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Amid the outbreak of an armed conflict in Barcelona, a young couple struggles to reunite.

In a near-future shaped by war, Paris, a young man receives a mobilization order. As he tries to leave everything behind, a quiet moment forces him to confront a choice he cannot escape.

Squaddies on the Frontline tells the story of the British Army's experience of the Northern Ireland conflict through the eyes of the ordinary men and women that soldiered here. For almost 40 years between 1969 and 2007, a total of over a quarter-of-a-million soldiers served on the streets of Northern Ireland in 'Operation Banner', the British Army's longest ever operation. These men and women were at the heart of the key events of the conflict, with over 700 soldiers killed and more than 6,000 injured, and a further 305 deaths attributed to them. Squaddies on the Frontline is their story, taking viewers into the heart of 'Operation Banner' and the day-to-day realities of life and work here as a soldier through some of the toughest years of the Troubles, looking at the impact that it had, and continues to have, on their lives and the lives of those around them, both in Northern Ireland and beyond.

Here from 1935 is Gaumont British's documentary about the Royal Air Force, simply titled "R.A.F." and directed by John Betts. This film looks at the training of new recruits, and includes views of many (now rare) aircraft of the period.

Scenes of devastation following the war in San Martino Del Carso between the Kingdom of Italy and the Austro-Hungarian Empire that started in 1915.

This documentary is the film record of one of the first Nazi war crimes trials, conducted while the war was still raging. The concentration and extermination camp Majdanek, near Lublin, erected in 1941, was liberated in July 1944. When the Soviet and Polish troops drove the Nazis out of the region, they uncovered the evidence of Nazi genocide. One month later, a joint Soviet-Polish commission heard evidence from survivors and witnesses as to the atrocities that took place, and their testimony is preserved in this film.

Two Italian partisans during World War II are confronted with a moral dilemma when they take a fascist soldier prisoner.

One of a series of World War II-era RAF training films, this instalment instructs Coastal Command pilots on proper formation and firing techniques for interdicting enemy shipping.

A French military training film depicting a battle against mutants created by a meteorite.

The adventures of Lieutenant Airoldi of Piedmont who is trying to gather intelligence for the Republic about the advancing Austrian armies near the river Ticino ahead of the battle of Novara.

Comical Ali is a spoof documentary about the thus-nicknamed former Iraqi Minister for Information, Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf, whose bravura performances at press conferences throughout the brief Iraq War of 2003 turned him into a global icon.

A highly personal journey into the recent history of a war-torn land. Pratt has covered decades of conflict in Iraq and now travels from Erbil to Mosul, charting the country’s active political faultlines and meeting old friends

A little girl wanders through a seemingly peaceful land, turning it into her playground. Almost everything she encounters becomes a source of play and wonder, as if beauty were everywhere. But behind these images lies a different reality. Driven by authentic testimonies of Palestinian children confronted with war, the film challenges the way we see: what remains of beauty when everything seems destroyed? Between fiction and testimony, this short film explores the strength and beauty of innocence in the face of the world's atrocity.

Produced in the mock-serious tone of an intra-governmental presentation Butler’s Ethical Governor uses black humor to skewer the ethical problems of autonomous drone strikes. In narrating the “advanced” capabilities of a computerized killing machine, Butler highlights how the language of Neoliberalism makes broad, cold-blooded equivalences amongst economic, humanitarian, and legal concerns in light of overriding geopolitical goals.

Animated WWI-era comic highlights from the innovative cartoonist George Studdy, creator of Bonzo the dog.

A guy slowly explains why he punches himself in the face by answering questions he believes have been sent to him online.

British documentary short made to describe the attacks made on England by Hitler's V-1 bombs and the successful destruction of many of these bombs before they could fall on their targets.

This is an extraordinary window on to the heart of cosmopolitan Shanghai, over a hundred years ago, featuring a Nanjing Road bustling with crowds of Chinese, Sikhs and Europeans. It is the only known surviving example of the film reportage shot by British war correspondent Joe Rosenthal during his coverage of the Boxer Rebellion in China between 1900 and 1901.

A party of eight Royal Marines patrol the jungle in the South East Asia Command Area.

"Block 11" which is segment of Auschwitz concentration camp and is consisting of starvation cells. The film tells about feeling being abandoned to death by starving.

An experimental short film set in 1939 Poland, about two men who have a conversation on a hill while the history of Poland and Polish Cinema flashes in the sky.

