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La battaglia dall’Astico al Piave was made by the Italian Royal Army Film Department in 1918, and testifies to the events between 14 and 30 June 1918 which decided the outcome of the Second Battle of the Piave, when the Italian army under the command of General Armando Diaz defeated the Austro-Hungarian Empire, heralding its decline and ultimate downfall
The story of a young man's gradual awakening to reality, who learns from a letter from his father to come to terms with World War II and its consequences for his family.
Samvel and Avo, Erik and Karen live in the land of a century-old conflict, rooted in the rubble of the Russian Empire. In Nagorno-Karabakh, people live, dream and prepare for a tragedy that is always on the horizon. Over 3 years, Alexis Pazoumian films the epilogue of the black garden, a land where war waits for no one.
With the intention to represent all points of view, this documentary tackles the eight years of the "Algerian war" or "War of Liberation" head-on through the accounts of those who experienced it. 25 witnesses, civilians and soldiers of both camps, deliver their perceptions of the conflict and help to explain the multiple facets of this war.
The propaganda documentary film shows the German army in 1916 during preparations and combat operations during one of the biggest battles of the First World War.
In Luanda, one of the world's poorest and most dangerous places, three students from Angola's only music school work towards their end-of-year concert. The Music School is Angola's first and only school of its kind. It houses some 80 students, most of them desperately poor. Many face disapproval and outright rejection from their families who can't see a future in music. This film asks if, despite the ravages of 27 years of civil war, musical passion can overcome terrible hardships.
A lieutenant is branded a coward after saving a beleaguered fort for an amnesiac major.
Six doors opened one after the other, descending deeper into the absurdity and darkness of the world. With images narrated by the director.
'DISMAYED' a short student film set during World War One using toy soldiers, lighting and cinematography to recreate the horror, distortion and isolation of the war. The idea of this isn't really to represent a plot as such, more to present and display provocative emotions to the audience and invoke their feelings towards the film and as well as the horrors of World War One.
Two young lovers are forced to live in a world destroyed by war and plan to end it in a cornfield.
Documentary about the Imperial War Museums in the centenary year of its establishment. Celebrity advocates explore ten key objects from the IWM's collection.
Five young soldiers in their twenties, on a mission in the Afghan mountains, have been bored for two months. During a day of support, where they bake in the sun, the routine finally breaks...
A response in music and film to the conflict that launched a century of war, and a celebration of the power of art to keep us sane and offer us comfort. Beyond Zero: 1914-1918 brings together three of the world's most pioneering artists: the Kronos Quartet, known for decades for their trailblazing performances and collaborations; acclaimed Serbian composer Aleksandra Vrebalov; and filmmaker Bill Morrison, respected for his work with rare and even partially destroyed archive images.
Soldiers ambush a house. This is the Alice Guy version, not to be confused with the less accessible Lumiere of the same title from the same year.
Jérémy, paratrooper, returns from Central Africa after the death of his brother in arms, Sofiane. He finds himself at his mother's house, who does not know how to help him to get back on his feets . The daily slowly resumes its course, but Jeremy remains haunted by the death of his friend.
Carmen, a young flamenco dancer who begins her career in her family's tablao, falls in love with Tito, a waiter in the family business. The revenge of the Marquesa, usual client of the tablao, makes that, when the Civil War breaks out, they both are separated and have to flee. Carmen starts a journey with her uncle Ricardo until arriving to Madrid when she suffers a tragic incident that will change her life. Madrid became a dangerous place and finally they will be forced to run away to France. In France they will be rescued by Tito, who takes them to Paris where the famous talent scout Dominique gets Carmen and his dance to succeed despite her disability.
A film about the rebellion that took place in the French department of Ariège from 1829 to 1832, and continued in a less intense fashion until 1872.
ASHCAN is a theatrical docu-fiction. It tells the story of the secret prison where the main Nazi leaders were incarcerated following the Allied victory on May 8, 1945 under U.S. authority at Mondorf-les-Bains, Luxembourg.
