This film deals with the various factors involved in creating a war game and the after effects of tampering with peace and destroying it to achieve personal goals. The war scenes are picked up from various magazines and paper cuttings and are used as war actors, whereas the pigeons are symbolic of the living beings and represent peace. It is a metaphor for the misery of the game of war and its potential for suffering and destruction.
This film deals with the various factors involved in creating a war game and the after effects of tampering with peace and destroying it to achieve personal goals. The war scenes are picked up from various magazines and paper cuttings and are used as war actors, whereas the pigeons are symbolic of the living beings and represent peace. It is a metaphor for the misery of the game of war and its potential for suffering and destruction.
Set in an alternate WWI reality where a senseless war rages on, two soldiers on opposite sides of the conflict play a joyful game of chess. A heroic carrier pigeon delivers the soldiers' chess moves over the battlefield as the fighting escalates. Neither soldier knows his opponent as the game and the war builds to its climatic final move. Whoever wins the game, one thing is for certain: there are no winners in war.
Prelude to War was the first film of Frank Capra's Why We Fight propaganda film series, commissioned by the Pentagon and George C. Marshall. It was made to convince American troops of the necessity of combating the Axis Powers during World War II. This film examines the differences between democratic and fascist states.
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The story of a group of men, an Army Rifle company called C-for-Charlie, who change, suffer, and ultimately make essential discoveries about themselves during the fierce World War II battle of Guadalcanal. It follows their journey, from the surprise of an unopposed landing, through the bloody and exhausting battles that follow, to the ultimate departure of those who survived.
The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of the Japanese who fought it.
A war criminal in hiding forms a relationship with his only connection to the outside world - his maid.
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