Elsie Inglis and the work of the Scottish Women's Hospitals (SWH) are captivating. Elsie and the other women did not conform to the stereotype of women in war. They were operating close to the fighting on both the Western Front and in the Balkans. Also, the SWH's were run entirely and predominantly staffed by women. This meant that there were not only women doctors, rare enough in the early twentieth century but like Elsie, women surgeons.

Soldiers play cards and jeer as shells burst around them.

William, a lone soldier, begins his journey home after the end of the Second World War.

Survey of the Boer war with reconstructions and actualities.

Set during World War I, Enrico Toti takes up a job on a railway. One day he rescues a kid and needs his leg to be amputated. He leaves his girl, Nina, and in 1915 when the war begins, he is enlisted but wants to be in the front as a postman. When he comes back from the war there will be a surprise in store for him.

Forget about nuclear missiles, the decisive weapon of the twentieth century is the car bomb. After Iraq we now know you can defeat a Superpower, start a civil war or just blow up your own Government with a trunk load of home-made explosives and a battered old car. From the Middle East, Oklahoma, Ireland and the streets of the City of London the car bomb has shaped human conflict. Even today the car bomb remains the number one terrorist threat across the world. In this film, ex-CIA agent Robert Baer uncovers the history of this extraordinary weapon. With footage of car bomb attacks and interviews with car bombers, Baer reveals how the century of the car turned into the century of the car bomb. And how a dream of freedom turned nightmare.

The intersection of multiple realities will be a little too late. A general considers his son to be a deserter since there is no other option for him but to serve in the German army because of naturalization. Until the last moment, the son continues to oppose the German army, unfortunately without the father knowing.

Documenting the tenth of twelve battles near the Isonzo River bordering Italy and Austria-Hungary. World War One.

Including extraordinary and unseen historical footage of WW1 and 2 and narrated by Sir Martin Lewis, 100 Years of the RAF is a definitive film that pays tribute to the determination and courage our men and women take on in the theatres of war; to defend our freedom and bring relief to people in need.

A year on from Russia's invasion, a look at how the war has played out from the air and how Ukraine use drones, satellites and smart tech to thwart the enemy. Featuring drone photography of key locations from before and after the war.

During the first days after the 1973 coup d’état, the political leadership of the Popular Unity government was arrested and transferred to Dawson Island, Magallanes Region, extreme south of Chile and the mainland. The wives of the then-political prisoners began an incessant effort to find out the whereabouts of their husbands and then try to return them alive. In these circumstances, they meet and spontaneously organize into a group called the “Dawsonianas.”

War movie

In 1940 France went to war against Germany and announced not only the mobilization of its territory, but also of its colonies. Senegalese family man Aby enlists in the army, distinguishes himself in battle, and is captured. But when he returns to his country, the French army refuses to pay him for his services.

Steve and his master hire an empty old sea fort for a holiday but cause chaos when they begin to mess around with the old cannons.

Invisible Film reimagines Peter Watkins’s Punishment Park (1971), a radical anti-war film banned in both the UK and the US after the Vietnam War. Melik Ohanian replaces its images with a single static shot of a 35mm projector screening the censored film in daylight in the San Bernardino desert—its original location. Projected without a screen, the image disappears into the desert air, turning cinema itself into both subject and ghost.

The Battle of the Somme has a particular place in British social history. The opening day of the campaign on the 1st July 1916 is remembered as the worst day in British military history. As the mainly untried recruits of Kitchener's New Army went over the top they were annihilated by the waiting Germans. There were more than 60,000 casualties, nearly 20,000 of them dead. It was a campaign that began in the sweltering heat of summer and ended four and a half months later, bogged down in a sea of mud. This programme details the opening phase of the battle and explains why so many young men volunteered. As the battle ground on through the summer the losses among the troops became critical. This programme charts the final stages of the battle as the British army slogged its way across the devastated ground. Only a few miles had been gained for the loss of untold thousands of lives.

This documentary tells the story of the Ustashe. These Croatians nationalists had been involved in several murderous attacks before WWII until they rose to power in 1941, supported by the Nazis. Then, they led a campaign of ethnic cleansing in the country, while participating actively in the Final Solution. However, their regime is one of the lesser known ones of WWII and their story has almost been forgotten. Why has it been so thoroughly erased?

Concerns the First World War. The images are authentic and made by the film service of the French army. Shots showing the proceedings of the war in various places in France and Belgium, such as Reims, Aisne, Verdun, Flanders, Froideterre, Vaux, Fismes, Soissons, Cantign and Lassigny. Mainly of the years 1917 and 1918.