Frederic, after having announced sadly and wistfully at Catherine, goes to war.He's wounded in the war, so he has to go to the hospital where Catherine, as a nurse, can heal him.
During the 20 months before Italy's liberation from Fascism, a group of university students trade empty rhetoric for action by joining the Partisans into the mountains of Nazi-occupied northern Italy. There, group leader Gigi falls in love with his best friend's girl. As the Resistance struggle continues, some of the "little teachers" are killed, and the brutal reality of war leaves its mark on their youthful idealism.
This animated short by Norman McLaren serves as a wartime savings campaign. Symbolic figures, drawn directly on 35mm film stock, move and dance against a simple painted background. The score is "Pinetop's Boogie Woogie," by Albert Ammons.
A Face of War is a 1968 documentary about the Vietnam War, by Eugene S. Jones. The New York Times called it "one of the great Vietnam documentaries." Roger Ebert called it a "heart-wrenching masterpiece".
A Zanjani pilot receives a mission to identify enemy bases at the beginning of the Iran-Iraq war. He gets wounded and his plane is shot. He manages to enter Iran's border and lands at an abandoned airport in Abadan. He successfully lands the plane on the runway that local Basiji forces have cleared for him, but ...
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.
A biopic focusing on to the childhood and the early years of the military career of the founder and the first President of the Turkish Republic, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.
While Nazi ideology dominated Europe, Adolf Hitler used all dogmas to his advantage and fed the cult of his personality. How did the Führer manage to transform the Bible, the Church and the symbols of Christianity into instruments of power, winning the support of the Germans? This documentary traces the rise of a little-known theological organization: the “German Christians”, which became the most powerful propaganda tool of the Third Reich.
The 'Secrets of D-Day' made it possible for the Allies to finally strike Hitler on the shores of occupied France, which paved the way to ending World War II. The level of deception in planning the invasion was extraordinary: using intricate schemes, a network of double crossing agents, and special code-cracking machines.
The film tells the story of the Yugoslav destroyer Zagreb which fights against Germany in 1941, and how some of the crew members try to organise a mutiny to keep fighting when the commander is ordered to surrender.
Self-absorbed Dr. Lee Johnson enlists with the Army medical corps during World War II, more out of a feeling that it's "the thing to do" rather than deep-seated patriotism. On his first day, he's put into place by 'Snapshot', a sassy and attractive nurse. Their initial antagonism blossoms into romance. Lee then finds himself torn with guilt over being unfaithful to his wife, Penny, who's waiting for him back home.
A captive warrior, Issa, who has long been thinking about various plans to escape from the camp, takes advantage of a golden opportunity and runs away from the camp immediately. A number of Ba'athist troops pursue him, but he continues steadfastly and boldly to flee while they are firing their bullets. But eventually, he manages to return to his homeland by plunging into the border river ...