A Soviet officer serves as a counterspy amidst enemies.
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A Soviet officer serves as a counterspy amidst enemies.
A retired army colonel learns that years ago, during the 1939 September Campaign he was ordered to give medals to the ten bravest soldiers in his company. He asks his son to help him out, so he sets out on a journey to find surviving soldiers and judge if they are worthy of the honor.
Combining collage animation and live action, this short depicts the achievements of the Chilean people under the Allende government and the subsequent reversal of this progress following the military coup. The collages were created by East German media artist Lutz Dammbeck; the Chilean artists Juan Forch and Vivienne Barry did the animation.
Live-action adaptation of the popular Yugoslav comic book about two young Partisan couriers in World War II.
A man who was a communist MP during the First Republic joins the Slovak National Uprising, but is wounded and has to hide in a log cabin with others. However, an attempt to obtain false documents for the partisans almost causes a betrayal...
Year 1943. A group of soldiers, carrying an injured comrade, are trying to reach the hospital.
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.
TV movie based on the clearing of the Jewish psychiatric hospital "Het Apeldoornse Bosch" on 23 January 1943.
An American officer and a North Vietnamese prisoner of war are stranded and chained together in the jungle during the Vietnam War.
The distinctive traits of the Doroshin family are hard work, courage, and principledness. Pavel Nikolaevich is a war veteran and the chief engineer of a factory, while Anastasia Mikhailovna is the head of a university department and an active participant in the partisan movement. Their eldest son, Ilya, a sanitary doctor, demands the closure of one of the city's enterprises. However, war criminals, who are hiding from retribution, know that the Gestapo archives are hidden in the building's basement and fear that the documents might be discovered. Terrified of exposure, they try to prevent Ilya from carrying out this action and attempt to discredit the Doroshins.
An officer in his secret mission to India is injured by foreign agents. He returns to Greece but must be considered dead by his wife for the needs of the service, since he must discover who betrays the state secrets.
A speechless war poem set in a remote village. The farmers struck by war turn into fighters.
Interviews with five former American soldiers who were present at the March 16, 1968 attack on the village of My Lai during the Vietnam War; they discuss the orders that were issued leading up to the attack, their expectations of what they would find there, and the subsequent massacre of the inhabitants and destruction of the village, as well as possible motivations for the killings and rapes which took place. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2002.
The armouring soldier and writer Werner Bertin is ordered to the Western Front to France during the First World War. The use before Verdun - with all the horrors of war in the period 1916/1917 - brings a fundamental change of consciousness for the academic from Berlin. The intellectual devoted to bravery by fate develops into a disappointed but rebellious being. He sees more and more the injustices of warlike conflicts and their social causes.
During World War II, Jernej learns about the movement of twelve enemy soldiers. He sets out to ambush and kill them, but this choice leads to devastating consequences.
In May 1945, Czech revolutionaries used several armoured trains in the fighting - partly captured, partly assembled from whatever the railway brought. One of them was commanded by the shunter Jan Chýň, who managed to bring weapons from the ammunition depot in Libčice to help the fighting in Prague.
In the confusion of combat, two Italian get separated from their squadron and become hopelessly lost. As they wander the countryside attempting to find their lost comrades, they have to adopt all manner of outrageous disguises to avoid death at the hands of whomever holds the reigns of control.
Vrnitev is a Yugoslavian (Slovenian) Fiction TV Film. Featuring Miha Baloh, Maks Furijan, Ivanka Mežan. It was directed by Anton Tomašič. It was produced by RTV Ljubljana. It has received 1 award.
Set during the Six-Day War, the connection between a group of Egyptian soldiers on a passage in the desert and the command center drops. They try to survive despite the enemy attacks and lack of ammunition and supplies.
A completely illiterate general from the Mexican Revolution “wins” a teacher in a game of dice. What happens to him with this woman is something unexpected.
An anti-war film about the ability of individuals to prevent war.
A Thai intelligence officer infiltrates the enemy's military forces of Chiang Riang by assuming the identity of a murdered colonel who was also a double agent. The murdered colonel, married to Lamduan, worked for the government's Central Bureau while also being an informant for Red China and working to help the local People's Army.
