After a tumultuous arrival and subsequent stay in Da Lat for military training, Luan returns to Saigon a Major in the Presidential Special Forces. He and Thuy Dung continue their relationship. News that Ngo Dinh Diem is opening the Ban Me Thuot's Highland Economic Fair attracts many intelligence and security organizations, whose political purposes vary.
A documentary filmed aboard a German U-Boat during the First World War, featuring footage of the capture and sinking of cargo ships and a private schooner.
23 Cents Soldier is shaped around the memories of four Turkish and three Korean war veterans. The interviews begin with the lives of the veterans before the beginning of the war and continue with memories of the war and post-war era.
Three friends serve in special forces, their daily tasks are to confront dangerous criminal groups. In one of the confrontations they will have to test their friendship.
Rustam is a Soviet soldier from Uzbekistan who has been drafted for the Afghanistan war. In the war, he experiences the harsh reality of being unable to categorize the friendly and enemy forces into good and evil.
Between 2002 and 2010, more than 10,000 civilians were killed by the Colombian army and thrown into mass graves—with the aim of demonstrating the success of the offensive against the FARC. Felipe Monroy offers a voice to the families of the victims of this unpunished state crime, thereby creating a heartrending film that stands against the worst crime of all: oblivion.
Docu drama of a true story from august 1944 about belgians who worked for the germans nicknamed as de zwarten the blacks who tortuered en killed habitans of a village called Meensel Kiezegem.
Writer/director Nurit Kedar's film trains a camera on the snipers of the frontline in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. She goes out on patrol with active units, and interviews marksmen young and old. It can't have been easy to gain the confidence of the Israeli army or the trust of the individuals concerned, but, regrettably, the film isn't particularly illuminating. 'What do you want me to say?' asks one bluff veteran. Shame and defiance rub shoulders. 'I won't be allowed in heaven,' notes one rueful conscript. Occasionally Kedar hits on the madness; the game of it; the sick decorum. They're meant to shoot at the arms and legs of the stone throwers. 'I used to say I was responsible for a lot of legless Palestinians,' proffers a soldier. 'I would never say that now.'
This TV-film is based on a single play written by Willem Wilmink. Life in the war years through the innocent eyes of a child. Kees is ten years old and the Second World War seems strange to him. He becomes sick with fear and is sent to the countryside where life is even stranger, but at least he gets to eat.
Seeing the Great War, no longer content with simply recounting it, but showing it and embodying it: this is what comics offer today. By questioning archives and history, the comic book authors featured in this film engage in a dialogue with the depths of time. They bring the First World War back to life in our imagination: their drawings are more than just lines.
Richard Harrington, star of Hinterland and Poldark, sets out to trace the journey of his grandfather, who went to Spain 80 years ago to fight fascism in the Spanish Civil War. In this journey of self-discovery Harrington travels from Wales, through Paris and across the Pyrenees into Spain, uncovering the reasons for his own lack of political motivation and discovering a story that kick-starts his own political awakening.
The two mercenaries Robert and Brian, specialists in dangerous missions, are given the task of freeing a kidnapped medical team from the clutches of the South American dictator General Rodriguez. With a team of mercenaries they look for the hostages with whom Rodriguez wants to blackmail the American government. In a bloody battle, the hostages, including the young doctor Denise, manage to free themselves from the general's house. After a bomb attack, Robert and Denise are separated from their troops and must make their way alone through the wilderness to the agreed meeting point...