Most Honorable Son is a documentary celebrating the career and life of a Vietnam Marine Corp Veteran, Michael Hyland. He served from 1968-1969 as a chopper gunner and got shot down behind enemy lines three times. It honors and represents his time in Vietnam and how Michael survived in the war. He was motivated to enlist with his friends after High School because of current politics. Michael's story demonstrates any other Vietnam Veteran story, but dives deeper into the actions of the Vietnamese and their effect on the Marine’s mindset.
Take Your Own Notes features the stories of five women veterans who live in the greater Rockford, IL area. The documentary demonstrates how the five women make an impact in their families and local communities and connect with each other through their shared experiences in the United States military. Take Your Own Notes provides an outlet for women who experience challenges featured in the documentary, cultivating an open dialogue for those who wish to tell their stories.
A company of Marines deep behind enemy lines on a top secret mission are out manned and out gunned as they fight their way to hell and back leaving a path of death and destruction in their wake.
The film tells the story of the battlefield against the Japanese in southern Hunan in 1944. After The Kuomintang (Nationalist) ordered the army to withdraw, the last nine members of a Sichuan army company led by Qin Hao Zhong stayed behind themselves to cover the retreat of the rest of the troops.
Who should have a monument in Mostar, an ethnically divided city that is still healing its war wounds? This is a story of people who, in spite of nationalists and trigger-happy myth maniacs, decided to erect a statue of Bruce Lee. And they made the news that traveled the world...
After a few too many tours of duty and missions overseas, a mother/wife returns home to deal with her family and changed surroundings. This mission may serve to be her toughest ever.
In war-torn Denmark, a brother and sister fight for survival as they embark on a perilous journey through the violent and dangerous landscape, where they must stay vigilant to avoid the hostile and vicious Danes.
An Invention laboratory is working on the creation of a performance 'bomb' in the shape of a rocket that could be delivered to the front in order to entertain and amuse the national troops. Inside this rocket would be tiny performers. Once launched from the laboratory and landed amidst the Japanese troops the soldiers could enjoy the performers. The laboratory succeeds and the rocket is built. It bears the insignia, 'until the victory days.' The Japanese government began a program of shooting and disseminating propaganda and entertainment movies for its troops during World War II. It is a lost film.
Richard Becker, a military veteran who finds himself on live television, recounting the harrowing experiences of his two-year deployment in the Iraqi war while reflecting on the tragic events he endured.
During the anti-Japanese war, truck driver Lee Sing's secret mission is to transport weapons and supplies for the resistance fighters. Sing has to deliver a signal gun to guerrillas at ten on that night for launching an attack against the Japanese soldiers. He works for the Ko's family and he has to send the gun to the provincial city to prevent it from being bombed. Sing carries on his vehicle a group of passengers including a Chinese traitor, a guerilla, a compassionate nurse, a comfort woman on the run, a teacher and his pregnant wife. Sing is given a hard time by the Japanese troops on the road. The Japanese ransack the vehicle and they find the signal gun. All the males on board are being interrogated with torture, but the passengers pool their efforts to subdue the traitor and accomplish their mission.
Fighter pilot Jerry Yellin flew the last combat mission of World War II and returned home to a dark life of survivor's guilt and daily thoughts of suicide. Married with four sons, Yellin was forced to face his enemy once again when his youngest son moved to Japan and married the daughter of a Kamikaze pilot.
Juan Méndez Bernal leaves his house on the 9th of april of 1936 to fight in the imminent Spanish Civil War. 83 years later, his body is still one of the Grass Dwellers. The only thing that he leaves from those years on the front is a collection of 28 letters in his own writing.
The story of one couple. A man "at zero" in the vicinity of Bakhmut, defends the country together with his brother. At this time, the wife is on her battlefield - in the delivery bed. Their poignant telephone conversation will reveal the entire tragic situation in which almost every Ukrainian family has fallen into after the Russian military invasion.
Innocent civilians search for love, hope and meaning as they rebuild their lives in the aftermath of a devastating war; each protecting something which represents a strand of life in a place where there is no sign of existence.
A film about Juozas Vitkus - Kazimieraitis.
“I will not leave my land - not a single step!” declares Juozas Vitkus-Kazimieraitis, Lieutenant Colonel and senior officer of the Lithuanian Army, when offered a comfortable life in the U.S. In 1945, he led armed resistance against Soviet terror in southern Lithuania, gathering thousands of men into the forest and organizing their fight according to army statutes and military principles. Over the next decade, his codified doctrine guided the partisans - and later Adolfas Ramanauskas-Vanagas - until 1956. This biographical drama, chronicles the life and legacy of Lithuania’s extraordinary freedom fighter.