War Collection

A historical epic focusing on the battles of the Filipino national hero, Andres Bonifacio. To be released in 2027.

A Holocaust survivor explores how events from the past shaped the outcome of the present not only for herself but by also examining how people in Israel and their actions in Palestine are formed by history.

A filmmaker named Hadi is sent to Croatia to complete his research for a film. Aziz, Hadi’s friend, gives him a cassette tape, a piece of image, and a half a piece of plaque in order to find a girl named Fatima. Alongside a Farsi-speaking Bosnian woman, Hanifa, Hadi begins his quest for Fatima.

A young Puerto Rican man abandons his university studies and his family to join the United States Army, thinking it would solve his financial needs. Influenced by the war propaganda and mobilized to the scene of the wars in the Middle East, he becomes a sadistic torturer.

Summer of 1941. Mothers and wives of Uzbekistan escort their sons and husbands to the front. They are learning new professions and sending food trucks to the front.

The People's Guard unit takes a pistol from a German soldier. It is then used as a training weapon and in actions against the occupant.

The Pink Panther joins the army and angers his sergeant with his usual antics.

As Serb forces close in on Srebrenica a Serbian mother seeks the body of her 11-year old son, who was tortured and killed by Muslims in Bosnia.

James Holland moves beyond the D-Day beaches to reassess the brutal 77-day Battle for Normandy that followed the invasion. Challenging some of the many myths that have grown up around this vital campaign, Holland argues that we have become too comfortable in our understanding of events, developing shorthand to tell this famous story that does great injustice to those that saw action in France across the summer of 1944.

As war calls, a young man is forced to leave behind the girl he loves

Tracing the evolution of the war-film genre from 1898 to 1996 by combining real-life combat footage with excerpts from Hollywood movies. Clips range from "Wings" (1927) to "Courage Under Fire" (1996). Also: Thomas Edison's shots of American soldiers in the Spanish-American War. Narrated by Martin Sheen.

One famous day. Five heroes. Five key turning points that changed the course of World War Two during the D Day landings, told through the eyes of the people who made a difference. Using rarely seen archive, dramatic reconstruction and written accounts from eye witnesses and personal testimony from our five heroes, this is D Day as never seen before.

Nuremberg is where Nazi congresses were held. In the city where Hitler gathered huge crowds of fanatics, the court hosted in 1945 the greatest trial in History. The Allied victors judged those responsible for the Third Reich. Among the defendants are the Führer's closest surviving accomplices. But not only them: defendant number 27 is not even a man. It is an entire organization: the SS were a state within the state – which ruled all the police – with its own army, within the Nazi regime.

Temnikar's family prepares for Christmas, but to him, it's the time of dark premonitions and anxiety. In the mountain cave, hidden by snow, the wounded partisans are hiding, and Temnikar suspects the treason. Once the White Guard patrol shows up at Temnikar's doorstep, he finds out about their plan to go and finish off the wounded partisans.

A short documentary illustrating the Allied landing at Normandy and the course of the war running up to the liberation of Paris. Part of a series that ran from the invasion of Italy to V-E Day

From April 16th to May 8th, 1945, during the Battle of Berlin, close to 360,000 Russians and 460,000 Germans were killed or wounded. It is estimated that more than 100,000 rapes occurred on the people of Berlin.

In this game of games our four contestants go head to head to find out who is the spittiest of them all. Tests of strength, playing charades, i-contact and triple tickle dart throwing pit Water and Ben Daniel against Luminous George... and each other.

A young medic decides to escape the devastating horrors of war and wanders off into the endless snowy wilderness. Unexpectedly, he crosses paths with a family who has set a table in the cold fields.

Take an in-depth look at the battle for Okinawa and the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki through the eyes of archeologists and historians. Objects found in excavations of sites in Okinawa and Honshu lead us to understand the lives of soldiers and of the civilians caught up in World War II.

The inhabitants of a small Pacific island present a formidable challenge to a sudden invasion of their territory.

