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In 1973 Alister Barry joined the crew of a protest boat (The Fri) to Mururoa Atoll, where the French Government were testing nuclear weapons. Barry records the assembly of the crew, the long journey from Northland, and their reception in the test zone; when The Fri was boarded and impounded by French military he had to hide his camera in a barrel of oranges.
Destinies of two friends-fighters during WW2.
The Home Army's battles against the communist authorities in the Żywiec region.
The plot of the film revolves around revolutionary soldiers who come from different classes, but all share the same patriotism. They had to overcome many life-and-death challenges and enormous adversities in order to mobilise the masses to prepare for an uprising and seize power from the Japanese fascists, in a situation where the country fell into the tragedy of famine.
Pas De Blanc À La Une, by Youcef Bouchouchi, treatises the brutality of the conflict during the war of independence in Algeria from 1854 to 1962, and the systematic use of torture which pushes even the most hesitant to make up their minds.
Follows the exploits of Soviet pilots during the Great Patriotic War.
A Green Beret is sent to the Middle East to combat an Arab terrorist.
The theme of the film is the Battle of Somosierra, which took place during the Napoleonic Wars. During this battle, Polish cavalrymen under the command of Jan Leon Kozietulski crossed a two-and-a-half kilometre long gorge and a pass within 7 minutes, paving the way for Napoleon Bonaparte's troops to Madrid
Love blossoms between Rabah and her cousin Mosbah, but when a man who aids the French occupation kidnaps her, Mosbah's attempt to rescue her fails. As he gets arrested and sentenced to three years in prison, he vows revenge.
A 1964-1973 Retrospective for homecoming POWs.
A television film from the period of World War II, whose hero is Ondrej, living alone in his widow's house. The war has not yet touched him, he has only heard about it from people. One day, however, he learns that the Slovak National Uprising has broken out. Old Ondrej also begins to think about how to help the partisans in their difficult fight. He sets off on a journey to Prašiva with his only horse and a long-hidden rifle to give them to the partisans. The journey is long and Ondrej meets various people on it. By the time he reaches Prašiva, the destination of his journey, he realizes where his place is. And although he is not only at the end of his journey following the partisans, but also at the end of his life, his last words become the confession of a simple man who has realized on whose side truth and justice are.
During the Second World War, the Germans hunt an Italian partisan who is trying to blow up a chemical weapons laboratory.
About the peaceful everyday life of one of the tank regiments of the Soviet Army on the northern borders of the country, where graduates of the tank school, Lieutenant Sorokin and his comrades, serve. The acute conflict situation among the officers of the tank regiment reveals people who understand their duty as defenders of the Fatherland in different ways.
1917. The eve of the October Revolution. Having returned to St. Petersburg from exile, the Bolshevik Vaulin, despite police persecution, joins the Bolsheviks.
During World War II, during a misty morning, near a fishermen's village, four children come across two RAF pilots ejected from a plane that crashed in the sea.
Youth, which courage is always without prejudice, in Skopje in time of Bulgarian occupation in WW2, desire freedom for the people, resolves to several actions, including the biggest, to assassinate the police chief Emanuel Machkov...
Soon after the father leaves for the front, the mother dies - and the children are left alone. And then fourteen-year-old Lyubasha takes care of her younger brothers and sisters.
A history and revolution-themed film depicting how the people's party led by D. Sukhbaatar centered the newly established state, overcame the morals of the dark times, the resistance of foreign and domestic enemies, developed the country, and made revolutionary changes.
A story of two boys who obstinately, in spite of everything and everyone run to the front when the war was almost over.
This documentary is a compilation of silent black-and-white film footage shot by the Japanese in Hiroshima and Nagasaki shortly after the atomic bomb blasts in early August 1945. English-language voice-over narration has been added, along with a few scenes from American sources. The film shows the destruction and injury caused by the atomic bombs in graphic detail.
A film about the Italian troops leaving Vlora and Albanian partisans finally entering the enemy camp.
A brief history of the Army Air Service, plus the manufacture of war planes and training.
In the story of a partisan armored train crew operating in the rebel territory of Slovakia, the inner drama of Matúš Siroň, who hates war with a passion, unfolds. After managing to escape from the Eastern Front, he falls into German captivity. When he is liberated by partisans during a train transport, he initially refuses to fight. However, the circumstances of the Slovak National Uprising force him to change his mind...
Third part of a French TV series about town-planning in which Éric Rohmer and Jean-Paul Pigeat look into the l'Arlequin neighbourhood of Grenoble-Échirolles and the new town of Évry.
