History Rediscovered: The Memphis Belle features a restored version of the most famous documentary to emerge from WWII plus three other non-fiction, WWII films. Originally filmed in 1943 and directed by Academy Award winner William Wyler, "The Memphis Belle" chronicles the 25th and final mission of an Eighth Air Force B-17 in the skies over Axis-occupied Europe.
A Polish spy who works for the British during the Second World War. After a betrayal, she is compromised in Warsaw and finds herself in a murky world of treachery.
Hong Kong film of 800 Chinesse soldiers guard the important warehouse district against the invading Japanese Army. Made in the same year that mainland China made their own The Eight Hundred Heroes.
In 1943, in the Lunan area of Shandong Province, Chen Tian Fang, commander of the Lunan Independent Brigade of the Eighth Route Army, led his troops to block the Japanese army. Chief of Staff Lu Chong received an urgent message and mobilized Qin Feng's Canglang Commando to go to Ganyu in the northernmost part of Jiangsu to rescue our party comrade Wang Hua who was imprisoned by the Japanese army. During the rescue process, Wang Hua was attacked and sacrificed. Ouyang Bing's identity as a communist was exposed and he left the military command action team. Through the secret message Wang Hua left on Ouyang Bing before his death, Ouyang Bing learned the location of the tungsten to the west of Shijiagou. The Canglang Commando rushed to Jixiang Village, where the Japanese army was also looking for tungsten. The Canglang Commando and others blocked the Japanese army, withstood the Japanese offensive and successfully transferred the tungsten.
This film dramatizes the problems facing ordinary American soldiers during the Revolutionary War, explaining why most ultimately chose to stay and fight.
Military conflicts unfortunately aren’t a rare thing in our tense world full of anxiety. Civilians are usually involved in them against their will. They themselves suffer internal conflicts. A short film “Zafar” tells a story about such an internal conflict unfolding against the background of the Abkhaz-Georgian conflict.
U.S. President Harry S Truman and his commander in the Korean War, General Douglas MacArthur, disagree on war strategy. Their conflict comes to a head when Truman relieves the insubordinate MacArthur from command.
The story takes place in Karabakh mountains in 1992, in the times of Armenian-Azerbaijani war. A small group of Armenian soldiers is working their way through the snow to reach the necessary point. One of them is so exhausted, that he can't keep on going. He is obliged to stay and wait for the reinforcement. He is left alone with the body of the Azerbaijanian soldier, who was shot by his companion. Checking his I.D., he discovers that they are from the same town, that they are countrymen.
Two young soldiers on opposite sides of a near future civil war are forced to confront their differences when they are taken captive by a stubbornly neutral old sheriff.