The Road from Elephant Pass is a 2008 action thriller film produced, screen played and directed by Chandran Rutnam based on the novel The Road from Elephants Pass by Nihal De Silva

Filmed in a village of the indigenous Mandaya people, located in a mountainous area of southeastern Mindanao, the country's second largest island, the documentary portrays the struggle of the Communist Party of the Philippines and its armed wing, the New People's Army, for the rights of indigenous Filipino peoples and the environment, which are constantly under threat from landowners, large logging companies and agribusiness.

Sir David Jason spends time with the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight at RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire as they prepare for the 2020 80th anniversary display season under the restrictions of the Covid 19 lock-down.

Between 1964 and 1973 the United States conducted a secret air war, dropping over 2 million tons of bombs and making tiny Laos the most heavily bombed country in history. Millions of these 'cluster bombs' did not explode when dropped, leaving the country massively contaminated with 'bombies' as dangerous now as when they fell 30 years ago. Bombies examines the problem of unexploded cluster bombs through the personal experiences of a group of Laotians and foreigners and argues for their elimination as a weapon of war. Unfortunately they are still a standard part of the US arsenal and were dropped in Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq.

Broken by the horrors of a brutal war, a soldier returns home to eventually succumb to his injuries. His brother, shell-shocked by proxy, becomes afflicted by the same madness which is known to the men on the battlefront as The Red Laugh.

One of six children today live in a war zone. This is a meeting with three of them, where they in simple terms describe their experiences of war and daily life. The film is set in Iraq, but could be set anywhere in the world.

April 1945, amidst the Battle of Berlin, the final days of World War II begin. Young German soldiers fight desperately in the city's ruins. Between bombs, battles, and the stalemate, they question why they must continue fighting. This historical short film depicts the emotional and psychological collapse of a failing regime—intense, powerful, and relentlessly realistic.

'Resilience', Choi's second-year film at CalArts, is about the ravaged nature finding its strength and gradually recovering alongside the vibrant resurgence of life.

In an age when disinformation muddles the truth, a newly discovered voice cuts through the historical haze. She is Rhea Clyman, a young Canadian reporter who traversed the starving Soviet heartland when Stalin’s man made famine was just beginning in Ukraine. Clyman’s newly discovered newspaper articles for Toronto and London newspapers in 1932 show her remarkable resourcefulness and courage. After she was banished from the USSR for writing about the Holodomor and the Gulag, this brave woman went on to cover Hitler’s early lethal years in power.

The action takes place in the North of Scandinavia, where Hitler's Germany tried to keep its last frontier. Here by the will of circumstances gets pilot-Navigator uzbek Akbar Ibrahimov, whose plane was shot down in battle, and joins the ranks of the Resistance. Soon he managed to get an officer on a German submarine, and later report on the secret bases of the enemy.

In the midst of the Spanish Civil War, a young soldier on the frontlines reflects on the pain of loss and the senselessness of war. In a trench near the so-called 'no man’s land', he unexpectedly encounters his brother, fighting for the opposing side.

Donald is running so late for his own wedding that his bride-to-be, Wanda (Wanda Hawley), loses patience and returns home. Seizing the opportunity, the devious best man, Jack Bryan (Gaston Glass), attempts to charm the frustrated bride into marrying him instead. Jack isn't just a romantic rival; he steals a diamond necklace from Wanda’s family and whisks her away on his yacht, heading for the open sea. Donald takes to the sky in a desperate attempt to rescue her culminating in a series of spectacular action sequences on land, sea, and air.

