From 1958 to 1959, the inhabitants of the Rifian provinces suffered fierce repression in response to their uprising against their economic and social situation. In their eyes, the central power has destroyed their political, social and economic structure. Fear has been installed for more than 50 years and creates a real taboo around the subject.
Soldaten is a short about crossed destinies and misunderstandings at the very end of World War II. Three men will meet and miss each other in a fateful final day.
This film recounts through archival documents and eyewitness accounts, the history of "The Moroccan Goumiers" during the two world wars and the Indo-china war. A story that starts from the beginning of the French protectorate in Morocco.
During the Spanish Civil War, an American allied with the Republicans finds romance during a desperate mission to blow up a strategically important bridge.
On April 12th, 1864, at an insignificant little fort, several hundred black Union soldiers fought a hopeless battle against a Confederate general who was destined to become the first Grand Wizard of the KKK. This battle had a domino effect, trickling down the long road of history. Today, it is just a footnote in most history books; however, no other event of the Civil War has had such a profound impact on the twentieth century, especially on American culture.
In 1942 Czechoslovakia, the resistance plot an assassination of Nazi SS leader Reinhard Heydrich. Ex-resistance fighter Alexei is enticed to answer the call, risk losing his partner, and carry out a duty fit only for a soldier.
For years, Belga Chemical was used by the most powerful arms corporations as a transshipment point for international arms trafficking. Even before this scandal is uncovered, Daniel Rousseu is able to go into hiding with all the evidence. In his hiding place, he creates a documentary to which he gives the name Jihad. Daniel Rousseu is no longer willing to cover up for the real backers, the powerful bosses of the arms mafia, and wants to turn himself in to the police, testify before the investigating committee and present the Jihad file - The death sentence for Daniel Rousseu! When he hires private detective Claude Garonne to hand over part of the file to a well-known journalist, he is lured into a trap. Badly wounded, the private detective initially manages to escape. Even before his murderers kill him, he hands over the documents to journalism student Samantha. He also reveals the whereabouts of Daniel Rousseu to her - a murderous hunt begins!
In World War II, an American Air Force pilot of the Flying Tigers was flying over Yunnan province of southern China on a special mission, carrying vital information. He was shot down and captured by Japanese invasion forces. A small rescue party of American GIs teamed up with resistance guerrilla fighters in the minority tribes of the south. The GIs and local guerrilla together conducted an International Rescue of the pilot and his information vital to the war effort.
When the Big war started, the 2nd of August 1914, Louis is one of those first mobilized. He has to leave Marie and his village in Corsica for the plains of the Marne where the fights rage. On the front, he is a stretcher-bearer and crosses the battlefield, at night, in search of the wounded. One day, while the trench is sorely lacking water, he is chosen to go to a well situated halfway between the French and German territories in what they called "no-man's-land". There, he finds himself in front of a German soldier who has also come too stock up.
Siva, a young medical student, arrives undocumented in London Heathrow airport. He is taken into custody and recalls his flight from the civil war in Sri Lanka.
After being swindled out of his land by a local landlord in 1930s China, a grandfather commits suicide. His son burns down the landlord's house in a fit of rage, then escapes to join the PLA. His grandson later joins the PLA too in the 1940s to avenge his father, grandfather and mother.