Documentary about women's experiences of labour, in factories, mines and dockyards, in the USA during the second World War and how it affected their work and career aspirations once they were encouraged to give up such employment in peacetime.
To earn money and send it to his family in a nearby city, Jomeh, a young boy, and his friend collect the metal wastes remaining from the wartime.
Documentary following the efforts of a historian to clear the name of Albert Goering, brother of Herman. Albert strived to save Jews while his brother masterminded plans to exterminate them. Through eyewitness accounts and the historian's findings, the film explores the notion that Albert's deeds may not have been possible without the help of his brother.
A young mother in a Harlem housing project realizes the arrival of two uniformed soldiers brings news she can't bring herself to accept.
'DISMAYED' a short student film set during World War One using toy soldiers, lighting and cinematography to recreate the horror, distortion and isolation of the war. The idea of this isn't really to represent a plot as such, more to present and display provocative emotions to the audience and invoke their feelings towards the film and as well as the horrors of World War One.
The year is 1943. An all-female and top-secret department of the SS, run by the notorious Gisela Nussbaum in a secret Gestapo headquarters, conducts medical and biotechnolocical experiments with blood from Norwegian resistance fighters, which is said to hold the key to the Norwegians' unwavering unity and courage.
White Van Stories is a documentary feature on enforced disappearances following seven characters from the families of the disappeared in North, East and South Provinces of Sri Lanka.
Damien Degueldre recounts day after day the Battle of Qala-I-Jangi, as seen by his own eyes: a young French reporter in the middle of extraordinary circumstances. Damien Degueldre caught exclusive footage of the Mazar-el Sharif uprising where John Walker – better known as the ‘American Taliban’ – was captured as he fought on Taliban frontlines. An incredible testimony on the aftermath of 9/11 and the events that took place in Afghanistan in the early days of the War on Terror.
For the first time in history, National Geographic Channel and a group of scientists search the ocean floor for a series of shipwrecks many Americans never heard about. Everyone knows that on December 7, 1941, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. But what most don't know is just days later, Hitler sent his own force to devastate the East Coast. On December 19, the German Naval War Staff sent three U-boats to American waters. It was an assault so deadly, it was covered up by the U.S. government.
Queens of Troy follows a group of Syrian Refugee women as they put on their own updated, Arabic version of Euripides' ancient Greek play about refugees in Amman, Jordan.
La battaglia dall’Astico al Piave was made by the Italian Royal Army Film Department in 1918, and testifies to the events between 14 and 30 June 1918 which decided the outcome of the Second Battle of the Piave, when the Italian army under the command of General Armando Diaz defeated the Austro-Hungarian Empire, heralding its decline and ultimate downfall
A surrealistic montage set in motion by a tidal wave and incorporating a samurai battle.
The experimental stop motion story of a London boy in World War 2, we witness war drawing inexorably closer as he comes of age. 14 when war begins, our young hero lives through bombings, the evacuation of his siblings, the privations of wartime. Yet he survives and even thrives. He sets out to search for his friend in the East End during those turbulent and frightening times, and with his own voice tells his story with a wit and verve few would believe today. Finally we leave him at the brink on D-Day, a hero already in the making.
The opening scene of our story shows a Union powder wagon making its way down the road convoyed by a company of mounted Union soldiers. The route of this wagon is reported to Confederate headquarters by one of its spies. Nan, a girl frequently employed by the department of the Confederate army, is called to headquarters and instructed to secure the destruction of the enemy's ammunition train just reported. Nan is fitted out with a Union uniform, mounted on a fast horse and sent on her journey, previously provided with a forged order supposedly signed by a Union general which authorizes her to pass through the lines.
An Army Ranger quick reaction force attempts to rescue a patrol pinned down on a mountaintop in southeast Afghanistan. They have no idea that within twelve hours five of them will lie dead in the mountain snow after an intense and deadly battle.
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