This educational film was compiled from original footage from 1917. It shows, among other things, guns, troop transports in the port of Libau and a bombardment of the Russian coastal batteries on Ösel with on-board artillery.
In late 1952, an aging and increasingly paranoid Stalin puts in motion a purge against his doctors, with antisemitic overtones. His lackeys, including Khrushchev, Molotov and Beria, fear it will spread to the Politburo, and plan to strike first.
Two soldiers are thrown together and make their way through German-occupied Dunkirk. After several agonising close calls they make it within sight of safety. A split second decision gives only one of them a chance at survival.
At the height of the Cold War in the 1980s, a civil war between socialist-influenced Sandinistas and US-backed Contras ravaged Nicaragua. Using rare archival footage and contemporary interviews, American/Sandinista tells the story of a controversial group of US engineers who went further than anyone expected and paid the ultimate price.
Operation Holtsauga was a Nazi plan to destroy Soviet ships and aircraft approaching Murmansk, which was carried out in 1942. Near Bezymyanny Island, a Soviet ship struck a mine and sank, and engineer Okulich, who miraculously survived, was taken prisoner. However, he managed to escape and even took German officer Ritter with him. During a week of difficult travel to the mainland, he learns from the German about the Holzaug plan. Thirty years later, an explosion occurs on Bezymyanny Island during the construction of an astrophysical station. Now Okulich must uncover all the details of the old operation in Munich...
The film depicts life in Iraq during the Iraq-Iran war through the characters of the fighters Jabbar and Imad (played by Jalal Kamel and Nizar Al-Samarrai). They live in the city of Basra and the Iraqi countryside amidst the war atmosphere. Jalal develops a love relationship with the beautiful girl Soha, and they both join their military duties.
After a hundred-year sandstorm, Zhang San, a young soldier, meets Li Si, an enemy aristocrat in the desolate desert. The kind-hearted Zhang San only wants to take the money he has saved and go home to live a simple life with his wife and children, while the sophisticated Li Si has a more ambitious vision. No matter their origins or destinations, the two people are very different from each other, but in order to escape, they still have to rely on each other and face the wild sands of the desert....
This film takes place during Japan's occupation of China during World War 2. A downed U.S. fighter pilot George forms an uneasy alliance with a group of Chinese freedom fighter Guerillas, Wang Lung, Wang Fung, Fa Par Chi and Shi Gin Don as they oppose the Japanese soldiers who have been destroying the countryside with the help from a crazy Nazi.
For four seasons, lone wolf Eddy van Wessel travels along the Ukrainian front lines. Now that the Netherlands' most awarded war photographer is in the twilight of his successful career, he wants to take the ultimate photo one more time, the image that summarizes the entire conflict and that makes all the struggles, traumas and setbacks he has endured worthwhile.
An Australian soldier of the Royal Australian Regiment presents his story of the Korean War. On his way to Korea, he visits Tokyo, where he notes the progress since the end or world War II. Then he travels to Seoul in Korea, were he notes the damage to the city. Finally soldiers are see relaxing in camp and training for the conflict to come.
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.