty landscapes from Korea and Vietnam evoke a tranquil existence in which a monster, an invisible enemy, is felt lurking beyond the frame. 'Scape' is comprised entirely of landscape footage shot by U.S. war cinematographers, depicting an existential environment of rolling hills and descending fog.

Cyborgs

Cyborgs

December 7, 2017

‘The Cyborgs’ is re-telling the recent history of Ukraine – the legendary fight for Donetsk Airport in 2014 during Russian invasion. The freedom fighters from various divisions of Ukrainian army and volunteer battalions took a 242-days stand against the Russian backed militants until the complete destruction of the airport’s terminal.

Werewolves of the Third Reich

Werewolves of the Third Reich

February 5, 2018

In Germany at the height of World War II, a ragtag group of American soldiers discover Doctor Mengele's diabolical plan to create an unstoppable army of Nazi werewolves.

3 Boys: Documentary

3 Boys: Documentary

December 4, 2017

Three boys are growing up in Israel and the Palestinian territories, right next to each other, in completely different worlds. We follow them over the course of a year, through adolescence. We watch as they experience life in promiscuous Tel Aviv, in the religious ideology of a Jewish settlement and in the occupied city of Hebron, where Israeli soldiers are in control. One year of trials and tribulations of three sixteen year old boys. They try to fulfill their teenage dreams in an environment of violence and sometimes war.

Mobilizing Movies! The U.S. Signal Corps Goes to War, 1917-1919

December 1, 2017

Focuses on the official military cinematographers that accompanied the American Expeditionary Force in France, how these men were trained, improvements in camera technique, the conditions at the front while filming the Great War and the uneasy relationship between the U.S. Signal Corps that was officially assigned to cover the war and the Committee on Public Information (CPI), America's wartime propaganda agency.

Revolution Selfie: The Red Battalion

Revolution Selfie: The Red Battalion

December 1, 2017

In this mock video game, we play the filmmaker, as he brings us face to face with the armed warriors of the New People's Army, which the CIA dubs a foreign terrorist organization in the Philippines.

Hayati: My Life

Hayati: My Life

November 30, 2017

In 2015, Ossamah Al Mohsen and her son were the victims of a trip on the Hungarian border by a television reporter in her desperate flight from a Syria at war. The cameras captured this moment by scandalizing public opinion. This kick allowed Ossamah, famous soccer coach in his country, to arrive in Madrid and resume his profession. But the rest of his family did not have the same luck. The story of Ossamah allows us to reflect on the survival of thousands of Syrian families trapped in Turkey but also that of Moatassam, Youssef and Muhannad, three promising Syrian footballers who were robbed of the best years of their lives by war.

Flames of War II

Flames of War II

November 29, 2017

The sequel to the 2014 ISIS propaganda film "Flames of War", depicting the organization's operations in Syria and Iraq as well as Egypt after the group's loss of Mosul and Raqqa.

Aribert Heim, médecin du camp de Mauthausen

Aribert Heim, médecin du camp de Mauthausen

November 24, 2017

Sniper: Into the Kill Zone

Sniper: Into the Kill Zone

November 22, 2017

Amazing feats of marksmanship are recounted by the men who pulled the trigger. Gripping accounts of the longest shots and the deadliest ambushes take us to battlefields from Vietnam, to Iraq, to the Alaskan wilderness. There is no escape for those who enter the Kill Zone.

Damascus

Damascus

November 21, 2017

Talking about war could also mean turning off the sound of machine guns, and try to listen to those who remain. I filmed Damascenes exhausted by a never-ending war, in their day to day lives. This film is their story.

Gdansk

Gdansk

November 21, 2017

First in a series of medieval giants. Inspired by the artwork of Jakub Różalski.

The Distant Barking of Dogs

The Distant Barking of Dogs

November 19, 2017

Hnutove, Donbass, eastern Ukraine, 2015. Young Oleg lives in a war zone where anti-aircraft gunshots and missile attacks often resonate dangerously near. Although many inhabitants have already left this dangerous area, he remains with his grandmother, who has cared for him since his mother's death, because they have nowhere to go. They are just waiting for the war to end.

Eight Stars

Eight Stars

November 18, 2017

This film tells about the most striking and tragic phenomenon during the development of self-awareness of the Latvian nation – the Latvian Riflemen. The first Daugavgrīva regiment, the second Riga, third Kurland, fifth Semigallian, sixth Tukums, seventh Bauska and eighth Valmiera regiments of Latvian Riflemen – this was Latvia before its statehood. The film is a historically chronological study beginning with the formation of the Riflemen battalions and their first battles until the end of the Civil War in Russia, when a large part of the Riflemen returned home to the recently established state of Latvia. This is a story about common people challenged by the Big Epoch that determined their lives.

Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt: Bandit Flower

Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt: Bandit Flower

November 18, 2017

The second movie of the long-awaited fan favorite Thunderbolt Series. Earth, eight months after the end of the One Year War. Captain Monica launches a secret mission, "Operation Thunderbolt," and selects Io to pilot the Atlas Gundam. She leads the assault landing ship Spartan into a part of the ocean effectively controlled by the South Seas Alliance. Their objective is to secure or destroy the data of the Psycho Zaku, which the Alliance now possesses. Daryl, who took the upper hand in his battle with Io, has descended to Earth as part of the remnant forces of the Principality of Zeon. He has also been given the mission of obtaining information on the Psycho Zaku. Fighting alongside his new comrades, Io encounters Commander Peer, the South Seas Alliance's border garrison commander. In the sea, on the ice field, and among the thick jungle, the mobile suits of Zeon, the Federation, and the South Seas Alliance battle each other. "The war is not over yet."

Long Forgotten Fields

Long Forgotten Fields

November 17, 2017

On Sam's return from military service, Lily sets her heart on revitalising their relationship, but with Sam's worsening PTSD isolating him from friends, family and the community, she too is drawn deeper into his post-war world.