Based on a chapter of 'Una questione privata' by Beppe Fenoglio, 'La torta di Riccio' recounts an episode of the Resistance. A Fascist officer of the Salò army is ordered to shoot two young men, captive partisan relay girls, in retaliation.
While trying by all means to stay out of the bloody turmoil caused by the Battle of Algiers, Hassan, an honest and naive family man, is wrongfully accused of terrorism by the French colonial army in "Hassan Terro." After escaping in "The Escape of Hassan Terro," Hassan is forced to join the resistance in "Hassan Terro in the Maquis."
Explorer Marco Polo is assigned to accompany two priests on a mission to China, to try to convert the "pagan" Kublai Khan to Christianity. However, on a dangerous trek through the mountains, the priests decide they don't believe that China even exists, and when Marco tries to argue the point, they abandon him and turn back. He eventually makes it through the mountains and into the fabled land of China, where he is received at the court of Kublai Khan as an envoy. Accompanied by his faithful servant Pedro, Marco spends 20 years in that country, and when he eventually returns to Europe what he brings with him changes the course of history forever.
A Middle East allied Force commander, Themis, parachutes in occupied Greece to organize a sabotage in the Meteora region but betrays the Germans and falls into ambush. Before retiring, he calls Fotis, a student who had hidden his house, and urges him to go to Athens and meet an Aristides. Despite the mobilization of the Germans who perform all the hostages they have captured, including his father, Fotis finally arrives in Athens, meets with Aristides and accepts to cooperate with him. With the name of Kostas Alexandrou he catches a room in the Papadima family home, falls in love with their daughter Anna and becomes a "friend" with the German Major Karl Asberg. He accepts the co-operation proposed by Carl - to become his agent - to supposedly trap the guerrillas. But he actually misleads the conquerors about blowing a munitions train. His fate is the same as the fate of every patriot who is sacrificed for his homeland.
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.
Vittorio Cottafavi's television film Gente delle Langhe, consisting of three episodes, L'eremita (from the Cesare Pavese story of the same name), La torta di Riccio (from a chapter of Una questione privata by Beppe Fenoglio), Incontro con il padre (from the book Come e perché by Davide Lajolo).
A small Belarusian town, where Olga, a vivacious and able to stand up for herself and her daughter, lived, was occupied by the Germans. It was she who was approached by the underground with a request to ransom a man from a prisoner-of-war camp. The young woman was shocked by what she saw in the camp - and not finding the man she was looking for, Olga ransomed the young man, calling him her husband. The soldier, as soon as he got stronger, began to rush into battle. And when he died, Olga joined the fight against the Nazis.
Presents a unique and disturbing look at the rise of the Nazi party. The documentary, directed by Lutz Becker, attempts to remain as objective as possible, serving as a neutral observer of the years 1918 through 1933 in Germany. Via newsreel footage and clips of features from the era, the film offers a kaleidoscopic view of the many elements that fueled the rise of the Socialist Nationalist Party, including post-WWI poverty. Hitler occupies a central place in the documentary.
Story of 11-year old Tadeusz, a prisoner in a children's concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland.
This TV movie in two parts is one of the greatest movies filmed by Television Belgrade modeled on the BBC. At the end of the Second World War, coroner Ozne examines the surrender of captured partisans to the Germans, which is intertwined with the death of a young lieutenant who is a chetnik, who disappeared missing in November 1941. In this vetting the surface exposes many events and crimes that have been long hidden.
World War II. The fascists kill a boy and invite his mother to identify the body, but she refuses.
Oya, a teacher, is assigned to Söğütlü Village. However, there is no school here, so no one in the village can read or write. Oya, who starts working at the school built in the village, is helped only by Fatma, the mayor's daughter, and a man named Yanık Bekir. Onbaşı, who is accustomed to getting whatever he wants in the village, is impressed by Oya and wants to be with the young woman. However, when he does not get the response he desires, Onbaşı slanders Fatma. Fatma is cleared of the charges when Major Pala Suat intervenes in the matter. Meanwhile, the village is under occupation due to the outbreak of World War I. Oya, who takes refuge with Major Pala Suat, decides to join him in the fight.