Vlash Zaka is a poor villager who secures his living by capturing wild horses in the forest. His brother has killed an Italian spy, so Vlash is under surveillance and his life is in danger.
The story of this model work unfolds during the Anti-Japanese War and takes place in the market town of Shajiabang (沙家浜), by Lake Yangcheng in Jiangsu Province. Shajiabang has become a center of guerrilla warfare against the Japanese after its liberation by the New Fourth Army. The company political instructor Guo Jianguang and seventeen other sick and wounded soldiers are recuperating in the town from their wounds. The Japanese troops, however, are bent on exterminating all New Fourth Army personnel from the area. Guo and his men have taken refuge in the nearby marshes.
WW2 has ended, but that doesn't mean the end of problems for an ex-Partisan who now must take care of reconstruction, as well as the building of a new society in a small Serbian town.
In Algeria in 1954, in a village in the Aurès region, poverty reigns over peasants enslaved by colonial administrators and Algerian landowners. Noua, in love with the son of a peasant dispossessed of his land, must be sold to a wealthy landowner.
Based on actual events, the film dramatizes the efforts of Cuban counterintelligence services in response to Operation Patty, a CIA plot to assassinate Raúl Castro.
In the years following the People's Revolution of 1921, the anti-revolutionary group led by Dambijantsan, named Ja Lam, terrorized the people and organized a conspiracy against the new government under their control. There will be adventures in the activities of those who fought without love
A powerful nation has experimented with a new gas, which does not kill or injure the asphyxiated subjects, only puts them in a lethargic and mystical state. X-70 gas bombs will be dropped by mistake over Nebelux and provoke an unexpected mutation of the population of this friendly little country. (miff.com.au)
Towards the end of the war, Eleni meets the rebel Kostas, who is being pursued by the Germans. One night, the rebel arrives wounded at his brother Giannis' house where Eleni works. She'll take care of him, and then they'll say goodbye. When Kostas tries to meet Eleni again, he is arrested by the Germans. But he will escape execution, as the rebels will save him from death.
An account of two battles between Zulus and the British at Isandhlwana and Rorke's Drift, from the 1879 Anglo-Zulu War, written and presented by Kenneth Griffith. Mr. Griffith, a Welshman, presents the history of British politics and policies which led to the confrontation between the British Army and the Zulus, reading letters from the soldiers, diary entries from the officers, as well as observations from the Zulu warriors and their king.
6 communists will try to escape Buchenwald concentration camp at any price.
Filmed in Saigon in 1970, this documentary observes the effects of the Vietnam War on daily life away from the battlefield. Through the perspectives of three young American journalists, the film records encounters with street children, refugees, bar workers, and aid efforts shaped by the American presence in the city.
Virtually unseen since its Soviet television broadcast in 1971, the film, Peter Rollberg writes, is “devoted to the anniversary of the Paris commune, mixing historical footage with images of present-day Paris.”
Also known as Hong Kong.
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.
A look at the incidents of June 25, 1950 which marked the beginning of the Korean War and which found the South to be woefully unprepared.
The action of the film takes place during the First World War. Jakub lives in a village on the border of two partitions: Austrian and Russian. Here he marries Magda. When the war breaks out, Jakub goes to the front. He has to fight not only with the enemy, but also with Poles from other partitions.
Years later, Paweł Sarnawski returns from Switzerland to an estate in Greater Poland, where he intends to modernize a run-down farm.
Documentary on the battle in Cyprus between English soldiers and EOKA insurgent Grigoris Afxentiou.
World War II rages on as a young Chinese soldier grapples with the harsh realities of trying to survive on the battlefield. The Chinese rebels continue to hold their siege against the advancing Japanese forces, and their determination is showcased in one grueling yet mesmerizing martial arts sequence after another. But can the rebels' strategy save them, or will it end up failing them as their defenses crumble one by one?
LEGO dinosaur Super 8 war short film from the late 70s.
This film covers the history of the Duchy of Warsaw. It begins in 1806, when Napoleon Bonaparte's army enters the Polish lands under Prussian rule. Ends with a Galician company in 1809. An important element of the film is the battle with the Austrians at Raszyn, which is important for Poles.
During the civil war, Two rival balloonists plan to race their giant balloons against each other. Circumstances beyond their control force them to unite and become spies for president Lincoln. Thanks to their brave and unique war efforts, the president forms the Aeronautic Corps as a wing of the union army of Potomac. From then on, the sky's the limit in danger and excitement.
The culmination of a controversial war. The troops return home and aid in disaster relief.
A pilot recounts his experience of being rescued by the Jolly Green Giant helicopter.