Cruel politics and intensive love. Najla (N) has just finished her medical studies in Rome. Sherko (S) conceals sick and injured partisans. Mokhtar (M) belongs to the dictator's police. S and M love N, N loves S. When she gets a letter from S that she must forget him, she returns to Kirkuk. As a doctor she can help S. Mokhtar follows her trail and S and N are arrested. S is tortured. N is beaten up and then offered the job as a police doctor, a reward for leading the police to S. She accepts because then she can collect and pass on the names of people murdered or tortured. She will attend many mass murders of women and children. Once she can save them by fabricating that a child has cholera, with greater risk of contamination if she is dead. – When M understands that he cannot win N's love, he smuggles both N and S out of the country. Fully aware of the consequences he distracts the border guards and is shot by them. Max Scharnberg, Stockholm, Sweden

A highly personal journey into the recent history of a war-torn land. Pratt has covered decades of conflict in Iraq and now travels from Erbil to Mosul, charting the country’s active political faultlines and meeting old friends

Set a day after the Syrian war began, Dayan paints a portrait of the thousands of refugees unable to return to their families once borders were established by terrorist groups. Seiban, an aging Syrian father living in exile with his family, has to make a choice: part with his special-needs children in order to escape, or keep them close and put the family's lives at the mercy of the military. As he struggles to decide, the world around his family crumbles under the weight of war, leaving little hope for their survival.

Naval historians discuss in detail the events leading up to the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

A young priest and hardened corporal travel through trenches during WWI in search of humanity.

Jack "Fingers" Ensch served in the Navy for 30 years. Recounting his experience of getting shot down and held as a POW in the infamous Hanoi Hilton, Jack explains how he was able to move forward from the experience and enjoy a full life.

War film by director Mario Baffico and interpreted by Italian soldiers belonging to the Alpine Division "Cuneense," veterans of the Albanian frontof the Italian-Greek war. The film was inspired by an episode that actually happened. Shot in the summer months of 1942, but not released until May 1943.

A spy story during libertion war somewhere in Jiaodong, China.

During the Continuation War, mother Kaarina and son Erkki live at home in a small town while father has been sent to the front. One day the family's life is turned upside down when the father returns home as a deserter from the front .

Three families of Ukrainian refugees find asylum in a seaside town in Poland. Each of them tell their own stories about the dangerous escape from the war. Their cars were vital in the whole journey and, like their owners, suffered a lot and will never be quite the same.

The film portrays a different dimension of the political uprising which happened in the north of Iraq(Kurdistan) in 1991, the political movement led to separate the Kurdish region from Iraq and liberation from the former Iraqi regime. The film contains the idea that the revenge mentality can be avoided under any circumstances despite a long-term dictatorial era.

Recreation of the widespread rapes and murders of Filipina women by Japanese soldiers during WWII.

In 1962, René Vautier, together with some Algerian friends, organised the audio-visual formation centre Ben Aknoun to encourage a "dialogue in images" between the two factions. Together with his students he made a film that shows the history of the Algerian War and of the ALN (National Liberation Army), and life during the reconstruction.

Filming the diploma project turns into a very exciting and educational adventure for the young students of Minsk State Academy of Arts. In one of the episodes of the film, Vlad and Daria take part in a motor rally for the Independence Day of the Republic of Belarus in a vintage car, participate in the “Let’s Sing the Anthem Together” campaign, visit museums and meet interesting people,

Soldiers in war adopt a stray dog.

Little Esther is being held in a cellar by a farmer, against her will but for her own good.

A Russian flag bearer in World War II questions his will to fight. With a Russian flag as his weapon, he charges into machine guns. As war engulfs him, he must ask himself why he continues to wave his flag.

A cinematic interpretation of the poem of the same name by Andriy Malyshko. During World War II, villagers find a wounded soldier and hide him in one of their huts. During a raid, German forces discover this man and stage a public trial—but the villagers won't stop defending him.

The head of the field hospital, Stupakov, has lost his wife. He devotes all his love exclusively to his daughter Vera, who works as a nurse in the same hospital. However, Stupakov’s love is selfish. Ignoring Vera's feelings, he tries to separate her from the man she loves. But Vera, defying everything, leaves for the active military unit...

An eye-opening documentary capturing Ukrainian soldiers in trenches and civilians facing ongoing destruction by invading Russian military forces.