In 1941, Hong Kong was the Casablanca of the East, a city full of war refugees, profiteers and spies. With the sudden attack by Japanese troops, a Canadian soldier's Christmas promise is broken during the Battle of Hong Kong.
On the OSS Operational Group's assistance in helping to organize and coordinate partisan activities in Italy during World War II. Describes the success of the mission; shows the "Cayuga Team" at a briefing and parachuting, along with supplies, into the hilly Italian terrain.
From the Department of the Navy.This historical recording from the National Archives may contain variations in audio and video quality based on the limitations of the original source material.
A small village during World War II. Driven by misery some peasants smuggle goods across the mountain frontier. Thus an ever-greater gap opens between them and those who are fighting the invaders.
In February 1945, Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal captured the image of five U.S. Marines and one U.S. Navy Corpsman hoisting the American flag atop a mountain in Iwo Jima.
Eric Portman narrates this 1945 retrospective account from the RAF Film Production Unit, celebrating the RAF's role in tghe Normandy campaign, with outstanding footage of RAF Typhoons's blitzing targets with salvos of rockets and cannon fire.
The bloom of wild roses connects an aging soldier from a large country with a youthful soldier from a small country, but the two are soon parted as one of them becomes a casualty of war.
In an emotional tribute, Montreal graffiti artist Fonki returns to Cambodia to paint a giant mural of his relatives killed in the genocide. During his time there, he connects with a group of Cambodian youth who have also returned hoping to breathe new life into their destroyed culture.
Lydia Litvyak, a Soviet fighter pilot. Ace. Hero. She holds first place in the women fighter pilots ranking. On the first of August 1943, Litvyak was almost 22 years old. That day her plane took off for the last time.
"Glory of Soldiers" is a military theme tribute produced by Shanghai Tencent Penguin Film and Television Culture Communication Co., Ltd., Shenzhen Tencent Computer System Co., Ltd. and Zhejiang Sicheng Film Co., Ltd. The film is issued by Chongqing Boling Film and Television Media Co., Ltd. Directed by the post-80s director Min Mingwen, starring Huang Wei, Zhou Haodong, Huang Yifei, He Wenhui and so on. On October 1, 2019, Tencent Video was exclusively launched.
Swedish-Eritrean radio host Meron Estefanos produces her weekly program at home in Stockholm where she broadcast, devoted entirely to the hundreds of Eritrean refugees held hostage in the Egyptian Sinai Desert. The Bedouins kidnap Eritreans making their way to Israel and demand large ransoms from their families. We follow Meron in her attempts to turn the tide by calling the hostages and kidnappers alike during her radio show. The film focuses on the stories of two hostages: A) Hiriyti was pregnant when she got kidnapped. We hear the young woman talking with her husband Amaniel in Tel Aviv, who is doing everything he can to free his wife and their baby from the torture camp. B) The ransom for 20-year-old Timnit has been paid, but her brother haven't heard anything from her since her flight to the Egyptian-Israeli border. The battle for Hiriyti's release and the search for Timnit takes Meron to Sinai. There, she stumbles on the marks left by the many atrocities.
A young Polish partisan flees from the Warsaw Uprising. Whilst hiding in the yard of a countryside manor, he is chased up a tree by a large wolfhound. With his rifle out of reach, there seems to be no way to escape his predicament.