Through a series of interviews and sparse contributions filmed for the occasion, it tells the story of the contribution made by women to the Resistance movement in Liguria, from the first hours of 8 September 1943.
t the twilight of World War II, a young American soldier confronts the horrors of the European front. Amid the ruins and the bodies, he carries back with him a silence heavy with invisible wounds. Years later, those buried memories resurface within his family: fragments of war that words never could express. Through the eyes of his loved ones emerges the portrait of a man haunted by memory and secrets, where the personal and History become inextricably intertwined.
In the winter of 1936-1937, in the Biscayan-Alevan front, militiamen of the CNT arrive in the village of Meroño with the aim of reinforcing the defenses against the imminent advance of the columns of requetés; Carlist soldiers adept at the cause of the rebels. Alicia, an anarchist militiaman, will establish a close relationship with Rosarito, a girl from the village, who will try to survive a war that will change her way of life forever.
During the Spanish Civil War, a desperate deserter on the run enters an ominous forest. Inside, he encounters a wandering soldier and a mysterious maiden who lead him into the inner depths of insanity, love & death.
Amidst the chaos of war, a group of aspiring actors sets up a room to stage a performance aimed at boosting the morale of the few survivors.
A survey of the equipment and brief but already glorious history of the RAF, including the contributions of the Air Forces of the Empire.
A mega-amateur film by Max Naveaux, revealed by the documentary "Cinéastes à tout prix" (Filmmakers at Any Cost).
Mufid, a 14-year-old boy plays football with his friends in an area guarded by a military drone. He misses a shot and makes the ball disappear behind a hill. He doesn't want to go looking for her, but there's no choice.
Spring, 1982. During the conflict of the islands Malvinas, a secret command of the Marine Argentina, comes to Spain with the mission to sabotage the British Base of Gibraltar across the Embassy in Madrid. A few events that they have to see with Spain in the times of the government of Bald man Sotelo, during the conflict that faced the United Kingdom and Argentina. The history is narrated and reconstructed by his own protagonists who reveal a few facts palmed to the public opinion and to the justice.
The experimental stop motion story of a London boy in World War 2, we witness war drawing inexorably closer as he comes of age. 14 when war begins, our young hero lives through bombings, the evacuation of his siblings, the privations of wartime. Yet he survives and even thrives. He sets out to search for his friend in the East End during those turbulent and frightening times, and with his own voice tells his story with a wit and verve few would believe today. Finally we leave him at the brink on D-Day, a hero already in the making.
'DISMAYED' a short student film set during World War One using toy soldiers, lighting and cinematography to recreate the horror, distortion and isolation of the war. The idea of this isn't really to represent a plot as such, more to present and display provocative emotions to the audience and invoke their feelings towards the film and as well as the horrors of World War One.
In August 1938, just west of Vienna, Hitler ordered the construction of the Nazi's Mauthausen concentration camp, one of the deadliest in history.
End of WW2 : the German officers lock all the men between 18 and 65 into the "Fort National" on an islet in Saint-Malo.
In 1937, during the Spanish Civil War, times are dark behind the front lines.
A sergeant and his nurse wife save a besieged hospital.
Air raid bunkers represent the architecturally intact remains of World War II. The film looks into their ideological as well as their material texture and puts them into the context of the urban infrastructure of the nineties.
A country torn apart by the First World War. A people mourning over 650,000 fallen in the trenches. Politicians humiliated at the Versailles peace table. A poet-soldier who draws crowds to every rally. A city that becomes an emblem of irredentist and nationalist claims. It was in this Italy that the Fiume enterprise began on 12 September 1919: the adventure of Grabiele d'Annunzio and a handful of legionnaires who set out from Ronchi in Friuli, against the will of the established power, to occupy the Adriatic city and annex it to Italy, establish the Regency of Carnaro, and found a 'myth' destined to influence Italian and international culture and politics, aesthetics and vocabulary, well beyond the Twenty Years of Fascism.
Brief summary of the Berlin airlift taken from newsreel material.
