Based on the true story of the greatest treasure hunt in history, The Monuments Men is an action drama focusing on seven over-the-hill, out-of-shape museum directors, artists, architects, curators, and art historians who went to the front lines of WWII to rescue the world’s artistic masterpieces from Nazi thieves and return them to their rightful owners. With the art hidden behind enemy lines, how could these guys hope to succeed?
The true story of a young Japanese girl who played the piano for POWs during World War II and how it affected their lives. It is a story of humanity, compassion and the universality of music in helping to heal the rifts between wartime rivals.
While on the move, Denis's patrol is ambushed. Finding himself alone, Denis steps on a mine and is left stranded in the middle of a barren desert. If he moves, Denis risks death: psychologically shattered, he must try to physically resist a situation from which he may be helpless alone.
A true story of Jurek, an eight-year-old boy, who escapes from the Warsaw ghetto, then manages to survive in the woods and working as a farmhand, disguising himself as a Polish orphan.
An emotionally-unstable prisoner of war deals with the social and moral repercussions of PTSD, haunted by an enigmatic ghost of a past that he is told may not have even existed.
Missing in action in Vietnam for thirty nine years, the remains of Lt. Jack E. Buchannon, U.S.M.C., are found and identified. He is brought home and awarded the medal of honor and is buried as a fallen hero. His three childhood best friends, all ex-marines and Vietnam veterans, get together after attending the funeral to raise a toast, look back on their lives, their friendships and their service to the country.
Considering their country as a place that conditions to make movies are deplorable, two actors discuss how to make a successful film. One of them is realistic, while the other one is in dreams.
Before, during and after World War II, governments around the globe produced copious propaganda films. These are true moments of world history, the attitudes of the people, the visual and audio recording of what occurred.
Kingsley Glover hosts this program by Visions of War at the Stratford Armories. In this edition of the show, we look closer at the British Airborne Forces. Witness a remarkable series of films from all different divisions of the British airborne forces. History includes the BAF creation in 1942, Operation Market & the bridge at Arnhem 1944 and Operation Varsity 1945.
John Baumhackl recalls the early days of the Vietnam War when more and more troops were being sent into combat every month. In 1968, John's number came up and he was drafted into the conflict. Buying a camera at his company store before shipping off, he captured many battles while in a helicopter. John was near the front lines when President Nixon made the controversial decision to push into Cambodia. In John's view, this saved American lives.