Canada for the Masses is a reflective, found-footage experimental documentary that critiques the federal branding of Canada for its persistent efforts to mask the country’s deep-rooted issues. By deconstructing Canada’s carefully curated self-image and juxtaposing archival footage from World War II Canadian propaganda films, Canada for the Masses analyzes the underlying nefarious nature of Canadian identity.
Explores the latest archaeology and science on one of history's most enduring mysteries - did the Trojan War really happen? In 1874 Heinrich Schliemann announced he had found the legendary city of Troy and caused a sensation.
During the 1980s civil war in El Salvador, a rebel group of leftist guerrillas fight to expose its government's death squads via an underground radio network and hope to end their government's reign of terror with the help of an American journalist.
In the collapse of a second American civil war, two coalition envoys journey to a remote rebel encampment to deliver a ceasefire ultimatum to its reclusive, fanatical commander.
After twelve years in exile, Syrian journalist and filmmaker Daham Alasaad returns to Homs, devastated by the war in Syria. Once the city of his childhood, it is now a relic of an authoritarian regime, where different communities (Sunnis, Christians, Alawites) are trying to rebuild their lives together after terrible years of division and destruction. Thanks to Daham Alasaad's close relationship with the city's inhabitants, the director highlights some very moving characters, torn between grief, fear, the need for justice, and the desire for peace and reconciliation. By opening up naturally to the camera, they allow viewers to experience what Syrians of all backgrounds are going through today. "Homs-Syria, Life After" is a personal and political investigation into the ability of this symbolic city to rebuild hope on the ruins of a Syria ravaged by more than fifteen years of war and facing an uncertain future.
A group of Chinese refugees and straggler soldiers, led by a machinist, defend their mountain town, "Gezhi," against a surprise attack by Japanese reconnaissance troops in a desperate fight using civilian ingenuity against a trained military force.
Wu Qing Qing, the young master of the Wolong Gang, has been betrayed after her family's massacre. From prey to hunter, she transforms into a hunter. Hidden in the shadows, behind every smile may lie a deadly dagger. A Japanese trading company infiltrates her inner circle, a mole is hidden among her closest relatives, and a web of intrigue unfolds. Trust is a luxury; every step is a precipice! How will she tear off those masks of hypocrisy? Is the traitor a member of the gang, an invading enemy, or even her own husband? The storm has arrived; "eliminating the traitor" becomes the only creed…
The Battle of Peleliu was fought on the lovely Pacific island of that name by Japanese and American forces toward the end of the Pacific War. A work of fiction based on historical fact, this movie views the battle through the eyes of Tamaru, a 22-year-old soldier and aspiring cartoonist seeing his first combat. A chronicle of the “truth” as seen by a young man struggling to come to terms with war in an era when war was the norm.
In the irradiated wastes of the Mojave Desert, a brutal and decisive conflict erupts between two powerful post-nuclear factions. Fallout: Operation Sunburst dramatizes the ferocious battle for control of HELIOS One, a pre-War solar energy facility coveted for its strategic potential. As the NCR launches a full-scale offensive to wrest the site from the Brotherhood of Steel, beleaguered defenders in power armor make a last stand against overwhelming odds.
After a Russian missile strike kills their 11-year-old son and critically wounds his mother, a grieving father holds a phone to his child's ear at the funeral so she can say goodbye from her hospital bed.
Ludmilla and Ludeshka's husbands disappeared on the Ukrainian front, while Tetiana's husband, a farmer from the Kherson region, was kidnapped during the first months of the Russian occupation. Torn between the hope of finding them and the anguish of impossible mourning, these three women are fighting a long and painful battle to obtain information. Director Anne Poiret followed them for two years.
A father and child, driven by desperation to escape the violence at any cost; a young nurse, whose idealism is shattered as she's thrust into a world where compassion comes at a price; and a seasoned war doctor, whose years of experience are tested as he faces impossible choices in the chaos of survival.
In the dark days following the 1840 Opium War, a local gentry member, He Yucheng, strives to defend Guangzhou after being entrusted by Guan Tianpei, a mission that intersects with local martial arts figures' initial attempts to resist the British by burning foreign ships.
A former soldier, now working for hire, fights to rescue the innocent in a land torn by war. Facing ruthless enemies and betrayal, he struggles for survival, justice, and redemption.
The true story of Freddie Knoller, a young Jewish man who flees Vienna following the Nazi occupation in 1938 and finds solace in the vibrant world of Paris's burlesque scene.