A wartime drama set in a 1944 military hospital where wounded officers and staff from opposing political camps confront ideological conflict and moral uncertainty.
A short documentary, charting Bangladesh's quest for freedom from Pakistan.
Small Polish village straight after WWII. Young man Zenek injured and awarded with Cross of Valour during partisan fight is torn between staying loyal to his partisan comrades (continuing their fight) and his own beliefs.
At the beginning of normalization, stories emphasizing civic awareness once again prevailed. The hero here is a teacher from a small village in the foothills, whose inhabitants help the partisans in their fight against fascism. The hero, the only intellectual among them, agrees with them and educates not only his students in this spirit, but is also prepared to lay down his life for his ideals. When German soldiers occupy the village and force the teacher to cooperate, the model situation escalates.
The sacrifice of a mother to protect the soldiers of Liberation Army of South Vietnam during the war against US imperialism
Legend of Azerbaijanian people "Kitabi Dada - Gorgud" is about damatic events, about Dada Gorgud.
Documentary about US war crimes in Indochina.
It reflects the historical events of the life and struggle of the people of Kazakhstan in the western border of Mongolia before the people's revolution.
The committee led by Çerçiz Topulli, Mihal Grameno and Hajredin Tremishti return to their village and assassinate the Turkish officer of Gjirokastra. Afterwards, the Ottoman army starts a campaign against the province of Mashkullorë, which became a symbol of Albanian resistance and fight for freedom.
In 1942 even after a formal promise from the Liberal Party of Canada in the last election: "Never the Conscription", the Canadian Government vote a Conscription Law. In Quebec where the French population was mostly unanimous against the obligation to go to war, seen as a Great-Britain Government request, many young men fled to the woods or in clandestineness.
The war is over. Children without mothers and fathers, children of fighters who fell for freedom...This is the story about such boys who placed in the homes for children of fallen soldiers. One of these homes was especially for boys with gift for music. One of them was a boy named Goran. he and his best friend exchanged violins. The difference in violins was only in color, but this one reminded him strangely of the past he past. All his boyish feelings and is tender memories of his mother killed in war, Goran put into his music, producing wonderful sounds on the dark violin. But it was this violin that caused many misunderstanding in the Home.
France at the end of the Second World War: In order to lure the German soldiers hiding in Normandy out of their hiding places, Captain Eglow sends Aryan-looking women to penetrate areas where the soldiers cannot go.
About the life of fighter pilot Timur Frunze, who died heroically in an unequal battle with the Nazi invaders near Moscow.
Bardhi, an orphan boy, goes to the city to work in the house of a rich man, where he learns how to play the violin.
In the last days of the Korean War, Mil-ryeo and Chang-su, two secret agents from North Korea, are ordered to defect to the south to carry out 'Special Mission 8'.
The final months of World War II. The fate of a young girl, Second Lieutenant Horak, and an experienced frontline officer, Lieutenant Colonel Kaszyba.
Germans come amid snow and winter. In the village only people remained are women, that fight until wounded partisans, sheltered in the village, will retreat deeper and snow will cover their tracks. Face to face with the Germans and their control of the village, women, led by mother Shano and mother Mara, depart to make a pile of wood, but actually bring bread and food to the partisans.
Pakistani army gang rape Bangladeshi women before they are liberated by Indian army.
China's biggest and bloodiest battle comes to the screen in it's epic glory! The year is 1645, and the Chinese patriots are fighting for their very existence. Traitors are everywhere, so they can only trust one thing: their Martial Art Skills. Carter Wong and Polly Shan Kwan, the cast of the epic 18 Bronzemen series reunite in a major motion picture that dwarfs the rest! They fight in the thousands and die by the hundreds. Based on historical fact, Iron Phoenix takes heroism to new heights, and action to a new level!
Two partisans in the Yugoslav war of liberation fight their way through the enemy lines, where they meet all sorts of different people who show just the same attitude towards them.