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Observes the lives of three families - all victims of war. Three tragedies focus in particular on the way children and young people suffer.

A group of army deserters attempt to flee an unspecified war.

1918 - A woman imagines her lover has returned from the horrors of war in France, remembering moments shared together. A tale of love and loss told through classical ballet.

Following a missile strike in Ukraine, an eight-year-old boy rebuilds his life through ballroom dancing. Living with severe burns and permanent injury, Romchyk navigates recovery not through triumph, but through discipline, routine, and the fragile persistence of hope.

Short film about the surrender at Port Arthur, the signing of the surrender, and the match out of the Russian prisoners and wounded.

Jean, the latest recruit, has no choice but to wait, endure and hold the front line.

Following on from the 2006 Israeli aggression on Lebanon, the filmmaker tries to film the destruction of Beirut. We witness a city deserted by life, and ghostly characters who, featured in his earlier films, talk about living through such a war.

Hitler, Goring, Himmler...the three architects of the Final Solution. But these three men, like many other high ranking Nazis, shared another obsession: a fascination with animals. Whether it was experiments to create the purest bred of horse or trying to resurrect the long extinct wild auroch, they sought to control and purify the animal kingdom We investigates these secret Nazi programmes.

If politics were to come back, it could only be from its savage and disreputable fringe. Then, a muffled rumor shall arise whence that roar is heard: "We are scum! We are barbarian!" (Alain Brossat)

A professor has quit his job at the university to expiate his son's eyes disease. Giovanni's blindness drags Angelo into a never ending crisis. Finally, from Angelo's socially committed past, dark shadows spread out; he comes face to face with himself and gets back to his role as a father.

A film following a Soldier's life during WWI.

In an Italy frozen in time, a private writes to his wife with the hope of returning home. A universal tale with a taste of neorealism. Lest we forget.

The Ministry of Information presents this World War II documentary, produced by The Admiralty and The Army Film Unit. The black-and-white film covers the process of constructing, transporting, and installing the artificial harbors, Mulberry A and B, only a few days after D-day and the invasion of the beaches of Normandy. The British Army designed and built the harbor in the UK and transported them by sea to France to solve the problem of transporting supplies and vehicles to France along the Normandy coastline, where already existing harbors were too scarce.

A holiday of sorts for Stockport army reserves, fitting high-jinks between drills over two weeks of summer training in South Wales.

Instructional film showing airmen, in three chapters, what happens when they are taken prisoner; how they should conduct themselves; and the consequences of disobeying RAF orders and procedure when in enemy hands.

Delve into the inner workings of the Third Reich, where power, paranoia, and ambition ruled. This series uncovers the complex relationships and deadly rivalries between Adolf Hitler and his top-ranking Nazi leaders. From their united rise to power to the fractures that emerged as egos clashed and loyalty was tested, discover the secrets behind the men who shaped and executed the Nazi regime's dark agenda. Through betrayal, manipulation, and unchecked ambition, witness the internal power struggles that ultimately influenced the fate of the Third Reich and the course of history.

Three boys are growing up in Israel and the Palestinian territories, right next to each other, in completely different worlds. We follow them over the course of a year, through adolescence. We watch as they experience life in promiscuous Tel Aviv, in the religious ideology of a Jewish settlement and in the occupied city of Hebron, where Israeli soldiers are in control. One year of trials and tribulations of three sixteen year old boys. They try to fulfill their teenage dreams in an environment of violence and sometimes war.

Jawed Taiman takes a distinct look at Afghanistan and lets the Afghan people have their say. En route through the different provinces, through urban and rural regions, in discussion with intellectuals and simple folk, politicians and Taliban fighters a multifaceted picture emerges of a country that is often portrayed as incomprehensible.

Official film of the British Army’s autumn campaign on the Somme, which ran from 15th September to 18th November 1916.

Propaganda documentary about a man, called Kulicke, who has a nightmare about being inducted into the airforce right to to front line.

After losing his son, an aged Engineer confronts the cowardly General to stop the slaughter of thousands and bring an end to the Vietnam War.

A terrified young girl, Silvia, finds refuge from the horrors of war in a barn, before her worst fears come true. The menacing figure of a man, Albrecht, appears in the doorway, blocking her only escape...

In the dark days of 1940, the British army has fallen back to the town of Dunkirk, desperately awaiting evacuation. Meanwhile, a few miles inland, the last survivor of his regiment joins the remnants of another platoon, and together face an arduous escape to the coast.

Postwar times. A former soldier writes a letter to his wife, recalling their life together. He talks about their home, about the city that survived, about the fountain that dried up. But it gradually becomes clear that these letters will never be read. A story about the pain of loss and the inability to let go of the past. A movie about love that lives in words that will never find their addressee.

A descent into hell then to paradise after Hitler's death

Alaouié presents the stories of four exiles from Beirut. Their only connection is the voice of the narrator and their situation of living in exile in Europe. Told with a subtle humor, the film sketches four highly individual portraits of people, whose lives have taken unexpected turns due to the madness of the Civil War.

You had to be there to witness this historic match

Two warring army generals, unable to negotiate peace agreements, succumb to violence. Just as all seems lost, their eyes converge on a wooden box on the table: the negotiation turns into a game of chess.

Takes us to the morning of November 11, 1918, the day the Allies and German Military Forces declared peace, putting an end to almost 5 years of war. We follow the day of Augustin Trébuchon, the last Frenchman killed in the Great War.

Documentary about two children who have been directly affected by wars in their respective countries. Six-year-old Murtaza took a landmine home to play with and it blew up in his hand, a familiar story in Afghanistan where one child is killed or injured every day by unexploded munitions. Fifteen-year-old Yagoub suffers from rheumatic heart disease, which if left untreated is life-threatening. Refugees from Sudan's 20 years of unrest, his family are unable to pay for treatment at the local hospital, giving him little more than six months to live. This moving film follows the stories of these two resilient boys and the efforts of the remarkable Italian NGO Emergency to give them back their futures. (Storyville)

This documentary is a visual encyclopaedia of the fighters deployed and their strategic use, by both Allied and Axis Forces during the Second World War. The programme includes detailed accounts of the Spitfire, Hurricane, Mosquito, Messerschmitt Be 109, Focke Wulf Fw 190, Mustang, Lightning, Thunderbolt, Corsair, Kittyhawk, Beaufighter, Typhoon, Defiant, Wildcat, Messerschmitt Bf 110, and more.

After the daily newspaper Alger Républicain was banned from publication in 1955, its editor Henri Alleg went underground. He was arrested, imprisoned and tortured in 1957 by the French army in Algeria.

A few months before the Ethiopian war. The Abyssinian army lays siege to a fort where the leaders of the tribes loyal to the Italians have taken refuge. The commander of the fort must hold out, and the situation is saved by the heroism of a sergeant who turns the tide of battle with the defeat of the Abyssinians.