In pursuit of a better life, Sophie is determined to leave her war-torn hometown of Kyiv and her family behond. Her younger sister, Marie, tries to stop her, but their argument only drives Sophie away faster. When Marie finally reads the letter that Sophie left behind, it’s too late to say her final goodbye.
Invisible Film reimagines Peter Watkins’s Punishment Park (1971), a radical anti-war film banned in both the UK and the US after the Vietnam War. Melik Ohanian replaces its images with a single static shot of a 35mm projector screening the censored film in daylight in the San Bernardino desert—its original location. Projected without a screen, the image disappears into the desert air, turning cinema itself into both subject and ghost.
War tears Wenzhou apart, forcing twins Ye Ning and Ye Qing onto opposite paths: Ye Ning becomes a pawn of militarism, while Ye Qing emerges as a guerrilla sharpshooter. When they face each other on the battlefield, will family ties survive the clash of duty and patriotism?
The late stages of World War II, Soviet Army began rolling into some vital cities which occupied by Germany. Kolya Isaev, a paratrooper is sent to take part the offensives in the Eastern Europe. Autobiographical story by director Yakov Segel about a young man who went to the front of the Great Patriotic War at a young age and reached Berlin.
A documentary about art, resistance, and an unusual friendship born in the shadow of war. Creating a gigantichen as a form of protest, an artistand his assistant unexpectedly forge a friendship that leads them onto pup-petry festival stages all over Europe.
Set in the early 1940s, a young Ukrainian woman is taken into custody because her statements about freedom are considered dangerous by a repressive system. Inspired by true events.
After the “September 18 Incident” in 1931, Japanese forces occupied Northeast China. University student Bai Yihua was ordered to return to his hometown, Liaoyang, posing as a teacher to secretly organize anti-Japanese resistance. However, constant threats put his mission and identity at risk. As enemy and ally clashes intensify and his cover nears exposure, can Bai Yihua uncover the traitor, break through the siege, and turn the tide of the resistance?
Set against the 1942 Japanese "May 1st Great Sweep," Lieutenant Zhou Tiehan leads comrades through blockades, rescues allies, eliminates traitors, and seizes the Japanese stronghold Yakouzhai.
Bill Hemmer explores the tanks, planes, and boats that make up the Russian invasion force. After the collapse of the USSR, the Russian war machine rusted away. That bear is back and it's leaner and meaner.
In 1918, roughly 5,000 American soldiers were sent to fight the Soviet Union’s Red Army in Archangel, Russia. And there they remained—engaged in brutal combat with Bolshevik revolutionaries in sixty below zero temperatures—months after the November 11 armistice had officially ended the Great War. Throughout the punishing fall and winter, U.S. troops felt misled by their government, frustrated by their commanders, and outnumbered by their enemy. By July of 1919, more than 200 soldiers had died from battles, accidents, and the Spanish flu—all while fighting a war that was already over. Based on the newly-released book The Polar Bear Expedition by historian James Carl Nelson, 'When America Invaded Russia,' tells the often forgotten story of our country’s year-long battle with Russia, and pays tribute to the brave soldiers who lost their lives as a result.
History tells us Adolf Hitler died a coward's death in 1945. But did he? Declassified FBI files raise the question about whether the Führer escaped Germany and fled to Argentina.
Stuttgart, 1942: Nazis have cleared Jewish communities from towns and Villages. Two German-born Jewish children flee Nazis who have killed their family, escorted by Gisella, part of the Lebensborn, an SS Master Race program.
After the failure of D-Day, the Nazi's have grown in confidence that the war has now swung in their favor. Wanting to capitalize on their growing strength, Hitler has chosen one to enacted Operation Emerald, the Invasion of Ireland.
This documentary is the film record of one of the first Nazi war crimes trials, conducted while the war was still raging. The concentration and extermination camp Majdanek, near Lublin, erected in 1941, was liberated in July 1944. When the Soviet and Polish troops drove the Nazis out of the region, they uncovered the evidence of Nazi genocide. One month later, a joint Soviet-Polish commission heard evidence from survivors and witnesses as to the atrocities that took place, and their testimony is preserved in this film.
{Victor Hugo once said: « The future is given to the ones who know how to listen to the past. » Surrounded by stories who were for so many reality, it’s so difficult to réalise the true importance of history. From kids to grandkids we all have the duty to listen to them. After many recordings of the sweet voice of my grandpa, Joseph Dornacher, giving a life to those WWII stories sounded mandatory. The five minutes are mixed between text and stop-motion animations. The text show Joseph breaking the ice, talking to Krisztina, hesitating, remembering about his level of russian or laugh. The stop motion scenes are parts of his story, immersed in 1940 Hungary.}